skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've disastrously misunderstood what Colin is doing.

Colin "gets away" with "picodollar pricing" because he is deliberately segmenting away most of his customer base. I am not entirely sure why he is doing that, but he has made a strategic decision in the short term to make less money in order to build his service up more slowly and, I presume, carefully. He exclusively wants the kind of customers who will not be annoyed with this annoying price model; in other words, the kind of customer that has time to reason through the idiosyncratic pricing scheme of a new backup service.

Unless slowing the growth of your own service is one of your goals, do not mistake what Colin is doing here with a pricing strategy that works in the general case.
Impressive design, both mechanical and graphic. Does anyone know who produced the video?
Facebook lets you announce you're expecting a baby
Have tried Iris for myself - it's not something that would be worth even installing. Sometimes I envy Apple for Siri but hopefully, something good will reach Android in the upcoming period.
That's amazing, so the matrix was not that silly after all.
I understand that the Apple community is not unique in this regard (I once had a Blackberry Curve user threaten me with violence for insinuating that their phone wasn't a modern smartphone). The point of my argument was specifically that the reactions from this kind of news was bad for the Apple community merely because the Apple community is what the topic is about. I'm specifically calling out the Apple community separate from those who just use Apple products, as I define the Apple community to be the Apple enthusiasts and those who make their living in part or whole due specifically to Apple products (and wouldn't be able to or would be unwilling to do the same work on non-Apple devices). I even partially called out in my post that other companies could be affected by the same mindset.

The reason Apple is at hand in this argument is because Apple is high profile with a very divisive community of both supporters and detractors, and as such has the ability to capture the news on a broader level. It'd be hard to argue that the Hotmail community is negatively impacted by chain emails, for example. Though you are right, this mindset crosses the gap between all products and ways of life.
'Google Now' pawns Siri. I really hope Apple opens up Siri's API before it is too late. Remember, Google has 14 years of data and Apple needs to beat Google in terms of implementation alone.
See who's not following you back on app.net
Oh, I don't doubt it. But it's still not 'direct' if there's a middleman.

I don't disapprove of using middlemen. They exist for a reason. I just disapprove of buzzword-y claims that aren't true. Tell it like it is. It's still just as exciting.
If only you had read/quoted just one more sentence, you would find we agree. :)
Another complication is navigating through the museum without violating the personal space of the visitors. I guess they could only be allowed in the after hours but then how do you prevent the experience from deteriorating into high-tech bunch bumper cars.
Maybe even something crazy like teleportation!
Deep Dive: Java’s Lock-Free Concurrency
People call it teleportation because it moves the state of a system from one place to another, without going through the intermediate positions. I'm not sure where this idea came from that teleportation has to be "instantaneous." From special relativity, we know that the word "instantaneous" isn't even well-defined, except in a fixed reference frame.

Basically, quantum teleportation takes the quantum state of a system, measures it. The measurement destroys the system and converts it into classical information that can be sent over a phone line. The information, once received, can be used to reconstruct the initial state.

If you think of a classical system, as computer scientists usually do, this is not very surprising. It seems obvious that in principle you could look very carefully at a complicated classical system, a human being for example, write down all of its details down to the positions of the individual atoms as a long classical string, and send this information down a phone line to reconstruct the person at the other end. It is only surprising because quantum teleportation works with quantum systems, and we know that there is no physical way of extracting all the details of a quantum system as a long classical string (Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, etc.).
Oh yeah, repeats of Friends, Two and a Half Men etc. seem to help a lot. It's probably like a balance of getting some entertainment when I'm stuck on a problem and already knowing what's going to happen so that it's not too distracting.
It's a shame you're not here to argue about what Muslims believe because you obviously are extremely confused in that respect.
I noticed a few of articles on Hacker News has been about math recently. According to Google Trends, math is also rising in popularity, especially in US.

I think math is even more appealing to programmers. You are allowed to assume that certain things happen. You may define a set on the fly and all of a sudden, the set is populated without pressing a single key. Let me try, {prime numbers}. There, I got an infinitely large data structure. I hope HN doesn't crash after posting this comment.

As programmers, we put abstract ideas into implementations. Math seems to forgo all of that. Everything just happens magically as long as your mind can wrap around it and you have a precise definition for it. No debugging. Isn't this a dream?

So I am wondering if there's a community of programmers who have turned to devote their time to math. Like the video said, computer frees you from computation. Hence, it makes sense for math's popularity to rise, especially since we got more people interested in programming. Math seems like the natural next step. I don't have any hard data about this, just my intuition.
Microsoft Details Windows 8 Touchpad Gesture Support
You sure? You can get H-1B for people with no work lined up! Those damn desi firms.
The flip side is, is it such a crime for blogs to publish these things that seem obviously fake? Even when they qualify it?

We're not talking the New York Times here. We're talking Apple-fan blogs.

If I forward you a link by email of something interesting but probably fake, do you get offended by me sending you something possibly fake? No, if you are interested in Apple stuff, then you probably find it interesting, even if fake.

Casual blogs are the equivalent of passing along interesting stuff found on the internet, fake or not.
It's unclear to me how this was calculated. But the Obama campaign estimates were based on some assumptions:
1) That Romney's ultimate budget would not increase the deficit
2) That the base tax rate would not be raised under Romney
3) Finding the necessary cuts to tax deductions* to satisfy the previous two conditions.
(basically, estimating the tax changes necessary to satisfy all campaign promises made by Romney).

So it's unclear to me if the data being presented on this website is only comparing how the base rate would change without considering how the overall rate would change when including the various deductions.

Secondly, another reason for this difference, is that the Obama campaign usually talks about the middle class (married family with income ~$50,000) while the default settings for this website are for a single person making $100,000 (i.e. typical young professional in computer science).

*I don't know if this is the right word, but if you are married with children, or bought a home within a certain time frame you would normally get a small refund or deduction to your tax rate for having met these criteria. So cuts would be made to the various refunds/deductions, ultimately increasing your overall rate.
See slide #8 and the notes for slide #8.
I noticed because I wanted to click to the front page (coderwall.com), but when I scrolled back to the top, the banner was covering the 'coderwall' logo/link/branding. Had their been a button to close it, it would have been preferable.
I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for clarification if you don't understand something.
We have used every kind of poison known to humanity to make cockroaches die. Now, they are dead. So, we blame it on the cell phones.

Logic, we love you.
"Great"? Are we looking at the same site? It looks lke this on my iPhone .. https://moo.mx/grabs/31902728.png
Trapwire surveillance system exposed in document leak
Fusion stops at iron.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/nucsyn.html...

So I'm not terribly worried
HNSearch data is about ~15min behind HN.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/hnsearch/...
Yes, managing files (especially documents) with tags is a good idea in many cases, but not all cases.

I had an idea for a tag-based file manager for Windows, I even have registered a domain which I think is cool -

taganizer.com = tag + organizer

But I didn't go for that idea for various reasons, I'm now working on http://liveditor.com.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain (attributed)
Did my comment not cover something?
Sourcing dynamically-generated Javascript from some opaque randomized URL that plugs into an entire giant Rails application that nobody has ever assessed and that sees an "agile" deployment once every three hours, solely in order to get "dynamic A/B testing metrics" or "live chat": JUST FINE.

Sourcing static content from a static web server run by a security expert in order to segregate your application's secrets from those of Stripe: TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE.
This really reminds me of the game Telephone. Someone whispers a message to the person on their right, who whispers it to the person their right until the circle is closed and the last person whispers the message back to the original sender. Usually, the returning message sounds very different than what the sender sent.

What we're really seeing is the distortion effect the further any statement gets from its source. Someone misunderstands a concept, doesn't understand an idiom used in the statement, or tries to interpret what is being said into their own lens. End result being the statement gets changed from the original. The further the statement goes the higher percentage chance of the telephone effect kicking in.

One could probably do a study, for instance, of game console releases and see the same effect taking place. The first level rumor might be "Look at this cool Xbox809090 faceplate from the factory in China!!" and the tertiary article published in a mainline news article might read "New XBOX Set to shoot lasers out of new faceplate!!!!".

tl;dr The further a message gets from the originator, the higher the chances of it being altered.
> High frequency mobile communication is to be blamed for cockroaches’ disappearance

Is there any study backing this?
It's quite possible that someone'd stumble across your site who just learned PHP and goes "sounds good, I'll drop it in".

I'm not sure that someone would be automatically wrong to do that. People should be aware that using paymentiframe.com means trusting me to not steal their customers' credit cards and trusting me to keep the site secure, but if someone makes an informed decision to place that trust in me, I can't say that they're necessarily wrong to do so.

As I said: Tools, not policy.
Working on HealthTech? Read: How my friends helped me lose weight.
If you're new to common lisp, it will take you 10x longer to implement the feature you want than if you use technologies you're more familiar with.
"I think this story is getting more press than it really deserves."

Don't you think that was the whole point of the authors in the first place? I mean, here we are, talking about this again! Even if we all end up flaming the authors, here we are.

There is no such thing as bad press. I don't believe for a second it was some "experiment". Please.. it's a press stunt. And it worked.
This is a trend that may actually reverse in the next couple of years. JQuery's popularity has inspired a lot of new DOM API methods now present in modern browsers which are starting to make it somewhat redundant. Once IE8 is out of your support picture the major DOM API normalization issues (events in particular) are out of the way.

The only reason I can think of to use JQuery beyond that is that it's a dependency for a lot of libraries you use, you're supporting something other than Android/iOS on mobile or you really, really like the extras like animate, their powerful event system, extend and/or their ajax methods.

That said, it's popularized a lot of useful coding methods, showed everybody how normalization should be done, and demonstrated the power of closures/factory functions to keep objects very light-weight in spite of having a ton of functionality associated with them. It's not just for client-side-illiterate noobs. Studying JQ under the hood can teach a lot about JQ.

The newer JS libraries/frameworks/tools are concerning themselves more with how to implement highly complex UI in an app-maintainable way.
Ask HN: How to build a Codiqa-like interface?
Any good tutorials to learn how to build one?
Infographic is a bit dodgy. Romney's claim is that his partially outlined tax plan is revenue neutral but this thing shows just about everyone paying the same or less. That's just silly.

TPC's comparison which the Obama calculator[1] is based on clearly shows a huge increase in the middle class burden.

[1] http://www.barackobama.com/tax-calculator/
AngularJS is the ONLY web front end framework that makes me exciting, maybe because I'm from a Delphi background ;)
wait, didn't we actually want to get rid of them?
There is so much more to it then this, but one can dream :)
Interesting to note that McAfee Web Gateway is blocking nixeus.com for being a spam domain. I don't have any evidence of their spamming, and I understand that McAfee's filters are occasionally (often) wrong. I just thought it was interesting.
Homomorphic encryption - compute with data you can't read
Allzone+-+
You're right, except I think it's ok anyway because there's an expectation with Kickstarter projects that they will take time to actually produce.

People know it will be a long wait for the final product, but get excited over the process itself - it's fun, they feel some ownership of not just the product but the process, the ideas are cool, and the whole crowdfunding thing is still a novelty.

Then there's the doldrums, but that's ok because it's expected, then additional rounds of excitement as milestones are reached, and finally the crescendo at the end.

Expectations are managed from start to finish, the only thing the project absolutely must to do is deliver something worthy of the original mission statement. It also helps if they keep a constant stream of communication and updates flowing to their supporters. Seeing the progress is almost as emotionally rewarding as getting the final product.
Global Warming is a Theory that's of very high consensus in the scientific community. We're not talking Theory of Evolution levels of crazy acceptance, but far higher levels of acceptance than many things you act on every day.

Both are proven to a far higher level than many semiconductor models used to build chips you are probably using to make that post.

The news media however, does not report the consensus (on either of those), I am sorry they have mislead you.

[1] Source http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/publications/downloads/boykoff04-gec...
Spreading false rumors, especially a potentially damaging one.
I was wondering how these numbers were possibly calculated given how little the Romney campaign has actually detailed about any of his "plans" including those for taxes. Everything his campaign has talked about seems very ambiguous.
There's no provision for escaping things inside an <xmp> tag. From the HTML 2.0 spec: "no markup except the end-tag […] is recognized" http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.5.2...
intereting use case of breking down video production to task level and delegating/crowdsourxing it. However, how do you stndardize production qulity
jQuery Mobile is really nice as well, give it another 7 years and it will be on a lot of mobile sites
What kind of retail outlet are you referring to here?
What is there to say that hasn't already been said? On Reddit and HN, at least, this horse could not be any more deceased.
With Safety, Alcoa Showed Its Mettle
Your name is familiar...You're the fellow that does security consulting for bingo card sites right? :)
LiveLoop (http://getliveloop.com) is a PowerPoint plugin that delivers most of the benefits described here (real-time, supports offline, and arbitrarily shareable), with the benefit of working from directly within Microsoft Office. Any number of collaborators can see each other's edits in true keystroke-by-keystroke real-time.

Anyone who signs up from this comment and sends me a feedback email at amal@getliveloop.com gets 2 free years of service.

Disclaimer: CEO of LiveLoop.
I see what happened. Apple, attempting to mitigate the damage caused when drawings of their new incompatible screw design leaked, has found a couple of patsies to claim it was a hoax.
Well, I built a site in early 2009, worked fine with 1.3, 1.4 broke a nice feature, and 1.8 makes the site unusable. I guess it's 1.7 until eternity.
Out of curiosity, what are the right 20 people for you? All the people I can think of are already on Twitter, Facebook or G+...and I don't see them talking to me more because I'm on App.net.
They thank their investors in the post. Please don't present your opinions as if they are fact.

As an angel investor, I rarely see "the team just got jobs and we're calling it acquisitions" and more often "we paid off the investors minimally and got good job offers."
This reminds me of http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion71.html, where a number of prominent mathematicians and computer scientists are traced to an Israeli mathematical magazine for young people. These are certainly not kids who had no calculation skills. They wrestled with difficult problems and developed great problem-solving skills that have served them in their careers.

Incidentally, Zeilberger is definitely an advocate of more computer use in math, but not in the same way. See almost any of his Opinions: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/OPINIONS.html
The codiqa developers might have a clue ;) http://blog.codiqa.com/2012/05/how-we-use-backbone-js-to-bui...
No, just potentially their credit card information.
But here's the thing -- will the twenty people you want on your perfect network be willing to pay $50/year to be on it and make your network perfect?

Bear in mind that each of them has 20 people they want on THEIR perfect network.

"The internet treats cost as damage and routes around it."

I think the key trick would be creating a "free" network that lets you pay (a very small amount) for key niceness, e.g. freedom from ads and spam. Even better, take an existing free service and piggyback a paid service on top of it that adds useful value. (I'm thinking here of email where you pay $0.01 to send a message per Bill Gates's excellent idea for eliminating most spam.)
I think much of the push back to App.net comes from not understanding the context in which Dalton et al. is building the platform.

Frankly, it wasn't until Dalton linked to PG's write-up of his PyCon talk that I really began to understand what his intentions were.

The write-up: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI
IFixit Pro Tech Toolkit Provides Enough Stuff to Fix Nearly any Gadget
I guarantee that if we develop AI good enough to simulate any given's person's actual responses, the first most popular use-case will be people trying to figure out how to successfully talk their significant others into a threesome.
800,000 dollars spent on a re-actionary tool. Thanks for spending my money. I don't appreciate it.

Camera's don't prevent crimes, they simply record the crime being committed. If you're going to blow up the US Capitol building, do you really care if you're recorded?

Source: http://www.notbored.org/cameras-not-effective.html
Diigo had this functionality in say 2010, and somehow it doesn't seem to have taken off. Anyone knows why?
Yes. The key assumption in Obama's infographic is that "Romney eliminates all tax benefits, except those for savings and investment". To the best of our knowledge, Romney has only indicated that he will cut the expanded refundability of the Child-Tax Credit, and the earned income tax credit (EITC) - which our analysis includes. Our analysis is based on the publicly available information on their respective plans. We make no 'assumptions' to fill in gaps.

We note though that the Romney plan does not address how his proposal will be funded and reference the $2.8 Trillion revenue shortfall his plan creates.
Also, I like to add a test for something every time someone reports a bug, to make sure there are no regressions (specially if it's a security problem). It also helps reproducing the bug and documenting it.
Have you read Ryan's budget from last year? He totally wants to change Medicare, and now that he's on the ticket, he may get Romney to do it, especially if they don't look like they stand a chance at a 2016 re-election.

Ryan's budget and then follow on inclusion on this ticket might permanently kill the ability of the Republican party to elect someone to the presidency, if seniors (who vote primarily Republican) cross to the Democratic side of the ticket for their votes to protect their medicare. (Once someone has voted for candidates in both parties, they are considerably more likely to cross over and do so again in future elections).

Unemployment will most certainly be different between them.
The corrollary is, you need a way to force the kids to do stuff they don't want to do. That's what corporal punishment was for.
How is your programming experience overall? I'd suggest learning ruby first, rails later.
I don't really get the point of coffeescript at all tbh. JS is one of the most flexible languages in heavy use right now.
How can I be sure that it is static? And if it is static today, who's to say it won't be static tomorrow? What if the website's domain expires, and somebody snaps it up and puts something in its place? What if cperciva sells the domain to someone else?

I am not endorsing the use of third-party JavaScript on someone's payment page. I am also not endorsing the use of serving your payment form inside of a third-party iframe hosted on paymentiframe.com. I am not sure why you consider this opinion to be false.
I add them manually, state by state. I'm about 1/4 of the way thought (there are thousands). Regular users can add them too, but in practice nobody does.
Repeated from below: The key assumption in Obama's infographic is that "Romney eliminates all tax benefits, except those for savings and investment". To the best of our knowledge, Romney has only indicated that he will cut the expanded refundability of the Child-Tax Credit, and the earned income tax credit (EITC) - which our analysis includes. Our analysis is based on the publicly available information on their respective plans. We make no 'assumptions' to fill in gaps.

We note though that the Romney plan does not address how his proposal will be funded and reference the $2.8 Trillion revenue shortfall his plan creates.
Last time I was in a student dorm in Saint Petersburg (3 years ago), cockroaches were in great abundance. However, in any remotely hygienic environment I haven't seen them ever in my life.

I suspect, this is mostly due to usage of powerful chemicals.
Also, you can't view some answers anonymously anymore (blurred out a la expertsexchange.com). Seems they are desperate for new users...
There are TROLLS on the INTERNET who like to HARASS people? Stop the presses!
Did someone come across any stats about markdown adoption/acceptance among regular users over richtext editors?
I think that is a list of conjectures.