skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand its true that there are a lot of abandoned libraries out there, but on the other Go isn't like node.js. They don't reinvent the wheel with every release, and changes have been very conservative (and they have tools to automatically upgrade your code for you).

In general Go libraries are at their best when they follow the unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Those programs, even after being abandoned for years, still work fine. (for example: https://github.com/dchest/siphash)

They're at their most brittle when they are highly platform dependent (like bindings to some C libraries) or massive never-finished frameworks.
Old Style Fullscreen for Emacs in Homebrew
What is this? Envato? I can't imagine that Envato would do this...
Linus introduced Linux in 1992. Linus introduced git several years ago primarily for Linux. git is used to maintain code that's over 2 decades old. My comment seems to me to stand.
It's not just easier, GPS is vastly more reliable and accurate than almost any other method of navigation.

So much so that it's starting to be relied on in many industries. For example, airplanes are starting to move away from a radar based method of air traffic control to a GPS based system. Every airplane will simply continuously transmit its GPS coordinates as part of its transponder message. From this you can create a highly accurate map of where every plane is, except much more accurate than with radar.
This is a scenario Silicon Valley libertarians would be cool with. "The market will take care of it", right? Still waiting for the libertarians to move to the Philippines...
"As smart" isn't fair. "As smug" or "as familiar with a nominal rule-of-thumb" would work better.

Edit: It always gets nominated for hyperbolic headlines. I just happened to be the first on the scene.
Im not a 'bro'... brah
"World's second largest economy discovered to contain money" is at least better than "Japan will never use the iPhone because they're inscrutable nationalists." (Take note, anyone who thinks "Samsung is Korean. Have you heard about Japan and Korea?" is sage commentary.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=497069
Agree. Took all the bitterness out.
Perhaps we should meet in Istanbul with a cashed-up wallet and a very long pair of tongs?
I've never had a mugger pull a knife on me late at night to take my bitcoins.

I _have_ had someone on another continent charge things to my credit card.
Ladies and gentlemen, Hacker News 2013. Standing by to shit on every provocative idea microseconds after posting!
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After the 2011 Japan Tsunami, GlobalGiving raised over $8.9M for the Japan relief fund and used it to support a variety of local non-profits in the Japan doing incredible work.

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/japan-earthquake-tsunam...

Disclosure: I'm the Chief Product Officer at GlobalGiving and am happy to answer any questions. Your donation will be used responsibility to ensure that it helps those in need in the Philippines.

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Reminds me of people who say the internet is more disruptive than personal computers, which in turn are more disruptive than microprocessors :P
The bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759568
If I remember correctly, the sunspot record is fairly accurate since we've had telescopes (~400 years ago), since they can last several months, and there aren't that many of them.
"Little known" or "Made up on the spot"?

The US motor vehicle fleet consumed 174,930 million gallons of fuel in 2006 according to http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004727.html

There are 308 gallons of fuel to the ton, in crude oil (somewhat different from gasoline, but not sufficiently different to care about)

That's 567 million tons of fuel consumed by the US motor vehicle fleet per year.

There are 370 million tons of bunker fuel consumed by the entire global shipping industry per year according to http://www.futuresmag.com/2012/10/15/cleartrade-exchange-to-...

Only a tiny fraction of that industry is presently passing through the Panama Canal.

Headlines:
"Global Merchant Shipping Tonnage to Reach 12.4 Billion Metric Tons by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. "

"...canal traffic in 2009 reached 299.1 million tons of shipping."

The canal is much, much shorter than an average oceanic merchant shipping route, so an even lower fraction of ton-miles is spent on shipping through the canal. Transit times are on the order of 1 day (compare with a typical trip on a vessel slow steaming at 18 knots), so even if you assume they're running their engines full-blast inside the canal (they're not), this is still a tiny fraction of the above sum.

Carbon emissions, in case you weren't paying attention in chemistry class, are normally about 85% of the mass of complex hydrocarbons (nC=12n, n2H=2n, +2H=2), so these quantities are almost directly comparable. Bunker fuel is indeed nasty stuff, but their carbon emissions are not particularly unique (nor are any hydrocarbon fuel's) - they do have more subtle sulfur and particulate air pollution.
Cash on the other hand falls under institutionalized regulations that are backed up by legislations and law enforcement.
Ask HN: Any Hackers in Singapore or HK want to meet up for a drink?
Will be passing through over the next two weeks and would love to meet some of the local community! Have been traveling for 3 months and these are my final stops. Email in profile.
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That is preposterous! At a hackathon they would probably just return 10 or something.

int fib(int val) { return 10; } // todo: implement me
Precisely. And because the consequences of stack ranking are so significant you can bet your ass that anyone who can use office politics to game the system will do so. And at MS there are already a lot of politics in play, so stack ranking just brings it to the forefront.

Instead of being a meritocracy it ends up being about whose managers play the game better and have more political power.
That investor was spot on. The best signal you can get from a Japanese business partner is their eagerness to go out for a night on the town :)

In Japanese, "We will consider it" or "kentou shimasu" (検討します) literally means to investigate and attack from its Chinese roots and is a way to signal distance.

If you are in early stage talks and if they are serious you will get a request to sign an NDA or some form of binding contract.
> What's the added complexity there, in terms of deployment?

You need to install the interpreter/runtime (and sync versions/use rbenv/etc) + you need to install your libraries + ensure that they are kept up to date (i.e. virtualenv or bundle install).

A lot of this is shortcut these days thanks to rbenv, virtualenv, etc, but it's still not automatic.

I can import a ton of libraries into my Go project on OS X, cross-compile a binary (`$ GOOS=linux go build`) and upload it. If I update the packages on my dev machine, it doesn't matter. Recompile, upload, restart. This goes for many languages that compile native binaries, but Go does make it really easy.
If they could somehow get a hold of the GPU and you had the equivalent of 10 decent gaming PCs connected at all times you'd get a little over $450 a year by my lazy calculations

http://i.imgur.com/jrHoaOV.png
Funny thing, had related talk today with my co-worker...

Anyway, so problem currently is that client devices are slow and HTTP requests are expensive/slow. If these were not issues - I guess rendering on a client would be just fine?

If above is correct, I do not see good reason for smallish websites/apps/whateverucallit fallback on server rendering, as it looks like every single year mobile devices getting faster and faster. And we have SPDY on a way to mainstream.

Do I want to wait 3 seconds to get HTML or wait 100ms to get bootstrap code and see pieces rendering as data comes in? Probably doesn't matter, since it will take roughly same 3 seconds to render it on client side.

Ultimately, perceived responsiveness of webapp depends a lot on particular implementation. If you wait for all data required for page to render - yes, it will be slow. If you render pieces of page as data comes in - user sees that something going on and this is good enough. Why it should matter where data will be converted to presentation, on server or on a client? It is still waiting. And if client is not happy with it? Buy beefier hardware!
> GitHub won't let you control this option

They do, in GitHub Enterprise. However, the option is not in the "public" Repo Settings page; it's in a special site-admin-only settings page.

So it seems possible that this same setting could be deployed to github.com, but it would need additional UI development.
Where I work they have a very effective strategy for dealing with this problem: there's a magic 'backup' remote you can push to that is unique to each user and allows --force.

Backing up your local feature branches is no reason to enable rewriting history on the main repository.
Today's xkcd is relevant: http://xkcd.com/1289/
Every anti-government ideologue I've ever met seems to think that absent government humanity is made up of angels or Rousseau-style noble primitives.

The 'noble savage' [edit:absent government humanity is made up of angels meme] is more a favored construct of the left wing. See, for example the art of Gaugain, Picasso and early modernism. Unless your liberterian ideaolagues acquantences were closest cubists or something.
Good point. I am doing it on my laptop and server without load. So this is not a big problem in my cases.
I don't understand. Who still makes significant purchases using cash? People buy McDonalds hamburgers with credit cards.
I can't say there are always good indie games to play every single month

Then they should have done it once every two months, or once a quarter, or... whatever timeframe worked.
my code is the cat code
873 People Evacuate An Airbus A380 In Under 90 Seconds
It sure is, because Mt. Gox messed things up with their customers. Mt. Gox WAS the central exchange for some time, but they have squandered their position.

Anyway, the forces of physics can be resisted: A thrown ball goes against the flow of gravity, and even Airplanes and Birds can fly for extended periods of time. But in the long term... almost everything follows gravity in the long term.

Similarly, centralizing market forces (in particular: the formation of "natural monopolies") are a known and documented phenomenon. But in the long term, the BTC Market gains more benefits from centralizing... than decentralizing.
Addendum to your statement "Worlds second largest economy with a super fashion (younger)/status (older) obsessed population buys from company known to be high-end and fashionable."
This is like something out of a Markov generator. 'anigbrowl mentions "Rousseau" and here come "noble savages", Gaugain, Picasso, modernism, cubism, and "the left wing". Huh?
Perhaps like http://www.bitcointrezor.com/ - a keychain fob which lets you pay and recieve bitcoin safely, even on infected computers, as the private key never leaves the device.

Bitcoin's in its infancy so people currently using it are doing so 'on the metal', but the system is flexible and user friendly layers will be built with time.

Also, reversible payment networks can be built on top of a non-reversible-payment foundation, but not the other way around.
I routinely deal with joins on a 100 million row table and they work just fine. Other than that, I also use a 10 billion row table for searches. This is in Oracle.
> they are basically just folks trying to make a living and feed their family like any one else.

There are other jobs that would harm a lot less people. "making a living" could justify any behavior if you want to use that as your excuse.
Here in Australia, we still have numerous retailers who don't accept credit cards or have minimum purchase amounts - due to, I presume, the cost of accepting credit and debit cards here.
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"So in other words, they misused MongoDB and because of that are telling people not to use it? Wow. ... The problem here is that Diaspora chose MongoDB when it was very immature"

So the specific misuse of MongoDB was to use it? I guess that was also the point of the story.
What I want to see from go are more fleshed out frameworks like Rails, Express, webapp2 etc. This still feels like a lot of boilerplate design is left up to interpretation which is fine if you have a small time, but considerably more frustrating as you scale and have to bring on new team members.
I thought that was sarcasm. I went to wsj to see the context but couldn't find the comment.

Anyway, here are pictures of the aforementioned comets: http://www.universetoday.com/105834/weekend-comet-bonanza/#i...
I don't understand your question but reiterate that the cast list of a movie cannot in fact be copyrighted.
Certainly the version they gave is too much typing!
Maybe something more like

fn f(i: int)->int{[1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21][i]};

Need more values? copypaste from the online encyclopedia of integer sequences.
> Those wars were massive self-sacrifices for America, just like Vietnam. For instance, Saddam was defeated very easily, in the very beginning.

Self-sacrifice? These wars were strategic failures, in spite of the US' best efforts, simply because you can't defeat guerillas the same way you defeat regular armies. You sound like you haven't been paying attention to what has been going on since, well, WWII. How many asymmetrical conflicts have been won by large modern armies since? The various decolonization wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan (you can't really accuse Russia of playing soft, there) ended up the same way. The UK were successful in Malaya, and the French had effectively destroyed the operational capabilities of the FLN by the end of the war in Algeria, but even this was not enough to ensure victory. Hell, even in Northern Ireland, it took decades to turn the IRA away from terrorism (and that after it managed to kick the UK out of the rest of Ireland).

Asymmetrical warfare is hard. Moreover, suggesting that a "proper war" should be prosecuted, presumably with heightened levels of violence, after hundreds of thousands of people died or were maimed for life is insulting.

> That's not an argument against what I said. We have no reason to attack South America.

Your argument was that in order to defend "freedom" (because, really, these money-laundering rules are just too repressive), the US should attack the issue at the root. Guess what? Most of the money being laundered is drug money. It's an absolutely astounding amount of cash. Most of the world's cocaine comes from Colombia and Bolivia, while the opiates come from Afghanistan.
3 unsecured online portfolio analysis tools the WSJ recommends
3 out of 6 portfolio analysis tools recommended by the WSJ's MarketWatch (Kivalia, MyPlanIQ, 401kGPS) use unsecured HTTP forms: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/6-ways-to-improve-your-401k-2013-11-05
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitivism also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir
I am fascinated by this news. I watch a lot of Japanese shows (drama, movies or music video), and it used to be a common thing to see the Japanese using flip phone like this one [1] or non-western branded computers [2].

Only very recently I see android phones. Actually I met this IBM fellow from Japan and as a visually impaired user she was using an iPhone.

[1]: https://typhoon-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/image_at...
[3]: http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee463/withsubsplease/scr...
Urgent security advisory concerning your money
If you are talking about compounds that are drugs from pharmaceutical companies, those are patented rather than copyrighted.
Yeah, only criminals, if you believe David Wolman:

http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Money-Counterfeiters-Dreamers/...
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>"Sunspots—often broader in diameter than Earth—mark areas of intense magnetic force that brew disruptive solar storms."
>"...diameter than Earth..."
Diameter larger than earth?
Did they stop editing the wall street journal?
You mean like currency that is centrally controlled and physical and can be kept nice and safe in a bank? Oh wait, already have that, people call it "money".

Most people don't want to live in the wild west, that is a fact, and that's why the wild west went out of existence. There will always be some people who want to live dangerously / adventurously, but their experiences and preferences do not generalize to the entire population.
Internet allowed the creation of things such as Bitcoin. Btc is only making the Internet impact larger, if such a thing is ever measured and matters at all.
For more context, I recommend looking at the two graphs here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot#Variation

In particular, the Maunder minimum was a period of very low solar activity in the 17th century which contributed to the Little Ice Age. The drop in temperature impacted agricultural yields around the globe. [1]

That said, my professor would say that it's too early to infer much from this cycle's low sunspot number. The solar dynamo is very unpredictable in general, and quite possibly chaotic. Next cycle could be above average and that wouldn't shock anybody in solar physics.

[1] For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Dynasty#Economic_breakdow...
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If you're worried about the environmental impacts of Bitcoin mining, you may want to consider a priority re-evaluation.
Maybe it's no-duh that Apple would find a growth market in Japan, but just because its economy is huge doesn't mean that it's inclined to be a "growth" market for Apple or any other American tech.

And this is basically a non-sequitur, but this line of thinking reminded me of this article about why fax machines are still big in Japan http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/world/asia/in-japan-the-fa...
Everybody (except the Math PhD) writes the naive O(2^n) solution? Fat chance...
New report: supreme leader of Iran owns an empire worth $95B
I can't speak for the Red Cross, but donations made after a disaster are used to provide relief. It's true that if you give $100 now, it's impossible to instantly turn that into food for those in need, but it will let non-profits purchase and ship more relief supplies.

Initial disaster relief by necessity has to address short-term needs. Food, shelter, medicine, sanitation. Once basic needs are met, some organizations declare victory and leave. Others - typically those based in the community in the first place - continue to work on long-term recovery efforts, ranging from education, microloans, economic development, job training, etc. It really depends on the organization and the needs of the community.
Deleting a branch is also a destructive operation last time I checked. Force push could also be implemented by deleting the branch and pushing a different SHA1 into the same name.
So you don't believe song writers are entitled to a portion of the profits made off their work?
Bitcoin is a “bubble” only if you think information is
OCaml is a popular tool for implementing languages, IIRC the javascript referecence standard was implemented in ocaml as well.
There are a bunch of people secretly breaking network security so they can spy on all Americans. They lied about it to Congress and the American people.

And you think we are creating an us vs them mentality?

I think you can and should hold people responsible for their choice of livelihood and the organization they work for. That someone is turning a profit doing something bad doesn't make it better. It makes it worse.
not to dismiss your point, but http://xkcd.com/605/
I don't know whether costs are reduced for PayPass (tap to pay), but it seems anecdotally that any place supporting PayPass has removed credit card minimums.
You might like:

http://www.givewell.org/

http://www.greatnonprofits.org/

http://www.charitynavigator.org/

Disclosure: I work for http://www.globalgiving.org which helps grassroots non-profits from around the world that lack name brand recognition fundraise for their projects. Kiva is to microloans as GlobalGiving is to donations.
iPhones becoming available from DoCoMo is huge. They are the carrier with the best signal quality, hands down. You get reception in the middle of remote mountains with DoCoMo. It's akin to when Verizon started offering the iPhone, but multiplied by 5x.

Also

>One unique factor in Japan is the relatively small presence of Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE +2.10% , the world's largest smartphone maker. Samsung ranks fourth in Japan behind Apple, Sony and Sharp Corp., in part because of a Japanese consumer bias that works against many Korean brands.

This can't be understated imo. I have friends in Japan who flat out refuse to buy Samsung/LG monitors and other products.
So leave out the chewing RAM part. Use vocabulary and explain it in a way that will alienate newbies but still be clear to experts.
Yes, absolutely. Is there something I'm missing here? These questions seem easy.
Check the comments here : http://notes.envato.com/authors/dealing-with-rejection-part-...
Counterfeiting still happens, right?
Interesting. You got me thinking how to apply "Undo not warning" to this kind of situation and this is what I came up with as a first pass. It's purely speculative but maybe you'll find some inspiration:

Automatically verify everything you can. (billing ZIP matches credit card provider, email at least vaguely resembles an email address, all required fields are filled, etc). Raise a warning only if something is obviously wrong.

If the user hasn't yet chosen something like shipping options, consider making it a second step. Then you can have a pageflow along the lines of:

-User inputs basic information (name, address, email, financial details, everything necessary to know what they ordered and how they will pay for it)
-User is taken to a page where it asks for shipping options, with user's stated mailing address printed right next to the form. Have an obvious way to fix the address from this page.
-Print the user's email address near the mailing address for the same reason (if you feel the need to justify it, you can have a checkbox that says "send a receipt to email address" or "use email address for package tracking)

After an order is complete, take the user to a page that says "Your confirmation number is foo. Please save this page for your records. We will also send a receipt to email_address." The most visible thing on the page besides that message is their order, with the shipping address in bold. The next obvious is a link on this page they can click if something is wrong. Even if you never use the confirmation number for anything, it gives the customer an excuse to be observant without making them feel stupid.

Have a generous cancellation policy. If someone contacts you saying an order is wrong and you're positive which order they're talking about, let them cancel it. Worry about malicious cancellations only if they prove to be a real problem.
Show HN: Winners Win
This is a project I'm developing right now. The basic motivation is to build a platform for winners and potential winners. Any comments or feedback are highly appreciated!