skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How awesome would it be if they hired a great visual designer to add some polish to the overall look of the graphs and software.
This. I go this direction on all my brand and digital marketing consulting advice - find another name and avoid confusion. You don't *want the people who mistakenly type in .com and wanted the other product.

Execution is all that matters anyway - the strength of your brand will be derived from the product and effort behind it.
OSIpage adds “Shop Online” service link to existing web access navigation list
Fan death is one of the funniest case studies of companies creating hysteria in order to sell more units.

Once everyone has a fan, how do you get people to buy more fans? Make them think their current fans will kill them, and sell more expensive fans with improved ‘safety’ features.

Well played Korea, well played.
Man, anybody else remember being able to use tail and grep to decode system logs?

And not having the init process crash?

Seriously, this is clownshoes. Their developers and evangelists should get hit by a SIGBUS.
It's not so much what he is accused of doing, but how he allegedly did it.

I don't trust drug dealers. But then again, I also don't do business with them.

I don't trust my bank, and I don't trust my government. I cannot avoid them in quite the same way. So if someone can prove that it is possible for untrustworthy scum to anonymously do business with one another over the network, then I can almost certainly hope for a future where I am not forced to trust organizations that are only superficially trustworthy just to operate in the open marketplace.

As it is now, I get paid via direct deposit into a bank account, and pay my bills via electronic means from that account. Along the way, every transaction is compiled and reported to the state, so it can tax my money every time it moves.

Why do you rob banks? That's where the money is.

What's the best way to rob a bank? Own one.

My interest in the Silk Road is purely to see how effectively the government can fight it. They killed e-Gold. They killed Tor+Bitcoin+Silk Road. It remains to be seen whether they can kill their successors. I just really want open source money to work, because the closed source and curated money supply that I am forced to use isn't working out quite as well as I think it should.

So if Ulbricht is not convicted, I consider it to be no great loss to law and order. People like him exist in every big city, and many can remain at large for years. But it would be a great win for Tor and Bitcoin if it turns out that the state cannot prove its case, and a lesser win if the state is forced to reveal the methods used to compromise Tor and Bitcoin in the process.

Ulbricht himself is of little concern to me. But if someone like him is able to hide nefarious activities from the state and get rich without using the banking system, I can certainly do things like buy iodine for emergency preparedness without getting raided by a SWAT team (because it is apparently a precursor for something or other), and I can pay my electric bill from home without supporting the jerkass banking system that is apparently too big to fail and too avaricious to care.

You don't have to be a scumbag to hate your bank and fear your government.

And Ulbricht doesn't even need to get off completely for it to be a win for those of us who want to see more privacy in private business transactions and more personal control over private finances.
Thanks for the detailed response. I wasn't as aware of all that as I should be. I'd wager it varies based on the level of the brand, though. So, you could expect this with something like Apple or Samsung or HTC, but lesser brands may not even test their wares before shipping them. My recent purchases of a Monoprice keyboard and network adapter, for instance, both of which were DOA with obvious manufacturing defects.
Thanks so much!

For 1, it's true that it's not clear Rust is going to be great for web development. http://arewewebyet.com sums things up. That said, Rust does run the backend of Crates.io, and I've been toying around with it as an Ember backend, so we'll see :)

2) I'd love to hear your thoughts on my new ownership guide, which landed last weekish: http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide-ownership.html thoughts very welcome, either here, email, or on the issue tracker.

Ownership is the one concept in Rust that hasn't really existed at the language level before, so it's the most unusual thing to grok.

> I felt more than a few times that people were treating me like an idiot because of my questions

Sorry to hear that. :/ We try to keep it 100% welcoming, but sometimes, people slip through the cracks.
There is obviously no such thing is ghosts. But I challenge you to go into a spooky old house at night with no lights and not be scared of ghosts.
The US government does not "control" the media, and allows private news organisations (Fox News, The Wall St Journal) that effectively act as a mouthpiece for the opposition party to flourish. Not so in Russia, where independent news organisations are under constant attack.

You're absolutely right that the US has done some deplorable things in its past (including, as we now know, the recent state-sanctioned torture of probably innocent foreigners). That doesn't make what Russia's doing today, in fairly plain sight, any less repugnant.
I've been quite happy with ESET in the enterprise environment; however, I do not use AV on my personal systems.
Hmm, that does sound interesting. I would be interested in the reference, if it's not too much work to dig up.

I guess I don't see how this idea addresses the concern, though. Sure, maybe it's natural that there's a split between the compliant sheep and the independently-minded. But the concern is about what the status quo is that the sheep live with and perpetuate, and the independently-minded have to rebel against. Things are worse for all of us if the kind of free expression and sharing of ideas that the Internet enables becomes something that only non-sheep do, or can do.

Would that situation be worse than in pre-Internet society? Maybe not, but maybe so: a society in which most of our information exchange takes place online, but only over controlled, monitored, or proprietary channels strikes me as worse than one in which most information exchange is offline, but not so locked down.
Maybe people don't vote because they are disenchanted with the system they don't believe works as it was supposed to? Where the heck do you get off saying if people aren't capable of the desire to vote, a revolution isn't possible?

Consider for a moment: you can vote for spam or canned tuna.

Hilarious.
Well, 30 years ago there was no global internet full of knowledge and allowing collaboration-- I had to go to the college library.

There was also no global internet allowing for an instant global market to be serviced from the middle of nowhere. If you started a business in podunk, your market was the podunk area. (For the most part, there was mail order and stuff, but that still had a higher barrier to entry than the internet does now.)

So I think things have gotten easier and a lot more people are doing it.

I'm interested in hearing why you think the opposite-- I bet you're observing a different trend than I am focusing on. (eg both trends can be true)
Wow, you must know something the rest of the world doesn't.

If you have evidence that Russian troops shot down flight MH-17 then you should present it to the Dutch parliament and the United Nations.

Otherwise, like the rest of us, you should wait for investigators to finish their work.
There's nothing wrong with it, but that doesn't mean it is smart to broadcast your porn habits to the world.
Some developers wrote some code and published it in a software package under a free software license.

Other developers picked up said package and added it to the package collection they are maintaining.

You choose to use the package collection maintained by said developers, which means that you trust their technical decisions otherwise you'd be running software from people you don't trust, which is not a great idea.

Nobody is pushing software down anyone's throat. Please avoid such hyperbolic mischaracterization, it really does not contribute anything to the discussion.
New Relic IPO opens up 31%
what about in melbourne. would it be normal to walk into a starbucks with no shirt and no shoes?
And why choose Zurich over Moscow as the place to center its engineers? Maybe because the business climate is not as conducive and that's very much because of the political situation in Russia.
The biggest question I have regarding rust-1.0, is what's the likelyhood of small/standalone binaries being possible? Last time I looked, while there was talk about lightweight core libraries on the website, but the basic hello world binary was 2MB+ and depended on a bunch of shared libraries. I spent a little time trying to figure out how to build static/smaller binaries without much luck.
Preview: "When we started interviewing startup founders, we didn’t plan on building a big podcast, it was simply the best way to get audio content in the hands of listeners.

But the actions we took from that initial decision forward made it extremely easy to stick with the project as it grew, without losing interest and letting it fizzle..."
The better wikipedia article would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_shield

Debt itself (as a liability) is definitely not deducted from profit, but repayment of debt is deducted from the profit, and - what is more important - interest on debt is deducted from the tax base as a result. Which means that if you can load up on debt to get higher return, than you would get investing your own money.
Introducing Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform
I'm in your boat, I'm a web developer who's always been curious about systems programming and has been following Rust as a way to get into the domain without all the tedious runaround and rampant paranoia associated with manual memory management. But, I still don't know what I should actually do with this knowledge now. :)

> I actually hung out in the IRC chat room for awhile,
> but I felt more than a few times that people were
> treating me like an idiot because of my questions ("Ha!
> You did X? Why in the world would you do that??")

Unacceptable. I'm an op in #rust (bstrie), so feel free to PM me their nicks and I'll see to it that they treat new users better in the future.
what do you think to be other popular online services that could be added to OSIpage list so that users benefit from most of the web? for example, "payment gateways" and "shop online" were recent additions due to user request.
Energy production is a question of literally picking your poison. Do not make the mistake of ignoring the costs of the status quo simply because it is the status quo. When you choose against nuclear today, you are choosing for fuels like coal, natural gas, and hydropower. Each of those have their own environmental costs, which you are passing on to your kids every day right now.
Ask HN: ExtJS GPL 4.2.x or ExtJS GPL 5.1.x ?
Hello,

at work I'm about to embark on a project to update the web services we have (for in-house purposes) as the back-end for a portal site for functional and technical queries.

I'm going to use ExtJS, because it has the "best" data grid implementation available for free, with filtering, column rearrangement, and sorting galore.

Given that ExtJS 4 has been around a lot longer and there are more examples and discussions about using it lying around on the web, is there sufficient reason to use ExtJS 5 yet, or am I better off (at this point) sticking with the version with the most "community" support?

Advice please! (especially if you've found yourself in the same or a similar position...)

gjvc
Give me a break. Lifelock are in the business of selling you a product to protect against "identity theft".

By very definition, they are in the business of scaring you into buying their product. They are fear mongers. Their advice is not worth 0.02.

> Identity theft can have far-reaching consequences

The one person that has replied so far that it has happened to said it resulted in bad credit for a number of years. That's it.
What other "far-reaching consequences" are you talking about?
I'll check out the guide, thanks!

I don't necessarily need web-based ideas, but I don't know enough about the systems programming ecosystem to have an idea of where to start! A text editor? A game? A virtual planetarium? Machine learning? I have no idea! (Like I said, not your/Rust's problem...)
I'd love to use this, but I agree, I need to know the pricing up front. Also, can we see what a video message might look like? I'd like to evaluate the quality of the message before I send it to my friends kids.

Edit: never mind, you do have some edited samples. It's the same Santa throughout (which makes sense) so we have to take your word that the message we get will be of the same calibre. But that's the risk we take I suppose.
I'm in my 40s and have been working for and with startups since my early 20s.

I'd rather scrape by doing what I love than make bank and hating my life.

Of course, making bank and loving it would be the ideal. But its not like I think the odds are huge.

One thing I am doing is building up my side businesses. Get enough side income going to live on and you can work for a startup at low risk.

Not the case when you have a family, of course.
I don't think any of the founding members (some, or all of which have served time in jail) are involved in running the site (or have been in years) – at least not officially.
> Language doesn't work by giving some people the authority to define what a word means

That's the point, so I'm using it the way I like ;)
Sorry, no. He cannot under UK law "accept the risk of a security breach" unless a UK Judge deemed it unreasonable to spend "$10 million to avoid a possible $1 million loss."

A judge may well agree that it is unreasonable but he cannot use the financial loss to the company as the only metric to make that decision.
Ask HN: OS X folks – do you use Finder?
I've been on OSX since Lion, before that I spent my time on Windows. Finder is pretty awful compared to Windows Explorer. Are there any alternatives people use?

PS. Please don't say Terminal. I use the CL for development but for browsing & interacting with photos and documents of any substantial quantity I enjoy a UI.
Anyone go through the hurdles to get price? Not interested in the product... but am interested in what they charge.

Show HN seems misleading... says it's from the jib jab guys... isn't that a fairly established entity?
> 1) I have no idea what to do with it. I'm primarily a web developer, and I really want to get into systems programming, but I have no idea what to do with it or where to start.

I'm thinking profiling some stuff and writing native accelerators, in Rust instead of C. More of an excuse than a need, but hey.
Is this a step towards you understanding you are useless?
Santa call center in India?
> One thing being untrue does not prove/disprove a larger point.

That's what what he said. What he said was that because the author made a claim that is empirically, provably false, it shows the author didn't reach a level of research that would show them that the claim was false. It brings into question other claims the author has made.
How to Dial Down the Earth’s Thermostat
Thanks for looking that up. I was under the impression that at least kmc is a part of the core team from my chats outside of there (and because he was +o), but it seems like I was mistaken. He was certainly in a position to ban me to shut the discussion down ;)

As for header files, that's just one possible solution (and one that I think would work very well and was surprised to hear had been removed). The problems are there, but header files isn't neccessarily the right solution - it's just better to present a solution than to complain with nothing to suggest.
Thanks, Steve. I was following the previous RFC but it got closed. Do you know if there is a new one for abstract / anonymous return types?

This was the previous one for abstract return types:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/105
No, I am not for fuels like coal, natural gas etc. I am pro solar and pro windpower. I didn't state that because the focus on the article/discussion is nuclear.
What's actually going on here is people are committing the classic mistake of assuming if one side of a quarrel is in the wrong, the other must be in the right.

As far as I'm concerned, while we could bicker about whether Russia or the West has been more insanely stupid in its part in the escalating spiral of provocation in recent years, it would be quibbling over details.

The point that matters is that all of the governments in question are behaving like fools, and need to be brought under control or replaced with saner minds before the same pattern of stupidity that we saw a hundred years ago leads to the same results - and this time around, both sides have nuclear weapons.
Here are the reservoir levels. http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.act...
This Hedge Fund's Machines Are Making the Right Calls on Oil
Indeed that's a reason I do it as well and I applaud all for going that route ; I'm just saying that if you do it for that reason you might turn out in a smaller prison than actually having a boss. But if you are not greedy, don't care about materialistic things too much, know how to save money for a rainy day and have a family that supports that way of living, I wouldn't want it any other way.
There is a pretty popular expression in Galicia (Spain)that sums up this perfectly:

"Eu non creo nas meigas, mais habelas, hainas"

Which roughly translates to: I don't believe in witches, but they are out there
looks great. All the best for this development.
I didn't see anyone broadcasting their porn habits. OP only mentioned searching for porn; not which kind of porn, or whether he had downloaded it in the past.
Yes, I'm the author. Long as the JWT spec implements a strong method of encryption , it's a good option.
Okay - reality check; a lot of programmers are bad. I'm in Austin and we have developers straight out of school at 70K+.

If you're knowledgeable, have good communication skills, aren't a flake, and live in even a semi-major city (My last three stops have been Cleavland, Minneapolis, and now Austin) a six figure income as a software engineer is not difficult. If you're at 50k its time to start a job search.
The setting is that the Microsoft announcement happened, /r/bitcoin posters were crowing in /r/buttcoin, then they stopped shortly after, because this is what the price actually did: http://growlersoftware.com/users/tetondon/moonshot_canceled.... http://i.imgur.com/2aa9Lho.png But even the crowing doesn't make sense.
tl;dr

The F# language has been open source for 4 years and MS has accepted pull requests to the compiler, core library, and tools for over 6 months (100+ PRs going into F# v4.0). Now with Microsoft fully committed to open source and cross-OS development with .NET Core, this is a very good time for hackers interested in meta-programming to get in on the ground floor of F#, the only functional language fully supported by .NET.

This article is a complete guide to hacking on the F# core, in this case an end to end example of extending the core library, including setting up standard unit tests. And mentions looking to F# Language Design User Voice, http://fslang.uservoice.com/ as the source for extension inspiration. One thing mentioned in the article, that F# will "likely" move from codeplex to Github, should read that the MS team is committed to fully migrate to Github, they are just busy right now with v4.0 of the language.
Snapp is out of the private beta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wa...

Spain and France are #19 and #20 respectively. Relative to the US these are "low wage" countries. Compared however to China, they are not.
Maybe get better clients
Presumably the word "otherwise" means if you disregard those closed-minded and non-progressive facets.
This is the first time I've seen this service and it looks fantastic!
We're charging $19.99 for a live video chat with Santa plus a recording of your call. We've also introduced $9.99 for a video message from Santa.

Last season was our first year. This year we teamed up with JibJab to help bring HelloSanta to the masses.
Rust's runtime is actually undergoing a dramatic overhaul and is being almost entirely removed as we speak: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/19654

This is incredibly exciting in that it means that you won't need to do any ceremony to link in Rust libraries from other languages (previously you had to opt out of the stdlib and reimplement lang items as needed). But it also means that static libs should be much smaller, due to no runtime being necessary (which should also make LTO more able to strip unused symbols, shrinking binary size further).
9.99 prerecorded
19.99 live call

<EDIT>

Provided above. That is a pretty great price. Why not be upfront on the price? Seems reasonable for the service.
You're the one saying your clients would get "snitty" if you gave them a document like this. Maybe you should work on getting better clients instead of being "snitty" yourself.
The politics and history there is much more complicated!

I strongly believe that any country put in a position of power will expand the control by any means necessary. Your own history is far from flawless: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_Odessa_massacre.

That said, I strongly doubt Russia has any interest in Moldova or Romania. Putin lost a figurehead in Yanukovich and grabbed what he could out of the ensuing mess. Putin did not start what happened in Ukraine, but rather was extremely opportunistic once it happened.
Of course, there's only on Santa. ;)

However we do have a distributed network of hundreds of highly trained, pre-screened performers all across the country.
Here's the difference: When the market says something, I can react to it and improve immediately. For me the market is large and variety, it's not like a few people make up %80 of the income.

Working for a corporation, in the most recent case, meant dealing with people who were so incompetent that they did everything I can think of to interfere with us reacting to the market.

You know the saying about how people with nothing to do create work for others? Well, when you're a software team and the boss has zero software skills, or understanding, or care, you end up in a lot of pointless meetings.

Seriously, I would get interrupted 200 times in a day. (I counted once).

So, more risk, less secure money, but avoiding harassment, verbal abuse, manipulation, gas lighting, and 200 interruptions a day is a huge positive trade off.

For me at least.

Plus I get to see my parents for a few months while I pick out the next place I'm going to live.
Or no password and only private key :)
And he's an chekist
> By far the biggest demand for HKT is from people who are requesting Haskell-like do-notation for error handling.

That hasn't been my experience -- we are constantly running into cases in the libraries where we need HKT to express signatures in traits. The simplest example is talking about iterator return types, which often need to depend on a lifetime. See the collections reform RFC (https://github.com/aturon/rfcs/blob/collections-conventions/...) for details on that example. There are many, many others.

I suspect that HKT's role in Rust will be much more about extending the trait system for generic programming, rather than full-blown monadic programming.
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On keyboards for other languages than english too.
Honestly, yes. I thought that it was some happy ad campaign for Jib Jab and that you were actually giving out free Santa calls. I was just about to share this with so many people, then I got hit with the price. It's not even expensive, but it felt sneaky. And you captured my data. :(
Big Ideas in Social Change, 2014
Well I recommend you read the Bellingcat articles https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/mh17/