skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering if the rate of voting or the absolute value of the post's rating (it had a ton of upvotes) triggered a Disqus protection thinking it was a flame war, similar to flamewar protection on HN.
There _are_ differences, but yeah - you're arguing about the ranking of the 99.91% - 99.95% better solutions compared to no version control. (Seriously - even CVS and SourceSafe are 99.9% closer to "perfect" than doing nothing)
Good responses, no need for the snark at the end though!
m0llusk: I'd like to let you know that your account is hellbanned, meaning nobody can see your posts.
I will paypal you $25 if you find me a Caribbean Premium Number VOIP MORE INSIDE
I need a premium number in one or all of the Caribbean countries that charges for incoming calls for my iPhone unlocking/jailbreaking service. It cannot have a 1-800 or 1-900 number and must be a local area code.<p>Some people have told me its impossible, but its not, look here: http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/one-ring-cell-phone-scam-can-ding-your-wallet<p>If scammers can do it, I should be able to for my legitimate business.
> 97%+ of shareholders understand that Apple goes the extra mile in sustainability and agrees with that approach.

Meh. Over 50% of Apple stock is owned by institutional investors and mutual funds. I for one own Apple stock through index funds and just like every other company held by those funds I don't really give a shit about the specifics.
I'm not sure if Wyatt, Qi, et al. looked at pre-caching at all. I've not looked at the numbers yet, but it's on my list of things to look into once the next few months of more obvious wins are worked through.
If it has a different name, at least it'll be distinguishable.
How an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived the troubled HealthCare.gov
But realistically you do at some point. Sacrificing 1% of profits for a 20% safety increase is reasonable and smart, but doing the reverse would never happen.

Environmental impact in particular is an endless money hole. You can always spend more money to be marginally better, and every company (and individual) has their cut off.
IMO, this seems like a pretty bad idea.
I have personally witnessed the frustrating side of this "no poaching" pact. A close friend was tired of the "Manager Arrogance" at one of these colluding companies.

He quietly put out the word,pretty quickly got approached by a hiring manager at another company - things were going swimmingly.

Then the Hiring manager put in the Req to HR - a V.P. called him personally and but confirmed this "no poaching" B.S.
The wage hike would have been considerable for my friend (you can guess the two companies - Arrogant vs Top Payer) & he was pretty upset to learn that the real reason was Jobs being a Huge Asshole and bullying everybody into such a blatantly illegal pact.

So this is a very real "wage theft" collusion case.
Unfortunately most of the parties involved had the "good" sense to NOT document it officially so the Smoking Gun might be hard to prove conclusively.

There was even a "no hire" list at one of these companies tacked on the wall of a HR Manager with the Caption "If you hire from there, we will fire (u) from here."
Show HN: Common Form – Federal 1040EZ Tax Preparation
What does f2p stand for?

Although I'm cynical enough to not expect this, things could be partitioned into "grant access to people with no payment on file" and "need payment on file to download this app".
I don't think you can even start a new product with a broadcom soc if you're not already a huge player.
Hm. I see the good intent of protection against 'unwitting purchases' BUT still do not welcome the government intervention here. Governments have a tendency to work on 'soft targets' like software / app development. I would like to see them work first on unwitting charges/terms-and-conditions imposed by credit card or insurance companies.

The order of priority just feels wrong.
Personally, I'm much more appreciate of the sentiment that not all things need to be exclusively driven by ROI. And at any rate, if you make it solely about the ROI then you open yourself up to evidence from conflicting "studies" and changing political landscapes.
Thanks for the updates and finding the time to post during what's certainly been a hectic day.
I have rarely seen any content that is "sold". Even if you look at your drm-free vinyl record, it tends to say that you're sold the plastic, but the content is only licensed to you for the lifetime of the medium and that you're prohibited from making copies, publicly broadcasting it and whatnot. It isn't the DRM that's restricting you, it's the copyright law.
ONLY 6 COMMENTS?

People should be virtually rioting for this.
f2p: free-to-play -- normally with in-game purchases implied.
Sharing files? With Expandrive you can mount anything you can ssh into. This has been possible on Linux for a long time, Apple is lagging behind there, but Expandrive is a solid 3rd party solution.
Can 10,000 hours of practice make you an expert?
Interesting, since most of Palm's ideas on smartphones pre-dated the iPhone. No wonder we've changed the patent law to first to file, rather than first to invent.
" I don’t believe in peer review because I think it’s very distorted and as I’ve said, it’s simply a regression to the mean."

"SB: ... Somehow that’s why the journals insist they will not publish your paper unless you sign that copyright over. ... everybody works for these journals for nothing. There’s no compensation. There’s nothing. They get everything free. They just have to employ a lot of failed scientists, editors who are just like the people at Homeland Security, little power grabbers in their own sphere."
gnustl_static, pretty ok for my needs.
FYI, npm is rolling back to an older cert that they used a few years back. It's a GlobalSign cert, and the GlobalSign CA has been in npm since Aug 2012. When it propagates their global CDN, old clients will be fixed without breaking new ones and they can focus on a more permanent solution.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7323093
Square's products lately have been amazing. Have you seen Square Cash?

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

I'm pretty much a Square fanboy at this point. I'm sure they could improve, and are actively working to do so - but I wouldn't label Square's products as average.
Not hellbanned, probably just tripped up by the duplicate comment detector: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=IsaacSchlueter
Congratulations to Square for making people that it was in the mobile payment business.

Square is typically the kind of Company with a great initial product that raises too much money for its own good and end up chasing 500 battles because they have the team do so. Fab comes to mind as well.

Square has a significant problem: their product is mostly used by merchants with low average selling prices (ASP) and their pricing model (flat 2.7% vs. the usual X%+0.3) kills their margins at this price point. On the other hand, their POS, which could/should allow them to sign more sophisticated retailers or restaurants with higher ASP does scale with businesses because it does not have any of the workflow management features that are necessary.

Overall, they are stuck with an unprofitable customer base and with a (beautiful product) and are trying to throw things on top of this to create a consumer product (like the failed Pay with Square thing).
I disagree, mostly because you presented your opinion as black and white.

Apple has, what, > 10k workers? If it cost them $100 billion to prevent one software worker from getting carpal tunnel, your statement suggests that cost should be born by Apple. Similarly, if it cost the cumulative GDP of the US to prevent N amount of pollution, your statement suggests that Apple should go bankrupt preventing that pollution.

Back in the real world, I suspect we generally agree. The problem, IMO, is that companies (and consumers) aren't forced to capture the hidden costs of injuries/pollution.

I just disagree with your black and white assessment. The laws of economics mean companies have to assign dollar values to human life and safety, as much as we dislike the feeling it gives us.
I started Common Form with two very good friends and it's been a hard grind to get live in time for this filing season!

Some high level milestones: we started on Nov 22 2013, finished our final acceptance testing with IRS on Feb 13 2014, launched closed beta on Feb 17, and successfully transmitted our very first customer's tax return on Feb 18 (100 days to the day from when we started the adventure).

We're open to the public now and I'd love feedback not only on the product itself, but our scope (1040EZ only), and whether or not you think the existing players are disruptable.
You are confusing the thing sold through MtGox with the thing sold by MtGox. MtGox sold the service of storing your money and of connecting you to trading partners and settling trades with those trading partners, that is what exchanges do - they didn't sell bitcoins.

It's like confusing eBay and paypal with some eBay seller: eBay and paypal don't sell clothes, say, they only help you find someone selling clothes and then (optionally) help with the settlement, the payment in particular.

And that's not just a formal distinction: On an exchange (like MtGox or any foreign currency exchange or stock exchange ...), the price for the traded commodity is not set by the exchange, but by the traders using the exchange. The exchange only sets the price for its service of connecting you with a counterparty, but the price for the stocks or bitcoins or whatever sold through the exchange is set by the trading partners, and the exchange also never takes on any of the investment risk, when you sell stocks, the counterparty gets the stocks, you get the money they paid, the exchange only does the bookkeeping.
Another vote for Chrome Secure Shell. Open source, well made and hterm supports copying to your clipboard when tmux or mosh doesn't eat the sequence. I have limited font choice on the Chromebook so I embed a powerline font in mine. Very cool. Hacking up some insecure DIY server backend is a bit silly when you can have libssh or mosh compiled into nacl.
After reading both blog posts, I still didn't know exactly what the heck actually happened, so I downloaded node.js 0.11.9 (released in November 2013 but not the latest version) and ran "npm config get ca" to see what npm's default trusted certificate store used to be. There were four certificates:

• an "npm Certificate Authority" X.509v1 certificate valid from 2011-09-05 (an X.509v1 cert in 2011? srsly?)

• two of GlobalSign's Root CA certificates

• a GlobalSign subordinate CA certificate

What I'm guessing happened is that the certificate https://registry.npmjs.org used a long time ago was signed by that "npm Certificate Authority" certificate. Then they switched to a signed-by-GlobalSign certificate. Then, two days ago, they switched to an EV certificate from DigiCert, and that's when all hell broke loose for people not using the latest version of npm because not-latest versions of npm would only trust certificates that chained up to GlobalSign's Root CAs or the "npm Certificate Authority."

If I'm right about what happened, then the brunt of this kerfuffle might've been avoided by making ca="" the default in npm releases as soon as the GlobalSign-signed certificate hit production and everyone was happy that it was working. Hindsight is 20/20 like that, though.
Am I the only one that loves the fact that it involves 64K programmers?
Your comments led me to discover Figlet (http://www.figlet.org) and ASCII art generator (http://patorjk.com/software/taag).

Weekend customization times! :-)
I personally don't consider them free. But I think most people do.
Helvetica: How did one typeface conquer the world?
JQuery Mobile 1.4.2 Released
Can you elaborate? My understanding is that most merchant accounts are in the 2% + .45 range. Are you suggesting that merchant margins depend on a 1% margin?
You really want the government getting involved here? I mean, what's next? Attacking SaaS and PaaS for their "free" tiers that really don't provide you with much and you have to actually pay to actually get some real use out of it?

Take some responsibility and stop asking the government to be your nanny.
Most of the domain owners often ask for ridiculous prices and that domain certainly won't be worth even 5% of what he is asking for.

If you are looking to build a product/company, you want to avoid going with .net (specially if .com is owned by someone else who is looking to sell it at premium anyway)

My advice would be to go with some other name, as the domain registrar/parking companies also inflate the price by 3x-5x so the real price of the .net is probably 1k
> So how does it work, in the opt-in case, if Cell should be freezable only if T is freezable?

impl<T: Freeze> Freeze for Cell<T> { }

> I'd rather see these kinds of traits always be implicit, because that allows for more interaction potential between independent libraries.

Quite the opposite: them being implicit causes trouble with interaction between independent libraries. Because at present, a seemingly innocuous change deep in the internals of one library can prevent its being used in another library—for example, a POD type can have an owned type added to it, and all of a sudden utterly independent code that depended upon its POD behaviour will fail due to move semantics on the linear types.
I'm writing my own. I used Mint for past 3 years or so but it's just not working out because it keeps creating duplicate copy of accounts, the expenses/income per month isn't right and so on. I've a prototype that I'm using personally for past two months. Still need to add few more features. After it's ready I would probably do Show HN.
Yea. I totally remember Web Browsers, Big Data, and Terabyte hard drives back in the 70's. It's too bad that these things were lost to the ages, only to be re-invented in the present.
> stop asking the government to be your nanny.

But then who will protect my children from things I disagree with???
With all the money they already have on the bank I suspect they don't agree with you.
1. Get copy of the file "root.zone" from ftp.internic.net

2. Load it into tinydns or nsd. I have a sed script that translates BIND format into tinydns format, but if you search you will find someone has written one in C.

3. Point your resolver at your root.

4. Create or delete TLD's at will, not to mention many other benefits.

Running your own DNS gives lots of control. Most malicious or deceptive practices that tarnish the internet rely on DNS. When you control your own, you can neutralize a very large percentage of it.

Redirecting .apple.com to your own httpd will show you just how bad this company has gotten.

You can also redirect ad servers like .doubleclick.net and voila, you will have free apps with NO ADS.
Wow, a selectable row-major or column-major register file! I would have never imagined such a thing. =)
This is an excellent idea. This could instantly create the kind of huge network effects that would surpass a lot of other mediums of exchange.

Something similar is being done by Auroracoin (http://www.auroracoin.org/) in Iceland:

"Auroracoin is a cryptocurrency for Iceland. It is based on litecoin and is 50% premined. The premined coins will be distributed to the entire population of Iceland, commencing on midnight 25th of March 2014."

Adding a recurring revenue stream built into the protocol would be interesting.
X.com is owned by eBay? It's redirecting to http://www.ebayinc.com/
This is clearly a difference between the US and the EU. Most EU citizens (including me) think it is fine to regulate the market, e.g. if it is misleading.

Such games are often misleading, since they are not really free. The 'Free' label is just used because people will impulse-install a free application more quickly than a paid application and in the end an addicted gamer will probably spend more through in-app purchases.

I think there is a good middle ground that can be found. Instead of listing in-app purchases separately, Apple, Google, et al. could make three options:

- <Price>

- Free

- Free with in app-purchases

It would also be nice if every app store listed all the in-app purchases. Then I, as a customer, can consider beforehand whether I found the prices to be acceptable.
> Your game isn't free if you have to pay to enjoy it.

I've enjoyed many free games that others complained they had to pay to play. PvZ2, for example.

And then let's apply this thought process to every startup out there offering a free tier. How quickly people would turn around if I put conditions: "Your Free tier ain't free if I can't use it for real business."
The same thing is common in other industries. You can't call your food pesticide-free or GM-free or gluten-free unless it really is. Is that a problem for you?
Deep Learning.
What about advertising? It consumes my time and attention, which is generally worth more (at least to me) than a few bucks. And advertising can have a powerful affect on susceptible minds. By this logic, all advertisement-supported games should be clearly marked as well.
John Kenneth Galbraith wrote with a great deal of detail and eloquence about what kind of conditions might inspire corporations not to maximize profit, and how those kinds of decisions actually contribute to the perpetuation and success of said corporations. The main book to read is The New Industrial State. He wrote it in the '60s when conditions were very different, but the fundamental principles remain valid.
WTF? Those SaaS/PaaS usually make clear what the plan cover and don't cover.

If companies are intentionally gaming the system to mislead people with intent to profit from us, yes, I do want the government to get involved because nobody else will fix it. Apple's the curator and they're doing it, the app developers are doing it, so who do we have left to complain to?

It's the government's responsibility to make sure companies follow the laws and not take advantage of people.

I do not have a problem with IAP, I'm okay with companies trying to make money via that method.

However, I do have a problem with companies saying those are free games where they aren't free and have paid requirements to keep playing the game.
Indeed! Don't forget kids, don't ever do anything if you're not already an expert.
> However, if you an adult, and you have purchased $100s of iAP, and now you feel bad about it, I have 0 sympathy for you.

So you understand that companies like King design their "free" games to be next-to-impossible if you don't give them money, while employing teams of psychologists to determine the best way to subvert your will through forced failure while simultaneously driving manipulative CTAs at you while you are at your (carefully cultivated) most vulnerable? And, understanding that and with that first and foremost in your mind, you have no sympathy for the people who end up on the business end of that psychological weapon?

Because I certainly do. There are economies of scale to the practice of subverting people's will and in this war one side's got all the guns. These games are designed--designed--to hit the same triggers as a fucking gambling addiction, man. I am so very not OK with abandoning those wired less effectively against it. (And as I get older I can see how insidious and easy it is for this shit to worm into me when I never would have noticed it, or thought it possible, a decade ago.)
How to Choose a Hard Drive
For those who want a functional(ish?) and strongly typed interface to tcpdump, hackage has the answer:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pcap-0.2/docs/Network-Pca...
I'm not clear on how it being implicit or explicit changes this issue. Sure, it is a benefit for the library writer that they can be told that their library is breaking a contract that it previously held to, but if they change it anyway the downstream user is still shit outta luck either way.

If it's just about making sure library writers don't accidentally fail a changed contract just make it so that they can declare an explicit contract that will cause an error if they don't meet and thus make clear the contracts they intend to continue honoring.

This makes the error explicit for exactly the right person in the event of a contract change: the library writer if they break without intending to and the user of the library if they are using the library in a way that they expect to work but were not guaranteed to by the library writer.

> impl<T: Freeze> Freeze for Cell<T> { }

I see. Is it multiple statements for multiple traits or can theybe combined into one statement? Forgive the newbish question.
Wow, after the feedback on this thread and a few conversations with other developers this week, I started thinking this exactly. Great timing, thank you!

I'm not sure what's kept me from going down this path already though, as this isn't the first time the idea has popped into my mind.
This is easily disprovable, via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...
Wouldn't a better idea than putting up a 'no poaching' kind of exit barrier be to give 'bonus every X period of time' kind of incentive, for employees you value and would like to retain?

I wonder if in the world of technology it makes sense to retain a demotivated employee?
Apple is reportedly launching iOS in the Car with Ferrari, Mercedes, Volvo
So really, you have no argument, except for a distaste of XHTML. Gotcha.

It seems better to mix that with SVG than HTML5, since SVG happens to also be XML based. Otherwise you have a impedance mismatch leading to some weird corner cases.
All of us, individually, are just single people. We don't have a lot of money. We don't have a lot of clout.

Apple is very big. It has a lot of people, and a lot of money, and a lot of clout.

Government is the countervailing force that, collectively, weak citizens can use to push back against private power. The word isn't "nanny", it's "guardian". It's "advocate".
If you have no power, no personal agency, and are a perpetual victim, then, really, the state is your best friend in divorcing yourself wholesale of personal accountability.

Ban allowing people to give free samples. They only make people believe that they can get more of what they want for free. Who are they to arbitrarily define how much a "sample" is when they use the word free? It's all or nothing, folks, stop trying to con the rest of us!

Ban allowing people to do charity work. If people don't want to become my personal slave, then they shouldn't have offered to open the door for me. Super simple stuff.
Not all good decisions can be rationalized as having a known, positive ROI. I think it is a pretty safe statement to say that many big decisions must be made for other reasons.
This is worth parsing through slightly. CEO's have a fiduciary responsibility (not to act with malfeasance); and the shareholders have the right to replace the CEO. That's about it. The CEO is not under any obligation other than self-interest when it comes to what happens in between.

The meme about "profit maximization" is one of those Keynesian sayings "of a defunct economist" that seems to rule people's imaginations.
Philosophically, I disagree: taxes are for the public necessity, not the public good. Roadways, fire/police, civil governance = necessity.

Granted, there is a lot of grey area. But the phrase "public good" means different things to different people. For those grey areas, private donations have been important. (see Planned Parenthood, the NRA, etc.)