skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very cynical position to take. For once, here is a large market player focussing on providing delivering value via the product and not wasting time on pricing. In many cases, even with these price reductions (and their claim to match AWS/GCE), pricing is not the driver for hosting adoption - rather features, ease of use, performance etc. It is refreshing to see one of the big boys elevate this.

It does set a high benchmark for what they are presenting: saying they have big innovation to announce ... and then not deliver ...
Eich's reponse to the concerns:

https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
What companies are you currently boycotting?
In my experience if you start off properly you'll be fine.

i.e. serve static assets with CSS, properly organize and modularize your components (especially your own that you wrote just for the project!) and you'll be fine.

I do love Go but I always go back to Node just because of the rapid development.
Yes! Let's destroy a man in the name of equality and social justice! Let's educate everyone about our high and mighty (selectively applied) morals at any cost!

It'll be totally worth it for that sweet, sweet sense of smugness we'll feel when we look in the mirror.
>You have asked Firefox to connect
securely to wiki.namecoin.info, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
Yup, graduation is now completely free.
Oops, pressed downvote accidentally. (HN really needs a way to reverse votes, or at least further separation between arrow buttons)
Hi

We have also a bitcoin address:

18QEEJuR2ACAunMVeAxZ46o4QprxFKyGkw

Pedro.
> Perhaps he believes that the state should remove all recognition of marriage...

Just a heads-up, this is a strawman developed by anti-same-sex-marriage proponents to provide a possible (though not plausible) reason other than denying people their rights why someone might oppose same-sex marriage (and you also have to buy that someone who wanted to grant same-sex couples those legal right would vote/donate/campaign/etc to deny them).

If you're going to assert it, you need to have specific evidence that the individual in question actually believes that.
Visualizing a complex function
well, /v/ is shithole, even for 4chan conditions.
Internet Exploder.

That is juvenile and detracts hugely from the actual message.
Great blog post jacob. Thanks for the read. To Daleks point on aligning incentives I think this is crucial to the success of any crowd-sourcing platform.

One of the things we are doing at Algorithmia.com is trying to provide a lot of the value add around the source code, so that the source itself can remain open yet paying users still have a reason to come to the platform (and the algorithm developers can get paid).

I think doing this is possible in almost every crowdsourcing platform the trick is to find those value adds are. Its on the platform creators to build something that is worth paying for yet still allows being open with whatever it is that you are crowd-sourcing - data, code, etc.
I think that the register and volatile keywords in C and C++ and the inline keyword in C++ basically constitute real world research into exactly that process. In pretty much all cases it seems to have been eventually determined that the combination of the compiler needing to override the programmer's wishes when the programmer was wrong (as well as the fact that it will sometimes implement the optimization without being asked) and the programmer's inability to recognize cases where the optimization will actually make things worse has led to them becoming less and less relevant to the compiler's decisions over time. Usually this results in a "YES I REALLY MEAN IT" compiler directive, which just looks like an arms race.

I suppose it's possible this has been the wrong direction, but I suspect it was effectively correct.
But aren't 100% of linkedin code thoroughly tested (http://engineering.linkedin.com/tags/testing)? Much code coverage. Much fun! Wow!
You need to show a gameplay scene up front. Currently doesn't tell me what I can do with them.
http://www.mobbles.com/static/website/img/vitrine/website_il...
Any info on why emails to whitehat@coinbase.com are being ignored?

EDIT: For what it's worth, judging by the upvotes, a lot of people are hoping for any answer.
*"buffoon". I'm sorry.
Actually if you have time and want to contribute to the project, it's better than donating money.

We need a review of the crypto, development, logo design, improve the documentation of the protocol, get more exposure, etc.
The difference being, you can't avoid javascript (if you want to target the browser); you can either write it directly, or use it as a compile target. Each has it's strengths and drawbacks.
Yabadabadoooo
Microsoft Buys Wearable Computing Tech for More Than $100 Million
What is the pros/cons of using a Raspberry PI (full-blown computer with OS) versus a Microcontroller (minimal, no OS) such as the Arduino platform for a project like this?
Really ? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831435.aspx

Virtual PC supports live migration. Seems like an easy way to do maintenance on the hosts. Does azure use live migration ?
Sadly, it won't help in the most tragic cases where a toddler is already under the car. (We had friends who had to suffer through such an incident some years back.)
I just got this email:

Hi!
Thank you for applying to intern at a YC company. We wanted to let you know that your application has made it to the next round.

We sent your application to one or more YC companies we thought would be a good fit for you, and who are looking for someone with your skill set.

If the company would like to interview you, you will hear back from them within a week. Otherwise, you'll be hearing again from me.

Thanks again for applying!

- Y Combinator Team
But then how is Amazon supposed to lock you into their proprietary solution to make it harder for you to migrate from their services?
I suggest you to read all comments on the link you pointed at Quora.
This is normally the sign of massive underperformance of the CEO ...
Flappy Bird was extremely well-designed and was very high quality, there was a lot of work put into it. Dong Nguyen has been designing games for awhile and isn't stopping anytime soon.
Couple.me Releases Alice – An Artificial Intelligence
I don't know, but I'd assume Bhutanese monks probably excel at similar types of deep philosphical inquiry. Perhaps they even have cats, and the internet has nothing to offer them?
The change to 'Microsoft Azure' was announced 6 days ago http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/03/25/upco... beginning 3 days from now.

So, yeah, it's in transition.
Ridiculous indeed. The more diversity we have in browser offerings the better. These retards seem completely oblivious to this issue.
In the UK it is quite common to not accept AMEX and other cards such as whatever 'Maestro' is. Therefore you do have to show what you do accept so people know to use a sensible-to-the-retailer card.
I think you can solve that by taking into account customer feedback when curating the designers. That would for sure allign interests.
Yeah, that's pretty silly. I mean I'm sure they had to implement new code to make this silly two-button Siamese construct exist. Is there even a designer in the house? At least give us the option to have just the Star.
It is about gay rights. It's about human rights in general.

By giving some people less rights because of their skin color, you are treating them as sub-human. Somehow not deserving of the same human rights us Straight/White/Males are entitled to.

By giving some people less rights because of their gender, you are treating them as sub-human. Somehow not deserving of the same human rights us Straight/White/Males are entitled to.

By giving some people less rights because of their sexuality, you are treating them as sub-human. Somehow not deserving of the same human rights us Straight/White/Males are entitled to.

It's really all the same very basic case of denying some people the rights and freedoms that the majority of us take for granted.

There is no such thing as Straight/White/Male privilege. There is just Gay/Black/Female disadvantage. The rights I have, I take for granted - They are the norm. When certain segments of society are denied the exact same rights as I have, they are disadvantaged.
I'm not sure any compiler actually implements any real optimizations based on const. I suppose possibly on static const variables of basic integer types, but that'd be about all it can do. The existence of the volatile escape hatch, to say nothing of const_cast<>, makes it a pretty useless hint for the compiler.
Acts 8:26-40 Read it. I don't know how you conflate religion with racism. It is not the truth.
Got one in Everest
It's a cluster-fudge alright. The reporter should have, er, reported on what they did and what results they saw.

And it left the really big question open: how does this "app" pull the email address? If it's sitting there in the source of the page somehow, this is just a pretty wrapper around a critical LinkedIn bug. If it's doing something else . . . well, I would be really interested in knowing what else it was doing.
The Overprotected Kid was a great feature in The Atlantic. If you enjoyed this story I recommend you take a look at it.
>I never play video games, so the 30hz refresh rate wouldn't be a drawback for me

30Hz is painful just for normal use. You can't move your mouse precisely any more because the screen doesn't update fast enough.
I especially love how you generally stick to criticizing the action vs. the person -- sort of like "this comment isn't appropriate for HN; please do better" vs. "please die".

(I was just going through all your comments after seeing one; this is really becoming the new 'pg: "Please stop"')
However, as is often overlooked, this isn't purely a debate about one's personal ethics and morals; marriage extends into the legal domain, and brings with it a plethora of complex legal ramifications. So, in fact, preventing marriage does impact an individual's rights.

I would also point out that “politically correct” is about as dismissive a term as can be found today.

Cultural attitudes may shift, and at some point a marginalized concept dismissed as “politically correct” becomes simply “correct.”
And I just got this email:

Thank you for applying to intern at a YC company. Unfortunately we weren't able to find a position for you this time.

Since it's our first time matching interns with YC companies, we're beta testing the program with just a small number of companies. Based on the high volume of high quality applications (over 1600) we received, we hope to expand this program in the future. We hope you'll apply again.

Rejected again. Unfortunately I don't have the prestige of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, or other top schools to carry my application through.
Yes I had a lot of trouble having the slightest clue what you were talking about.
That's all very intuitive to me.

I want a tutorial that starts with "You want an app to do X with your friends, like an imitation of Doodle for planning Dungeons and Dragons sessions? The real way? Set aside $X money/month, book a domain name, and we're going to set up a real website, incrementally, and publicly available at every step along the way."

Stuff like Heroku people make sound like it's a one stop shop but it feels like it hides too much and you don't have access to your files like you do in your desktop. It's an environment conducing to pushing out stuff quick, not learning.
Job destruction by robots could outweigh creation
Ask HN: Can we please keep all of the April Fools pranks to one thread?
Just so we don't clutter up the front page! I can add a comment to this thread that has a running list of all the April Fools jokes we all see!
Someone needs to buy Paul Graham a baseball cap with those words embroidered onto it.
Investing in infrastructure
Running List:

1. Virgin and Nest team up for personalized climate control at 35,000 feet. http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/personalised-climate-c...
>'apt-get install mariadb-server'

This simple command replaces mysql in one shot? I might test it tonight if so. Do I have to run mysql_upgrade?

Got a good recommendation for a guide?
What he means is: "we weren't expecting the Google and Amazon price cuts, so we aren't going to change our carefully planned keynote to announce this."
I used the modifier "perhaps", which was followed by acknowledgment that we don't know his beliefs (because he won't talk about them except in person.)

Brendan is (or was at the time of donation) ignorant, there's no sense in disputing that. I'm just tired of people labelling him as anti-gay, bigot, homophobe, etc.
I was the COO at AutoRef.

I am a little unclear what you mean by an advertising revenue model. There are two ways to implement this model:
1. Have dealers pay you to advertise their inventory on your site - similar to AutoTrader and traditional classified sites.

2. Run AdWords or some other advertisements on the site to earn money.

We had a true reverse auction platform where customers selected 3 identical/similar new/used vehicles and we initially pushed for a charge per car sold model (ie TrueCar). But many dealers had been turned off by TrueCar bad reputation and it's struggles with charging a similar brokering fee, so they weren't interested in AutoRef's service at all.

After that we went for a flat monthly fee but ultimately it was too little too late. So it's possible that your idea could work but we sure had a tough time implementing it.

TrueCar has always had a consistent revenue stream from its acquisition of Zag - which ran the car buying program for many car insurance company's, AAA, etc. This is a definite edge over a startup bootstrapping ad revenue.

Story about AutoRef: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/like-a-carwoo-for-used-cars...
I've seen the advice that musicians should never go barefoot at concert venues/clubs, given nontrivial risk of incorrectly grounded amps and PA's, but i can't find a source on googles 1st 10 results ("musician barefoot, electrocution, incorrectly grounded PA").

Below link is similar advice: don't plug in amp while kneeling on wet ground, essentially, don't complete a circuit through your heart

http://www.noshockzone.org/stopping-hums-buzzes-and-shocks-o...
> I find it highly disingenuous to call supporting equal rights "petulant and abrasive".
It is "highly disingenuous" for you to state that I made such a claim because clearly I did not. The point I was making is that we don't want to live in a world where every time a company hires an executive with a divisive political opinion, executives from another company feel the need to denounce that individual/company publicly as a means to enforce an ideological orthodoxy. Those kind of societies become rather scary places to live in very quickly. I believe we should push back against politics intruding into parts of our daily lives where it doesn't belong. That's what I object to with OKCupid's statement.
As an international viewer, this is difficult to understand.

Employment discrimination on the grounds of sexuality is illegal here. By saying that they offer healthcare equally to gay employees[0], Mozilla seem to be doing what would here be considered a minimum.

Is that really considered good in the US? To me personally, this comes across as a very weak statement that actually makes me more concerned. It sort of reads like: gay employees are treated equally here, but we were aware that this is not legally required, so we had to think about it and now we're make a big deal out of our decision. It reads like a homophobic CEO approved the message.

Furthermore, there is a body of employees reporting discomfort and distress at having Eich as CEO, e.g. [1],[2], and you can start a reasonable link chain from those if you're interested to read more.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/03/mozilla-statement-on-...

[1] http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/03/28/Mozilla-employees-...

[2] http://incisive.nu/2014/thinking-about-mozilla/
How many develop hours do you think it takes to get a full feature checkout working?

From the comments here I believe that some more work is needed for the card detection, however, to 'roll your own' with your employer paying? Could cost more than $299.

Personally I think there is a lot to be said for basic checking and having a drop-down for the card type with the accepted card types spelt out for people. Oh, and with a Paypal option for those that don't like putting their card details into random websites.
Recently a large number of bitcoins were stolen from a major exchange. The hackers will be liquidating these over a long period of time, exerting downward pressure on the price.
> 50 years ago, being a racist was acceptable to lots of people. Would you work for or buy products from a CEO who was an unapologetic racist just because his beliefs were a product of his family/community?

It depends.

If it were, say, 100 years ago, when racism was the norm, I probably wouldn't take the racial views of the CEO into account when deciding what to buy or where to work. When a small group shuns a business, it generally hurts the small group more than it hurts the business. Heck, it may even help the business if people who agree with the CEO start doing more business with the company in a show of support for his racist views.

If it were today, where racism is much much much less acceptable than it was 100 years ago, I'd consider it. The people shunning the business for racism would very likely outnumber those who might increase spending to support it.

When 95% of the population believes something, it is pretty silly to shun a business whose CEO believes that. When 5% believes something, then shunning might make more sense. The interesting question is where is the crossover point?
No, not on the page. The extension appears to be making a request to "app.sellhack.com" to look up the LinkedIn member.

EDIT: And it's stealing your friends' contact details! Don't install it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7505728
Note that I specifically said software patent. I've worked for a number of software companies. Most of them recently have a process in place to harvest potentially patentable work product from the engineers... stuff that we were going to do no matter what, but that they'll patent if they can. No company had anyone assigned to searching patents for ideas.

I guess your experience has been different? Care to share details?

> beliebe ... childish level

Was that misspelling some kind of intentional Beiber reference?

Don't assume that my opinions on patents match the typical hacker around here. For example, I don't think software patents are intrinsically special by virtue of being more mathematical than ordinary patents.

Honestly, I have a hard time understanding how you can live in this world and hold the view that patents are non-negligible contributor to our shared knowledge base.

I guess I could see the argument that valuable information is released from the major companies in the form of whitepapers, and that those whitepapers wouldn't be allowed if not protected by patents. But I still think that if you nixed software patents altogether, the impact on disclosed information would be minimal.
I actually get really nervous driving a car without a backup camera now. This is good news.
Google says this about bigotry:

"big·ot·ry
ˈbigətrē/Submit
noun
1.
bigoted attitudes; intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself."

Gays who want to oppress anyone for not thinking like them are also being bigots by that definition. Marriage has been between a man and a woman throughout the history of humans. I think Gays should have legal equality. They can not usurp a word that has had such a clear meaning throughout the core existence of humankind.
One of many problems with the absence of the separation of Church and State is that discrimination by the Church is discrimination by the State, which makes things unacceptable uses of state power that would be legitimate in an Church that wasn't an integrated part of the State.
It's a competition to entertainingly find a best candidate. The core mechanic was the elimination round. Anyone who could consistently beat others given a random topic and limited time was likely to win regardless of what happened in the leading-up rounds.

Looking at the strips after the fact, Abby and Katie pretty obviously are writing the best strips. And sure, Abby's is the better of the two, but her concept is harder to distill down to its essence and present - Katie was the only one of the three finalists who was able to competently and interestingly introduce her new strip with just a few sample pages.

If you think they picked wrong, who should have won instead?

(Note that several of the other cartoonists have been hired by Penny Arcade for other tasks such as doing The Trenches and designing pins. So even if you ignore the publicity aspect there were still multiple winners.)
Product Responsibility
People, also, used to define marriage as being between two people of the same race. Let us dispense of this tangent once and for all: Marriage is a civil right. It is the cornerstone of this civil rights movement, as it was to the last one, and the one before that, and all the ones that haven't happened yet. The cry "marriage for all" is not politically correct; we would like it to become politically correct -- what a milestone that would be. We aren't shaming Eich because he's politically incorrect. We are shaming him because he chose to join a long line of people who have circumscribed marriage in the name of tradition or fear or ignorance. People who use their money and resources taking something that requires nothing of them to give. People who have been proven wrong, time and time again. People who we, regretfully, did not shame at the time.
Limits.js – a JavaScript library for dealing with API limits
If I publically outed gay leaders in positions of power and started social campaigns to get them fired, I think many of the people going against the Mozilla CEO here would disagree with my tactics...I can almost guarantee it (because it goes against your personal beliefs)

The left is all about being open and accepting to anyone..until they go against their beliefs. Then, character assassination is the preferred tactic (as seen here) and all rationality goes out the window.
Why is this downvoted? Choosing where you spend your money based on moral beliefs isn't wrong...
Introducing Pet-Fi – iiNet Australia
Marriage is not really a human right anyways, apart from the symbolic gesture the state grants priviledges like tax benefits, adoptions rights and so on. Typically the state has to have some kind of justification for granting priviledges in this case it was probably motivated by religion, but it could also be tied to potential child production / child care.

Ideally laws would be reformed in such a way that the priviledges granted today are tied to something other than you are a man and woman and want to marry. It could be just you are two or more people who want to marry. In my opinion things especially tax benefits should be tied to the fact that you are actually providing a service (like raising kids, your own or adopted, but maybe just caring for each other financially is enough).
You are talking crazy. Alan Turing is one of my personal heroes and what happened to him was appalling.
Isn't amazing how, despite the companies themselves providing no road map to secure storage and communication that would actually secure their users against the NSA, there are no end of apologists here willing to make excuses on their behalf.

How many who have praised Google's response to the NSA revelations, want to second guess Schneier on this matter? Let's reprise those excuses here, where they will stand out all the more.
Eric Schmidt is a progressive. I did not boycott Google's products, what he did or didn't believe personally did not and does not impact the decisions I make on what software I run. It should not impact yours.
Atlassian's April Fools Prank