skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also have office hours that you can join via hangouts. I've only seen them on youtube after the fact, but they're generally pretty good, and they will sit there and answer questions to your face (though since it's a webcast, general questions about banning would probably work better than "why is my app being banned?"):

https://developers.google.com/live/android
How would you find the joke-readers/potential-customers?
It is easy to use superlatives like "safest rocket ever designed". But a lot of stuff can go wrong - fast - when you're sitting on a big pile of potential explosives that under other circumstances you'd keep a safe distance from. Until they actually achieve it, you shouldn't throw the superlatives around.

I will be the first to applaud if SpaceX achieves this goal. I am certain that they want to achieve this goal. But when you look at previous launch vehicles from existing agencies that had over 100 launches, their launch failure rate vary from 1.4% (the Space Shuttle) to 14% (US Atlas) with the Russian Soyuz and European Ariane both coming in somewhere around 5%. SpaceX would have to improve on existing rocket designs by several orders of magnitude just to get to a pretty crappy safety record.

So far SpaceX has had 8 launches with 5 consecutive successes. The initial failures were clearly part of the learning process. But their current string of successes does not provide any statistical evidence that they will prove to be safer in the long run than even the worst major rocket program. Sure they plan to be safe. But safety is based on seeing what happens, not what they planned to have happen.

In this light it is worth reviewing http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger... to see how safe people thought that the Space Shuttle would be. Initial estimates of the safety of a launch went from 1/100 to 1/100,000 with the riskier estimates coming from lower level engineers and the safer ones coming from upper management. Whenever you see numbers in the press, it is guaranteed that they represent the view from the top. We should therefore assume that they will prove to be shockingly optimistic until there is concrete data.
I'm not sure who to root for in this case...
Health insurance for healthy people without kids shouldn't be a deterrent to freelance. Self employed health insurance is generally relatively affordable and easy to get, provided you are in good health and don't have any dependents.

If you have kids or health problems it might give pause but there are options - you need to attempt to get on a group health plan of some sort. Here in NYC we have freelancer's union but a little known trick I learned recently is that in most cities you can actually use the health insurance plan associated with your local chamber of commerce, which they offer as an enticement to joining.
RPI is in Renssellear, about 2 hours north of NYC. RIT is in Rochester, about 6 hours northwest of NYC--on Lake Ontario.
Exact same problem here. Battery dead (the good old swollen battery bug) and x times a day: oops black screen, Magsafe came out again. In the end I made an aluminium tetris-shaped piecs and glued it to the side of the laptop, covering the Magsafe at one end so it would never ever come out again.
What?

Can't you just make the wire run to the back? (like in the 13In I'm currently using)

Or am I missing something? (Oh, ok, It's the "cover clamshell" that's the issue)
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Once again though, I don't think it's problematic. I often feel that a lot of times, people don't want to pay the entry fee or wait in line to get in (figurative analogy here) and then feel left out.

We're in the tech space... If I designed a new tool for XBOX Live stats and posted to Show HN, it would follow that you would have to 1) be an XBOX Live member and 2) give me your information... I see using Facebook sign in as an extension of Facebook and not the other way around.

Just a matter of opinion from all around, though, obviously.
10 million, 1 million, it makes no difference since everyone has a different definition of the word 'user'.

Stop being so abstract, and cut to the chase! Most consumer startups rely on advertising. Let's assume $1 CPM. The most useful stat to care about in that case is 'Average Users Per Day'. So if you have 10,000 average users a day, you're gonna make $10/day and $300/month.

Stop with this users nonsense. It helps noone, ok.. maybe venture funding, since investors love these buzzwords.
By asking Google. By looking for criticism of the apps elsewhere. By downloading and running them to validate there is no spam. By asking for a copy of the communication from Google. Are you serious about this, or did you just not think of that stuff?
Every time I see something like a rocket or space shuttle launch, I can't help but wonder how much of the weight and cost could be saved using alternative methods. Even helium/hydrogen filled balloons could get them a good chunk of the way there. I know that would be horribly impractical for something the size of the shuttle and it's rocket boosters/fuel tanks, but if a balloon rig can get them to 120,000 ft they have gotten 15% of the way there (and overcome initial inertia) for pennys, and could probably shed a lot of weight that it normally uses to overcome those first 20 miles or so. Plus, at 120,000ft, gravity has already dropped from something like 9.8 newtons (sea level) to 9.68 (120,000ft). This might not seem like much, but it a good chunk of the way to the 9newtons that the Space Shuttle normally orbits at, and has to allow them to shed even more weight.

I'm obviously not an astro-physicist, physicist, or even that smart of a guy. I just can't help but think there are more efficient ways to get past 100,000ft without brute forcing the problem with rockets
The concept of MagSafe has been around for decades. My old water pot from Japan had it. The only innovation here is Apple repurposing it for laptop computers.
Lately I wondered what the best way to document a project is?
I believe it's called "casualties".
Ask HN: Why doesn't NASA live stream the Curiosity video feed?
Title says it all, wouldn't it be an awesome publicity stunt for NASA?
As someone said, the Surface is entering a crowded market. The Surface is launching more than 2 years after the first iPad hit the shelves. In the years since, the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire have established themselves as compelling consumption devices at the $199 price point. It is not like Microsoft did not market the Zune at all. They did, but most of their marketing was vacuous or not correctly targeted. There is nothing to say that their marketing department has sharpened its pencils in the four years since 2008. Did anyone like the IE9 advertising campaign launched by Microsoft? In fact, can anyone recall a recent Microsoft advertisement (other than an ad for an XBox 360 game) that made them want to go out and buy the product? I cannot, so I do not have much hope for the Surface commercials.

All of this said, how many of you will buy the Surface over the iPad if both were available for the same price? The HN audience aside, how many non-techie folks do you think will buy the Surface over the iPad if there is no financial incentive?
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It's also hard to find well-reasoned anti-mathematics literature or well-reasoned anti-genetics literature or well-reasoned anti-vaccination literature or well-reasoned anti-industry literature outside of the radical fringe. For the same reasons, probably - there just aren't much of persuasive arguments that weren't thoroughly disproved by both theory and practice.

Valve is an interesting experiment in self-organisation, but I don't see how it's in any way anti-capitalist, unless one thinks capitalism is identical to Goldman Sachs. It is not. Capitalism is about freedom to pursue every option and to succeed and fail independently. It is completely wrong to assume capitalism mandates some kind of specific company structure - on the contrary, the whole point of it is to organize the economy and the society in a way that you can try any organisation and structure (or no structure at all, if you prefer) and let the evolutionary processes to lead the ones that are more successful and adaptive to survive, while wasteful and ineffective perish (yes, I know in reality it's not ideal at all, other factors often intervene and screw up the picture, but that is the basic idea). If it turns out Valve model is superior and brings immense success, people start to follow it and there will be hundreds and thousands of companies built like that. If it turns out it's not as great as it looks, Valve followers will fail and nobody would do it anymore. In both cases, it is entirely what capitalism is about!
Oh man, that was a really good/bad spelling mistake.
What does postgres have that's equivalent or better? If I'm understanding this MySQL improvement, it persists memcache data on disk, a great thing. Does postgres already do that, or better?
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If you're going to base it on CPM rates then you want to be caring about "average ad impressions per day" not "average users per day".
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Another open source game that released a 1.0 is Smokin' Guns (former Western Quake). Has plenty of spaghetti western references :-)
Health insurance coverage, primarily for my wife, is one of the biggest reasons I have a full time job right now instead of expanding the contracting I was doing previously or trying to start a business. For various reasons, she is nigh-uninsurable, and she's working two part time jobs, which of course offer no health insurance whatsoever. When I was contracting, we had two separate private insurance policies, with a combined deductible of something like $6,000.

The bolded point at the top of the article is absolutely true: If you cannot afford health insurance, you can't afford to freelance. I often wonder if being shackled to a job by the specter of being uninsured isn't built into the system on purpose.
What you're talking about is "lets jail someone for no reason other than this computer said so and oops we weren't supposed to jail him. SO SORRY"

I am more concerned with the person who had his life destroyed, not so much the system. The system is guaranteed to muck up, by definition.
Sweet, thanks for the feedback. More to come...
Science is on the British school curriculum from age 5. 5-7 year olds will be taught four broad scientific topics - "Scientific enquiry", "Life processes and living things", "Materials and their properties" and "Physical processes". We start teaching the scientific method as soon as a child can take a measurement and record it.
> This is done this way because management is comprised of ineffective cowards who are terrified of confrontation and communication.

This one sentence sums up why managers won't directly confront these problems, but instead apply new policies to the whole group: Employees often lack empathy for their managers, and when given criticism, will take it very personally. (I'm not blaming employees. I think this is human nature.) Managers don't want to risk pissing off an employee who, while good, has one or two things that could be improved. Better to have a slightly less happy but still productive employee.

That's not to say that the policies are often not asinine, but my suspicion is that draconian policies are often the result of management not having enough time to deal with the issue in an intelligent way combined with a small handful of employees who don't make good judgements when left to their own discretion.
Ask HN: iPhone app awards?
I know of the Webby Awards and the Crunchies because those are very prominent. There are some other ones a friend told me about like "Best Ever App" award as well as the IMG Awards, but I don't know their standing and legitimacy. Does anyone have one or two awards legitimate awards given to iPhone apps they are willing to share? Thanks!
Things can be horrible in many different ways. C++ is definitely horrible in some ways, but when used properly, it allows you to do stuff you cannot do with most 'less horrible' languages (if any). Going C++ is a very valid tradeoff for many purposes, the only reason people are looking down on it now is because the spec is a little messy, and because it is probably one of the most difficult programming languages to really master.

JavaScript on the other hand really is horrible in every way imaginable except ubiquity. Personally, I think it's a really bad thing people are trying so hard to point out 'the good parts' of JavaScript, because it devalues all those other great languages that share the same 'good parts' without the rest of the lunacy that is JavaScript. I'm thinking about languages such as Lua, Go, Erlang, Clojure, etc.

There really is only a single excuse for using JavaScript, which is when you are writing web applications, and only because it's (sadly) the only option you have if that's your game. JavaScript is like the QWERTY keyboard layout, back in the day it was designed it was ok for the purpose, and now we're stuck with it because everyone standardized on it.
That little program is what got me interested in programming as a kid.

I played games nonstop on my (parents') Apple II, and loved it. But seeing those two lines of code produce "Hello!" over and over on the screen blew my mind.

You see, I thought games were amazing because I could manipulate these little worlds, and I could doing anything imaginable within their rulesets. But, seeing "Hello!" scroll forever and ever made me realize that, with this coding thing, there were no rules. The fact that I could make this computer do whatever I wanted, if only I could speak its language, was irresistible.

So of course, I modified the program to say "Hello sray!" and "Hello <this>" and "Hello <that>" and "Sray's brother smells", and so on and so forth. And then I figured out how to add spaces to each line to make a cool zig-zag effect. And so on and so forth... most of us know how it goes.

Anyway, this little trip down nostalgia lane isn't going to help you get your son interested in coding. But it's interesting how different kids react to the same thing.
So this thread is a few days old, but to add my experiences, I've spoken with two "talent" agencies, one that specializes in design and another that tries to specialize in technical people. Design is easy because it's subjective, but even to the common eye there's a difference between good and bad and how those relate to their client's brand. The problem with the latter is that they were focused on past job titles because they didn't actually understand the industries they were working with enough to be able to say "Okay well this guy can write in X, which translates well to Y, and has a strong interest in Z." In doing a little more research, there were a few companies that did seem to know their stuff, but they weren't in my area. If you find one, do a little bit more research about them as individuals and as a company to see if they can actually help you or if you'll just land in a database full of people who maximized buzzwords on their resumes.
Microsoft is being aggressive with the design of this product. Maybe there's a chance they'll be aggressive with the price as well.

$429 is probably the very high top end of what I would consider paying for a device that can't run windows software, has no ecosystem, and has a high likelihood of being abandoned in a year or so.

$699 would be an extremely attractive price for a ultrabook replacement. So I highly doubt it will be so cheap.
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He got just enough data to write his article and jump on the fast moving "Facebook ads suck" train. If he did this for a living he'd be fired, if he was a small business man he'd learn his lesson quickly. The same as it's ever been with any ad medium, internet, periodical, etc..
Actually, I really don't care about blaming a person or a thing. What I am most concerned about is that the person who was most affected by the issue (the people who were incorrectly arrested) are made whole, as best as they can be.

This would include, to my mind, monetary compensation as well as having the offenders cover the cost of mental rehabilitation.

It's a traumatic experience and we should not be so heartless.
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That just further enforces the point that you can't decide on what the best college for you would be by looking at any kind of ranking for the university as a whole. Different colleges and different departments within the university can be run so radically differently that it hardly matters that they're officially part of the same institution.
And then Apple will make a 7" iPad for $300-$350 and it will be game over for everyone.
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The example you give (1 pixel of movement per frame) is the only case in which there is no difference. Anything faster or slower will show smoother movement by using all the available hardware pixels.

In my example, the larger screen has e.g. 8 times the number of pixels horizontally to show movement in. Instead of waiting 8 frames and skipping ahead 8 hardware-pixels, you can render the sprite 1 hardware-pixel further along every frame.
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The definition of egalitarian marriage is either division of household labor (reduces probability of divorce for women: http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/24/1/51.short), predominantly equal contributions of income (no effect on divorce relative to men earning more, decreases probability relative to women earning more: http://www.addegem-asso.fr/docs/PapersDMM2009/7.pdf) and egalitarian gender roles (lowers probability of divorce when held by men: http://books.google.com/books?id=Yv8KZnvVbTsC&lpg=PA225&...
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This is absolutely true! I believe that the current structure and cost of healthcare in the US is one of the largest detriments to entrepreneurship. This is never brought up in political debates and is rarely talked about in media. Before the ACA, providers would deny people applying for individual coverage for the silliest pre-existing conditions and once you were denied, you wen't getting healthcare anywhere (black list).

This was a huge struggle for me early on in my career--and it wasn't until our company had a group (3+ people) that would could affordable plans. Even then, we were paying over $1000/mo to insure 3 healthy 26-year-olds.

You can read more about my story here: http://thecreativecareer.com/2009/03/30/us-healthcare-system...

EDIT (In case the above is TL;DR):

"This means that many entrepreneurs and innovators—those of us paving the way on our own—are left with costly insurance or no insurance at all. Because of the limited choices for affordable healthcare, the decision to become an entrepreneur looks increasingly less attractive. Even if an individual is to secure an individual policy, the rates will be higher, and the coverage will be less than policies available through an employer."
This part is particularly enlightening:

The idea of spontaneous order comes from the Scottish Enlightenment, and in particular David Hume who, famously, argued against Thomas Hobbes’ assumption that, without some Leviathan ruling over us (keeping us “all in awe”), we would end up in a hideous State of Nature in which life would be “nasty, brutish and short
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some interesting ideas:

Privacy Nutrition Labels: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/privacyLabel/

Privacy Icons: Knowprivacy.org, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy_Icons

User Research and design suggestions around privacy (and privacy policies specifically):
http://createwithcontext.com/insights-digital-trust-and-priv...

Disclosure: Im working towards some of these ideas on an Open source and CC licensed project with others at privacypatterns.org

There are references in my presentation available at http://pii.privacypatterns.org
I always felt that the L-connector was way to strong. There are plenty of times where it should have disconnected, but it didn't. It feels like it's only safe for really sharp tugs.
I think this could work, if executed well. The only way to really know is to try :)
This is the mild version of the "If there wasn't a God and a Bible and a Hell, we'd all kill and steal from each other all the time" argument.

1) People do exist who like to do customer work and want to do customer work. If they're sought out and given internal support--and it's not really that hard to convince decent engineers to provide that on their own initiative--they will handle it fine. Same goes for things like office management.

2) If some tasks go undone, it's because no one was interested in producing a finished, polished version of the product into which those tasks contribute. If no one is interested, then the product is far less likely to be worth producing.
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Zynga appears to be a serial copycat: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/24/tiny-tower-developers-call-...
In the US services aren't taxed. Most internal value created is in the form of services (e.g., IT). Most companies don't have their own internal computer production facility, for instance.

Your second point makes sense. There are usually much lower coordination costs for internal agreements.
True, but my limited experience in Haskell, and Ocaml says FP makes it harder to do the wrong thing. It is really hard to write a large Haskell function(on the order of 100s of lines of code.) I am not sure I could do it without breaking the function up in to a bunch of sub functions in a where clause, which is a case I am not even sure I would count since each of those sub functions could be moved out of the parent function with no change in functionality. Whereas my experience in C and C++ points to it being easy to write functions that run in to the low thousands.
This article brings up some really good points. Ultimately schools are obsessed with rankings because alum and prospective students are also obsessed with rankings. The rankings do a really good job of enthralling the consumer and making it competitive to get into college.

I graduated in 2009. In that same year we got a new president. He pledged to move the school up in the rankings from 22 in a welcome speech. The crowd gave a standing ovation.
If you want to not vote for the lesser evil you need to implement a voting mechanism that doesn't devolve into binary decisions.

Even France's run-off election eventually boils down into a binary choice.

Wise organizations look into real electoral methods systems like Condorcet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method#Use_of_Condorc...
Zynga has been orienting its lawyers toward this eventuality as long as EA has been waiting for them to step into their trap.
Errg, I hate Tynt - the copy/paste busting slice of JavaScript masquerading as a company.