skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious: why no PayPal? Unless I'm misreading your tone it sounds like you're pretty adamant about NOT supporting a comic through PayPal. Why?
Cool. I like seeing stuff like this.
Yes, it's very strange.

Specially considering that this app is extremely simple. Look at the screenshots: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id507518845

And, I don't understand why is Apple's search broken. He has made a paid app that has sold 5000 copies so far. there are free apps with the same name that have been downloaded tens of thousands of time, and a competitors that costs twice and has sole (probably) 60000 copies (it has 8500 votes).

They all have great reviews and rankings, just like his app. But they've sold a whole lot more.

So, tell me, why should his app be on the top spot?!

BTW, if you have Siri, odds are you won't ever need a third-party timer app.
Increasing retention for social games
Not a huge fan of the blade chassis vs. individual servers. Cleaner cabling, but software/firmware problems can kill the whole chassis, and you're locked into a single vendor.

I rarely run out of RUs before I run out of power on anything. Maybe it would be different with ARM-based blades.

Real hardware, though, vs. cloud, pretty easy case to make for a stable load app.
If you're looking for a new kind of video game console, and haven't already heard of it, then you need to know about the Open Pandora:

http://openpandora.org/

This device is, really, amazing.

I have two. I will tell you whats so amazing about this GAMES machine: it has everything you need to build games, already onboard.

Both of my machines are set up with their own on-board development environments - full C/C++ compiler, and so on.

I have been able to port a metric tarball-tons' worth of games - and other - applications with the device itself and nothing else.

You can use things like LOAD81 (http://github.com/antirez/load81/) on the Pandora http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=LOAD81, and it really rocks.

You can put python (or rather, upgrade the existing python), ruby, haskell, &etc. on it. With great ease.

Also, you can play a hell of a lot of nice games, too. The free (in all meanings of the word) spirited community has constructed its own a-massing collection of titles:

http://repo.openpandora.org/

Emulators? There are very, very few emulators that are not already running on the Pandora; - I have 27 different 'retired architectures' software archives on one of my Pandoras.

New-school games? Well, they're out there, and happening. The Pandora may not have an Android App Stores' worth of apps, yet, but most everything thats in the existing repo, is quality. There are some true gems .. just check the public repo top-10 list at repo.openpandora.org, to see what I mean.

(EDIT: Actually, the Pandora can run Android just fine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHPxE9om3Hc)

Did I mention: 11 hours battery life, and it fits in my coat pocket? Oh, it has two nice little analog nubs, a workable keyboard, and a decent touchscreen.

The next generation Pandora might be an almighty beast worth looking at, but the Ouya, well .. it has some serious catching up to do.
Nobody ever got fired for making fun of slightly overweight white men.
Twitter updates mobile apps with expanded tweets and notifications
SO...

We actually did try to fix the local government. We put Adrian Fenty in office and gave him free reign to get DC government working properly.

Of course, when he tried to fix public education (via Michelle Rhee) he ran smack into the buzzsaw that was the teachers union that steadfastly refused to take any responsibility for actually teaching students. Now we have another set of bought-and-paid-for charlatans. Just like they want.

And there's the rub really: if you come into government and try to actually change things, you're going to upset an entire class of people that benefit from things staying exactly as they are. In many cases, they outnumber you. They are organized around protecting the status quo.

The idea that a single person can mobilize to change things is quaint but RARELY how you get real change. It takes a sustained effort, over many many years to change ANYTHING in government.

As an example, only RECENTLY did they get actual METERS in the cabs in DC. Think about that. It took something like 10 years from start to finish to legislate meters in the taxis. When I was there, there was a minor scandal surounding taxi drivers bribing the vehicle inspectors with $100 bills in the ashtrays to pass the vehicles. Think about that. We had criminals serving on the police force. It's an entire city built on giving city jobs to people who vote in your candidate.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is just a fantasy.
General Motors Will Slash Outsourcing In IT Overhaul
No, you want testing to match production as closely as possible.

Much of the time, development can be done in all sorts of ways that needs little connection to the final production environment.
Does Google Drive do LAN sync? Like any self respecting geek I have far too many computers and LAN sync keeps the bandwidth down, especially on freshly installed systems.

I'm also primarily on Linux so Google Drive is useless to me. (Yes I know about grive.)

My biggest peeve with Dropbox is that it doesn't know about multiple users. I have a personal paid account, as well as a separate team account for work. All of their software and sites work as though you only have one account, which is a huge pain.

Separately they also screw over paid accounts who share folders. For example if two users each get a paid account for 50GB each and the first one shared 10GB of content with the second, then the second will only be able to use 40GB for their own files. So there will only be a total of 90GB of unique storage even though 100GB has been paid for. I understand (and agree) why they do this with free accounts, but their support kept refusing to see why it is an issue when both accounts are paid.

The users issue and shared space issues mean I'm highly likely to move to Google once they support Linux.
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How is you not checking your balance before a purchase in any way different than making sure you have enough money available through your current payment method?

Sounds like you really should be making a point that Dwolla needs to build confidence and adoption. If Dwolla could become or partner with a net bank that has FDIC deposit insurance, I would think that would seriously blow up their adoption rate. I haven't given it a good look recently, but that would make me feel more comfortable with using it; especially if they also partnered with a behemoth like Amazon or Google for payments. They need to make a marketing push as a way to screw Visa, MasterCard, Banks, etc and it's ability to push down prices through lower processing fees.
"However, humans do not have instincts (which are automatic pre-programmed behaviors)"

Wow. You just insulted over 100 years of psycological, biological study, observation, & evidence. Not to mention you're completely ignoring the fact that we are wired for sex from birth and all the evidence and research that has gone into that. The first instinct a human has is to start sucking as soon as something touches its mouth. Without this vital automatic pre-programmed behavoir we would not exist because children could not be breast fed. I'm not sure why you see instincts as something bad or what you're trying to protect by denying something so obvious and so well studied but I worry about your education.

If anything here's a start. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct
Yes, but that feature is unreliable and I've never managed to get it working. =)
They launched with 25 gigs but that was only a short term promotion at the start of this year. 7 gigs is their standard free offering. Anyone who signed up during the promotion period gets to keep 25 gigs free though of course.
I very much like the "Koans" approach to grabbing the basics of programming languages fundamentals.

I would love if HackerRank included language-specific functions and methods that any hacker wanting to claim mastery of that language should know.

For example, I would guess knowing map, reduce, filter in Clojure is probably something anyone who claims to be a Clojure hacker should be able to do at a whiteboard.

In SQL, you better know inner and outer joins, insert from a table to different table, update one table with data from another table, and at least be able to talk a little about analytic functions (with data windows).

Essentially, I want the concept of "The Little Schemer" in your challenges, both for concepts and specific languages.
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GNUS already supports all of the features proposed by this article (including personalized pictures) and it has been around since the early 90s.

edit: s/early 90s/late 80s/
Ahh, makes so much more sense. I've gotten too used to the realm of hackers on here to have even considered someone not building an app like that for themselves.
He spent $7000 to build this app, made $5000 in the first month and think it is bad?

The search algorithm is shitty, but this example isn't good to illustrate problems with the App Store.
This is a good point. Also since it's running Android, I'd expect it to be fully compatible with the market place apps. Which means, I can run a webserver from this box if I care. Or more sanely, I could connect to my DLNA enabled media server and stream content from there (assuming this thing is going to have WiFi/Ethernet which I'm sure it will).
What did iPhone bring to us in the past 5 years?
I think you are being disingenuous here - because you are implying that the relation is static.

If renters go to pad mapper to find houses, and not CL, you are saying that will not impact customer and user behavior.

If renters move, then listers will too.

Your statement/line of thought does not address this aspect. Do you consider it an unlikelihood ?
Any comparisions between Pig, Hbase and Hive might help
I think YOU are missing MY point; namely, that a taxi in NYC is WAY better than a taxi in DC. For one thing, a taxi in NYC is more likely to be safe, recently inspected, and driven by someone who fears retaliation from authorities if he breaks the rules.

In DC, you're guaranteed almost the exact opposite.

In NYC, Uber is a nice-to-have. In DC, Uber is almost your only option.
I love this feature and is one of the main reasons I use a windows phone.
Good Question. I think the majority issue is:
1. Gaming in Android isn't that impressive yet.
2. They are def. working on it. But they don't want to make so many enemies (Sony) before they have a chance. For them, it is not a huge profitable item. Getting the Google TV into the living room is more important. But I can see Google TV eventually will become a console and OuYA will die out.
It's better to use duplicity than rsync. It provides incremental backups so you can restore from points in time.
If you want the same story, just played out in commodities markets, check out http://www.tfmetalsreport.com.
Does anyone have any insight into what Apple's play is all about?

It has led to the Federal gov't and military to have to pull all Apple devices from procurement and project considerations.
Wantrepreneurs: Be a Shark / Keep Moving
Yes, but making those module boundaries loosely coupled and sharing information only through their interfaces will go a LONG way towards enabling you to remote the call at a later date. The biggest mistakes that prevent remoting a module have to do with requiring context that is not part of the interface of the method call (or having a very chatty back-and-forth, but that is less common.)
(This is kinda irrelevant and I don’t think it has anything to do with Facebook – but what a stupid policy. It won’t work. You cannot always say yes, if only because saying yes to one person may be mutually exclusive with saying yes to another person. All you can ever do is try to say yes to as many people as possible, never everyone.

Why are phones banned? Because one person can annoy the whole class with them. Banning phones in this case means creating an undisturbed Yoga class, i.e. saying yes to everyone who wants to be able to concentrate on Yoga and nothing else. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that’s the majority in a Yoga class.)
Carbon Nanotubes VS Tiny Bubbles
> You are installing something that by it's nature requires a bit more understanding that just clicking on a .exe.

Well the default installation shouldn't. The default installation should be for someone who just wants to try Ruby out, that will just set things up to work, and won't interfere with anything else on the system (except for integrating with the webserver you're using). Like PHP does. Then they can mess around with Ruby, and as they learn about it, go back and change the installation or re-install as necessary.

> Do you trust an automated installer to be able to do it reliably on every single machine?

Well, yeah. Isn't that what installers are for? They're written by the team that developed the software. I assume they have a much better idea of how to properly install it than I do!
And the interesting info in the article that makes this headline link-bait:

"Observers have pointed out that a tiny percentage (around 1-2 percent) of municipal PC purchases are Macs, and the number of governments that require 100 percent EPEAT compliance is also relatively small, so the impact on Apple's bottom line may end up being minimal."
In an ideal world, this is precisely what we would do.

Unfortunately, this is a world constrained by time and by knowledge. I do not have the time or expertise to evaluate everything I read in a clinical fashion.

Given those constraints, who the author is becomes a very powerful signal. If Neil De Grasse Tyson says something about astrophysics I can probably take it at face value, at least until I have a reason to question. On the other hand, someone with a self-interested reason to get me to believe something will rightly get far more scrutiny, even if they are eventually proven completely right.
I agree - I don't use a password manager, but I find this to be the best option. I would suggest using email vs having the user create a username (email is always unique, but when you have a common name and your username is sometimes taken, you have to choose a secondary or tertiary username, which can get confusing).

I don't have any problems wit Facebook/Twitter logins, but I would suggest holding back on the permissions requests. If I see that a website wants to have the ability to post as me or invite friends as me, etc., I will think twice about accepting. If they just want to access my name/email for auth reasons, I'm usually happy to do so.

I like OpenID, but am not sure if it is as widespread among the average user (especially vs Facebook or Twitter) an having that as the only login option may shy people away a bit.

Haven't used BrowserID, so personally I wouldn't use it. I don't know the numbers on this one, but you may get a specific demographic of users if you go with this one.
It shouldn't be, but try on Linux...it's even worst than on Mac.
That's why I made this 35 page tutorial: http://www.mirceagoia.com/2011/11/ruby-on-rails-installation...
With a somewhat large number of people, PayPal has a bad reputation as being somewhat unscrupulous, especially when the person being screwed over isn't famous. You could find horror stories fairly easily with the Google.

Myself, I use it because people use it, and stick to the practice of never keeping any money in my account, or never expecting that money to actually make it to my bank account.
I really wish Dropbox would add the ability for arbitrary directory syncing. This single "dropbox" folder is so annoying.

Until them, I'm quite content with one of their competitors.
A properly done OS can handle more than one version of a library at the same time.

Also, it's a good idea to use a development environment that's not too far from what you're running in production.
If you want to see what the different libor submissions by banks were:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul...
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There is a plan between the two, but you pay for it with time. https://www.dropbox.com/help/category/Referrals
Speed Read This button for web sites
where did you see this?
I'm sorry, all computers are fundamentally compromised content-creation devices.
Thank you for your replied. I know Canonical. I am a Ubuntu user for a long time.
I don't understand all the negativity in this thread. Sure, nit-pick it to death for this and that. But if this was executed correctly it would change the gaming world and collapse multiple console markets within the timeframe of one console generation.

I learned to program by making games... so this is exciting to see!
MediaWiki/Wikipedia has a skin feature where a user can set their own custom user-specific JS to be added to each page. (Think of it as a server-side Greasemonkey or auto-triggered-bookmarklet.) See...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_style#JavaScript

...and the 'Custom JavaScript' links of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsect...

I suspect you could use this to implement a bounce-to-other-app-via-URL-handler mechanism, for any logged-in user who could be coached to cut&paste the right Javascript into the right place.
I guess I didn't do a good job of expression my thought. I completely agree on your point, and I wasn't try to endorse or espouse a lack of government.

I suppose I could have stated it better by saying that the regulation that's in place is merely a puppet for the lobbyist, providing the facade of regulation, when it's 'laissez-faire' since those paying the lobbyists are allowed to do what they wish.
I believe that Retina display devices are too hard to disassemble to qualify for the program.
You sound like you'd be interested in CQRS.
Not sure… I had tried Backblaze last year and had the same problem as yours: after a few months I was still not done with the initial backup, so I cancelled. A few months ago I figured I should give online back-ups another try and I signed up for both at the same time. Both took less time the second time around somehow… I was planning on keeping only one but in the end, at that price, it's worth it to keep both.

Overall I don't care too much about the software (I agree Crashplan's is pretty bad) since it would be needed only in case of crash. But I like Crashplan a bit better because it can back-up your whole drive and they're cheaper. Their family plan is very cheap too.
Google puts Flash plugin in a more secure browser sandbox
I'm just saying that I love the photo ;)
What Really Happens When You Get Sucked Out of an Airlock
Apignite.com: 0 to API in 60 seconds
Thanks for taking the time to write this out, Gordon.

One of our biggest concerns with the node view was that it would imply more significance than is actually present, as you mention. Like you point out, the radial order of the nodes, their relative proximity, and which nodes are actually shown are completely arbitrary. At the end of the day, you're right: it is far more aesthetic than it is informative.

However, we do think there is something to be said for aesthetics and how the app feels. Our goal was not to expose all sorts of new data and information, but rather to make the browsing of Wikipedia more fun. While I concede the node-view does not convey a whole lot of meaning, my hope is that is stimulates curiosity and delights the user.
Yeah, for $10,000 they'll buy you lunch, but not fly you to Seattle. What's up with that?
How is you not checking your balance before a purchase in any way different than making sure you have enough money available through your current payment method?

Well, my credit card doesn't require topping up, it requires paying off every month. And my bank account/debit card gets a direct deposit of my wages- I don't have to top it up.

If a lot of places used Dwolla it would make sense to stick $1,000 in my account. But as it is right now, I would be leaving a lot of money in an account I barely use.
IIRC they can run several solar systems on a server, but they have devoted one whole server to the unofficial trading hub, Jita, because it is so busy.

EVE has the nice property where the universe is already split up into these nice partitions connected by a network of jump gates. It maps very nicely onto a server farm.
DR is all about cost, though. It's likely to cost double (or more) to have two (essentially) identical systems in two different cloud providers -- whereas duplicating the same system in two different zones of one provider is nearly free.
I lol'ed ;)

But in seriousness, an internet without ads is about way more than just not seeing banner ads. Penny Arcade puts it very well:

"Not having ads would create a chain reaction that would lead to a bunch of other interesting stuff. Without the almighty 'pageview' to consider, why not populate the RSS with full comics and posts? Why not enable and even encourage apps, first and third party, for people to read it however they damn well please?"
Playcraft Labs Launches HTML5 Dev Tools, Aiming At Games And Beyond
I built a poc for something like this using github data, but it didn't really go anywhere. http://getvouched.com and http://getvouched.com/visualizations
Wow, this is somewhat ridiculous. I just clean installed Lion on my MBP. Installed Xcode form MAS, installed the Xcode command line tools (in the prefs), and ran curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails. Done.
Backblaze doesn't limit your upload speeds if you have a lot of stuff to backup which is why I stuck with them instead of switching to another provider. That said, backing up from Norway still isn't fast - I only get about 13GB/day, so it's still taking forever to get everything backed up, but I just made sure to exclude the lower priority stuff at first and add another folder or drive at a time in order what is most important to me. So far I have about 2.5TB backed up across 2 computers.
Google plays Game of Life
It depends on what you are doing with it and what you are comparing it to. For 50 Gigs, its extremely cheap.

But if you really say want 5 gigs, then $10 a month seems a bit high, especially now that Gdrive gives you 5 gigs free.

Its also a bit of a pyschological barrier seeing that second digit in the monthly bill as opposed to say $5/month and knowing that the yearly cost breaches the triple digit barrier.
Pirated Software
Is there a risk in downloading pirated software using torrents in the US ?
Sure thing. I made it run for 4000 cycles twice. The first (cold) run took 2831.323 ms, and the warmed-up run took 2571.397 ms. About 10% faster.

Judging by the invocation noted at the bottom of http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test=mande..., the comments about Java in the FAQ do not apply to the Clojure code. The benchmark seems to have been invoked straight from the command line.
Video Cartoons - new android app
Application for android phones - I hope you like it
Kicksend for iPhone Now Lets You Print to Walgreens
Have you given thought to issues with legal liability that your prospective startup would get themselves into should they take you on board?
Perhaps, but not a lot of people rip their own anymore. There are a lot of identical songs out there thanks to Amazon MP3, iTunes Music Store and all the various scene releases.
The California Secretary of State says: "California law requires a person to appear personally before a notary public to obtain notarial acts like acknowledgments or jurats".
Why do city workers need Macs anyways? They should be using eMachines. Good that Apple pulled out.