skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a general lesson: whenever someone criticizes something you've built, be extremely polite and you'll deflate their ill-conceived anger at you. Several times I've received angry emails about a (free) web site I run, like "your site is sh*t", or "I give you a D", and I look for whatever's legitimate about their complaints. If there's nothing worth doing based on their complaints, then I just thank them for their feedback and say I'm sorry it didn't do what they wanted. None of those people has ever written me a second time.

So bravo to mbs348 for ignoring mikemarotti's use of "bullshit" and "lazy" and just getting out of his comments that you could improve your captions.
In failure to deliver my sentiment in proper wording (and I've scratched the written few times), I'll just quote one of my personal heroes:

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
~ Frank Zappa
Giving a full proof that takes language semantics into account is very difficult. I think it isn't a practical way to verify programmes but maybe it'll be in future.
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The rumor goes Pinochet secretly helped Britain during the Falkland islands war. Because of this, there was no way the British government would allow anyone to get their hands on him.
I just want to point out that I first mis-parsed the name of the technology as "wif islam".
doesn't work for my on campus wifi. any requirements on the wifi network? My phone is htc one x.
This looks beautiful. I'll download it tonight and mess around with it. One suggestion from the video and gallery:

Everything looks like very nicely laid out title cards that don't really hold much information. Does the actual app allow for more data if needed? I know we all hate bullet-pointed PowerPoint, but the inclusion of things like charts and graphs, quotes, paragraphs of text, etc are sometimes needed in real business presentations. If the app does allow for this sort of thing, then the video maybe should be updated to show some more variety. Otherwise, it might be something to think about for the next release.

Anyway, it looks great! Good work guys.
Well the US is not exactly a country to get on the wrong side of. It's pretty clear the US never really went to bat for the guy either, not wanting to be on the wrong side of China. Britain and Ecuador have no need to maintain good relations so it's an entirely different kettle of fish.
It's actually based on the ambient Wi-Fi signature of the airwaves around you. There is no image recognition involved!
Hey Makr.io, don't let the haters get you down.
Air is still there and supported?

The flash player app is gone though
From my understanding, Facebook is not owned by a lot of institutional investors and asset managers. If you look at the 'Inst. own' metric in Google finance, it says 7%, which is fairly low. I could be misinterpreting this however? Can someone confirm this?
Heh. Not the first time it's happened :P
Don't do dumb domain names
Not everyone has time to watch videos, especially at work. A simple text description would work a lot better.
As a junior in high school, I think the notion that our generation is entitled or that we simply put in a perfunctory effort and coast through the education system expecting jobs on the other end is entirely fallacious. We're all fairly realistic about educational/occupational complex: work your ass off in high school, go to a college with, and get a degree with, a high ROI (even if it's not what you really want), work your ass off some more, and count yourself lucky if you can get an unpaid internship, much less a salaried job.

I find it absurd that people think students expect to be handed jobs on a silver platter. Everyone accepts that the job market is difficult even if you are talented, and I don't think many truly expect a job just because they have a degree. Most everyone realizes that "following your dreams" is financially untenable.
best of luck, if I was in the situation I'd definitely sue in small claims court.
I see some potential in ad tech.

How does caching works?
Is there any focus on security?
Multiple geolocations?

I liked the TOS :)
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Should you switch to Square's new monthly pricing?
Well, yes and no. Indeed those fees do pay for cash-back and airline points and such, but most benefits-style cards have significantly higher fees than the standard 2-3%. For instance, my research last year showed that my AAdvantage Citi card was closer to 5% in total fees to the merchant. This is what is called a non-qualified rate. You can read more about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_account#First_Tier_-_Q...

And an example of a processor's fee schedule here:

http://www.gotmerchant.com/merchant_fees.php

Meanwhile, my debit cards (which are almost always processed as credit since I don't like typing my PIN) still collect 2-3% and I get no benefits.
I don't want to get in that discussion, the point is the guy had no legs, yet he just competed in the olympics. He was clearly in your "can't do it" group.

And forget Phelps, Bolt, etc. They are one in a billion, and the greatest athletes of all time in their field. What about the other 99%? What's the excuse for them?
(in extremely high-pitched voice): I for one welcome our new helium-breathing overlords... [passes out]
There's a lot of work going on performance-wise right now, especially on the gfx side. We should be seeing some serious performance benefits soon; honestly, I'm amazed that WebGL apps run as well as they do right now -- they're getting a huge boost soon.
Thanks! <3 Marika
My specific use case is in tracking very small movements, i.e. ones that a GPS would not pick up. I was wondering if this would provide a solution to that, but it still seems to have a delay attached.

Doesn't take away from some very impressive tech on display. Kudos.
Completely agree. But since VISA/MC control the network, even your basic debit card from a credit union costs merchants 2-3%.

What is needed is an entirely new network....
No specific requirements for wifi at all. Which part didn't work exactly?
Amazon Subscribe & Save: Automatic delivery for your most frequent purchases
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I'm torn by the screenshot; do the buzzwords in the sample make this more or less appealing to your customers?

If there is no measurable difference, can you do the world a service and reduce the buzzword usage?

When I'm faced with a question like "Did this individual contribute to collaborative innovation and excellence in a dynamic group setting?" I tend to throw-up in my mouth a little and stop giving honest answers and start thinking about which answer will most benefit me...
That may be true, but there is the psychology of people wanting what other people have. By having a full pipeline, you are also conveying that you're "popular" with other investors.
If more than a few people file in small claims, it is going to be a super big hassle for Joyent.
It won't be worth the trouble as you'd have that amount reported as income to the IRS
http://help.squareup.com/customer/portal/articles/21709-does...
The article was a bit misguided to me. It's not about making the status bar black and rounding the corners. That isn't going to magically solve the problem the author tries to explain but doesn't really come through -- which is that if you have a pane in your app that scrolls but leave other elements of the app fixed to the screen, the UX "feels" restricting, whereas if you scroll the entire app, the content seems like it's unbounded. That I get. Now, whether you make the corners rounded or not, that's just an extra design detail. But the way to achieve unbounded content is to just make your app full screen. Drop the fixed navigation along the bottom, put it in a hidden sidebar.

Now this is great, but it's not a magic bullet. What the article didn't say is, there are usability concerns with this too -- if you don't have a lot of navigation, having to show the sidebar is just going to be an extra step for the user.

Of course, if you can keep your entire app in one screen without the user needing to scroll anything, that's ideal.
you're right. we're working on a blog post describing the app, and should probably get a better description on google play
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I thought this when I first read the article a few hours ago and decided to wait to see if anyone else posted (they haven't, so I may be wildly off with this) but "You must be entrepreneurial" sticks out to me as a mostly redundant combination of the preceding points. I wonder if the piece would be better or worse if that paragraph were replaced with a shorter one titled "Run Your Own Business" (IMO that would be even more out of place, but make the point more clearly), or simply removed altogether.

Taking on board what people have commented in this thread, I think it ought to be replaced with "insert your passion here". He has chosen entrepreneurship because that's his thing, but it seems to me idiosyncratic.
Fair enough - I sort of figured you wouldn't be able to comment on it.

You guys have a really smart team, though, so I'm sure you have something awesome figured out. Congrats on the exposure this should net you! :)
I reached out to these guys seeing how I could set one up in my city. Never heard from them.
Completely agree. I find the endorphin rush from running to be addictive. Helps give me MORE energy and keep my attitude positive even when work is getting me down.
Removing the pressure of impending death
At least for Airlines it seems to be more about status than the flights.

Having a premium membership on United for example lets you use expedited lines for checking luggage, security and boarding. In addition you get free checked luggage, better customer support and are more likely to get upgraded to first class and are all around treated better by United.
iZettle would not get a lot of adoption in it's current form.

For merchants the biggest issue around chip and pin cards is this:

If the merchant takes a signature, then they are liable for loss incurred by bad transactions.

Which simply means, very few merchant accept signatures and only in exceptional circumstances.

So any EMV reader in Europe, to achieve adoption by merchants, will need to offer a PIN entry method.

However here is the other part of the deal.

A PIN entry keypad must be secure. In fact, the keys themselves cannot be implemented in software that exposes the key presses to any other software.

Usually this means that the hardware keyboard itself doesn't send keypresses to the OS, it is a dedicated piece of hardware (with screen) that only transmits the hash of the PIN to any external system.

In effect, Square would need to re-design their device to include a PIN entry keypad and screen.
The explanation on the Play Store didn't make sense to me, only by watching the video could I understand what it did.

Actually, a coworker thought it worked the other way round :) (build a map by walking around).

I don't have a floor plan of anywhere, they're not required here in Uruguay.

Btw, video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GdXp_Swjs
Saudi oil giant seals off network after mystery malware attack
How to store data with Java
CALayer masking on the main window will cause the entire window to be rendered offscreen, which isn't going to be usable for even the most basic app on a real device.

I'd recommend either baking the corners into your art assets (for your NavigationBar, Toolbar, TabBar backgrounds), or overriding drawRect on the NavigationBar and Toolbar and adding a clip. Most apps I've worked on end up demanding a custom NavigationBar and Toolbar anyway, so there's not much reason not to do this.

If a truly abstract solution was really necessary (i.e. "I need 4 round corners absolutely everywhere, and I don't have custom art assets"), I think the easiest way would be to create four "round corner" image views and add them to a subview of the application delegate's UIWindow. This would also be much faster than masking the layer, as it'd create four small GPU-accelerated blend areas rather than one giant offscreen view to upload every frame. The main drawback (and the reason why I suggest the art asset version instead) is that orientation and bounds changes have to be handled manually for added subviews of UIWindow.
Fingerprint sensors are also often worse than useless, for the false sense of security they provide. Hopefully the ones Apple's planning on using (if any) are better than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAfAVGES-Yc

c.f. Android's face recognition unlock being fooled with photos of people.
I don't think my CapitalOne credit card has any limit. I've gotten over $1k cash back.
I use Linode for several low-traffic sites as well, and I'd recommend them.

However, there's one crucial aspect in which they're different than having a Linux machine sitting in your office (which I also have): for $100 I can put a 2TB drive in the local server. The equivalent space at Linode would cost $1000 a year.
The article isn't as bad as the link-bait title, but still I don't understand how some people can make it to 20, let alone 30 and not realize that "be anything you want" has some huge caveats:
1) it usually takes a lot of work, perseverance, and sacrifice
2) You may not get paid what you think you should
I imagine a good number of employees have stock options, which means that, depending on the price of the option, they would not have any value to them.

One thing to keep in mind however, is that it is not uncommon for companies to do a re-price of their stock options if the options are worthless. I wouldn't be surprised to see FB do this if the stock hangs this low for a while.
That's just the news I was hearing from people who have seen their financials.

Let's say they aren't operating at a loss though. The processor typically receives 25-50 basis points on a transaction (0.25-0.5%). Let's assume Square is receiving 0.5% and generating revenue from their transactions.

At $5B/year in processing volume, that means that Square's revenue is 0.005 * $5B = $25,000,000.

$25,000,000 in revenue for a company worth $1B+? That's an extremely high valuation (40x revenue or more). And that's before figuring in all of Square's costs.

Basically, all of the people who look at the numbers don't see how Square will actually become a highly profitable company in the near future.
"How it Works" for HN people is Ruby on Rails, google hosted webfont, twitter bootstrap css and javascript.

Would like to know a bit more about the business side of it.
Dolphin Browser was working for a long time, but I believe they updated the browser since disabling flash support.
New Apache project will Drill big data in near real time
“Herp Derp”? or, surviving the firehosing
A bit of cyanobacteria[1] could theoretically thrive on Mars. All it takes is CO2, sunlight, and water.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria
The line has to be drawn somewhere. Why do we provide police protection to unemployed people? I would think that as a society grows wealthier, it could grow more humane and, like _delirium said, "there is no great loss if we remove fear of dying from the list of motivators to work".
Let me try again since apparently I was a little oblique: Consider the set of statements you could make to announce that you have a full pipeline. Subtract all statements which can only be made if you have a full pipeline. Deliver one of the remaining statements in a confident and optimistic tone of voice. There, you're now conveying that you're popular with other investors.
Six Reasons Why A Network Maintenance Plan Will Improve Your Business
Where did you get this disinformation? Why did you trust it enough to post it under your name, John Millikin?

It is equally illegal in Sweden to extradite people to countries where they could face the death penalty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/16/julian-a...
Very cool! Right now you can still hack yourself into godmode via the console (app.player.god = true, which gives you spawn editing powers, I couldn't help myself from building a little maze in the spawn), but for a work in progress it's very impressive!
The most difficult part about getting into the wedding business as a startup is advertising. People (hopefully) only get married once, and they're usually too happy to go shopping around for deals. This is why wedding businesses can rake in huge profits by ripping off their customers. You get similar phenomena in the baby business and the funeral business (although with the latter the lack of interest in comparison shopping is due to grief). So RegistryLove's success will hinge largely on their ability to get the word out to the general public.
I'm also fed up with big oil.
It's brand new and any feedback from design to function to pricing is much appreciated!

For those that have sites/apps: is this something you'd be interested in using?
he's just selling a book, relax
> would love to share/discuss it with anyone interested. Let me know!

How? The "about" field in your profile is blank.
You can hide it with LLCs. I had a roommate sophomore year of college get investigated by the FBI for running a similar scheme.
> The authoritarian nature of the US vs Germany reside on two entirely different and almost incomparable planes.

The US is not authoritarian, we are governed by a coalition of tyrants that have coopted the lawful government. The pendulum will swing back any year now when the shiny wears off Washington, D.C.

As for the other commenter's claim about Berlin, imagine this thought experiment: the self-proclaimed Messiah moves to Berlin, marries a gaggle of 16 year old brides, gets them all pregnant, and homeschools the offspring in riflery and Scientology. Would German officials have a violent allergic reaction? Yes! Because it goes outside the privileges they have deigned to grant their flocks. In the US that would be considered bizarre but not a proper matter for state intervention.
This is, to use a word I never use, delightful! Great concept, whimsical design, and wonderful execution. Well done!

Now, if I could only stop flipping the pages and get back to work...
when I was walking the cursor does not move along. I think my campus wifis are using signal repeaters.
http://usbig.net/bigblog/2011/09/why-i-support-the-basic-inc...

"This argument has several problems. I’ll discuss two of them. The first problem with it is that BIG cannot be accurately characterized as something for nothing. All societies impose many rules on every individual. Consider the discussion of homelessness above. Why can’t homeless people build their own shelter and their own latrine? Why can’t they drink out of a clean river? Why can’t they hunt, gather, or plant and harvest their own food? They cannot do these things because the state has made rules saying they don’t have the right to do these things. The state has imposed rules saying that almost all the resources of the Earth belong to someone else. Those of us who benefit from the rules by which our society distributes ownership of the Earth’s natural resources benefit every day from the state’s interference with the propertyless, and we pay them no compensation. A state without BIG is the state that has something for nothing.

BIG is (and should be seen) not as something for nothing but as the just compensation for all the rules of property and property regulations society imposes on individuals."
Hey you polish frontend hackers! Nice work!
If Stripe follows suit, I might just wet myself.
Let's do the math, here:
"for small businesses processing up to
$250,000 per year". So, the most you're processing is a quarter million/year, and you're paying 275/month = 3300 per year. $3300/$250000 means you're paying an effective processing fee of 1.32%. That's a big savings over their usual 2.75%, but it's still probably more than the big players are paying. And that's assuming that you use it for optimal efficiency.
The breakeven point is ($3300 / .0275) = $120,000, which is reasonable, all things considered - I know a couple of small shops that do ~$200,000/year of business. I know a friend stated that his breakeven point for his small shop was $400 in sales a day, and that he was living well on ~$600. It would probably be advantageous for him to move entirely to Square, based on those numbers.
Sounds like an opportunity for a pull request.
One on One
GHC has a compiler flag to enable multi threaded runtime. Why can't OCaml have that? It is a bit rigid to have to build two versions of a binary, but for folks who run their own code, no problem at all.
ANY developer that uses this should be fired on the spot.

Moreover, if you're a developer that doesn't know how to do this on your local box, go flip burgers NOW.
More insular, inward, bubble-bound myopic nonsense.
Ah ok, so the *floorplan you supply just acts as a "background/walking-guide" for your mapping?
What's the anticipated release date for Growl 2.0 ?
What Developers say vs what they mean
Inventing a Toilet for the 21st Century
Isn't the basic premise here that Black people can't afford to pay $50 to join app.net?

Isn't that WAY more racist than building a site that costs $50 to join?

Did I miss something?
Hover over the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button
Thanks. So this is the dominance chart now for ML notifications:

Native NC > NC + Growl 2.0 > NC + Growl + Bark > NC + Growl + Hiss

Since a lot of apps still exist outside of the App Store, Growl 2.0 can't come soon enough. Though the ideal case would be Apple loosening restrictions, but ... that's not going to happen anytime soon probably.
Conceptually I like the product, it's something I would consider paying for. But in practice it doesn't seem to perform that well. It misclassify things it should get right (article hosted on posterous; a youtube page; hacker news) and for some queries it just returns results for a completely different webpage.

The page tagging technology looks good though.
A lot of people just scribble down a drawing on paper, and then use the "I Want To Take A Picture With My Camera" option. The floorplan is just a reference point, so you can makeup whatever floorplan makes sense for you.
For example: https://lh4.ggpht.com/Y1z9Qt5EggwNdg0Caua9dJGWV8dZmnYhioten1...
Does this adapt it's map on the fly like a true SLAM, or does it only work off the access points detected during the configuration phase?
I'm not sure I get this one. Why would you not want something delivered to your house? Isn't that what the post office does if you aren't there to accept the package?
Are you going to be releasing an events API in the near future? I've had an app idea banging around for a few months that this API would be perfect for.
Accel to sell around $1 billion in Facebook stock (most of their stock)
Great advice. Another way to think of it is to look for areas that companies often have teams of people working for weeks (or months) to solve a problem that you can solve in a fraction of the time. If they are spending $100K to not solve the problem, asking for $120K to solve it in two months is a good deal for both sides.

You can never get more than your perceived differential value, but buyers will be happy to pay you far less if that's OK with you. ;-)
tweet @BufferBox, someone will definitely reply!