skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to love Dwolla, but while it requires people to add money to a balance I just can't see it fitting into a natural flow of purchasing. I see, I click buy, I go to checkout, I checkout... oh wait, not enough money in my account, OK, I'll top it up with some cash... OK, cash added, now I can go back to my original checkout page...

I don't know what the answer is- clearly they want to avoid making a bank transfer for every purchase (which is understandable) but the user experience just seems kind of lacking to me. Last time I checked they did have an automatic option, but it cost users $3 a month. Eh.
Rails isn't supposed to be accessible the way PHP is, i.e. built into every shared hosting account with unlimited flexibility as to what you can do with it. If that was the right way to go for web applications, there would have been no need for Rails in the first place, since PHP would have been sufficient.
I had a serious crack at using Outlook for this a few years ago and I found it woefully inadequate. Outlook tasks are either todo or done. There's no way of monitoring "waiting on Alice for confirmation", "waiting for Bob's approval of the finished work". Related to this, the task list seems to only display one-dimensionally, e.g. I couldn't put together a useful list of my more important tasks that were due later this week alongside my less-important tasks due today. Also, tasks are effectively a pointer to an email. There's no way of tying together disparate emails into a single task. Lastly, I found myself wanting to really use tasks as a something like "tag annotations" - I'd be having 2 or 3 conversations about optimization in the team and want to note them all together along with a high-level view of things to do before and after.

I quite like Outlook and would love its task system to be more useful, enough so that I've thought of putting work into it to make it what I want. The fact is, though, that it doesn't really do most of what the author of the article wants, and it definitely isn't suitable as anything more than building blocks for a workflow system.
This is almost certainly why they also don't offer smaller paid accounts (like 10-20GB) -- they know users of such tiers will probably keep their accounts maxed out. I know I almost always utilize nearly 100% of my 2GB free account, and I'd probably do the same with 10GB.
Oldtweets: a service engine for the first year of Twitter
You can always just take the vendor overlays and build JB-AOSP. Then you don't have to wait for merges.
Backstage: How we use Basecamp to collect, share, and discuss inspiration
A few facts and a few questions on DNSSEC
Windows 2003 was also very good for similar reasons, though you did have to do some configuring to make it more of a workstation OS than a server OS.
Sorry, I missed the F = (1+f)/R = (1+r) line. Pretty sure the rest of my argument holds though. Your formula merely approximates the correct answer for low values of i and f.
The jvm can already inline non-final virtual method calls, so getters and setters are free. Are you sure that being able to specify 'static' is a win? Alternatively, you can just use the compile-time capabilities of the macro system to inline your constants as locals.
My favorite quote was this:

Their house is a $17,000-a-month crash pad with an outdoor pool — very unusual for chilly San Francisco — and three levels of decks from which to admire the excellent view. If you divide by the five roommates, Mr. Way said, it is not so much money.

Only $3400/month for rent!
Why Google Compute Engine Is The Right Move
I was disturbed to see that pg killed an earlier thread on this company, on a rather flimsy basis. The financial industry is obviously ripe for disruption, but if those being disrupted can kick up enough dust to have HN erase all memory of a new idea, we have a bigger problem.
The Future of IT System Management: It’s Mobile, Cloudy and Social
Inversion of the classroom can save our economy.
In-cabin humidity will be a huge plus... less flight dehydration (one of the main reasons flying leaves us feeling like crap)
Code Climate provides free quality metrics for Ruby OSS
Canvas Experiment with Code: Particles Web Matrix
Your snarky comment isn't even accurate. The only thing not released in AOSP is Google's propreitary APKs of the Google Apps (Market, Gmail, etc). One can build AOSP and have Android almost identical to Galaxy Nexus or what not. A small zip later, and it's nearly byte for byte identical.
This is actually very old idea. I remember some game creator program on the Apple II that you could teach games. Probably nothing as sophisticated as chess, but maybe tic-tac-toe and connect four. Unfortunately, this was over twenty years ago, so the name is lost to me at the moment. I'll update if I can find it.
Totally agree, If OUYA flies or not, I will pay $99 just to get disruption into the gaming industry.
Can avi files contain a virus?
It reminds me of the joke "Emacs is a great OS, but it needs a good text editor".
Aside from de-duping and underutilization, Dropbox might get better rates from S3 than the rest of us.
Be Honest About The Problem You Want To Solve
RIM Customers Working On Contingency Plans

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-09/rim-s-customers-wor...
Immediate thoughts:

From a business perspective, 3 steps like that isn't enough. What I really want is email completely integrated with a CRM/Project management tool & a calendar - I have tried Googl Apps and the whole Email / Tasks / Calendar separation just doesn't work. From what I've seen Exchange comes close, and I believe one of the others (Zimbra?) does too.

The problem with email is everyone uses it differently. The email client that works for my work emails won't work for my personal email account and vice versa.

Minimalist for GMail is nice, it starts to improve by removing clutter: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bmihblnpomgpjkfdde... and I wouldn't be without it.

I totally agree about typography - it would make a massive difference. But not just here, everywhere.

Grouping email is another problem - I've tried folders (one per email, not enough), tags/labels (unmanageable). This is symtomatic of our whole digital information management issue - how do we deal with so much flexible information? Hence my need for a CRM/tasks/todo app on top of email.

[Background: I run a small company, it's growing, and managing projects/developers/clients/email is a headache. If you've found a way to reduce the pain, say!]
Game server is a Linux Daemon written in PHP

Database is relational innodb MySql (via an abstraction layer)

Game client is Flex4/Flash/Javascript

Game client communicates with the game server via low-level TCP/IP Realtime API (possibly html5 web sockets will work also)

Additional game clients can be written in any language on any platform, they just need to communicate with the API

its at MajorCommand.com
Kind of like the Titanic declaring war on icebergs?
In Word 2010 at least, a simple right-click on highlighted text brings up something like a mini Home tab. You can change the font, size, color, alignment and everything.
Its essentially a retainer. What if they go through the motions, and then Facebook backs out at the last second? It could have thrown Instagram for a loop, and sometimes an acquisition takes enough resources that it could cost the company money or disrupt their growth or operation. It essentially could prevent frivolous offers from "attacking" competitors by pretending to buy them out, and then not.

I guess you could call it "attempted merger".
Conservatively, a portfolio can produce 3% over inflation forever. So you need to start with 33x your desired annual spending. Aggressively is 5%, which means you need 20x your spending.
Like I said, being ripped off by licensed cabs isn't an argument for less regulation. It's an argument for something else, possibly more regulation. Show me that cabs don't need licensing and regulation using unlicensed cabs as an example, and you'll have an argument.
Another important difference is that the 787's lower weight means it doesn't require runways to be as long, and so can land at smaller airports, opening up more flight plans and destinations.

Source: guide talked about it when I went on the factory tour.
Recently saw camera crews for this at a startup event. It's amazing how much a camera compels people to overemphasize their ridiculousness... Not a huge fan
Same cultures, mostly. All people from Ontario, Canada (at varying latitudes). She's not quite as geeky as I am, but still much more so than most women I interact with.

It has caused some friction in our relationship, but I just try to remember to preface my "I don't like this part" comment with a "That looks great, but..."
Is it just me or does any other Indian find the Pizza Hut - "You've made an excellent choice" funny? I've never understood it to be honest.
Hello everyone! I know... I'm still submitting my own articles. On my defense I'll just say it's article #2... I hereby promise I will not do it once I reach #10. I feel it may be of interest to some, in particular the collection of links, and on the other hand my current readership... gives me no choice if I want to share it with the outside world!
New Google easter egg/conway's game of life
The mail client built into the Opera browser has an Attachments filter which allows you to see all messages by attachment type. After that, you can sort the messages by 'From', 'Subject', 'Size', etc. No thumbnails as in his example, though.

As with everything in the Opera mail client, it is all handled through two panes - filtering on the left (Unread, Received, Labels, Attachments, etc.) and the email messages themselves on the right. All email accounts are aggregated together. I've been hugely enamored with its simplicity and elegance for years.
Just curious to hear opinions: How competitive is $50–100k in NYC?

The 0.5–10% does seem potentially generous.

[http://angel.co/craftcoffee#recruiting]
There is a big "I don't know" warning. It's called alternate law. And there is another mode called direct law for when the computer really doesn't know.
That escalated quickly.

True though, there is only one person that will watch out for your best interests. Hint: it is never your employer.
RIM to further adjust board
To be fair, as far as I can tell this is only a concept by a UI designer, created as a portfolio piece. I believe the its purpose isn't to reinvent email as much as it is to show off his knowledge of graphic design and CSS transforms.
They use Redis.
I think you missed the point of my comment about calling it "retarded". The issue is not whether you're attacking my comment or the general thought or even me directly. It's that you are criticizing someone else for lowering the standard of conversation and then doing it yourself. This is the same kind of thing the author is being criticized for. If you want your advice taken seriously, you should probably follow it yourself.

> There's plenty of reasons why Comic Sans could end up on the page talking about fonts.

Joke? Okay, but if you made the entire page Comic Sans, then clearly the joke is more important than the content, so I see no reason to take the content seriously.

Fallback font? Then you still suck at choosing fonts, and your opinion is as useless as if you'd made it the primary.

Broken template? Did you not bother to look at the page after you published it? This seems like an unrealistic scenario.

> In this case, pixelated jpgs are probably the fasted way for him to publish the content

Expedience for the author at the expense of usability? Tell me again how this demonstrates any expertise in interaction design. Seems like the opposite.

> fading is likely inherited from the general site template

Undoubtedly. It's still a poor design from an interaction standpoint, both on this page specifically and on the site in general. It's designed to look pretty, which is fine, but it's bad for interaction, which is not fine.

> but I personally had absolutely no problem reading it.

I found much of it to be pixelated and fuzzy. I also found the layout to greatly detract from the reading experience. It looks like it's designed to sell a product by dazzling the user rather than educate the reader.

> The actual content is thoughtful and it makes sense.

I was not actually very impressed by the content. It looks like he drew the Twitter iPad client. I didn't see anything new or innovative, but there's plenty of other discussion here about that.

> So do tell me again why nitpicking on the text fading thing coupled with a holy shit drama is a good way to start the discussion.

Tell me why I should take an author seriously when he doesn't follow his own guidelines.
They do that in Atlanta too. Also fuck with the "Business to residential" fare and try to not turn on the meter and instead charge you the much higher business to business zone fare
They actually linked to a video of fireworks.
<snark>

Like a lot of snark, it's not really that bright, but it's agressive and presenting itself as clever. Not all of those things deal with the same category of work.

> You might want to send a message to somebody and not care how, but I do care how.

But why do people have to remember how? Why can't I send off a message and have a computer figure out the preferred way to send the message. Remember, a big stakeholder in this preference is often the recipient. Also, most people don't really care about the how. They care about the result.

> If something major in my life happened..., I wouldn't call my best friends to tell them, I would SMS them.

You mean you would use the most appropriate form of communication, with the right degree of formality and immediacy. Right now that means picking from a slew of applications. The history of technology tells us that those applications will probably change, and that eventually people will be somewhat removed from the how, only expecting things to just work. (And that people who realize this can parlay that into tons of money.)

EDIT: Someday our insistence on picking an app to do communications will seem like driver's insistence on manually shifting gears.
Doesn't TC volume need to be unmounted in order for Dropbox to sync it? Or have Dropbox added Volume Shadow Copying support?
Managing events like a pro on the iPad
http://lightarrow.com/lifetopix/the-12-lifetopix/events
Huh. I know the law, and it seems to apply here but in the opposite direction.

I might amend it to say that any headline with a question that considers some contrarian perspective can be appended with the less contrarian response.
GAH! See, I just slipped up and showed my age. I'm thinking of the Stratus VOS filesystem, which did change the modifier when you edited a file. You're right; UNIX/Linux files have an owner, which doesn't change on modification. Which shoots a big blazing hole in my argument. You can back into who modified what if files were changed in a big batch, and they also created a few new files - but you could also back into that via login times.

Since those days, it's less that I've seen the individual-user system work at scale - it's that I've seen the single role account fail, repeatedly. I've managed to avoid permissions hell with a few well-chosen supplemental groups, but maybe I'm too optimistic that what used to work in one environment will work in another. Ask me in six months. :)
I enjoy Penny Arcade. That said, it seems like an awful lot of money for an ad-free website.

Aren't they making enough off of merchandise, their expo, their games, etc., to make the site ad free? From what I understand they are wildly successful (monetarily as well as publicly) so why do they need the public to literally give them money?
I want this to succeed and it's high time somebody tried something like this.

I see 2 problems though, firstly the price. It's simply too cheap and this is reflected in the hardware specs, if they wanted enthusiasts they really need to bump up the hardware. A console with a small SSD and a desktop class nVidia/ATI GPU would be way more exciting.

The other problem will be getting "killer apps" which is a huge part of console marketing, would the Xbox have been so successful without HALO? the wii without "wii sports"?

This is where having a more "open" console provides disadvantages because they are in a weak position to score exclusivity deals since MS , Sony or Nintendo could simply see which are the most popular titles on the platform and strike deals with the developers to port them over to their platforms.
Aesthetics are what drives immigration to a degree. Would you rather move to Cleveland or San Francisco if everything else was equal? I thought so.
Cost might be a reason. Amazon has competition for MySQL hosting, keeping prices relatively low. DynamoDB seems expensive in comparison.
Thanks. That really is simple (and beautiful)!

I wonder though, isn't it hard for your wrist after a while when you can't rest your lower arm on the desk?
IIRC you can get deleted files from dropbox.com for 30 days for free accounts. With a paid account you can go back in history indefinitely.
It's not a matter of law. It's a "breakup fee" negotiated by Instagram in the event that the acquisition falls through.

The purpose of a breakup fee is to compensate the target for costs associated with the failed acquisition and various other losses or expenses. Mostly however, a breakup fee compensates the target for business oppportunities not pursued while the acquisition was being attempted because of the acquisition.

In cases where the acquirer is a direct competitor to the target, the breakup fee guarantees that the acquirer can't simply look at the target's books and assets, walk away, and use that knowledge to clone the target's business, without paying for it.
An iPodTouch of the newest generation (or if one comes out this year) should do it then.

You're just missing the hardware (it's a huge efficiency gain, 13% of the time using the special hardware).
Don't forget to copy it locally, in case they (or their acquirers...) ever take it down. The Evernote web-clipper plugin is great for that.

I also did the same with all the folks who posted technical details on their experience dealing with the AWS outage. Great stuff to hold on to for future reference.
Poker Faces May Distort Facial Features More Than Smiles in Passport Photos
>>Note that the "alternative" ...<<

A program that simply switched according the command line arg and then printed:

3968050
Pfannkuchen(12) = 65

:would also out perform :-)

>>I imagine a more clever Ruby programmer could reduce that...<<

Is "a more clever Ruby programmer" some kind of equivalent to "a sufficiently smart compiler"? :-)

>>or just call out to a native library<<

When is a Ruby program fast? When it's written in C ;-)
Linkinus - Beautiful IRC Client for OS X
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4222500

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4223808
> [...] accidental, inessential, complexity [...]

Sure, but when that complexity is so utterly minuscule, what's the point in shielding users from it? Especially when you could argue that it benefits the user who will, at the very least, roughly know what's powering his application?
You can then add suspenders to your belt: sign up for multiple backup services. E.g. I have Backblaze and Crashplan. $3/mo for Crashplan and $5/mo for Backblaze give me two unlimited backups.
According to this link precompilation with AOT produces worse results than normal JIT execution. If so, what is AOT useful for?

"Da AOT-Code über verschiedene Programmausführungen hinweg bestehen bleiben muss, ist die Leistung von mit AOT generiertem Code nicht so gut wie die von mit JIT generiertem Code."
You make is sound like all Xbox Live Indie Games are bad. The problem with that service is that which is mentioned above, not enough recognition as "official" apps for the Xbox 360. I'm convinced that if developers where given more responsibility then they would act upon that higher responsibility accordingly. As it is now developers really don't have much of an incentive to make decent games for the platform. But Valve's way of doing this seems to be a good one, let the customer's decide what gets on Steam, you really can't go wrong with that strategy.
Email nor anything related to core email protocols do not need to be fixed or redesigned. It's doing what it was supposed to be used for and still doing it very well. Over the years desktop and web mail people have added too much and its 70s design idea of anyone can send mail to any other's inbox (btw, creative idea at the time worked till 2000s) have cooperatively decreased its usage.

We still need this universal and mature protocol but we should do a different thing for communication. period.
They are definitely going to be in the top tier of S3 (5000TB+). If you do reduced redundancy, it's $3.70/month, $5.50 with full redundancy. There's plenty of room for them to make money there.
Please elaborate on how RDS didn't live up to its promises?
A lot of what's going on here is the time spent investigating what works, deciding what to support and documenting everything. That might not be literally "lock-in", but there's always a significant cost to move.
How economists get tripped up by statistics
Windows 8 Metro UI on your Apple iPhone, yes apparently its possible (video)
I also left out explanation for the edge cases. For low enough values of r, savings will never decrease and never reach zero. For practical values of r, the equation is correct.
Interview with Alan Kay
I certainly didn't get my iPad for reading, but I've wound up reading a bunch of books on them, both through the kindle app and the iBooks one. While the experience isn't as good as a hardback, it's nowhere near bad enough to keep me from a good book. And it's far lighter than Stephenson's latest.

Though, when opening one of the hardbacks I got this past christmas, I was very impressed with the resolution of the font and the crispness and uncluttered look of the pages. No fingerprints, no icons. Just well formatted text.
Much like how a human learns a game by watching people play. For instance, I learned chess casually by watching people play when I was a kid, and I just now found out about en passant pawn captures. (Thanks!)
I love cinderella:

http://www.atmos.org/cinderella/
After using Colloquy (http://colloquy.info) for a few weeks, I couldn't stand it anymore.

Linkinus is one of the most visually-appealing applications I've ever seen. Well worth the money (10 dollars). More screenshots: http://conceitedsoftware.com/products/linkinus

I'm really happy with this app and though sharing it here. A lot of HNers use IRC, and many are on Mac, so it might be of use to someone.
100% agree, the cab drivers want their legislation, Uber and the livery services want theirs, people talk, people argue, stories are presented, arguments are made, elected representatives weigh personal gain against public good against prior commitments. Its an amazingly convoluted interconnected and jumbled system, but when everyone is engaged its also rather beautiful.
I think it's more that being very precise/quick typing keywords isn't really the same in any way as 'practicing programming thinking'
Some ideas:

- Sometimes we come up with solutions for problems that people don't have.

- Not well-marketed enough.

- Too complicated for people to grok. The abstractions get in the way of people trying to understand a feature. A new paradigm for communication would be hard to understand for most people and provide little benefit.
Show HN: The Tech Block - Publish your content and get recognition
Videos I might believe, but I'm skeptical that family documents and photos are filling 50 and 100 GB accounts. :)
US President issues Executive Order that gives him control of the internet
Dropbox can auto-backup photos on iOS? That's news to me.

I know they released something like that for Android, but I'm not seeing it anywhere in the iPhone app. How do I enable that?
Although Microsoft is not as cool these days, I am liking the new SkyDrive (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/skydrive/compare). (I also use a paid SpiderOak account for backup and sharing.)