skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice site. I bookmarked it but it would be cool to sign up for a email when there are new themes available. A very passive way to stay top of mind.

Thanks for creating this!
Congress to hold hearings over iOS apps collecting personal data
I worked with some really good .NET MVC developers on my last personal project. They worked USA Pacific time zone (9 to 5) and were available via skype and google chat. Let me know if you need their profile and I can shoot it to you in email.
For whatever reason, database people have been using transactions per minute for a long time.
It's not really hearsay. The top CEO quoted runs a company, Fiksu, that does user acquisition on behalf of Groupon, Gilt, Vh1, etc. Most large developers know about bots because they've used or tried them.

They will say this off the record to reporters, but never on the record because they don't want to be banned by Apple.

Also, Apple issued a warning to developers about using these services last week.

Also: @Alexlin, who everyone is beating on in the comments, ran a user acquisition, marketing company for apps called G6Pay and runs his own mobile gaming company, which is part of YC. He actually knows his stuff about how to get to the top of the charts.
This 'run-off' idea can get expensive very fast, maybe not for a company, but it would be expensive for an individual person without significant cash flow
i must say something for this topic.
i fully agree with the author, that linux is becoming a mess these days when you need customize it, e.g for embedded systems or headless servers.
and the first thing I _always_ do is to remove network-manager, that's an ass-hole app!
Experts should address the public directly. It has never been easier for them to do that. But they shouldn't address the public by writing encyclopedia articles. They should write books, write journal articles, give recorded talks, have IamA discussions on Reddit, debate things on message boards. Encyclopedia articles are the worst way for them to address the public.

Wikipedia is one of the most ambitious projects on the whole Internet. It is the world's most ambitious and most expansive encyclopedia. It was created entirely out of donated time using the Internet. It is hard to take seriously any argument that says Wikipedia is unambitious.

There's a whole rest of the Internet for you to build other ambitious knowledge projects on; the rest of the Internet also doesn't demand that you redefine the concept of an encyclopedia to do it.
If they "find another reason", I would think -- but IANAL -- that you would have a pretty strong case for a lawsuit.

Whether you would want to go that route is another question. But if they ask/tell you to do something illegal -- and you can document this -- and then fire you after you refuse, I imagine most courts/judges/juries would look upon this pretty unfavorably.

I further speculate that it might even rise to the level of criminal prosecution, if it was high profile enough. Probably, though, most prosecutors would pass it by.

Basically, though, I agree with other comments here. For a couple of weeks' salary, it's not worth it. Borrow the difference from family/friends if you have to (and make a note to self to maintain a "rainy day" balance, in future). Be grateful you already have something else to move onto, meaning also a "secured" future paycheck.

Just, also, beware of any damage your current employer might try to do to your future position/employment, if they are the vengeful type. Ideally in this case, they would not know of or where your next position is.
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I also checked out the talk page, and if I didn't know the author was an expert, I would also have assumed he was a crank. He approached editing Wikipedia on a lark and failed to offer sources in an acceptable format. No wonder he got smacked down. He cited a blog post for a historical event!
If you're threatening to sue someone unless they pay you for services, you must at least think that they qualify as a client.
This is great because I wouldn't want to live in California they're going broke and it all seems like MOST of the companies there are just in it to sell out quick and make money.
Here's the question I have for Bagcheck: what happens when people have the same name? Since these are human names and not unique usernames, you're bound to get collisions. Are you relying on users identifying themselves from a tiny profile image? If anyone has an idea about how to solve that case, or if my assumptions are incorrect, please enlighten me.
Another big fail of structured education for entrepreneurs is the body of students selected for these university programs. You end up with many consultants, lawyers and small business owners in your network. This is not necessarily bad, but impractical for the connection hungry entrepreneur.

Compare that to say doing YCombinator, a university for entrepreneurs (or at least a boot camp), one that gives you a solid alumni network of like minded entrepreneurs.
Personally, I sold some Bitcoins on TradeHill and was able to withdraw some cash using Dwolla, but then TradeHill complained about fraud on Dwolla, and removed that as a withdrawal option. The only way to get my cash out was to have them mail me a physical check. I put in the request about 6 months ago to have a physical check mailed to me, and it never arrived. Emails to their customer support assured me that they had mailed the check, but this is highly unlikely because I have a locked mailbox and have never had mail go missing before.

They wanted to charge me a stop check fee and reissue a check. Personally, after that experience, I chose not to do business with TradeHill. They are not entirely honest with their customers, and I'm sure there is something going on behind the scenes related to fraud or perhaps the owners are skimming profits off the top.

I do business only with MtGox now, who has proven to be a mostly trustworthy exchange, despite their past security flaws which allowed data loss.
I didn't see a target bootstrap version at http://bootswatch.com/spacelab/bootstrap.min.css

Hence, I assumed that we had to compile the less files.
Also, not everyone will be willing to move to the latest version of bootstrap.

It might be easier to let github manage the multiple versions with a download page similar to this https://github.com/wycats/handlebars.js/downloads .

Personally, I don't mind doing the extra step of lessc if I can get exactly what I want. Thanks for the effort.
Looks awesome! Does anyone have a suggestion for a good site explaining what's the best path for migrating from a master / master setup to a MySQL Cluster?
Or create two sites - one for family trees, other for organisational charts. Identical except for the branding. See which takes off and focus on that.
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> This is important because people do cite Wikipedia

Well, yes, but even Wikipedia tells people not to use it as a source, but to follow the links in the article to the sources. That's one of the reasons why sources are supposed to be important.
Those who can do, those who can't, teach. Why would you expect to find anyone who could teach entrepreneurial skills in a college? With the exception of a few institutions that hire actual entrepreneurs (eg, Steve Blank) most professors simply don't have the skills or experience.

Check the resumes of the professors at your local (or favorite) institutions. How many of them (if any) have experience as a founder, let alone just operational experience in a startup?
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Very cool site, I really like the idea of the 'channel' and therefore syncing around the world, its neat! I agree with some of the comments, the option to skip and 'unsync' would be quite cool.

Is there a way to hide video? I understand its a music video site, but the way it solves the 'irritating experience' of playlists on youtube (which I fully agree with), it great even to use it just for audio.
I would argue that amazing UX _IS_ amazing marketing, precisely because people want to tell other people how awesome the UX is. I have a handy example: the meteoric launch of Clear.
I've been working on a directory of Boston-area tech startups:

http://startupsinboston.com/

Currently about 242 listed -- I know there are more, but discovery is challenging; many web startups don't make any mention of where they're physically located on their site.
Why are you sure that bots do not exist on Android? The article did not deny their existence.

As for that "more holistic" approach, Bots don't usually uninstall apps that they've downloaded. They just get re-instantiated (and possibly reused to further help pad results).

Also if PPI was used, a lot of cash was blown to get 10k downloads and 381 Google +1s sandwiched into a manner of hours. That means the developer either has an inside track or lots of cash to blow and no thought to ever seeing a return.
Too Dense?
Unfortunately there are already hundreds of thousands of creative people in Hollywood trying to claw their way into the business. Hollywood doesn't need to nurture anybody. I'm not saying that it's fair or a good thing - it's just the reality. You have to accept and deal with that reality if you want to work in that business.

I would applaud this guy if he put his movie up for downloading but despite having rights to the material he doesn't want to take a financial risk. Making movies is a gambler's business. I hope he changes his mind - i would check out the movie.
At my company we have a purple lacrosse helmet that is placed on one's desk - like a trophy of humorous shame - whenever someone breaks something. It's all in good fun and helps to lighten the mood when things happen. And they always do.
The Fiksu claim still seems to be based entirely on downloads which don't correspond to use. They think it's bots, but they don't actually know, all they know is they got a lot of downloads from something that didn't use the app afterwards.

For Alexlin, well, I'd be interested in knowing how he knows this too.
It is more suited for realtime transaction processing type activity, not for big data type analytics.

NDB was originally created by and for telecoms. So very high write/read rates with very fast response times and very high availability required. Generally not extremely large datasets.

If you know what you are doing, NDB can work extremely well. It supports all of the highend cluster goodies including online software upgrade, online node addition, automatic handling of node failures, geographic async replication, etc...

However, it certainly has a pretty steep learning curve from the admin point of view and it is a bit easy to mess things up. It is a bit brittle due to this, but once it is setup properly and running, it can deliver on the promises.
New to editing Wikipedia? Read this thread first. Click parent above.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3594892
Come to Austin. We have a nice tech scene here (and budding seed/angel funding community) and it's still relatively cheap to live here.

And it's pretty warm--though the summers get hot. But that's the beauty of growing an Internet business--locate somewhere it's cheap, and head out for a month or two whenever you need to.
PDF is the OS X and iOS native vector format (and before that, PostScript). It was one of the great design decisions made by the early NeXT OS engineers, even though few people understand what "Display PostScript" or "Display PDF" really means.

Most of the toolbar icons you see in Mail, Preview, Finder, etc. are actually PDFs that scale to any size.

The OP could have (and probably should have) used PDF for his vector-based graphics. And actually, by exporting raw CoreGraphics drawing functions from Illustrator he's essentially exporting a PDF document in a custom file format.
http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/css/don%E2%80%99t-fear-st...
still getting application error.
Google is certainly not helping there, giving descriptions to permissions that are way more vague than they should be.

What exactly does "Full Internet access" mean? How about "Access to contact list"? - and so on. In reality they are not as dangerous as they seem. I don't think that even means it gives access to the contact list the way iOS does it. I think it just means the app can fetch those contacts in a widget, or a SMS app, or something, but definitely not sending it to their servers.

Still, I wish they were more clear about this, because either it makes you not want to install the app at all, even though it's safe, or you start ignoring all these permissions, and install all apps without even looking at them, because you don't understand them anyway.
Author Steven Johnson on what e-books are missing: "Skimming."
Very nice effects well rendered! Image quality was fine.
I got tired of collecting anecdotes; after a little bit, one more anecdote 'well I kind of sort of felt better although you know I didn't collect any kind of data whatsoever' is just pointless to link to. Sleep is variable, you can see any pattern you want to in a few days, especially with a dab of selection bias. (If I had stopped after 10 days, the means would have looked more impressive; but the p-values tell the truth.)
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The responsiveness is great, and the interface is nice, but the fact that you have to create all lists on the device is a significant limitation.

This is where Trello, Evernote, etc. have an advantage - it's a lot easier for me to make a large list (like a grocery list) on a PC via a website, and then just use my phone or whatever while I'm shopping or for minor edits.
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I don't understand what was so crappy about the subject line. If I was using any service, free or not, and I received an email with the company name and the word "Permissions" in the subject line, I would read it.
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great. hope you post again when you do. That's what's also limiting my interest in your site.
Ok. Fair enough. Thanks for expanding. FWIW, in the busy execs hate lunches post - I was really just trying to offer honest advice to young entrepreneurs. I do lunches all the time. But I also get requests from random people I don't know to do lunch or dinner. I thought it was worth educating some of these younger people about what common-sense etiquette is. I know you think it's obvious - but based on my sample data it isn't always.
Wait, so the machines have been upgraded to not provide any information at all? This can only be a bald faced lie. What would the be the point in using the machine if it only shows and "outline" or intentionally "blurs" the image? So nothing is visible? Can they still see the weapons or whatever they are looking for?
Let live and let live is a famous Cologne proverb. There's a lot to it! I love it here. :)
Or sheesh, perhaps a phone call.

I do not understand so many tech companies' reluctance to pick up the phone. Often you can resolve whatever you need to resolve in 10-15 minutes, and you don't come off looking like a jerk during the process.
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we did this via a multipart rush:

1. social media links from 40 or so team members (including my social footprint which is fairly large).

2. an email to 10,000 of our users with links to free products

3. a roadblock on Mahalo.com with a popup

4. getting featured in some "formerly paid now free" apps/websites. Which we didn't actually ask for... they just found the price drop and listed us.

What I can't figure out is how to make education free and pay for all this content (we make our own videos, hire and pay folks, etc). Kahn has donations, Lynda.com is $25 a month and DVDs and books are $35 each.

I'm banking on there being a model for $1.99 to $9.99 educational apps.

Thoughts? Are we doing it right?
HN has been mocked repeatedly for having stories about TSA scanners on the front page... Yet here we go again.

Anyone care to explain how this is relevant to hackers?
StackMob Introduces Hosted HTML5
> I would imagine it looks something like having a housemate randomly stuff the cat into one of two bags and you randomly opening precisely one each night via some sort of complicated-but-scientific mechanical contraption.

I dasn't - I'd be accused of being a sociopathic animal abuser (again). On the other hand, there must be some way to rig the door to open at, say, 1 AM with 1:1 odds. Hm...
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My problem with the built in app is the placement of important buttons. I'm constantly hitting back/play/forward instead of the "back" button when navigating artists or albums.

It's the same issue I have with the AirPlay icon on the iPhone lock screen; it is right beside the forward icon and I am ALWAYS hitting forward instead of my intended tap on AirPlay. When you're listening to a two hour podcast, this is very frustrating.
Geez... Do you know who did their PR? What does a PR campaign like this cost?
So, I think I see the root of our disagreement here.

I'm not proposing that encyclopedias writ large could/should/would do this--I propose that Wikipedia specifically do this.

I claim that Wikipedia is considered an encyclopedia as that is the closest idea in mainstream use of what it is--and that now it's time to evolve further to better human understanding. There's no ambition--to use phrenology's phrasing--in doing anything less.
It's funny, because they are quite clear. Click on the "Permissions" tab and you can read through the permissions the app requires and what those permissions entail.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.twitter.android
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Ya, that's important to understand. This is really just another UI for your existing music (works great with my iTunes match library for instance). You can even switch between both the built-in app and deck to control if you want.
oh shoot, thanks for noticing! Here's the fixed link: http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/node/714
1. Select a platform (Facebook, Meetup, roll-your-own, etc)
2. Post call for participants all over the intarwebs
3. Measure reactions and find likeminded +1 doers
4. Meetup
5. Profit (as in sharing of ideas, experiences, networking and general good times)

It's not hard. Someone just needs to DO IT! :)
But they didn't kill the app from users phones, they removed it from the marketplace.
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People are focusing on the eating specifics (or the video games specific) and arguing about that when I think it's the process itself that's most interesting here.

You might have different priorities than the OP when it comes to nutrition, or leisure activities - that's fine - substitute in your own priorities so we can talk about the process (Snacking Hierarchy) and its merits.

Whether step 2 is Vegetables or Nuts is immaterial. The point is that it's a progressive stepwise motion towards those tempting things that you're trying to avoid.
We don't know, because Apple never said another thing about FaceTime being submitted as an open protocol. Someone might even think they made the empty promise just so they wouldn't get flack about another proprietary chat service. But who knows... Apple should have addressed it one way or another.
"as far as we know"

Is there good, unbiased evidence of that? I don't trust the manufacturers nor the government, but I also don't believe because electromagnet waves are involved, it is inherently toxic.
Are international guys welcome?
Massachusetts is dead average (#24) on the Tax Foundation's climate index (http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22658.html).

However, taxes are probably going to be a pretty small consideration for a startup, since the top three locations (Wyoming, South Dakota, Nevada) are not particularly hot in startup land, but the bottom three (California, NY, New Jersey) are.
I read the entire article and have no idea what your app does or why I should care.
... WPI or Olin.
One complaint:
When browsing artists, why don't you move though the Artist -> Albums -> Songs hierarchy? If I have an artist with 10 albums, selecting that artist just gives me an alphabetical list of all their songs across all 10 albums. This is lame when you want to start an album from the top and listen through.

(Yes, I'm aware that you can navigate by album name, but who remembers all your album's names?)
Those phidget boards are pretty great. I bought some flashing lights from woot that we had kick on via the USB phidget interface anytime our pingdom checks failed. Now everyone hates the yellow lights :)
AT&T Flips Switch on Two New 4G LTE Markets
Wow, I actually had no idea you could convert paths from illustrator to Objective-C code! This just opened a whole new world for me. Thank you!

Side note: digging a little bit, here's a very useful library for converting SVG to UIBezierPaths: http://ponderwell.net/2011/05/converting-svg-paths-to-object...
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But how would companies with lots of users provide notice otherwise? Apple is not going to be sending out letters to all XYZ million users of iTunes when they change the Terms of Service.
The only person who could really answer the Why was Jobs himself, and even though this was an authorized bio, I never really felt that there was much personal insight from Jobs himself. Did Isaacson really not ask the questions, or did Jobs not know the answers himself?
If you have to tell people how to pronounce a name then there's a problem.

If the name is a homophone for a common word or term then it makes it somewhat confusing when people talk about it. (Try having a conversation about the Ruby database gem Sequel).

Bottom line is you're better off having the name pronounced as it looks: pik-tor. It's distinctive and less confusing.
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Presumably you still have someone review the automated refactor, right? Plus, smalltalk isn't a statically typed language.
Thanks. My wife and I are leaning towards Orlando due to its proximity to family. Can anyone comment on the Orlando startup scene?
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Nothing like a subjective "Trust me" to inspire trust in objectivity.
You don't review automated refactorings?
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