skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fundrise Launches Crowdsourced Real Estate and Business Investment in VA, DC
Real books are often donated to libraries and dozens or hundreds of people read the same copies. I don't see how is this community different.
Likely fraud related. Not that unglue.it is running a scam, but Amazon probably can't be bothered to separate the money laundering operations from the legit crowdfunding operations.
We don't send frequent emails - we haven't emailed our user base in months - until today about this launch. If users don't have an account, they can't have a consistent experience across platforms. A good user experience is our top priority here.
I remember hearing "who the hell is dumb enough to pay for television?" when I was young.

..somewhere along the line, someone (smartly) decided that PAID television might just work. That people were tired of what was broadcast over the air for free and all of the attendant issues that "free" brought to the table.

How big a market is paid TV now?

I guess it speaks to the erosion of values and the disappearance of "words have meaning" to call app.net an altruistic project. I mean, really. They are offering to take money in exchange for providing a service.. so that the core values of the business arrangement remain focused on the people using (and building) the service. If a quid-pro-quo arrangement like that is the new version of altruistic heroism, no wonder things in the US are so #^&*ed up.
Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that roughly half the population won't disregard everything your working on to get two bullet points off your list is just stupid.

Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending important topics like evolution and climate change don't exist seems worse.
They should! It's the most reliable source of JavaScript/DOM related info on the web. Any time you search for web stuff make sure you add the string "MDN" on the end ;)
Nokia did excellent work on Qt 4.x, QtQuick/QML and QtCreator/QtSDK as well as a lot of the work for the upcoming Qt 5. Saying they did nothing with it for a few years isn't at all true and is not a fair statement as they did a lot of great work on Qt. Not to mention that they were the ones who released it under the LGPL!

Having said that, I'm both extremely happy and excited that Digia have bought Qt entirely and that they plan to support both iOS and Android, something I've been wishing would be supported for a couple of years now but didn't see as something that could happen under Nokia's ownership.
We use Riak extensively at ideeli. It looks poised to stick around for the long-haul.
The whole endeavor is lousy.

With regards to 'success', for most people the education you get in college is secondary. What's of primary importance is networking and having that degree on your resume to get you in the door. [1]

But networking and having something on your resume that gets you in the door is provided automatically (and arguably in more effective doses) by rubbing elbows with Thiel and likeminded millionaires and billionaires and being featured in news articles.

So the 'success' of the participants should be expected to be equivalent-to-better than if they went to college just due the design of this stunt.

And it will prove nothing about whether college is useful or not in the general case. Because you can't scale "hang out with Peter Thiel and likeminded movers-and-shakers" beyond a tiny class each year.

[1] Which isn't to say that what you learn isn't important. It absolutely is. It just doesn't have much bearing on your business/monetary-axis 'success'.
So your argument is that web developers are too stupid to remember Erlang. Tell that to all those Django developers that have to juggle Python, HTML, CSS and Javascript! They must be superheros! Ruby on Rails developers must be as well!
Microsoft's KinEtre Animates Household Objects
Ah, gotcha. Well good to hear you're testing to optimize your signups!

I'm not ready for a support product yet, but I'll definitely keep you guys in mind.
I don't understand how "Error establishing a database connection" is a cool URL trick.
you could have trapped Ctrl-C. You could also check if password hashed matched what was in the password file. I use to hit ^C and enter a few wrong passwords everytime because of this. I wrote such a program too, but the most fun I had was doing it in Turbo C to get access to the mainframe of the school district while i was in high school. Unix shells were so easy back then.
As a org-mode user I've been using TaskPaper quite a lot (before getting back to org.) It's very good on its own, but org-mode is way more powerful
What are you suggesting? That we let poorly educated people dictate education standards?
Amazon Confirms Cloud Player
The new Retina displays for the Macbook should fix that problem nicely. You'll get sharpness and beauty at the same time.
Taking "thanks" out of a conversation between exactly two people is very different. It's very personal and can easily be seen as rude.

But SO isn't that; don't treat it like that. SO questions may well be read by thousands of people. The "thanks" is useless to 99% of them. It's like signatures. Sure it seems neat when you do it once. But when literally thousands of people have to read it on thousands of posts...please stop!
Pull requests for edits, perhaps?
So you're telling me that Amazon (who makes a pretty good living selling books) shut off payment processing for UnglueIt (who seems to be working to give away books for free). Who would have seen that coming?

With all the payment services available, why go with the one that is run by the company that your "business model" threatens most?

Edit: ok... not knowing exactly how delayed payments work for pledge style funding, I don't know which payment services can handle that. As far as other options, there are many. I just don't know if any others will handle the delayed payment part. If the options truly are only PayPal and Amazon then I see a huge hole that needs to be filled.
I didn't know the meta.stackoverflow.com site existed. They should probably make note of it when someone's question gets closed, so that the person asking the question knows they can dispute it. There isn't any indication from the FAQ that you can dispute things like questions being closed by posting to the meta site.

Here's an example of my question that was closed on serverfault:

http://serverfault.com/questions/342191/performance-of-sql-s...

I specifically asked why my throughout for my database was more than doubling when I decreased the number of vCPUs from 4 to 1. And it was closed as an "exact dupe" of a question asking about how to optimize a VM's performance. There's nothing to optimize in my situation, I had more physical cores than vCPUs, so there was no over-allocation. I get that obviously there must be some contention between the vCPUs, but to double the performance by dropping to a single vCPU? I wouldn't see that type of performance hit on a physical system otherwise multi-process databases wouldn't exist.

I had another question that was arbitrarily closed as a dupe, but I made a comment disputing it, and by some small miracle, the mod removed the dupe status. I can't remember which other question it was at this point since it was modified to remove my comment and the closing. The point is that there is no way to flag the question as being under dispute, and if the moderator decided not to do anything about it, then I couldn't do anything (except post to meta which I just learned today).

EDIT: I posted the wrong link, and just corrected it now.
I can understand their choice of a tested technology, but I don't understand the bandwidth argument. Is the processor so underpowered that it couldn't crop the image when needed?
You could always add a Python/PySide module/plugin for QtCreator. It has pretty solid (though slightly underdocumented, sadly) plugin support and you can do fantastic things with it. It's also an open source project, so nothing stopping third parties like yourself from adding missing features.

Having said that, if Digia were to officially support Python/PySide in QtCreator/QtSDK, that would be really really awesome.
Serious question: Why would you store passwords and cc-numbers in a todo app?

Why not store your passwords in a purpose built app like 1password and use the todo software for todo's (get milk, finish project etc.)?
Really nice Idea...

I wonder how you can manage that after the deal is done, is the site going to administer the real estate in some way?

or it's only connecting people and it's their problem?
Tales of Creation: That feeling
Original Factory-Sealed iPhone Goes Up On eBay For $10,000
Worth noting that the Venera probes only survived between 23 minutes and 2 hours on the surface of Venus, due to the harsh conditions there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
Performance comparison - Python vs. Scheme/Lisp
If many years from now someone asks, "why did the retail software industry die?", please refer back to this post.
Do Journalists Need to Know About GIFs?
That's all true, I would think that the heavily armed event would immediately disqualify all trades during that time. That is, if people understood that they were conducting the trades in the first place. That is the weak point of the plot but like I said, it only had to work long enough for the takeover to happen. It wasn't like the plan was to takeover the company for years to come, just a few days to move forward with the plan to get access to the reactor. I think it's unlikely but plausible. But hey, it's a movie.

But for the Bruce part, that's easy because part of the Bruce persona is basically a dumb playboy that's rich despite himself. He has people who take care of him and if he does something on his own then it often results in something bad. Remember that he supposedly burned down his own house during a drunken rage at his birthday party after kicking everybody out.
Small aircraft passengers film their own plane crash (and survive)
Spotify, Pandora, Streaming Music Make Up 25 Percent of Warner Digital Revenue
Climate science IS chemistry and physics. More specifically Climate science is mostly Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics and if it's off the table you can't really talk about them. Nor can you can't talk about convection currents which means you can talk about the gas laws which means you can talk about heat engines.

PS: And no I am not kidding, if you actually understand why a mass spectrometer works then climate change is obvious.
One limit as far as production is concerned is the availability of water. Natural gas production in the United States has declined over the last several months due to drought triggered water shortages. As it turns out showing up and proposing to dump a large amount of the local water supply down a hole in the ground in the middle of the drought is not finding many takers.
Yeah, even if it influences the Xbox Arcade (and Sony, Nintendo competitors) then it could have an impact on the market simliar to the Steam effect.

Every July and December gamers on Steam go crazy over sales - twice yearly excitement in general that the big three consoles only get at launch and with major title releases every few years.
As much as I agree with you and as much as I'm displeased with people having trouble selling things they worked on for months for over 0.99$ I would never be able to live if I had to pay 50$ for every little piece of software I use. 50$ is a LOT for a todo app.

Imagine a world where you had to pay 50$ for every app on your phone (I personally have 10-15 that I use regularly), every web app that you use (these guys have bills to pay too) and everything installed on your desktop computer. You wouldn't be able to use as much as you use today.

The fact is, this app seems great, I might try it, but I usually shell out 50$ for software on either an exceptional game that I know I will be playing for a long time (often multiplayer) or some development tool/license (for example Apple dev program). Organizing my life into items that I can tick doesn't seem that complicated or essential to me that it's worth 50$.
The Hackers for Charity program is to find bored kids with budding computer skills, and get them experience while helping charities. This helps them build their "legitimate" resume, and hopefully keeps them interested enough that they don't have to resort to trivial illegal things like this.
That's because on Windows and OS X, Qt uses the operating system to paint native widgets, and uses the corresponding helper dialogs provided by the system.
I disagree - I think it's a cultural issue and perhaps you speak specifically of people in the upper OECD. Much of the world runs or works for a small family business where getting enough money to feed and house your family drives you to succeed within the limits of your education and life situation.
Yawn. How about 2 million connections from a single server with Erlang & FreeBSD? http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2...
Investors dance to Arab Money
Actually, the opposite is true. Photon absorption/detection is a quantum event, and limited by probability. For a given sensor chip size (and technology generation), fewer, larger sensels are going to provide samples that are statistically closer to the Absolute Truth. (Averaging repeated samples will reduce the error further.)

Using a well-corrected lens of an appropriately longer focal length, and thus a narrower field of view, with or without panoramic stitching, will provide at least[1] the same linear resolution of a given subject, but with less sampling error.

[1] At least, since apochromatic correction is easier in longer focal length lenses provided that no super-wide-aperture bokeh heroics have gone into the design. Rectiliearity (the absence of barrel or pincushion distortion) is also easier to achieve. Flare can be reduced without inducing undue mechanical vignetting, increasing contrast.
At my school for whatever reason

Ah, those magic words.

For some reason I still don't understand today, 9 of us in my high school programming class had read permission on absolutely everything. It was only students numbered "01" through "09" in that particular class -- I checked the border conditions in a very OCD-style.

Explored a lot of that IBM set up.
Ask HN: Help, my startup is stagnating
I created an SaaS startup that became my full-time income in May last year. My subscription income peaked around November last year and then basically stagnated for maybe 6 months. Recently, cancellations have been outnumbering new registrations.

Coincidentally, I have been working less (hacking away at the inessential) by being way more selective in implementing features, experimenting way too much with pricing, and toning down my marketing (which basically consists on participating on forums and publishing blog articles). I was feeling burnt out and simply wanted to enjoy the fruits of my labor a little more, sometimes barely working an hour a day.

How would you advise me to proceed? Sell the business, ask customers why they cancel (most of them are just unavoidable -- e.g. "We're looking to only launch next month.", "We will look into your solution again.", etc. -- not switching to competitors), keep improving the product, ramp up marketing?
This is really well done. After reading everything, the big question in my mind is how does this work? After signing up, what's the first step I need to take to get going? Please show me that process before asking me to sign up. A video would be great, but screenshots are also enough.

I say this because apart from the dollar price, the biggest cost to me is my time and effort to switch. You do a good job of conveying that Supportfu will probably make my life easier once I've started using it, but I want to know what it will take to get there.
The unibody iPhone
What’s the Future of Passbook now Starbucks has Invested in Square?
I did 3M/node on physical severs, 800K/node on EC2 instances.

We mostly use Erlang on server-side and node.js + CoffeScript on client-side (where they rightfully belong ;)
> I don't see how is this community different.

Really?
doesn't office on mac not even support vba?
All the people I want to email are on hotmail. I'd like them to switch to gmail but they haven't budged. Well, I guess I have to stick with the email my friends use.

Does this sound ridiculous? It should. It is equally ridiculous that users of one social network can't interact with users on another. This is the problem that needs to be fixed, not ads.
So is our goal to push more teaching of evolution and global warming or is it to make science standards better ? By specifically calling out hot button buzz words your priming the pump for a political fight.
This has been a source of disagreement with my wife and I over her books. She has been against the site from the moment she found out about it, and despite my investigation to determine that it was 100% legitimate…she still felt it was wrong for LendInk to even be able to make affiliate dollars off the sale of her book, because she felt the presence of her book listing "legitimized" LendInk. (Our books are not lending-enabled.)

I'm not happy about this.
But I didn't get much out of the article discussing the idea of black on white for text. The majority of his post was about the color of elements on the page. I'm not saying I disagree with his point, but the talk about pure black when it doesn't exist in that context makes it seem strangely written. Looking at it in terms of contrast then it makes with the thought of grays versus black.
I think the company manages it for you for the length of the deal and you cash out at the end. Good question about what happens afterwards.
> I don't claim that ... 2) it has long term effects after you completely stop using it (just that now I don't need to use it as consistently as before).

Well, no.

You said..

> After a week or two of this, you're done. Your sweat lessens, and becomes clear and odorless.

> No more deodorant is required after this. Just shower and apply some soap to your skin.

You're quite clear in claiming that after a few weeks of the salt rock, you don't need to use it, or any other.

That said, I use this stuff too because my armpit skin is sensitive to certain deodorants and gets red and itchy if I use them. So I switch to the crystal brand for a few weeks, and it works, but it definitely does not confer any more effect than any other deodorant. I have to apply it daily, like any other.
Your Business Needs a Presence on Quora
I really like the Unglue.it model, so I'm upset by this decision, too, but I suspect there aren't any legal grounds for complaining about it. I fully expect that Amazon's contract language gives them plenty of latitude to refuse services at their discretion.

Even if there were some non-discrimination law that touched on this sort of situation, it's not inconceivable that they view Unglue.it as competing in their core market. I can't imagine many cases where a company would be legally obligated to provide services to support a competitor. (Sure, local phone utility companies are in that situation, but that's for solid historical reasons related to government backing of their monopoly on infrastructure.)
[I'm obviously not a lawyer or an expert on these things, so corrections are welcome.]
What greatly inconvenienced me about MobileOrg was having to manually push and retrieve changes from the app, which led me to the occasional "but I'm sure I've captured this!" moment. Call me stupid, or even inconsistent for hoping something a little more brainless (it's an emacs mode I'm trying to sync with, after all), but eventually it put me off from adopting it in full.
from last weeks weekly news.

note the comments, especially the one from ychang:
https://lwn.net/Articles/509376/

it clears up some serious misunderstandings (that at least me and some commentators there had).
It would be neat if one day they send rovers in modules - one nuclear power supply to last dozens if not a hundred years, then a mini-robot sent to replace the modular camera with a 15MP one after they upgrade the bandwidth from 2mpbs to 10mbps and then one day 100mbps.

That 15-30 minute pingtime is a problem that cannot be overcome unless they find a faster than light wave that can be used for transmission - or a way to manipulate quantum entanglement for communications.
No more cd dot sot slash
My BASIC teacher saw me writing a login screen program and thought it was cool. I wasn't making any attempt to hide it, though.

But it did take a long time to write, because I had to make the IBM logo out of extended-ASCII by hand, and even then it was clearly running inside a BASIC interpreter really really slowly.
But what do you mean by "performance"?

You are talking about how the advertising industry went from measuring ads statistically, to measuring them by direct action--the click. Before the Internet, the only "ads" that were measured by direct action were coupons, because stores could keep track of redemption transactions. Other than that, it was understood that the value of ads could not be correlated to direct actions by consumers. Sort of like how no single thunderstorm can be directly attributed to global warming.

It's not that online ads perform abysmally. All ads perform abysmally when they are measured by the metric of direct action at the moment of viewing--the Internet was just the first time that could be directly measured on every ad. DoubleClick and others established a competitive advantage by being able to slightly reduce just how abysmal the measurements were. They spent a lot of time and money "educating" brand owners that direct clicks were the "right" way to measure their value.

The unfortunate side effect was that the shift of ad dollars from TV and print to online was greatly slowed. Brand managers look at the super-low online click numbers (even the best numbers from profile-driven networks) and say "what a waste of money, let's keep the bulk in prime time TV." They get numbers from the TV industry that indicate that millions and millions of people saw their ad--and they are not under any illusion that these people are doing anything about it that very moment. TV ads are held to a much lower standard of action, and therefore TV ads attract much higher levels of investment.

Why should online ads be measured by clicks?? The assumption that they should is quite recent (in the context of the full history of advertising), but already deeply held and rarely considered. But it's been incredibly harmful to the efforts to shift industries like TV and newspapers online.
Everyone is missing the point here. The problem isn't that these cameras are old tech and using outdated CCD censors. If these were the best images we've seen to date of Mars, you're right, there'd be a "Good Enough Factor" — the best images we've seen from a NASA mission, but not as good as modern DSLRs. Understandable.

The problem, that I think a lot of people are missing, is that Viking 1, from 1976, took higher quality pictures of Mars. http://f.cl.ly/items/0k2w2d1C1O3w3e0t300f/NASAQualityDegreda...
They have definitely captured mindshare and championed the need for federated systems. I've not tried Diaspora though so can't comment.
SCO really is toxic in a lot of circles, and most people don't remember the real history.

I'll bet that he could get away with describing his time at the "Santa Cruz Operation", though, for the same reason.
No. SCO circa 1986-89, back when they had the hot tub, and the engineering room was officially clothing optional after business hours... that's when they were a real Unix company.
It's not meant to stop sweating.
I don't mind HFT - I use their services every time I trade and I love them.

Never understood why the quants always get blamed for so many negative situations - most of it is essentially predetermined by the directions of "financial directors" in conjunction with their lawyers (monopoly on markets/one way regulation).
Yet another new MVNO player to enter the French market
RIM’s $147 million patent penalty wiped out by judge
It is actually like that. Any new comer cand edit and "submit a pull request" that people with more rep can accept.