skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I mean is Square is below interchange for the typical Starbucks purchase. They subsidize them. That's probably an 8 figure value for Starbucks, annually.

But I don't mean to imply that's the only factor. I agree about the investment.

Moreover there's the customer experience of paying with Square. It's nice and you don't have to set up a Starbucks card and put money on it. You just pay. It delights customers and may move lines faster, but perhaps most significantly, it lets Starbucks track loyalty. The business value of that is tremendous.

Starbucks basically just upgraded their app in a big way. Remember they were the earliest pioneers of "pay with your iPhone" with ther Starbucks app.

It doesn't hurt that Square is associated with small scale "craft" businesses either. Starbucks is trying to revitalize their brand right now.
"the same statistical bias that's used to say that men earn more than women"

Those statements refer to the same job categories and experience levels.
I find that there is nothing worse than trying to read pure white on pure black.
Really? Rearranging cards seems quick, but I find the list transition animation rather slow and choppy.

Running this on a Gal Nex with Jelly Bean.
This is the exact opposite of what I want. When I'm looking for information it's highly irrelevant for my email to show in my results. If I'd wanted something that was in my email, I'd just search there instead. This is actually motivating me to find a different email host.
It's almost impossible for Square to launch in Europe with their traditional product (Swipe) but they probably could with Pay with Square.

Their European rival had to jump through huge technical hoops (payments offsite, can't swipe, etc) to develop a product and it is a huge box off the phone and they are now trying to jump through more as credit card providers have raised their barrier.
How to strengthen your link building strategy using Infographics
I happen to be one of the folks on the image in the middle.

Going to a hackathon with a conference t-shirt seems to be quite appropriate to me.

And jordynclee, if you read this, please take that picture off that blog. I don't think you have permission to use it, neither from its creator, nor from the people on that image.
"...but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to
mention the aerial photography."
Excel power user here. Any plans for inter-compatibility?

If Grid can simply view other spreadsheet formats (even stripped of formulas and formatting), you'll get a lot of looks from the business world.
I don't think that is a clear description by any measure. It could be summarized in a couple of paragraphs. It's perhaps good for beginner programmers to learn from, so I'd encourage him to write a blog post. Pull request motivations should be to the point, especially for small changes, because otherwise they just waste time.
> What a non-article. ZFS is more mature than an unmature and unstable filesystem? Really?

Keep in mind that, with one exception, ZFS is pretty much rock-solid from day one.

Also, you should really read: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6071-
No,-ZFS-really-doesnt-need-a-fsck.html
Hi all, we are launching We Use That and would love any feedback. More cool companies to come and anyone can submit their company via pull request https://github.com/weusethat/we-use-that
My problem with not using white is that even slightly-grayed whites take on very different tints depending on the display, so as much as I'd like to use it, I avoid it.

But, I do remember one of my drawing teachers at RISD telling us not to use the white charcoal sticks in our charcoal drawings (there the white is the weird unnatural element). And it's true, when I mixed in whites for highlights instead just erasing to the color of the paper, things started to feel weird.
NASA can't handle the DNS config to redirect nasa.gov to www.nasa.gov
I don't think it solves one, I think its providing a way for developers to stick it to the man. In this case, Twitter, Craigslist, and Facebook.
No, we haven't attempted to put a self-sufficient colony of people in Antarctica. Which is not at all the same as "we can't".
The interesting thing is at the Apple keynote they announced Passbook and showed a Starbucks card, the passbook product is lacklustre in comparison. This shows Apple is betting on this and Starbucks would rather go with a solution that fits in with their current message (using your name).
Even if opt-in, this could be a privacy disaster because people won't consider the consequences. Letting a friend use a computer to look something up in google is something we do all the time. Oh, whoops, turns out there's your email inviting a friend to the swinger's club that happens to be on the same street as the restaurant you're going to lunch at.
For the tl;dr - Some hyperbole plus proof that the author doesn't understand very much about how an exchange such the NYSE or LSE works, how the financial system around them works or physical security and thus he comes the conclusion that it would be possible.

In real life though, it just wouldn't be possible.

1) Cutting all the connections to the exchange wouldn't be so easy. You're going to have multiple connections with different physical routes out of the building to minimize the chance that the exchange goes down due to a misplaced backhoe.

2) Assuming you did cut the connections, that alone would almost certainly trip the exchange's circuit breakers and halt trading. Even if the servers located at the exchange itself didn't halt trading, all the outside entities would lose contact and so you wouldn't get any trade confirmations back.

3) Even if you could execute the trades (somehow) clearing firms would almost certainly refuse to honor the trades as being legit, and if no one else is accepting that a trade got made, then for all intents and purposes it didn't happen.

tl;dr for my bit - No.
There's not really an inside of a black hole anyway. The black hole it self is nothing but a tiny spot yet massive in weight. There's an inside the event horizon though. Commonly people like to refer to the size of the event horizon as the size of the black hole, so that might be the "inside". In that case it's hard to tell whether it's bright or not. My guess is that it's certainly brighter looking outside than towards the singularity, which should be black, because there's no light coming from that direction whatsoever, since it all gets swallowed. Then again I'm no physicist, so I'm not really qualified to make any claims here.
Valve to sell non-gaming software on Steam starting September 5th
Both this and the iPhone app are nice for a 320px use case, but for tablet, the web app is much nicer. It would be great if the web app supported touch-based drag and drop (jQuery UI touch punch?). Or if the native apps (which do use draggable elements) were multi-col.
Appreciate the kind words :) Happy you liked it!
How YouTube lets content companies "claim" NASA Mars videos
You seem to be replacing my own experience, and that of the people that alum rocks have worked for, with your own lack of it.?

> with homeopathic medicine and are convinced of its efficacy. That doesn't mean they're correct.

I don't see how that's even remotely a valid comparison. There is nothing homeopathic about alum crystals.

> That they couldn't and wouldn't simply spread back to your armpits if you managed to kill them off there?

Then why didn't they spread and colonize the next day, as you have claimed they would? Ohh, you've already explained that away.

My skin is not my armpits. The other areas don't have the same temperature, humidity, and sweat. Those areas don't have and breed bacteria like armpits do. And it takes time for the bacteria to spread, multiply, and get below the surface. Once you've eliminated an area, it's going to be a while, regardless of the small amounts of bacteria on other areas.

> Indeed, you can buy unscented deodorants from the major manufacturers, and they are exactly as effective as the scented ones.

I have no idea what you're trying to convince me of. That I'm a crazy homeopathic guy with no sense of smell, covered in massive colonies of armpit-smelling highly-mobile bacteria that spreads like a fire? You might as well claim I'm a paid shill for the product.
Working with the negatives to make a better picture...
Subsidies to the tune of half a billion dollars per passenger per trip?
Fantastic product placement: mini Mini Cooper at London Olympics
It's a self-imposed problem. Of course people will object now that they're used to getting a site's content for "free". The sooner those sites die, the better, IMO. If there are costs associated with creating the content, then it's a stupid idea to act like there aren't.

Sites and services that charge from the beginning, and/or offer a very clear value added payment option from the beginning are usually successful. Success being defined as self-sufficient without violating user privacy and whoring themselves to advertisers.
Hey Jonas,

Thanks for the observation on the "burnt" phone numbers from Burner. Just a quick point of clarification - phone numbers released to Twilio sit unused for two months before they are accessible by any other Twilio customer.

Obviously would love to find why Twilio's not working out for you. Hit me up at rspectre@twilio.com or reply - whichever you feel works best.

Always great to hear from you.
Linux is used a lot in countries where buying the last and greatest is not an option, nor is fast internet connection.
Microsoft’s political privacy game
The Flawless Mars Landing That Almost Wasn’t
Undoubtedly. However, unless the average free user's eyeballs are worth more than ~$50/yr, any given paid user is more valuable than an identical free user.
Frustratingly often overriding everything imposed by a designer and sticking to a nice font of black on off-white; (or very pale yellow on near black) does give better results.
Have you tried a mild skin antiseptic cream? I've used Savlon for this in the past (cetrimide & chlorhexidine gluconate are the active ingredients, in a white vanishing cream base). Doesn't block pores, but is effective at killing most of the bacteria and is soothing if you have aggravated the skin there somehow.
They can be reversed in real life as well - it happens on occasion.

In the case of the film, it would be exceptionally unlikely that the trades would be honoured anyway.
Yeah, looks like it's been changed.

There was originally some "arty" looking scroll bar that looked like it was hand-rolled out of images and javascript, and completely failed to have any of the many subtle features that native scrollbars have gained over the years.
Shameless plug: I made an app for that. It's called Scalar (http://scalarapp.com). It takes a different approach to handling calculations than Excel or Grid (abandons the table structure completely), but hey, unlike Grid founders I wasn't on Microsoft Excel team :)
Nobody will win the storage war
> Survival. We will go extinct at some point if we stay on Earth. The more spread out we are, the less likely any single catastrophe is to wipe out the entire race.

Indeed. Think of it as a really good remote backup plan. Colonizing another solar system would be an even better one.
I think traces of life become the biggest obstacle to a manned mission. The "preserve mars" crowd will form overnight.
Humans have no backup. Our curiosity aside, having an extra-terrestrial colony is an excellent reason to visit Mars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event
Have you tried filtered water? I find it tastes much better than most bottled water.
Sorry, I forgot that Hacker News is serious business.
People here also seems to take it far too literally. There are always exceptions, no matter how absolute the article words it.

But while rules are there to be broken, they are best broken when you are skilled enough to know when it works to do so.

Most people who will read that article are not going to be skilled enough at graphical design to be able to easily decide when breaking this "rule" is an improvement and when it makes things worse, and so will probably benefit from paying attention to it.

Those that do understand when breaking it is really an improvement should go ahead and do so when appropriate.

The problem of course is that far too many people think they're experts.
>>> Getting to Mars isn't actually that difficult, we already have a lot of the technical details worked out <<<

What I'm worried about aren't the mechanics of going there. It is the radiation. The Constellation program apparently planned to use high-density polyethylene to act as a shield in the case of a solar flare or any anomalous activity, but the trip would still expose any human being to large doses of radiation and the best methods for shielding are too heavy and hence cost too much right now.

Even if we set up a colony on mars that problem will be ever-present for anyone living there and constructing any long term colony would probably require large amounts of regolith, or maybe a tank of water repurposed as a shield (which might cause processing issues)

Hopefully solving for cost should make a lot of schemes possible, but I'm not so sure about that because there is an implicit requirement of other infrastructure that needs to be solved which no one seems to be tackling. (I might be wrong over here)
> Right, it's a big conspiracy.

It's not a conspiracy, it was deliberately released with a license designed to keep it out of the Linux kernel.
Brutal July heat a new U.S. record
My experience with people who use these kinds of products is that they seem to have acclimated to their own odor. One can acclimate pretty quickly to nearly any odor no matter how foul, so it isn't all that surprising.

They still don't smell nice, but they don't seem to notice it.
A carbon filter will pretty much fix that for you and give you bottle water quality.
Do you have any more details about the gambling app? You've piqued my interest. Feel free to send me an email (it's in my profile) if you don't want to share publicly.
The ingredient is diacetyl. I don't know what the exposure to it is that is necessary to show this link, but they talk about industrial exposure.

It also says that diacetyl is an ingredient in beer and wine. Just wanted to correct this: Diacetyl is a by-product of certain types of yeast fermenting. If the beer or wine is given a solid diacetyl rest, the yeast will often clean up most of that. It's especially prominent in ales (top-fermented beer). If you taste a buttery, oily taste at the backend of a beer, it's probably diacetyl.
Healy.
Oracle Calls on Google to Out Paid Bloggers
It's too bad your douchery nullifies the valid point you're making.
Thinkpad Carbon - Air Competitor
Agreed, pure white and black are jarring. Then again, black on white is, too.
If it wasn't for advertising, I never would have known that "previously loved" diamonds are inferior to blood diamonds. Or that man-made chemically pure diamonds are frauds and only mined diamonds have any value.
"Streamlined" and "lighter weight" are subjective phrases. I think the Gnome team are building what they would consider a streamlined interface, just their idea of what that is differs from some.

System resources are not much of an issue anymore, the amount of memory most window managers require compared with other applications is fairly negligible even with "heavyweight" Window managers. Unity+Nautilus together are using ~400MB/8GB on my Ubuntu 12.04 PC.

The hardcore "lightweight" WM fans only need a way to tile their terminal and XMonad already provides that.

With Ubuntu 12.04 every digital camera I've tried has just worked. I plug it in and and offers to import all of the photos for me straight away, no need for instructions or drivers.

Getting professional software would require either persuading enough of the big names in the business like Adobe , Steinberg , Avid etc to port their stuff to the platform or it would require Gnome contributors to create full equivalents for all of these programs from scratch with their already stretched resources so very impractical.

Creating an iPhoto type front end for GIMP seems a more achievable goal.
New Fossils Indicate Early Branching of Human Family Tree
Jimmy Stewart as Charles Lindbergh pitching to bankers in the movie "Spirit of St Louis:" "We have to know...We have to try."
Sounds like someone hit a nerve. Chill out guy!
I don't know if I'm just old school, but I prefer just to plug my devices in and drag files over. Seems fairly seemless to me.
White/black is jarring, yeah. Light grey/dark grey is better most of the time. Other factors that affect readability I usually tweak are `max-width` and `font-size`, 35ems and at least 16px, respectively (except for microdata stuff which I usually keep between 12px-14px). In general, though, I prefer the content having visual focus, as opposed to the negative having focus (even though black text isn't usually described as the negative of the background).
Ditto here - what could they possible be using that my Droid Incredible can't support...
Activated charcoal powder is the closest thing I've ever seen to pure black.
I've got CM7 on my N1, gave it new life. Trello app is compatible too.
14 year old earns engineering internship
Does btrfs solve any of these issues? And if so, how?
Schools create well-educated sheep.
The marginal cost of your copy is zero, though. The marginal cost of your coffee is nearly the entire price.

People seem to instinctively react to this in odd ways.
I haven't thought of every corner case but I would set up something like this:

You can track a user during a single session on a single site.

To track across multiple visits the user must set up an account of some sort.

To track across multiple sites the user must provide some kind of explicit permission.

Anonymize any session records that don't have this kind of permission.
The IP search is a great and super simple work around. Thanks a lot for that suggestions!
"I always have a gmail tab open."

GMail search is painfully slow (for me average seems to be about 5+ seconds) and is not that powerful (i.e. can't match substrings, etc.). I'm personally looking forward to using Google search ranking on my email. I can see using this instead of GMail search to save time.
broniegrammer?
The Atlantic covered this in July http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/banes-pl...

1. The exchange would likely reverse/cancel the trades
2. Puts protect the buyer (Bruce Wayne) against losses (resulting from prices lower than the strike price)
Search is basically becoming a modern version of Google Desktop.
Nice... was looking for something like this

Is the data going to be available in a structured way?
It think of trend tables, use counts, graphs, you know...
See Matt_Cutts' response below:

> That's right. The matches from Gmail are collapsed unless you specifically indicate intent with search keywords like "gmail" or "email."
Verify Domain using Cname records
Our new geo-distributed architecture speeds up A/B test loading times by 7x
Resources on Earth are limited, space has unlimited resources. So if we want to have abundance for all humans we must expand into space. It's that simple. And we can't bring everything back to Earth, so some have to leave Earth to enjoy those space resources.

I have written a little bit more about that in this blog post:
http://pioneersfestival.com/2012/04/contemporary-space-pione...
Also,this does not seem to be a market where small players are trying to unseat a large incumbent. Strategically, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox and Box are all in incredibly strong positions. Thus the market is unlikely to consolidate into one or two platforms for a long time. It may very well be that we see a similar pattern as we saw in evolution of PC platforms where it took decades before Mac, Windows and Linux emerged as the dominant standards. Even then, developers have had to work on cross platform compatibility for a while now.
Don't overestimate the smarts of Joe Public.
Wikipedia has a decent comparison here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Comparisons looks like both the BSD and native Linux port are on version 28.
We're starting out with the interview format but we definitely have plans to use the data in different ways.
Exactly.

Same argument applies for life extension, or any other radical change like that. Nobody forces you to follow in the wake of the pioneers. You can always just stay behind.
If by "sticking it to the man" you mean "creating a business model based on an open api and not the content in the platform the API uses," then I agree.

The problem with Twitter and Facebook is that they've moved away from supporting external developers into media companies (so the argument goes).

If that's true, then Twitter and Facebook are looking for the best interests of it's advertising partners like every media company (radio, television, print, etc.) rather than the consumers.

In the case of Facebook and Twitter, it means rolling out features that benefit the advertisers. Now, it is certainly possible that the features rolled out could benefit both sides, but the moment Twitter/Facebook has to make a decision between the two they'll pick the advertisers since that's how they butter their bread.

App.net, by contrast, only has one option which is make the best choices for the developers/users. In some sense, this is really more of a B-to-B venture than a B-to-C since, ideally, App.net focuses on the API and let's the developers build the robust applications.

Frankly, I like this idea.
Definitely definitely put that at the top of your front page!
Are you four years old?

You are behaving like a (very poorly behaved) four year old.
For me it was Unity. XFCE is exactly what I wanted.
It's not either/or.

Research from a distance at first. Telescopes, and so on.

Send robots after that. Let them dip their toes in the water first.

Finally, send people where it makes sense.
There's nothing that quite reaches 100%, but there are a few things that get very very close. I think the current best is to stand a bunch of nanotubes on end.
Brilliant Article .This made me read color theory

For starters, http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-...

http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mobile-design-tutorials...
I meant to exclude scripts when I said txt/docx/html and likes. I understand I wasn't clear enough, that is my fault.
No more than any version one of something is precluded from becoming complete.

Maybe you think you're making some sort of important point here. Or maybe you realize your comment is inane and you think it's witty. But (perhaps without realizing it) you and the people upvoting you represent one of the worst forces at work in the world. The people who ridicule new things when they first appear in incomplete form are one of the worst drags on innovation.

I think most people agree now that it's valid strategy, particularly in software, to launch a simple version one of something and then iterate rapidly. I'm constantly pushing founders to do that. And you know what's the biggest thing holding them back? The fear that people will make fun of the first thing they launch.