skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some smaller pitfalls in the logic:

1) The game Pocket legends: There might be far superior games on iOS

2) The crowd that owns iPhone is not interested in such an app at all

3)Games of such genre do not perform well on iOS

The point I want to make is that one app developer's one single games data is too small of a sample data to make any serious claims.
If you're familiar with foldr or its ilk you can execute them in your head token by token too, to the same extent you can in a for loop. In the case of a for loop you have to be familiar with the syntax and semantics of "for" in your language so you know that "for(i = 0; i<n; i++)" is different from "for(i = 0; i++; i < n)" and likewise you have to be familiar with the syntax and semantics of any functional construct you use.
Online course on how to give great presentations / pitches
Hello HN

I've been to several web and startup events where I've noticed that a lot of hackers don't know how to present (an idea / a startup / anything) in an appealing way.

That's why I decided to make an online course for hackers on how to present (and pitch!) in front of smaller and bigger crowds.

You can find the content here: http://goo.gl/d2HgN

If you've suggestions about what's missing, let me know.

The course will be a collection of essays, some pictures and some videos. I'm planning on charging for it ($ 29 for the HN crowd, $ 49 for the others). There will be a free trial where you can access almost anything of the course (the cheat sheets are only available in the "full" version).

I'm sure you'll ask yourself why you should pay me money to access information that you could research yourself (or pay someone to help you). During my research I've found that there are two types of persons when it comes to presentations: presenters and non-presenters. Presenters are comfortable being on stage, talking to people, etc. Non-presenters are not. I'm a presenter. During high school and college I've done several presentations on different topics, all of which received good grades. I love talking to smaller and bigger crowds and don't have the anxiety some non-presenters have. That's why I think I could help you. Additionally I think it's a fair price, considering that everything you need to know about delivering presentations and speeches is included and can be accessed in a free trial.

If you have doubts or questions, please do let me know here or through email. I'm happy to talk to anyone (also on skype if you want to test my skills :) ).

Now if I have convinced you, I'm happy to inform you when the course is done through an email signup on this page: www.presentag.com

TL;DR

I'm preparing an online course about how to give effective presentations, you should sign up to be informed when it's done.
Facing your inner alpha
Just try http://springloops.com
Show HN: FeedTouch - Simple feed reader + readability web app for mobile devices
I wrote FeedTouch http://ft.prn.la , a simple feed reader + a readability web app for mobile devices. It mashes up Google Feed and ViewText, and it's implemented using jQuery Mobile and ExpressJS.

To use it, simply append a site to http://ft.prn.la, e.g. http://ft.prn.la/wired.com , http://ft.prn.la/time.com , http://ft.prn.la/techcrunch.com .

You can also append an RSS feed, e.g. to read Hacker News RSS: http://ft.prn.la/news.ycombinator.com/rss

What do you think?

A bit of background: http://blog.cliffano.com/2011/02/20/do-you-find-websites-hard-to-read-on-the-iphone-try-feedtouch/
Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo up for pre-order in Germany
The only hack you need is fries with no salt. This order ensures that you will get your fries piping hot, as they must create a fresh salt-free batch.
CAPTCHAs are indisputably a nuisance. They have to be used, however, where necessary—some sites are simply too spam-prone to avoid needing to use CAPTCHAs (usually in conjunction with one or all of the other suggested methods on the blog.)

For those sites, reCAPTCHA is usually a good enough spam deterrent that has a fairly high human success percentage.
Rate our pivot: A Python cloud spreadsheet 
We're a not-quite-startup that's pivoting. We're looking for feedback on our new product, Dirigible, a programmable cloud spreadsheet.

http://www.projectdirigible.com/

Dirigible is a spreadsheet that displays in a browser and calculates on the server. It uses Python both as its formula language and as its (more than) macro language. Our users can run their spreadsheets in parallel across a bunch of servers.

It's in free beta right now, we're aiming to start charging for compute time soon (we're using EC2, so will be charging a mark-up on what Amazon charges us).

We'd appreciate any feedback at all, but we're particularly interested in:

- Ideas about people that might benefit from using it (so far we have thought of bioinformaticians, finance professionals and accountants/actuaries).

- Missing features that would prevent you from using it.

- How well we're presenting our case.

- How smooth the signup process is.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated -- thanks in advance!
Ask HN: Translating Facebook's like into a link
Is it possible to somehow extract the call on a Facebook like button and give it a URL so that you can use the link on a platform like Twitter, so that when you post the URL, people get an Oauth2 pop-up asking them to confirm the like?
People did have good ideas in 1994.
This is another stupid face of Europe's health and safety madness. No wonder the growth rate is going down day by day in EU. Due to all these unreasonable regulations a lot of young start-ups have already moved to the US.
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Totally agree. Oblivion was 80% hype and pretty graphics.

Beneath the eye candy, Oblivion was an extremely boring game really. Sure, the world was huge, but it was empty and repetitive. Each cave looked like every other cave[1]. Each dungeon, castle and fort looked the exact same[1]. Every tomb, crypt or ruin looked the exact same[1]. Each oblivion level looked the exact same[1]. The rest of the world was more or less filler to link these places together. Also, sometimes I found an interesting area only to be disappointed that there was no history, no reason for it being there, nothing. (Eg, if I find a ruin waaaay out in the middle of the mountains, I wonder why its there, why is it a ruin, what happened to the people etc etc - Oblivion made no attempt at answering any of these questions).

Besides that, each quest was written as if it was the only quest in the game (ie, the world may as well be paused until you finish the quest) and, besides the hype about the AI, everything revolves around the main character - if you stop and sit on the side of the road for three days, the world is pretty much paused until you do stuff again (besides trivial NPC schedules).

Having said that, the world was quite beautiful and some of the quests did interest me (eg, the assassin quest where you get locked into a house), but overall, the game was dull, lifeless and, besides its grand size and scale, empty.

[1] On the inside. Sometimes there would be a really cool looking (from the outside) structure that got me excited, only to be shown the exact same interior level that I'd seen a hundred times already yet another time.
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It is by no means against the law in Germany to use adsense or Google Analytics. You just have to get the consent of the user before you are allowed to have their personal information processed by a third party.
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Keynesian economics. (although, actually, macroeconomics in general might count...)
Does this actually happen?
All right, before this is flagged or ignored into oblivion, I'll take this opportunity:

Q. What's worse, ignorance or indifference?

A. I neither know nor care.
What if I write my app in such a way that makes it critical to use google analytics cookie, otherwise it won't work?

What defines critical?
..and Python?
Great, yet more games that look exactly the same. That is not the answer.
Nope, you can only integrate it as XFBML and iFrame. Since most platforms like Twitter/Youtube don't allow this sort of injection, especially in Tweets/comments, you're just out of luck.

Facebook also could potentially ban your page/suspend your developer account for violation of the Brand Resource Policy (all Like buttons have to be just that—Facebook Like Buttons.)
Seriously, for being a fire-and-forget API to the lowest possible level of human tasks, it requires a heck of a lot of hands on management, including arguing with identifiable people over two cents. (YOU DIDN'T SAY TO TURN OFF CAPS. I wish I were exaggerating.)

I ended up writing off five hours to goodwill when I did a project with a $100 turking component for a client. To use a line favored by my old Indian colleagues: if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Lesson learned.

Next time I will just find a freelancer with a high tolerance for repetition.
They are not suing Google. They are suing website owners using Google Analytics without consent from the users. They tried to reach an agreement with Google first.
I would be surprised if the next Xbox didn't represent a big leap in rendering performance. Microsoft has a tendency to throw its near-infinite resources to brute-force problems.

I, however, am not sure whether Sony will do the same or learn from the lesson Nintendo taught: that gameplay is more important then rendering performance. The fact Cell is more or less a dead end doesn't help it much. The chip was too expensive to develop, is too expensive to use and devilishly hard to program effectively.

Higher rendering performance is inevitable - just like almost every netbook on the market is a multi-threaded 64-bit beast. I question whether every console maker will emphasize it by the same measure.
You have to pay to sign up (right now it's $9.25 but it increases steadily), so it's not too surprising that they got a relatively modest registration bounce. The money adds up quickly though.
EU "Cookies" Directive - What It Means For You.
Don't see the relevance why it only accounts for startups. It's for everyone using a computer and doesn't want to lose data.

From individuals to corporations.
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XFS gets higher performance in certain uses cases because it makes assumptions. One of the assumptions is that the power won't go down.

ext4: what errors are you getting? I've not seen any so far.
> providers of mturk-like services could disallow such work items

Except for the one shady site that doesn't, and ends up raking in profits.
Who earns more might be good fanboy fodder, but surely the interesting question is when the extra revenue from the second platform outweighs the costs of cross-platform dev.

At that point you're just turning down free money if you stick to one platform and whether (as in this case) 55-60% of your income comes from one or the other isn't particularly interesting. Before you get to that point the dominant platform has a self-reinforcing lock-in effect where the users go where the games are and the games go where the users are.

I'd imagine this point gets reached sooner for corporate game developers who might be porting existing content from the Playstation anyway, and if they aren't are probably still using 3rd-party, cross-platform toolkits like Unreal engine and writing to OpenGL standards.
Yer, Just a few:
http://www.gocompare.com/insurance-companies/

Their may have the same under-writers who set the same rates for every broker. Its the brokers were the competition is.
> At least using cookies you CAN opt out (via browsing settings and plugins). All that will happen is that the tracking networks will switch to browser fingerprinting making tracking harder to control and more opaque.

It's been a little while since I talked to a specialized lawyer about this, but if I remember correctly, the same regulations would apply to this tracking strategy.
They will use a combination of user-agent, IP address and other browser profile information. This is surprising good at uniquely identifying most computers.

But useless for the case he mentions where he cleared the cookies, but it doesn't matter...
An integrated environment for developing Python in VS2010
Did i still work? A bug isn't a fundamental kind of loop operation.
Rethinking Sitting
A good effort but all the sign flipping gets confusing
When to change your game: The fab.com story & 10 tips for startup
In fact, in SICP, they build their object system in this way, if my memory serves me correctly.
QIOS DevSuite 4.0 UI (Free) Library for .Net released
This could be a good complementary way to tell the i.e. content provider you don't want to be tracked so it'd be no need to issue warnings.

Otherwise this measure is bland as it'd totally rely on the way the legislation is implemented or in the trackers' good faith.

Liability should be owned by the one providing the service you're consuming. The same way as they'd if I were paying them with my credit card in their commerce, I'm giving them my personal information as a retribution but instead of my credit card number.
Thanks. Was just curious.
http://goo.gl/d2HgN

clickable
While we can complain and fuss about incidents like this one, I doubt there's much to gain. I don't expect there'll be a significant change in public opinion till there is a sufficient number of positive stories to counterbalance the negativity.

Less than a decade ago, when most people thought about "China", the first thought that popped into their heads was probably "cheap counterfeit goods". It's clear that things have changed since then.

Until we have a balance of positive stories, I fear we're stuck with this. Time to get moving and add to the positive stories about Nigerians.
Stack Overflow on their namesake:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214741/what-is-a-stack-ov...
Thanks.
I am tied to Java, I have to go with app engine and do not know Python, so java is the only alternative.
Since I will be coding some of the projects myself and maintaining all of it I cannot be language agnostic.
I won't be asking that until places like London get rid of all the police cams. Although, apparently they are highly effective:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8219022.stm

While I applaud the EU's efforts on this, it seems a bit of stepping over dollars to pick up pennies. The bigger battles for privacy still need to be fought.
"I'm a presenter. During high school and college I've done several presentations on different topics, all of which received good grades."

I've done the same, but I'm not sure if I'd consider myself a good presenter.

If you've studied the issue extensively and spent time collecting the best information and putting it together I understand. I'm willing to pay for your work, you don't have to explain that you told stories in high school.

I'm interested.
Remember, valuations come in unicorn dollars.
I also didn't learn Python from a book, but figuring that my ad-hoc learning style might have left gaps in my knowledge (and being a fan of Zed Shaw's work) I ran through the "Python the Hard Way" book and found it to be a VERY solid way to go about things.

Turned out there weren't any language basics in there that I didn't already know, but I heartily recommend the book to anybody looking for a quick start into programming.
These guys constantly prove they know how to manage the kinds of problems Turk and other sources bring to the table.
As far as I can see it's around $30m.

http://vcr.vcexperts.com/vce/news/buzz/archive_view.asp?id=1...

Next to Facebook at $50bn that seems almost reasonable...

Joking aside it does seem on the high side but in it's favour it is a top 100 site by traffic, it has something resembling a basic revenue model in place, they have a plan for growth which they seem to be executing on reasonably and they are in a space which is under going growth and which clearly has some potential.

Yes right now Stack Overflow eclipses the other sites but having one massively successful site to fall back on and that they've learned things from is actually a pretty major asset.
What was your original idea/goal? Why did you pivot? Pure curiosity.
I agree with Bonch here: Oblivion is one of the worst examples of this very trend: it was stunningly beautiful (especially if you had a monster machine), but for that it traded animation (crappy, especially the faces), scenario, originality, gameplay (though I'm sure the consoles objectives helped there), …

Apart from the graphics, the shipped game was lifeless and uninteresting, Morrowind was orders of magnitude more original, more interesting and (even though it was on a half-dead continent) more full of life than Oblivion.
"Tricky to automate" what? Are you not literally in the middle of using a tool that helps you automate QA for huge sets of tasks?

It should be trivial to create a task, create a task for evaluating that task, and yet another task for evaluating that task. Run all three long enough and you will in fact get good results.

Obviously if you're going to use an unreliable protocol there have to be management protocols in effect to correct errors, or you will end up with errors. This is not a revelation.
Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget
Fallen Earth MMO is based on real topographic maps of the Grand Canyon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Earth
if you have to have a big warning sign just for a cookie that will remember you for purely convenience so that it keeps you logged in. The user wont read that detail – they will just think your a privacy nightmare and wont sign up

The only times lay surfers have heard about cookies is in the news when severe privacy invasions have occurred. To those that have never heard of it, it is new, so they are cautious. Some parts of the industry have misused that technology and now the whole industry is called to gain back the users trust.

The EU law's intention is to shift the responsibility from the companies to the user, i.e. they will be the ones to decide weather they want to use cookies or not. To make that decision they need to be informed about it's positive and negative sides.

Regarding opt-out models, how many people will know about that? So if I'm not aware of opting-out, is it my fault if some company goes berserk with my privacy rights?
This is a weird post. You are kinda posting too early IMO. You don't even have what would amount to a full blog post - just a few bullet points - and yet you are announcing that you are going to develop this full blown course and you will charge for it? It is quite difficult for me to make the jump from "bullet points in a Google document" to "course for $49".

And if you are a presenter, prove it with video rather than with text. Again - I find it difficult to make the jump from "I got good grades in high school" to "I can teach professionals".
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I'm almost the same way. I don't however used 79, it's normally like 75.
We can find numerous examples where there are things (like the cameras you mention) that contradict the privacy regulations. But I hope that we don't get into a "well, it's all hopeless" mode. Thanks for the good pointer.
A recent study actually found that while younger parents were less happy than the childless, older parents were happier than older childless people:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307065539.ht...
It's been a long time, but I'd forgotten how easy Gentoo was to install!
Then ask for some salt.
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Thank you cletus; I needed a link to match this one. http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=2724411#xx2724411...

The burn rate is very low.

The valuation is private.
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Get a friend or handyman to come and secure it to the wall for less than $50.
Software for managing IP allows licensing of apps so can be sold more flexibly
I like stack, too, but there's already an awesome company using stack.com. You probably don't know stack magazine because you're not a high school jock, but it's the #1 high-school-jock magazine in America
It'll be interesting to see what happens to the Chrome logo... http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chromium-gets-a-new-s...
Movidius: Making The Chips That Power 3D Image Processing
How to become an amazing contributor (to an open source project)
A story of 3 contributors to various open-source projects and a laundry list of how to be a great contributor yourself.
Reminds me of http://www.resolversystems.com
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WebOS will be on 'every HP PC' shipping next year, says CEO
I've got accounts on a few of 'em that I use regularly,but here they are in order of preference:

- github

- mercurial

- bitbucket

- springloops
I think the idea is good, I don't doubt that the content and research may be good, but I do have an issue with someone whose credentials are "During high school and college I've done several presentations".
I consider myself comfortable and relatively good at presenting and I've presented in front of a few thousand professional peers before but I wouldn't for a moment conclude that I am qualified to run an online course on presenting. If you don't have experience trying the tips and techniques you recommend or a wealth of knowledge from observing others use them I'm going to have my doubts.

Please don't get me wrong, I think its a worthy cause and something you can make money off of but to my fellow HN reader, I'd recommend a site like http://www.presentationzen.com/ for advice on presenting. On a side note, one of my favorite presentation guidelines is the TED commandments for anyone who's interested.
It is the same person.
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For folks in SF, noisebridge has a similar "space program" (high altitude photographs via a balloon). They are very friendly people ... I wish I still lived in the Bay area and could do outdoorsy stuff in the Winter.

link: http://laughingsquid.com/noisebridge-has-a-space-program/
That is a misunderstanding. All reasonably performing filesystems lose data if you pull the plug. The difference with XFS is that it buffers writes more aggressively than e.g. ext3, so the amount of lost data may be greater. Properly written apps fsync() any precious data anyway, so this is not an issue.

The notion that XFS is unreliable probably stems from the way such lost buffered data has historically been handled. Because XFS allocates the space ahead of actually writing the data, files with unwritten data at a reset could have visible zero-filled blocks after recovery whereas ext3 would simply truncate them. In both cases the data was lost.

Since a while back, unwritten extents like these are detected and trimmed back, so now XFS behaves more like most other filesystems. There are still more buffered writes floating about, of course, so the same precautions are still required.