skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would, of course, be happy to have a fully itemized accounting database, but the way it is, undefined "making money" or "breaking even" etc. doesn't give me anything at all that I can use. Having an undefined mishmash of revenues over an unspecified time (per year? since release? discounted cash flow anticipated forever?) minus who even knows what, and announcing just the result of comparing undefined values to undefined values, is not more informative than a simple top line gross revenue number.

You're clearly correct that annual revenues per app without the costs it took to achieve those revenues is not all you would like to know. It's only one piece of relatively well-defined data, which you would have to supplement with your own estimates, based on looking at lists of popular apps and estimating what it would take to create them, of what it would take you to produce something similar.

But having just the results of how often an undefined value exceeds another undefined value is not more information than one well-defined value; it is less.

Now, of course, if they were to provide much clearer definitions of their terms ("breaking even", etc.), and give us some assurance that the developers who answered the questionnaires were quite clear on those definitions (not as certain as simply, "how many dollars per year does the store send to you for that app?), then we would both probably be happier with the data.
>If the poor lived in mansions and drove Ferraris, but the rich owned entire islands and private rocket ships that travel to Mars, the poor people still wouldn't have access to what the wealthier people have, still setting them back from achieving their true potential.

It's not about absolute material equity, it's about comfortably meeting one's needs such that second order concerns (like studying or tinkering with a mobile SDK) become viable pursuits. Living in a mansion means you can likely afford food, rent, transportation, insurance, healthcare, tuition, and all the other expenses that leave the poor with little room for "achieving true potential".
"Possibly because it was a mafia front. If you wanted to launder money, a fast food restaurant in a popular location"

There are many easier ways to launder money then to do it while operating a McDonalds (which has pretty high vetting for franchises. It's not trivial to be awarded a McDonalds franchise and certainly not in a top location). And most importantly if you are doing something illegal the last thing you want to do is to draw attention to yourself. Not to mention the fact that even if they were laundering money they wouldn't exactly have much to hide from pictures from a random guy with a weird head device.
Hah! Nice link. I do remember some of those from childhood, including this one which I found to be false even as a kid:

"""One solution in Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake relied on the fact that the culprit had used glycerin tears that fell from the outside corners of her eyes instead of the inside, thus revealing them to be fake, as "If only one tear falls, it will run from the inside corner of the eye, by the nose, and not from the outside corner." Only, none of that is true. """
Odd choice. My reputation doesn't carry over from the main stackexchange.com site. I tried to be a good citizen and upvote some helpful answers that were below less helpful answers, but was rebuffed.
> Give me the elite support phone number you've been using.

888-221-1161. Spend over $5k/yr and you get premium phone support via PayPal Advantage.
"The reality is if I'm not willing to make such a site on "moral" grounds, someone else will, and they'll get all the money for doing it."

Luckily most of the entrepreneurs I know are taking a different route and creating businesses that solve problems instead of creating them. Nothing is wrong with making money, but I can think of 1000 other ways than extortion.
You're not separating the wheat from the chaff with that. You're separating the cream from the crop.
As a child I felt the endings were less about deductive reasoning and more about "ha ha! here is a clue I wrote about in a way to deliberately make you, the reader, not attach importance to it!"

Having said that I did read all the Encyclopedia brown in the School library so they were still good, just not great.
Very cool - this is one of the use cases we've been envisioning, good to see it in action :)
> It also looks as though all it takes is downloading the Teehan+Lax template and making a few fake iOS layouts

Right, because your quality of work is so outstanding, that you are to judge. A little jealous, perhaps?
>In the US, at least, if something is not illegal and will make money, then corporations are legally required to take that path

Although this assertion gets repeated over and over on the internet, I think it is a gross distortion of American laws on the fiduciary responsibilities of corporate officers to say that corporations are legally required not to have moral standards that have not been codified as laws or governmental regulations.

Google for example cited ethical reasons for pulling out of the Chinese market. Did any of Google's shareholders sue Google over that decision?

Did any shareholders sue Apple over their recent decision to tighten up its oversight of its Chinese manufacturer's treatment of factory workers?
The UX is so constrained that you had no choice other than to straight up copy: a) a control to hide the table of contents with a semi-transparent strip hover; b) a table of contents with a near-identical layout; c) a "next page" bumper with opacity-on-hover; d) an annotation stream in a third, right-handed column; d) a cute octopus mascot; etc. etc.

That's not to mention the store.

I mean...imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but I draw a line at copying Inky the Octopus.
It doesn't appear to and I'm not exactly sure when + becomes viable in trends/insights although looking at it it looks like it's there for the last year or so.

However if you double the result volume to account for Google Plus and Google+ it's still unimpressive. More importantly the curve is flat for both.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Google%20Plus%2CGoo...
What's behind a name? A look at the path to Stride
From looking it up on Wikipedia I found out that I would've remembered it, but it was around 15 years ago that I last wrote one myself. So I would've had to ask if it was the one where you iterate over the values and keep the largest, then repeat. I've learned these at the same time as the other generally known sorting algorithms, so names and details are quite fuzzy.

It probably depends on the position. As a high-level language developer I don't usually implement my own sorting algorithms. Either I use prebuilt libraries that offload work to low-level, or I use builtins, or I ask the database to sort it for me :)
The Amazing Contents of Steve Wozniak's Travel Backpack
I hope Google did take down the official content, just like their owner asked! That might push the industry to take a harder look at their DMCA takedown automation.
HBase probably wasn't nearly as mature as Accumulo was when they were evaluating options, so starting from scratch might have been more attractive. It also seems to have some interesting access control features that I don't think are anywhere else, though thats not a killer feature for most people in the commercial world.
Try enabling peer assist in your Flash Global Settings - this will fix some Linux crashes but not all, Adobe has confirmed it as a bug and will hopefully have a fix or workaround soon.
[To gwern, unprovoked] You are attempting the early dismissal of some viewpoint you disagree with on a more or less political grounds but this has not very much to do with science.

[Next reply] Why can't the critique proceed on a higher level than "those Xists are deliberately lying again"?

You seem to be suffering from some cognitive dissonance here.
Marissa Mayer: a brief history of Yahoo's new CEO
I haven't had too much "TV propaganda." Maybe you haven't spent enough time with actual Chinese people. This is just jibber jabber. I'm sure some are in the audience, do you feel respected by Chinese bureaucrats? Come on. That's not even a serious response; it's like one of those "I'm going to make a provocative point that is counter the mainstream. DOWN WITH TV NOW -- NO BIG BOX RETAIL FOREVER!!" bogus statements.
Google+ is okay for early adopters but as long as my family and friends are immersed in facebook, the G+ is a hard sell. But since most people use google, and google has unified login system, it is very easy to join google+.
But actively use it? I don't know. Does the average user spend so many minutes on google+ everyday like they do on facebook? I don't think so.
More pictures anywhere?
All those things are great, but I stopped using them when I realized they can freeze my money, or remove money from a linked checking account for whatever reason they decide and I have almost no recourse except to hire a very expensive lawyer or hope I can start a viral campaign about my money being stolen by Pay Pal.

And since they are not a "bank" they are not regulated by the same laws as other banks, and credit cards.

Bottom line, they lost my trust, and nothing that you have listed regains that trust for me.
Descargar Office 2013
In America, many of what I would call the far right are advocating a similar system whereby you aren't granted citizenship at birth if your parents are not citizens, but gain it later on in order to fight "anchor babies" - the idea being that right now, if you are "undocumented" and you have a kid on US soil, the kid is an American right away, and sure, if you are a citizen, your mom can stay and take care of you, and as part of that, your mom gains a reasonable path to citizenship. (US immigration policy seems to be centred around uniting families.)

My reading of the French law makes it look like it would solve this "problem" as the kid isn't french, so you can deport the kid and their parents. Out of curiosity, am I reading that right? that if two undocumented immigrants have a kid and the authorities deport the newborn and the parents and manage keep them out of the country until the kid is 18, the kid is not french at all, even though she was born on french soil?
Right, but the Firefox download page has the version number right on the download page. If/when auto-updating in the background works well, that should go away.
Dave Morin and Other Web Heavies on the Upside, and Downside, of Hypergrowth
Wikipedia Adds Article Feedback Tool
More like Time Pamphlet, am I right?
"The closest it comes (not very) is, "If 1 were admitted as a prime, these two presentations would be considered different factorizations of 15 into prime numbers, so the statement of that theorem would have to be modified." So what?"

Many proofs depend on the unique factorization of primes, many directly and many many more indirectly. It is a trivial mechanical modification to them to deal with the non-uniqueness of a prime factorization if you admit 1 as a prime number by explicitly taking that case and saying it doesn't affect this case. So in that sense, no, it's not important.

Except... you've now taken numerous proofs and made them longer... and for what? There's no didactic advantage. There's no proof that is made easier by letting 1 be prime. What's the advantage of adding all these special cases? None.

And that's the real reason. In the end, "by definition" is the only justification, and the reason we choose the definition is that it works the best. Unlike 0 to the power of 0 where there's at least a bit of argument to be had (though the overwhelming preponderance is for it to be 1), there's no reason to put 1 in the set of prime numbers. Even if you don't personally consider it a "lot" of evidence, it's still entirely one sided.
You could always generate it server side and lock it to the ip that the original request came from.
GUI REPL for interacting with running Node.js apps
you can also set it here - http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...
This is one of a few things that made me want to be smarter as a kid.
That isn't a PayPal thing, it bubbles up from the banks underwriting every PayPal account (Wells Fargo and Chase). It's standard practice in the regulated banking industry, not a sign of a lack of regulation.

My real merchant account, at a company many startups probably use to accept their payments, was flagged as high risk at one point when a string of chargebacks came in from stolen cards someone used over the course of a month. All my processing was funneled into a reserve account and those funds, thousands of dollars, were held for exactly 180 days (6 months), as that's the window in which chargebacks can still occur from previously processed payments.

If you hold this opinion against PayPal, then you should hold it against the entire credit card processing industry. It stems from the root: Visa and MasterCard's Operating Regulations.
After some thought, I have decided to revamp our logo: http://i.imgur.com/AkEyD.png

What do you guys think?
It has USB, so you can stick a small USB wifi device on it.
Hey, jforman seems to be afk, but here's what I found online:

http://ducksonly.com/images/81080-2.jpg
Just in case anyone forgets this is from 1994(it's in the title!). Typical modern C++ has been using this pattern for quite a while (boost::function / boost::bind) and it is now even part of the standard (std::function / std::bind). So don't go implementing Functor0->Functor9 yourself!

It is always nice though to see how C++ has grown after so many years and clearly still has staying power for even new projects.
You should really be upset they had no interest in stealing any of your content, like those great articles about France (blocked behind a login). Value is in content, not some arbitrary public js + html. I draw the line on drawing porky the platypus, the other hidden inkling mascot which doesn't appear on inkling
I'm genuinely mystified by this mindset. If I copied an mp3 that you originally authored, you apparently wouldn't care.

But the minute I make money, it somehow bothers you. Why?
@grecy: IANAL I think you seriously misstate American corporate law; if you can cite specific statutes please enlighten me.

Contra-example 1: Apple, Google and Microsoft all have significant cash reserves, far more than are necessary for foreseeable needs, and probably earn much less on them than on cash invested in the business, but it isn't illegal for them to hold large reserves. Outside observers have said that these companies resist paying out more of the reserves as, say, dividends because of the tax consequences to the controlling shareholders but, under US law, this is not illegal.

Contra-example 2: Many companies are 'going green' to some degree of green. Often this is more expensive than less environmentally friendly options. However companies are not being charged with violating some law that requires them to make all decisions based on direct profit maximization.
What's wrong with relying on A/B testing to inform design?

It can help you find local maxima, but not the global maximum you are (or should be) looking for.
Bartering for entrepreneurs, small business owners
Ok you're cool then :-).
Well you saw how long it took to get OSX full-screen support. I wouldn't hold your breath about retina.
That, right there, is why I will never work for government: the amount of sheer stupidity coming out Congress.

I'd kind of like to know which particular Senatard got all butthurt about this and trace the money back to whomever bought him off.
The book that can't wait
After CALEA was extended to online services in 2006, Skype was legally required to implement wiretapping. They didn't, and stated they had no intention of complying with CALEA publicly, but never seemed to have been targeted by the DOJ over their non-compliance.

But they were still legally required to have done so, and the DOJ could have sent them up shit creek if doing so ever became a priority.

What's changed now? Probably just that Microsoft's legal division wasn't comfortable having that kind of regulatory non-compliance under their watch. Microsoft gets a lot of scrutiny from the DOJ and probably aren't particularly keen on being hauled up on new charges over this issue.
ZingChart Launches Interactive HTML5 Maps with True Latitude/Longitude API
I have taken it to an extreme and got a dd-wrt router that easily blocks websites through both time of day and mac address. My wife is the one that knows the password.
Google Street View goes to Antarctica
Me. I'm not qualified to be the CEO of Yahoo, so I would only be setting myself up for failure if I took the job. But running a smaller company limits the amount of harm I can do to myself and others while I learn the ropes.

The only reason to expect Mayer to do well as the CEO of Yahoo would be if her work at Google were similar to that job in some respect. I'm not sure it is.
Diversity, Minus the Tokenism - Recruiting Women To Speak Is Hard
Raspbian-based SD card image released
Just because something doesn't scale into the macro doesn't mean it can't be true and relevant in the micro.

Also, you've extrapolated from "non-zero sum, not all equations balance" into "there is no math", which makes your argument more fallacious than that to which you were responding.
Was coming into this expecting an interesting piece about the distribution of prime numbers. Either a new approach to predicting them or a proof of why they're unpredictable. But no it's a visualisation of their distribution. Interesting but entirely not what was expected.
Committing an own-goal.
Four Bathrooms: We’ll Take Our Oscar Now
Security was mentioned in the article.
This is such an interesting inside look at Yahoo, which kind of makes it obvious why they've been faltering. But it also means that there are frustrated people there who want to make great products and services, if they can cut through the bureaucracy and the arbitrary rules. (I don't have recent inside information, so I'm extrapolating here.)

There's so much potential here. I'm still very excited to see what Yahoo will become.
I was arrested earlier this year for trespassing into an abandoned area, it was a group of about 10 of us just exploring and trying to get some pictures. Normally, the cops would just let you off with a warning, but the security patrolling this area wanted everybody taken in. It was a very annoying experience and really was a waste of tax-payer money. But once we were released ~7 hours later, we didn't really think much of the arrest (rightfully so, the judge laughed at the case when we went to court).

Now, the worst part of the whole experience was when we found our mugshots plastered all over search results for our names. The results rank pretty high in some cases too, higher than some social media sites. The problem with this whole situation lies in two places in my opinion, one being the fact that your mugshot is posted online right when you get arrested, whether or not you are convicted. And two, that there aren't any restrictions put in place by the government sites that release these pictures. I am all for net neutrality, but this is most definitely an invasion of privacy.

And there are so many of these mugshot sites that you will never be able to completely remove your face from every single one of them. And I wouldn't be surprised if the same asshole owns a majority of these sites and puts your mugshot on a different site as soon as you pay to get it taken off another.
The fact that you knew they were held (and would be held) for exactly 180 days puts them above PayPal.
PayPal holds funds from a suspended account for exactly 180 days. It's the same policy because it comes from the same source.

> We may close, suspend, or limit your access to your Account or the PayPal Services, and/or limit access to your funds for up to 180 Days if you violate this Agreement, the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, or any other agreement you enter into with PayPal

-- PayPal User Agreement
Building a simple Node.js crypto hash server
This particular McDonalds has been at the centre of SO many protests turned violent, anti-americanist attacks & incidents that I'm pretty sure the staff are permanently suspicious of anything or anyone out of the norm. I too have been to this particular McDonalds & the sheer volume of people that pass through the doors I'm surprised they don't have a more professional security team with the intelligence to differentiate on a customer by customer basis.
I also totally agree that any form of photography in Paris (either close up to an individual store front or inside) will cause immediate confrontation.

There is some irony in this story, that McDonalds' objection to recording images in their store actually gave the Eye Glass wearer a reason to use the images captured. An incident was caused by them trying to attempt to viciously stop what they perceived as a threat.
I agree. I'm also surprised at how some of them are freaking out and deleting their tweets. I hope a side benefit of this is some awareness that social networks are not some kind of cosy, private club.
> San Diego University

Which? We have several, none of which is called "San Diego University."
> What I'm curious about is how Congress can appear so technologically clueless about big bills (like network neutrality, etc) but then even know what BigTable is.

What makes you think that "Congress", or even a small subcommittee, knows what BigTable is?

Yes, a congress critter used the word. They're typically speaking from scripts.

Don't assume that staff wrote this script.
I know you're not joking on this, but seriously?

"No more BlackBerries as the official devices at Yahoo."

How is this even possible in 2012?
Is there an API to generate a room? Or do all embedded rooms have to be made manually beforehand?
There are sites like 99designs - for a fixed price you get dozens (or hundreds) of designers working on your project, you pick the best one, and the author gets paid.
At peak, my app FemCal was making about $1500 / month, or almost 1/4 of this top app, and I never broke about 130th place in the app store.

Don't add up to me.
That's true enough, but who cares. Double the development time to 24 weeks. Its still winning.
That's a bit confusing for people in the US.

Oh well.
If that were true the author would have been able to find the keys, but he said Google failed him.
That's the one Encyclopedia Brown book that I actually remember! Was it particularly popular or something?
The Ecology of Disease
How do you explain the fact that when the law allows, companies all over the world give IQ tests to prospective employees? And that studies have shown that IQ is one of the best predictors of job performance?
Is it possible to turn your computer into a bomb?
Have you seen http://www.tweaky.com/ (only yesterday announced investment from sitepoint/99designs)
I did this in perl and ran it from bash.

print(system("cat perlQuine.pl"));

Is this cheating?
"Disease, it turns out, is largely an environmental issue. Sixty percent of emerging infectious diseases that affect humans are zoonotic — they originate in animals. And more than two-thirds of those originate in wildlife."

The Gaia Hypothesis makes more sense when the ecology of disease is considered. Each organism is one cell which collectively network into a planet (body).
You have no idea how many flame wars I had with all levels of IT and security folks.
Interesting acquisition.

Perhaps Dropbox is moving more in the media center direction with their mobile apps, which are currently rather bland lists of folders and files. I could see them creating a much more interactive mobile interface to access your data and embedding ads throughout. I'd hate for them to go the way of online video and force you to watch an ad to open a file.
As a female Django dev, I'm glad I wasn't there. That would have made me feel extremely unwelcome.
I like the case guys - I'd like to talk with you about making a run of custom cases for us - would you be up for that?

Well done btw :)