skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although Frontend is impressive, the target market is a bit blurry. As a front-end developer, I don't see myself using such a tool. And non tech-savvy people would probably feel a bit overwhelmed and would still have issues designing a decent layout considering it's not their job.

For some time, I've had in mind a service where people could easily build their websites. A bit like Squarespace (which is amazing) but with a different interface. For many clients who only need a homepage, a contact page, an about page, and some content pages, I usually end up building a custom WordPress theme because its admin interface is efficient and user-friendly, and because I have much experience in it. But still, I don't consider it the best tool for the job.

I'm not a great programmer, but I have UI, UX, and front-end skills. I'll probably try to develop a workable draft of this app I have in mind, but if anyone is interested in building an easy-to-use platform for non tech-savvy people, feel free to contact me. I have some ideas about how the workflow should be and what features it should have.
This is part of his contradiction. Kind of like a porn producer fighting for free speech, which is supposed to be for political protection.
I get the impression this is a trait that seems more present in programmer types than many other people, and this fascinates me. I notice this in myself too. I almost always try to reduce/abstract my own problems or issues to 'general principles', and I tend to want to get to the root of things.

There are many plausible explanations for this (and obviously I've tried to get to the root of this phenomenon too), but at some point I started reflecting on whether this behavior is a good or bad thing.

I think it's both good and bad. It's good primarily because a lot of people look at their own problem in isolation, and share/address them as 'their unique problem', which keeps them from seeing underlying patterns or principles and from tapping into the experiences and observations of the countless others that have had pretty much the exact same problem. But it can also be bad, because not everyone likes being subjected or presented with this kind of generalization, and attempting to think about a problem in a general sense while you are suffering from it yourself complicates the search for solutions immensely (especially practical, direct solutions to implement).

Does anyone know if there has been research into this? I never really thought of diving in the the 'psychology' of programmers...
It is not bitcoin that is susceptible to heists, the protocol is rock solid!

Its websites coded by script kiddies such as inputs.io by an under 18 Australian who ignore security and then get hacked (or more likely do a runner with the coins themselves) once they get enough suckers to send them bitcoin
Oh come on. "Frontend" isn't a skill. It's a piece of software that makes interfacing with another piece of software easier.

There have been frontends long before there was HTML.
I'm 68. Here's a Wikipedia article about one of my better-known programs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer

Here's one of my programs that has been available online for 17 years:

http://arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php

Here's an online article about some programs I wrote in the early 1970s, before Apple Writer:

http://arachnoid.com/programmable_calculators/index.html

And here's a program I updated this afternoon:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arachnoid....

All my programs are free and open-source.

Here's an old article about me:

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
> waiting until an investor accidentally makes the world a better place in the process of trying to make as much money as possible

What the what?

I don't agree with the article. I feel the main issue with google is its laziness. No more legacy internet explorer support, imposing a bad google + whereas make it better...
When you see all these logos in a list, none of them particularly shout the web at me. I'm not smitten by any. The only standout one was the little spaceman with the earth in his visor's reflection. All a bit drab save for Iceweasel. I think I prefered the netscape logo.
I think they started off with that goodwill because they actually delivered on their promises. Lots of contributions to Open Source, Summer of Code etc. So there was this hope that this would be the Good Engineering Company that would make the Right Decisions. Maybe the best example was how they shut down their China operation instead of caving to pressure like many others did.

In a way, I feel that Google has lost what they "were about". If Google overpromised anything, it was that they were the "open internet company". In many ways, that and "don't be evil" was what defined them.
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Well, what that report says is that fat people cost more per year then non-fat, but since they die quicker, they don't cost as much over their lifetime. It would be interesting to see what discount rate would equalize the costs.
Perl is better at sharing memory for hash keys by default, this particular problem might not show up enough for your use cases.
Server and computer parts on amazon, loads of them
> I'm 2^5. My oldest code online is a Forth compiler I wrote when I was 2^4 ...

Hah! Birthdays at your house must be really big events, each taking twice as long to appear as the previous one.

Maybe that's not such a bad idea. As we get older, time seems to pass more quickly, so ...
I think Paul Rosenbaum's advice for careers is particularly relevant for programmers:

"Keep re-inventing yourself through self-education, because industries change quickly."
Kitchen that feeds 100,000 per day
....and what happens when one sells? another buys? I don't get your argument there! Purely exchange, over a million coins are traded daily!

So, there is no bubble in my opinion, there will be ups and downs without a doubt, but I see this out lasting all of us in some form or another!
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I'm currently reading "How To Sell Anything To Anybody" by Joe Girard. A recommended read for anyone who wants more pointers in the arena...and not as shady as it sounds!
What's PiCloud and what's Multyvac, and what does all this mean?
Prediction: it'll rise up to $1000 before it crashes down to $400 before December 31.
I want to echo your sentiments. We use it for our business and since Aaron told me a few weeks ago that picloud was closing down as a service I've been wondering what to do about it.

The docker gap is one part of it. For me I only really need one environment though (I have a customised one I run on picloud) so that's not the major concern. The bit that wasn't as obvious to solve is moving the python library dependencies from the client to the server. I looked into libraries to handle this but I couldn't find anything obvious. All the other processing libraries use a model where you need to have the code you want to run up on the remote machine before you start.
"I'm blessed with a loving wife and 3 amazing sons."

What's the deal with this? I've read it in many résumés...
Like being above 18 gives any guarantee :-)

Bitcoins can be owned, so it's better to own them instead of storing them in someone's wallet on some website. Send you money to a shitty exchange nearby, buy bitcoins, move them into your own wallet immediately. Then you won't care if someone hacks the exchange.
I admitted using bitcoins currently is hard and expensive errors are easy to make. But this is a software issue. Old "good enough" security habits won't fly, as a lot money is on now on the line (old security issues usually didn't cause too much harm for most users). New practices/implementations will have to be developed, but I don't see why that won't happen.

Even nowadays with a few simple steps you can make your bitcoin stash VERY VERY secure. Install a fresh copy of linux on a USB, disconnect all networking capabilities, boot to the USB, create a new wallet/address (brain or paper) using established methodology, turn off computer, remove USB, presto, you have a un-hackable bitcoin address. You could even create a multi-sig stash that requires a digital signature from multiple people (2-of-3, 3-of-5, etc). Obviously, this is cumbersome and non-trival for the average joe. But with a small amount of imagination it is easy to see how everyday solutions could be developed.
I love cranky old guy columns, especially when the author is self-aware enough to point it out. Very nicely done.

Having said that, the problem we have with startups is stated rather simply: startups do not succeed or fail based on somebody's ability to argue whether they make sense or not. That's why these beauty contests masquerading as business plan competitions or swimming with the sharks or whatever are such bullshit. It's not about whether you can make a reasoned argument one way or the other. It's about market traction. That's it.

Now everybody and their brother wants to play armchair epidemiologist. What are the "risk" factors associated with startups? Do the youth really play out? What should team sizes be? And so on. And no doubt some of these tidbits of data are actually showing promise.

But arguments like this always fall flat, which, incidentally, is one of the reasons that HN "rate my startup" comments need to be taken with a huge grain of salt. You don't reason your way to success. You test your way there.
That is not a specific weakness of bitcoin. If encryption stops working, most of the worlds economic systems run into serious issues. Transferring money by _any_ electronic mechanism becomes problematic.
I think you've hit on the exact issue here: it's not that anybody disagrees that their coders they are hiring need to be able to do tree traversal. The issue is simply that we have given a complicated name for something very simple that every coder already understands. It's simply a communication issue.
Thanks. I'll fix that bug.
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To be honest, there's a little bit of "I'm too old for this shit" attitude among them. They have have demanding jobs and families, and probably couldn't care less about what internet thinks.

I also have to note that I've never met a person my age (early twenties) who I could call a great engineer. Promising - yes, talented - yes, but not great. You know, the type of people that you shut up and listen to when they talk. Guess those years of experience really count...

P.S.: OK, I lied, I've actually seen some guys even younger than me that are absolutely brilliant, mostly those actively participating in programming contests (ACM/TopCoder, etc.), but I wouldn't exactly put them in charge of a team building a product, if you catch my drift...
They were trying to push Bluray as a media format when the PS3 was released, having the PS3 act as a media center meant more people would buy Bluray movies.

This time, HD-DVD is dead, and everything in your living room already plays streaming media, so it's not much of a selling point.
I would say (and have said), "No that's just not for me. But appreciate the offer."
from an emotional standpoint:
That @ reminds me of the emoticon to show a perplex user.

I could live with that sign but I bet most casual users won't get the @=>vcard=>business card reference.
I believe CPython just allocates slightly more memory than the structure describing the object requres and stores the attributes in fixed locations immediately after it. It's basically the same way that it handles attributes of built-in types, except that those also have a C struct describing the attribute layout.
I used to use all sorts of random browsers years ago. I forget the main one, but it used Gecko, and had mouse gestures built in by default, and some other unique features. Was really nice, and this was back in 2005, 2006?
Could this be partly because Coinbase is US only?
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It doesn't matter if you buy when it's low or high, the only thing that matters is what will happen in the future [1].

There is absolutely no guarantee that low stock will rise [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Thinking_Clearly

[2] http://www.nasdaq.com/investing/5-stock-market-myths.stm
the only way to identify high quality information is by what some would call "peer reviewed, authenticated content".

That's not the only way.

It is a method that scales.

You can also identify content yourself, based on known sources (whether fully identified or pseudonymous), or based on the extant indicators within the text itself.

Traditionally the issue has been resolved through editors (not necessarily peer review) who would judge content on its merits and/or the reputation of its author(s). As Clay Shirkey has noted, "it's not information overload, it's filter failure", we've moved from pre-publication filters to post-publication filters. The incentives on and for publication have also shifted, with a huge increase in low-quality information being promoted (most of what's "viral"), something I'm increasingly getting sick of.

As for G+, as I've posted elsewhere (and Homer Slated points out very eloquently in a recent post), Google's formerly razor-sharp relevance algorithms are becoming increasingly vague. It's to the point it's becoming highly obvious to me, and it's very painfully manifested on G+ specifically.

Some of this might be attributed to SEO gaming of search, but tool design and selectin (see "What's Hot" and the extremely limited search and noise controls on G+) make me increasingly think it's deliberate.
1.How is it different from macaw or Adobe Muse ?
2.I did not understand why are you using a custom web framework xtyle , instead why not go for Bootstrap ?.
Its already used by millions and you also save a lot of time.
3.Components feature sounds exciting , but how much similar is it to angular directives.
4.What is target market ? front-end developers or non-tech people?
I was recently reading an article about making it easy for users to use a website http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/getting-users....

In my opinion, I agree. User-friendly is key. In my personal experience, users appreciate ease of access, including unsubscribing.
IPv6 takeup hits 2.5% for the first time ever.
World's Largest Bitcoin Exchange, BTC China, Raises $5M From Lightspeed
Jakarta recalls ambassador to Australia over spying claims [video]
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And if historically significant but now obsolete browsers were added (Mosaic, Netscape...), this would be fearsomely comprehensive.
Nothing goes up forever.

As for investments.. those usually have (or promise to have) a thing called yield.
If i put my money in the bank, they give me an interest. BTC doesn't.
If my bank goes bankrupt, my deposit is insured. If my BTC wallet is stolen...

And this is before we even start talking about regulatory risk. Again: BTC is a fantastic technical endeavour, but to call it an "investment" is quite a long shot. Call it a bet.
I wonder why more people don't look into Facebook Poke, which explicitly guarantees the encryption keys to your content will be deleted after two days, unless there's some kind of legal order to the contrary.
Unfortunately coinbase is US-only.
Some property of the data that makes it easily identifiable? Such as someone's entire medical history, including age, sex, number of children, and "race"? Just wiping someone's name is not going to "anonymize" that kind of data.

There's something deeper here - Larry Page is thinking in terms of "big data" - "wouldn't it be nice if we could run all kinds of multivariate analyses on everything about everyone?" - but it's fundamentally impossible to do that while preserving anonymity. The same information that might reveal interesting correlations is vulnerable to correlation attacks. Say you wanted to know how nutrition affected immune system response. You'd look at things like height, weight, diet, frequency of minor illness, and rough location (city level, to control illness rate against those around you). To be of any use, the "anonymized" database is going to have to have all those variables correlated per person, which means if I know you're 6'1", eat a lot of bananas, live in Silicon Valley and had a cold last year, I can potentially look you up and find out other things about you.

It's worth remembering that whenever a high-level Googler talks about the social/medical potential of large-scale data analysis like that, that it is inherently hostile to privacy.
"modern JITs" aren't so modern at all. All that work was originally done on Smalltalk in the 1980s — it's also entirely tangential to JITing compilers, as it can easily be done with interpreters too, so it's not even a cost of this particular style of dynamic object model — it's a cost of this implementation strategy of this particular style of dynamic object model. The fact that PyPy manages fine shows it is not the language, or any model to which it subscribes, that is at fault.
Kind of disappointed this isn't on there, if only for old time sake:

http://i.imgur.com/NJWpCbk.jpg

Surely there's someone out there still using Netscape.
Honestly, we're not interested in people who aren't willing to pay for service. We're not selling ads, we don't have a second revenue stream. Servers cost money, multiple replica redundancy plus backups cost money.

Shiny new SSDs allowing us to serve the entire last week's email of every user from SSD so that first page view is always lightning fast cost money.

We think that's worth 11 cents per day (Enhanced account).
Which doesn't say much, if anything at all.

Because if the cage has the area of Earth, then it might as well not exist at all.

And if it's not gold at all, then you don't have any remorse trying to leave it behind (which is what "golden cage" conveys).
> all I ever do is commit my work and push/pull, whether I'm using svn, git, or hg.

And yet, even those simple operations are different between different DVCS. 'hg pull' and 'git pull' are not equivalent, same with push. I try to stay away from git but when I can't avoid it, I have to remember that the sane/safe way to pull in git is apparently 'git pull --ff-only'.. #fail
Are the phone conversations still available to be listened too?
Yeah, Most of the govt organisations too block gmails because of the data it holds.....
All bitcoin has done so far is make the people with as little as $50 to spare (in 2011, 2012) into rich people. The rest of us in recession hit Europe have merely been screwed by it. I'm not saying it will crash or won't, but it's promoted more inequality than most other instruments.

and saying "the value of the bitcoin economy is $5bn" or whatever is disingenuous. Economies are measured by the FLOW of money - the gdp, not the STOCK - the total value of the money supply in a different currency. The amount of money changing hands is what matters - and afaik, that's miniscule in comparison.
That's a fair point. I may have made the assumption that this was named after the skill.
I would hope it's servicable! I put a lot of work into making it robust. It helps that we talk IMAP to the backend servers as well rather than some custom protocol (OK, so there are some IMAP extensions we use in house as well - but they're very much in the spirit of regular IMAP)
Buyers and sellers need to agree on a price, it is not always the case that they agree for the listed price, hence bid and ask prices are different.
For example, when thousands of people want to sell at $1000, then there will be downward pressure on the bitcoin. When someone tries to sell out $1,000,000 worth of bitcoin, he will need to find a buyer that is willing to part with $1,000,000 USD. Good luck!
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I don't think that's the case. Google is a relatively young company and its entire success grew out of smart people recognising good quality products and embracing change. It happens that Google is now changing in a way that ultimately will hurt (and is hurting) users. The smart connected early adopters that previously loved Google can see what is going on and they don't like it.
Wow, this is truly a pro-tip. I had never considered it before. Thanks!

Plus, if someone buys something from iTunes/AppStore shortly after clicking your link, you end up getting 7% commission.
If you do upload your wallet to "the cloud", you should definitely encrypt it with strong encryption and with a password of appropriate entropy. Otherwise, you're just asking for someone to steal your coins.
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I'm not sure. Gmail's web interface certainly had been the best. But with the last overhaul, I ended up with big chucks of useless area on the top of my 1366*768 screen. Then there's the new Outlook. If we're stricktly talking about web interface, it's hard, at least for me, to say which one wins out.
Capitalism isn't usually known for delivering subpar products. "Maximizing profits" has resulted in some incredibly functional and effective websites in the past. Google thinks stuffing them with ads and making users give away their personal data will bring them maximum profit? Well, antagonizing customers is usually not the best business strategy.
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Time is precious.

The issue I have with HN (and other Forums), is that there is a lot of repetition in the comments. In part on HN this is probably not helped as it's difficult to overview and digest threads, especially if the comment trees are large. Comment verbosity and positional changes also make it difficult.

I think that is why in part people come, post, then move on. Necro-posting, even a day late is pretty pointless if you want to add to the general discussion.

I think I'd rather comments have a character limit. Or to get people to post summaries of their posts as titles. And/or some tl;dr; post mortems on comment threads.
Naps never help me. Is it just me or people here feel much more drowsy after taking a nap too?