skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That has built up only by randomly merging branches, occasionally interpreting /dev/urandom/ as a patch, and keeping the branches that pass the most tests, oh, and the test suite also occasionally interprets /dev/urandom/ as a patch.
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HN should do a HTTP HEAD on submitted URLs and change them according to redirects.

Edit: Doing an HTTP HEAD on the submitted URL—37signals.com/founderstories/—gave me an HTTP 302 "Found" (with Location 37signals.com/founderstories/slicehost). According to the HTTP spec, with an HTTP 302 you're indicating that "the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests"—strictly, shouldn't this be an HTTP 303 "See Other"—"the new URI is not a substitute reference for the originally requested resource"[1]?

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.3.4
Apple Released iOS 4.3.4 Software Update
"How is the support? Do developers even care? Are they serious at issues handling? Etc."

This can't be stressed enough. A prospective user first-and-foremost wants to have an answer to the question "Is this piece of software worthy of my time?". If it fails to answer this question quickly, it will lose the user.

We are used to seeing this kind of ignorance from corporations: "Let's dump this piece of code online. A community will form and users will come by the millions." How many times has this worked?

Right now there are loads of interesting projects on github. Projects that will never be sucessful because they failed to do the extra effort required to "market" them.
A simple shim wouldn't be too difficult as the mysqli extension is very similar to the mysql one. Off the top of my head, you could try something like this for a quick & dirty way:

$f = array_filter(get_defined_functions()['internal'], create_function('$i', 'return substr(0, 6, $i) === "mysqli_"'));
foreach ($f as $func) {
eval ('
function ' . str_replace("mysqli", "mysql") . ' {
return call_user_func(' . $func . ', function_get_args());
}
');
}
The first two words of the title make the warnings hilarious. "Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery"

The warning may be for what they support. Safari worked fine (although I don't have a person to lookup, I used their sample data).
You did not read what I wrote, did you.

I never once asserted that the man, Genghis Khan, benefited in any way whatsoever from having such a large progeny.
In Github's case, most of the projects there are libraries and the users are developers. The people who like Github probably expect the first thing they see when they show up to a project to be the code. And I'd wager that for many developers, checking out the repo is quicker and more convenient than downloading a tarball.

Github's UI admittedly doesn't make for a great experience for someone browsing around looking for software to download. A project that is trying to appeal to regular users should set up a wiki page, or even better, use Github Pages to build a site.

Though, I really hate it when I follow a link to a Rails app on Github that left the default "Welcome to Rails" readme.
You say that #2 is the big killer for you. This also significantly hurts Google, so presumably it will be fixed. Of course, it's a higher priority for you than it is for them.

But #4 is baked into the Google culture and is very unlikely to change.
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Lawmakers Push for Children’s Online Privacy Law
Google is already trying to increase the share of paid apps in Android market place as it still does not come close to Apple's app store. If they don't concentrate on quality developers, they will find it even more difficult to do so.
Privacy is something we thought long and hard about; we go to great lengths to ensure we're doing the right thing.

Please do checkout http://rapportive.com/privacy

Does that help address what was scaring you?
Anyone got good links?

There is a collection of book citations (rather than links, mostly, so far) in Wikipedia userspace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropol...

I'm amazed how neglected most of the best scholarly sources are in online discussions of these issues. The linked Wikipedia user subpage has a suggestions page (its "talk" page) for suggesting further resources, which would be helpful to participants here on HN.
GitHub and Bitbucket is for code, and for people to interact with other coders.

You really don't go to GitHub and Bitbucket to download your favorite binary. That is what sourceforge, Top100 xyz, and Cnet is for.

The projects that are popular have people willing to help (read: contribute) to the project in classic open source engagement.

On top of that, GitHub & BitBucket enable the single/small group maintainer to write a readme that gets displayed.

I use both.

If your fav project doesn't have Mom+Pop friendly page with <download here> by all means please fork + contribute.

See:

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

http://github.com/jquery/jquery
https://market.android.com/search?q=shopping+list&c=apps...

(That is a link to the 12th page of results)

Look at the applications that are ranking in front of us. As for how we show up in the category view, it bounces around - alot.
Do you mean an UI level integration, or actually putting the data in contacts?
Can you please elaborate? Does the client financially benefit from additional deployments?
Animals cooperate at times, as in herds, troups and packs. One can see our instincts as our "animal" aspects, and that we also have an instinct for cooperation. An example is language, which being learnt unconsciously by children is arguably an instinct. Language is primarily used for cooperation. One can further see our emotions as being based on instincts, and clearly we have cooperative emotions and destructive emotions. Though sometimes labeled as "higher" or "lower" emotions, both are emotions.

Secondly, our instincts do delegate perceptual control to our intellectual selves: e.g. if we can work out who the bad guy is, our anger is directed at that person. We can even talk ourselves into all sorts of things! Though we have no choice in having instincts, we have great influence in applying them.
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I'm sorry but you have this backward.

We already ARE barbarians. Figuring out the cause does not suddenly make us so.

Plenty of people believe in equality but have trouble following through. Figuring out our impulses will only help us understand and control them better. (e.g. genetically-caused discrimination has been countered in many parts of the world by the brainwashing of "equality" memes)
What did you expect from Microsoft?
Whenever I go to download an open source project, I end up on a web site built for it which has exactly what you mention. GitHub doesn't have those, but GitHub isn't intended to be the first page the end user finds either. GitHub is for developers, and any project that wants to be accessible to non-developers should set up a separate page as well. Nothing wrong with that from what I can see.
Pentagon Wants to Attack Hackers (Article)
Why would someone go to GitHub if they don't want to download source code?

Please, an example.
It's only "one language" because the Rails framework is hiding the SQL away from you. You can bolt a framework on top of PHP too.
You wrote: "But folks like Greenwald need a nemesis, so any point to beat on Wired.com for reporting the story will work."

Greenwald doesn't need to go far to find a "nemesis" in this case. And he is not "beating" on Wired for reporting the story, but for reporting only those portions that it deemed relevant. The fact is Poulsen, for whatever reason, was not truthful in his claim that the unreleased chat logs were only Manning's personal meanderings or that they would reveal national security secrets. Whether someone at the DOJ put pressure on Wired not to release the full chat logs, we will never know. But to say that the full logs are not relevant to Manning's defense or Assange's role in all of this, is absurd.
You can change who Rapportive shows by typing email addresses in the To: field and cousins, and by hovering over email addresses or names in subject lines.

Maybe we should tune things so we show your own profile less.

Monetisation will be done by freemium features, and will happen soon (those features are entering ß now). What you currently use will remain free :)

Edit: I just reread your comment and realised I misunderstood. To stop your own emails showing up when you reply, please claim your email addresses: http://blog.rapportive.com/claim-your-email-addresses — does that help?
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Microsoft rolls out 'Daytona' MapReduce runtime for Windows Azure
True but practically I don't really care if I watch a YouTube vid on YouTube or embedded somwhere.
Read "only supports" as "has only been tested with". I'm involved in an enterprise site that has the notice "has only been tested with IE8 and Firefox3.5", and I'm not going to apologize for that. Pretty much every other browser except for IE6 work fine, but unless it's been tested, it's broken.
Clause in the contract, but remember it cuts both ways.

I was recently creative director of a small software company that let their design team go. When I started the owner changed my employee contract from 14 to 28 days with the assumption that since I was in a management position with 5 reports, were I to leave the transition would have been hard to squeeze in to the standard 2 week period.

When he announced he was letting everyone go with 2 weeks severance, he was not too happy when I reminded him my contracted stipulated 28 days (he did honor it though).
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3.2 for old projects. 4 for new projects.
RIFLE - Convert your Audio/Video Files in GNU/Linux
RIFLE is a frontend for the ever famous FFmpeg. RIFLE features a simple interface with a fully functional progressbar which has been lacking in FFmpeg frontends.
Great news!!! You're on page 11 now: https://market.android.com/search?q=shopping+list&c=apps...
"- I regularly brainstorm with others in the SoFL entrepreneurial and tech circles as we look for ways to grow our community and attract talent to our market."

Tell us more...

Thanks
Tim - an entrepreneur/small biz owner who spend half his time in SoFL
I think it's true that there is a huge opportunity for someone like Amazon here.

However, I rather disagree that Amazon will ever provide a panacea. The Amazon market currently poses its own problems to app sellers. Once your app is on their market, you do not control it.
Amazon sets the price, Amazon sets the description and classification. If Amazon hires some marketing copy-writer to write your app's description and that person doesn't know anything about your app, guess who gets to deal with angry customers who didn't get what they were expecting? It won't be Amazon.

Amazon has had some technical hangups that be explained by 'early product bugs'. While I expect such problems to be eventually ironed out by better QA and development processes, my understanding is that they have not yet been ironed out.

Finally, the Amazon market is tiny compared to Google's. If I told you that putting your software on Amazon's market would net you 5% of the sales you get on Google's, but you'd spend just as much time fighting through problems in the market itself, would you jump on that opportunity? I probably would not.
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. I was going to hire a designer to make a simple splash page like this for my app but it probably would have costs a lot more than "free" just to get that done including the hosting.

Thanks!
Just to note that installing any Chrome extension will give you a similar warning. In fact most of them say "It can access: Your data on all websites." (In Firefox you don't get a scary warning, but it's still true!)

When you install a browser extension you need to trust the extension authors. In this case, rahulvohra's link below may help you decide :)
Why Didn't Zynga's Billion-Dollar Offer for PopCap Win?
Amusing Job Posting: $11k in cash, wrapped in Bacon
Color is an app founded by three ex-tech-giant guys.

:)
Well, I'm going to say that you already have a gist of what the project is about otherwise why would you be on that repo Unless you were literally randomly clicking.

GitHub allows messaging, why not ping the author? Or create an issue "Needs Documentation? Or even contributing to docs?
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I don't see it on page 11... that just makes it even worse if people are seeing different search results!
Alpha is... about carefully defining your terms in advance, then using them. There are a number of relevant senses. Both of the examples you gave are relevant, as are discussions about how alphas behave and psychologically dominate others, and humans have interesting quirks not found in the animal world since we have such rich social lives, like being behaviorally "alpha" with one group of people, but not other groups.
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It's amusing to live in a world where instinct in animals is readily accepted as heritable, and yet whether or not humans can inherit behaviors is hotly contested.

Almost seems like another round of people looking to maintain the illusion that humans are separate from animals. What was the last one we had, tool use?
You plagiarized my post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685010
Hmm, well I didn't think this needed clarifying but the internet is notoriously bad at transmitting humor (or maybe I am). But I was being facetious with respect to the examples I gave.

By capturing private wealth, what will most likely happen are taxes on existing wealth (national property taxes, increases in the estate tax, etc.). National debt is uncollateralized and will always be this way, so sovereign debt holders will never have claim to the physical assets of a nation. It is country themselves that can change laws to appropriate private wealth. Constitutions and laws vary in the extent to which this is allowed. There is the notion of an unconstitutional level of taxation in the US.

As for the rest of your ideological rant.

Anyway.
From the abstract:
"We show that unless P=NP, there exists no polynomial time (or even pseudo-polynomial time) algorithm that can decide whether a multivariate polynomial of degree four (or higher even degree) is globally convex."

Can someone help me understand this? Isn't stating that there exists no polynomial time algorithm asserting that P!=NP?
When looking out for libraries I need to have answers to the following questions:

1. Is the library stable/complete?
2. Is the API stable?
3. If not, how frequently/how much does it change?

With a decent project page, I can have these questions answered either directly or by looking at the available downloads history (even if they are source-only downloads) and version numbers. With github projects I frequently can't answer any of those questions.

Libraries are products, just like any other piece of software.

I'm not saying that github isn't good for developer collaboration. I'm saying it's no good for developer-user relations. It has the necessary features, but it doesn't encourage its use by the very nature of its interface.
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pFormat is a lightweight (at just 45 KB) tool to format your disk drives in GNU/Linux
Well lets see, I have high hopes for brute force computation approaches to scientific research. More IBM Watson-like systems, which teach themselves, and more full automation of complex scientific experiments. Industrialize, automate and computerize science, in other words.

If we do that, we have a chance of increasing the rate of scientific discovery. And it does not require true God like AI, just a bunch of really clever and domain specific Watsons.

Alternatively, the future looks much like today, except with a lot more and better gadgets, but people still grow old and die.

Also we've either started massive C02 sequestering actions, like fertilizing the oceans with iron, and using tons of charcoal in our farms, or nuclear power provides a much larger % of global power, or Siberia is balmy.

And lastly the US and several other industrialized nations have gone through a terrible economic/financial crisis and reform like the UK did in the 1970s and Sweden at the begging of the 19th century.

And China is the world's super power, with India close behind, and no one cares much about the EU (or what's left of it) and the US.

Tuna is extinct in the wild.
How about linking Google code to Google+. Where projects have their own 'Project+' personality and what not. You could even have a 'downloads' like 'Photos' for all the people who don't seem to like GitHub (don't know why but ok).

I have tons of more suggestions... of course they will need to be validated :-P
You hit the nail in the head with Amazon Appstore app description issue. Our app has had (and still has) that problem. Our content has been written by Amazon, but we have no control over it. In the meantime, our app (and even our business model) has evolved but the description is still the old description. As a result we get emails from confused users.
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Patent threat means developers are pulling their apps from the US app stores
- Archi [1]

- OmniGraffle on OS X

- Visio on Windows

[1] http://archi.cetis.ac.uk/index.html
Can you really see those smaller countries go for that type of language tho? The Irish, Greeks, and Italians (among others) aren't ones to cede anything resembling autonomy.

It would seem the most likely course would simply be the unraveling of many of the treaties that created the EU in the first place.
I routinely make sure that all of my websites ONLY render in IE6 and 7, that's best practice right?
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Sandbox vs. Production
How Oyster.com's photo search engine works
Possible to learn iPhone Dev in 4 weeks with no experience? 
http://www.udemy.com/ios-development/

This is the link a friend sent me. It claims 4 weeks to learn iPhone Development without prior experience. Any recommendations as to whether this works or something else that does?
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#winning
A question on his genetic theory of altruism: although it is to do with allele frequency (interchangeable alternatives) in a specific population, is the argument applicable to a wider conception of a population?

This is getting new-agey, but selfish promotion of our genes would logically include helping all mankind, since we share many genes (of course, we'd have more reason to help those more closely related); then, to similar species such as apes, then to mammals, then animals in general, then plants - which we'd prefer over rocks. All based on genetic similarity, of ones own genes helping other instances of itself. Which does seem to fit in which the attitudes of most people.
I got an email alert on that issue and all it said was resolution changed to fixed, with no comment. I thought it could be a mistake so I went to code.google.com looking for some kind of announcement and found nothing, then finally found the create project page and saw the drop-down with git in it!

Thanks for all the hard work you guys have put into it. I think many people don't realise how much work goes into something when you deploy it on a Google scale.
There's a growing argument that caloric intake has less to do with obesity than the intake of natural sugar/HFCS does.
Genes influence, not determine. Certainly it is worthwhile! Your goals, and those of your genetic code, are not the same. Your genes would happily ruin your life in order to propagate.
You trying to get blood from a stone here. Google cares for your problems in only the most indirect of manners, so bitching is not really going to help. It is the reality, you are going to have to deal with it. But the thing is, it is a fairly level playing field. Everyone else in the store is dealing with the same thing, more or less. So work with it, not against it. Look for conversions that come from things other than search. Throw a (Shopping List) at the end of your name since that seems to be the main factor in search.

My bigger question is how is a $5 app that #2 in its category for paid apps struggling to be profitable (especially since I believe the top paid list are counted by installs)? All of your complaints seem to be about competing with other apps, but you seem to be mostly winning that competition. Are Android app sales so low that #2 in its category app is unprofitable?
As a counter anecdote, the traffic in my feed has been picking up exponentially. More people join which means a larger audience for posts which causes people to post more.
It sounds like you might also break tasks down into smaller chunks. Instead of saying, "I will study for orgo," say, "I will study chapter 9 for 90 minutes by setting a timer, then go run / have sex / eat something / whatever."

This, in fact, is how I sometimes write long documents: I say that I will work on something for one to two hours, usually with Mac Freedom on. Or I will write 1,000 words, or five pages, or whatever. Something small. This is probably the kind of thing that's best layered on top of the deep meaning described in the article, but so it goes.
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Ah yes, downvotes for disagreement. I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but I bet you haven't been involved in creating enterprise apps. Please keep hacker news civil and reply to comments you disagree with. Please only downvote stuff that is factually incorrect, rude, trollish, abusive or off-topic.
Bitbucket? No, thanks. It doesn't have the awesomeness of GitHub. GitHub uses JavaScript for everything. You have keyboard shortcuts, AJAX repository browsing, awesome issues system...
Thanks, that brings up another Google Code ui failure.

The front page of a Google Project gives you no indication if the project is being maintained.

When I go to a project on Github this is my flow:

1) When was the last check in? 18 months ago? Pass. Recent? Yes, please.

2) Usage examples? No? Maybe if I really need you. Yes? I'll at least give you shot.

3) Copy git url to the clipboard and then clone it.

Google Code doesn't do a good job of any of these!
There was malicious firmware for Apple keyboards back in 2009 -- http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/CHEN/BHUSA09...
I agree. The article is clever, but it looks like a The Sun headline.
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