skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I swear I don't work for phidget corp, but they have some spiffy LED displays as well. Think scrolling signs letting you know the status of the latest CI build and the commiter...

http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=15
I really dislike this sentiment.

97%+ of people don't care about passwords being sent in plain text over email for non-banking sites. Or for accounts that have no info until you populate them.

The other 3% can just log in and CHANGE the password after-the-fact.

I'd rather not inconvenience the majority of my signups, nor force my ideas on how things should work on them.
Then he is stupid or misinformed. It should be well know by now that RIAAs tactics are always to attack and then, when stopped, offer to start 'negotiating'.

It is essentially roll the die: even and they win big, odd and they win, just a little less. We always lose. Don't get sucked into playing that game.
A faster GPU won't make the e-ink microcapsules rearrange more quickly.
@jchrisa, If you don't mind, please could you let know how to politely convey the subtext etc.? Thanks.
I have a failure of an app with 300 sales/$450 revenue in 8 months. I dropped it to free last weekend. It got picked up by AppAdvice and had 50,000 downloads in a week. It would have been more but Apple has a horrific bug when dropping from paid to free where some users are unable to download it.

My app is a Utility app that people seem to enjoy, but I don't think there is a paid market for it. People simply aren't willing to pay for such things. I'm in the middle of moving to a completely free setup with tips via IAP. No ads, no pay walls. Totally free. I have no idea if it'll work but I can't make less than I already am! It's currently waiting for review so hopefully in a couple of weeks I can do a writeup on the experience.
No GPL code in LoseThos.

I wrote all of it from scratch.

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I wrote this blog post, I'm not from a PR firm or paid by a PR firm. I have been using ddg exclusively for a few days and really enjoy it.

Not everyone's use cases are the same, but for my normal everyday use it has had excellent results.
I for one am very thankful for this DNS. Ever since moving to China, 8.8.8.8 has useful for getting around various flaws of the internet experience here. Even with a paid VPN, it's nice to have an always working DNS server.
Open APIs fall far short of open source
It is indeed very annoying for experts to contribute to Wikipedia.

Contrary to some of the replies your comment has received, I agree that Wikipedia is a tertiary source, and it is not a place of first publication for new research findings. That's what Wikipedia is, because that's what Wikipedia says it is,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not

This is consistent with everyone's understanding of what an encyclopedia (ANY encyclopedia) is, as you point out in your further replies to comments.

Indeed an expert in some subject should spend time building up primary and secondary sources, and leave compiling useful reference works like encyclopedias to people with editorial experience who are familiar with the good secondary sources on various subjects. But of course one problem with Wikipedia today is that volunteer editors of Wikipedia ("Wikipedians") are not selected, and by the way the project is mob-managed basically CANNOT be selected, for their editorial experience and familiarity with secondary sources. My first attempt to contribute to the Wikipedia project was to post some source lists (what a librarian might call "pathfinders") in user space

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

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

and post links to those in article talk space so that editors could refer to good-quality secondary sources as they revised articles on controversial subjects. I can't say that those source lists haven't been used at all, but I can view the page access statistics for those source lists, and they are certainly underused by other Wikipedians. Meanwhile, there are whole broad topics on Wikipedia that are frequently subject to edit wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...

with sockpuppets and meat puppets continually reappearing to push fringe points of view. There is no sustained management response to this, despite the desire of the Wikimedia Foundation to improve content quality.

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strate...

After edit: I had earlier posted the same article that was submitted to open this Hacker News thread on my Facebook wall, and one commenter there recalled his experiences trying to correct blatant factual errors on Wikipedia, which eventually led him to the Lamest Edit Wars page in Wikipedia project space,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:LAME

where one has to laugh to avoid crying.
I bought it, it has some of the nicest interaction design I've seen in an iPhone app, and is worth the 99 cents just to see a product that rethinks some of the interaction metaphors that dominate the platform. I don't see this replacing my todo list of choice workflowy, mainly because it is iPhone only and doesn't follow my todo list metaphor of choice, which is org mode style collapsible outlines.
Two years ago we (UserVoice) removed the need for end-users to sign up or register. When submitting an idea, voting or commenting, they simply identify themselves with their email address – much like commenting on most blogs. This eliminated one of the biggest barriers for user participation: registration.

Later, if they want, users can confirm their address and add a password. This is optional, unless the user is an account administrator or is trying to access private content (in which case we do require to confirm and protect their identity for security reasons).

We also allow people to sign in with their Facebook or Google identity. Since those services return a verified email address, we can reconcile it with an existing user record if one exists. This eliminates another barrier for returning user participation: “Which 3rd party service did I sign up with last time?” and “If I choose the wrong service, will I accidentally create a separate user profile?"

Even if the user forgets, they can simply enter their email address and, if it’s protected with a password or FB/Google authentication, we prompt them with the correct method to use (while unprotected users don't need to authenticate at all).

Lastly, we removed the need to sign-in (or sign-up) before participating on the site. By asking users to identify themselves at the moment they want to participate and not requiring a registration process, participation is just as easy as leaving a comment on a blog. This, along with not requiring registration, eliminates the issue where new and returning users were interrupted by a sign-in/registration process in the middle of their existing workflow.

One thing worth noting is that this isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for all online services. It works great for UserVoice and our customers since most users aren’t performing private or sensitive tasks.

I’m very excited to see more services focussing on creating great experiences when identifying new and returning users, and questioning whether common pre-conceived notions around these requirements are still necessary.
FCC to crack down on robocalls even further
"Some" generally functions as an indefinite plural article: think "I hope to see a hippopotamus" vs. "I hope to see some hippopotami".
An introduction to my attempt at Software Development Re-education
I know this is just a fun article, but to get more serious for a minute; the missing thing here (what most people seem to forget when they're attracting traffic) is that neither of these audiences are part of his target market. He mentions his call to action is attracting votes, and maybe that's all he really cares about, but it's worth remembering that the target customer of this app is neither reading HN nor r/programming.

I don't have a good alternative for how to reach "iPhone-owning NYC cab riders who care enough to review drivers"; I'm just trying to make a general observation about these kinds of traffic-from-A-vs-B tests. Of course, I've assumed his objective is app sales, not attracting hacker/VC attention. Nothing wrong with the latter!
> OS X is very customizable

Only if you are Apple.

> NextStep did run on Intel processors, from the get-go.

No. It ran originally on Motorola 68K processors (030 and 040) on NeXT's own hardware. It was then ported to other platforms.

> Starting with the iPhone 4, Apple did just this with their A5 chip.

But Macs ran PowerPCs (which were heavily influenced by Apple) and switched to commodity Intel processors. Apple did, for some time, design its own exotic hardware, but didn't went much beyond rendering expansion very difficult.
Actually in jetbrains IDEs you preview your automated refactoring, before it happens. It will show you which files will be affected and how, and then you can choose whether to exclude specific instances or not.

Code review happens anyway, automated refactor or not
Second this. A "project course" is a required part of the CS curriculum where I attended college, and that's almost always not the only project course you'll take. I did one every quarter for three years.
I'm a product designer and love the thesis, but this article is seriously lacking in argument.

- Many of the big "UX" benefits would not be possible without massive changes to entrenched business processes. e.g. Visual voicemail was something that AT&T needed to support. Likewise, unbundling all the "Crapware" is another area where Apple forced the carriers to change their business processes.

Apple had the ability to do this because of their momentum. In 2007, Apple had revolutionized the music industry, was on its way with TV and movies, and clearly someone at AT&T wanted some of that momentum or certainly didn't want Verizon to have it.

If anything, the launch of the first iPhone showed UX alone wasn't enough to dominate the market. The G1 iPhone sold well, but not to the scale it is now. Only after the price got chopped did people move to it en masse. Apple was able to do this by having the world's best operations team and forcing extra-subsidies from the carriers.

Now the UI did get people excited and you can't separate the success of Apple from the strength of their UI, but this article would make you think that the great UX was the primary reason Apple has succeeded.

Design is important, but Dribbble is full of beautiful app designs that sell 10 units a week, where as you will find many horribly designed, modern sites, that are dominating new markets.
My original (and still current) point is that protein is an essential macronutrient and that in the interest of general fitness, people should consume it fairly constantly throughout the day, at roughly 0.5 - 1.25 g/lb body mass.

A champion Kenyan marathoner, say, Geoffrey Mutai, weighs roughly 53 kg (123 lb) at 182 cm (6 ft). If he's representative of the Kenyans consuming 75g of protein per day, he actually illustrates my points fairly well:

1. He's consuming 0.6g protein per pound body mass. Which is in the range I'd suggested for general health.

2. I'd suggested that athletes engaged in long-duration cardio should eat more protein, or suffer catabolic effects. Mr. Mutai exhibits the second part of that statement. While it's an absolutely horrid measure of anything resembling health, BMI gives us at least a scale to compare relative body mass to height ratios. Mutai's clocks in at 16.6, where "normal" is generally given as 18.5-25, and a bodybuilder, at 3-6% bodyfat, may clock in at 30-40. The argument here isn't fitness or appropriateness to task, it's to point out that our Kenyan here is at the very low end of the body mass-to-height scale, as a consequence of having both exceptionally low bodyfat, and very little muscle.

3. The unanswered question and unstated assertion is how this affects longevity and quality of live, and that we're discussing snacking habits, nutrition, and exercise in the context of general fitness in a general population that's not, as a rule, prone to trotting off for 26.21875 mile jaunts on a daily basis, though some may partake occasionally. Longevity of athletes is a mixed bag: American football players pretty notoriously die young (55 or so median). Finnish Olympians, according to one study, showed a few added years of longevity. The Stanford Runners Study (long-term longitudinal research) shows very consistent benefits of regular exercise, though I believe this is generally not inclusive of daily marathon-distance bouts. I'm not aware of the specifics of Mutai's training, but suspect much of it takes place at sub-marathon distances as well.

There's also the matter that extreme devotion to a single mode of exercise can lead to other problems. Long-distance cyclists, it turns out, suffer from both muscular and skeletal weaknesses due to the specifics of muscle stimulus, bone loading (or lack), and biochemical changes induced by hours spent on a bike. They're now encourage to strength train to make up for this, though it's another sport that rewards a light, wiry frame.

And finally, yes, if your goal is to be very, very good at winning marathons, you want to be tall, light, slow-twitch, very efficient at metabolizing glycogen, and very good at metabolizing fats (former for higher output, latter as lipid metabolism is generally rate-limited). In a fitness-for-goals perspective, Mr. Mutai is precisely where he needs to be.

For the average Joe or Jane, perhaps not so much.

These, and the sharp bit at the end, are my points.
Beat you by 5 hours :P

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3593031
I frequent Reddit and HN. Although I dont read /r/programming, I do subscribe to /r/economics, /r/business, /r/entrepreneurship and I can say that I am much more likely to read a full article on HN than anything I find on Reddit. It might have something to do with the fact that I give the HN community more credit for having legitimate conversations about topics that arent purely sensationalist. Or that I go to Reddit looking for funny crap and only occasionally come across something good. On the other hand, I go to HN looking for good stuff.
Moving apps to the cloud: Why, when and how
My thoughts:

- thanks for the free apps, I appreciate it

- I don't like "roadblocks". Why don't you change the design on mahalo.com to feature your message prominently?

- mahalo.com looks cheap, improve the design

- why are you blogging on Google Plus? Blog under your own domain. That way the page design could also inform me of your design values, plus that space around the blog post could be used to show me a preview and guide me to your main page.
This is why I prefer reading on the iPad or a laptop as opposed to a Kindle. While a Kindle is certainly easier on the eyes, being able to quickly flip through pages and search through a book is just too great to give up.
Wish I could help more -- I think if you appear deferrential to the law (more so than the officer), it helps remind the law enforcement officer that they are also subject to the law.
"I think that trying to shoehorn Vim or Emacs into becoming something that it’s not [an IDE] isn’t quite thinking about the problem in the right way."

This may or may not be true for Vim, I don't know. But I think the majority of GNU Emacs users would view it as, to a large extent, supplanting the unix shell environment. Stallman notably didn't even use unix until he had written enough of emacs to be able to avoid ed and vi: he edited on another system and transferred the files across the network
Maybe they spend a lot of money for PR or this is the one thing DDG is very good at. It is impressive how diverse their PR is, from so many different sites and so many different topics.

This is just wasted in the end, they have no competitive product. In another market they could be very successful this way.
History Flow: visualizing wikipedia edits [2003]
Why do you need 1 for each service you use?

I just use 1 common password for every non-critical service and I make that password different from my email password. I stick with the same username as well.

I use 1 separate password for my critical services, and store it in EverNote, and I just copy/paste it when I log-in.

It's not such a huge pain. We as tech people always tend to over-abstract solutions to problems. But it has worked for the most part for 10+ years. Ask any regular internet user and they will tell you it's not a big deal. It's only when we invent new ways of logging in like FB Connect, when users start getting angry and spoiled, asking us "Where's FB connect?!".
The crackdown on e-Gold/Bitcoin looks a lot narrower than SOPA/PIPA/ACTA.
That's neat but it seems counter productive to me. I consider rejected Tracker stories to be a good thing. Better for a story to be rejected and provide feedback than to sit ignored or remain unfinished longer than necessary because the developer wants to avoid any possibility of rejection.

Now firing nerf weapons when CI builds fail makes much more sense.
I was wondering the same thing. I've come across a multitude of articles (on major sites) claiming this is a "highly anticipated new app".

The funny thing is, I keep reading these articles and finding myself thinking I must be missing something. There doesn't seem to be anything remarkable here.

Aside from the design, which does look pretty good, I'd say there's nothing at all distinguishing about this app.

Guess it just goes to show how far some good PR people can get you.
You can message the moderators and ask them why is your domain banned.

I did for my own blog and the response was that I got automatically flagged because lately I was only submitting links from a single source. One moderator then un-flagged my domain, but this means that if I don't submit links from other sources as well, I'll get banned again.

Also ... never ask people to upvote you.
You can get some of that functionality out of ctags. I mostly use it for the navigational aspect, but I've seen it used for autocomplete too.
Currently, there is a huge incentive for performers and artists to follow this route of distributing their content. It is still seen as novel and championed by fans, resulting in increased exposure that wouldn't of happened if they would of chosen a normal route for selling their products.

Don't get me wrong, it's good to see this stuff happening but I think the more we see of it the less effective it will be for the artists and they may have a tougher time doing so well.
Sure it is, but so what? Would statically analyzing the code really get you any further?
You don't think its reasonable to pursue cases against sites like MegaUpload, where clear evidence can be established that they uploaded copyrighted content with the intent to profit?

Doesn't it protect community sites like Tumblr and Reddit to carve out a clear definition of who an offender is?
I get the impression that the intention of the authors of the theme is to distinguish between the code and the "design elements". The code, as a derived work, would necessarily be subject to the GPL, but if say the CSS and images (and maybe HTML template - I don't know how Wordpress is built) aren't based on any of the original stuff, and are treated as data and therefore not part of "the software", then those can be subject to a different license. c.f. id's games being released under GPL, but the assets being commercially licensed.
They sort of are my target market, given that my current objective is getting votes. If there were taxi discussion boards out there I'd give them a try, but it's not the kind of thing that communities form around. I figured other programmers/hackers would be more likely to help a fellow programmer out than the average person.

My long-term goal is, of course, to attract taxi riders. But right now the app is only just functional (and is a spare time side-project), so I'm not looking to get thousands of users just yet. Hacker/VC opinions on the app and/or concept are of course welcome, though :)
ITA and Kayak were both founded in the Boston area. I've never really figured out why travel sites seem to have such a base in the Boston area. Anybody have ideas? Proximity to Logan for international travel? MIT and Harvard being located there hence lots of travel...?
Boston is a place where a lot of things start. Do music here, then on to LA. Standup comedy here, then to the real land of New York City. Tech startups are born here then go to the Bay area.
Is AT&T Secretly Packing NFC into its Smartphones? I Think So
To get something manufactured (small or large scale, doesn't matter), at the very least you'll need to have detailed drawings and specifications. I suggest you have someone who knows what a manufacturing drawing should look like do it, or at least help and provide insight. Depending on how willing the shop is to work with you, they may suggest or plan the manufacturing processes, but many job shops will ask you what process they should use. Material selection is also important-'plastic' or 'metal' or even 'wood' is not descriptive enough. Should it be HDPE (which resin from which company?), 1060 aluminum, pine, etc.?

If you want a few professionally made prototypes, you may be able to find a small job shop (i.e. machinist, metal fabricator, etc) locally that will bill you by the hour and make a few. Set up fees and hourly rates can be high, but the work should show it. You may be able to find someone to help you with selecting the material, processes, etc. If you want to jump straight to possible mass production, you'll have to make sure you know exactly what you want and have drawings that show it. From there, you'll request quotes from various manufacturers and select one to do the work.

I've done manufacturing drawings, and actually studied manufacturing in college. Feel free to contact me (email in profile) if you want more insight, CAD help, etc.
That's something I've been saying since a while, and a very nice reference for various tools.

Also, there's another strong argument I like to use: the UNIX philosophy of "Write programs to do one thing, and do it well". An IDE tries to do way too much (ie, everything) at the same time, from start to finish. That's highly inflexible and - in my opinion - terrible design.
Hey, the About page is being updated right now. The site is an initiative of Sprouter.com.

@SarahPrevette - Editor-in-chief
@erinbury (me) - Managing Editor
@drizzled - Senior Writer

(Plus a team of global contributors)
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