skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your argument?

Mac App Store is really helpful especially when updating installed applications. Just a click away rather than launch every one to find out whether they need update or not.
Exploring the aspect-oriented design space – awesome ebook for sw designers
Columbus, the Pope and the birth of America – this should be in every text book
Accurint, TLO and the big folks already all have API's for these. The tough part is getting access. The compliance checks are rigorous and typically it's not worth it for them to do this for people with low volumes.

It creates a nice gap in the market for someone like Checkr. As their volume grows, there's a great opportunity to shop around and even build your own.

In the TC article, Vince Wong mentions that the industry hasn't changed in several decades. The whole industry has really only existed for about 20 years, thinking back to Database Technologies and AutoTrack which was a pay by the minute dial up product into the 2000's. If he's referring to the innovation in terms of productizing an API, it's really the risk involved that's the challenge here.

I feel like it would be a lot easier for folks like LexisNexis and TransUnion to sell to someone creating this market than for them to manage the compliance that comes along with building it themselves.
People associate Snowden's arguments with government surveillance and shrug it off with the "nothing to hide" argument.

Here we're talking about average people's passwords leaked to the general public. Your files could be accessible by anyone. Or irrecoverably lost due to a bug. This has obvious consequences to the average person.

Well, I don't expect the average to understand the issue nor be able (read: want) to do anything about it (ie. encrypt before handing over their data to untrusted third parties).

Quite frankly, Jennifer Lawrence's nude photographs had more influence on the average person's thoughts about computer security than Snowden's revelations. As sad as it is.
How Small Businesses Drive the U.S. Economy [Infographic]
It's not just developer-type tools that can't be sandboxed. Dropbox can't. BackBlaze can't.
Probably.

http://life.time.com/history/faces-of-the-american-dead-in-v...
Says US, Canada, and UK: http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/14/checkr-raises-9m-to-help-o...
Thanks for clarifying.

Are you allowed to say anything regarding support from the Android team?

The way Android team spoke at Google IO, I got the idea Go will only have an unofficial place on the NDK.
Been very impressed with the consistent quality of Owlchemy Labs' with each title they release. It was really cool when they got this game working for the Oculus Rift as well.
Two Teenage Girls Have Invented the Most Powerful Video Game of the Year – Mic
Your Baloney Detection Kit Sucks
What are generics?
Interview with Advertising Photographer Peter Dazeley
Filtering Your BOT Traffic with Google Analytics
Zylch – A simpler social media experience
Any alert should be for a good cause sounds good according to me.
Just had to killall firefox. So I beg to differ. They just blame the third party addons. Like ABP, because it's your fault for installing one of the most popular plugins.
The audio APIs themselves are mostly OK. As always, the big problem on Android is fragmentation. I tested on as many devices I could get access to, but have discovered since launch that there are crippling performance problems on the Nexus 5 and a few other modern, popular devices. I've had to block downloads to those device and am scrambling to work out what the problem is. I've never developed for iOS, but I am extremely envious of the homogeneous hardware platform.
Report it as income? How would that work?

> Please enter last month's income

193 hours

> That will be 47 hours in taxes, please.
Πως θα γλιτώσετε το site σας από τις αλλαγές της Google;
Ah, human nature! Abusing power and vanity, even in extremely ridiculous and harmful way.
Gourmet Sub Chain Jimmy John's Makes Employees Sign a Horrifying Noncompete
Whatever happened to the group dating model that you guys were going with previously? A blog post about it would be really interesting in my opinion.
I do not think this is the real reason. They could easily fix this issue by changing what os returns to something like "Windows Nine (9)"
Show HN: Coinbolt, test drive Bitcoin by purchasing cats
Hey HN, I made Coinbolt, a Bitcoin wallet, so that newcomers can testdrive Bitcoin by doing something fun and interactive. New users can purchase fake cats on the Cat Shop (a OSS React.js app https://github.com/coinbolt/catshop / https://www.coinbolt.com/catshop/). What do you think of the idea?
Churches/religions can condone violence to others while still promoting healthy marriage, so your point doesn't necessarily mean anything about the topic at hand.

(Obviously, your point is important in a larger context. :)
Well you wouldn't need a promo code for a free app, so that doesn't really solve the problem. Also, you can give out promo codes over the internet, but I wouldn't just install any .apk someone sent me.

It's hardly the same thing.
Excellent anecdote.

I share a similar story and one key thing I wanted to comment on was that there were never really any "open platforms" to begin with, not even on Linux. The fundamentals of that codebase might be available free for use, but the companies checking in code and building out distros are not doing it solely for the love of the game, their doing it to cut a profit as well. They would nail you to their garden if they could, and some already have! The classic example of a company that did this and ran with it is Apple.

The fact of the matter is if you want people to use your technology at a mass scale you need to abide by the same fundamental business and market rules that the big boys do.

So friend, free your mind from the chains of platform loyalty and go ahead and experience all the technologies available on all platforms, because at the end of the day that is what people like you and I truly want to do.
>Once the type program's been compiled to a Haskell module, it becomes in essence a type-level library. You can include it in your regular Haskell programs and use the type class instances it exports in your own types to enforce whatever invariants you care about.

Cool! Is there an example of this? I poked around the repo and reddit/HN posts on it, but couldn't find anything...
Yes 20 years no problems for windows API. Look how old the Unix API is. Not Silverlight although most of that is portable straight to c#+WPF deployed via ClickOnce with a few hours' work.

We have a company that has IE6 and XP deployed to over 1000 workstations. IE11 does ActiveX still. We use it via WebTwain to scan documents from a web app via a drum scanner. It works very well.

Hardware is not a factor. Don't forget that x86 is well over 30 years old already, isn't even CISC under ISA any more and there is virtualization and emulation as well. I saw windows 95 booting on a wrist watch in the tech press the other day.
> 2) The problem there is that if you don't like your second match, then what?

It should be your choice. If you choose not to go on a date, thats on you, the dating ring's work has been done. If, however, you accept the date and they dont, there is nothing you could have done and should be set up with someone else. From the dating ring's perspective, that should be fine too because work was done for value (i.e. the party that declined the date got their value). This also goes well with your second statement.
Ask HN: Is there a formula for falling in love?
I'm curious if people think that a formula for falling in love could exist? I know the idea sounds strange right from the start but if you look at it from an evolutionary point of view, love is an emotion that helps our species survive through procreation.

Is it possible to start with 2 random people and put them through a series of emotional triggers that cause them to fall in love?

An emotional trigger could be an adrenaline inducing event or physical touching or ????
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Thoughts on Brandery's Demo Day
ah, thanks.
didn't know about it earlier.
Well, at least it can replace 90% of the use cases one would use C for.

I am leaving those 10% for kernel code and portable macro assembler tricks.

Even with my position regarding generics in Go, I have to agree interface {} is way better than void* or macro tricks.

EDIT: Should mention that those 10% also include embedded deployments where ANSI C barely fits.
I'm not the person you replied to, but you've definitely thought this through, and thanks for explaining. I would sign up after reading that explanation. I think you'll need to find a way to express these things during conversion.

I have a single friend who I'd recommend this to, except I'm sure she wouldn't want to spend $20 on a potential flop. You'd have to really change the perception of the value of your matches (vs dating sites).

Of course, how much is a guaranteed good match worth? To me? $500+ easily. I think your biggest hurdle will be managing expectations. Good luck :)
What do you use to monitoring the "real time search engine"?
There is no such thing as society. There are individuals who have views which may or may not be properly or partially informed. So whose view shall we take on fairness? Whatever let's stop talking about 'what society thinks'.
In the MEMS world we have something similar to this where you don't get a full wafer you just pay for copies of the device you design to be put on the next run. In this case it makes even more sense because the processes are much more standardized for IC work.
I always understood the version with no apostrophe as a general imperative statement, with 'hats' being plural - not an abbreviation of 'my hat's off' but of 'we should take our hats off'.

Either makes sense.
iOS is locked down, but on the Mac side, you do not need to go through Apple to get and install software, aside from OS X itself and its bundled apps.

The Mac App Store provides convenience and security. It's not required, though. You can install whatever you want on your Mac, or load whatever website or web app you want.
> f you go to a restaurant, you generally don't ask to try out a meal for free, or ask for a second one if you don't like the first

I most certainly do. I usually don't have to ask. When they come out and ask how the food was, I tell them the taste wasn't to my liking or wasn't what I expected, and they usually offer to comp the meal or bring a new one.

I'm not saying I expect you guys to do this, I'm just saying you should probably find a new analogy. :)

Although I think what OP is saying is that if you provide a match and the other person rejects it, you should provide another match, since obviously you didn't make a good choice. In other words, you should be guaranteeing one date per month, not one match. Not a successful date, but just a date.
Thanks - I definitely need to update our blog since we made so many major changes. (We've explained in our newsletters but I should make those public.)

Here is our newsletter explaining the changes: http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7bc3b2bd2f03996c6dbee867...

The group dating piece: A lot of you wrote about missing group dates. Ah, we do too! While we are big fans of the magic of groups, we realized that we could either focus on compatible matches, or keep group dates -- but we couldn’t do both well at the same time. Since you expressed that compatibility with one person is more important than meeting three singles at once, we decided to focus on 1-on-1 dates. Scheduling 6 compatible people in cities like NYC and SF was just not as feasible as scheduling 2 compatible people.
This is awesome! I love web games but the crap to quality ratio is really bad. It's hard to find good games. I hope Humble Bundle continues to create curated list of web games, not just 3D ones.
Single-threaded Go programs also run faster for some (many?) cases. The runtime is able to bypass a number of locks when running in a single-threaded mode. And depending on the profile of your code, turning on multiple threads for a Go program can slow it down even if you use channels (as moving data from one CPU core to another can be much slower than just doing a context switch in a single core).
Agreed, I actually don't have anything against Linux other than the phobia and FUD of one who has never used it. It's on my todo list of weekend projects.
If you have recommendations for quality web-based games (I'm particularly interested in side-scrollers or RTS games) please let me know.
The mystery of the ‘recycled’ iPhones
Lost your restaurant reservation because it took 20 minutes to park?
Drivers should enjoy more shopping, dining, dating and all the good things in life rather than looking for parking, parking and walking to and from garages. This is why everybody should have access to a valet to pick up and return their car wherever and whenever they want. This is why ParkJockey created PlumValet.

What makes Plum Valet special? it is more than a mobile app. It is "the hero behind the hero" like Alfred is for Batman. It is engineered be "the tech that make you look good" like Q is for James Bond. It is programmed to be your trusted parking helper and confidant like Alice from the Brady Bunch. #ParkNoMore | PlumValet.com
Just asked for an invite on IRC, the 15 min trial server was great to test things out :)
Can we stop these generalizations? Elsewhere in these comments we have a 'society that thinks'. Now we have the views of 'everybody'. Thanks but no.
Please tell your employees to stop creating fake profiles on OkCupid and spamming our users. Behaving like that doesn't inspire much confidence in your service.
Any comment on the problems with the Macaw launch?
Hard link to the Humble Bundle snippet is here: https://snippets.mozilla.com/show/4606/
Use Twilio to Monitor Your Twilio Applications for Errors
I don't think Carbon was ever a recommended way to build OS X apps. It was basically a compatibility layer for vendors who couldn't easily rebuild their apps on Cocoa.
Finally, a site even I could have launched :)
Nice, I've been wanting this, except for online things. Like when I hit a road block with Idris/Haskell, I wish I could just talk to someone about what I'm thinking. And I also enjoy offering up my expertise, usually in #javascript, #angularjs, or #haskell.

As a side note, #haskell is my favorite channel on IRC, everyone is very helpful. But I would love to pick someone's brain for an hour.
I think the key on the rejection thing is to remember that the other person is also on the hook for $20, and won't get another match if they reject you. So if the service is even basically working from a matching perspective [1], you should get a date. Rejecting you is basically saying, "this person is so bad that I'd rather give up my $20 than trust them that this might be a match". I also think it's interesting that you focussed on the possibility of you being rejected as opposed to you rejecting the match.

[1] A big if. I'm skeptical about the whole thing, specifically about the "we match people, not profiles" claim, which makes little sense to me, since your profile is all they know about you. But my point is that the economics of it seem OK.
(Only works in FF.)
Apollo was cancelled because after all the patriotic hoopla died down people realized this stuff was far too expensive to be of any practical use.

That hasn't changed, either. There simply isn't any reason to send people to space.
This seems to be in the same vein as say, providing free dinner for employees.

It's a perk, but it's designed to make it easier for you to live your life in a way that's beneficial to the company. Work for us. Stay late. Delay having kids.
What Python fiasco?
I'm a fan of what Bayes Impact, but the article opening seems really naive about what the financial situation is for a pretty big chunk of US residents.

>> As a Westerner, getting a credit card is only slightly more complicated than tying my shoes. My world is raining with opportunities to borrow money to go to school, open a store, consolidate loans, or buy an iPhone 6.

A little under 10% in the US are without a bank. And the "Underbanked", people have some type of banking but still use Money Orders and stuff like Payday loans, is over 20%. I wouldn't say "Raining with opportunities" lines up too closely with those people.

Like I said, it's great to see what Bayes Impact is trying to help, but just needed to clarify a bit about the US.

https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/2012_unbankedreport.pdf

Edit: Updated to clarify that this was directed to the tone of the article opening, not the author. I had previously used the word "author" instead of "article"
And two other charities involved in advancing the open web: Code Now and Maker Ed.
I (briefly) took tax law in college. In the US, if you are a professional and you offer your services for free, there could be a tax liability past a certain amount of time. I always thought this had interesting complications for time banks. Anybody look into this?
That's an interesting question. Thus far our market selection has been driven more by practical constraints than sophisticated analysis. We've focused on countries that have well-developed electronic payment systems (such as M-PESA in Kenya). We also try to target places where average incomes are low enough that loan amounts that seem small in wealthy countries can have life-changing impact.
Where were you working in Valley tech in the 1990s? Because I was there --- I moved there in ~1997, raised a round of funding in San Francisco in 1999, and started my career in 1994, and the Valley you describe where "talented generalists" could "just fucking build it" without acquiring "credentials" was not in evidence. The Valley was much, much more status-obsessed in the 1990s than it is now.

Did you not have the experience of needed a rabbi with grey hairs and a business degree to get a second meeting with any source of funding? Because that was my experience.

"Just fucking build it" might have worked if you happened to have a rack of Sun servers, some Oracle licenses, and a partial DS3 piped into your Cisco 7500. That's how things got just fucking built in the 1990s.

I understand that you have a problem with Valley tech culture as it exists too. That's unsurprising, because there's a lot not to like. But as a rhetorical strategy, attempting to rehabilitate the 1990s is weak.
If you like this, check out http://www.bigmessowires.com/bmow1/ by my former boss. Very nice pictures and docs.
Thanks for the replies, all.

Re: restaurants - maybe not the best analogy. But just like a restaurant, we don't openly advertise it, but when people complain, we're always more than generous with credits / refunds.

I'm working on a blog post to explain this better, as it's much more complicated than I could gracefully express in a HN comment, but just because someone is rejected doesn't mean we didn't do our job well. Dating is a numbers game, and success is no where near 50% for any dating site. What we do - unlike most other services - is work behind the scenes to improve success rates for future matches, if we see that certain people are being rejected often.

For some people, though, the $20 model simply won't work if they find they're not getting enough dates. That's why we also offer Premium, which is a more personalized, tailored approach for a higher price point. Some people simply don't do well with photos, or for other reasons, and at $20, no matter how good we are at matching, it's simply not the perfect fit for everyone.

And lastly - this is our first week with this model, so we are taking all of these comments very seriously, and thinking a lot about how to make a sustainable business model that satisfies the most people. When it comes to dating .. you're unfortunately never going to make everyone happy, but we're trying really hard to make as many people happy as possible. What's interesting is that we've heard almost no complaints about the $60/month model, only about the $20/month one. So we're debating how to make that plan more enticing, or if such a low price point works for the amount of personalization that goes into our service.
Chrome (and Opera) optimised for asm.js a little while ago[1]. I would expect equivalent performance.

1. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/11/26/chrome-an...
This donation was made to the CDC Foundation, not the CDC. The CDC Foundation does most of its work outside of the United States.

Zuckerberg's donation is meant to help reduce the novel growth rate seen with 2014 West Africa Ebola. We have little experience with Ebola in urban areas. We're currently seeing a doubling of case rates nearly within the the Ebola generation time of 16 or so days. If that reproductive rate is not slowed quickly, in the next few months, then one possible outcome is that Ebola will never go away, and will exist as yet another terrible disease afflicting the poor.

Moreover, imagine if we could eliminate a disease like malaria for a few billion dollars. The cost-benefit of that would be astounding. It makes sense to try and eliminate Ebola now, not just prevent it from reaching the US.
While I can name several modern classical composers whom I interested in* I think your point still stands and most people wouldn't be able to name an active composer after Beethoven, maybe Brahms. I have brief memories of an interview with Milton Babbitt about how classical music was no doubt on the way out due to advent of popular music, and i think he was right, these days classical music is only relevant in most peoples lives when mentioning an anecdote about how making their newborn listen to Mozart might increase their IQ.

Whenever I would go to a chamber music event or an orchestral performance there will generally be two sets of people there - the old school bougie folk and a handful of conservatory students - the casual audience member is far and few between. Orchestras will have a better chance getting an audience by performing pops or some program full of video game music.

Still, going to the symphony hall, being part of that scene, this might retain it's importance for the upper class / professionals, and this alone could be enough to continue to support more than a handful of orchestras around the United States.

* And the only reason I can is because I studied composition and theory at University.
It's official, we're back in the robber-baron age
That's hard to look at, even now.