skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The debate is going on already. Businesses either will or won't be able to buy themselves a self-serving change. But that debate is at a level much higher than that which the startup community can influence.

When I say we in this case, I mean the HN crowd and similar. We as in Americans can debate this issue all you like. But if I want a startup visa, then I want to avoid getting caught up in the H-1B debate.
It is very very unlikely that you'll be able to duplicate keys using any kind of laser scanning technology, that's just not how they work. You could probably get the appropriate shape of the keyway, but you wouldn't be able to decode the lock without being able to image through metal, which is simply not going to be a technology built into phones any time soon.

I still find it an unlikely threat model, but I would admit that in the unlikely event that a technology allowing you to enter a door just by scanning it and printing up a key were invented and integrated into mobile phones or something else people are carrying around anyway, then that might actually overtake "crowbar"/"breaking the window" as the lowest-cost lowest-risk way of breaking into someone's home. And even then, probably it wouldn't affect all that many people. Plus you'd just have to modify lock technology slightly to fix the problem.
And quite honestly the man page of bash is quite readable, under invocation. http://linux.die.net/man/1/bash
Can't some form of executive action be taken ? Perhaps enforce the H1 rules closer to the vest. The body shops are so bad. They force many of the onshore resources to work full-time then another 3 hours on nights + weekends to feed work to their offshore cohorts so that they can bill out the offshore guys which is where they have even better margins.
It took decades for the very direct and tangible links between deliberate, sustained exposure to asbestos and tobacco and subsequent terminal illness to be widely understood. I see little reason for greater confidence in the ability of future explorers to deduce and communicate the link between their mystery ailment and a particular abstract decoration found on one of the sites they visited.

If the smaller quantities of waste are abundant and accessible enough, many more people will die unnecessarily.
That response seems a bit grumpy, given that it doesn't suggest anything concrete to be done. I'm in agreement that the ACM seems wholly focused on the academic side of things (disclosure: I'm a member, but not in the academic world). CACM seems filled with articles covering subjects in such a cursory way that I could do the same just by reading the summary from a Google search. The rest of ACM's publications (and all their conferences) seem happy spending 3 pages defining concepts like "a positive integer" with complex symbols and terminology - sure, we can decode that with some time and perseverance (and it may be necessary for proper academic rigor) but it's a good way to keep the rest of the world out.

My take: ACM either needs to accept that it's currently geared for only the academic world, or become an organization that's drastically different than it is today.
"Dividing a metre in to ten like this is much more helpful when measuring long distances than seeing hundreds and hundreds of centimetres but this unit doesn’t really exist with its own name."

Actually, it does, it's called the decimeter.

The other complaints in that post sound like faults in the design of measuring tapes, rather than faults in the meter itself. IMO, the best argument in favor of the imperial system is that you get more prime factors, so e.g. feet can be easily divided into 2, 3, 4, or 6 equal parts without using fractions. This is less important when one has access to decimal calculators.
http://alistapart.com/article/writing-testable-javascript

This article was really helpful for me-I had been writing too much "choose your own adventure" code.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8029541
It's even worse than that. Not only can MasterCard arbitrarily refuse to accept payments for a business, it can cancel any consumer's account with little recourse. Let's say that someone steals my credit card number and uses it in a foreign country, and MasterCard detects this fraudulent use of my card and shuts down my account. At that point, if I can't buy food and other essentials with cash, I'd be in real trouble. Also, it's hard to get a credit or debit card if you're unemployed - if you have no income and/or no credit history, credit card companies and banks don't really want to do business with you. And if you're homeless and begging for money on the street, nobody is going to lend you their credit card.
Can you offer a bit more reason than "trust me"?
So it's all rendered in the client-side, what about indexing and SEO?

The term 'webhook' has been in used for a few years already for http-based push notification systems, for example https://developer.github.com/webhooks/.
That design is very.. retro?
Why? Because the US government does check processing.

That does not follow. In my country, our main payment system is handled by private banks and it's also cheaper than MasterCard/Visa (only 0.9%, with a maximum of 1.5€).
The 1600x900 14" display in my T430s, plus the Cinnamon desktop environment.

It's amazing how much a good DE makes up for a small screen.
Friendly interface considered harmful (2002)
It's just a static site. Only the CMS is "dynamic" (though it itself is just a 10 line HTML page with a bunch of client side JS that talks to firebase).

Saves to that CMS, which is hosted statically, then send a build notification to our node based build servers, which then regenerate new static html files (from template you deployed to us) and send them to the proper place. Indexing and SEO are then just as they are for any other static site.

In local development, this is done through simple watch commands in Grunt, similar to what you'd see in something like Jekyll.
Since this is an article about an open source debugger, it's probably because Visual Studio is not free (except express), Free, or Open Source.
One of the features we generally associate with advanced and stable societies is the rule of law, which is essentially the opposite of being able to tell people under your command to do anything and have it be done.

To take an example from recent history, when told to go to Cuba and torture captured terrorists for information, those people should have refused to do it.
In fairness, if the earth goes back to 2000BC then after the billions of premature deaths resulting from the causes of the collapse of civilization and the resulting loss of food and healthcare, the high death rates suffered by certain tribes locating themselves in the vicinity of certain ruins would be a footnote in history.
i'm not sure how browserify replaces bower?
Hi! This is the Yelling Math Fairy and THE WORD EXPONENTIAL DOES NOT MEAN MORE. IT IT IS A MATH WORD. IT MEANS e^kx. IT MEANS THE SOLUTION OF y' = ky. DOES EACH NEW ASSAY DOUBLE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF WORK? NO IT DOES NOT. THE ADDED OVERHEAD FOR EACH ASSAY IS LINEAR GROWTH. NOT EXPONENTIAL GROWTH. I KNOW IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT TO YOU BUT THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT EXPONENTIAL. EXPONENTIAL IS NOT A SYNONYM FOR BIG AND EXPONENTIAL GROWTH IS NOT A SYNONYM FOR FAST. THANK YOU.
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I think there are two viable solutions here.

1) Reprocess high-level nuclear waste. Potentially build a storage facility for 100-300 years (about the limit of what we can do using totally normal techniques in technology and business/government, with minimal risk) to store what we can't immediately use.

(Low level would still need to be dealt with, but for that you can go for extreme dispersion or geologic storage or whatever, since the cost of things going wrong is a lot lower.)

2) Subduction-zone storage; generally this requires putting waste under the sea in an area like the zone off Vancouver, and having it slip into the mantle.
Thank you. Not sure how we missed that one, or the editorialized title in the original post.
Two reasons:

1. Visual Studio is not free. Yes there is Visual C++ express but for a while it didn't have C99 support because in general it was only a C++ compiler. I believe C99 support was added with VS2013.

2. It's just really nice to use the same compiler on Linux, BSD and Windows. This is possible with GCC and LLVM but not Visual C++.

Microsoft tools are not bad (in fact I like SQL server over MySQL or Postgres) but because they aren't cross platform it's very difficult to adopt. them.
npm, broccoli, ember-cli, emberjs, chrome
I would really like to see an alternative to going to grad school for a Ph.D. spring up for people who want to do research, particularly in math which doesn't require expensive labs. The overhead, the poor job prospects, the cost, the obsession with prestige all need to go.
all of your consumer-side complaints are about banks not MasterCard.
I'd defer to someone like Professors Norm Matloff or Ron Hira on this question.

Honestly, I've spent so long trying to keep startup visa out of the H-1B debate that I'm just not that familiar with it.

I don't disagree with you, but I don't have a sense of the political landscape to give you an answer that isn't a pure guess.
I read it twice and didn't see the actual solution. The picture shows plastic wrap on the stem. I've seen that at some groceries and didn't know what it was form
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Visa and MasterCard are basically branded, proprietary protocols. They regulate how card issuers (banks) and card acceptors (PoS and other banks) work with each other.

You can remove those proprietary protocols, replace them Bitcoin. Your card in such situation is replaced with multi-signature Bitcoin wallet and have most advantages of current system without it's greatest problems.

What stays? Third party (ex-bank) is still capable of providing you mechanisms that are there to protect your money in case of theft of your wallet. What goes away? Third party (bank) no longer has control over your money. They can't steal it or freeze it. They can't prevent you from using it.

Added value? Since you no longer need Visa INC and you can freely switch between financial services providers (ex-banks) your costs go down.
Gulp needs a bunch of work IMO, too much emphasis on streams and not enough composability. Most of my tasks are gulp-esque through streams, and I use a lot of things from the gulp ecosystem, but gulp itself doesn't do a whole lot for me. For anyone using it I recommend lazypipe and runtasks, they've been indispensable in making my tasks work the way I want.
that's a little misleading. From the article:

> Yesterday Amazon said that while its cloud business grew by 90 percent last year, it was significantly less profitable.

Investors aren't scared because AWS is growing too fast, they're scared because profits aren't growing along with it
Would minute to minute logging effect the battery performance and thus make this data not entirely objective?
Misleading headline. Investors are scared of Amazon's persistent lack of profits despite their hugely popular offerings.
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The main issue I have faced when trying to use bash scripts for this is that most frontend developers are not familiar with it, and a (thankfully) minority still uses Windows. You can still install dependencies from package.json and use ./node_modules/bin/xxx to execute them, so that's not a stopper.

I wrote a simple task-runner around the same time Grunt was born: http://ricardo.cc/cake-flour/, I still use it daily thought it's a bit out of date. Or you can use Gulp, still simpler and faster despite the quirky api.
I find it frightening that people support slavery because of vague and unsupported ideas about how it will influence public opinion.

I can kind of sort of understand the people who say that the draft should be used for national defense when fighting a critical war. I disagree, but I can see their point of view. But I can't understand at all the idea that we should force every person of a certain age (I'm assuming we won't leave women out anymore) into involuntary servitude because it might get people to think more carefully about waging war.
I'm not sure I understand--why not use something like Stripe to process the transfers and take a cut yourself?
Ok now I got what you meant. thanks for the explanation.

Having said that your consideration about "on line nature" applies also to my mastercard in almost all the shops I usually buy stuff be it on line or off line. Without me providing the OTP and the payment processor verifying it I can't buy anything.

A little bit OT but worthy IMHO. There are quite a few SPV (1) client implementations that remove the need to have all the blockchain stored locally. The things are moving even further in these field with the implementation of the payment protocol (2)

(1) http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/4649/what-is-an-s...
(2) https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawi...
Here is my setup:

- SublimeText 3
SublimeLinter (plugin)
- NPM
- Gulp
gulp-concat
gulp-uglify
gulp-ng-annotate
gulp-connect
gulp-watch
gulp-livereload
gulp-less

- LESS
You can be sponsored by an agent as well.

http://www.cjlore.com/blogs/charles-blog/o-1-visa-sponsor-ag...
27 inch mac cinema display...never looked back
Thanks for a constructive and well thought out reply.
EDIT: jeroen's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8093790) links to a better article.

tl;dr (as PeterWhittaker suggests): "Keep Bananas Fresh Longer by Separating Them and Wrapping the Stems in Plastic Wrap".

----- ORIGINAL GRIPING SESSION -----

NOTE: Just for context (so this comment doesn't look quite so silly as it now does :))... The post originally linked to awareness-time.com/?p=4195

-----------------------------------

So... am I right in my assumption that the picture of the bananas is a demonstration of this "simple way"? (With the intent of covering the stem with plastic wrap being for the purpose of minimizing exposure to gases that speed the process up?)

It's not made explicitly clear in the blog entry. In fact, the entry is very poorly structured. It...

1. gives an anecdote about the bananas turning brown

2. says there's a better way to slow the browning

3. immediately jumps into a section it marks as "optional"

4. starts the optional section with an ad

5. begins actual optional content with a short blurb

6. finally shows the picture (is this optional??)

7. follows it all up with the actual "optional" science

All without at least a short text explanation of the "simple way". You don't need complicated words to explain that processes occurring at the stem speed up the ripening effect, and that an easy way around that is to cover the stem with plastic wrap... so why is such a simple explanation omitted? Yes, a picture may be worth a thousand words, but when placed poorly, makes for a very confusing thousand words.
It's amazing how empowering reading is. Benjamin Franklin used to stay up reading the books dropped off at his brother's printing press, and Warren Buffet supposedly reads 5 hours a day as part of his standard work schedule. Forget 10,000 hours, I'd like to know how many words the most successful people have read in their lifetime.
This will certainly work in an exclusively *nix environment. However, if you need your build system to be Windows-compatible, you'll need to go with something like Grunt.
As if cards are not "online in nature"? Bitcoin is, by the way, much ahead of cards in that regard. You can have bitcoin radio and have PoS (coffee machine, ticket machine, shop's PoS) that does not have Internet connectivity for months.
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This makes my week
Isn't the article too old?
Interesting stats. I was considering buying a Retina MBP but the battery is glued in. After 3 years, the capacity remaining extrapolated from the 2012 MBA in the article suggests this might be a usability problem after 2 years. My current 2011 MBP just had a new battery as it was down to an hour as well.

I'm also not willing to hand over my machine to an Apple store data and all to get a replacement sorted.

Interesting predicament.

Edit: I've said this before. This place is worse then reddit. Closing account. Get fucked.
Readers of this thread: http://we.tl/30KSRwmF0R - any comments on this talk?
This requires an order of magnitude more effort
Do you have a link with more information about the service?
I use a touch-enabled laptop and come across this far too often. Even nytimes.com is guilty of this, as is Stripe Checkout.
I've had all kinds of multiple monitors setup. My last setup was a 27" iMac plus a 30" Dell monitor.
However, since I got my retina MacBook Pro I find myself more and more exclusively programming on the laptop.
The screen is great and the text quality superb so I enjoy it more.
I wonder how this differs by area and building type. My apartment walls in the Bay Area were razor thin - I couldn't believe how much could be heard. But in the four apartments I've been in Manhattan (all ~50-100 years old), plus a good friend's new high-rise that I frequent at all hours, I've never heard my neighbors.

In fact, in my current apartment I have not once heard my roommate when my door was closed despite the bedrooms sharing a wall.
As an employee, I don't particularly want a startup visa: I'm neutral to slightly negative on the idea. But certainly we -- as employees -- should get something in exchange for support. That's how the legislative process works. Bluntly: you're attempting to use support from the startup community to actively buy the change you want while, as employees, we get nothing in return.

A bargain! For you.
Since the banks issue cards on behalf of MasterCard, they essentially constitute a single, tightly-coupled system from the point of view of the consumer. And the problems I described exist no matter which part of this system manages the end-users' accounts.
I'm a huge fan of SolveBio.com
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A less confusing article about the same solution:

http://lifehacker.com/5967424/keep-bananas-fresh-longer-by-s...
What are some free alternatives to this, or to LiveReload?
I think that maybe 'you' and 'are' were meant to be switched, making it a question:

> One thing to watch out with these sorts of approaches is[:] (you are -> are you) actually improving …
Composer, and this (quick, dirty) shell script I wrote to build a basic composer web app setup (including /public with an index.php which loads the autoloader and an .htaccess which auto-routes to it.)

https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/701c275ff0a2349fc51f
What app did you made?
What a weird article, it spends more time describing links to the science than the actual solution. Is this some new form of scheming/optimizing search engine rank by quoting and linking a lot of tangentially related academic topics?
Ask HN: How do you sell the software of a failed business?
Hello,

My parents attempted running a holiday-booking venture that didn't go anywhere. In the process, they had a fairly advanced web app built with things like custom refund policies and self-service registration for the hotels.

This web app cost a lot and it would be nice to get back some of that money, so how would you go about recovering the cost?

Any failed business sale forums I don't know about?
Hey, sorry that it came across that way. The ops position is definitely not about looking for a superman to dump a buggy system on. Issues are root-caused and it's a point of culture that we don't see the same bug twice.

Another Transcriptic just Slacked everyone your comment here which has prompted a discussion about what we're really looking for in an "ops" person. The "exceptional coding skills" bullet is in almost all of our engineering job posting, and we thought such skills would apply to really good "devops" people, too; maybe this is wrong and asking for the wrong skill set. (The SREs I know at Google are all really good developers.)

Being an "on-call position" is a side effect of our volume and the fact that cells don't stop dividing at 8pm. Depending on when projects get started we often end up running reactions all the time, and so yes there is a (metaphorical) pager involved. Even minor failures here are very time sensitive due to the biological nature, and lost samples can be extremely costly (and devastating to our reputation with customers). I think this ops role is more about setting up the processes rather than being the only person (people) to respond to issues.

We'll be reflecting on that job description and update the posting.
- eclipse

- npm

- firefox

- firebug

- grunt

- git

- jenkins

- javascriptmvc
It's right at the footer of the page, "Using flot 0.8.3"
What is in a typical make file for your projects?
Sorry, I should have written "the US government does check processing free of charge". That makes a paper check purchase often have lower transaction cost than a credit or debit card purchase, at least to the merchant.

I'm not sure what the legal status of charging the customer a different price based on method of payment is in the US - for a long time, merchants couldn't charge different prices based on what the customer used to pay. But now occasionally you see the very oddly named "Courtesy Fee" for when you pay with a credit card.
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See: http://teardownthispaywall.appspot.com/

for the context of this comment, which bears repeating:

Sadly, ACM, rather than acting like a society with its members' interests
at heart, has been acting as a for-profit publisher with a some window
dressing to make it look less execrable. Many people have documented
this far more effectively than I ever could.

If ACM wants to be relevant to professional programmers, stop doing that.
Facebook does not provide public posts search in graph API 2.0 but in 1.0 it does provide search of public posts. ( Facebook will no longer support 1.0 api in 2015 )

On the other hand you can search posts of your friends.
Yeah I would definitely go for a nicer IPS display vs. a larger TN one. I switch between a cheap TN monitor and nice IPS MacBook display a lot and the IPS display is so much easier on the eyes. The TN panel looks really harsh, especially with white on black text.
It's intriguing just how many ancient relics are associated with death. Some, like the pyramids, were obvious demonstrations of wealth and power to commemorate the dead, but I wonder how many of the more primitive "monuments" in the form of mounds of earth covered in stones were intended less for veneration and more as simple, pragmatic indications "dead people lie here; not a good place to farm".
Great Guy !!
The CMS designer is the interesting part to your design, the static site part is easily handled through something like Varnish. Do you have further plans for extending the CMS designer?
The US rate for credit card (and check card) processing is indeed very high! The upside of this is that it makes a variety of financial firms (banks and credit card companies) quite interested in issuing them. For instance, some banks will offer no-fee bank accounts with direct deposit and a certain minimum number of monthly check-card purchases (in lieu of requiring larger minimum balances). Some providers will also explicitly send a significant fraction of these fees right back to the customer as "cash back", airline-miles, or similar rewards.

(The downside is obvious. The dynamics of the interplay are interesting. I wonder if there are any good studies.)
He is tracking battery capacity (Current Capacity / Max Capacity), not battery drain. This is useful to track the lifetime of the battery itself, instead of its charge.