skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this Square? Square up has a different logo and looks a little more like generic bootstrap. I'm not sure if they're related or just an auction site with a similar name.

Edit: yep, see https://www.squaremarket.com/about, this is not the US payment company most people on HN would call 'square' but an auction site started by Oxford grads.
> these sorts of alliances form accidentally and naturally

The airline-ticket market is kind of fascinating to watch from that perspective. On directly competing routes major carriers often end up with the same fares and matching each others' moves, but the exact process of who leads and who follows is complex. There is all kinds of informal signalling where companies attempt to figure out the others' intentions without directly colluding. For example, a company might trial a $50 fare increase in response to increasing costs, and hope others will match it. If others don't, they might be forced to roll back the increase to avoid losing market share, admitting the trial was unsuccessful. It's in effect an offer of, "hey everyone, I think we should raise prices $50 on this route, do you match?", followed by "ok, I guess not, retracting" if they don't, but not explicit.
But your clients care about not having the bugs that the junior dev wrote because he/she didn't really understand pointer arithmetic...

Senior devs know a lot more about how to avoid causing problems in the code they write.
I heard that some of the open source developers work to seed the code with 0-days that can be sold for as much as $250k a pop to NSA…

So… NOTHING IS FOR FREE! And with Apple you can at least get a decent GUI that doesn't make your eyes bleed.
> I don't think that Apple will completely get away from x86 for a long time. Attempting to emulate the x86 on an Arm would be terribly slow.

It's not you're emulating an entire operating system: the operating system (and many libraries) are native, but the application code is emulated. It's faster than you think, and Apple has already done it twice: once in 1994, and once in 2005 (exercise for the reader: try extrapolating).

Apple's applications would be 100% native long before the ARM version shipped. Some intensive tasks—text rendering, audio/video/image encoding and decoding, HTML layout, JavaScript—these would also be native on third-party apps, since you just have to write the right glue into the emulator. This would be a lot easier than the 2005 switch from PowerPC to x86, which involved emulating a system with 4x as many GPRs and the opposite endian: ARM has 2x the GPRs as x86-64.

Sure, a bunch of apps will see reduced performance. Some will break. But remember: Apple has only been on x86 for ten years. We had the same problems during the PowerPC->x86 transition: you had to wait about two years to get a version of Photoshop that ran on x86 + OS X.

I'm willing to bet that Apple has been testing OS X on ARM for years now.
You can also get free access to Azure with a MSDN subscription which is nice for those who have one :)
Steve Martin comes off as oddly defensive when announcing these changes

I’ve yet to meet a developer who travels just to hear about pricing updates,
so you won’t see us take the stage at Build and use the opening moment
to announce a price cut. This isn’t retail; innovation matters.
I’ll cover pricing right here, right now.

I'm not sure what purpose it serves except for making a stab at Amazon and Google.
i saw ratings all along the scale; that is still the case.

and i don't know, in advance, how "happy" people here are,
so even if there _was_ some skew, i couldn't interpret it.

and if i did, it might be "experimenter confirmation bias"
-- one of the most insidious and pernicious forms of bias.

and no, it's impossible to know which way the scale runs,
because it can run either way. (higher numbers are _not_
always "better", because "top" is often associated with
"the top of the charts", where lower numbers are "better".
and when i say "i look out for #1", you know what i mean.)

it's also unwise to assume that "happy" equals "better",
because this is self-report data, and do we really want
people to _report_ they are happy if they really are not?
depressed people tell us such pressure to "just be happy"
becomes an additional source of stress on the experience.

besides, even if _i_ think i know which way the scale runs,
the problem is that i don't have any idea how the people
who are _answering_ the survey believe that the scale runs.

all of this is straightforward to anyone who has studied
survey-research; it's totally obvious and noncontroversial,
certainly not the sort of thing that should be _down-voted_.
(yes, it was, indeed, believe it or not. so be it, folks.)

i also didn't post it with any "attitude", and i note that
the original poster accepted the note without much fuss...

-bowerbird
Something that would help is to do a lot of computer archaeology.

Many old papers and documents are now scattered around the web.

You would get to learn a lot from the days C was UNIX only, there was a lot of choice in programming languages and OSs to chose from.

Specially the whole explosion of home computers diversity and respective development environments.
The point is to make a statement and educate users. Not cut off your nose to spite your face.
It's easy for merchants to accept bitcoin, because they always propose it alongside a CC payment alternative. And they never risk anything, because they only ever touch USD. So it's all gain for them. (This is more a marketing stunt to drive traffic to Square Market, more than anything else. Square Market has been having trouble competing with more common marketplaces such as Shopify and Amazon).

This doesn't affect consumer adoption though, which is what investors/traders would be looking at.

Also, if the number of bitcoin transactions through such methods goes up, BTC/USD is more likely to go down. Any bitcoin sent to a Square merchant will be picked up by Coinbase and sold at the bid price on the bitcoin markets, which will pressure price action down. (Coinbase then takes the USD from that sell and transfers them to Square).
First, read the article and you'll see that the title is misleading. It concerns only the staff of the German labour ministry. Second, Germany =/= Europe.
Thought it's first 1st April joke.
And if this doesn't work, eventually when you try to message a Catholic, Mormon, Muslim, or other religiously-observant person from a denomination whose leaders publicly disapprove of homosexuality, you'll see a message from OKCupid like:

Religion isn't normally the business of a website. But you've expressed an interest in dating someone whose religion denies equal rights to gay people. Sure, this person may seem OK, and may even have their own opinions, but the leaders of their religion spread hatred, and it pains us to send even a single quantum of relationship happiness towards people who still affiliate with that religion.

If you still want to date them, you can click the link below, but wouldn't you really rather date the following matches, who we've determined from their public and private questionnaire answers better reflect OKCupid's approved religious and political values?

Seriously, I would have expected a dating website to have a deeper respect for the often-arbitrary reasons individual beliefs deviate from the norms of their family, employer, or community.
> Can you imagine a world where consumer broadband had the same level of competition? Sigh...a nerd can dream...

Yes, in most European countries. :)
The last option lets you pick an amount, I almost didn't see it myself.
You can argue the exact same thing for mozilla and firefox: Brendan did not create firefox/mozilla, he's one of thousands who contributed.

People can have their own personal beliefs and as long as that doesn't effect the organization's open and inclusive policies.
I'm sure it's worth it, but $180 seems a bit steep for something so new and unknown.

Wish there was a more entry price at around $20 - $30 that maybe limited a few features.

I know there's the trial, but I'd actually like to just pay $20 to have unlimited number of days to 'think' about upgrading to the $180 rather than have the clock ticking, as sometimes you don't get to evaluate the way you'd like / plan over those 2 weeks.
Just because Uganda is "worse" than opposing gay marriage does not imply that opposing gay marriage is at all positive.
Perhaps my understanding of HFT is not complete. As I understand the HFT steps in between you and I and buys/sells the asset acting as a third party. When it does this it keeps part of the spread for itself--that's the tax I am referring to, profit for the HFT that as far as I understand serves no value.
Hey, I'm the author of this blog post. I think you're mistaken, I didn't send any phishing emails to anyone. All the emails were sent through coinbase via their request money featurein which I am trying to get them to fix. All emails to you were from Coinbase legitimately and none of them are phishing for your credentials. The lack of rate limiting on the api which allows for money requests is hence very dangerous.
Holy shit this is for real! There's a pokemon two blocks away from me LOL.
Because the elements only exist in my wireframes :)
https://twitter.com/notquitefrodo/status/450759909303255040

"CLARIFICATION: @PolarisTweets never let me go! I am still there in my old capacity. It was really scary miscommunication, thank God."

To be honest, his writing in that article is terrible and his ability to miscommunicate something like that is scary.
>To access the servers, you use remote desktop.

Same exact thing on Rackspace for Windows instances. So what?

>Microsoft Office 365 is $100 PER YEAR much more than I would pay for the full suite

Huh? It can be used on up to 5 machines by, yes, 5 different users.
Chromium then?
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It doesn't make it any easier to acquire bitcoins in the first place. When you already have a debit/credit card there is no reason to use bitcoins to shop with square.
Scientific Processing for Gridcoin
Ask HN: How to prevent fraud on online Marketplace?
How do marketplaces like Odesk, Elance and Airbnb prevent fraud?

Someone could create multiple fake accounts, buy service from his other accounts and make the payment using stolen credit cards.

How to prevent fraud like this?
Ask HN: Upper Limit for "Friends and Family" Investment option?
Is there an upper limit on the "Friends and Family" Investment option? if a friend or family member wants to inject cash into a start-up as a favor with no strings attached, is that possible? if so, is there an upper bound of what can be given? what about taxes?

Thanks,
I look forward to a full public review of the politics of OkCupid executives and investors. Actually, I'm sure someone is going to do exactly this now.

Now that Pandora's Box has been opened, it's not going to shut very easily. It's going to get bloody.
"Illegal" is not the same thing as "criminal."
So the labor ministry (basically the department of labor for us Americans) is a part of the German government with the power to institute nationwide rules regulating labor, but in this case it's just the ministry that is applying a rule to itself? Is that right?
Please rephrase that. Whilst I entirely agree with your sentiment about equality, your implication that those of us in a loving relationship who choose not to marry aren't realising the 'full potential of our relationship' is pretty hurtful. It's precisely this kind of attitude that makes me so reluctant to get married myself.
Because otherwise people will just stick to credit cards?
> Real time updates (for instance, in IM) wouldn't be possible

If we're going back in time, you can get this via Flash.
If this works, that price is a pittance to anyone who'd use it professionally. People ask for $100-200 things here (scopes, cheap logic analyzers, jtag stuff) just to play with them, and we don't blink, because what's the point of wasting time second guessing people?

A $180 price point makes me much more hopeful about this particular piece of software. That sounds like a very reasonable and (importantly) sustainable price.
You can get near the same speedup by just avoiding reflection. You unmarshal into an interface{} then pull the data out manually using type assertions as necessary. In my last project I think I got about a 1.6-1.7 speedup this way.
The full-spectrum hysteria the NSA has engaged in about it?
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It would be trivial for this app to steal your LinkedIn credentials or send LinkedIn spam or do other nasty stuff. It's loading this script live off their server: https://sellhack-static.s3.amazonaws.com/extensions/linkedin...
A $10 t-shirt will still cost $10 worth of bitcoins.

Whether that winds up being 1 or 1000 bitcoins is totally irrelevant. There's no intrinsic value
UTC Leap Second and how systems deal with it
Brawker – 7% off online purchases when using Bitcoin
I disagree with the comments saying the CEO's personal beliefs are irrelevant. I believe OKC's message is both relevant and appropriate.

I'll grant that the "8% of relationships... would be illegal" argument is a little weak, but the CEO IS paid by Mozilla. In the past he has donated to anti-gay-marriage causes, and may continue to do so in the future enabled by Mozilla's money. Firefox users help Mozilla make money. The browser is the medium for the site and the user. The user, in accessing sites like OKC, allows Mozilla to give some money to the CEO who in turn could give it to a cause many see as encouraging bigotry. Websites like OKC are an essential (even if indirect) part of Mozilla's revenue model.

Brendan Eich has a right to free speech, and so does OKCupid. We also have a right to responsible consumerism. In a true free market, responsible consumption helps us ensure companies are using their profits in a way we believe is ethical.

Personally I'm glad OKC is helping to send the message that supporting discrimination based on sexual orientation isn't acceptable to many of us in today's society.
Low traffic levels do not mean that you cannot do any meaningful testing. It means that you cannot reliably detect subtle effects in the conversion rate. Whereas Google may be able to reliably detect a 0.005% effect in the conversion rate, a small startup may only be able to reliably detect a 60% effect in the conversion rate. A small startup should arguably not be chasing after small effects in the conversion rate anyway.

Evan Miller has a great sample size calculator to illustrate this: http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/sample-size.html

In the example above, Google's MDE is 0.005% and the small startup's MDE is 60%. If the small startup's baseline conversion rate is 5%, then with 95% confidence and 80% statistical power, they can reliably detect a 60% effect (positive or negative) with 1,968 visits.

It's not just the 60% increase that you should be mindful of. I bet you all small startups want to know if the change they made to their homepage decreases the conversion rate by 60% or more. With an a/b test, they can do that.

Another point to keep in mind is that you can learn a lot from a statistical tie (not enough data to conclude there is a difference). In fact, no matter what your traffic levels are, most of your experiments will be a statistical tie. It's important to learn what doesn't work just as it's important to know what does work. This can really help you with prioritization. In the example above, the small startup can use the statistical tie to draw the conclusion that some tasks in their product roadmap will result in less than a 60% effect in the conversion rate and can be prioritized as such.

But ultimately it will be quite difficult for the small startup to produce variations that have at least a 60% effect in the conversion rate, but it's not unheard of and again, you can learn from a statistical tie.

Just because you have low levels of traffic doesn't mean you can't learn anything from a/b testing.
Ah, image tables, why use <table> when you can just add an image right? And I bet these tables were drawn in Paint. You can clearly see that in the first table the borders don't even match (bottom left).

Am I the only one that gets annoyed with this?
> No one would go to jail for being married.

Well, Prop 8 specifically didn't try to do that, but that isn't unheard of in the US: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/10/indiana...

> They just wouldn't be recognized by the state.

Okcupid may have worded that badly, but the problem doesn't go away because it changed from "illegal" to "refusal to recognize/allow". It's still fundamentally terrible.

And yes, I recognize the difference between the two - I'm fully aware this country made interracial marriages like mine straight out illegal and not just unrecognized up until 50 years ago, and it's only been a week since I got married and I've already had to deal with thinly veiled racism.
What's the risk of disabling damage in going barefoot?

If I wasn't balancing damage to spine et. al. with risks to my feet, I'd wear boots suitable for combat, as I did in high school were combat wasn't out of the question. Strong hiking boots, actually, to protect from getting stomped on, and as an implicit message of how I might reply to an assault.

Post-high school, when that would have been clear cut criminal assault, and mobility became more important for avoiding criminal elements, I switched to New Balance 9x9s (high quality running shoes, although I don't run), which I still wear 3+ decades later. Although not around the house.

Anyway, my point is, that as an potential investor, I'd be concerned about your balance of risk and reward; do you feet get dangerously hot that such a risk is reasonable? Severe foot injuries can cascade to death (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Tappan, albeit I'm sure he was older than you). It would be a factor in my making a decision, even though I've known plenty of people over the years who don't meet my standard of foot protection, including going barefoot, without noticeable harm.
Gridster is the most popular and current ruler of the "market." We went back and forth quite a bit with this -- meaning that I had to convince the stakeholders twice before being able to start something in-house :)

The main reason we couldn't use gridster was because it's vertical and we wanted a horizontal grid, and that gridster is not very maintained any more (you can read their README.) There are some notable forks, including one here there was an attempt to make the grid work horizontally, but which seemed far from stable and the complexity of the grister code (I read it all) seemed to much of a hustle to contribute (think estimates, etc.) It was definitely the best decision, in the end our GridList lib ended up way lighter than gridster, and we even have a pretty slick collisions implementation (not at all by the book tho, but covering more cases)

There are more small reasons like responsiveness, resizing based on a 1d index, resizing items, etc.
it's EXTREMELY bizarre that they would not have seriously thought of it.

Unless they all share the same opinions as Eich and they feel that being against gay marriage is like being against anchovies on your pizza. Then it would never have hit them that this was a serious problem.
Pushbullet – simple and elegant solution
Although that situation you outline might seem pretty extreme, spare a thought for those who suffer far worse discrimination in real life, where it actually matters. Cf. the bed and breakfast owner who asks "Are you gay?" and if the answer's "yes", shuts their door on you.
I wish I could upvote this more than once.

Story is the last thing in the world we should be undervaluing. Look at Pixar. Pixar made some fantastic advances in animation. That's not the only reason, or even the primary reason, why its movies perform so well. They do well because they are exceptionally well written, they have heart, and they are firing on all creative cylinders: tech, writing, directing, acting, post production, music, etc. John Lassiter himself will often credit story with the success of his movies.

Ideas for movies are cheap, just like ideas for tech companies are cheap. But story execution is extraordinarily hard, every bit as hard as putting the effects together.

My guess is that a lot of folks don't understand how hard writing great fiction can be. So they tend to dismiss it. They take it for granted. Or they over-attribute the success of their favorite movies, books, etc., to the elements that are most immediately visible: the actors, the effects, the direction, etc. All of these things are important, but they'd be entirely worthless without a strong story. Michael Bay movies are fantastic examples of what happens when you combine A-list actors with AAA special effects while devaluing story.
Whatever it's doing, it's doing it on sellhacks server. It makes a call to app.sellhack.com.
Tell HN: redirection failure on News.YCombinator.com
I'm browsing to http://news.ycombinator.com/ but I'm not being redirected properly.

Screenshot of the behaviour is here:

http://s2.postimg.org/43n8t5p6h/Screenshot_from_2014_04_01_09_25_08.png

I'm running NCSA Mosaic 2.75b.
I find it interesting that match.com which owns okcupid works fine in firefox. So it seems they are making a statement with the smaller site that wont cost them nearly as much in traffic. I could be wrong but that is my 5sec observation.
For many years the only spam and phishing emails I got were those sent to the unique address I used to register on LinkedIn.
Trying to "explore industry sexism" by attempting to trick these devs into talking shit behind each others' backs is amazing. Particularly combined with the contracts, about which: "another [sic] clause allowed for willful misrepresentation for the sake of drama [...]", this could have ended poorly for a lot of these folks. Let me guess: at least one of those women was going to be a raging bitch and at least one of those guys was going to be a women-hating misogynist bro. At least by the time it hit youtube. Regardless of what they said or whether they had to stitch sentences together ala chef's death on south park.

Props to all of them who told the producers to diaf.
"Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure."

Well that kind of bellicose chest-thumping should certainly win people over to the cause.
No, as that doesn't convert anything to POD.
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`encode_field` has the name in it—was there something else you were thinking of? `#[deriving(Encodable)]` should be able to read attributes on fields and provide the name accordingly.

And yes, you can't resume with this interface. You can implement traits for types outside the module they were defined in though, so a "resumable serialization" library could provide a new "ResumableEncoder" type if it wanted to.
Have you ever seen anyone suggesting anything remotely contrary, or are you just setting up the mother of all strawmen?
Thanks for the comments. I am trying to read less HN and more of the C book. Really, I just need more time than 24 hours in a day.
Conversely, hurting Mozilla is not just hurting Eich, but hurting all the other people who work there, including the very people that OKC is defending.

So despite Eich's personal politics, Mozilla is a place where healthcare is extended to transexuals, and staffers have come out in support of Mozilla org's friendliness to non-straight sexualities, even though they don't support Eich's personal view.

http://subfictional.com/2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of...
"Self-exploitation."

Isn't that newspeak for what we used to call hard work?