skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the central urge in there is to get scientific discussion more out in the open. The single biggest issue by far, is not the pace of the publication process or the level of writing. It is access.

I would argue that access would actually solve a number of his other complaints (poor moderation, percieved time lag, people don't wanna read 'em, academia selecting for conformity). If we raised the quality of content on the open internet, the quality of discourse would go up.
Thoughts on HTTPS snooping by companies (Slashdot)
The problem with your message isn't that it's glib; it's that it isn't logical. "Just pay old investors with new investors" isn't a business model (it is, obviously, the definition of a Ponzi Scheme). "Pay a licensing fee for XXX" is.
Thank you for this detailed and thoughtful reply (as compared with downvote without comment that I got initially from whomever).

Based on your excellent description here, it sounds much more like Tableau and various other general BI tools (SAS's Visual Analytics, as well), though as you point out, that isn't Comprehend's objective.

The view synchronization (aka brushing and linking) and real-time sorting, filtering, and querying are all powerful features and indeed help elucidate reason from big, noisy data.

In that light, I think Comprehend's 'learn more' page doesn't do any of that justice. My original comment was my honest impression when looking at the site for the first time. The light-box style screenshots on each feature encouraged me to stare at the static UI. I would humbly suggest that it could be reworked to play up all these technical feats you mention (apropos, Heroku's 'how' page or this ACM queue article: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1805128, wherein the examples are all interactive, such as http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/files/zoo/ex/stats/parallel.ht...).

Though I suspect your potential user base and the buyers probably do get hands-on demos, so the website's feature page may not be terribly important. But that's my thoughts. I wish Comprehend the best of success. The work you've done already is doubtless moving mountains. And assisting health-work is a stupendous, long-term vision.
Right now, yes. Several people have brought up that this game could really be played without an account (for people that just want to play one game at a time, and don't care about leaderboards in the future, etc.) so we are definitely taking into consideration developing a feature that would allow instant gameplay.
Which recommendation approach works best for iOS apps?
Hey philsnow,

We currently use MoPub as our advertising network, and that is an interstitial advertisement from them. I'm thinking we should probably add something to the market description stating that this will happen after you make a move.
It's great that they are trying something different from iOS and Android, but I can't help thinking that most of the icons on those home screens look very similar. They seem to be mostly either a white icon on a plain square, or a photo. A bit of colour variation on the icons might make navigation a but faster.
Mozilla owes almost none of its market share to the EU. We earned almost all of our marketshare well before the EU decision requiring microsoft to advertise (not bundle) alternative choices and since that change in the EU a couple of years ago, we've seen very little movement in our user numbers. It may prevent IE from getting as many users, but it splits those users among Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Maxthon and others.
This was true a few years ago. Haven't all major browsers made it so that when you zoom in, it does actually zoom px (as well as images, etc)? (example: http://cl.ly/1O2d3s1Y3R213O1B0U1x)

Meaning that, basically, you use the following rules:

px = you want it to be x pixels when not zoomed at all
em = you want it to be relative to the parent div (ex: parent is 10px + child is 1.1em = child is 11px)

Personally, I find em to be a bit too susceptible to breakage since they're relative to the size of the parent (which is relative to the size of their parent, etc).

Using rem is interesting, however I disagree with most of what was said in this post.
Nice article, whose central message ("don't bundle your tools") is widely applicable to domains other than monitoring. Small, specialized tools that can be combined together is the very essence of the Unix philosophy.
All the mens shirting still photos you see are shot in this manner. If you were to wear shirts that fitted so snugly, you might not even be able to move or breath.
Much like the Somalian pirates, some of these people are supposedly hostages / under duress themselves.
McDonald's is in a fortunate/unfortunate position in that they can afford to have an ad campaign based upon honesty, because the unvarnished truth is still a lot better than the stuff that an awful lot of people already believe about them. I've heard many of these urban myths repeated in the wild by otherwise intelligent people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonalds_urban_legends

My favourite fact about most of these is that they allege that McDonald's is using a disgusting ingredient which would almost certainly wind up more expensive than the real thing. Hamburger-grade beef sells for, what, four dollars a pound? Probably a lot less if you have McDonalds' buying power. What do you think worm meat costs?
Table limits exist to segregate gamblers based on betting patterns, except where set by law. A pit boss will almost always allow you to place a bet over the limit if you clear it with him first and, if not, will direct you to the nearest table with higher limits.

They allow this precisely because the Martingale system does NOT pay off,
thanks for the reply,

I don't know anything about MoPub, but do they let you do anything at all about styling the interstitials? I assumed that this was some kind of beast-trading sub-game or something bolted on (or whatever it was, I thought it was content provided by you guys) because it doesn't say, e.g. "ads by MoPub" anywhere on that screen.
Astronomers catch asteroid near-miss on video
I'm not sure how this responds to my comment, since reselling books I scan from the library seems perfectly analogous to the market you propose.
In today's economically rationalised world, almost every position in a company is important. If it wasn't, they wouldn't pay for it. Saying who is more important to the process is somewhat meaningless - wages are generally aligned to how difficult it is to replace a person's skillset.
I use Sharepoint everyday. I hate it and iTunes equally. I use the Zune software everyday. I have it installed on all of my computers. I can't say that it is perfect, but it is leaps and bounds better than iTunes in my opinion.
So, what would a "small, sharp" monitoring tool look like that's compelling to customers? Just an agent, and the customer supplies their own notification and trend-reporting services?
While the dictionary doesn't define atheism as holding a belief in evolution, I would suspect there is an extremely high correlation between them. It's always the religious fundamentalists that reject evolution because anyone with any kind of scientific mind would accept the mountains of evidence.

If one rejects the spiritual or mythological explanation for things being the way they are, it's hard to come up with another possibility. Evolution or creationism, but I seldom hear of a third theory. There are of course many threads of opinion within the basic umbrella of evolution.

If god didn't plant all those bones to make it look like evolution then who did?
The article I linked never mentioned the injunction. Apple was suing Microsoft, and the investment by MS was part of how Steve Jobs offered to settle the matter.
Exactly. People don't go to McDonald's because the food looks right. They go because no matter where you are in the world the experience is same (or at least roughly the same) - quick food that tastes good. Until humanity isn't faced with being rushed to eat, I don't see McDonald's going anywhere soon.

I used to be from the school of thought that this marketing was "bad" or misleading the consumer. I think quite the contrary now. I've found that most buying behavior is ridiculously irrational and that marketing is effectively just exposing that human weakness.

BMW ad that shows a smart middle aged man with a beautiful women? That actually can be true. You don't buy a BMW for it's utility (getting from A to B), you buy it for the potential experience (getting from A to B with a hot blonde). Otherwise you go with the Smartcar. BMW marketing is just giving you ideas of what that potential experience can be. It's up to you to use the tool to create the experience.
here is a link that provides some NYC data -- http://mappedinny.com
Not a problem at all, and I am taking a look at their documentation to see if that is possible. I think it is, great suggestion!
Considering most ads only pay if you click them, you're just wasting more of their bandwidth by viewing the desktop version, not helping them.

(no, I don't use an adblocker)
IPS vs TFT. Most 1080p monitors are a lower quality display to begin with. Viewing angles and color accuracy, light bleed, etc. The fact that 2560x1440 has 75% more pixels than a 1080p monitor is another contributor to cost.
Unless the band you create is called Sparklehorse, and you're considered an indie-musician's indie-musician, and you collaborate with PJ Harvey and Tom Waits and Danger Mouse and James Mercer, and tour with Radiohead, and end up destitute living out of your old recording studio too in hock to hospitals to pay for mental health care and then shoot yourself in the chest.

On the plus side: now you're extra famous.
A "Play as guest" button would be really helpful!

A tip: name the game as Super Tic Tac Toe. That change can benefit you on search and rankings (because of SEO).
Why crowded coffee shops fire up your creativity
>There is no incentive whatsoever for manufacturers to give people control over their computers, and that is the crux.

I agree and I think this is the interesting part of the discussion (not the vilify Microsoft part). I guess don't see any reason why they wouldn't. They could have not allowed users to reinstall their OS or forbidden non HDD boot in the past by forcing it in the BIOS.

It's hard to explain because this is another step where they will have to provide the ability but to me, they could have done something like this at any point in time (the OEMs, that is) and they didn't. Will they now? I guess that remains to be seen, but I see it as an issue almost separate from UEFI. Maybe the UEFI folks could have made a stronger recommendation and required licensing that included forced terms of user key enrollment? I certainly would be in favor of that in the interest of user freedom!
Yay! This is a great idea, isn't it everybody?

I mean, unsophisticated investors who barely have the time or inclination to understand how financial markets work (because the have jobs/families) are just about to get the right to invest in the "new new thing".

Now, I'm all for free rights, but that is just insane!

When people get a whiff of possible massive resturns - housing, stock, emerging markets, options, lottery tickets, IPO issues, etc. - they "invest" in them wishfully thinking that they have even the slightest idea as to what they are actually doing (some do - but most don't). These are exactly the wrong type people who should be running extreme risk capital (which is why we have VCs in the first place). These people will get slaughtered.

If average people can barely handle relatively regulated and tested markets like stocks, houses and IPOs - how the hell are they going handle startups which have an insane signal to noise ratio in a rising market where "successful" funding can hide business model "failure".

But hey! There's no bubble right? The IPO market is soft.

But who needs an IPO market when you have massive liquid pools of dark private retail capital.

The lambs are coming in for the slaughter and the wolves are salivating with glee!

If I understand this correctly, this new law may just be akin to the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act).

Let the games begin!
How bringing features like NFC or multi-core support to current Lumias help anyone, if hardware pieces are missing?
This is a great resource on the relative short history of HTML. Quirksmode, font tags, table-based layouts, etc.
No. People do.

Neeext!
The reason is just culture there is nothing else. When the major professions Lawyers, MBA's, Doctors, Engineers became part of the majority work force a culture emerged. Somehow the people who in aggregate create the most value in the working world as far as dollar is concerned started to under bid each other for competition, you look at any software/engineering contract there is always and under bidding war going on, always.

But with Doctors, MBA, Lawyers they are always looking to get the most personal financial benefit, and even put in laws and other policy to assure they will, hence the prestige. It has gotten to the point where engineers are seen as cogs as I can hire someone else to do the same thing, plus they are paid the least anyway so they are easy to replace.

I think it is just starting to change if you go in the tech/startup world you can make more money ,developers are paid even over $500k, the difference is the culture they value your work.
That's not what this Apple KB cites [1]:
"This provides an additional layer of protection for your email messages and attachments. Third-party applications can use the data protection APIs in iOS 4 and later to further protect application data."

That does not imply all data is encrypted - in fact, it implies it requires app-level support and not even all first-party app data is encrypted.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4175
Ask HN: Why don't wantrepreneurs ever launch?
Would like to see a poll of some sorts on reasons like:

1. Too many ideas, can't pick one

2. Fear of failure

3. Parents want you to be a ____(doctor, lawyer, ...)______

4. No time

5. No endurance

6. No capital (monetary, other resources)

7. Met with too much skepticism

8. Not yet, got to pay bills

I often wonder why a lot of great programmers (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3849304) choose to work for someone else rather than for themselves? It boggles my mind.
Since nobody is arguing that the computer is a person (yet), the answer is no. The computer does not have a right to free speech.

Obviously the corporation is responsible for the acts or speeches of its tools. The question is, to what extent does a corporation have a right to free speech?

Lots of laws, lawyers and judges have and will continue to have words about that.
Crowdfunding an open source crowdfunding evaluation system
Thank you. I'm glad someone else sees this. If a developer writes a NFC enabled app that finds its way on to previous generation phones, the support alone will be an utter nightmare.
I agree this won't revolutionize research, but I also think it will work really well as a funding model for certain types of researchers.

The first are researchers at small liberal arts colleges. While these institutions specialize in teaching, their faculty are often pressured to publish, but not given a lot of funding or time to write grants. If I were teaching at a small liberal arts college, I'd seriously consider this as an alternate funding model.

The second group consists of people who do research that is really interesting to a small subset of individuals, but not particularly well funded. My lab in graduate school specialized in aging research. While I was there the funding situation was brutal, and somewhere around ninety percent of the grants in our area were being rejected. There's no way a project like Microryza could have covered the costs of the entire lab, but a direct appeal to the singularity-crowd might have brought in enough to help keep things working smoothly while times were tough.
I am busy right now...
Oh, I see what you're saying. You're saying "right and wrong don't matter, what matters is what you can get away with". In other words, "might makes right".

Well then! In that case, I have very much chosen the wrong business model. Perhaps I should reconsider. A better business model might be: NO UPFRONT FEES FOR SQL INJECTION VULNERABILITIES! Woohoo! In fact, no upfront anything! We'll just go ahead and find them. But don't ask how much they'll cost after we do find them. It'll... uh... depend.

I often find myself feeling the same way in these kinds of discussions as I do about being a well-off liberal Democrat with good career prospects. In other words, I feel like I'd probably be a lot better off personally if I just shrugged my shoulders and ignored what I thought was right and joined the other side of the argument. Free music! No capital gains taxes! Sounds awesome!
> Spending every weekend and vacation throughout childhood hacking really limits your perspective on the world.

No disagreement there, but what kind of perspective on the world do a project management app, a social network and a photo app require? Surely, there are better examples out there.
Many ads (including a lot in Facebook) for cellphone money-sucking subscriptions operate in the exact same way. Writing such a stupid message that only very unintelligent people would click and therefore getting the best ROI they can (when they pay per click).
Show HN: MangoDB
Oh yeah, funny, that's probably it. I think I've even seen one of them somewhere in the bush. Thanks for clarification :)
We're not censoring you, just your printing press.

This whole dialogue is ridiculous.
4,8,5 in that order...
Well, the requirements specify at least a 2.0 GHz dual-core, which most Airs don't have (even this year's edition only has an 1.8 GHz i5).
Perhaps you should just switch to the ratpoison window manager. :-)

http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
The Wikipedia disambiguation for Dynamism (last edited in March) includes:

"Dynamism (computing), When any process in computer is using Dynamic management methods for its processing/computing/memory management/parallelism handling for being able to give more user friendly work that are more easy to interact and modify."

... for whatever that's worth.
I've upvoted you, but I really want to second this verbally too. I don't see any adverts on IFTTT (and even if they were: once setup, I wouldn't be visiting the site often and seeing them), and don't understand how they're monetising. This is a service I'd really like to use, but I don't want to come to depend upon it, then find it folding (either due to monetary problems, or acquired by a third party and being shut down).

Some information on how they intend to stay alive would be fantastic.
Microsoft have absolutely no taste..I would probably go to the bathroom if I want to see tiles.
The real problem is that 99% of research publications are, to put it bluntly, worthless. This is the root problem of the entire system which leads to many of the problems the author here is listing.

These 99% are often churned out because they help sustain someone's carrier or lab. To be published, crap research thus needs to convince people that it is smart and important. This is usually done by being written poorly.

The remaining 1% will progress human knowledge and help other scientists to continue down the right path. If they are important enough for wider dissemination, well, that's what science journalists are for.
The Rise and Fall of BuzzBlaze
Depends on the extent of the rewording. The courts have methods to test for derivative works, and testing for a rote or uncreative transformation is one of those.
"What do Taxpayers Have to do With This?"
Hacking Paid Upgrades in the App Store
Do you own your kid's domain name
You "fully understand" of all the shades of introversion/extroversion and yet you thought "Wow, there are people like this?" after reading it? I think you might need to expand the range of shades you understand. Nothing in the piece suggested to me anything verging on sociopathic.
First, to answer the broader question: we get to "demand" another choice simply by expressing an opinion about the structure of the market, the lack of sensible choices, and the existence of bugs in the legal system that need fixing. At least in this case, I don't think anyone in this discussion harbors any delusions that downloading a song qualifies as legal, but most of the people in this discussion can make a sensible distinction between right and legal; anyone wanting to change the legal system has to have the ability to discuss bugs in that system.

That discussion remains distinct from the question of whether any individual person would choose to (openly or secretly) flaunt the existing legal system and take the associated risks; I don't personally want to take those risks, but that doesn't mean I see those choices as wrong, just currently illegal.

To answer the more specific question: since you've already seen all of these arguments play out enough times to become jaded by them, you already know the entire line of arguments differentiating physical property with scarcity from infinitely copyable digital files. In short, taking a bag of M&Ms means the owner of them no longer has it, whereas copying (not taking) a file leaves the original in place.
This is like asking if your telephone has freedom of speech. Or your sign. Or your printing press. Or your corporation.

These are tools belonging to and used by people who have rights. A new tool is covered by those same rights.
>After all, we all want to get the project out of the door, make some money on the way and go home.

This is Hacker News, not Project Manager Forums. I am sure most of us just want to create awesome things and not "go home"!
If you are interested in this, I strongly encourage you to watch Andrew Tridgell's talk from linux.conf.au 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML__e_ZcWiQ. It was close to my favourite talk at that conference.

From the youtube video: "This talk is all about the technology and techniques that we have developed for building an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that can search for and find a lost bushwalker in outback Australia"

Tridge is a great speaker, and discusses the nuances of this topic really well.
Two things:

1) She uses a BlackBerry PlayBook in the video. :-D

2) This video is part of a much larger social marketing effort by McDonald's Canada.

http://yourquestions.mcdonalds.ca/

Personally, I think it's brilliant, and masterfully executed. Sounds like someone there "gets" social media.
Greplin reinvents itself as Cue, organizes your Internet life
precisely so. and i don't care - no, actually i'm glad that PMing pays more than programming, so that it will attract people willing to do it and let me concentrate on the things i find fun.
Neither static typing (nor any of the other stuff mentioned) is enough to ensure correctness. Never has been, never will be.

However, static typing is enough for some sweet, sweet hit-dot-wtf-can-i-do-completion-refactoring-like-a-boss tooling goodness.
I'm older than you in human years, but you're probably old enough to be my dad in entrepreneur/developer years.
He was saying that dehumanising speech contributed to it. And he's somewhat correct. The funny thing is that he is equating what's happening to him to the nuclear holocausts with his serious face on.

It's been overlooked a little, but in the article they juxtapose him saying "I always speak respectfully and never use even soft curse words" with his actual website with parodies using exactly what he says he doesn't.