skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Y.com could be one if it breaks with geography a bit more.
One could guess it was spam pages or SEO pages.
It's possible that could work. Our current testing API is rate limited only on IP address but if we required a sign-up we'd have more options. A free tier couldn't go too far out of control if we could stop taking new sign-ups at any time.

But at the same time we already have a full free tier in the sense that anyone can download free data from the website. At the moment we're seeing the API purely as something for those that want more data than the website practically allows. My hunch is that it's probably best to keep the API paid only... Free accounts with really low rate limits would be frustrating for the people using them (as they'd hit their rate limit all the time) and would just increase our support costs. In the end we'd have to increase the costs of new paid accounts to support them, which is not something I'd want to do.

Never say never though... My thoughts on that could change over time as we get more customers and feedback.

I got your email, thanks, will get back to you shortly :)
dotmatrix22, I'd like to chat with you about how you're handling things - I'm working on a startup that is leveraging this in a similar way and I'd like to see if you can help us out as a consultant. Shoot me an email (under my profile).
Anyone noted which software stack he is using? Is it plain Java 3D API or any libraries on top of it?

Also, I'd expect things would be more dynamic in whatever new game he's making, but that seems to be pretty static room he's playing with. Of course he could just be testing out various engine features, before setting out on the "content" part of the game.
Google Automatically Generates Graphs from Search Bar
Wow, if I randomly ran across that site, I would automatically think it was crap.
Finding my niche part 1: Interviewing for Facebook
DocumentCloud removes email dump after legal threat
I assume this works via emailing the carriers (e.g. number@vtext.com),. If so, why not just release the source (or is that somewhere else?) over running your own service?
That would appear to be

CAPLIN & DRYSDALE, CHARTERED, Petitioner
v.
UNITED STATES.

http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/491/491.US.617.87-1...
Once the only evidence is in possession of the prosecutor, they are legally required to provide it all to you. On the other hand, things can often get 'lost,' 'misplaced,' or 'forgotten' that are crucial to the defense's case. I assume that MegaUpload wants access to the servers to extract the evidence themselves.
Yeah they do, there is a part approx. 3/4 of the way down, where they say something to the effect of (supposedly as a result of TSA interviewing):

You have to give people the impression that you are doing something, and with rules, essentially the reason is security theatre.
Play Framework in the past embed Eclipse build-in Java compiler to avoid compilation step.
Show HN: Heart rate measure with iPhone and iPod (Promocodes :))
Ask HN: DC Area hackers get together to work?
I've just been getting cabin fever lately, working 30+ hours in the evenings at home, shutting the door, and grinding away. Curious if anyone wants to get together and hack away at our various projects as a group, so we'll have folks around to bounce ideas off of, share a brew with, and not be closed in.
Looks like he is listening to di.fm electro house channel.

I just happened to turn that on and noticed it's the same songs.
In reply to funkah's dead comment:

> Doesn't that provide information about which usernames are valid, though? Or does that turn out not to matter?

Yes it does. A targeted attack would be able to get information out of that. A giant botnet spamming authentication attempts? They apparently don't even notice if their connections are being dropped, never mind the difference between valid and invalid usernames.
Are you doing LRN lookups to handle ported numbers?
It looks like that's how they're doing it since they have the caveat of "may receive messages from txt@textbelt.com"
As for the open source comment -- they're probably running a carrier lookup on the numbers via another API on the back-end, so that dependency on another service doesn't make it as straightforward as just open sourcing it.
I laughed out loud so hard.
Monetizing A Web Startup - What You Need To Know
Some weeks ago i asked myself if its maybe possible to hear my own heart with the microphone.

After some testing around with some filters and other tools i decided to code an app for everyone.

It does not work really good for people with slow rates like athletes but i am working on v2 already :)

Here are some promo codes for you =D

9AKA44KP9WMK -
9TNJL4KLEL3M -
PEF9H9N93MPY -
XYXPKWTP7AWX
Slightly off-topic: Forcing sign-in to read full answers strikes me as an odd path to take - reminds me of expertsexchange.
Am doing exactly the same thing.
You're not alone. I don't know if you have a ML background, but it has been somewhat widely discussed in the community that the way Netflix scored the competition -- RMSE -- isn't the best way. E.g. http://hunch.net/?p=949 and http://andrewgelman.com/2008/11/netflix_prize_s/

In the OPs article they mention they monitor if a movie is watched to completion, which gives them a much better metric to optimise. The other issue is that this is really a sequential decision making problem. Recommending a movie has an opportunity cost -- there are other movies you don't recommend -- and the recommendation is an ongoing process, so it is probably best to spend some time exploring the user's taste on the assumption this will let you make better recommendations in the future. Accounting for these issues is much harder in a competition format.
No, that sort of says something about why they differentiate, but it doesn't say anything at all about why they fear.
What Was Your Biggest Mistake & What Did You Learn From It?
Nokia's free color 710 covers are amazing every day, during April at least
Yes, it would be absolutely like it. That is, IF the guys in Stockholm had build an business environment out of thin air, with a huge paying user base, a nice system to limit piracy, and a complete development framework with good documentation and all, where the captives could freely chose to build and sell their apps in.

Instead of, you know, just taking them hostage against their will.
"Internet time", the incredibly-accelerated pace of
everything, is a modern myth, a lie we tell ourselves

I wouldn't call it a lie, because software scales better than humans do.

When you're saying "half a million apps and billions of downloads" it's as if Apple themselves worked on those apps and all of those downloads were manually packaged by Apple employees in envelopes, signed by Ive and sent by postal office. Well, actually, the number of downloads is irrelevant.

And if Apple can't handle the approval of those million apps, maybe that's because they've dug themselves into a corner by trying to force an asinine policy that doesn't even work for its intended purpose anyway.
Completely agree. This might explain why Apple didn't act on some of the "issues" raised by the OP:

- "Junk Apps": As someone mentioned below, this one's really unreasonable. "Junk" is subjective, and even if it's not, who's to decide which app should be removed?

- "[App Reviews] are nearly always of terrible quality": Again, what is Apple supposed to do here? Let the developers chose which reviews should be displayed for their apps? Impose a minimum number of characters for a review? Non of this makes much sense to me.

- "Ringtone Apps": I really, really don't get this one. Maybe it makes sense from a developer point of view, but for a user point of view, I don't see what's wrong with apps prices decreasing.

- "Customer Data is hidden": Uh? As a consumer, I'm happy about this one.

Concerning the App Review paragraph, I can't say much, except that the complaints seem more reasonable.

Anyway, I can understand the OP's opinion, but I think it's unfair to say that Apple doesn't care about developers. They probably care about developers (they do realize that the app store and app developers are central to the iphone's succes), but they care more about end users. And if they have to make a choice, they'd probably try to satisfy consumers over developers.
There's quite a lot of self-promotion going on as well. I haven't done a real survey, so my perception might be off, but I feel like I run across more not-that-great self-cites/self-links in answers than at, for example, StackExchange. I mean, it's fine to link to something of yours (text, software, startup) that is high-quality and directly relevant to the question, but Quora has a lot of answers where the blog/company/self promotion feels pretty blatant.

(An alternate hypothesis is that StackExchange has just has much of that submitted, but that its voting/moderation works better.)
MIT CSAIL Project Could Transform Robotic Design and Production
By the way - the cut appears to be 5%.
You are using Lisp right now.
it's the design, it instantly reminded me of those linkfarm parked domains...
I think that moving towards higher-rez screens was a great move, and I personally can't wait for a 4K macbook...it'll be my first Apple laptop, and I'm pretty confident that Apple will break the low-rez ice with it.

It's very sad to see new 17" laptops being sold with 1366x768 (widescreen 1024x768) in 2012 to people who don't understand anything about computers.

Personally, I can't stand 16:9; I still have 4 24" 16:10 1920x1200 monitors, and I'll upgrade to 4K when they drop below about $800 each.

Edit: to point out that vertical resolution is very important, hence my really badly missing those extra 120 vertical pixels lost in the move from 1920x1200 -> 1080P.

Edit again:

>"It makes Android look like Linux Ubuntu."
>"at home on your coach?"
Might have been better for me to say "a free ecosystem of legally usable source code comparable to the one a large part of the industry depends on today."

Or maybe I should have just capitalized "free."
Do you know any more skillful programers who do livecasts?
I had the same problem with charging. I don't know why I purchased such a featureless product. Maybe it was the hype, but the display was beautiful. But not much more than that. Weight wasn't that much of an issue.

I agree they have been focusing on the wrong problems. They should have been piling on the features.. HDMI out, FM Radio, Better GPS, eliminating the dependence on iTunes. I'm looking forward to the Acer Tablet.
The nature of security is that when it works it is frightfully expensive and nothing happens.
A solution would be for apple to allow 3rd party apps and crowdsource ratings well, then have an app store tied to the warranty that contained things that apple was happy with.
Anonymous Take Down UK Home Office Website
Ha, I remember trying to make sites that looked this good, with this aesthetic, back in the 90s.

But now, I totally agree. The stock photo girl with headphones along with a lot of other subtle things would make me instantly think "this a fake/auto-generated/contentless site" and hit the back button without even reading it.

It's interesting how strongly websites can give off vibes.
Ad space for equity
Um...this seems pretty wide open to abuse...
Agreed, it's not just Maoism, it's the broader history of China's economic development.

Also, if protectionism, which is notably bidirectional, isn't the root cause of rural poverty in China, do we have any reason for believing that unilaterally abandoning it would alleviate the poverty?
The iPad did not improve along every axis -- weight did increase (only marginally, actually -- 600g vs. 650g, about two ounces) as resolution doubled. For some preference functions, the utility of the new iPad could be less than the iPad 2.

But I think those people are pretty rare. The new screen is amazing. Even if you don't buy it or even want it, you have to acknowledge that Apple opened up a new part of design space.
Not carrying about third-party developers directly hurts end-users, so I don't follow this logic.

Third-party developers are a means to an end
(selling more hardware)

That's not related to the other point you made. Keeping end-users happy is also about selling more hardware.

I don't think that means that Apple as a company
doesn't care about third-party developers

Well of course there are shades of gray, as always.

I just think they tend to side with users when
there is a choice of making one group happy over the
other

I don't see a conflict between end-users and developers in regards to the points raised in the article, except maybe the UDID deprecation.

Would it hurt end-users in any way if the developers were able to reply to their reviews? Would it hurt end-users if the developers were able to push paid upgrades instead of having to create different apps?
Thanks for taking time to respond.

>I just want to explain myself here. My most basic complaint is not that there are a lot of junk apps, nor am I suggesting that Apple remove them from the App Store. I'm merely pointing out that it's a problem, and causes problems for legitimate developers in the same way that newsletter clutter makes it hard to read emails from human beings when your inbox has 10,000 emails.

I agree that it's a problem too, but I consider it to be a problem akin to democracy, i.e it doesn't always lead to the best result, but the alternative is even worse.

I think this would not be an issue if the App Store's search functionality was not piss-poor, and if Apple had better discovery mechanisms in place for people to find the gems, which often are not present on the top charts.

I think a lot of people make those decisions based on third party reviews and app review sites, though.

With 500,000 apps it would be very difficult to do something about it, considering that great masses of people might even like shitty apps over some gems (like great masses of people prefer the latest bullshit blockbuster over Inception, or NCIS over FireFly).
I think this website runs on Arc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)) which is a dialect of Lisp.
>eliminating the dependence on iTunes

They already did - iCloud. New iPad (and current iPhone) doesn't require computer to be activated or used.
Thanks for the link, it does give more context for where Stallman is coming from. It's a poignant story.

It's a tricky question about personal ethics and judgement. Is it possible for someone to have personal ethics that don't implicitly include the concept that everyone should share them? I'm not sure.

Anyhow, yes I am referring to the RMS's judgmentalness in my (what I meant to be ironic) reference to "conformist."

My understanding of the meaning of "conformism" is that it refers to the use of emotional, social, and behavioral methods that a dominant group use to coerce others who think, act differently than they want them to. RMS's ideas of morality are very much addressed towards the behavior of others and how he thinks people "should" act. The irony is that if many people adopted the ethics of RMS, I am positing that this would create a very conformist society (at least in regards to the proper use of technology).

The MIT Labs story is illustrative. The other protagonists in the story did not act how Stallman wanted them to, and hurt him (and others too). If others act in ways that hurt you or others, I can see how you can choose to define their behavior unethical. But you could also say they just behaved in ways that you didn't like, and hurt you.

Everyone has their own idea of ethics, and where various lines are drawn about moral/amoral/immoral.

It's interesting to see the down votes I am getting. I was starting to feel upset, but I guess it's just part of the method of discussion here? A short of shorthand to disagree? It's true I am a newbie to the Hacker News site, so if I am out of bounds on the discussion I apologize.
Ruby Pack Unpack
The VM is an old Windows XP that I bought (legitimately!) for $10 as a Microsoft employee. Perhaps it was $15. Thereabouts, anyway.
Teaching practices certainly change regularly, but whether they advance is not clear to me.
You're making the mistake of inferring demand from the budget, which is exactly the overly simplistic economic analysis I was warning about. If inflation raises the price of all goods, does that show increasing real demand? Of course not. In this case, not only are there not fewer kids demanding education, there are actually more of them, and offering (proportionate to the tax revenue available) the same 'price' as they were before. The fact that the tax revenue contracted does not in any way indicate a lessening in real demand, any more than inflation reflects a real increase in demand.
It definitely needs updating, but it's a really badass radio station that's been streaming electronica for like a decade now. Super awesome.
About breakeven for the time being, but I also learned a scary lot about how trading works in the process.
It is important that a developer is able to capitalize on each programing language. XSLT is not a language for writing a kernel, it is only to make transformations between XML files (more or less). If the writer of the "Open Letter to XSLT Fans" is frustrated by your current job, maybe he has to find another job. Is the equivalent that a ANSI C programmer critize the language because all days are fixing bugs related to the pointers. PLEASE, BE COHERENT!!!
Re the typos and insanity, note that that dude is the CEO of storify
Although, while it is certainly not be the only way to write, vim is always a solid choice.
Have you worked with him or do you know him?

I'd have to guess that he is in fact a very skilled software developer. Minecraft is a fairly complex project, as is emulating a 16-bit CPU within the constraints of a game environment.

And I'm curious, what wouldn't you hire him for?
> HDMI out:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD098ZM/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4Nj...

Or do you mean right on the case itself?
I use OpenShot and an old copy of After Effects (version 6.5) that works under WINE.
>We're talking about hate. Do they need an argument?

Blind hate is hardly something desirable. I'd say, yes, even hate needs an argument.
> HDMI out

There's an apple dongle for that
FYI, in Chrome 18.0.1025.151 on Windows 7, your header (the crown, your name, and the slogan) stays in place when scrolling, obscuring the text. I don't know if other Chrome users are seeing this or not. (This behavior doesn't occur in IE on my machine).
I was surprised to find such an article here. I thought that this site was all about promoting starups? If you think about it for a minute, Richard Stallman's point of view would eliminate most startups that ycombinator promotes (directly or indirectly). They would fail financially. He mentions using google and duckduckgo on friends computers. Do you think he would consider clicking on adverts free? I don't think so because clicking on them results in a transfer of money somewhere. Unless his definition of free is that he himself did not pay out of his own pocket for it? (someone else pays for it). If this were the case, If someone bought him a copy of windows as a gift would he use it.

So I ask, why is this anti-startup (at least for the 90% of startups you see here) blog linked from here?
If you disagree with my reaction/question - answer with your solution which would allow these 90% of startups to survive financially if only Richard Stallman followers used them.
I noticed the problem with iTunes connect has been fixed. It is actually much, much better than it used to be.
I agree. It's like a challenge when I can tell what he's physically doing and working on, but I have no idea what he's actually trying to accomplish.
You're 100% correct! It's absurd in the US too. The way the publishing industry releases their attractive young female salesforce onto college campuses (I heard this from a somewhat biased source - would love verification) and then bribes gatekeepers at resort "conferences" would be funny if it weren't such a tax on our education system... But this paradigm must be overturned with disruptive innovation not mimicry!
It's interesting to see that he uses Sonar (or at least have it installed but maybe disabled for now)

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Sonar+Eclipse
As a longtime online community manager, this piece strikes me as another entry in the time-honored tradition of "this place changed and now I don't like it" complaints. Yes, everything changes. No, it's not the same as when you joined. That's not Quora, that's life.
Sorry, are you aware of someone who can be proved to have been executed in the US within the past few decades for a crime they did not commit?

I'm aware of instances where "key witnesses" recant decades later (under what kind of pressure from defense attorneys or their own conscience I have no idea...) But I'm unaware of any instances where innocence was clearly established after an execution was carried out.
I got rid of my iPad 2 because the screen sucked compared to the iPhone retina display. I purchased and kept the new Ipad because of the improved screen. My only complaint is it takes a long time to recharge but at least it has a really long battery life.
Opium and cannon.

There was a reason the sun didn't set on the British Empire.

God doesn't trust the British in the dark.
The mantra of "student centered education" was almost deafening when I was teaching a few years ago. There is some merit to the idea, but I do not think it is the panacea it is sold as. Many of us on this board were held back by those around us, or were highly individual, but I bet that having a group around you that you can talk to and relate to that are studying the same material is very useful for most people.

Also, good teachers, teaching from good textbooks, to well fed, happy students is not done often. It's not a terrible approach.
Isn't this the same argument that's been made since 2009? Why are things different now?
For me, the radically interesting thing about messaging is that it's asynchronous. You send a message, and the message could be picked up and acted upon hours later (although usually it's more like milliseconds, or in pub/sub, it could be never).

This is unlike client-server, where basically you always sit waiting for a reply immediately.

However there are some people using messaging for client-server. Notably OpenStack is using RabbitMQ this way.

Another aspect to this is scaling: you might send a message to a mailbox, and on the other end [the sender doesn't know this] there could be a whole set of worker processes picking messages and working on them. Of course client-server can do that, but it requires changes to the client usually to make that happen.

On the subject of ZeroMQ: while broker systems (qpid, RabbitMQ, etc) might seem a bit "boring" and "old fashioned", there's a good reason for setting up mailboxes and persisting messages, particularly when you're trying to make scalable, safe architectures.
Why is htc quitting beats?
I'm no fan of "big publishing," but they do a/b test learning objects... This is a labor intensive job. That is why a new textbook edition costs historically 1M to produce(200k for a re-release).
Ha, really? I skipped through that video 30 seconds at a time, and it was just noise and someone hitting some random (sounding) keys on a piano to me. Totally distracting.

Funny how different people's tastes are. I wonder where they come from.

For comparison, here's[1] a song I love to listen to while coding, mostly after about 1:45 but especially at the 3:20 mark.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx8u0u3f8f8
And you might add make sure any charging method is fit for purpose - I am trying to use Companies House data and they are insisting that we set up a direct debit.

HINT! FTSE 100 and FT Global 500 company's do not set up direct debits when they buy services it has to go though our accounts department in the normal way.