skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From their website:

"Payments funded by your bank account or Venmo balance are always free. Your first $500 of credit card payments are also free."

It is only after the first $500 credit card usage (I am assuming, per month) that the 3% charge becomes active. I don't think it is too bad.
And pirates will continue to offer a superior user experience.

While this sounds like a very bad idea, it could end up making content cheaper for those who don’t mind viewing adverts. In fact, a movie could be offered free as long as you don’t fast forward past that shampoo or car commercial. However, it’s more likely we’ll end up paying the same for content and these charges will be on top of that base price as a way of boosting profits.

... Pretty bad when the most likely scenario, the worst case, is assumed to be true by all parties before a product is even real.
He might be talking about the N64 (which IIRC most games used the set of 32-bit instructions because they were faster and "accurate enough" at the time. - Not sure, though.)
No one has mentioned Terminal IDE which supports vim, and git.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spartacusr...
I know Louis CK was successful in this model, but at the time I expressed hesitation about others following his lead.

He made a good amount of money, but given Louis CK is probably the most popular working comedian today, it didn't seem like ENOUGH money to justify the entire business model (assuming no one else would make as much doing the same).

But now Aziz Ansari is doing it. Jim Gaffigan has announced plans to do so as well.

I know we'll have to wait for their numbers to come in to find out if Louis CK was a fluke or a trend, but I'm really hoping I was wrong and it's the latter.

If this is the future of selling online content, sign me up.
As a counter argument - the best person to know you is you. We all owe it to ourselves to learn how to debug our own bodies and minds. They're all different and achieving mastery of a particular one can only be done by itself. The benefits of this are numerous in that you become predictable to yourself. You know how you'll react in situation X and that if you do Y at Z time you can avoid mental state Q. A shrink won't be able to tell you that.

As a counter-counter argument, the truth is in the middle. There's a lot of collective wisdom and knowledge on these subjects and a lot which can only be discovered independently. A hybrid approach is head and shoulders above either one in isolation.
On Poetry & Programming
You would think that, but more than half the hotels I stay at still don't offer wireless.
I wish I could use Venmo or a similar service for more than just paying my friends for bets I've lost... I'd love to use it to pay for public transit or a quick lunch. I was really excited when square's https://squareup.com/cardcase came out but then no one used it.
Wonderful story. I always hope to have the kind of relationship with my kids as Jef Raskin did with his son Aza.

Teach them, inspire them, and watch them grow into more than you ever dreamt they could be.
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Now that is an impressive chart. A little tough to quickly sort out at a glance but informative nonetheless.
I see a vertical bar floating over 15 lines of the body text. I found it annoying to scroll the page to read around the thing.
Why Zynga is considering $200M purchase of DrawSomething creator OMGPOP
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looks great! :)
I'm currently working at a place which separates its programmers into offices of 2 or 3 people. I'm used to working in open plan offices and so far my current situation feels much like the worst of both worlds. Obviously someone, somewhere thought this would make us more productive but I can't see it.

As with the article I agree that there should be some private space for programmers to work alone. Perhaps not 100% of the time but instead have the open plan aspect for communication and then a separate series of offices people can move to and close the door for some privacy. Not sure how well that'd work in some environments but it's something to think about.
I was surprised at a family gathering recently how many of my in-laws reach the paywall and then clear their cookies. Even non-techies can work around the paywall.
I think you can pursue those two goals, its just the copy that needs a little work. A user coming to your page is going to know which bucket they fit into (pro or newbie). If a pro user comes and sees "learn how to sign up for Twitter" then they might leave before fully investigating because they think the site is obviously not for them. I would take out that line for sure.

An idea might be to segment your users up front. So the front page would say something like "Our service can help anyone interested in social media, from small business just learning how to use social media effectively to power users looking to gauge influence, find optimal posting times and understanding customized analytics."

Then the newbies get sent in one direction with a button "I'm new to this, tell me more about social media"

and the pro users get sent in another
"I'm pro user, tell me more about how you can help me"
The more time I spend Debugging shit the less likely I am to Architect or even Start anything because I am painfully aware that everything produces shit.

EDIT: Wow. A downvote. That what I get for showing the pain I experience to the world. :-)
Great project! Looking really good
Some startup needs to aggregate, give cloud storage, and iPad/roku/boxee apps for these things.
Is this the best new ipad competitor known today?
Of course!

Well, the quiet town bit and the no stress bit, anyway. I like what I do, I just don't feel like doing it every waking hour of my life. I have years where I just want to move to someplace quiet and slow-paced and spend as much time as possible with my wife. (And when we have kids, that's exactly what we'll do.)

Your skill set is so sought after these days. My current company would surely jump at the chance to give you some contract work.

If I were you, I would leave the job, take a year, and rent a place in that quiet town. I would line up a little contract work, which frankly, won't be hard. I would bill by the hour and work less than eight hour days. I would drink beers with my friends and hang out in backyards. After the year, I would reevaluate - quiet towns have their pros, but they also have their cons.

It's not your skills that are causing you pain here, it's what you're doing with them. Your abilities can be used to make you happy.
Oh man, this is like seeing dusty old family pictures. So nostalgic!
I am sad: not a single rainbow <HR> in sight.
Commissioning, Testing, and Maintenance of Electrical Systems (1.2 CEUs)
Do You Have to Be Rude to Manage Like Steve Jobs?
Much better. Thank you, Aziz.
Nothing in his post indicates homosexuality.
IE8 and Android 2.4 don't support it for one, but it does seem SVG has never really had traction. I've heard SVG has poorer rendering performance in most browsers (I'm not actually sure if that's true), and that some folks feel it makes it easier for their assets to be copied.
Clipping issues galore, but still a great demo of where things are going :-)
It's a powerful tool!!
nice job guys :)
Exactly! I once wrote NYT feedback asking, “how much would I need to pay for a no-ad version?”

Their response was insulting. Essentially quoting the digital subscription rates without even addressing my question.
You got 1/10th of the I/O performance, so you traded disk seeks for network latency?
no blink-tags either...
That sounds like an extremely expensive proxy. Why would you want to do that?
I've always felt that gnashing of teeth over the NYT paywall was moot anyway, since any right-thinking person will have a print subscription to the Times for the crosswords.
I have had the joy of working with a few other's really clear Perl scripts, and some of it really was whipped up.

I have had others praise code I have just whipped up.

However, the trick here is to get used to documenting your code as you write it. That avoids most problems. It also forces you to clarify your thoughts as you write the code. Clear thought becomes readable code. Messy thoughts become a nightmare.
I recall a study concluding that difficult economic times leads people to support more extreme political candidates. This effect could be related to that.
Glad to see that Amazon is still a bit excitable ;)

http://blog.mailchimp.com/the-email-person-at-amazon-web-ser...
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=8...

^^ gave me an under construction page :)
The mythical designer that

1) is able to write valid cross-browser CSS ready for deployment without developer tweaking

2) would not understand basic logical constructs such as CSS Constants.

does not, in fact, exist. At least, I have never met one.

Think of it like this, imagine there is a sort of spectrum for capability of abstract logical/mathematical related thought. Roughly, on one extreme end there's someone who is so intuitive practical you wouldn't trust to properly split a dinner bill (this is not a "designer stereotype" btw, but an example of the very extreme end of the scale), in between there's doing calculations, solving simple equations, writing CSS, writing CSS-with-constants, using a templating language, doing actual coding, hardcore coding genius, and at the far end there's Neo who can stop bullets with his mind by wearing the right kind of shades and longcoat.

Your fear of "having too much logic and driving designers away" is only valid if the majority of web-designers fall right between "capable of writing CSS" and "capable of writing CSS with constants". Sorry but that's a rather narrow range and I'm not buying it.

And the few designers that happen to fall exactly in that range will either have to write CSS without constants (which is fine), or learn to deal with it.
The danger I had when I got good at debugging, is I came away with the belief that I needed to make mistakes impossible to make. In that regard, I did exactly as you say is unlikely. I left a world of debugging and wrote some highly over engineered crap. Pulling things back to make the mistakes obvious, not impossible, I've had much much more enjoyment.

I can also say that the thing you really need to do is use what you are programming. Or at least something like it. I don't know as that this is cross cutting, in that someone that uses a product may not be good at building it, but they are probably good at selling/describing it.
This could get into deep discussions about what is an OS (versus a kernel), what constitutes the "same" OS (versus a modified version of the OS) and even what can be put in the same class as Windows.

I think what Microsoft is getting at is, OSX and Ubuntu don't run the same code on their mobile devices. Windows 8 will. It's marketing, and NetBSD doesn't even cross their mind.
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If you are not paying for the product, you are paying in other ways, this just puts a number on it. If you consider the implications, you are paying quite a bit in power in addition to privacy issues.

This is why:

a) my gps AND network location is turned off 99.99% of the time.

b) I have ad-blocking software which prevents lots of this network overhead.

^^ the above is justified because it actually costs me, want to serve me ads? fine, but not when they come at a price.
Tests confirm new iPad’s display is close to studio reference quality
Not just the server market. Home storage is ever-expanding too.

For example, my laptop has a 250GB HDD and I have a few (read: too many) external hard drives that add up to about 10TB.

I would love to replace my laptop drive with a SSD and the external drives with one or two of these new 6TB drives.

SSDs are great, but that doesn't some people won't also need big HDDs.
nice job !
I'm not surprised. Even thugh I added scripts to defeat their paywall my viewing habits have changed from around five articles a day to five per month.
If it were really on the verge of bankruptcy would it be attractive? That would pretty much indicate that it had failed as a venture so why would Apple want it?
SpaceX CEO claims he can send you on a round-trip to Mars for $500K
You do if you are on AT&T's network, at the very least.

Sure, not all Android devices require jail breaking, but some do.
If you disable javascript on the site you don't even need to ever bother with cookies. This prevents some multimedia parts of the site from working, but you can read all you want.
Change the theme id to 5 :)
Nope. You're religious. You come to a place where the main occupation is programming; a vice that shows illogic the door unfavourably and expect to hear clamour at the idea of global misinformation dissemination. Not to mention call athiests drug, alcohol addled fiends.

Actually I have identified as agnostic for a long time, and I don't see where I called call atheists drug, alcohol addled fiends, rather I highlighted a personal experience with family members that identify with atheism and who chose it because it aligned with there preferences, as well as noted there particular reasons for doing so to highlight that lack of critical analysis happens on both sides of the fence. You are becoming defensive and inferring items that are not being said. To be very clear I stated that my relatives chose atheism due to it aligning with their desires not that all atheist have those desires, but in saying that some do and some don't which was the overarching point, which is while there are true thinkers in most movements there are also non critical thinkers, atheism is not impervious to that reality.
Traffic Spike from Shark Tank appearance
Alcohol is toxic to virtually every kind of tissue in your body. They say drinking enough to feel drunk is much worse for your long-term health than a moderate dose of recreational powder cocaine. But it feels good, it's legal in most countries so you don't have to risk contaminants on the black market, and lots of people pretend it's not even a drug, so Christian fundamentalists and old people won't even look down on you!
This is pretty fantastic, I now need to find a way to sneak some of those animated gifs past our design team.
If they act in a similar way to variables in SASS, then they can be reassigned without issue. They are not constant, although they may be treated as such.

Of course, the CSSWG will no doubt create a solution that is both absurd in it's complexity, and limited in it's use. For example, constants defined with css-constant('foo', 'bar') instead of $foo: bar
First spike is original appearance. Second spike is re-run.
I am opposed to the concept of having a architect that does not code. Too often have I seen the situation where they recommend a solution without understanding the complexity of the implementation.
The problem with this is that past recognition and connections take time.
or just press "escape" as the page loads
Greece on the breadline: 'potato movement' links shoppers and farmers
Hybrid drives will also be a big deal. You'll have 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and 4TB HD. Plenty of space for a media collection (no, you will never have enough), and fast access to frequently-used stuff (like databases, docs, programs).
I think Perl works very hard internally to match the user intent when the user writes something. This practically gels with Larry Wall's water bed theory of complexity(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed_theory).

some systems, such as human and computer languages, contain a minimum amount of complexity, and that attempting to "push down" the complexity of such a system in one place will invariably cause complexity to "pop up" elsewhere.

Take for example the given-when syntax in Perl - http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/given.html

It really works hard enough to work as a switch statement with smart matching - http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Switch-statements with the adapting to the user intention.

I have always wondered how the Perl will evolve in the future. I see it will look more and more like Perl 6 adding features to make the magic look spectacular and amazing. We are already seeing Moose and Moosex and various other modules developed using Devel::Declare and the amazing stuff that they can do.

By working to match the user intention, the programmer generally can build the program in his head even while he is imagining the features.

Overall the greatest power of Perl that I have seen is, You can start your text editor and really build things as you think. Unlike many languages where you need a IDE which 100's of MB's heavy or you have to continually bother dealing with piles and piles of verbose code which often requires hours and hours of effort figure out what's happening underneath the layers.
>"What do people normally do when deals like this fall through?"

Look for another deal. Write a proposal.

When one hits. Cash the retainer and start work.

I'm a consultant.

When it comes to forming a business, it's different.

In that case, it's like getting married. Except that you're both in it for the money not just domestic bliss.

If you don't absolutely trust the other person to protect your welfare, don't own a business with them. And if you do trust them, get a contract.

The upside of your experience is that you were not alone, three of you were conned - it's a pattern. My recommendation to the one staying on as a consultant is to require a retainer to be applied to final payment and wait for the check to clear before doing any work.
In Haskell we don't change our variables either, and nobody's confused.
So: a town hall announces a sale. Locals sign up for what they want to buy. The town hall then tells Kamenides the quantity required and he and his students call local farmers to see who can supply it. They show up with the requisite amount of produce at the appointed place and time, meet their consumers, and the deal is done.

This is just screaming out for a mobile/web app.
I'm surprised that the ad sevices aren't smarter. Wait until on wifi, cache a bunch of ads, share those ads amongst all the apps that use your service. Is this feasible?
I drive a startup with a Bipolar cofounder and confess ins't easy task. I am learning how to get self control and focus on our target.
So they're lowing their relevance, and hn readers find this unappealing, fine, but can we really view this as anything but a hopeful indication that they drive more revenue by bringing the wall forward by ten articles.

The nytimes paywall has never been popular among the tech crowd, for obvious reasons, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work.

In my mind there are two possible things going on here:

1. The paywall is working to a degree, they have tested a reduced number of free articles and it leads to a higher conversion, and they are making this move to increase revenue.

2. The paywall is failing, an executive is concerned about meeting their revenue targets, and is going forward with an untested free article decrease as a ditch effort.

Let's hope it's the first, or at least a vaguely responsible combination of the two.
I am surprised they haven't also added a pay per article feature. I am very non-committal about subscriptions, but might fork over a buck to read one article.
Now all he needs to do is something funny.
> The Starter, the Architect, the Debugger, the Finisher

and the Stereotype.

These articles aren't very informative if they don't have some new insight into how to maximize the output of the team by exploiting the traits of the stereotype. The roles outlined in this entry really only fall into two categories: get things going (starter & architect) and get things working (debugger & finisher).

If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say that what the article is really trying to say is that it's easy for people to start projects (I've yet to meet a "debugger" that can't start their own), but it's hard to complete them. It's often even harder to keep something working than when it was put together given the nature of changing requirements.

So my take on the article would be to add the advice: if you consider yourself a "starter" or an "architect", go live in the world of maintenance for a while. Learn to complete your projects. And if people tend to curse a project when your name was on the design doc, perhaps you should spend a bit more time learning about practical programming, design, and algorithms... or mentor with someone who is well regarded.

Next week's article: What happens when the boss is a Sagittarius and the team lead is a Gemini?
One of the reviews says-

Really? This app can't be used seriously becouse some smart guy put commercial on the half of the screen. Cheap, really cheap and they say it's free...

Is this accurate?
I really like this new model but it got me thinking about how hard it's going to be for Aziz to push his content to different types of media. Traditionally the labels would handle that (usually incompetently) but for a startup to focus on this niche would be awesome.
Here's an example of a good patent -- because it'll keep the technology from actually being used anywhere.
This tends to insult the design community, but hopefully you'll fine the humor in it:

The proper name for a web designer who can't write HTML+CSS is "artist".
"My heart bleeds every time I buy a gadget or any other product made in China"
You realise there's a link between purchasing power and democracy?
If so, how do you think would you help Chinese by not buying their goods?

(Skipping goods that you know are produced by bad people is still fine)
Includes James Gleick. _The Information_ was so awesome!
No mention of ECDSA, although recent openssh, openssl, and many other crypto libraries support it. It's not usable for public facing SSL (few if any CAs will sign an ECDSA csr), but it's eminently usable for ssh to servers that keep their openssh up to date (5.7 and later).

http://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/elliptic_curve.shtml

"4096 bits is typically preferred..." by whom? Serious gpg/pgp users perhaps (all 1000 of them), but not most websites.[1]

"...it is still feasible and doesn't 'break the bank' for CPU cycles on a modern server."

Has the author bothered to benchmark 2048 bit rsa vs 4096 bit rsa? CPU time for signing goes from 2.5 or 5 ms (2048 bit), to 14 or 35ms (4096 bit), on two computers I just benchmarked (slower: xeon 5130 w/ openssl 1.0.0h, faster: i7-950 w/ openssl 1.0.1)

[1] site: rsa key bits (default negotiated ciphersuite w/ openssl 1.0.0h)
Google: 1024 bit (ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA -- nice)
Facebook: 1024 bit (RC4-MD5)
Twitter: 2048 bit (RC4-SHA)
Linkedin: 2048 bit (RC4-MD5)
Youtube: 1024 bit (ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA)
Wikipedia: 2048 bit (RC4-SHA)
Live.com: 2048 bit (AES128-SHA)
Amazon: 10248 bit (RC4-MD5)
Ebay: 2048 bit (RC4-SHA)
USAA: 2048 bit (AES256-SHA)
BofA: 2048 bit (RC4-MD5)
Wells Fargo: 1024 bit (RC4-MD5)
Citibank (online.): 2048 bit (AES256-SHA)
TDAmeritrade: 1024 bit (RC4-MD5)
Fidelity: 1024 bit (AES256-SHA)
Etrade: 2048 bit (RC4-MD5)
EFF: 2048 bit (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA -- Someone knows what they're doing)
EPIC: 2048 bit (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA -- same)
I don't think you should be down-voted. I find your thinking process fascinating.
Verizon updates Revolution with Remote Diagnostics, HTC turns to LogMeIn
Only if you want to squeeze the best performance out of the web - for instance if you were serving up JavaScript that is different for each request you could have it pass through CloudFront. You see this in the widget and ad business quite a bit.
If you add some QuickCheck specifications, the programming by brownian motion ("try a couple things almost randomly") will work even better.