skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AppAware for Android website and dev API
AppAware - a social network for apps and games on Android has released a great looking website - http://appaware.com/. They also just launched a developer API - http://dev.appaware.com/ to help other devs integrate user profiles in their websites via OAuth2. Pretty cool!
Why should the UI or API get involved with filtering what's inherently the human's problem?
This was submitted earlier and got no discussion, so I resubmitted it with a more neutral title.

Taibbi has some excellent points. Overall, in the long run, this is going to hurt the startup industry. There will be numerous publicized incidents of massive fraud. Many people will lose their money and they will tar the entire industry with that perception. Casual investors are going to get robbed blind by scam artists, and anyone intending to run a real, honest business should be against these legal changes.
And after I wrote the above comment, I tested it and I am as well, on Linux.

The fun thing about this type of vulnerability is if you know the user's name, you can build an invisible form component to get the browser to spill the stored password.
Nokia Projects Disastrous Losses as Shares Plunge 17%
Thanks, but I was thinking of InPulse.

I bought like literally the first one (still have it somewhere if anybody wants it).
I recently found myself reading Mason & Dixon and trying to figure out what the rule is for those apostrophes. Pynchon wrote that book in a hybrid of 18th and 20th century English (which is brilliant and possibly also annoying) and boy does he apostrophize. At first it seemed like all the past forms were apostrophiz'd but then I noticed many of them were elongated after all. It appears that the rule is to spell out the "e" in "ed" when it's articulated and use an apostrophe when it's unpronounc'd. I suppose this ought to have been obvious from first principles but I only hit on it by painstaking induction :)
What is the asymptotic cost of purely functional programming?
It's not about competition between products, it's about competition between distributors of the same product.

To use your app store example, you would need to imagine an alternate universe where there are two competing iOS App Stores: one run by, say, Apple and another by Amazon. You're Macmillr, one of the hottest startups in the valley, and you have a bunch of apps you want to get on the market.

In this world, you sell your apps "wholesale" to Apple and Amazon. Apple comes to you and says "I'll buy your apps for $0.50 per copy", and you forge a similar deal with Amazon. Then they compete with each other to on-sell them to the public. Obviously, that's pretty difficult for the two 'A's. How do they compete with someone selling an equally-priced product?

First they'd reduce their own margins as much as possible. Then maybe they do some clever discounting tricks, loss-leaders and promos and the like. Maybe they add some intangibles like a nice recommendation system or a pretty shop UI. Eventually, though, you just know one of them is going to come back to you and say "Forget your $0.50. I want it for $0.45."

So now you're in a tough spot, because Apple controls 90% of the app market. If they say "$0.45 or we walk", there's not much you can do about it. Bad times. As you see this happening, you realise something: Apple must have reached this dominant position by price gouging you and your fellow developers. At this rate, it'll only get more popular and more powerful, which means your future profits look pretty bleak.

But then Amazon comes to you and says "Hey, buddy, we're new in this App Store game, but we play to win, and we have a proposal for you. These Apple assholes are squeezing us dry because they set prices we can't compete with at our market share, and they're driving your wholesale price down to meet their ridiculous margins. But that's the key. We've got this new system where you set the price and they just take a fixed percentage. If you stop letting them set the retail price, the pressure will let up on you and us both."

"Alright", you say, "but if I start dictating prices, won't Apple and their 90% monopoly just drop my sorry apps like a hot potato?"

"Well", says Amazon, with a wink, "you might not be the only meeting we have lined up today in the valley."

Two weeks later, you tell Apple it's $1 and they get 30%. They say no. You say yes. They drop all your apps. You take out a full page ad in Techcrunch. You hear word that 37Schusters and Harpr.Coll.ns are preparing to do the same. Apple gives up. Agency pricing is the new standard for iOS apps. You win! ...until the DoJ comes asking about those meetings.

As to whether the agency model in general keeps prices high, I don't know. Smarter people than I [1] with prettier graphs [2] say no, but my own experience suggests that, at least at the moment, ebooks are way too expensive. I can't help but think that they'd be lower with Amazon calling the shots, but without any data to back me up I'm left with just a vague sense of unease.

[1] http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/does-agency-pricing-lead-t...
[2] http://www.digitopoly.org/2012/03/31/are-prices-higher-under...
The fair Instagram valuation: $3 billion
Have signed up, played with the tutorial and now persuading my management to pay for the full account and use Ducksboard as our primary dashboard.

Great work guys.
Old 8bit processors just start with the instruction pointer at a known value (e.g. 0x0000).

If you arrange matters so that until the CPU tells you differently, memory address 0x0000 holds your firmware, then all can proceed from there.
Doesn't look like it shows seconds in the "normal" watch view. Only does seconds in the stopwatch mode.
If you don't want to pay the price they are setting then don't buy the book, it is that simple. I as a producer should be able to set it at whatever price I wish.
>However, it makes one wonder if that might be anti-competitive behavior..

This is a joke, right? I fail to see how it is even close, especially when Google is dumping Android on the market for free just to buy marketshare.
Very cool! I've long since wanted to do this with an iPod nano and wristwatch accessory..... Except no connectivity.

My wishes for a product like this:

1) built in apps should be as polished and optimized and biotin apps so its truly ready to go for the majority.

2) app functionality I've long wanted:

- I hope it comes standard with caller id app
- weather feed
- email notification as id like

Basically a subset of my smartphone features on my wrist.

Customizability wise, id love to be able to have an interface to build a dashboard.maybe someone will create a Web app that I can create my own data feeds and publish into an app on my watch.

Good luck, look forward to seeing it when it comes out!
I'm just viewing this as a proof of concept. If this works for uploading photos then it could work for anything tieing a bump profile to a website. For example now people use facebook to login to various sites. What if you could just bump your phone on spacebar to login or signup for an account on any site which uses their api even if you have not visited that site before, and provide them with information you selected on your phone. Could even be used for additional login verification of sorts. Sounds pretty cool and at least remotely brilliant to me.
I think the process is like this:

- Publisher says "I want $10 for this e-book. You distributors can decide the actual 'list price'"
- Amazon starts selling at $9 as losses $1 per book - to help drive Kindle sales
- Publishers freak out, not about the now, but the future as Amazon has 90% market share of e-books
- Enter Jobs and Apple who says "Oh here's what you do. You tell them the street price has to be $x and we'll keep 70% and you get 30%"
- How do we make Amazon comply? Well, Apple insert the most favored nation clause saying that a price offered to anyone is the same price that they must Apple is selling at.
- The book publishing executives also make the mistake of getting together every few months to discuss strategy and how the whole pricing thing was going (Dumb!)

So Apple, getting ready to launch the iPad, saw the stress with the publishers and a way to reign in Amazon and used their business savvy to help the publishers connect the dots.
So? They still have your credit card details to pay for the service, your cell phone location, the recipient of each email and the web pages you visited.

The actual contents of the emails is pretty much irrelevant- I'm pretty sure that international terrorists probably use code.

I'm also pretty sure that having one of these accounts and a series of logs showing your access to online gambling or movie sharing sites or banks in the Caymans is going to trip the same alarm bells.
Careercast.com ranks Software Engineering as the best job of 2012
> How can something be anti-competitive if it increased competition? Whether prices went up or down is irrelevant. The whole point of anti-trust law is to make sure that the market has competition. Not to make sure that prices are low.

You're conflating all of the different markets here. There is the publisher and retailer and the retailer and the consumer. The latter now no longer exists, as the publisher chooses the price for both markets.

That the ereader market, a third market in this equation, is now more competitive (which is a debatable subject) isn't relevant, as you can't use anti-competitive measures in one market to increase competition in another.
Sony Ericsson's old dumbphones (before they went Android-only) also allowed recording of calls and it'd also play the same beep.

I wonder why both the current (US-based) top smartphones OSes dropped this feature?
Facebook: The Long-Awaited Web Interface for Instagram
I'm currently working with these for a senior design project...I must say, I'm not a huge fan. You can do some neat things with the accelerometers, but the RF range is severely limited. Having worn one for extended periods of time, I must say that it's not something I'd enjoy wearing around. It's bulky and a bit unsightly.

Still, it's fun to hack with, and you can do some cool things with accelerometer data. Definitely worth the $25.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the story of Mel yet: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html

Low-level programmers have been dying ever since the first assembler was invented.
Chat now takes screen real estate even when not in use. A shame :-(
Octopussy – xml or perl log analyzer
WooDojo. Enhance your WordPress website
Actually, they tend to burn up in the atmosphere :)
Portland wasn't always a safe haven for cyclists :)

And even now, on the sonorous hums and curves of Sandy Blvd, you may find yourself cycling next to several 'mudded' pickups, and called things that are hateful and confusing.

You can put the hipster in Oregon, but you can't take the redneck out.
Paul from Geckoboard here. Would love to hear how we can do better. Happy to respond here or you can shoot me a mail, paul at geckoboard.com
As far as I can tell, you can customize email and phone notifications, but you can't customize the notifications that appear under the red alert number on Google web pages. (I might be missing something.)
> Time to ditch the arrogant tech blogs

No. Time to stop disguising attacks at media outlets as constructive advice.

If the author had wanted to be constructive, the article would have read along these lines: "It's a tough problem to find out what media your audience consumes, and then cater your PR toward that media outlet. Here's how we screwed that up, here's what we did to fix it, and here's how you can avoid making the same mistake".
Though to grab this info with ajax it doesn't have to fire off an event when the auto-complete changes it. It could just check every second itself if the form changed and if so send off the info.
PandoDaily, in particular, is funded by VC firms that also fund tech startups.
They're basically buying coverage for their investments

I would like to point out that HackerNews is run by a VC firm and YC alumni effectively get free coverage here.
Audi's electric sports car -- R8 Etron
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Yes it's probably only really useful for parallel code, but it's always nice to make constant things const.
There doesn't need to be an alternative if what we have now is effective for YC companies. This isn't a moral issue. You might have an easier time finding an alternative to HN.
Instagram Purchase Sets the Dangerously New to Old, Ordinary Purposes
Show HN: Another potential compatibility issue with a future version of Mac OS X
I think G+ needs to clarify whether it's aimed at "only real friends" as Facebook is, or aimed at "mainly people you don't know" a la Twitter. Once they clarify that, people will stop posting vacation photos for strangers to see, or stop posting Lisp programming tips to their personal friends.
France's small-scale organic farmers celebrate 10 years of boxing clever
Apparently some physicists have come up with 4 billion years after the Big Bang (i.e. about 10 billion years ago) for life to have been possible:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/01/when-did-proto-...
Damn, Girl: New York Has Almost Double The Female Founders
Old People Are Coming For Your Tablets
The Great Erection: Standing Desks Are On the Rise
Report: Hacker Attacks on Financial Services Companies Tripled From Last Year
An Internet provider that puts your privacy first
I always thought that band was "cooler" than math because some people make out on band buses during trips. I've never seen anyone make out on a math trip.
Not So Fast With That Embed Code, Says The MPAA
This 3D Printer Sells for $4,000 and Prints Chocolate Instead of Plastic
Booting Up: Rulings Edition
Asking "When will I ever use math?" is like jogging and asking, "When will I ever use these calf muscles?"

(The answer to both is "all the time", but that's not the point.)

I was a math major who did independent research in Elementary Number Theory and decided to switch paths and become a computer programmer (many years ago). It's true, I haven't encountered many sigmas, deltas, and derivative signs in all those years, but there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that I'm exercising the same mental muscles built with math.

OP mentions “wondering, playing, amusing yourself with your imagination.” Hell, build something.

Assembling ones and zeros to help real people solve real problems is every bit as wonderful, playful, and amusing as anything I ever did with pure mathematics. And probably even more rewarding...I've discovered that it's much more likely to see a customer do a happy dance with software that never existed before I built it than proving Fermat's Last Theorem or figuring out what Galois was up to on that long last night.
I'm just never sure which Google+ I'm supposed to use - my work email, my other work email, my personal email, the email associated with my social networks?

The biggest barrier for me is the inability to login in with whatever I want and then hook in whatever networks I want.
Shouldn't this page be more clear about the fact that this completely insecure and not currently suitable for any public website, due to the unlimited database rights?
Google using the word 'beautiful'. That's a new one.
In other news I contemplated illegally robbing a Las Vegas casino after watching Oceans 11. Unfortunately, it wasn't a conspiracy as I just kept it myself, until now. How do I get Peter Kafka's attention? My company needs press, too.
I suspect when students ask, "When will I use this?", they don't see any practical or abstract uses of what the teacher is teaching. In other words, it isn't expanding their mind or changing how they think about things. I've yet to have a math teacher that does this well, but I've also yet to have a good math teacher. Maybe there's a correlation.
PHP: Deploy and Release your Applications with Phing
Apple Joins the Exodus to OpenStreetMap
That's because the story of Mel has probably already been mentioned at least 20 times this week :-)
Assuming you aren't on a machine with a limited CPU and limited battery power - like a phone.

C++ is making a big comeback where instructions/joule matters
BugHub Relaunches With Completely New UI
The Greens are also relatively vocal about Verbraucherschutz ("consumer protection"). I think that's where they could keep scoring even when people stop caring about energy.
Your comment should be at the top.
One workaround for this in chrome is to remove name/email values from address auto-fill form, so it will only populate when you actually enter address.
And it's generally good idea to separate general browsing from personal/finance/etc using user profiles.
I always go to Vi Hart (http://vihart.com/doodling/) when thinking about how we should teach math.
Nice article/blog post from 2008. If you want to keep reading, the next article is http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/kernel-boot-process
The company is already in deep trouble. Former Microsoft employee - now Nokia president Eltop gave up Symbian, fired a lot of developers, and is losing market share worldwide.

Note that while Nokia is targeting first-time smpartphone buyers, since the launch many AT&T sales reps have been suggesting that those customers buy the iPhone as their first smart phone.
Is the technical approach any different from G+'s circles, where you can limit which circles can see certain content?
The problem with the analogy between music and math is the free-will aspect. Everyone is FORCED to take math, whereas most people are NOT forced to play an instrument (at least in the US). Everyone knew a couple of math wizzes who usually were not the one's asking "why do I need to learn this?" These kids would probably do math even if they weren't forced to, and indeed, many of them go on to pursue a higher education in mathematics, completely voluntarily. On the other hand, many kids whose parents force them to play an instrument often complain and ask "why do I need to play an instrument?"

tl;dr: If you force someone to do something, and you don't want to make them resent the thing you're forcing them to do, you should explain to them why you're forcing them to do it, i.e., why it's in their best interest, whether it's math, music, learning a language, etc.
This is the only spec that we have to work with: http://0x10c.com/doc/dcpu-16.txt . Notch said he's reviewed quite a bit of feedback on the spec and to expect revisions although it may be a while.

The rest of our information comes from Notch's tweets. Interrupts are unlikely. IO is memory mapped. There's been some guessing about display and keyboard but nothing set in stone.
SendHub (YC W12) is looking for a Backend Engineer
We're looking for a talented and determined backend dev to lead our API and Infrastructure efforts.

Skills: Python (We use Django), Postgres, Redis(or other NoSQL technologies), Experience writing RESTful APIs, Git

Nice to have: Experience using message queuing systems (like RabbitMQ), and Heroku

What we're doing: We're building simple tools for business to communicate with their customers. We have thousands of users and are sending over 100k messages a month.

What you'll be doing: Working closely, and at speed, with our small team and toolset to take our messaging platform to the next level scaling to millions of users and messages sent per week. This will likely mean you'll be learning a lot and most of it will on the job.

Our Philosophy: We believe in building wonderful products and taking care of our people. We expect a lot of each other but we wouldn't want it any other way. We're hungry and we need you to be too.

We're based in Mountain View, CA, and while we're flexible on remote working, you'll need to be around the office and eligible to work in the USA.

If you're interested in being more than a cog in the machine, please drop us a line: ryan [at] sendhub [dot] com
Good to see that you are aware of this and working towards it. I'll keep an eye out for it, won't be able to use Meteor before that.
Why a remote workforce is bad for startups
My butt... Xcode 4.3.2 is NOT stable. It repeatedly crashes when a 5.1 device is connected, especially if you try to open the organizer window. 4.3.1 does not eventhough it does not have the 5.1 SDKs. I've seen this on 3 different (and current) Macs in the past few days, so it isn't a unique situation.
In one box I'm working with, a switch (whether mechanical, or an outboard management processor, a received network packet with a "smart" NIC, or otherwise) triggers a pin or signal on the processor.

This signal causes the processor to then perform its own start up, which then causes various processor-specific initialization, and then causing the processor to load its soft-loaded firmware code from a SROM, and to jump to the start address for the console firmware.

The firmware then performs more configuration and testing, and which eventually gets around to allowing the user to enter commands, or to trigger an operating system bootstrap by finding and loading blocks from a specified boot device.

The SROM implementation allows the firmware code to be more easily upgraded.

This sequence is usually covered in a processor technical manual, for whichever combination of processor and main board you're looking at.
If you didn't take the author's advice and read [Lockhart's Lament](http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf), go do it. It's worth it.
Would love it :)
I want to know this also.
Life decision making website is looking for funding on Kickstarter
Choicr is a project that aims to change the way the world looks at decision making. Through timed, and vote-driven decisions, individuals, personalities and companies can have the audience of thousands at their disposal with a click of a button. You are the driving key to that audience. With funding through Kickstarter we will move past the beta and idea stage and move onto a digital venue that creates, reinforces, and promotes group decision making as a whole. You will be a pioneer in this arena.
Creative Commons announcement: https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32322
Anatomy of a mobile web experience: Facebook.com
Did you watch the video? This is inPulse (see 0:23)

Also, for skimmers, it's under PROJECT BY:

> Eric and his team have been designing smartwatches for 3 years. Their first product was the inPulse smartwatch for Blackberry (www.getinpulse.com). inPulse has been covered by Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, NYTimes and more.
One of the simplest uses of math was shown to me by a carpenter who made a triangle from three pieces of wood with sides 24", 32" and 40". Because of this his triangle had a right angle in the corner and he could use it to check that things (such as large areas of tiling) were square.

Good old Pythagoras: 24^2 + 32^2 = 40^2.

Because the sides were long he had a nice big right angle to work with.
I am not a lawyer but I think the issue with Apple is that they coordinated the change. 1 publisher making demands of Amazon has no leverage, but collectively they do, and Apple is who told the publishers that they would have that support. Allegedly.
Interesting: Google+ borrows Twitter's awful grammar: "Who to follow."
How 3 Guys Launched a Legit Media Startup & Aim to Make Philly the Next Tech Hub
While most of their former classmates struggled to find jobs in a beleaguered industry, the trio decided to give themselves job titles. Instead of “freelance writer” or “blogger”, they anointed themselves “co-founders” and launched Technically Philly.
Seeking Out the IT Generalists in the Sea of DevOps