skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is implicit acceptance. People probably leave during the speech, they nod off, or they avoid the speaker in the future. Maybe they should immediately jump onto their chairs and shout "foul", but I am not really sure that would be desirable.

Frankly, I want to have a choice if I go to such a conference to concern myself with topics that interest me. Maybe some other time I'll go to a conference about women's rights. At any milliseconds there are a zillion unfair things going on in the world, we can not deal with them all.

In this particular situation, for example, I wouldn't see anybody who was hurt directly. Like if I saw somebody beating up somebody else on stage, I might be moved to step in and stop the beating. But here - even if some women's feelings were hurt, I figure they could just leave the room without my assistance. So it doesn't seem worth the trouble to make a fuss about it.
I need to get Tor set up now..
Re: you last point, I 100% agree. I have tried the basic integration that Vim has with Visual Studio but it's a hack and I never stuck to it.

Then since 2005 or so, whenever it came out, I've been using ViEmu, a Visual Studio plugin that makes the VS text editor work like vim, complete with (parts of) the macro language. It's so awesome I can't help myself but bringing it up every time a topic remotely related to it comes up.
How many terabytes would it take to store all the television shows and movies from the US in standard definition for the past 30 years? How about only the shows you and your family/friends want?

Storage prices will continue to drop. At some point in the near future it will be less expensive to have an entire collection of video stored locally, rather than try to create the infrastructure to stream across the country or globe.
> Supporting data: Today I'm regression testing. I'll be here all day, folks.

There's an interesting gem here. No job is 100% excitement, all the time. More to the point, that kind of a job would burn you out.

The key is having a proper ratio.
I don't disagree with you that the numbers may be off, but consider the fact that the compressors in an A/C unit don't have to work as hard if the heat exchange is more efficient. That's saving electricity from the cooling fan AND the compressor.
That's an interesting angle, and a market opportunity I guess :)

99 cents might not sound like much, but I guess they might want to try out hundreds of such games (well, I suppose there are free ones - I don't own an iPhone and they aren't even available by the main carrier in my country).
In this case I wouldn't worry too much.
The app itself is only really useful for registered users who have paid through in-App-Purchases.
Plan 28 is gathering steam
This is what grooveshark does, and they seem to be quite successful.
> Yes, I'm against protecting abstract ideas with no implementation.

It's curious that you seen to think that patents can protect something other than ideas because ideas are the only things that patents protect.

> Even when there is an implementation, it's not obvious to me that it should be especially protected by a government (especially a fallible government, which is all of them, as well-meaning as they might be).

Then whom will enforce them? Do I hire a private army?

I assume that you feel the same about contracts and copyright (wrt enforcement).

> I'm definitely not in favor of granting you protection on a "new form of scheduling". A program or calendar or whatever that implements it, sure.

So, once someone sees my new form of scheduling, they can use it and there's nothing that I can do about it. (I wasn't thinking calendar scheduling, but it doesn't matter.)

In that world, I'm going to reveal as little as possible.

> If it was easy to copy

Small orgs innovate only when they benefit from doing so. Since the innovations come from small orgs, reducing their ability to benefit is a huge cost. I'm still waiting to see the benefit.

Note that there are bogus patents in chemistry and every other field, yet I don't see near the outrage. Is software special?
#selfpromotion

"1.) Pay attention to the jobs we send to your inbox." Great advice.
I am from Waterloo Canada.
Awesome insights in this article - Mentorship is a vastly under-written upon subject, with huge rewards to be found from participating in this age-old tradition.
>but if you write short functions

Yeah, you should do that. You know that though because (I assume) you are a veteran programmer - or at least not a newbie, to whom this might not be as obvious as it is to you and me. Don't forget we are talking about people learning to program here.
Canada?

No healthcare costs (might have to become permanent resident, not hard to do). Low taxes for small business owners (tons of write-offs, lower tax rates). Less litigation. Very generous rules for foreigners to operate businesses. Close to US w/ easy travel. Short flights from major cities (re: Toronto, Waterloo, Ottawa, Montreal).
Hulu Commercial Auto-Muter
One of the big wins with android, is that you can choose from literally 100s of phones. From loads of different manufacturers. You can get a basic pink square phone, or a massive phone with HD display.

That's never going to happen at Apple. The iPhone fills a certain need, but it's only 1 phone.
They sell popcorn, candy, drinks and ice cream at quite a few regular counters in the lounge there. And, yes, in the theaters once you sit down, they turn off the lights, show you commercials, then they turn on ALL THE LIGHTS again and (usually) two humans with a basket nonchalantly waltz in with "Will noch jemand'n Eis" in German, "Anyone want some ice cream"?

Then of course there are always a couple of inconsiderate a-holes who want some ice cream but did not manage to buy it before... in a big theater room they are spread out nicely so sales-humans walk around with their ice cream and sell their stuff; typically the people buying either have no idea what they want so they go through the whole "what do you have" talk and/or they don't have small bills and pay with 50 or 100 bills and go through the "oh sorry I don't have change for that" talk.

And we are talking around US $20 per person per viewing for "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" for example; just for seeing the movie in half-asses 3D.

I swear to FSM: Should you ever read about a bloody massacre in a movie theater in Germany it was probably me. :9
Ah. Looks like he updated the C++ version to have the optimization I spoke of. So, here's the matching Go version:
http://pastie.org/2202611

Time: 0m0.796s
You can't stop people from pirating your app. Not to mention, I'm sure most of us have pirated something, at some point, as well. I'd personally let them keep the files up. As it's been said, another user is another user. He'll show it to his friends who might buy it instead of pirating.

Another option to help fight people pirating would be to offer a free version. Maybe limit how many things they can add to their list, and have it ad supported. The full version you pay for and gets unlimited items in their list.

If you do find a way to detect someone using a pirated version, instead of disabling the application, why not do something fun like create a "pirate theme" that gets applied so they know they've been busted. (The only drawback is if the pirate theme is awesome you might get people pirating it just to see what it looks like).

There's no sense in fighting pirating, it's never worked. As far as I know, no industry has had any real success stopping it. I say embrace it and try to use it to your advantage.
Ask HN: Best Books for Learning Web Design?
We've all talked about the best books for learning programming ... but for those of us who are graphically challenged, do any of you have recommendations for books on web design?
I actually had advertised on Facebook Ads, a Clickbank product that was converting 1 in 20 (5%). But the ad was suspended by Facebook after 1 day because of the product, not the ad.

Also, do you mean Adsense?

I still have my Adsense account and generate enough for some beer money each month.

But if I wanted to pay Google to advertise a site through PPC, I am banned for life.

Stange that Google won't take my money, but is happy to write me checks.
Yea, I think you can ask it in a way that's not abrasive - "Do you feel like you have enough interesting work to do?". I think the thing is that that can be a common question, and it lets people know you care about how engaged they are.
If you ask an employee, "Are you bored?" there's a good chance they are going to lie to you, unless you have a strong enough relationship.
Confronting Entrepreneurial Fears
It'll probably teach them to get good at lying while staring you in the eye, rather than actually elicit any real feedback.

Force is not the answer for dealing with shy people.
Stranger things have happened. Look at the games console wars. Sega? Atari? Once completely dominating, then in a very short space of time dead.
You are completely missing the point. This IS the internet, as an honest paying customer you should not have to jump through those hoops in the first place.
Ask HN: Is our messaging about sharing contacts for businesses correct?
At Soocial we have recently soft-launched some new products involving cool engineering we've been up to, mainly introducing the ability to share contacts in your business.

We've been syncing people's contacts on every phone, email, Outlook and Mac for some time now.
Right as of now we are about to take contact syncing to a new level - you can now sync and share your address book with other people too. Your contacts will now be shared with other Soocial users.

If you run a small business, sharing some critical contacts with your coworkers and all their devices could prove invaluable- or se we believe.

Please visit www.soocial.com and check the messaging out there. We would love the community's feedback on how comprehendable or INcomprehendable our offering is.

Is our messaging correct?
Do you understand the Business Accounts product offering?
What would be the reasons to use it, or what more would you want to know about it?
You can check all this out at

http://www.soocial.com/address-book#!business

http://www.soocial.com/features

http://www.soocial.com/intro

Finally, would you like a free trial to start using it?? :)

Thanks in advance,
Dimitris at Soocial.
Dear Intrapreneur - You are Nothing Like An Entrepreneur; Stop Fooling Yourself
Objective-C Tuesdays: regular expressions
Both RIM and AAPL profits are going down for the first time in many years:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=TSE:RIM&fstype=ii

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii
Hacker news participation can also indicate compilation, as it does for me right now.
JBoss AS 7 released
Technically it's not the same thing. Whether or not it is legally different is an entirely different matter - one that has not yet been resolved.

If the court decides that encryption is like a safe then, regardless of how impossible it is to open the safe without a key, the court can coerce you into decrypting your HD.

However, if the court decides that encryption is like a secret language that only you can translate (a more accurate representation of encryption, in my opinion) then they will likely rule that they cannot coerce you into decrypting the data.
What do you think? Should we try to track that in the backend?
Self reply, since I waited too long to edit:

I remembered I had an older 8 core server sitting unused at the moment. I configured nginx with 8 workers, and ran `ab` against it. From a single (VM) host, I can get 680 connections per second (maxed the cpu on the host running the test). From 4 hosts, each host got > 290 connections per sec, so I got nginx up to over 1190 new connections per second, and can likely push it further.

[EDIT] got it to peak at 1535 requests per second with 4 hosts testing.
Right now my main interest is mastering C or C++. Do you know a good open source project I could get started with?
Because you can legitimately install apps from multiple AppleIDs on a single device, and thus, are able to play a game purchased from one account while logging into Game Center with another. Apple could obviously stop that, but it would probably anger more legitimate purchasers than it would convert pirates into customers.
> Most people who go to see a movie could just as easily watch it at home without much less enjoyment or sound or visual quality.

Whether most people could enjoy the home experience as much is an interesting point of debate, but there's no question that the sound and visual quality are lower in >>99% of homes. Very few people have good surround-sound systems. Even fewer have truly large screens for viewing. I have a 50-inch TV at home, and I love it, but it doesn't compare to a 20-foot screen.

I think theaters will remain relevant for some time to come. Until the "ten-foot-experience" at home means a ten-foot screen, people will probably remain interested in seeing movies at the theater.
Have you missed all the patent infringement suits that Apple is bearing down on major Android handset makers like HTC, Samsung and Motorola?
It seems to me that if your employee doesn't want to make eye contact when answering this question, that you already have your answer.
Grooveshark is already available with HTML. They use flash behind the scenes to play back the audio, but that's it. Pandora will most likely be very similar.
Citrix Buys Private Cloud Vendor Cloud.com
Part of the article seems to be predicated on the idea that Google only bid $900m for the Nortel portfolio. What happened to the stories about bidding assorted mathematical constants up to $3.1415926bn?
Compilation is a form of boredom ;-)
Not at all. In fact you should always wait until eye contact. I can't count the number of times I wish I had stared down a boss to make him/her understand that I was drowning in boredom only instead to give a quick smile and nod while continuing to look at my monitor.

It is way to easy to do "manager drive-by" and get absolutely no sense of reality from employees.

This is on both sides to get right. The manager waiting, and the employee taking the time to "look them in the eye".
Yeah, being blunt is pretty standard for Rands. It's also what I love about the books and articles: They cut straight to the point.
Exactly. It's easy to record a Flash stream too. Nothing is bulletproof.
...and I'm still not one of them! :(
OKay,

1 the pirate your app act tells you these things:

-in their geographical area fro some reason they cannot but it or the price might be too high
-they love your app

2. Easier to turn those into paid conversions if paid app gets free updates.

Most of us here can not tell you not take legal action. However, can you turn this into conversions? I think you can.

On the android side I run into when I sell apps through non Google android Market stores as those do not have infrastructure of me checking a license api like Google Android Market does..the things above is my thought process and steps I will be using..
why the downvotes? Do people not understand sarcasm?
Good thing I only read TC in a feed reader. Then I don't have to actually visit the site anymore.
Well, if you remove the lines, you give up any information besides start-end rankings, in which case you might as well just have 2 columns of names next to each other. eg. look at Tufte's cancer survival rate graph, where it's not just a straight line from start-end but multiple segments, each end-point being a fresh dataset, datasets staggered over time.
If you enjoy this article, the author's book titled "Managing Humans" comes highly recommended.
No, Notch posts frequently about Minecraft. So everyone who follows him but don't care about Minecraft will get those posts. That's the problem. The only solution now is for him to not post Minecraft related material to Public, but to a particular circle, say "Minecraft" which, due to how Circles work now, he has to bear 100% of the effort to maintain the people in it, which is not feasible (as I described above).
The current iPod Touch can be had for under $200 refurbed, well within the means of a teenager, where a few dozen apps increases the total cost by a significant percentage. An iPhone with a data plan is 10x more expensive.
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.

Funny that you should mention physics engines and sprites...have you ever played the Chrome version of Angry Birds? Sure, maybe it's a simple game, but it's hardly a get rich quick fart app.

Are you aware that though it's ultimately a Javascript app, it was built using the Forplay framework (http://code.google.com/p/forplay/), which includes a (very slightly modified) version of JBox2d (the Java port of Box2d) for physics, compiled down to JS through GWT? See http://code.google.com/p/forplay/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%... - that's almost exactly the JBox2d trunk, with a few modifications because of a couple of things that GWT doesn't allow (reflection, for instance).

I assure you, we did not have GWT in mind when porting Box2d to Java, so there are no special optimizations for it or anything, we've always just targeted pure Java - GWT didn't even exist at the time, and even once it showed up, I was so convinced that it could never run fast enough for physics that I didn't even bother to try. You can see the results yourself, most of the demos (other than the stress tests, which are supposed to be slow) run quite well for me on recent versions of Chrome, Safari, and FF: http://gwtbox2d.appspot.com/
Yammer for Windows Phone Released
That's ok if you application is "standalone", but what happens when your app needs some backend webservice to properly run?

We pay for servers, we can't pirate them. I read articles from developers telling that most of their users are pirates. How could we use this situation to our advantage?
Why we’re building a boring business (and you should too)
(1) joking aside, please don't monitor logs like this. instead, treat your employees like real human beings and understand what they feel. not only is it more efficient than trying to reduce complex humans to a few "metrics", but it will allow you to detect more than just "boredom".

(2) if you're thinking "how can they be bored when everything is so busy and there's so much to do?" maybe you are one of those over-managing bosses that doesn't delegate enough and, surprise, ends up running around being busy while everyone else is bored and lacking responsibilities. [i considered posting this anon, but it's not aimed at my current employers and, if you know me, you'd know i'd have said it to their face if it were...]
It could be abrasive if the rapport isn't there. But a good manager will build that over time until the point were blunt honest questions can be answered bluntly and honestly with no cause for concern.
How come? Not being snarky, but I've been impressed with the current video tag support and how well it works. I'd assume the audio support works fairly well also.
Sorry, I don't.

Are you interested in games? There are probably some good open source games you could try "modding".

Probably some searching around on Sourceforge or Google would help you identify a project in your area(s) of interest.
Neat. I like the ability to view my photos on the web too (although it would be nice if it showed likes and comments on individual photos.)
I would apply the same methodologies to finding out if your problem solvers are "happy with the solution(s)". There are plenty of occasions where engineers are handed solutions they aren't totally keen on. The same trap can be landed in.

It's not always about being bored. Sometimes its about being satisfied with the solution. And in my opinion, both are equally problematic.
http://xkcd.com/303/ ?
oh hello jason!!! you also don't get thanked enough for your historical preservation efforts, so thank you, thank you, thank you!!
It sounds like you were trying to do click arbitrage. Is that forbidden by Google / FB ads? I don't really understand why it would be, but I guess I could understand that being a more reasonable cause for a ban than the fact that you were advertising a chicken coop.
I think that's why he suggests digging deeper until they are making eye contact.
Experienced Android developer looking for something different job-wise
I'm an experienced Android developer based in New York City looking for a more different work arrangement than the typical full-time office job.

I've been developing apps for Android since day one of the operating system. I've published a handful of apps under my name and built some serious Android software for my previous employers.

There are too much interesting things happening in this world and life's too short to warrant spending all day every day in an office doing the usual boring routine.

I'm open to any out of the ordinary work arrangements. If you're thinking of anything other than the full-time office job, please reach out! For starters, I've been considering becoming a freelancer but I'm thinking there are more options out there that I'm not aware of yet.

I understand that not everybody will be able to appreciate this, but that's the thing, I'm looking for people who get it.

This is written from a throw-away account because I'm employed at the moment.

I'm in New York City.

You can email me at androiddeveloper@thisisnotmyrealemail.com. Yes, for real.
"Military Meltdown Monday": 90K military usernames, hashes released
In-app purchase tied to the device key?
I was looking at flippa.com for recent sales, and I saw a site that had sold, claiming to make over $3,000 per month in Adsense revenue.

What is the site about?

Outback Steakhouse Coupons.

It did rank number 1 in Google search results, so I believe it to be possible.

Did it offer coupons of any kind?

Nope.

It seems the less complex the idea, the more profitable it is.
I don't know, all my friends already switched to Google+, and none of them are particularly tech savvy (outside of being young enough to have been raised with the Internet).
someone else graduating from php kindergarten

congrats!
Nice idea, thanks for sharing the link.
For the record, even though all of his live demos are marked Safari only, they work just fine in Chrome (for me anyways)
The Promises and Perils of Mining Git
sweet! Thanks, Dan,
Applied Materials figures out how to drop atoms onto tiny chip circuits
Do all laws have such disgusting names? Why do they call it the "Protect Our Children Act" instead of the "Mandatory IP Address Assignment Data Retention Act"? Are we all really that stupid?

If this is such an important problem for society, why not just install cameras in all homes just to make sure nobody is producing or watching child porn?
https://plus.google.com/u/0/101307099794854494980/posts/2iRZ...
AAPL's profits go down after the Christmas peak _every_ year. (I wouldn't be surprised if RIM's do too. RIM's problem has been that it has continued growing and getting more money despite falling deeper into a huge technical quagmire. The former allowed it to ignore the latter.)

I'd rather have Apple's graph than Google's:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG&fstype=ii

(Not saying Google is in any trouble either, but flat after not much growth...)
Poor people don't buy Stella, dude.

And you missed the point like 4x in this thread.. people weren't saying that funneling money to banks was unstimulative, they were saying that giving money to people who will consumer-spend it is more stimulative. This is pretty much accepted in the economic community.
Angry birds on Chrome Store had the same issue: http://functionsource.com/post/html5-audio-issues-why-some-f...
HTML5 Audio Issues; Why Some Flash Snuck Into Angry Birds
Or maybe the guy is an introverted geek who just wants to get back to coding.
I want to focus on deliberate practice by choosing projects that is relevent to my weakness. Right now I want to master C. Do you know a good projects for this?