skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a lot of people seem to believe if they haven't personally heard about something, then it is not happening. It seems quite a lot of those same people like to write letters to important people expressing their ignorance. It does provide an interesting case for the whole Wisdom vs Intelligence debate.
Creative!
"I worry we didn't think about investors' intentions so we'd be replaced by its opponents."
There is a port of Box2D to Javascript (http://box2d-js.sourceforge.net/). I don't know what state it's in, I've only ever used the C++ version personally.

Which doesn't negate what you said at all, but like with everything else people do in Javascript, creating games with it will get less annoying over time as more people create things like that.

Then there are things like Pyjamas that let me write this silly asteroids game in really just a few hours: http://rumsey.org/space/Space.html. It's written entirely in Python (except it uses Flash for sound effects), but compiled to Javascript. I wrote that a couple of years ago, and haven't really followed Pyjamas since, but it was fun.

(and yes I know it's got errors depending on the browser, but it should work in anything but IE. I'm sure if I got a newer Pyjamas and recompiled it it would fix it for newer IE versions too.)
I was going to say the same. I might pay £3 for that app.
Quickoffice Pro isn't free.
Your Idea, Done By Others
One of the major issues with slides is that too often they are designed to be usable without the presentation. Often times they are emailed to people who were not in attendance.

You end up in the worst of both worlds: a presentation where the presenter is nearly irrelevant (I can read slides too) and notes that are spread across too many slides to be useful.

It takes extra work, but developing one slide set for presentation and another set of materials (not necessarily slides) for reference works 1000x better.
> The very briefest answer is that G.S. created a "long only" investment vehicle based on food staples with no mechanism for shorting it.

In other words, GS didn't create a mechanism for speculation....

Note that the financial industry is often trashed for shorts, as in "those folks are betting on/profiting from failure".

So, now we find that they're also wrong for not creating an opportunity for shorting.
I'm not convinced the game is 'anti-iPhone', isn't the objective to raise greater awareness of some of the working conditions of those involved in the manufacture of smartphones (e.g. those at FoxConn etc.), and to donate money to causes who support such workers.
Pg 15 of the deck notes that "Performance for knowledge workers declines after 35 hours, not 40." There's no clear evidence other than "studies show," but it does briefly address it.
See jgrahamc's post above for a great alternative: a set of bar charts color-coded into subsets. Much more effective than a big pie chart. Many other "part-of-a-whole" charts improve on pie charts as well.
When you take out a loan say for a car, you put the car as collateral. This is called a secured loan. When you charge something to your credit card you don't put up any collateral. This is called an unsecured loan. Government bonds are of the unsecured type so you don't get anything if they don't pay.
Yet when I was lurking in #ludumdare on IRC during the contest, there were quite a few Canvas-based entries 'in progress'.
Understanding your tools in detail is a great way to differentiate yourelf. I make it a point to understand my working subject matter in great detail. At one point in my career, I did a lot of telecom consulting. Work ranged from voice network design all the way down to troubleshooting. I could have done my job by simply being a "phone ringer" (someone who just calls someone else to solve problems), but I found that by understanding the technologies in detail, I could discern fact from fiction when dealing with third-parties. This made me extremely valuable to my clients. I don't think I worked with a company that didn't float me a job offer at some point.

Bottom line: Understanding your tools in depth allows you to differentiate outcomes that will be opaque to less knowledgable competitors.
Those of us old enough to remember (Brendan, that should include you) know that Javascript itself was developed by a company (Netscape) in pretty much exactly the same way, for pretty much exactly the same reasons. Get off your high horse...
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approx: €50/65 USD per hour depending on project.

iOS developer.
Mostly remote work from Portugal
The other thing to consider is to ask whether the presence of this feature is obtrusive or bothersome to the 95% who don't use it. Does it needlessly clutter some user interface? If instead it is mostly invisible to those who don't use it, then there is little harm is leaving the feature where it is.
I find there's a lot of hand-waving that goes on when you initially learn something.

Just the other day I was talking to a friend about learning programming. I said to him that I'm quite capable of teaching someone who knows the basics of programming more as long as there's the initial foundation to build on but I'll be damned if I know how to teach someone who doesn't know how to program at all how to program.

I don't even know how I learnt to program. I was a kid at the time and I guess I basically just typed in programs from books and then played around with them. I guess this model largely follows the idea of direct instruction [1]. It's one reason I like Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way [2] because it starts by just saying "type this in... actually type it don't copy and paste it" because for beginners this approach actually works (well).

One thing I find interesting is that many non-programmers I know are afraid to just start pressing buttons and messing around with stuff to get the computer to do what they want. They want to know how to do it before they start. I think this fits in with the theme of direct instruction as I've learnt the behaviour of doing something without knowing exactly what will happen. Without this willingness to try (fail) your ability to learn seems to be incredibly impeded to the point of being near-impossible (IMHO).

To bring this back to understanding your tools I would say I follow this pattern:

- If I can, I'll learn just enough to get by;

- I'll slowly accrue new techniques and knowledge as time goes by and I use it (studying this kind of thing without needing to use it is virtually useless for me); and

- For things that are most key to what I do I'll expend time and energy delving deeper into them but this applies more to languages, APIs, frameworks, platforms, etc than it does the tool. The tool is, after all, a means to an end not an end in itself.

For me I've found learning tools to follow a fairly similar pattern to learning (human not computer) languages: I can try and memorize things all I want but I seem to have this base rate at which I will accumulate "instinctive" knowledge that is a function of how much I use something with very little variation up or down.

YMMV.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_instruction

[2]: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
There's a lot more detail here... Pretty interesting http://www.phonestory.org/
Antarctica is also losing ice mass (http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20100108_Is_Antarc...). Articles suggesting it is gaining ice use selective measurements of sea ice rather than ice mass as a whole.
See this great quote: http://willgrant.org/start-up-wisdom-from-2005/
I strive to understand the proper way to use the tool to make it work, most of the time I don't really care how the tool works as long as I understand the best and most efficient way the tool was indented to be used.

If later I have a strong desire to understand how it works I'll dive in, but most software tools I don't care to know.

I don't really care about the detail inner workings of my car.
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For example, while claiming to remove files that are copies of the movie The Box, Warner removed several files related to the alternative cancer treatment book "Cancer: Out Of The Box," by Ty M. Bollinger. Another title deleted by Warner was "The Box that Saved Britain," a production of the BBC, not Warner.

This is really bizarre. Hotfile might technically be right in suing Warner Bros. for pulling content they don't own the rights to, but it's not as if Hotfile had a legitimate claim to having those files on its servers. Those files are copyrighted by someone, and surely the real rights holders would want their intellectual property removed from Hotfile if they knew about it. And now that Hotfile admits knowledge of these files, aren't they compelled to remove them anyway?

[edit]

Perhaps I should have said ironic instead of bizarre. I don't disagree that there's a legal case here.
Does it really matter? The upgrade would be pointless. Any first generation iPhone or Android device couldn't run the newest version of the OS well.
I understand that people get nervous when the pressure is on, but I can't believe how many times I thought to myself, "Answer the damn question!"

This whole video served as a reminder to me to slow down, listen to what people are asking you, and give a thoughtful response. I'm not claiming I'd do any better in this sort of situation, but the amount of marketing speak coming from most of these guys' mouths was practically dehumanizing to PG and Harj.
Google's post-JavaScript Web plan raises hackles
I think it's just something that has to become part of your nature given enough time and experience.

These days, however, the tools are much better and orders of magnitude easier. It's pretty easy to throw a phrase into Google and see what comes out. It never used to be this way.

I joke around but it pretty much verifies a rule I have these days: New Ideas are Rare. If you've thought of it, chances are that someone else has already thought of it and it's on the internet.
> I've never understood the allure of treaps.

Ignoring the simplicity argument, treaps can perform some other operations (local updates and nearby searches) in optimal expected time (see theorems 3.1 and 3.2):

http://sims.berkeley.edu/~aragon/pubs/rst96.pdf

> As long as it's only probabilistically balanced, the only thing it offers beyond random binary search trees is unpredictability in the face of ordered input.

The randomness treaps use should be independent of the input keys, so ordered input should produce a treap with a shape drawn from the same distribution as the one for unordered input.
"Effectively spat upon", really?

The reason Programmer's Day will never be a thing here is that programming is a low-risk, well-paid, white-collar professional occupation like many others. Nothing special about it, and we don't have a lawyer's day or an actuary's day or a guy who designs the machine that makes tiles for bathrooms day.
I do some Mac and iOS user interface design & development consulting on the side of my real job. I charge between $100-150/hr depending on the project, and I don't really take many projects since I try to leave enough time for me to work on my own apps and projects. I live in Raleigh, NC but my clients are worldwide.
Why Android houses should give Google the 'fork you'
U.S. Poverty rate highest since 1983
After 20 Years, Missing ComputerLand CEO Reappears
I wish I had a need for the app because it looks just so beautiful, and the website is stunning and does an amazing job of describing it as well.
They have both had startups before with successful exit.
Easy, for sufficiently small problem size!
Important questions about that:

* How many users are 5% (there's a difference between 5 people and 5000 people)?

* How critical is this feature to them (Meaning: Will they drop our product if we remove it? Or just be slightly annoyed?)

* How much money do we make off these users and how important are they in public (will they cause enough bad will to form via ratings/blogs to affect further sales?)

Think, analyze, ASK.
Just remember to take a spare shirt, for after you spill your breakfast burrito on the first one.
Seems you were heard, the price is now 7.99$ on the website!
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Is Social Security actually a Ponzi Scheme?
+1 for removing the trademark ® symbol.

I love the design! It's fantastic. And I can see this app being super-useful. Congrats, I think this one's gonna be a home run!
Only because it's not legal anyway, doesn't mean that Warner can claim ownership of this content.
More pie chart hatred from a guy I used to work with.

http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Pie-Charts-Are-Bad/

http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Blog/Date/201109/Blog/T...

http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Blog/Date/201012/Blog/C...
Cool, I got 39th. Ludum Dare is always a blast, I encourage anyone with even the slightest interest in game dev to give it a go sometime. It's an awesome excuse to write some really ugly code and not feel guilty about it.

It's great to see LD growing so fast, my first one (#16) had ~120 entries, this time there were almost 600.
Know your number basics when talking about cash
to donate money to causes who support such workers

You mean... by buying more iPhones?
But Spain and Italy are in a much different situation than Greece or the other smaller "peripheral" Euro economies. Basically, Greece needs a bailout or must leave the Euro. Italy needs non-insane monetary policy:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/a-self-fulfillin...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/the-spanish-pris...
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I got 2 years of use with my 3G. Bought it in 2008 and after iOS 4.0.1 (2010) it was an unusable, laggy mess. I searched high and low for an answer but there really wasn't one other than "downgrade, but Apple isn't cool with that". I ran into the abandoned issue with my Captivate, but it was relatively easy to flash a custom ROM based off ASOP Gingerbread: download ROM Manager from the market, download a rom, and flash.
Just because sexual orientation is not a "protected class" on a federal level, employment laws in nearly every state are very clear that in addition to the protected classes, you can not discriminate arbitrarily.

But it doesn't matter, in New York (SONDA) and just about every blue state has very clear anti-discrimination laws when it comes to sexual orientation.

And of course, regardless of the laws, nobody would allow this person to represent them or work for them.

This guy needs to be terminated immediately, his behavior is totally disgusting and reprehensible.
Each file could have an unencrypted hash key.
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As for all these people bitching about the price of this app: If you think it is worth less than the value that it represents to you then you should go and re-create this app and sell it at a lower price point rather than telling the original developer to lower his price. Be sure to publish your figures.

If you find that $16 is less than the value you'd extract from the app then you should probably buy it.

Of course he can lower the price later, just not all at once, but I'd be more interested in the same story at a different pricepoint with another useful app.

A couple of those and the data would become very valuable.

The fact that people are buying the app just by browsing the app store means that he's at least in the ballpark, the 'ideal' price is something that you can only determine experimentally, not by responding to whining about the price.
No, I'm suggesting that in my experience Dell operates more like what you're proposing then what you're originally describing. I get (generally) transparent pricing, flexibility, and the servers show up at my datacenter next week as ordered.

I'm done defending Dell though; and don't think I'm arguing there is no room for improvement. At the very least, one's experience with Dell seems to vary wildly depending on account reps and established agreements and processes. There is no reason our experiences should be so different.
That email analogy is flawed. Even though most emails don't have attachments, most people use attachments sometimes.

If really only 5% of your users are using some obscure feature and it's getting in the way of other improvements, then you should probably deprecate it unless those few customers are disproportionately more valuable to the business.
Can anyone tell me the original source of this article? Is there a Facebook blog post or something?
We have updated our page could you guys please check it out and let me know what do you think now?
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Interesting, but I think it's a slightly different metric. The email example is 95% by volume, whereas the OP is 95% by users. Even though they don't use the feature every time, most people have/will use attachments at some point, so by removing it you'll impact almost everybody. If only 5% of the entire user base is/will use Project Notes, it may not be as big of a deal.
What Jason said. The "wants to help you" me really, really wants to quote numbers because I think people pervasively underprice their services. The "wants to not be awkward socially" me really doesn't want folks to immediately do "50 * $WEEKLY_RATE = $WOWZA" and assume that I'm loaded, partially because it would be wrong and partially because it might change how people interacted with me in a way I wouldn't enjoy. The rational businessman in me knows that telling my rate or rate range in place where prospective customers are quite likely to see it (hiya, past clients! waves) can only hurt my economic interests.

Which is a pity, because I think this is likely to systematically put a downward bias on answers you get back. These issues don't bite quite so hard when you're charging $20 ~ $60 an hour. If one hypothetically had weekly rates in the $8k to $24k region, they start to matter more. I'd hate for impressionable consultants reading the poll results to think that $20 ~ $60 is reasonably achievable and $8k to $24k is not just because only one of those was written in the results.

P.S. $8k to $24k is not my range. I just 10X and weekified the "relatively inexpensive programmer" numbers I picked out of nowhere.
Opportunity comes to the prepared.

Good luck to this team. The Russian government has a big incentive to use an alternate O/S, since they banned Windows a few years ago due to security concerns & political retribution against Microsoft. So I'd say these guys have a pretty good shot of having further discussions with someone from the government.
But Warner already removed the files, so Hotfile doesn't have to remove them.
I don't understand why they wouldn't just level with their users. Explain to your users that each feature costs money to maintain and almost no one uses this paticular feature. Then ask those who use the feature...

1. If that feature is essential to them

2. if they'd be willing to pay a little more to keep it

I find most people are very reasonable when you explain exactly what the problem is to them.
If you are that old, you really ought to have better reading comprehension. My argument has nothing to do with Netscape, me, or my high horse.

Look, Netscape had a monopoly and put JS "on first" and just about everywhere. I'm done apologizing for that, I've made up for it in spades on standards work, and it's a fact I cannot recall and rewrite.

The precise point now, here on planet earth and not wherever you are, is that Google is not that new monopoly. Not yet, not likely for years even in their wildest dreams.

If Google were the monopoly Netscape was, sure: Dart would be the new JS. The two would co-exist for a long while but "replacement" would be conceivable so long as market power held up.

Since Google does not have monopoly power, and with the non-standardizing tactics of that leaked memo, Dart is unlikely to be adopted by other browsers. It's fragmenting. It's an invitation to others to inject their own would-be replacements and build a Tower of Babel.

Do you get my objection now?
this is the same group of people that will put up with godaddy to save $2 a year on domain registrations.
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The World Development Movement has published a report today which explains exactly how speculation impacts on real food prices, and outlines why climate change, population growth, biofuels etc are not to blame for the short-term price rises we've seen recently. Well worth a read!

http://www.wdm.org.uk/stop-bankers-betting-food/broken-marke...
Technically, it's not a game, since it is listed in the Education category.
That's about the only benefit they're seeing, and it doesn't compensate for the risk they'll take on when (ultimately) asked to bail out a number of countries.
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What SEO value do "small unobtrusive app" and "achieve" and "with your" really add to this page? I suppose you'd have to view what kind of conversions you get from those types of keywords, but I wouldn't imagine those keywords coming in with any sort of frequency, or delivering conversions.

I understand your argument, but it would make more sense if the heading had better keywords. I don't see this heading adding much SEO value.

You can always A/B titles and see if a shorter title adds value, and if so, weigh it against SEO value. SEO value isn't the only determining factor; it's optimizing the entire page, which may mean giving up SEO value in favor of optimizing something that delivers higher profits.
This is exactly why I went with Pogo Linux instead of Dell or a variety of other vendors when my employer was looking at storage appliances. Total transparency on pricing and hardware right on their website, and no persistent calls from d-bag sales guys. Some of the sales reps I talked to made it feel like I was in a used car lot. I had to start screening my calls after a while.

It felt a little risky spending so much money with a smaller company, but so far so good. I thought I was going to have a heart attack when of the $(five-figure) boxes was severely damaged in shipping, but they handled it beautifully and painlessly.
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Magoosh thinks online video is the killer app for GRE prep
I call bullshit on "the average user has only 25GB of unique data". My family generates at least 5GB a month in hi-def video. I'll happily sign up. I'll also grab a corporate account to use as an FTP site for our 100GB+ per week of encrypted SQL backups that we throw around.
Ask HN: Is there any software/apps for managing closed/private beta?
I'm looking for any software or webapp that will let me just install some code on my end and it will let me run a private/closed beta where I can send invitations with unique codes and users have a page on my site where they can enter the code to get access. Is anyone currently doing this or does it still have to be coded manually?
The origin of PD comes from Russia and AFAIK they have this tradition (inherited from the times of communism) there to celebrate professions with a special day dedicated to them, so yes, they do have firemen day, miner day or policemen day.
And Africans slaving away in mine pits isn't?
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Streetlife (London-based startup) is hiring a frontend developer
Tweeted about it for ya - have a small amount of designy followers who might be interested.

Design is well done - polished and shiny, kinda how I sum up a mac (I say this as a non-mac user). Kudos.