skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well stated, and hints at what I think a lot of folks are surmising: the platform has become more important than the box.

For generation after generation, console manufacturers basically asked us to give up the old box -- and our entire library with it -- and move onto the next one. Developers have to be retrained, consumers have to be resold, and all at a higher price point.

This was all well and good until things like XBox Live started becoming integral to XBox 360, and all the services attached to the online experience became central components of the total experience of ownership.

This is, indeed, the Apple iOS model. The devices might get incremental upgrades every so often -- and it's not inconceivable that we might start seeing incremental yearly refreshes on XBox and PS systems someday, the same way we do with iPhones and iPads. But the core OSes and platforms will remain fairly stable.
I would be ok with that. I would say I'd be willing to pay up to $20. Larger projects may even have of more of a need, but then again they may or may not have the design talent who can contribute.

I believe a well designed presence goes a long way in aiding the adoption of a project.
The fundamentals of programming are the algorithms & data structures. If you know these and you are able to implement them in a (compilable) programming language, you can call yourself a programmer.But this is just the beginning. In order to have no problems in one field of programming, you must know well the algorithms&data structs used in that field(web programming is very different from 3D engines programming or embedded devices programming or signal processing and so on). If you know web programming using python, you are perfect for jobs in that area but everything else will be a "problem" until you acquire more knowledge. So welcome to the club of perpetual learning.
I'm struck by a sense of extravagant expense toward an inefficient process in the name of company PR: "we're green, here's what we've done."

I'm willing to admit I don't understand the process behind this powerplant, but three things jump out at me: a) the natural gas must be extracted from the earth in some fashion, b) the oxygen also, and c) the resulting CO2 must be disposed of in some Earth-friendly fashion.
primary where? at work? linux, at home? windows, on the road? osx
Ask HN: How do you sync/put files with/on your Android Device?
It's been a question for a longer time now for me what's the easiest and/or most elegant way to synchronize files with my Android Devices.

For smaller files (and up to 50mb) which I need on my Smartphone as well as on my Tablet, I use dropbox, since it's "fast" (in the meaning that I only need c&p files into my dropbox on pc) and comfortable. The downside is that I'm not the cloud-guy, I'd rather keep my files secret. I also don't like the delay (first upload it, then sync my mobile dropbox, then save it on sdcard).

For bigger files or stuff which I only need on one device, I use FTP Server/Client apps. It's a very fast transmission and things are right in their place on sd card. The downside is that I have to make several steps before: check if my devices are in my wifi network (I usually turn wifi off), open ftp app, activate ftp, open ftp app on pc, drag&drop files.

I'm still looking for an easier way, i.e. syncing folders/single files on my pc with one of my Android devices (supposing they're in my network already) with less steps.

What's your way, HN?
I can't believe OSX is the highest!
OS/2's big problem was it needed 8MB of RAM to run acceptably. 4MB (the stated minimum requirement) was just enough to boot it up and, maybe, run one very light weight application (with the HD thrashing trying to swap memory in and out). Things where worse with Win-OS/2, which was a full copy of Windows 3.1 running in a VM. You really needed 16MB to take true advantage of OS/2 multitasking capabilities. IBM should have billed it as a workstation OS until consumer hardware caught up, just as Microsoft did with Windows NT.
I used to be the Internet Sales Manager for a dealership in the bay area and I can second that TrueCar is a powerful asset for the consumer.

When a dealership signs up with TrueCar they agree to give full access to their sales database. Now TrueCar has access to every car you buy and sell, new or used. They then aggregate this data to create their pricing information.
An accountants firm I was working for 7 years ago was moving that way. It started when they had to upgrade their time and fees software to being browser based. It was far from perfect, but it logically made so much sense. Once they thought about it, it seemed the logical way to go for everything, so they set it as a long term goal. Dunno how far they got, I packed in working at that time. (nothing to do with any of that)
My stumbling block with ghpages is the workflow. I have not found a good way to work with the project in the master branch and then my docs/web-content in the ghpages branch. A lot of time all I really need to do is take something from my master/working branch and transmogrify it and dump the output to ghpages. Maybe its something about my git-fu? Or maybe most people's ghpages is less dependent/tied-to what is in their master branch.

Am I missing something obvious?
Are Apps channels?
I contend that Apps are TV Channels

AllthingsD "Apple TV on the Outside, Same Old TV on the Inside" states that an Apple TV, without an a-la-carte channel subscription model cannot succeed, and the cable/Sat TV operators will never give up on their bundled channel subscription and give the Apple TV the option of individual channel subscription, because it will hurt their existing revenues.

I contend that Apple already has those channels individually, and does not need the consent of cable companies. Why, just take a look at your iPad.

You see, you can pick up your iPad, click on the Apps for ABC, NBC. FOX, HBO, Starz, Cinemax, Discovery, CNN, ESPN, MSNBC, etc... and watch any show, any time. Let's take sports as an example: Feel like watching any NBA game, click on NBA Gametime. ESPN? click on Watch ESPN. NFL? NFL Sunday Ticket......I could go on. Same goes for the "News", "Movies", etc...

All Apple needs to do is to make its AppleTV box a bit more powerful so it can run those Apps, and voila, it has an a-la-carte channel model for its next-gen TVs. It does not need any consent, or any Cable/Satellite operators' blessing. It already has the channels in the form of Apps
That CPU doesn't have hardware virtualization. Emulating a PC with Windows would be very slow.
isn't there wifi-direct for doing this?
I send them to myself via email. If the file is to big, I use a cable or sth like dropbox.
> It's true that the FSF and those who support them are more concerned with the long-term future of computing availability than about whether they can GSD in the next few days or weeks.

But what's the point then? If it's just an academic process then that's fine, but for the purposes of determining a useful day-to-day primary system, it seems like 'It's free software' is a terrible metric on its own. All else being equal, of course, I'd rather free than closed, but all else is not equal.

It feels sometimes like this sort of 'free therefore better' ideology blinds the people doing the actual development to the fact that if they made the system more productive and intuitive for people to use, then more people would use it, and that's a net benefit to everyone. Perhaps if they DID focus on 'whether they can GSD in the next few days or weeks', then their project would reach more people, and through that more people would be exposed to the (legitimate) benefits of free software.
There is still the issue of replicating content, but that's something that can be handled in a number of different ways, depending on the requirements.
It seems like defaulting to readme content would make to many assumptions about the content of your readme.
Instead of "showtimes" you can have "when to download" times.

Do you think bandwidth will be an issue?
Maybe interesting as well: Dave Richards is aggregated on planet.gnome.org with his work blog [1] about running the infrastructure of the city of Largo, Florida [2] (granted, far from the size of Munich). Time frame seems similar (since 2006) and his blog contains quite a bit of technical information about the challenges of running a city wide thin client network and the custom software they create for their users.

Its a fun read to learn about how many instances of Firefox you can run on a single machine at any given time as well..

1: http://davelargo.blogspot.com/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largo,_Florida
Lovely how 5 of the *core projects on github have 200+ followers with 4 of the repos empty. If anything, it shows there's interest in the proposed plan. I'm curious what comes of it!
That's...brilliant. Sort of reminds me of my concern about bots artificially inflating google rankings for competitors to get them banned. (Which apparently turned out to be unwarranted.)

EDIT: By "brilliant" I mean brilliant in that twisted security breaker kind of thinking that slightly creeps most people out.

EDIT2: As the post below points out, in retrospect it's pretty weak. But then, most things of this nature seem pretty weak in retrospect. In my opinion the fact that it's so weak is the whole beauty of it. It's a simple oversight that wasn't obvious until pointed out.

Regardless the perpetrator is an asshat.
The physics behind rolling
Many people were being raped before this app appeared. Many people will be raped after this app, but none of those will have any connect to this app.

Most women who are raped are raped by someone who knows them.

There are serious problems with privacy settings of various websites, and this app is a nifty creepy way to highlight those problems. But suggesting it is "rapetastic" is just hyperbole and unhelpful.
Nice to see them offer this by default.

DocumentUp is something similar, which pulls the readme and automatically makes a beautiful wiki-type document for any git repo.

http://documentup.com/
AFAIK, Flag is for spam or something that is soooo OT that it should have been submitted to Reddit because it doesn't fit here from any intellectual or technical point of view (say, general politics). In all my time, I've used Flag maybe once -- and it was for spam. Using it as an Editor for something that is otherwise of interest is abuse, in my own opinion.
>A YC startup doesn't have to be profitable or even come up with a MVP - it has to show there is merit to what they doing and some probability of success in the long run.

Then what's the point of a YC startup? Doesn't have to make a profit, doesn't have to build a product... basically, sounds like it doesn't have to build a company.
Looks like there are several similar projects sprouting recently:

Ruhoh – another static blog generator. from the creators of Jekyll Bootstrap: http://ruhoh.com/

It has also a quite nice blog API proposal: http://ruhoh.com/universal-blog-api/
'86 - I was 12 and sold my first program (typing tutor game)
My dad bought me a BK0010-01 when I was 11 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_BK).

It was fun to learn assembler entered directly as binary :P
In a project I have where I generated pages based of code in my master I would have two folders that both were the same repo, one just stayed as master and the other as gh-pages. Meaning I could automate moving things and then pushing from that directory.
Do you mean a XSRF-style attack on upvotes? Could be, but I can't imagine why...
I agree with the above poster. Importantly, Doodle isn't a strong enough brand to capture your point quickly and sharply.

It's important to pay respect to Doodle; however, you need to capitalise on that first sentence. I think something more to the order of, "HipBucket lets you collect payments through a single link, safely and easily."

edit: And obviously pay due respect to Doodle in a later sentence. And I love GoCardless.
Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense
Cool story but the word profit is not the right word to use in this case. You generated revenue which is much much easier to do than turning a profit.
I've seen the same thing happen on this article that I wrote last friday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775365

It went up like a rocket and disappeared just as fast. I didn't submit it so I have no clue whether or not the submitter gamed the system but it sure looked weird.

Given the subject of this thread that's actually an on-topic link :)
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>> You got downvoted because you included some traditional anti-Linux troll subjects with nothing to support those points.

I only mentioned the items I have personally had issues with. If these are in fact "troll subjects", there's probably a good reason for it.

>> OS X, in the context of local governments trying to save money, is - and I say this as politely as I can - a stupid suggestion. The hardware is much more expensive, is a lot more desirable to thieves, it has similar (or worse) dual monitor problems as you suggest above, it has similar (or worse) lack of software as you suggest above.

Maybe you're upset because you are purposely mis-reading what I wrote. My choice of OSX over Linux specifically referred to enthusiasts, and had absolutely nothing to do with the Munich local government.
I could be wrong about the open source drivers, but last time I looked into it (about two years ago), the lowest level interface was still a binary blob on top of which the open source driver sat.

As for programming manuals, any of the really low level ones I've seen are about 4 years old now. If you know of any up-to-date ones, I'd love to see them out of personal interest, but I've yet to find any myself.
Would you guys be interested in taking a summer intern at this position instead of a full hire?
Being made to log hours, or even have set hours, tends to make me feel like a subject of a totalitarian dictatorship.

Not coincidentally, the modern workplace is basically a totalitarian dictatorship.
Actually that's precisely what flagging is for - getting a human moderator to look at the story and decide whether it is worthwhile. Information transmission and copying are easy, filtering and management are hard. There are a billion things going on in the world right now. What interesting stories didn't get HN exposure because someone else seized the moment for 15 minutes of twitter-fame?
It's really great.

But it's kinda frustrating that you have to go back and forth between edit/layout... I'm sure they'll improve it soon though - It's just 1.0!

I'm liking GitHub more every day (specially since I began using NodeJS and found the plethora of NodeJS modules on GH). I'm happy they are around.
I don't know whether the OP is the author of the blog post (I believe so), but I have a quick English suggestion for you. In your "About" section, you said:

> Hi, I'm Antonio, a computer engineer that likes also about Math and Rock Climb

A much more natural wording would be:

> Hi, I'm Antonio, a computer engineer who also likes talking about math and rock climbing

Keep up the good work!
Which WM do you prefer?
Started out my career while in high school in 1985 as a C programmer hired in the Solid State group at Bell Labs. Best part of the experience was lunch surrounded by physicists who bantered about the world from a analytical perspective; positing hypotheticals, engaging in spirited debate, proposing thought experiments galore. Just an amazingly brilliant and wacky group of individuals. I owe a lot to that initial rewarding experience.
Apple's design of the single button is really smart, and I doubt they'd abandon it any time soon.

Why is it smart? Because it allows people who have no prior knowledge of an iPad (or iPhone) to understand how to work it immediately.

The fact it's a hardware button is a bonus, because people know how to work those who've never used a touch device before.

The problem with gestural interfaces is that creating affordance is difficult. It's the reason that draggable things on iOS usually still have drag handles.

When there's a single button that brings you back to a predictable state, it's impossible to get lost.
You are my kind of guys ! Why aren't there more guys like you in my team ?? I just love patronizing young enthusiastic programmers who just jumped careers and are now feeling insecure and scared of all the things that they might not know. Oh how I love to tell you that "It's more complicated than that" every time you feel like you nailed it. Yes, i'm such a douche, but for you I'm the "team leader".
Although that works for some very trivial discussions†, it's unrealistic to think that every comment has easily quantified value without respect to the author's expertise. Not all opinions are equal. That's the kind of malarky that you hear from school districts that want to teach creationism and evolution as two equal theories. It's simply ludicrous to suggest that a comment from somebody who just read 40% of the Wikipedia article deserves the same standing as a comment from somebody who has devoted two decades of his life to the subject.

† The kind of discussion where each comment can stand on its own merits seems unlikely to be a good fit for Hacker News. That trait implies that the topic is shallow and there aren't any great insights to be had — if there were, the people who had poured years of their life into the topic would deserve more deference.
I'm always doing it over USB since I find it faster and easier to just plug it. There are tools out there made to synchronize a local folder with a USB folder (for windows there is SyncToy : http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylan... ) so if you don't mind plugging your phone to sync it this could be a very easy way to sync multiple folders on your device.
Robust architecture for email self-hosting
Now I'm beginning to think that perhaps some accounts here might have been compromised:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3789224

Those who run HN might want to check out all those fake poll submissions today for likely suspects.
They idea is nice but, i am afraid that as most of this articles the title is a little misleading... you had a sale but not yet delivered a product, that is what the customer paid for. So you still have to work and even with all the limits you pose this might take 3/4 hours... and supposing you work at an hourly rate of 20$/h witch i think(but i'm not sure) it's quite low you might "spend" 60/80 $ of your time to develop it. this gives you a profit of 10/30 $ depending on how fast you are.

Anyway this is a nice project and i really hope you or someone else will prove my calculations wrong! Good luck ;)
You didn't mention your career path after you quit your design job to develop your programming skills. I'm curious how you landed your first job without a piece of paper and do you use go in your day job?
Add ability to replace and I'm your fan. :) Until then I'm using my own http://github.com/piranha/goreplace (built in March a year ago :)).
Indeed, according to the abstract (http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n4/full/ngeo1429.html) the paper only presents (additional) evidence against the hypothesis that 40% of the moon material comes from Theia. But it doesn't reject the hypothesis that the moon was formed by an impact:

The isotopic homogeneity of this highly refractory element suggests that lunar material was derived from the proto-Earth mantle, an origin that could be explained by efficient impact ejection, by an exchange of material between the Earth’s magma ocean and the protolunar disk, or by fission from a rapidly rotating post-impact Earth.
Then why is wildlife getting fatter?
A billion thanks to the open source community from Red Hat
Whether or not you are profitable depends on the cost of the labor you put into each app. Can you actually be profitable if you spend 2 hours per app that you would have billed to a big client at $100/hour?
Proper accounting is to recognize the revenue and costs of a sale in the same period.

So you don't get to claim any profit until you complete the work you were paid to do.

How do you plan on finishing the apps fast enough to consider this a win?

To me this is the opposite of a good side project. You want your projects to generate passive income, not income that requires a non-trivial amount of work to recognize. If you can write apps, you should write apps yourself and generate ad revenue or sale revenue.

You should definitely reconsider this idea before you have oversold yourself to the point of never being able to meet your responsibilities.
The problem is discoverability. I've had an ipad since 2007 and had no idea about most of the gestures he mentions. Novice users would get horribly stuck without the one no-brainer emergency exit that the physical button offers.
If they've got a monitor/TV that's compatible with a Roku, just spend the $60 for that.
I'm not a coder, so I don't know how it could be done. I was just thinking of those "evercookies" that can't be killed in a reasonable manner.
Harry the hermit crab comes out in his Lego shell - video
I think Noah Wyle would present the Dean Cain problem: he's an actor who's suited to the role, but because he's a TV actor who actually played the role in a low-budget TV production, anyone making a major motion picture would want to get someone "better". This, among other things, is why "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" veteran Dean Cain was never seriously considered to appear in a Superman movie, unlike A-list "talent" like Nicholas Cage or (not even joking) Will Smith.
Have Twitter and Facebook killed long-form online journalism?
Those derived values are based upon the likely erroneous assumption that I just detailed. How does Google make any money on iOS devices if you excluded advertisements? Quite the opposite -- they pay Apple to be the default search engine.
Organ on (in) a chip.
I bet I could go from idea to revenue in under 1 hour.
Yes, though I wonder if the power button could conceivably fit that role? Pressing it once returns you to the home screen. Holding it down powers the system off.

I do prefer a physical button over the gestures...there are many apps that use multi finger touches and those sometimes are interpreted as iOS multi-tasking gestures, which interrupts the app.
Actually that's precisely what flagging is for - getting a human moderator to look at the story

Do you know that is what happens? Because I don't think it does. I imagine an algorithm is applied that weighs votes/views against flags and acts accordingly- I haven't seen anything suggesting that a human moderator is involved here.
I didn't downvote but I generally dislike these types of comments:

> The vast majority of PC users fall into this category.

This comes up all the time on HN. "The vast majority of users think X", "the vast majority of users live in Outlook", "the vast majority of users only need an iPad", etc. etc. The reality is that you have no idea what the vast "majority of users" want or need, you are projecting your own biases and micro-observations onto the world.

Actually I think we need to get over the idea that there is some 80+% of users who all need/want the exact same thing. Seems to me that there are probably a lot more categories out there than the black/white you're either a total novice or a power user world that is constantly constructed here.
I was the same way.
I believe everybody at a startup should think and care a lot about design, so I think we mostly agree.

I would like "designer" to mean what you say it means, but I think a relatively small fraction of people who identify as designers can actually do what you describe.

My point about Hurley wasn't that he had entrepreneurial skills on top of design skills. My point was that even for a billion-dollar success for which usability was a major success factor, it wasn't his visual design skills that made the difference: it was that he valued usability and had the ability to evaluate usability impacts. It is true that some designers have that, but one does not have to be a designer to have those skills.