skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite well explained throughout the article, although not in the first few paragraphs. Essentially, it's a reality TV show that was originally supposed to be a vaguely-documentary type thing about a game jam, but morphed into something the devs revolted against.
Awww... thanks for stereotyping people in the software industry. We love you!
Pick a Time Machine, and go back to 1995, I wish you the best of luck.
Hackathon for games. Bunch of people meet up and make a game from the ground up. Typically for a weekend but sometimes longer. At the end everyone shows off what they made.

Notably while you do divide up into teams in a game jam, and they might even give out prizes, game jams are not thought of as a competitive event. It's very common artists and musician to contribute to multiple teams, programmers help others with stuff they specialize in, everyone is always getting feedback and playtests from others, etc.
This is ridiculous, shall we boycott Javascript as well, OkCupid?
how soon will this be pirated?
Parallel JS compression with Rust
> Merchants don't need to expose themselves to FX risk to accept Bitcoin. Square does that for you, as do Coinbase, Bitpay, and similar companies.

Allowing your payment provider to handle currency conversion for you does not mean that you have eliminated FX risk. You have simply outsourced it, and you (and in many cases your buyer) almost always pay for this.

> I don't think the tax issues will be prohibitively complicated for consumers. Whichever exchange someone uses to buy Bitcoin and whatever app they use the spend it can easily generate the necessary paperwork.

I suspect you've never had to file a tax return with a significant number of transactions involving capital gains and losses. There are often associated matters, such as carryovers, that the average person will need the services of a tax professional to address.

As for the notion that somebody is going to do the paperwork for you: the nature of Bitcoin makes the generation of the paperwork you refer to incredibly difficult.

Currently, when dealing with securities like stock, brokers must provide you with a 1099-B which reports information about the transaction, including the cost basis and sale proceeds. If you transfer securities between brokers, the broker transferring your securities is required to report the cost basis data to the receiving broker.

To the best of my knowledge, Bitcoin is not a covered security for which institutions must provide a 1099-B, so no third party is obligated to provide you with accurate records. More importantly, it may be impossible for third parties to do this for you. For instance, consider this hypothetical yet almost certainly common transaction scenario:

1. I buy 1 BTC using Provider A.

2. I transfer .5 BTC from my account at Provider A to a local wallet housed on my computer.

3. I later transfer that .5 BTC to Provider B.

4. Using Provider B, I send the .5 BTC to a merchant.

In Step 2, Provider A will be faced with the challenge of determining whether my transfer of .5 BTC represented a sale for tax purposes. It should not, as I was transferring the BTC to myself. But how does Provider A know who I transferred the BTC to?

In Step 3, Provider B has no way of obtaining my cost basis and in Step 4, it is faced with the challenge of determining whether or not the transfer of .5 BTC represented a sale for tax purposes. How does it know that I wasn't transferring the .5 BTC to myself?

Now imagine this across n wallets, including desktop wallets, and with lots of fractions of BTC. You're going to be investing a lot of USD in bookkeeping/accounting.

Bottom line: I can't for the life of me imagine why anybody who actually understands the implications of this would ever use Bitcoin as a currency going forward. As far as I'm concerned, it makes absolutely no sense except as a vehicle for investment or speculation.
The call is made on behalf of an user account using an API key. You could rate limit by either one and/or both.
What actions did he take besides donating $1,000 to Prop 8?
Seriously, please! I read the whole article and at the end I felt like I was still missing crucial pieces of info. This style of writing may be "interesting" but it is definitely not information dense.
Isn't the whole point of america that PEOPLE DISAGREE? If you have an opinion, you are entitled to it. Your personal feelings on gay marriage should not mean that you are to be barred from getting a job where gay people also work. If, however, you go on record as the CEO of a company saying the company does not support gay marriage, then this is a different discussion.

So basically he is being ostracized all over for having an opinion. This is mob rule. I like it not.
Google introduce Gmail Shelfie
As someone who studies human nature I'd like to ask this question of the OP and anyone else who cares to answer. I'd seriously like to know this.

Why do people spend extensive time [1] documenting security flaws like this [2] and going to the trouble of informing the company. And then if that doesn't work take more time to write up a blog post to get the info out?

What do they gain by doing so exactly? Is this a play for internet notoriety? Or a way to gain attention that results in future fame that leads to something later?

Or, is it as simple as it just makes them feel good (like "hey why do you play poker") or is it they believe they are making the world a better place?

[1] Because this took considerable time.

[2] Yes I know the OP indicates he is a "Information Security Enthusiast".
Does anyone else feel like Rackspace is just getting left behind in the IaaS business? Their prices and services offered is getting out of whack compared to everyone else.
This isn't Wikipedia. We're happy to learn, but we're not going to import.

I notice that this is the second time you've challenged me with personally charged language. If you have more to say, email would be better.

Edited for clarity.
Based on LinkedIn's response... probably.
greenspun's tenth rule?
That's a ridiculous generalisation; the status of homosexuality and Islamic law is far more nuanced than that. Not only is there not a single death penalty for being gay across the entire Muslim world, the legal status of homosexuality differs greatly. Of course, that is not to say that many of those countries don't exhibit abhorrent views, but the same goes for many Christian communities too.

I would warrant that a larger proportion of HN's audience feels some kind of connection with the technology world than they do with that of Islam, and it feels more reasonable to clear your own back yard out first before complaining about the state of your neighbour's.
Is that really why? That's awesome
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Steve Jobs on Quality, Business and Joseph Juran
This is my first time hearing about OKC, and I already saw at least six references to this act of theirs on HNews alone, until one of the mods (or their local counterparts) deleted those.

What you make out of this information is up to you.
We don't have a great answer to that yet, so I'm using general terms and asking everyone to apply their own best-faith interpretation to them.

We're going to solve this problem sooner or later, because so many of us are sick of it. But the specific form the solution takes has to evolve in the community. When systems are evolving, overspecification is a mistake. For that reason, I'm going to stick to commenting on particular examples for a while.
Action against those in positions of power who cause harm to others is meaningfully different to action against those who are already victimised. The first is a movement for social change that increases the net good in the world, the second is simple oppression.

In the same sense, one might say that overthrowing a fascist dictator is more morally justified than overthrowing a peaceful democracy to install said dictatorship. Both are violence against a government, but they exist in different moral contexts.
As always, you can mail a postal letter to your Senator in moments from your computer.

https://writeyourrep.org/patentreform/
Same reason why there are bumps on the F and J keys...or raised dots on volume/channel buttons on tv remotes...
The upper limit should be $0. Destroying your friends and family relationships by taking their money and potentially losing it on a startup - an inherently risky venture - is a terrible idea, despite the advice you may be given elsewhere. Your friends and family relationships are irreplaceable. Startups come and go.
I know this is offtopic... but I recently emailed the squareup's support over an issue that got me really mad at their development team (or whoever is reponsible). I was trying to buy some elementary OS stickers as I've been using it for over a year now and I'm extremely happy with it. Turns out you cant order anything from squareup if you are accessing outside of US. What made me write to their support is that there is no notification about it when you try to buy a product. It just shows you "add product to list" button but hides "buy" or add to cart button and does not display any info on why the buttons are missing. I mean... if you implemented a solution that detect non us ips and made an effort to hide the buy button... at the very least put some notification in there. Sometimes I really cant understand stuff like this >.>

My first post here is a rant... dang it.
How is it valid? Have you talked to him personally about his beliefs? He's offered to share them with anyone he meets in person.
I noticed this as well. Although I have seen the previous demos of Macaw, I'm very surprised there is no link back to their homepage anywhere on this page. This page offers very little information for software that costs $179!

How about some information about what potential customers are buying? Or at the very least, a link to where they can find this information.
In my experience (running a Windows vm) the forced reboot is more like every two months. Also they have a feature called availability sets where you can load balance two VMs and they guarantee that one of them will always be up.

Edit: Looking back at my email history, it's much less often than that. The interval between the previous two reboots was 6 months. They also gave about two weeks notice when it happened.
It's April in Australia where Atlassian is based. :)
Well, I don't work for Apple and I'm not a professional UI designer. So I can't possibly be certain that I know the true motivation for that design decision. But I think it is a reasonable guess.
I was not aware that OKCupid was so theophobic.
I think he makes a valid point, why waste keynote time on prices? I'd much rather hear about the innovation.
Interesting question/answer

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: How about email and just word processing programs?

MR. PERRY: At a point in time in the past, I think both of those would have been technological advances that were patentable. . . . Because they would have provided a technological solution to a then unmet problem. Today, reciting, and do it on a word processor is no different than and do it on a typewriter or and do it on a calculator.

The inventive contribution component, which uses specifically the language of conventional and routine and well understood, will evolve with technology. That’s why it’s different than the abstract idea component.
Shouldn't they also stop letting the requester know whether the requested email address corresponds to a Coinbase user?
I agree, but the more important thing that this article needs to emphasize is the difference between crowdsourcing and crowdserfing. Waze is using the crowd to hoard data about traffic, that you can use for one specific purpose (avoiding traffic) but for science its nearly useless. Want to understand traffic accidents based on the design of highways? you're out of luck with Waze data. All that the crowd is doing is making Google rich.

We definitely need open source software to power these platforms. But whats more important is to keep the work of the crowd in the open. But maintaining data servers, reliable access and developing features takes developers and time -- how was fund that work? that is the real challenge.
Thanks for the good info about the DT project. I want to say that even though I'm not personally a fan of TypeScript I really appreciate the work of you and everyone else who has contributed to the DT project. I know from my previous work on OSS how much work that can be.

My only experience using DT was through Nuget so I didn't realize you had the semver postfix. I suspect that like me most .NET devs will go to Nuget first, so I personally would place a high priority on getting semver in Nuget, but I understand that there are lots of other important things too.

My suggestion would to make including a semver part of your quality requirements so that at least you have a record of what version they were working against when they made the type definitions.

I hadn't realized the interdependent library testing/validation. You really are in a pickle about git branching/tagging and not being able to have separate repos. Problem is, the side by side definitions for different versions makes it difficult to merge fixes across versions (as compared to say a different branch for each version of the library). I think this is something that needs to be thought about long and hard. Could you use git submodules or subtrees to do what you need? Perhaps have each library in its own repo but then have a repo that pulls them together and has the interdependecy testing? That way most contributors could work in the repo for the project they care about and only a few contributors would worry about the combined one?

Thanks for sharing your experience with TypeScript and what is good about it. It's just not possible for me to address everything bad & good about a language in one blog post, so I have to focus on what's relevant to the point I am trying to make (in this case why I don't personally think TypeScript is the answer to JavaScript).

I absolutely agree that meshing with the JS ecosystem is of critical importance and Dart just doesn't have that the way TypeScript or CoffeeScript does.
"meatspace firewall" might be the best term for a cease-and-desist lawyer I've ever heard. Well said!
From a well-known gay British art critic, writer and broadcaster. Is he a hateful homophobic bigot too? Obviously he does not represent the whole gay community, but it does serve to highlight how the abusive language directed towards Brendan and the call for a boycott are a complete over-reaction.

Why I will never be converted to gay marriage

...the recent institution of civil partnerships seemed to be the final necessary reform, giving homosexuals the right to inherit each other’s property, just as may a man and his wife; and if they want a family, there is now no barrier to their adopting children – in the case of homosexual men, so long in error bundled together with paedophiles and pederasts, an astonishing recognition of moral responsibility.

Why then do they and lesbians demand the right to marry? Indeed, how many of us have made that demand? One in 20? One in 10? Most of us... are content with civil partnerships and have not pleaded for gay marriage. But every minority has within it a core of single-issue politicians and protesters who are never satisfied and always ask for more, and homosexuals, both male and female, are no exception.

Since the institution of civil partnerships there has been no impediment to their celebration with a party as extravagant as any wedding, but not all homosexuals are so exhibitionist. Most of us are content with what we now have within the law, and are happy to respect the deeply-held belief of sincere, thoughtful and informed Christians for whom marriage is the one sacrament in which we cannot share.

We have wasted our resources on the wrong campaign – the battle still to be won is against prejudice, the most insidious of enemies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10729717/Brian-Sewe...
An A for effort considering it's an April Fools joke.
Wow! I am speechless...
So, I'm guessing you don't watch movies made by 20th century fox, you don't read the Wall Street Journal, you don't shop at Kohl's, you don't eat any fruit from Dole, you don't eat at a Dairy Queen etc.

And if you take into account the whole wage-fixing cartel of Apple and co. you don't buy Apple products, you don't visit pages that display ads from Google etc. etc.
JavaScript is something he produced, think of it as a work of art. The language itself doesn't portray his personal beliefs on topics other than language design. Putting him in charge of people who lifestyle he is not accepting of is different. It will influence the choices he makes in dealing with people and in how the organization behaves.

If the language had something like logging levels which were labeled by derogatory terms for a subset of people that'd be another issue but it doesn't.

Imagine if Ted Bundy had created a cure for cancer. Would you want to boycott it? Would you put him in charge of people? Now admittedly Bundy might be a bigger danger to a specific subset of people than Eich but Eich is still a danger in some way to a subset of people.

Boycotting FireFox isn't about the product, it is about sending a message to the organization that puts him in a position of power over people.
I'm using the "super" hub in modem mode and can confirm the same results on my network, even when using OpenDNS/Google DNS, although no DNSCrypt yet.
"you gotta be tolerant of the intolerant" is a really shitty argument.
history wah?
half my friends are gay. Many are women. One is my best friend.

I think that using the excuse of being a minority to enforce ridicule arguments is stupid - that's different.

Accusing people at random seems just as wrong.

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In fact, this is an interesting point. I noticed that any "negative" comment towards reactions to this story generates very strong reactions from some people (including death messages). This doesn't happen with other topics.

What makes you entitled to think this is ok? (this is an honest question)
Admit it. You only commented so you could type "'meatspace' firewall". me too.
The lowest kickstarter backer level for Macaw with software access were $99 which I backed. I've only had limited time for playing around, but Macaw is very promising - IF you do produce code yourself.
If you mostly just hack templates it's a bit expensive notepad substitute.
Yep, and Apple has already done dynamic binary translation once before, during the PPC to x86 switch.
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A boycott is meant to inconvenience the target of the boycott. If your goal is to nudge the Mozilla Corp into action, Firefox downloads is really the way to do it, as that's pretty much their sole source of revenue.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
I never had trouble with any .net stack stuff but when i tried node I had some issues. Ultimately I used the MS tooling to provision the site the first (webmatrix) and from then on everything was fine.
Surprisingly, most "hacking" tools actually hack their users, instead of hacking on their behalf.
Is Go better than Node.js?
I have backend experience in Python (Django / Flask) and willing to try a new language and framework for my next project. I know its a stupid question to ask between 2 completely different language but I am lost.

It seems like the more I google there are more people who supports Go more than Node for mainly these reasons: simplicity and no callback mess.

Just to let you know I read these links:
http://www.quora.com/Node-js/Why-did-Koding-switch-from-Node-js-to-Go
http://jordanorelli.com/post/31533769172/why-i-went-from-python-to-go-and-not-node-js

I understand that every language have their own usage so here are my condition.
1) I'm willing to use async to solve the callback nightmare in node.
2) Frontend is iOS so no advantage of having a same language in JS.

What's your 2 cents?
A most minimum spec VM in cloud still costs $380 per year.

Not sure where you are getting that. On Azure, it is $1612=$192/year[1]. If your "in cloud" means other large providers as well, Digital Ocean will do it for $512=$60/year[2].

If you are prepared to go with smaller providers, then a very quick look around finds providers at $5/year[3].

I've worked on pricing at a large (enterprise) hosting company and I can assure you the "low margin" claim isn't "pure bullshit".

The fact is that all of these people could have lowered their prices for quite sometime but they just chugged along until there was competitive pressure. Eventually, someone will become monopolist in this area and they would have free ride and all of these guys are in game to become that monopoly.

Don't these two claims conflict with each other? Prices are dropping because of competitive pressure. If someone will become monopolist in this area AND margins are as high as you seem to think, won't it be simple for another provider to enter the market with slightly lower prices and take market share from the incumbent monopolist?

[1] http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...

[2] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

[3] http://lowendbox.com/
Considering how rarely this was used, and the small amount of money ($10m) involved, I think this activity was designed for a specific system (or family). Perhaps something sold to an ally.
You seem sincere, so here's an honest answer.

What you're missing is the nature of the job of CEO, especially in Silicon Valley. It's not a job where you bury your head down and get the work done, a huge part of the job is being the public face of the company.

The Mozilla Corp. has decided that their public face should be someone who is opposed to equal rights for gays. That's completely different than having a racist working as a programmer or in the mail room or even as CTO.

Boycotting javascript would be silly. Nobody is trying to say that everything Eich has touched now has cooties and we should stay away from it. However, it's perfectly reasonable to ask what kind of company Mozilla wants to be when they decide they want Eich as their public representative.
I don't know. There's no doubt a big entrenched market of providers with negative incentive to do that, and I'm not even sure that I see a lot of benefit to the FCC to change the process.

If I was a government employee, I'd probably think it was right and proper to better protect Americans from stray radio interference from slipshod products than to reduce the one-time NRE charges to bring those products to market. It's not that I'm accusing them of shallow-mindedness, just that they have a perspective that the current process is working pretty well. (My perspective of trying to do a production run of 250 or 500 units of something is entirely different, but I can't make a compelling argument that "fixes" my problem without imagining that I might be introducing other, worse-on-balance problems.)
This link works for me. Thanks!
The business moved to Google Apps for email and document editing. As soon as that happened, development teams began to see an "in" to getting cloud services (previously disallowed) because "it's just Google!" That escalated to basically anything "Google" is allowed, so everyone is using Google.
It would just feel so dirty running a *nix vm on a Windows Server host...DIRTY.
Quantum Computing Experiment Adds "Control Knob" for D-Wave Machine
I found these two articles on the subject alittle easier to follow:

http://msminotaur.com/blog/?p=187

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ZoeQuinn/20140331/214325/Unre...
if anything, mitchell is the face of the company, not the CEO. The CEO is the executive officer. Before that, he was CTO. Not exactly a nobody.

The board has final say on everything, and mitchell seems to be the most active board member. I also tend to personally align with her opinions, I think she's great.
Sounds like a good idea. We used to spend lot of time on dribbble and other websites and its really difficult to
figure out which designers are good without wasting weeks... How does the community curates?