skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revenue differences between three app stores (Apple, Amazon and Google)
Almost 2 months ago HN started doing this at short time spans (high traffic?), and coming back to default behavior. (I commented here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3627285 ) This becoming definitive is not a good thing.
Investors want you more when you need them less. When you're desperate, you get a bad deal (if any). Hence having cash is always helpful.
Morton Salt Theory
Agreed. I think something along these lines every time someone says things like "I hope that xxx company goes under," etc. I guess it's all too easy to forget that there really are people with families and lives behind everything.
War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs
> If they combine it with the Van der waal's adhesion effect then you have a robot that should be a really good urban navigator.

It's funny you mention that. I went to grad school with the guy who created the jumping robot. His PhD research was in creating artificial Gecko footpads for robots.
> what is the point of finding a common point of purchase

So they know who to notify. It isn't every US card holder that is at risk, so they want to know who is. The Gartner article says this:

> From what I hear, the breach involves a taxi and parking garage company in the New York City area so if you’ve paid a NYC cab in the last few months with your credit or debit card – be sure to check your card statements for possible fraud.
Screenshot: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/googlegraph.png/

On the website it rotates automatically and you can also control it manually, it's not static like in the screenshot.
isn't government actually run by people too?
I don't see how title is telling me what to think. It's using interesting language. Artistic license != editorializing. If title had made some opinion on the facts, such as Schneinr is right, or made up something not in article, tsa stooge is an asshat. That would be editorializing.

I would hate it hn was reduced to "let's not offend anyone, groupthink" titles. Like "link to article."

People submit articles, they get to and should add their personality to the title. Otherwise why even have them, just suck title from page.
I'm not going to argue too strenuously for any particular number, so long as your proposed number is lower than "70 years ranging upward to infinity" - don't look a fantasy gift horse in the mouth, right? - but I'll just point out that even if "A Game of Thrones" were magically out of copyright today, Martin would still be benefiting from the surge of interest. The interest would sell the sequels that were still under copyright. It would sell the sequels that have yet to be written.

It isn't even obvious that Martin himself wouldn't benefit from the additional publicity of giving his earliest books away for free, then selling the sequels. Though I doubt it in this particular case, because of the whole HBO-series angle: presumably Martin is collecting royalties on the TV show, and collected option payments even before the show was made, and if the original book was out of copyright HBO needn't have paid these fees. But the works that are in peril aren't the ones that get optioned for movies and TV: Adapted works stay in print, if only as a form of tie-in merchandise for the show.
I understand the need for AGPL so this can be monetized, but I really wish there was a price on the commercial licensing page instead of just requiring me to contact y'all. Why do I have to "request licensing information", why can't it be made publicly visible?
Everyone defines success differently. Most generally, success is the absence of failure. Bonus points if you're making progress.

I'd take these posts more as inspiration to persist. Take toll in your achievements and realize that your business is alive up until the moment you allow yourself to give up.
>It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux).

WebGL is definitely not disabled. You either disabled it or your GPU is not on the whitelist (or is on the blacklist).
This works great in Firefox 11. It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux).

I am also using Firefox on Linux and was actually suprised this worked. I assumed WebGL was still disabled by default for us.
Lottery design: How I'd do it
> the smartest web hackers I know universally regard web2py as a fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development.

Are these the same web hackers that believe, say, using PHP is a fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development?
Actually the thing in about:flags to to "enable" the "disabling" of WebGl.
So many people date in NYC, so few commit for the rest of their lives

I've found that to be the case in the SF area, as well. A (female) friend moved out to DC. She was shocked at how female acquaintances behaved there. She relayed their statements like, "well, yeah, Larry has some anger problems when he's drinking, but he's a good man." Our shared opinion was that SF suffers from grass-is-always-greener syndrome, where people have been presented with so many options for so long, that they come to believe there is always something (or someone) better to be had.

As always, YMMV, and I can only speak from the experiences of myself and my pool of friends.
Fire people on April 1. They don't know if they really lost their jobs till Monday, 4/3.

(At a startup where a lot of people I care about work, the CTO just left, and the VP/Finance is moving against star engineers because, perversely, it benefits her if the company fails a key deliverable. I am in a shitty mood right now.)
Is this a troll thread? if so 10/10
Not working in Opera 11.62

Shame that my favourite browser doesn't support WebGL. :(
But props to Google for making their search engine that much cooler.
So, I haven't actually tried the service (due to my privacy concerns, as well as just time). I was assuming they would use more information than that (credit info, vehicle accident history, etc) if they were going to do a good job of modeling how car insurers do pricing.

The amount of information you mention is not as troubling (though you missed your email address), but I would still like to know that they will delete that information after they are done with it, not retain it forever while maintaining the right to give it to pretty much anyone they want as long as they are "affiliated" with Leaky.

And yes, a YC startup may be more trustworthy than an insurance company, but on the other hand, the insurance company needs to collect that information, and is much more heavily regulated, while Leaky, as a private company under not much regulation, can do pretty much anything it wants.
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When I think of dating in New York as a straight male, my experience has been "the odds are good, but the goods are odd." I've lived there twice. If you are at the top of your game you can find whatever relationship you want anywhere.
How is that ambiguous? PEMDAS and since multiplication and division have the same rank, you go left to right. Pretty clear if the calculators follow the basic order of operations.
You call it pattern recognition, I call it excuses.

Setting high expectations for yourself is crucial to achieving them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
"We are here to work and not to play, so our income is very important," said Chen Yamei, 25, a Foxconn worker from Hunan who said she had worked at the factory for four years.

"We have just been told that we can only work a maximum of 36 hours a month of overtime. I tell you, a lot of us are unhappy with this. We think that 60 hours of overtime a month would be reasonable and that 36 hours would be too little," she added. Chen said she now earned a bit over 4,000 yuan a month ($634).
Here's my personal experience with these sorts of issues: http://joshkaufman.net/working-in-public-is-weird/
I am not a clever man
This is how I feel when I fall in public.
In a previous post about Rust on HN one of the Mozilla devs claimed that Rust was a result of headaches they've had building Firefox. The language isn't to be used in Firefox, but to (eventually, some day) to be used in whatever supersedes Firefox. They would be starting from scratch. And this is probably very very far in the future. Why else would Mozilla develop a new language if they didn't intend to use it for their products?
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I agree. Just to add to that, AFAIK only a third of the convertible note comes from Yuri Milner. The rest comes from SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Andreesen Horowitz. These are great investors and having them back you goes beyond the cash they provide.
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If anyone is interested about WebGL and the latest news surrounding it, I run a blog at http://www.webgl.com
If you think it sucks, let me know.
It works for me in Chrome 18 under Ubuntu 12.04.
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Those are laws of nature, not design paradigms. They have different (almost opposite) metrics for "great". Relativity (both variants) and QCD are "great" precisely because they were discovered and characterized in spite of the fact that they are counterintuitive and difficult to visualize.

Good software design, on the other hand, is all about human communication. And a design paradigm that can't be communicated easily has less value than one that does.
Why? When I see "considered harmful" in a title, I know pretty much what kind of article to expect. I think it's a useful shorthand, and that its origins, and the whimsical attitude associated with it, are irrelevant. What alternative title would you suggest for this article?
A patent for a pill that completely prevents death, filled in 1976
Right, but you're one person and you're redoing the plumbing.

At this point oracle can't rewrite Java. If they don't support the current programs, nobody would use it, if they do, they will really be rewriting code that already exists.
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It should be entirely possible for them to use a modified version of Android like the NSA one. Starting from scratch again with QNX does not seem to be going well for them. The blackberry OS was based on java, so I presume it should be easier to keep some of their old code base than to start over.

I definitely don't want to be in that guy's shoes!
Some companies draw distinctions that sometimes seem arbitrary, which is another reason that we think Leaky is helpful.

However, there's almost always a statistical analysis for the decisions that they make and it may have nothing to do with driving record. It might be that one profession stays with the insurer longer or is a more profitable customer by allowing the insurer to insurer multiple-lines for them (house, life, etc.).
Ubuntu 11.10 and Firefox 11. Works like a charm.
To summarize: Lots of people are Scum.
That is the basic mechanism behind load-balancer healthchecks.
I spent a good minute reformatting the formula in my head, trying to figure out the significance of the equation, before I went, "oh, duh, it's the fact that it's rendering a formula in 3D within a Google result!"
> Download the nginx secure key to verify the package

>

>cd /tmp/

>wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key

Verify a package with a key you got over http? Am I the only one who noticed this?
"Why the merits of REST are overstated"

"Considered harmful" is a flippant way to dismiss detractors.
If you want to see it with Opera try the 12 alpha. Just did and it is working perfectly.
Helpful to the startup, not to the investor. My reply was to patrickk above who listed Milner's investment as a draw for other investors. From the investor's perspective a hungry startup is preferable. Thus startups that aren't hungry by virtue of someone else's investments are less desirable.
Available heuristic concepts include random distribution, tiering (top 50, top 60, top 70, etc.), geographic (San Jose, Peninsula, Southern East Bay, etc.), age groups, and self-selection (think of it as picking teams as in grade school).

Picking 10 teampickers at random and letting them draft their team in rounds would allow for similar benefits to a college or pro sports draft: try to make up for shortcomings in the existing line-up (team with good design skills, team with good business savvy) would probably end up working out.

Allowing for a midseason merger between these groups would probably also be productive, as there will probably tend to be people who don't stay with the program, and thus groups of 10 will become groups of 5-8.

The end best answer may be all of these approaches, with each approach taken over a span of every two weeks.
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Multiplication and division have the same precedence, so you do them left-to-right as written. Like addition and substitution.

Or better yet, realise that writing it all on one line is stupid and ambiguous, and write properly.
I was just asking for information. It might not matter to them, but it might help others.
Really? That's interesting. I assumed the WP caching was straight page output caching.
Tales of Woe of a Windows user
No, but this is.

http://www.google.co.il/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B...
And here is part 2 - the client side:
http://dartwatch.com/index.php/2012/03/building-clientserver...
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Ask HN: Any HNers at the G4GX?
Anyone from HN at the G4G?

Come say hi!

Edit: I've just seen a 17 x 17 x 17 rubik cube.
I tried it and found that it underestimated my insurance cost by exactly $500 with both Geico and Allstate but interestingly the spread between the two was correct (about $100)
I think in general design patents are somewhat redundant with copyright and trademark law. They might be reasonable in some cases, but not this one.

I don't think that a design patent (or copyright or trademark) covering essential functionality is acceptable. Have you ever looked at the actual design patent that Apple filed?

http://www.google.com/patents?id=6BsWAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...

It looks about as much like an iPad as it does the Knight Ridder concept, or the tablet from 2001: A Space Odyssey, because Apple's patent is generic. The patent covers the very concept of a tablet (for which there is plenty of prior art), and none of the "trade dress" you mentioned except the edge-to-edge glass, which was not an idea unique to Apple.

The patent that Apple has been citing in support of its claims does not even cover the features they claim to have patented, and I frankly don't understand why the courts haven't recognized that and told them that they have, at best, a copyright claim and not a patent claim.
I love this story, because it involves bullying from big companies turning a marginally shady† business model into a genuinely interesting and valuable above-board offering. These stories so often end in shrill shoulda-coulda ranting and uninformed legal speculation. This one ends in a great hack and an even better company than the one that originally launched.

† I don't think the Leaky people are shady, just that scraping hypersensitive sites is a duct-tape-and-baling-wire solution.
Works fine in Safari too. Don't forget to Enable WebGL in the Develop menu (itself activated in the Advanced tab of Safari's Preferences)
So no, I don't have it backwards.

Also Eric Lippert nails it when he answers the question of why reference types are not stack allocated and value types are ... “because they can”.

I do agree with the article, but with all due respect to Eric Lippert, C#/.NET was meant to be reasonably fast for all kinds of user-land applications and if structs weren't added, then they had to add special cases (primitives) for dealing with integer and floating point arithmetic, just as Java did.

I do agree that structs have semantic value, but the implementation itself allows the available primitives to be described in terms of structs, which is a really elegant and cost-effective solution to a problem that the JVM engineers are trying to solve with complicated tricks like escape analysis. If you remove the performance/efficiency benefit, there isn't a lot of value left in structs - at least nothing that can't be solved by immutable data-structures and/or a better type system.

Nice article btw, thanks.
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very cool Tracy! I think it takes a certain kind of skill to marry our strengths with customer needs and build something that wins. Great job on the lookbook!
lol :) Read this older HN thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3227905 - a few people took our code and tried to make it faster in C/C++ and Java.

We made our benchmark code available: (https://github.com/fabric-engine/Benchmarks/tree/master/Serv...)

If you have a standalone module for the high-performance, then of course you can bind it to different languages. We're not interpreting the dynamic language, so therefore semantic differences between languages aren't a major factor.

If you think about what we're doing, it isn't surprising that we'd hit that kind of performance - after all, we're asking the developer for a concurrency-friendly description, then taking their operator code (which is strongly typed) and compiling it on target. It's more about the dynamic compilation that LLVM enables, and the ease of access for regular developers.

It runs on instances - how do you describe that other than to say 'in the cloud'?

The benchmarks are properly presented and explained: http://fabricengine.com/technology/benchmarks/

I understand the skepticism, but we have been open with our data and the code we used for our benchmarks. We're not claiming to go faster than light here ;)
Exactly. Apple takes a 30% tax and one says anything?
Graphing on Google.com - Now in 3D
I actually like that a lot - relatively short, to the point, and doesn't have any conflicting intrinsic meaning.
My peak is when I have to go to bed and the next day I have something very important to do, for which I have to be well-rested.
The thing is that, for example, for programming questions google finds it on SO without any shortcuts needed. If I type address in Google it will give me a link to the map anyway. I know it takes a second to type !whatever, but you need to remember that. And if you need to stop and think "was it !so or !s or !stack or whatever it was?" you lose your concentration and next thing you know you've spent half hour browsing unrelated articles on Wikipedia. Exaggerating a bit but the point is these !things are a speedbump.
This reminds me of people who aren't willing to drive across town to save $250 on a $15000 car purchase, but who make sure to buy their groceries when they are on sale to save money ...

Just because you recently spent $15,000 doesn't mean the next $80 are worth less.
This looks... erm ... neat. A "sophomore OpenGL term project" kind of neat. Wolfram on the other hand does the graphs right [0], which hardly surprising given their 20 years of head start.

On a more general note, this reminds me of old Microsoft's tactics. Google should really stick to the search, but instead they throw together something that mimics competitor's feature. Something that looks more featureful and which is free, but upon closer inspection is effectively a half-ass effort, because it's an entirely different domain that's not their specialty.

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3...
According to chrome://gpu:

>WebGL: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable

Chrome sadness.
Of course, since this is a Google result, it can just fail and say "3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL." Which is super useful to me.
It's very easy to dwell on that too. Companies rise and fall, some are well lead, others not. A frequent jump is to raise the "family card" in order to prop up a failing business. The error in the latter case is ignoring people on the other side of the equation.
Not on Android Chrome alas.
NEW world of proprietary software?

Proprietary software has been around for a long time, young Padawan. And for all that time, using it has meant knowing that the platform owner could step in at any time and ream^H^H^H^H"monetize" you.
Here is the full audio of him delivering this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5THXa_H_N8 (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSAzbSQqals (part 2)

Highly recommended listening.
Does anyone know what they mean by a "grid"? Different neurons can have different numbers of connections and they connect all over the place, not just to their immediate neighbors.

I read and reread the first page of this paper and I can't figure out what they're saying. What's new here?
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I haven't read your comments (too long, no time) but I think you should fix them. They seem like they might be critiques of a product you haven't even tried.
Curiously though, many popular languages are created by non-English natives.
p.s. Fabric Engine 2.0 has a flux capacitor
The regular wording is really sneaky : "99% of customers that switch to GXXX save money". That's completely to be expected : The only people that have an incentive to switch are those that would save money.

It would be far stronger if the wording was "99% of customers would save money by switching to GXXX" - which is seductively similar, but completely different.
You may be right when it comes to the lack of apps.

But let me share a story about that particular topic:

In Indonesia, people aren't rushing to iPhone or Android because they don't care apps. They'll use whatever that comes with the phone and most local distributors are smart enough to package them with common apps such as Twitter and Facebook.

Most websites in Indonesia support BB and develop apps for BB because they know BB is king there.

Once BB is done, they'll move to a generic Android based smartphone that will definitely have a few common apps:

1) Mail Reader

2) Browser

3) Facebook

4) Twitter

5) Whatsapp

Done.

The people who installed other apps are the very very very tiny minority.
The nay-sayers might be right, but I think this is an interesting suggestion. If data flow analysis is easier in a TFP language, it would certainly make my life easier (I work in the security static analysis business). It seems like it might be easier, since higher-order control flow is definitely a problem for data flow analysis, and TFP languages can't have higher-order control flow because that would open the door to arbitrary recursion.

So I'm not sure what I think about this yet, except that it's interesting to chew on.
I think one of the reasons these kinds of ads are produced is the outsourcing of pr. When a company is called out for having this kind of ad, they seem to take partial responsibility: "Yeah, well, it's not the best ad, but we didn't really make the ad..."

It's comparable to outsourcing code. If you outsource your coding work and get shoddy code, it represents your company. If you outsource your pr and you get sexist ads, it represents your company.
Of course it does, when you click the content area you reposition the cursor and thus deselects the text. The alternative would be to not be able to reposition the cursor when you bring focus to the window which presents other "quirks" if you look at it from other angles (and it of course needs to be consistent, if you can't reposition the cursor why would you be able to press a button if the window isn't active? etc.).

OS X is quite unique in this and probably stems from the use of common menus for different windows, which also makes it uniquely inadequate for handling multiple monitors. I just can't take a WM that doesn't handle multiple monitors well seriously.
It's a good article, but the title given here is too emotional and link-baity.

(The original title being 'This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy')
I dunno. It's pretty, and it's good enough if you just want to gauge the overall shape of the curve, which is all I need most of the time.