skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. That would require the user to take more action that necessary, since they now have to click on a link and remember your password. It would also be less secure, since they may choose a bad password.
Freemium is supposed to work because FREE is very powerful (read Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely - chapter 3).

You can get many users to sign up for free and they can be great advertisers for you.

However, providing something for free can also trick you in deciding which features to build and whether people really want the thing you build. The difference between free and $1 is much bigger then $1 and $10. I believe that is where a lot fremium startups fail. They just assume 5% of free will convert. Nope: in many cases it is 0%.

So I never sign up for service which is free and there is no way to upgrade to some paid version. Even if they are in beta.
The thing is that UNIX already has those tools--they just naturally depend on language. So, for example, Emacs has js2-mode and js2-refactor which are about as good as you can expect for JavaScript. There are also similarly capable modes for Lisp.

There are also editor-independent tools like Ensime for Scala which is basically a server that provides IDE-like tools that can be used from Emacs or Vim. Scion provides something similar for Haskell.

There are also things like CEDET for C/C++ which add very IDE-like capability to Emacs. In fact, CEDET is basically just a framework for parsing languages and using that information for things like auto-complete.

Of course, there are some languages conspicuously missing--Java and C# for example. I tried using JDEE for Java a while back and it was really bad; I've never used C# but I don't think it's well-supported either. Ironically, these are two of the languages that need an IDE the most in my experience. (And the language that needs it least--Haskell--has some support.)

So if you're doing serious Java/C# development, then you have a valid point. If you're using another language, chances are that Emacs or maybe several editors can actually support it intelligently. (Also, maybe there are options for C#/Java that I am not aware of. If so, I would appreciate being enlightened.)
#4 is fixed in version 7.0 and upwards
BagCheck is more of a good concept of a simplified login, but the implementation drops the ball.

I've looked into registration/sign up flows for a project a while ago, and I find it hard to group Pinterest invites into the "sign up" flow. Ultimately, Pinterest users still have to complete a registration flow once they receive an invite.

I think it's pretty difficult to break from some established webform design (lukew's book was pretty good regarding web form design, but it's a bit old now) for registration.

I may be splitting hairs, but I ultimately consider some of the onboarding steps used to increase conversions part of a broader "conversions" flow with the "sign up" flow within that. Pinterest may increase conversions and give an illusion of simplicity, but the actua registration flow is hardly simplified by adding the invite step.
Dart arrived on Chromium: Welcome Dartium #dartlang
Thank you! If you are curious to see how the Github/ StackMob integration works here is a screencast: https://www.stackmob.com/platform/help/tutorials/html5_js_sd...
Their FAQ and their license conflict. Simple. You could ignore their FAQ, as it's likely not legally binding, but they still may be able to make an argument in court, depending upon how visible their FAQ is..

Edit: on second read you say "They mention they are licensing under the GPL." em just mentioning that in their FAQ is likely not legally binding either. Your best bet is to check out the source, and see if the source references any license. Alternatively, you can find out if it's a derivative of an existing GPL licensed theme (afaik, most themes are derivatives) in which case it'd inherit the GPL from there, and it doesn't matter what their FAQ says.

Edit2: Turns out I was mistaken about the details of inheriting the GPL, read the sub post.
One of the reasons I outright hate AT&T (née SBC). They refuse to provide service, then lobby and sue to prevent municipalities from doing it themselves.
Furthermore, you get a lot of publicity by being the target of major litigation. Especially if you end up winning.
I am pretty sure they have the use of the license wrong.

Also, if you did get a copy of a product and modified the code, you would not have to distribute that code if you did not distribute the product or make it available for public use in some way. In other words, modifying the code itself does not necessarily trigger an obligation to distribute the code.

Also, from this:

"You are allowed to sell copies of the modified program commercially, but only under the terms of the GNU GPL. Thus, for instance, you must make the source code available to the users of the program as described in the GPL, and they must be allowed to redistribute and modify it as described in the GPL. These requirements are the condition for including the GPL-covered code you received in a program of your own."(Emphasis added.)

That seems to imply to me that if you are not "a user", you are not entitled to the code. So what constitutes a user with a theme? If I buy the theme and you do not, it would seem that I am entitled tot the code, you are not but I am free to give it to you if I wish. Also if I put the theme on my blog and you read my blog, are you then a user and entitled? Or am I then making the theme public and everyone is entitled?

On that last paragraph, see also: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnreleasedMods
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Corel PDF Fusion [1] implements "flick" view for skimming. Implementation however is nowhere close to right (too slow, mouse gestures mishandled, etc.)

[1] http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4100140
They did. They worked out of Vina del Mar, where I lived for 6 months during my stint at Start-Up Chile.

The TH guys are a good group, really smart, and doing progressive things. It's unfortunate that they keep getting screwed by the payment processors, who themselves have acted shadier than TH ever did. cough Dwolla cough http://tradehillblog.com/2011/07/26/why-we-are-no-longer-acc...
Those look nothing alike.
Oh, that's cool. I didn't know that was possible.
Trade Hill's official blog post of the matter: http://tradehillblog.com/2012/02/13/tradehill-suspending-tra...
I think this is a great listing of traits and attributes.
Applying Google's PageRank algorithm to the molecular universe
DocumentUp creator here.

Cool project. Why can't we both collaborate on the same project instead and make it awesome? You seem to also be using CoffeeScript, eco, express and marked.

I have a few ideas about "Documentation as a Service", unfortunately I don't have enough time to devote to this project so it's kind of stagnating right now. Would appreciate your help.

So what made you create that?
I wish the popular e readers had apis for working with book content - skimming could be only one of the awesome enchancements the tech community could make. Among others would be tying words to wikipedia lookups or research citations to the actual content, aggregating all graphs in some sort of navigable 3d interface, page in page reading, the list could literally go on forever.

on the negative side, we'd probably have to sift through tons of crappy word cloud for your book apps.
I think it's more just the screen update speed. You can flip pages about as quickly as the screen will update, which is fairly slow. Also, the visible page area is much smaller than a normal book, especially a textbook or a journal, and you can only see one page at a time. It makes for slow skimming and sort of tunnel vision that causes a loss of the visual structure.
I've had a couple of articles hit both. r/programming is a traffic machine because it has a huge readership, not many articles, so stuff sticks around for ages.

I think www.writemoretests.com is blacklisted at r/programming though, which is a shame. Either I asked coworkers to upvote my stories too frequently, or someone took offense to my articles. Meh.
It is cheaper and there is a lot of low priced, decent talent coming from UCF but if you are selling locally it will be tough since everything sells for less there.

You will also have no backup plan if your startup doesn't work since wages are so low.

There is no startup scene and everyone you meet will work in real estate or hospitality.

I live in beacon hill now and can tell you that I am constantly impressed by the smart people I meet in Boston. When I lived in Orlando I felt the exact opposite.
That sounds incredibly baroque, complicated, and fragile.
Or a couple (dozen) others...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_metropolitan_Boston
cool. I'm applying.
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Conversely, if you try to edit down the nonsensical word salads wikipedians tend to create, your edit will likely be reverted with 'Valuable content which could be improved'. The whole thing is becoming impenetrable.
Train to be an Amateur, Not an Expert
A Concept Design for C++
Exactly. This kind of thinking that "we all know that site is bad" happened to Dajaz1, too, and yet the Court disagreed. Imagine the potential for abuse for such "we all know who's a pirate" cases.

Plus, we still haven't figured out how bad piracy really is and what it means for humanity. I refuse to support anymore copyright enforcement laws, until we overhaul copyright laws first, and we adapt them to the 21st century. Not a single new copyright law until we reform what we already have and repeal some of the abusive ones, like the last few copyright extensions, amend the DMCA against abusers to pay higher damages, and so on.
It's the music, stupid [content vs execution]
Current e-ink screens take more or less a full second to refresh, which makes a mockery of skimming.

You can't skim through the entire contents of a website yet either - but you should be able to! Hint, hint, startup people.
Obama Looks to Hollywood to Raise Millions for Re-Election Bid
What if I had bought the CDs used for $8 or $5 each? Do I have to go by the full retail price, and if so, is this price at introduction, or is retail price a couple of years later okay?

Oh yeah, I forgot - how much is buying a ticket to seeing them live worth? Full ticket retail price, or less?
No one uses DDG - they must have hired a PR firm to get some BS stories planted. their results are pretty terrible for the few tests I did the last time their PR firm got something on HN.
Is this really true except for products that have a strong techie following? For me, I can't think of any product I recommended to someone mostly because of the amazing UX.

I'm not discounting the importance of UX, but it's easy to fall into the trap of focusing too much on the UX, and not on producing something people want, and finding a way to reach those people in a profitable, scalable way.
If you're going to use user-defined literals for things like "mm" and "km", then you really want to combine it with something like Boost.Units. Such a library doesn't yet exist. (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9257826/physical-boost-un... for an example of roll-your-own.)

Today I wanted to convert from hPa to Torr. Pressure units are diverse. At least I didn't need psig.
This is the best article I have read on the subject is "What color are your bits"[1]. My feeling is that people arguing for stricter copyright enforcement online are trying to unring a bell. They just don't understand that yet.

It's going to take a new generation who have grown up with the internet to wipe this slate clean.

[1] http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php
Do we really need to go through this again? Do people here on HN really have that short of a memory?

Search HN for: Thesis theme. This has been debated to death and you will get the correct answers there.
Cleaning up Earth's orbit: A Swiss satellite tackles space debris
Yeah, I've used Emacs for Java in the past and the support is not good even if you use JDEE (which is outdated and slow anyhow). I'm an Emacs fanatic, but even so think you would be better off with an IDE in nontrivial Java programs.

I solved the problem by not using Java, but this is obviously not an easy option for you :). Emacs does support Scala fairly well (from what I've heard) with Ensime, for it's worth.
Where is the platform?
It's a memory problem afaik and on the Kindle it's a display problem.

On the PC nothing should prohibit you from doing this. I don't know how much memory a whole 500 Site E-Book takes, but my 8GB should be enough.
In 2010 I had a free app featured that had no previous traction. At the time, the app had been in the Appstore for about three weeks, and my second update just been made available. Total downloads before being featured were under 20. To me, being featured seemed to be a random event.
Is there a way, at a glance, to recognize x-ray vs millimeter machines?
They can't. If "no phishing" is a desired property, then it would be up to the distribution ecosystem to either carefully monitor for such products and deny them, or to at least allow some mechanisms for users to verify products themselves (such as SSL combined with URL bars do for general web traffic).
Oh, and I don't mean that how it probably sounded: DO get in touch and let us know how we can help in any way making a FRA HN meetup happen! We'd love to help any way we can!
This is really a key point that renders 90% of the discussion of this moot (bringing in a primary source to resolve it, too!).

From reading that, it appears that there was just a misunderstanding -- all the author had to do was link in the wikipedia article to the reliable sources. Instead, he linked on his blog to the reliable sources.

To me, this simple misunderstanding pretty much makes the Chronicle article lose all credence -- if I'm reading a wikipedia article and I find a factual assertion dubious (or just wonder where it came from) I don't want a link to some blog (especially since it appears that I can't even read the link -- I get some sort of login page). Instead, I want the link (or reference) to the original sources. For factual disagreements, any sort of primary or reliable secondary source is more than sufficient to have resolved this.
another vote for the RSS feed. Without it, it won't be on my reading list either.

Just as a note to future publishers: RSS is not a feature to add AFTER the fact but ought to be a launch readiness item if you're publishing content.
In hot water: The "other" global warming
No. (But you can strech definitions a bit if you want to. Biology is weird)
I think many of the DDG search results are not very good, but when that happens I just put !g in front of the query to search google instead. Other search results are pretty awesome.
Dropbox and Facebook were started in Boston.
Wikipedia's accidental mission to ensure the stability and propagation of "popular misconceptions" is not very compelling.

I understand it is the current tradeoff for something as great as wikipedia. But that doesn't mean the criticism is invalid.
Ask HN: please unban work IP
I noticed hn was slow yesterday, so I ran "ab -n 20 -c3 http://news.ycombinator.com/" to try to see how slow it was, and my company's ip has been banned for more than a day now. Sorry, I didn't think 20 hits would be a big deal. Our IP is 66.219.50.2 . Can we be unbanned please? Thanks!
Codemod - Interactive code refactoring
A serious deficiency in PasswordMaker is that, by default, it ignores subdomains, so bbc.co.uk and evil.co.uk would share the same password. But if you enable the subdomain option, then www.bbc.co.uk and www2.bbc.co.uk then have different passwords.
Sounds like a task for the GPU.
A young 'Prime Time' offers valuable life advice
Agreed. Most attorneys, even back then, usually give you your first consultation free. Attorneys are also supposed to take several cases per year on a pro bono basis. I think this would have been great for both parties.

Attorney gets plenty of press for taking on the studio (and most likely enough business afterwards to pay for the costs and work he did), student gets free legal representation, and the big studio looks horrible attempting to quash a students film he needs to graduate.
> And yet the iPod was super duper popular.

Sorry, I disagree. Any stats on that?

> You mean 10-20% of Apple customers were exposed to personal interactions with Steve Jobs?

SJ > Technologists/Journalists > Masses is what people are suggesting.
Sure. Ugly Google Spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AvcaBxBg441ZdFp...

Reddit actually has more Firefox. And HN has more IE. I guess more people are living in corporate hell than we like to think.
Whooohooo!
IPhones and unprotected sex
Hell no it hasn't. Passwords are useful when you need one or two at most. On the nets you need one for each service you use and you have to remember it. Also you have to choose your username, which you have to remember too.

This scheme puts a lot less requirements on the users, since they only have to remember their email, which is public, non-secret and (presumably) easy to remember.
A platform to profile your iOS App.It's lacking features, but what do you think?
How to choose a domain name for your startup
I agree. DDG's index is 1% the size of Google's, and after a few queries, I quickly go back to Google. I highly doubt their small index is b/c of quality reasons - they probably can't scale as much as they want, but in the end, that's 99% of the product.

The cool syntax, privacy, UX, etc makes up 1%, and can never make up for the lack of quality results (compared to Google)

In the end, it's still too early to judge them as a failure or success, they need 4-5 more years. But as it is right now, they are nowhere close to being remotely popular. The number of queries per day is a very misleading stat. That's now what's important - it's the number of unique visitors. You can have 10 people that make up a million queries, yet I doubt advertisers will be clamoring to advertise to those 10 users. Search is a product where it's pretty much 1-2 winners take all. Yahoo has 10% of the search engine market share, but has .01% of the advertising share. It's not 1:1
Speaking of no one uses DDG, I don't want to be a straw man here but I believe everyone know that Google does few things very well and search is one at the very top of that list of things. I believe DDG should innovate and add few other services into the mix (like what Google added later on, Reader, Gmail etc) so DDG can potentially see if they can see itself as viable option as a service. Just relying on search as an alternate option against Google, is very limited.
GetClicky makes this data /bitch/ to extract. I'm afraid I can only give aggregate from two stories in September, both of which hit both frontpages.

Chrome: 45.5%
Firefox: 30%
Mobile: 15%
Safari: 5%
IE: 2.8%
Opera: 2%

... and one visitor allegedly on a PS3.
This could be the partner that dropped them. Article on how a Paxum, a payment processor, stopped working with TradeHill because of the risk: http://www.betabeat.com/2012/02/13/banking-partners-force-pa...

Here is a quote from Ruth Blair, a Paxum representative:
“We had been in discussions with our banking partners, Mastercard and our auditors for the last couple of weeks, and on Friday our banking partners ended the discussions with us and stated that it was too much of a potential risk to continue doing business with Bitcoin and Bitcoin Exchangers and instructed us to close all Bitcoin-related accounts,” Ms. Blair wrote on Friday in the forum for adult site webmasters, GoFuckYourself. “We had no choice but to follow those instructions and therefore, all Bitcoin associations were severed on Friday.”
Is Boston the kind of place where you can find engineers whose former job was to scale a database or web server or cache to hundreds of millions of active users?

It must be, otherwise Akamai would not stay in Cambridge.
20 Reasons You SHOULDN'T Invest in the Stock Market
Not every service provider works that way - I've seen plenty of hosting companies who just start charging overage charges - it would be stipulated somewhere in their TOS which most likely would also have the wording that it can be changed at any time. I'm not justifying the action - just saying that it does happen.
Unless you cling on to the phone like your life depended on holding it tight this is simply bogus. A full week? I find it almost impossible to believe that any grown person could be that feeble.
Threatening to bankrupt someone with a nuisance lawsuit that has no merit is not looked favorably on by judges, and a lawyer who says as much risks sanctions from both a judge and the bar association.
It's definitely fun to use, but since it's gotten such glowing press, I'll be a negative nancy and point out the flaws :).

The biggest one is that it's hard or impossible to do a few important things with the same hand that's holding the phone. The pinch-open gesture can be worked around by adding and rearranging items, but the pinch-close gesture (to go up a level) is pretty near impossible.

The other rookie mistake is that because eight items fit precisely on the screen, you can't tell if there are more items below the fold without trying to scroll (and they don't flash the scroll indicators when the list appears).

Finally, it would be nice if there were a setting to show the status bar. I might want to know what time it is while I'm organizing my to-do list.
The analytics for my blog look very similar to this. A 24-hour period of intense activity followed by basically nothing. I had a post reach the front page of Hacker News [1] and /r/programming [2]; it got around 10,000 hits. I reached the same conclusion about HNers vs. redditors: HN stays longer and interacts more, but sends fewer hits.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3252582
[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/mh5p2/i_acciden...
I think the world needs an app especially for listening to audiobooks, because that's a special case needing different UI from listening to music. A purpose built app for listening to audiobooks needs a rewind 30 seconds button, like Audible has. It would also need special UI features for moving forward and back through the audio-- the normal slider method works really terribly when listening to a 4 hour long piece of audio where 1 pixel is like 7 minutes.
I saw another post debating "Unix is IDE", and though I am an avid vim/linux enthusiast, there is no denying re-factoring is a pain, and relying on grep/sed might prove disastrous on a large code base.

codemod is a regex based interactive refactoring tool. It allows confirmation for the substitution(yes/no), as well as opening the editor to make manual changes. It's a sweet spot between tedious manual refactoring, and possibly incorrect automated refactoring, especially for dynamic languages.
Hey Akash, thanks for writing back. I'm from New Delhi. I'd love to take part in any hacking event. Please let me know if there's a good one being organized some time soon.

CIS? Center for Internet and Society? Has it held any hacking event recently?

My email id: vedanta5srj@gmail.com
Currently deployed scanners operate in the 24-30 GHz range. Generally, microwave radiation is considered safe as long as it's not intense enough to cause burns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave#Health_effects
Amazon Blocks Instant Video on BlackBerry PlayBook, Blames Apple
Very nice, I just tried feeding it a few recent penny-arcade strips (I've always like their colouring) and it' thrown back some nice choices.
If Google Delivers a Cloud Storage Service, Here's the Real Motive
PyPy and it's future challenges
Best link building blogs to read and follow
I have put together the following list of the best link building blogs from the authorities in the link world. You could call em linkerati if you want.