skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gripe about 95%+ of the articles that mention Apple, Android and rim: They all talk about winning, like if apple/android/rim don't do x, apple/android/rim will "win". This article makes the case that Android has already won.

When I play a game, and someone wins, everyone stops playing. There is a winner. No point in playing. That is not what is happening here. Apple, Android, and even Rim all have profits that are growing. No one has lost.

Rim might be in trouble, in that their growth looks like it isn't sustainable, and their product appears to be falling behind. But even if rim is eventually going to "lose", it is a long way off. To talk about android or apple "winning" at this point is absurd. Both sides are making far too much money to even begin considering giving up.
I've been alpha-testing newspaper23.com -- more information, less noise.
Psychological Manipulation In Ecommerce Design
People spend money in different ways when you're looking at a once-every-few-years purchase as opposed to an everyday purchase. Someone's perception of whether they can afford an application vs a phone is not evaluated solely on price.

This isn't about morals, it's about economics. I'm not saying you should pirate things you can't afford, I'm saying that buying an iPhone is not a guarantee of being well-off, even absent the 'gift' factor.
And engagement? All I know is in early days of fb I remember vast majority of people in large lecture halls being glued to fb.

I don't see remotely that type o of engagement with g+.
your content is in html, how is it not easy to export?
Stop sharing pictures.Start battling.
welcome to Photogaming.
Police: Internet providers must keep user logs
Groove: The new app is a breath of fresh air for customer support
Not sure why you're downvoted, I think it's quite a nifty idea.
How to plan your first advertising campaign
Hopefully I will upset a lot more recruiters along the way.
Isn't most of the noise in a datacenter the compressors in the aircon units?
I haven't done anything with Erlang in a while but perhaps these will help:

ErlyWeb, a web server/framework: http://code.google.com/p/erlyweb/

ejabberd, a chat server: http://www.ejabberd.im/

MochiWeb, a library for building lightweight HTTP servers: https://github.com/mochi/mochiweb

CouchDB, a document oriented database: http://couchdb.apache.org/

RabbitMQ, messaging middleware: http://www.rabbitmq.com/
Oh, I completely agree, nothing is ever a panacea. But there is a difference between a security incident and a fundamentally broken system. And I believe that the current password systems are fundamentally broken in at least 2 ways:

(1) The permanent nature of the password, as opposed to one-time use (a three-month limit changes little).

(2) The current system relies on assumption of certain user behavior - picking true high entropy passwords - which is just.not.going.to.happen. The lectures we give users on how they are living in sin are about as likely to change anything as the programs to educate "the new Socialist man".
Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics
From the article:

"Conrad credits his 'incredible engineering team' for pulling off this transition from Flash dependance to HTML5. And while it’s clear that the Flash addiction has been kicked, Conrad notes that they continue to have fall-back Flash elements for browsers not fully HTML5-compliant."

Honestly, even if they still used Flash to play music and did the rest in HTML it would still be a huge improvement.
Facebook was most peoples' introduction to social sites, that accounted for a lot of the simultaneous fascination. I don't see it as a strike against Google+ that it won't achieve the same encounter with novelty.
Some years ago, I went through a tedious process of moving all the data I had on my mid-80s Compaq Deskpro Portable to a slightly-less-antique IBM AT, using 5.25 inch floppies. Then I migrated the data from my AT to a still-newer PC using 3.5 inch floppies. From there it was a simple matter of burning the data onto a CD to migrate to my then-current PC - which, in turn, I backed up and copied over to my now-current PC when I replaced it.

The upshot is that I still have all the files I created a quarter of a century ago.
I don't know Clickbank, but in general it seems very difficult to make money with affiliate sales - unless you earn a lot with every sale.

That is just my impression. On the other hand, AdWords just keep chugging away, getting better and better. Especially for this beauty/health related site there could be expensive keywords. There will probably be ads for silly fat burner things, cosmetic surgery, and so on. I suppose the more scammy the ad, the more expensive.
Ask HN: My iOS app got pirated, what to do now? Raging? Nothing? Partying?
Hi today I've discovered that my iPad app watchlater (checkout the website here: http://watchlaterapp.com/ - basically it's InstaPaper for Video) got pirated: http://goo.gl/xM05Q

What to do now? Raging? Nothing? Partying? Is it an accolade? Would you contact the filehoster to take it down? Can I technically detect within the app that I'm running on a jailbroken device?
The point of the post wasn't to talk about the general aspects of media, but to specifically and directly make a call to action for a subset of all media that I and a team of volunteers can rescue data from.
You're an edge case, so I don't think your situation is particularly instructive when considering the industry as a whole.

But in case you didn't already know, you can obtain subtitles separately, from sites like Open Subtitles and Subscene, then sync them to your video. I use Subtitle Editor[0]. Although it's Linux only, I'm sure there's similar software for other OS's as well.

0: http://home.gna.org/subtitleeditor/
Foursquare to enter daily deals market
As opposed to? It's very rare to ever see a completely unique idea. I guarantee that just about every product you use on a day to day basis is a derivative of a derivative of a derivative of the original concept.

Taking a core product and improving it is one of the main pieces of advice in this community. I don't see why there should be any negative connotation for a larger business doing it as well. And for the record, I don't see a single product on the left-hand side of that list that wasn't "in response", "playing catch-up", or a derivative idea from someone else's hard work.
Wi-Fi is the new 4G
An interesting presentation. Take a look at it
I believe they are still using Flash for older browsers that don't support HTML5 audio.
When complaining customers hit Twitter and Facebook, Assistly is there
Document Outlines in HTML5
I'm interested in this as well. I'd love some technical details about how they're going to do the DRM stuff with just HTML5 audio. Does anyone have ideas?
Get them on a Jaz cartridge. Quickly.
I've already noticed that my Google+ feed is becoming dominated by posts along the lines of "Why am I still using this? FB is the same and all of my friends are there"

I expect them to have a fair bit of churn once the novelty wears off and all the invites stop hitting people's inbox

edit: I have a lot of non-techie friends not in the early-adopter crowd (who I invited) so I expect, for them, it feels pretty empty. For people who read HN, it's likely much more vibrant. Ultimately, it's the mainstream that matters and, until it hits critical mass, I believe the people we pull in from the mainstream won't see the point and will go back to FB where their news feed is always full.
Show HN: Exercises you can do at work, emailed Mon-Fri
http://www.exercisesatwork.com/

I evolved this service over several months and since June it's in a state where I can show it to the public.

The service is built on Google App Engine - an interesting experience on how the restrictions of the platform make you focus on the scalability of your app.

Edit: wanted to add details as this might be interesting to HN.

The challenge was to be able to get the emails and the associated timezones AND know what the time it is right now in that particular time zone. Then, I would have to email those records that would match the time, all this in 30 seconds.

I ended up using MapReduce for this. Still have a haunting feeling there's an easier way for it...

So every hour I create a task that runs MapReduce that then cycles through the emails and checks the timezones and times in them.

My understanding is that Mapreduce creates sub tasks that basically make it possible to run all emails in 30 second chunks. We will see how this works as the number of emails grows.

I've noticed that occasionally all of my Task API is consumed by the Mapreduce library trying to start tasks.

The daily exercise is set by another task, once a day, and is then passed along into MapReduce.

Feedback welcome.

Edit 2: removed the <a> around the link.
If you had a Commodore Amiga I'd recommend you have a look at the following list of Amiga games incase you have one that hasn't yet been saved for history:

http://www.softpres.org/wanted
I have a Herman Miller Aeron with PostureFit. I used to sit on one of my wooden kitchen table chairs all the time and always had lower back pain. A good chair is expensive but well worth the cost.
Short answer: Contribute to open-source.
I hate to say it, but I found some OCD-inspired complete torrents of C64 stuff, had a good portion of the various pirate groups releases of each thing, including their awesome intro demo graphics.
It is almost certainly flash. They would be creating an unsolvable security problem if they used the audio tag unfortunately.
I am not trying to find a business environment that's better in some generic sense. I'm trying to find one where I can do this startup in particular and not get Netscaped.
""The limited data retention time and lack of uniformity among retention from company to company significantly hinders law enforcement's ability to identify predators when they come across child pornography," according to a copy of Brown's remarks. Any stored logs could, however, be used to prosecute any type of crime."

I would laugh, if it wasn't so sad. It really does seem that they were right in the Torrentfreak article the other day, and now they are all using the "child pornography" excuse to introduce any type of law like this.

That excuse is starting to become really insulting, because they're assuming we're all too dumb to recognize they have a different agenda behind this.
1) Open source

2) Got Money?

3) Got passion to work for next to nothing on something that will probably fail?

4) You don't even need someone "better" than you to learn, just be deliberate about learning what you can from your peers. If you get stuck, find a new gig.

I struggled with the same thing in the past, and thinking I couldn't learn from people just because I thought I was smarter than them really held me back (Also working on municipal tax collection software as a city employee, but I'm pretty sure being less of a cocky prick would have helped)
I can guess they'd so something like a unique URL that expires quickly and checks the user agent/headers/other stuff. Like all of this kind of stuff, it won't be bulletproof, but it'll be good enough. I'm sure I'm missing some other option that's better, though.
Thanks, it really seems to be beautiful so far, I was expecting a not so beautiful and much more clumsy language. Don't know, how I ended up with this opinion. The erlang shell is very nice as well (but I know the concept from Lisp/clojure already)
Android users: Don't fret over Google's fee battles
I'm continusly impressed by the progress of Javascript recently and WebAppBuilder does look like it took a lot of hard work. BUT... quality cross-platform-automated-build-100-appstores-deployable unicorns are still fantasy. It might work for simple games, like the one in your example, but add a serious physics engine and sprites in there and too much creativity and such frameworks become more pain than help. Web is still high-level and hard to compete with platform specific optimizations and low-level APIs. Especially in a creative world like game development.

I have heard so many times friends/colleagues dreaming of apps which you write once and deploy it on everything. Can we please put a stop to these stories and take the time to build quality games, rather that get rich quick fart apps?
Luckily if you pay via credit card then you are always protected, if you file a credit card chargeback.
You can't stop pirates and converting users of the piratery is not worth the effort. I hope this doesn't drain your revenue, but if you can just push forward and make paying customers happy and find new ones, that's where I'd spend my time.
Coke and Pepsi are competitors, but they're quietly pleased with their duopoly. Apple and Android should just squash the other guys and then worry about fighting over their 50/50 market share later.
Baked clay tablets, like stone inscriptions, are exceptional. The records of the past are largely gone.

Unbaked clay tablets tend to simply disintegrate. Those at Knossos and Ninevah were baked by fires that destroyed the buildings in which they were housed. Mycenean tablets appear to have been reused each year, so the 'expiration date' in that case was man-made rather than imposed by the material.

Papyri have also survived more by good fortune than by design, being preserved in tombs and rubbish heaps. They lay undisturbed in an environment where the temperature and moisture content of the air remained stable over time, in a range conducive to the survival of the material.
Note to Rdio & Grooveshark: this would be enough of a reason for me to jump ship to Pandora, if Pandora was available in Canada.
Grooveshark is nice, but it's recommendation system is nowhere as good as Pandora's.
Finding and Keeping a Mentor
Size matters.

I think as similar as these two industries are, the big deciding factor in this particular war is the size of files being downloaded. Video files are mammoth in comparison to music files and the Cable and Internet companies know this--there are obvious infrastructural problems in play, but the recent move by a number of ISP's to cap the data transfer capacity of its clients is a huge factor in this war on pirating--I mean where I live in Canada 1/2 of the major players have adopted this, with the 2nd committed to it but unsure of when it will be fully in place--so when that does happen I'll be forced into a cap of 100gb a month for the price I previously afforded with stiff penalties for going over--in this day and age 100gb, especially in terms of TV and movies is hardly anything. Couple that with my desire to play online games, surf the internet, stream on youtube etc and my fun time options are severely limited. If anything I think Hollywood lucked out on the fact that ISP's have hit a roadblock in terms of bandwidth and what they can afford to provide.
I don't even think the author should be using monads for expressions how he was doing in Haskell, which arguably does have suitable tools for using monads in this way. Doing it in C++ is ridiculous. One can have expressions like that in C++ using C++'s many other abstractions, such as classes and inheritance. This will result in code much shorter, cleaner, more general, more useful, and more readable code than what is found in this blog post.

The author hasn't achieved the abstraction of a monad in C++ anyway; there's no way to write code that works on both this monad and others, which effectively makes modeling something as a monad as he has done completely without benefit. This would be quite accurately referred to as cargo cult programming.

A monad explanation that is not cargo cult mathematics would be one that explains what a monad is in category theory (a functor with two associated natural transformations), explains it as one of many other patterns, and explains why simply including monads and these other patterns in your code does not automatically give them the Mathematical Seal of Approval™, especially when using a language with no support for abstracting over them.
I believe you base your estimation on the kind of people you typically frequent; they are representative of neither the average population, nor the population targeted by social network sites, nor the kind of people advertisers (those putting money in all this, a.k.a "the Customers") value most.

That's fine: my friends aren't representative of anything relevant here, nor are most of HN people's, nor are Googlers'; but I don't think G+ could be considered successful if it ends up catering mostly to overeducated uber-geeks. I think there's still a risk that Google will be known to have created Orkut for Brazilians, and G+ for nerds.

I partially agree with you, though: the feature offered by circle is very useful, very well executed, and very accessible; not having it in FB greatly limits what I post on it, and plenty of people can end up loving it, if it's introduced to them properly (not only geeks). Still, it ought to be easier to start using G+ the way one used FB, and introduce circle control more progressively, as people become conscious of the need. Not for me: for the couple of non-geeks I occasionally socialize with, and whom I want to have in my social network.
I was just wondering because it looks quite OK, but I saw some small graphical quirks that made me think 'professional design with modifications by a programmer' (no offense, I have the worst taste and no skills in design myself, but I've been studying design basics lately and I'm starting to notice things like the wrong color green box on the right on the 'IMC Femme' page which sticks out like a sore thumb).

Also the 'main' box where you enter height and weight can I think be made much nicer looking with a few small modifications, I think it's important for you if you want others to put your widget on their site. The numbers in the stars are too big and not properly centered, the stars themselves are too big, the alignment of all elements is off (text not centered, button not aligned to other elements, no padding in the box title, bottom padding too big or not in balance with other padding).

All of this from somebody who doesn't know anything about design so I may just be talking out of my ass here.

I have mixed experiences with getting design off odesk/elance-like sites, and I'm a cheapskate and afraid to spend money on my own products without being sure that it will pay itself back. Which is a self-fulfilling prophecy because crappy looking things will sell badly, too.

Anyway I'm quite impressed how you're coming up with multiple ways to spin such a basic thing like a BMI calculator. I hope you will find ways to make this work and make money for you.
That's how the 'following' circle works. Notch makes a 'public' post, and everyone who has him in their following circle will receive the update.
Right now everyone is signing up just to check it out. Let's wait and see what the active user count is in a couple months.
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Realistically would any programmer want a novice to contribute other than documentation? Edit: I have already been doing the things you are saying (learning from everyone) but I feel I am not progressing fast enough.
There are two separate costs: one is the domain registration and the other one is the hosted DNS solution.

With the hosted DNS solution you get access to stuff like the one click setups I mentioned earlier, API access, domain forwarding, vanity name servers and who knows what else. Keep in mind you can use their DNS service even if you don't register your domains with them.
Yes, and I've got many of those, but they are, by their nature, the commercial products, not the individual bufferings of user groups, BBSes that lasted a short time, and so on.
Lovefilm was acquired by Amazon - and its selection is very poor. I don't expect to find really obscure stuff there but it's extremely lacking when it comes to feature and independent films.
Company Trademarks Name of Town, Sues Firm for Selling Souvenirs
Productivity VS Creativity: The Big Challenge
Job Recovery by Sector (interactive)
I appreciate that I'm an edge case, but I'm not the only person who behaves this way.

As far as your other info, thanks for your help. I do, however, already know all this. Believe me.

Syncing to your video is a very hit and miss process. It's not a matter of just pointing the app at the two files and let it sort them out. What if the original version included more of the credits? It can be a huge pain. VLC makes it easier by letting me increase/decrease subtitle delay as it starts to drift out of sync.
A Dance With Dragons released
>If Hollywood wants to improve box office receipts, they could stop making so many sequels, movies from comic books, movies from TV shows, and 3D for the sake of 3D.

If they want to improve receipts, why should they stop making the movies that make the most money? You might not like sequels and comic books, but apparently most people do.

http://www.the-numbers.com/interactive/newsStory.php?newsID=...
Scientists Find Crowdsourced Funding for Experiments
Apart from having a landing page and trying to get it ranked for certain terms, I don't think you can validate an idea without being able to show/tell people what it will look like. The quality of the product will be judged upon what it looks like, if I made a 1995's style white page with just two form fields and a 'submit' button, that couldn't be used to validate the idea with.

In my mostly-unqualified-to-comment-opinion, that is.
Watch"transformers dark of the moon'online'free
watch"transformers dark of the moon'online'free
Concert flap Take I liked much better the details of the plot instead of space which everyone already knows the film Maybe the Decepticons plan to blow up the moon or finally notice the vodka in Russia to the moon My bet is Michael Bay to blow up the
No, we can't? or won't?
Google+ Scraper written in NodeJS/CoffeeScript
very true, but with the last.fm scrobbling its not to bad. I just go to last.fm and see what it recommends and then check it out on gs.
ditto or die.
We must have different social circles then. I've yet to see any messages along that line in my feed.
I thought the two examples that were actually created by Tufte were great, they made perfect sense and expressed the data well, while the other examples were kind of a mess. Partly this is because they weren't clear analogues to what Tufte made, trying to correlate two different pieces of data instead of showing how one piece of data changed over time.
Google Open Source Manager Says "Android Is The Linux Dream Come True"
A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures
Probably yes. I'm just curios. I've seen people probing for files outside the sandbox to detect if someone runs on a jailbroken device. Wonder if Apple would reject those because of "hacking".
There are a lot of "winner takes all" markets in IT. Ignoring that possibility is something you can't do as a big company.
http://jobs.usethesource.com/
Yeah, I've spent 80 hours solid hours on my little micro-web-business, and with ~1500 monthly visitors and 15 sales over three months, I've only made $206.
Why do you single out documentation?
Chinese Paladin 5 Review update July 12
What's the test account? Clicking on the button sends me to the login page.
If you want, you can try sending a DMCA notice to the file hosts to try and get the software taken down.

Here's the page for FileSonic: http://www.filesonic.com/report-abuse

Wupload: http://www.wupload.com/dmca

BitShare: http://www.bitshare.com/abuse.html

That won't stop the pirating, but it's something...
There is one more: http://www.marco.org/2011/03/24/ios-device-and-os-version-st...
No Stinking Mutants
read headlines like "Citrix buying Cloud.com for 200 million" - thought some crazy domain seller had struck paydirt. But it's a whole company..ahhh
LG DX2000 Glasses-free 3D Monitor with Eye Tracking unveiled
But an app isn't an everyday purchase either. An iPhone, with the required data plan, is an everyday purchase. The hardware is more expensive once, and the plan is more expensive every month. Apps are purchased once.
What about submerging it in mineral oil?