skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea, but it feels too much like a tech demo versus something I can actually use. The showstoppers that stood out to me are:

- "Try it now for free" is great for showing me the value prop but ultimately I want to see a pricing sheet. I'm not willing to invest a lot time into what I see as the quick/cheap solution (compared to a custom design) for my app's website without knowing A: how much it's going to cost and B: what the limitations are. I can see that smore is in beta so maybe you just don't want to scare people off with unfinalized pricing -- for me at least no price is much scarier.

- Building the page off of the app store content is a great idea. But I need a website before I launch my app. If you support that maybe you could do a better job showing me that as an option from the start. (I'd still like to use the same content as for iTunes connect)

I want to be able to focus on the app I'm working on and not the web landing page - but for me the stuff missing is too important for this to be an option yet. I do like the direction.
Agreed that it needs some real innovation, something better than this. Consider it just a start: the fact that the spiderable package is one of the first ones out means that it is something the Meteor team cares about trying to solve. It's certainly not perfect, but it paves the way for future iterations.
Does Twitter have a revenue problem or are people angry that they weren't consulted on how Twitter is making revenue?

I dislike ads in my stream and bad developer relations too. But the fact is they're making revenue. That's cool.
Victoria is absolutely beautiful. Bar none. But it's unofficial slogan is "Welcome to Victoria. For the newly wed and nearly dead!". Unfortunately, the newly wed can no longer afford 9x the average income to buy an average house. It is a very grey town.

As you've mentioned lots of well off individuals bidding up prices and a very conservative, risk averse climate.

As for the island creating a buzz? I don't think so, not in the competing with SV or NYC sense. I could certainly see the island serving a niche ecosystem though.

In fact, if the media could get over itself I think they could have a big part to play in growing that sort of environment.
A population living in fear is a population easily controlled. (Note that "terror" is a synonym to "fear"; now who's the real terrorist?) Also note: any opposition to the dictator in the nearby Belarus gets labelled "terrorists"; I assume the EU is envious of this capability?
Looking at the source, looks like he piped it through http://secret-wildwood-1014.herokuapp.com/, which looks like it does basic image to ascii conversions when you give it a url. Not sure if he spun that up, but it's cool in that now the app can be made all in js
most knowledgeable people disagree with him. for an intro look at his wikipage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lustig or i.e. http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...
I learned about it some time ago in another HN thread, but the BBC series The Planets gives great, concise looks at much of the interplanetary research efforts by the US and the USSR. There are some bits of information that are no longer understood as true, and the series lacks some recent information since it was produced in the late 90s, but it really is worth watching.

It's an eight-part series (each episode being about 45 minutes), and the first three episodes were especially remarkable for the descriptions of what scientists have accomplished, the interviews with some key people, and the film/images shown. I can watch those over and over, and each time I'm struck by how amazing it is that people have accomplished things like this. To me, there's a wonder in it all, from the fact that there have been these achievements and that I've lived at a time to bear witness.

I know it's listed on Amazon and through Netflix for anyone who is interested. My thanks go to whomever it was around here who informed me that this series exists.
> Lend Royalties

I have the bad feeling that it's somewhere in the range of Spotify royalties where Lady Gaga gets ~$100/month.
This is similar to a strategy to prevent email spam. Sender pays the Receiver 5 cents for each email they send, unless the Receiver has the sender in their address book.

The Receiver can also after reading a message from a new email, choose to waive the 5 cents.
There's a trial for the Mac version, I recommend it highly. The iOS version is cheaper than the Mac version if that floats your boat a little more. I won't try to imagine a world where I would pay $50 dollars for every app that I use but I can imagine one where I pay that much for something that is very well done and helps me do things I need to do.

It's time to realize that software is worth something. The flood of the 99 cent apps in the App stores have really ruined software development for people who can't price their apps higher because they wont sell and they can't make money off of the way they price them now. I bought Things almost 5 years ago and I've never once regretted paying as much as I did. I tried to switch away from it for a while but kept coming back.
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Good story.

I recall that Fortres had an admin password common to all installations, so that their support people could access and troubleshoot machines. The "quick and dirty" way to get past the app, I guess.

Our staff also didn't find "net send *" very amusing...
Awesome idea to have a tl;dr for video!
"You're selling a service that every competent web developer can build."

As people are realizing that lot of these websites do not follow good security when it comes to user storage, slowly the trend might be to use standard third party systems. Agreed that most users do not know what bcrypt means. But most users do care if their passwords get hacked becuase it was easy to do so (clear text storage etc.).So yes, you can build a user system easily but can you make it trustworthy, secure ? So again, I think this idea probably sounds a little crazy in 2012 but you never know 5 years down the road.
When you're doing a project like this, you want less, not more risk.

Changing controller design would be a foolhardy adding of risk. Something very familiar is a great choice for it
Agile for Startups
Given that it rants about people coming to conclusions based on scant evidence, it's more than a little ironic that it comes to a lot of conclusions based on scant evidence.
Or aalib <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib>, which I my opinion gives better results than libcaca for monochrome images. You might also enjoy their demo program bb (sudo apt-get install bb).
Is this training you're to attend or lead? It kinda sounds like traiining you're giving, but I'm not sure.

Even so, what I'm hearing is that a plan was made for you that did not include you in the decision-making process; that given a choice, you would have just said "how about a different w'end?" and everything would ahve been copacetic.

It's probably beyond time, but I would suggest talking to your boss, or the scheduler (whoever that may be) and see if you could work something out. You may be surprised.
To be fair, that is a particularly idiotic idiom.
Uhm...is it strange that comments are no where to be found in the source?
Thanks for the feedback. Right now we are "silo-ing" all of our client's authentication data. We have gotten feedback that some people would like to be able to share authentication credentials (like Facebook, etc.) -- but it's not clear everyone wants that just yet.
Raleigh will soon have its own business startup 'Hub'
> When technology inventors have to explain themselves to content producers in order to not have their product killed, something has gone horribly wrong with the world.

Not if those technology "inventors" want to make money from said content.
My highschool "hack" involved downloading the contents of our school's website hosted at ourschooldistrict.com domain, buying the same name at ourschooldistrict.us, and then rehosting so we could put up any press releases we wanted. We wrote up a press release saying that two district high school names were changing to honor our very-hated superintendent. Then we started sending it to friend on AIM saying "omg have you seen this."

Within hours, everyone on my buddy list had their own "petition" in their away message and after checking traffic, we found we had thousands of unique hits.

Most of the credit goes to my friend who actually executed the tech part and was temporarily suspended when the inundation of angry emails supposedly hurt the school board's server.

Just checked and the school district still does not own the .us domain so this "hack" would be reproducible.
>If your effort spent on tools speeds up your time-to-stuff, then the assumptions embodied in 1) are invalid.

Effort spent on tools != effort spend on adding some feature I'd like on a programmer's editor. I could just switch to something better.

Plus, you probably overestimate how more productive a tool like a programmer's editor makes you.

The truth is an editor can make editing less repetitive, but it's not like an order of magnitude better. Not even 2x or 3x more productive. Thing is, there are very successful programmers using all kinds of editors, from Emacs and Vim to Eclipse (notch), to Textmate, to Notepad++. And tons of classic unix programs, including C and Unix itself, were written in ed or similar primitive editors.
OK... I'm not saying apps should be free. A dev should be able to make money from their hard work. But you wonder why people will throw down $4 for a coffee without a second thought yet resist a $2 app. These are my reasons.

The $4 coffee is a known. I will use it. It is compatible with my mouth. I will like it. If there is something wrong with it, I am likely to get a replacement.

The $2 app is unknown. It might not run well on my device. It might be lacking some important (to me) feature. It might be broken. It might be total crap. Outside of the return window, I am not likely to get my money back. If broken, I have no idea when (or even if) the creator will fix it.
...I am not advocating cheap keyboards. I am saying that you cannot offset paying too much for a cheap keyboard by using it more often.
It's 100% more than they get when a physical book is lent.
Interesting read! Thanks for the info, Kelly!
Flat-Faced Early Humans Confirmed—Lived Among Other Human Species
Honestly, the font had nothing to do with my decision - I just trust NASA.
How about a falsely held, but unreasonable belief?
And Joel didn't even hit on having financial independence. He didn't need to ship and didn't.
Maybe now I can add my own "replace" button in the Find Dialog of TextMate 2. The only button there for me is "replace all"

Does anyone else have that issue?
So, still $0?
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Edit: Made using toilet[1], in case anyone wants to try.

[1] http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet
I absolutely agree with "[...] I pay that much for something that is very well done and helps me do things I need to do." I'm also on your side as to what the App Store has done to software's perceived value.

Todo lists just don't happen to be something I value enough to shell 50$ for. I might look into the iOS version though, I like portable todo lists a lot more.
Polyfilling HTML5 and CSS3 with Modernizr
As an aside. I love using Hojoki to get a daily digest of all activity across the SaaS products we use. ( Github, Pivotal Tracker and Highrise ) all in one nice mail.
"brilliantness"? Are you kidding? Have you worked with vimscript? Oh well, at the risk of feeding a troll...

Textmate introduced a huge number of features that now show up in other editors. Snippets, command-t, a tightly integrated community-driven extension system.

Textmate was a lightweight editor for lightweight dynamically typed languages. It was the perfect contrast to Eclipse and Java, and was instrumental in changing the status quo for web development (for the better, imho).
How did they control for whether the fonts are actually installed on the participants' computers or not?

Also, did they control for desktops vs smartphones vs tablets? It's reasonable to hypothsize the device's screen (and zoom level on mobiles) affects typeface rendering and its perception.

All in all, intersesting and worthy of more work, but I want more to believe the result more.
An Experience in Confusopoly
Communication is not limited to simply laying out facts in FAQs. There are more effective ways to communicate quickly and cleanly what you do, calm folks down, then explain the details.
The dark underbelly of Silicon Valley recruiting (and there is a silver lining)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistake_(criminal_law)#Honestly...
Those are from vastly different source pictures, I think. The "original" was from mostly thumbnails and a couple full-res pics, I believe, whereas the "fixed" one is from the high-res pics they just released today. They just had a press conference at 1pm ET/12pm CT today about the debris on top of Curiosity, which you can see in those images.

Either way, that's a really nice stitch job!
I will readily agree that Textmate has value. Great value to some users.

My only issue is with what I saw as a suggestion that if you are dissatisfied with a purchase then you can offset that by using that purchase a lot.

Presumably owenjones thinks he paid too much for textmate/textmate2, and presumably was not planning on using textmate/textmate2 for less than two years when he thought it was a good deal. Pointing out that he should be satisfied because he used his purchase for two years so far seems very silly to me.

If you use something for longer than its expected lifespan, then I can see it. If you buy a car expecting it to last 100k miles but it lasts 200k miles instead, then yes you should feel satisfied with your purchase even if you feel you were being ripped off at the time by the dealer. -- Now, if you were planning on 100k miles, and got 100k miles, then simply getting the usage you were planning on getting at purchase time really shouldn't make you feel better about being overcharged.
> I just hope people don't complain about it being a bit samey after a while.

Hopefully Curiosity will find some cool stuff once she starts ambling around.
Exploding Confetti Maracas!
The issue isn't law enforcement though. He wasn't breaking any laws. He was just being harassed. It costs money to defend against a million lawsuits, even if they all get thrown out of court. The site was basically DDoS'd via the legal system. He wasn't even riding a grey area.
I think it'll be a temporary thing. Look at Bethesda, for example - they experimented with crap DLC like horse armor, but then quickly turned to solid, fairly priced mini-expansions.

Age of Empires Online had to overhaul its pricing. Microsoft Flight crashed and burned (har har) after trying to sell new planes and areas bit by bit.

If Zynga does fail in a serious way, it should hasten the demise of the "social gaming" business model.
I know it's pretty universally ignored, but Apple's guidelines are that you should not use the white device frames for app marketing.
One involved getting people on the Moon. That is a significant difference.

You can bet your skippy that if ever someone steps foot on Mars, there will be books, conspiracies, movies, etc.
Never mind the cost. They are proposing that you run your app, with its 3rd-party jquery/facebook/twitter/google code loaded dynamically over non-SSL connections on a platform with filesystem-write-access to your server.
What about the pseudo-anonymous accounts that would suffer from having a real, subpoenable, credit card attached to them?
I've done genetic algorithms. Yes they employ the concept of evolution but it's something that can be understood in under an hour, purely from a programming perspective. Knowing the theory of evolution isn't required for someone to be skilled at machine learning algorithms. That's not to say schools shouldn't teach the theory of evolution; they should, alongside relativity and other things that can open one's mind but have virtually zero value for competing globally.
Open source productivity suite
Easy, straightforward advice on running a project the agile way.
If you haven't heard of it, ST2 has something called "Vintage Mode" which adopts a fairly large subset of the Vi/m commands. It will completely change the command set of ST2 and gets close enough to Vi for most of my needs. Notably absent is the search/replace syntax of vim, but ST2's works well enough I suppose.
I'm not that great of a writer. My papers were usually in the B range and I almost never got an A. Then I started using LaTeX and now my papers are used as examples in classes.
I second the other commenter here. I love the way settings are managed in ST2.
Is there a specific order that I can apply these techniques?
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I said he was one of the commanders of a guerilla army committed to the destruction of a country he now is Deputy Prime Minister of. If he is no longer a member of the Army Council (he denies ever being so, with as much believability as Clinton's denial that he did not inhale pot) it is because the political role he was playing became more important, and military activity was jeopardizing that work. Sinn Fein still seek a united Ireland, but are trying to accomplish it through political means.

This is the power of dialogue. You talk, you talk, you keep talking. You deal with the less extreme popular factions (analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDLP), but the key word in that sentence is popular: an agreement with an organization with no backing in the community is an agreement with no-one. You do NOT commit to something and then completely disregard it, because then your word becomes worthless, and no-one believes anything you say ever again.

I do not know the solution. No-one does. But attempting to push the Palestinians into the sea is not it.
http://freecode.com/projects/jp2a < I use this in the console sometimes. Nice just to check the orientation of a photo or something, then e.g. rotate w/convert.
How to build a startup marketing plan
Rebate for liquidity is entirely different. So is retail price improvement (aka sub-penny pricing).

Retail order flow is sold to a wholesaler like Nite who matches it internally. They are allowed (best execution) to give you the price at the NBBO during a 1 second window. For less active stocks, the NBBO price can change 1,000/second or more. For all stocks, the NBBO price will be slower than the direct feed price. This latency and differential makes it a risk free trade (so long as you don't accidentally release your test code into production: see http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3525.html)

There is no way to prove what prices existed on all markets at the time your trade was executed, meaning it's on the honor system. So this depends on your trust in Wall Street to give you the best deal.

BTW, we recently added support for linux.
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Anyone know where one can find free (as in public domain or permissible for commercial usage) hi-def photos of outer space? (eg Hubble, other telescopic photos)
Inside Google's new London Headquarters
Funny that you did it this way - I just wrote a single byte using 'o' directly from the prompt, which was enough to ruin the checksum and cause the bios to reset to defaults.
We submitted our PayPal application in January and it has not been either approved or rejected at this time. So, yes, it does take a long time, but no, we can't use PayPal. Not today, anyway.
> Isn't it absurd that someone would consider ignoring all of those points about technical details and user experience of free software because of license issues with other "free" software?

It depends on perspective. I think it's ridiculous that someone would even put out a whole distro that's free and useful, and I am really grateful for that.

> why would I use a different system that prohibits incorporating all this valuable free software?

In my case it's simple: I don't have the time or energy to put out a distro that conforms to everything that I want.
Well in that case, you've got big issues with the science curriculum, and that might be a better place to start...
Pretty poor investigative journalism in my opinion... No testing, or planning to scope them out... just one email, and he can "honestly say" that they don't do it. Weak.
Which is cheaper: from LA to NY via rail, or NY to LA via rail? Oh, I forgot to include a trip to/from China in the problem.

I also forgot to include the truck (frightening or otherwise) :-)
What would you suggest in this case?
That's a possibility. The FARK thread is here http://www.fark.com/comments/7259728/Stitched-together-by-a-... and you're correct, he doesn't say that's the original (and it does explain some of the differences between the two) but he does call the first one: "what the common folk got to see". Regarding the stitching, when asked, he said it was a friend's proprietary software....
Here's a stupid idea: let people buy "badges" that appear next to their name. Kind of like "verified", but to show support for their favourite celebrity/band/whatever. There are some pretty intense fanbases on Twitter.
Note: I am NOT claiming this is easy. It's incredibly hard. But nothing else works.
A simple way to develop and pitch your next company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship

The end goal of the generation ship would be to colonize a planet in a far flung solar system. I would imagine that with the number of planets in existence, we could find one that was more hospitable than mars. This would also provide a more robust 'backup' for our species, in the case that the extinction event was solar system wide.

Once again, I think Mars is a good stepping stone (for reasons that you mention), but I also imagine that a lot of the technology that would allow us to establish a sustainable colony on Mars would also allow us to develop robust generation ships.
I agree. Making me think about how much I'd have to pay made me think negatively about the service.

Plus, it is unclear too. It says Traction package is for additional users, so my expectation is that it would be $9/Mo, not $10.
Am I just missing the sarcasm in this article? How on earth is "We can now honestly say that Godaddy is not involved with domain name 'front running'" a reasonable conclusion from that one sentenced email? The sender is someone we'd expect to deny this.

Edit: The author has since edited the post. The part I quote was a direct copy-paste of the last sentence from the original version. He's since made a half-hearted attempt to qualify this.
The better question: does GoDaddy offer data services that allow other parties to check anonymized domain availability search histories?
$14 million/year is of little consequence to Twitter in the big scheme of things.