skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the superior alternative? (serious question)
Ah, good point!

And this is Mozilla. They are used to putting out releases often. Firefox Nightly is at version 30.0 :)
I applied solo, but had two people about to join me as co-founders. That could have been part of it, but wasn't the official stated reason...
> Doge is the only one I'm aware of that departs from the bitcoin model.

It's not. Maybe you should try to get informed a bit before sharing your opinions based on whatever meme you saw on reddit.
What are the privacy concerns? as far as i know, it's a broadcast-only mechanism - your device doesn't respond to a beacon, if you don't want to broadcast anything don't set up an iBeacon.
> If they continued to take in deposits after they knew they were insolvent, it was a ponzi scheme.

You clearly have no idea what a ponzi scheme actually is; educate yourself before making such foolish public statements.
Thanks for saving me 10 minutes I would've wasted reading this. Appreciate the heads up.
Fortunately we have your extensive experience in operating system security patching and policies about when to push a hotfix vs. a large update to a widely-deployed userbase to enlighten us!
Yes, in that same class. The bulb on the bow makes it relatively easy to board using two small boats and a rope between them.
The Constantly Drafting Mentality
> But that's true, and it's not based on humanitarian grounds, but pragmatic ones

That's a very different belief than the one mentioned by dethstar. Dethstar was referring to killing pirates with poison gas on an unmanned ship, so as far as I can tell it's a moral or humanitarian belief. Your belief is pragmatic, but it wouldn't apply to unmanned ships where there is no crew to be in danger.
He grew up on food stamps. He wasn't on them in his adult life.
That's surprisingly easier than I thought it would be! Kudos for the idea of compiling then disassembling from source.
This isn't a rag to riches story. He was a successful guy that started a company with financial backing, he didn't have to bootstrap it etc.

He obviously worked hard, built something valuable and useful by a lot of people but let's focus on the reality, not a myth
Google Hangouts is a terrible evolution of what used to be a nice, clean and standards-based service. The reason I stopped using and advocating Gtalk was Hangouts.

Unfortunately, most of Google's products are taking the hangouts route: bloated, messy UI, no clear conceptual model and shiny over functional.

I don't get it, but I wont put up with it either. I've migrated most my data and services from Google to other places.
I don't know about SF but many cities have patrollers. Getting caught without a ticket is an instant fine.
Let me first say I really loved your Rust intro and I'll be buying any new book you produce.

Question: are there any moderate-sized codebases (ie not Servo, not Rust itself) that can be used to show idiomatic Rust? In my own experimentation (a simple image utility to resize images and convert to b&w), I ended up writing it a lot like I would C, which I know isn't correct based on snippets I've seen. Or rather, it's correct in that it works, but it's not particularly idiomatic and the Rust elite would sneer at me.

It's like the early days of C++ when people were writing it as "C with classes", complete with pointers everywhere, malloc, etc. A lot of that could have been mitigated with some easily digestible source that clearly demonstrates the idioms. Maybe a small game, a simple text editor, etc.? Does anyone know of anything like this? Or is it too soon for this?
Show HN: Our Band Is Called… A Rock 'n' Roll band name generator
I don't think that that is what people usually mean when they say that, and it's not really true either. The goal of the government is to maintain power and hopefully a stable society or something - money is just a tool to that end, and not a goal in itself. After all, the goal of monetary policy usually is inflation, which tends to reduce the value of money. And also, currency is not the only area where governments will interfere as they deem it necessary.

Really, I think what you are saying boils down to "stuff that can have a big impact on society tends to be watched more closely by the government, and it's more likely that the government will interfere to maintain the status quo" - which is a valid point, but it's neither a particularly special thing with money, nor is there any guarantee that it's always to the benefit of the governed.
This may well be an example of our ability to find patterns based only on "thin slices," or narrow windows, of experience. [0]

Called "thin-slicing", first read about it in "Blink" by Gladwell, which is based entirely on this concept, and has plenty of great examples of this phenomenon (The Wikipedia link below has some of them).

I think the human brain is the ultimate pattern-matching and learning machine, and when trained long enough develops an ability to discern patterns from the faintest and narrowest of signals.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-slicing
I don't think that he knows. No one does. But that does not mean that it isn't something that should be discussed.
Quantum Philosophy and the Long Tail
That statement was made in reference to features of the app not in reference to what country he moved to. He didn't say "now that I'm in America and have privacy I can make this app* It said basically his experience living in a country with no privacy led him to build his app in a way that respects privacy of it's users. Big difference. You could make the same argument about his current country (the US) although I don't think anyone can seriously compare the two.
It is open source. We don't get to have it both ways. Reporters see a slide deck from FOSDEM [1] and decide to report on it.

[1] http://video.fosdem.org/2014/UD2218A/Saturday/Servo_building...
For the same price, the robot will also alert us when they find Jimmy Hoffa's body.
YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRtvze-4R9E
I hope when they are rewriting the browser with modern architecture, they keep in mind the problems which kept this bug alive for more than 12 years now (while all other major browsers fixed it one by one), citing 'foundation' or architectural problems:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414
As far as I know (and people don't seem to talk about it all that much), the core of the browser is borrowed from a browser project called NetSurf (yes, there are others besides webkit / blink). So, technically, they're not really reimplementing HTML/CSS/HTTP/What-have-you.
Going from being a kid whose parents received food stamps to a billionaire is an amazing example of social mobility that is definitely not the norm. The fact that he wasn't poor for his adult life is just one detail of the greater story.
Forgive me, but I'm not really sure why this is getting so much attention.

It's certainly a bad bug, and it ought to have been caught.
But it feels like this would be much harder to exploit than many other bugs which have had far less hoopla.

As I understand, this SSL bug makes it rather trivial to perform MITM attacks against apps which use the default system SSL libs.

That's certainly a problem, but most people are using trustworthy ISPs (at least in this sense). Comcast seems unlikely to try to steal your bank password, and Verizon is unlikely to try to harvest your HN cookies.

It seems like this primarily affects people connecting to untrustworthy access-points, such as Coffee Shops, or Airport Wifi - While that's certainly something that needs to be fixed, it seems far less crucial than remote-code-execution [1], or many other bugs we see regularly.

I'm sure I'm missing something here, can someone help me understand?
Is it just the "Ick" factor of having something you thought was encrypted actually being fairly open?

I don't understand why this is getting more attention that other (seemingly) more dangerous exploits.

[1] - http://msisac.cisecurity.org/advisories/2013/2013-088.cfm
This is one of the funniest things I've seen this week!
I think that is what "interested" means.
Fennecfoxen's theory could be illegal market manipulation

Market manipulation in general isn't illegal, so it would basically boil down to if the SEC considered BTC a currency or not.
Bitcoin has a market capitalization of only $6 Billion, with even less than that in actual circulation. No government really cares enough to regulate it.

Why do active Bitcoin traders believe they are this important?
Again still wrong. Exchanges aren't investments; users aren't promised returns, they in fact expect that the chance of loss is high.

Just because fraud occurs does not a Ponzi make. Seriously, just stop repeating this complete nonsense. Ponzi schemes are very specific things and neither the Gox situation nor Bitcoin are Ponzi's in any way.
What silicon valley millionaire is advocating against taxing the rich? The only one I know of that has an opinion is Gates, and it's exactly the opposite of what you're implying.
He didn't mention XHTML. He seems to be talking about an entirely new layout language, which is nutty, but not as crazy as XHTML, which was "let's make everything way more complicated for the sake of ideological purity, but not add any new features"
This conversation resurfaces every time a project gets to x.10 version number, e.g. KDE SC 4.10. Considering even HN audience which are mostly programmers find this versioning scheme confusing, I wish we have had settled on another identifier to separate minor and major version numbers. Something that didn't have a mathematical meaning. I personally like : and ::
So Airbnb is going after that market, 23B. You're going after a small subset of that market. But say you get pretty popular and 10% of every vacation rental is using your service then that's only 20M (since you only take 1%).

Or are you planning on offering a different service once you're big enough?
Nice call. Yea very strange. Seems like the most important thing in this update. It should at least be at the top of the bug fix list.
The correct (stylistic) way to use var in C#
We jettisoned most of the netsurf code a while ago. It was purely a stopgap measure. Only the HTML parser is still netsurf's and we're planning to rewrite it.
About the security content of OS X Mavericks v10.9.2
How Glean Brings a Free World-Class Education to the World
This is a nice service. Which cities are you currently operating in?
You might be interested in the ongoing reconstruction of Cave Story written in Rust: https://github.com/drbawb/rust-story
Do you feel unhappy about Mozilla and what they're doing for some reason? If not, why the rant?
How is that 'totally unacceptable' when this is not? http://m.slashdot.org/story/198449
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language"

That Wolfram™ Language and the Wolfram™ Cloud is going to change the world forever, the language is so great because its Wolfram™ Symbolic and since it all just runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud its really fast. You can put all your financial data in the Wolfram™ and do things. You know they worked 30 years on this, and it must be good because it runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud. Cloud Cloud Cloud Bla Bla Bla Bla Buy Buy Buy Wolfram™ Wolfram™ Wolfram™.
That's true. What about people like da Vinci or Michelangelo?

I am not comparing pg to either of these three people, at least not directly. I'm just claiming that it's not unlikely there's some kind of taste, knowledge or whatever have you which he (and the other partners) possesses to a much higher degree than Random Joe Investor.
Good for them, but being "too proud" doesn't work when your family is starving. In fact if I knew of a family "too proud" to use food stamps who's children were being harmed as a result, I'd report them and I'd hope you would too as they (the children) deserve better.
In my view, none of the mobile OS manufacturers have a good handle on messaging.

I don't see why this should be tied to the mobile OS platform. That just makes no sense at all. Should I only be able to communicate with people who use the same type of mobile OS as me? What sort of pre-internet madness is this?

Right now, at least for Android, I find facebook (yes, facebook!) to have the best mobile IM client. Light, clean, to the point with some nice UI details and options.

And it also has all my contacts. And it is cross platform. And accessible from the web. And standards-based (I can still XMPP in to facebook IM and do everything the web-based client lets me do).

Yes. Despite facebook being creepy, it's still miles better than super-creepy Google. After all, it's just one website and unlike Google you know when you interact with it.
Let's not leave the "speaking with an accent thing" alone for a second.

PG's point was that if your accent is sufficiently strong that people have trouble understanding you, then you have a big problem. And that's something that is obvious in a sentence. So person opens their mouth, and you know it is a no.

If the person merely has an accent, that's OK.

And so we have confirmation of what he's saying now. There are times when it is obvious within the first 10 minutes, in fact in the first 2, that you need to say no.
1. Some people put a month of fares on their Clipper card.

2. People will think you are a bum if you approach them on Bart trying to swap your tickets.
I wonder if Apple is taking a stance against voicemail since many people find it to be a nuisance.
It is fun to watch. From a safe distance.
Yes, maybe because they didn't ignore all the context of my email, and did checked that he has serious credentials, like:

"he had been leading the core library development of Android while at Google".

And that he is just but one of the players at Square, including guys like a well known VC and Twitter's cofounder.

If "CrazyBobs" was an unknown in the industry guy and his CV was like "I have done some fun projects, like a PHP mailer" and he was the major person behind the company, no investor would have touched it with a barge pole.
I'm pretty sure it failed due to not being backwards compatible. Sometimes you can throw stuff away if it isn't getting much use, but backwards compatibility is too important in the real world.

If your browser won't browse the Web, consumers simply won't use it.
There's some very good advice in that article, and I really like the Russian anecdote about the man who loved his dog too much.

One thing I do disagree with is this: "A lot of management training ties you in knots trying to say things just right. Just let it go. Just say it." Some people are either naturally better, or more experienced at communicating in a way that connects and motivates people. Others (like myself) need to really parse what we say before we say it.