skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is those thresholds aren't that high for people like "doctors, lawyers, small business owners, senior managers, corporate officers, etc."

Senior level engineers, accountant, etc could have net worth exceeding $1 million once you factor in home ownership, 401k, stock portfolio, 401k, IRA, etc.

Potentially you'd open up angel investment from the 1-2% to the 5-10%.
Try going into the console and seeing if the app is running anyway. Sometimes 500 errors spring up superfluously, even when things run fine. A small hiccup that we're working on aggressively.
In 2000, everyone had a growing consumer market because so many people were still buying their first computer.

Today, Microsoft's competition in the enterprise market doesn't come from any of the companies people use as a basis for comparison when making allegations that Microsoft is stagnant, i.e. the enterprise competitors are companies like Red Hat and Oracle, not Google, Apple, and Facebook.
I feel your pain.

Once when I took a short break someone ran into my shop and painted all the beads of my abacus florescent pink.

What were they thinking?
I promise I will hire a designer as hire #1, I'm aware my design is atrocious :D
here are a bunch of other ARPANET maps from 1969-77:

http://som.csudh.edu/cis/lpress/history/arpamaps/
Would you curse the Firefox engineers more or less if they didn't try to upgrade you to a newer version of Firefox and, through their inaction, allowed your computer to be exploited via a security vulnerability in Firefox that has long since been fixed in modern Firefox versions?
Laws on Wi-Fi sniffing still up in the air, say specialists
Another One Bites The Dust: "£18m Bid for Cazorla?; Nuri Sahin?
I don't know if the culture which punishes those caught plagiarism more harshly than the others tends to have any long term advantages, but I can only hope so since I live in the US. This really needs a double blind test given the overwhelming potential for bias. Maybe, this will one day be a new field of study in academia: Economics of Plagiarism 101.
Sme of us have tried both and love 'em both. Galaxy Nexus phone and iPad is a hard to beat combination in my opinion.
The real problem and danger to us, from the very demons that guard our country, is that they are not being properly restrained by a Congress controlled by primitivists, idiots, mentally deranged, corporate agents, the unprincipled, and psychopaths not suited for today's world and allow the security state instruments to operate extra-constitutionally with impunity.
I agree. It kinda looks like a HyperCard stack.
"A guest post I published Monday critiquing the Khan Academy..."
In my experience, people who think writing reusable code is a waste of time are idiots.
I hit this too - what does "doesn't cover" mean above? If two people have already hit this you might be having problems with more than 0.7%...
HTML5 version of Todoist with offline support and stunning perfomance
I actually like the red and black. It is powerful and direct, but probably won't appeal to all sensibilities. Good luck.
No, Apple doesn't approve your company first. You simply sign up as an individual or as a company and then you get to generate certificates which you can then use to sign any application you want.

And by default, you can simply hold down a shortcut key to open an application and install it anyway without a signature.
In other news... software evolves. ZzzzzZZZzzzzz
The citizens are the ones responsible for the actions and state of the government, especially in a democratic system.
Most people have the problems described in this blog because they try to go from "zero" to "having to write a thesis" in LaTeX. Even for someone who is intelligent enough to write a thesis in a subject requiring the use of LaTeX, that's a very, very tall order, even if taken in a vacuum.

For what it's worth, I created a series of short tutorial videos for my online students in AP & College level math and they are up and running just fine after one or two attempts at a homework set. https://sites.google.com/a/ctyonline.net/jdinoto/home/type The transition to more complex and lengthy documents tends to be much smoother this way.
Yes, once-upon-a-time it was #F00, which felt like your eyeballs were getting torn from their sockets

Design is something I find quite difficult, and I usually keep my head in the backend

I really, really, really want to hire a designer so I can stay there, but being self-funded makes that impossible
thanks for the info. I actually have all the build order data at my disposal, just not sure how to expose it in a useful way. Anyone got some ideas?

That SMILE is effing sick. I'm def gonna work on integrating that...WOW
It's not just the color scheme, in my opinion. I'm not a fan of the font, a lot of the icons don't carry semantic meaning (for me, YMMV), etc.
Just noticed the license changed to BSD! I had not realised - will definitely need to give it another look as I may be able to make use of it now. Awesome.
Pretty sure the “reveal” here is supposed to be this kind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reveal_(arts_and_showbusiness)

Which is slightly different from “revelation”, though I agree with you that “revelation” is better word in this context.
Ask HN: Is anyone building Apps on Gmail
I am directing this question to apps or services which can be built with a web front-end or using a client binary application, i.e. iOS/Andoid app or desktop. Links to existing projects or products would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
For a "sufficiently smart compiler" you mean autovectorization. That's a hard problem.

I've mentioned before that I don't think SIMD is going away anytime soon. It has so many upsides (cache locality, simple implementation in hardware due to the single-instruction nature of it) that I think designs that don't take advantage of it will always be at a disadvantage for the foreseeable future.
Yea, 2/279 is much, much larger than what I thought

This is quite a big issue, what OS/browser are you using?
So, how would e.g. Google Reader do that, exactly?
Yup I changed it couple months ago :)
I'd like a modification to the "get back to work" message.

I would enjoy if it rotated a bit through different creative reminders.

Examples:

"have you exercised 150 minutes this week?" (low activity has been purported to kill as many people as smoking, and a bet a lot of we computer users are in that demographic.

"Any hobbies interesting you at the moment? Why not work on them for a bit?"

"Get back to work!"

"Go get out of your comfort zone"

And maybe some inspirational quotes.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/paul_valery.html

Thanks for thinking about it!
Gotcha - got an idea and a todo: https://github.com/rynop/ggreplayz/issues/7
Chrome updates everyone all the time without asking. It just happens. Mozilla's big mistake is that they tell the user that the update has occurred. It should happen without you even realizing it.
I couldn't totally understand pricing model. You can get only twice of free plan when you agree to pay 100$ a month. Hetzner still seems logical, if you have enough passion to learn little bit server administration.
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex5
Booing is a bit mean-spirited. I think the appropriate disruption is everyone saying "rabble rabble rabble rabble" together.
> If Unix or Linux could have limited itself to a far smaller subset, it would likely have taken over the world by now.

You mean, like POSIX?
Interesting, I didn't know that video encoding could be parallelized per-frame in that way. That's really cool; I stand corrected.

Still, I think it's clear that an x264 with N threads per frame with no per-pixel SIMD would lose to the current x264 with N threads per frame. The key is that x264 is making good use of task parallelism and data parallelism.
Besides learning about his project online, I don't have any use of or interest in Khan Academy. There's no religion on my part, just a little disgust that a for-profit company would try to smear KA over minutia.

It would be like if Khan Academy was giving out free meals to homeless people and McDonalds fabricated reports on how the food was unhealthy and used their influence to get the Washington Post to carry the smear and add to it.

wrong and obtrusive concepts

Now who is showing a religious level of bias?

I'm a pragmatist. If something is free that I need, I use it. If something is for-pay that I need and the price is justifiable, I use it. My commercial software architectures often mix proprietary and open source solutions and I don't make excuses for either business model.

One thing about free, you can always get a refund on your investment and you have to really suspect the motives and the character of someone who attacks "free". Not real surprising that the attacker in this case was a for-profit competitor, was it?
You seem to be under the assumption that classes are always categorically better than a procedural API. I think you're mistaken. Classes aren't always a good abstraction.

Classes being a good abstraction:

$user = new User('John', 'Doe');
$user->authenticate($token);

Classes being a bad abstraction:

$two = Math::add(1, 1);
// or worse:
$math = new Math;
$three = $math->sqrt(9);

In that latter case, you'd be much better served using a functional or procedural API, even if it's namespaced:

(+ 1 1) ; two
(math/sqrt 9) ; three

If you're going to argue that `stream_socket_` is doing it wrong, I'd like to hear why it'd be better as a OO API.
- Which Unix or Linux would that be?

- Interesting that you think desktop computing is an anomaly. I must have imagined the whole PC revolution thing then...

- Also interesting that you think that the current split in HTML5 standards is going to lead to good things. Care to explain how?
AppFog has "real" support (including live chat with all plans, including free plans). And the business model will prove to be quite sustainable (and bundled with a readily comprehensible pricing model).
Thanks, I'll take a look.

I don't use any advanced features of iTerm, though, I just use it over Terminal.app because it supports 256 colors. We have not been updated to Lion or Mountain Lion at work so Terminal.app is still limited to 16 colors for me.
Any phone with a 480x320 screen and free on contract (at least in the US) is low end. The iPhone 4 would be midrange and the 4S would be high but not the highest end.
No, the type of person who runs IE6 is a guy from a corporation with a stagnant IT department.
At the moment no data is collected and I won't start until after the (non-free) opt out is in place. The only current data collection is that I've set it up to offer to send an email in a number of error conditions and even if selected the user will get to see and edit the email before it gets sent. The error email is certainly in the version currently in review by Apple but for some fatal errors it may even be I the released version although I haven't received any error emails yet.

The data that I currently plan to collect includes device type and software version, number of items in use, purchases they have made. I also plan try to analyse the extent to whether people are making use do nested lists or if that is an unnecessary complication. I may also log frequency of use and how much some particular features are used.

I do not intend to collect the contents of the lists or any personally identifiable information although I will create a unique ID for each device so that I can track usage over time.

I was a Product Planning Manager for Sony's TVs in Europe for about 4 years. I was working closely with engineers and in a technical area but was also working closely with the marketing teams and my main role was really business development. At first working with cable operators in Across Europe to get them on board with offering their services directly on the TV without using a STB (using a CI module which Digital TVs in Europe must support). Later it involved satellite and for the last 2 years it was mostly working with the channel owners and other content players to get them onto Sony's IP platform.

It was interesting and I enjoyed it but there was too much travel (a week in Tokyo 3 times a year plus probably 2 trips to Europe every month). It also started to feel slightly hopeless, even the dominant player in the TV business (Samsung) is barely making money and Sony isn't the leanest most nimble company and hadn't made a profit in TV for a number of years.
As a member of an nReduce company (http://QONQR.com) I can say that we've been very happy with the helpful and constructive feedback we receive from the other entrepreneurs in our group, and the weekly accountability of demoing progress to our peers has helped to keep us delivering regularly. nReduce itself is reporting their own weekly progress (as other commenters have mentioned) and Joe and Josh are really killing it.
I agree that minorities have totally been screwed on the 4th amendment. Same with middle class people too now. There are warrant-less checkpoints all over the country.

Fortunately, there is one fairly good guarantee of protecting your fourth amendment rights. Your smart phone.

If you suspect you're about to be unconstitutionally searched, bust out your smart phone, say I do not consent to this illegal search loud and clear, and film the cop.

If he doesn't try to steal your phone, you're all set!
The font is Segoe UI, I did that screenshot before I bought Proxima Nova, so the font will become Proxima Nova (I may Instapaper this and give you a bazillion settings for it)

As for the icons, they are a very tricky subject, I intended to create symbols for major features such as Funnel and Triage and have common icons for everything else, but it seems I've failed there

Which icons don't you like?
Bullshit extreme
Hope you don't mind but I thought this was neat enough that I posted it myself before reading that you were not ready to yet.

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/x9uej/automatical...
This is intended to be constructive criticism, though you may find it harsh.

A quick look at the front page (particularly the stuff focused at the very top) does not suggest anything so much as a competitor to Gmail. Scroll down and the feature list does little to change this impression. For $20/user/mo?
All right, you don't have the resources to compete with Google... I understand... but how does that change my decision as a potential customer?

Maybe it would help to emphasize a little more on what the distinctive advantage is here. Is the point just to get out from under Google et al. with a similar product? If so, maybe find some way to invoke the problem you see with Google et al. I don't know what you MEAN by "innovation from the inside out" or why it matters to me enough to pay $20/user/mo (for the preview; it looks like you plan to increase the price later...)

Phrases like "shit work" and "dick around" and "sticky fingers" on the questions page might be phrased more professionally, and several pages could use punctuation work (you seem to omit periods a lot)...

I am a little concerned about a "custom mail engine I'm writing from scratch". Are there not any established tools to build on in the Ruby world? Why do I want an email service which does not support IMAP or Android? Is this primarily geared at Apple devices or what (if so, that could be signaled more clearly...)

Good luck
"No, because RSS actually exists, while no one has yet successfully reimplemented USENET."
Can you provide a source for that? If this is true, that changes quite a lot.

Also, how do you feel about Samsung asking for 2.4% of the chip price for a single patent when there are so, so many patents that go into making a device like the iPhone? Is that fair?

Edit: Forget about the source, I found some very easily (Google "samsung frand qualcomm"). But still, I think it's quite discriminatory to demand from Apple 2.4% for each patent, especially when these patents are seen as standards for cellphones.
Thanks for your comment.

I'm not shocked if I stated some inaccurate things; I'm still very new to the language, and how and even why some things work the way they do is not obvious to me.

So the #() syntax is a reader macro I'm assuming? That would explain a lot. I guess what I enjoyed about them is that they cut down on a lot of boilerplate.

In javascript, passing in an anonymous function, you have to explicitly name the arguments. So you've got something like:

map(function(item) {item + 2}, list))

In Clojure you can gut that down to:

(map #(+ % 2) lst)

This isn't that useful for small code snippets, but if you reuse that variable many times, or use multiple variables such as map-indexed, that %, %2, and so on syntax is really friendly. But I could see why there would be limitations. You can't nest them, for one.

You probably are well-aware of these things, but my explanation might make some sense to those who haven't used the language.
Hetzner is simply not a platform-as-a-service. It might be a good deal for a server, but that's not what you're paying for with a PaaS like AppFog. What you're paying for is application lifecycle management, from deployment to scaling to cloning to re-deployment on a different infrastructure, to adding services (like Mongo, MySQL, etc.) at the click of a button.

Serverraum alleine = etwas ganz ganz ganz anderes.
As of the time of this comment a lot of people are missing the point which is about respecting the user's choice not to upgrade.

To answer the question though, I'd say maybe not the only one but you're probably part of an incredibly small minority. If you had the update feature off and this happened then it's certainly not right but if it was on and you received many notices already then you had plenty of time to turn that feature off.

I'd ask what reason anyone would have to keep such an old version though? I do understand its a choice but outside of some really narrow edge cases I can't really see a good reason to keep 3.6.

This raises so,e very interesting questions though if in fact you had the update feature explicitly turned off. We all can agree that updating your browser even somewhat regularly is great for both users and developers but respecting the users choices is also almost a duty that software developers have. To me this is a gray area. Considering how old and outdated FF3.6 is and that web standards change so rapidly and have a lot since 3.6 was it a good call for Mozilla to pull the trigger and upgrade users of ancient FF versions or is it more important to respect the user's choice?

I think they made the right call. We think of using a particular browser at version X as a choice but in reality the majority of people do not choose this. They get whatever came out at the time and then never think of it again. For most users their inaction when it comes to upgrading isn't really a conscious choice to stay at the version they have but instead just a side effect of not knowing enough to be able to choose to upgrade or not having the time to be bothered by the prompt and clicking "No" on whatever comes up (I can see that especially applying to Windows users as there seems to be a prompt popping up every other second). At a certain point there are so few reasons not to upgrade that it makes sense to do it for the user automatically. Even if a user, somehow, some way, is using an old version of FF for testing a website in development or has somehow gotten into a situation like many corporate IE users face where certain websites or apps can only be access with version X it's very reasonable to assume these people know they have an edge case and would take steps to either only run the browser on an intranet or private network or, for developers, only run it on one machine on a local server and not connected to the wider web.

In the end I feel for you and I understand it sucks but really there's not much reason at all for anyone not in that situation to be outraged or care much that a version of FF so out of date is being auto updated without permission. And I say that in the nicest way possible.
I think you're onto something.

"OS differently."

But do you mean Linux or Windows?
PostgreSQL does not seem to be available, despite their ad copy. Googling reveals that it's been in beta and they seem to be expecting to roll it out soon.
I assure you, it confused me to. But its a reality that people on restrictive diets forget: in our society, meals are a very fundamental element of socializing. My restrictive diet made it so that when I'd hang out with buddies, when they would pick a restaurant, I could rarely get proper nutrition from the meals. This would cause me not to eat almost anything at these places. They would notice, feel bad, and then feel guilty. I would always have to hunt around for a place to grab anything to fill me up before we continued our day.
Do we really want our information mediated/censored by this sort of corporate behavior?
DeMarco revists “You can’t control what you can’t measure”
Does not seem to support SSL, which might be a bit of a dealbreaker for many.
so does this mean it would also against Apple's policy to distribute any books that broadly discuss any of the following topics: marketing, mobile & desktop software development, music, movie and magazine distribution...
Do you mind explaining why it is a mess? I'm not doubting what you are saying is true, it is just that recently I used a Clojure library to connect to Facebook, Google, and github, and the code to do so is simple and more or less the same for each site, with one of the sites being slightly different.

Is the mess on the side of a library writer's perspective? Or in running it on the server?
There are plenty of RSS reader apps.

The fact that they may collect your personal data for future mining shouldn't concern you.
The comments here about przemoc's choice in browser are surprisingly critical and vitriolic. S/he claims to be purposely keeping that version, and so presumably has some good reason - specific plugins, specific version testing for an internal web application, etc. Even if przemoc didn't have what you would consider a good reason, it should be his or her choice to keep that browser version and the onus is on us as web developers to encourage him (in positive ways) to upgrade - through better web applications that require new features, better communicating the reasons for upgrading, etc.

Believe me when I say that I understand the frustrations that come from having to support outdated browsers - I used to develop a web application for the financial industry, where as of a year or two ago a significant portion of traffic still came from IE6-locked machines in large financial institutions - but browser choice is not the issue here.

The issue as I see it is that the software that przemoc was running did not behave as he or she wanted and expected it to behave. That means that the software had a design problem (poor or misleading auto-update setting design), a communication problem (didn't inform him or maybe mislead him about the default update behavior) or a bug (updated despite a setting telling it not to).

There isn't enough information in the original post to determine if the last one (auto-update occurring despite being turned off) is what happened here - I'd like to learn more. It would be worrying (and I'd argue an insecure design) if the software were even capable of self-updating with that setting turned off.
The forced capitalization of the first word of submitted titles is becoming increasingly frustrating.

Please do not second guess users!
Apple, Google Line Up to Bid for Kodak's Patents