skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rackspace has a nice deal with SendGrid (free SendGrid for Rackspace customers)(https://sendgrid.com/products/rackspace). I wonder if this remains as well as if there were any discussions on a SendGrid acquisition? I suspect SendGrid might be aiming higher.
This is not exactly the same. If you get a game via Steam, you get the exact game. If you however get a cd via iTunes, you get a compressed version of the original (at least last time I checked, not sure if this changed, and cannot find any prove it did). Close, but not exactly the same.
SEO and Progressive Enhancement with Backbone.js
This game seems very appropriate http://www.argumentchampion.com/
If you read through the review, you'll see it got bitten because of:

- Paying for material available for free elsewhere.
- Horrible formatting for some devices.
Not much worse than Amazon's Monopoly on 1 click ordering.
Many patents are "obvious" - after the fact.
This requires your bash have networking support compiled in (some distros don't, or didn't in the past), I'm not sure why you wouldn't use nmap, or even netcat: `nc -z $my_host_to_scan 1-1023`
Hacker News has downvoting? I only ever see upvote arrows. Do I need more karma or something?
I'm so happy to live in Europe.
Ask HN: Why doesn't my ios app perform on the US market?
Hi there,

I've developed an app which sells pretty well all over the world - I can't make a living out of the revenue but I am still happy. The app performs pretty well in most of the (wealthier) countries, but underperforms in the US and Canada. This is where I need the help of the HN community.

=> Why does my app suck on the US market? Is there an obvious reason I don't see?

What I mean by suck on the US market: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/screenshot20120828at155.png/
The US just makes 2.8% out of my total downloads, although it should be a huge market.

iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id473512078?mt=8
Some public analytics: http://www.appannie.com/app/ios/minipedia-offline-encyclopedia-wikipedia-reader

The app has an average rating of 4.25 with 280 reviews worldwide. The average rating in America is 4.0 with 16 ratings. I am using a freemium model and make my profit through in-app sales.

Thanks,
Bobby
The iTunes screenshots don't show the AirPlay icon:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hbo-go/id429775439?mt=8

The conspiracy theorist in me wanted to believe they left audio in there just to advertise AirPlay support.
Not Enough Time To Do It Sloppy
A few years ago I had traveled to India, and had plans to leave the country for a week then return.
Big mistake.
I was advised to go to the Indian embassy in the destination country to get permission to come back. I did so, they took my passport and told me to come back the following day, hence delaying my travels within that country by a day. I returned to India ok. When i was leaving India I was asked why I had not checked in with the local police after returning. This was confusing to me but this said its a requirement for any foreigner leaving and returning within a 2 month period. As such, they wouldn't let me board the plane. I stayed in a hotel near the airport thru the weekend. On a Monday I went to the appropriate station, where there was a long line of foreigners in a similar predicament. When it was my turn, I was told i would need to show proof of a relative or someone I was staying with, so my uncle came and brought his passport and electric bill. Then I was told it would take some time, but he went in the back, met the director of that station and talked him up by mentioning people they knew in common and I got approved.
Then there were no seats on my plane available for the rest of the week, but I had to get back to work, so I bought a new ticket and went home.
I am Indian mind you, although born and raised in the US.
I will not be returning to India ever again.
Why do these checks sequentially? I'd be interested to see the opportunities for parallel requests in bash.
> creating closed forks (fine with the gpl IMHO)

That's not fine. At the very least, you have to provide the source code for your (entire) product if a customer demands it.
If you spin in place at one rotation per second, it'll upset your equilibrium pretty quick; that's the minimum. That said, Gemini was not a large spacecraft; the two crew were sitting side by side in a space that was about the size of a small car's front seat.
Reddit & Ohanian hit campaign trail to fight for the future of freedom
If you're downloading over SSH, can anyone really know what you're downloading? In other words, what's the likelihood of getting caught?
I'm not a big patriot; I like ES/PT more than my own country.

Well, why have you been talking like a "big patriot" that frowns upon non-patriotism then?
At some point, as a manager, you put your own career/reputation on the line.

It is important to remember we are discussing outliers here. 4s & 5s represent 20% of the company. My blog post does not impact that other 80% really at all, and within the 20%, 7% likely really deserve to be let go anyway (IMO).

It's a big company. With any sufficiently large population there will be problems. I'm not a MS apologist, but at the same time MS produces some pretty damn good things regardless.
I guess we've gotten in a circle of "this is bad science"-> "no it's not". While I disagree with you, I enjoyed debating it with you.
Rationality and emotions are not dichotomous. If you take the time to rationally choose your value system, your emotions will direct you towards rational objectives. Your emotions do not become divorced from decision making, they become analyzable and adjustable so that they can work for you, instead of against you.

Or to put it another way, if your emotions seem irrational, then you're probably doing something wrong.
Isn't this a problem for most Client-side frameworks?
Agreed. I had a lot of trouble finding relevant Olympic video online. For example, it took a good amount of searching to find some clips of the Badminton scandal, even a day after the occurrence. Youtube was particularly unhelpful as, I'm sure, it was policed extra hard.
No LuaJIT on Windows 8 for ARM
All Organic Now
To be fair, Minority report uses a really lame one hand approaching another zoom which obviously wouldn't work for a touchscreen device.
Europe has its advantages and the US too. But what keeps startups from going to an island state where some of these problems aren't even in their dictionary?
That link should probably point to the permalink for the blog post: http://blog.mailgun.net/post/30381960476/mailgun-is-being-ac...

Edit: The link appears to be fixed now.
Prior art:
https://trigger.io/reload/
https://build.phonegap.com/docs/hydration

Plus every app that has ever had to solve this problem. There is nothing non-obvious in this patent.
The claims as-filed, sure.
But the USPTO doesn't generally update the published application to match the current document (including changed and struck claims) during the process.

So it's entirely possible that wording didn't survive.

In any event, it's hardly fair to judge a system based on the snapshot of a submission from before it had even gone through that system yet.
When I hear stories of NBC paying over a --billion dollars-- for TV rights and then hear about an Irish gymnast who had to scrounge and fundraise just to get there, I wonder what the "Olympic Spirit" is really all about.
Avon Going for Gold Achievers Shopping spree
IT’s List of Top Security Threats
iTunes feels this way on OS X Mountain Lion for me as well.
PPAs become quite messy in my experience. For example, they get disabled on major upgrades and I forgot why I included them.
Didn't think of that. Pretty good idea!
The article's numbers are a bit off, Astraweb has unlimited accounts for $11/month, also there's 1-2 providers who are offering free access to their IPv6 Usenet server (XSNews and I forget the other). There's also no real mention of NZBs and tracking sites that host them and offer indexing/filtering/searching (NZB is basically like a .torrent).

So you don't actually need to load up a full client and start searching all these different groups for files anymore.
200,000 Password Hashes Released
This is clearly the Hail Mary for Yahoo. I give the board a ton of credit for having the gumption, though I realize they tried every other permutation of crisis reaction first.

And they couldn't have chosen anyone more appropriate for the strategy than Marissa Mayer. I have no use for Yahoo in my life, but I'm really rooting for her and them, and I hope they change my mind.

You raise an interesting point about stock. It defies all logic to believe that Marissa could achieve what Steve Jobs did. But that doesn't mean it isn't worth a small bet.
If you were just sitting there, I think it wouldn't be too bad. The trouble comes when you actually need to do something. Coriolis forces will totally screw up any movement you make. Your reflexes will be all wrong. Imagine reaching for a switch and having your hand get jerked off to one side as you move it. Then as you pull your hand back, it gets jerked off to the other side. Any head movement will cause your inner ear fluids to do weird things, causing dizziness.
The Pirate Bay launches free VPN service PrivitizeVPN
It made me cringe to think that a usenet article made the frontpage. Nothing to see here folks...
Relevant: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Canada
AppleScript 101
how do i read it online? I have no kindle.

It offers downloading a windows app, no good for linux. It won't let me download unless i have a registered kindle program. Why can't they just let me download the file first? Significantly more friction than just downloading a pdf.
What I don't understand, is how Apple market these gestures as being very "human". If they are so natural, how can they be patented?
Just playing around with bash. Great remark about networking support!
It wasn't copyright that ruined the Olympics. Copyright was just one tool that was used in service of ruining them.

The real ruiner is advertising. When a business makes most, or all, of its money from advertising and sponsorships that business necessarily becomes beholden to the desires of those sponsors. Companies that take advertising very rarely, if ever, say no to their sponsors, so sponsors have gotten into the habit of making whatever ludicrous and extreme demands they can come up with, because they know the answer will be yes. This is how you get a situation where Visa is the only credit card accepted on the Olympic grounds.

In the land of journalism, in magazines and newspapers, it is an ethics violation to have the advertisers influence the content. Even then, it still happens all the time, as in video game journalism. The Olympics is not a journalistic institution. It can do whatever its advertisers ask. Since each of the advertisers is paying such an enormous amount of money, without which the Olympics would not exist, the sponsors effectively own the Olympics. Even if the organizing committees would rather not do as the sponsors say, they are afraid to say no. The sponsors know that even though their demands are extreme, it mostly makes the Olympics look bad, not themselves.

I see this same thing happening in many ad-supported companies. The advertisers have more decision making power than the CEO. It's a great deal. You get to effectively own a company without actually taking any of the risks, or doing any of the work, associated with actually owning the company. And the cost of sponsorship is a lot less than the cost of buying stock.
SAR Image Formation Algorithms on the GPU
Unrelated (but related to lesswrong.com) If you haven't heard of "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" I highly recommend it (hpmor.com). It is written by Less Wrong author Eliezer Yudkowsky. I am about half way through and it is a great read. It is a fan fiction about the Harry Potter world except Harry Potter is a boy genius and a trained scientist. Each chapter is a new lesson in some method of rationality and it is an amazingly easy read and especially enjoyable if you liked the Harry Potter series to begin with. It is a work in progress and new chapters get added every once in a while. Definitely check it out if you like lesswrong.com and/or Harry Potter.
Nice. Why not use libgit2 (https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2)?
I actually assumed it was talking about ebooks as well.

Still, talking about a book on Amazon, most people will be thinking physical books, I imagine.
So this expires 1998+20=2018?
How self-destructing founders can get the world
Depending on the app, that's worth considering. More people need to understand that the iPhone and Android markets are, for the most part, completely different.

In most cases, iPhone users are paying a premium for their device and probably expect much the same for the apps. On the other hand, with a huge range of entry for the Android ecosystem, expectations for apps will have a similar range.

For example, I have a cheapo Android phone because it suits my needs and has no contract. I have never bought an app for it. I have a Galaxy Tab 2 7" and have bought several apps for it. The problem is how can developers know this so they can market to me for their benefit. But then my buying habits may not reflect the market in general.

It's a tough nut to crack.
The reason why piracy can continue to exist is licensing agreements.

Content providers need to offer a flat rate for resellers, and sure, they'll have the occasional exclusive and better deal to specific online stores.

But compare this to a real world store: they can sell anything they can buy. Yes, they have to negotiate with a distributor but it isn't nearly as ridiculous as the digital marketplace is.

I should be able to set up my own ebook / movie / tv-show / game online store and be able to sell anything that isn't locked into an exclusive agreement.
OP here. My point is that today in software - especially consumer software - the USA is the reference market, the one the whole world looks up to to understand the most current trends.

Do you think that, for a Chinese, hearing that software X is the most successful in the USA is the same as hearing that it is the most successful in the EU? I don't think so (whatever I could like to think).
I think this is the first time I've seen actual code written into a patent. I didn't know you could do that.
Soooo.. they are sending mails?

Not to be rude or anything, congrats! But from the website itself it sounds like "woohoo, we can send email". Atleast the features page lists 99% standard-mail features like "can send mail, can do SPF, can do DKIM, can filter mails"..

I guess that's not why they were aquired, so what is the real value of the company?
Is Android doomed in the wake of the Apple v. Samsung verdict? Not a chance
"these basic facts of biology simply aren't taught. Well, if by "taught" you mean "talked about with a derisive sneer" then yes, I suppose they are "taught"."

Yes, obviously YECs are pinnacles of logic and every liberal science teacher is straight out of a Chick tract.

The problem is not as it exists solely in your head.
As far as i have been able to figure out, what 'entire product' relates to is not 100% clear cut. AFAICT, you could easily segregate the parts of your product you wish to be private, and just modify the GPL code to inferface with that (you would tehn have to release this part).
Slax is on it's way back, development restarted
Apple patent points to another step on the road to NFC
I asked in another thread, but the first few versions of android didn't have these features, what changed?
and don't even get me started on that we need to be able to resell "used" content as individuals.

The current fiasco of "losing" all your electronic purchases on death because they're non-transferable is criminal abuse.

There's a big difference between paying a monthly subscription to stream versus buying digital files that are hosted on your hardware and you can't transfer them after death.
Did it? I thought Rackspace was using OpenStack. And there was that PR debacle migrating Slicehost accounts to Rackspace Cloud. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510300 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515650
Unfortunately, I don't see a unified European language coming any soon (even if English is on a good track there).
Great website.. As soon as I open it a javascript popup shows saying "ReferenceError: FB not defined".
Totally agree with you. And no PPA are not the solution. Everything about messing with sources is bad for non advanced users.
What was traded in? The infrastructure couldn't have been built without the sponsors and restrictive agreements which, after the event, didn't have much of an effect on creating a huge party spirit throughout the city.

The only trade was sponsors for any kind of event at all and I'm glad that happened, as it was a fantastic fortnight of sport.
This certainly isn't Sparta
Congrats, Some questions :-) Are you incorporated in US? If not what do you use for payments?
> Just finding a place with public Wi-Fi is a serious effort

That boils down, mostly, to poor infrastructure. It's getting better at airports.

> This is a police requirement that is supposed to track terrorists. Unfortunately, we are yet to see a case where this requirement has managed to stop a terror attack in India.

It is known with proofs that many threats emails were sent from internet cafes. That was the real motive.

> Photocopy issues

I carry color photocopied ids everywhere in India. This is about not knowing where to get what.

> But no nation does it at the cost of its own citizens. No free country harasses, and humiliates, its own citizens.

TSA of the US comes to my mind, and that too, is just a security theatre as has been pointed out so many times here on HN!
It's pretty disappointing to me that people would downvote you for saying what seemed so obvious.

Conservatism in America is always associated with a decision making process dictated by religion. He attacks creationism with evolution and the Christianity's disapproval of euthanasia and abortion. These generalizations are neutral since the right will stand by these fallacies.

Where the bias comes to play is when he says "affirmative action is racist" and "taxation is theft". This is not what conservatives believe but instead either skewed to easily argue a liberal point of view or just a lack of understanding of what the right thinks.

Most of the right don't support affirmative action not because it creates a disproportionate amount of minorities but because it creates a disproportionate amount of smart people. For every average minority that gets into an above average school, an above average non-minority must now go to an average school. This aligns with the liberal ideal that "Since life isn't fair, we must intervene to make it so".

When Republicans get elected to office they don't try and put legislation into place that does away with all taxation. Simplified: the left supports a higher less equal taxation and the right supports a lower more equal taxation. When the right is lowering taxes that's only because they are balancing out programs implemented by the left that don't align with their economic policy.

It's a tired argument. The left finger points that wealthy Republicans are selfish for not being willing to support people that are poor. The right says "It creates a net negative because it results in a lack of economic incentives for individuals. Feel free to support them yourself if you're so selfless". The left reply "No, were only going to help if you do".
Github office tour 2012
If someone is violating the GPL and the FSF owns the code then contact the FSF. The FSF doesn't care if someone is violating your code's GPL license. It's not their code so the don't have any right to enforce your license.
Perhaps they were trying to motivate you into bribing them.
Could anybody get an ePub file? Amazon is not available in my country. I feel bad. :(
It is one thing to save or reinvest all the money coming from your oil when you're already a developed nation, and your population has other means to sustain itself. That's not true for Lybia.
Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak
Airplay has an audible delay that is hard to compensate over 2 devices, so the feature makes no sense at all.
Marmite games! I was cynical too before they started, but was hooked after the opening ceremony. I think beseku's point was the games themselves were fantastic, and the majority of people really enjoyed it. I think the article points out some really good points though, although it didn't ruin them, it certainly put a little bit of a downer on the games.

The Games were fantastic, but I'm disappointed that something as special and symbolic as the Olympic Games making more of a marketing/commercial exploitation than "the spirit of the the Olympic Games".

I mean the whole Visa thing was an absolute pile of rubbish. I get the fact that Visa spend money to sponsor the games, but for that they get their name plastered all over the websites, stadiums and marketing material. We get it, you sponsored the Games. Thanks. Now don't stop me being able to buy tickets just because I don't have a Visa card, it's not like I can get one instantly when I am trying to buy a ticket last minute and you give me 2 minutes to enter my card details otherwise I lose my tickets... and then they won't accept my money in the stadium because I don't have a Visa, or I can't take my money out of an ATM either. I actually have a Visa, but I think this would have cause more bad publicity than good and the publicity they were trying to buy!

They did well to release more seats and fill up the stadiums when there was an outcry (it's all a learning experience...) so they should have sorted out the issue with small businesses being bullied like that.

Maybe it's always been like this and never really took much notice because it was never on my door step before...
Not invalid. It's a label, for convenience. There is no membership list, except that created by magazines. Americans call the baseball championship the World Series, and people complain occasionally. People also complain that Americans call themselves Americans. People complain a lot.

But I think it depends on your market. If you are selling a product or service that is relevant in the US, but you are not selling them in the US, you are ignoring a huge market and you would at least get an asterisk.

More importantly, if you're a global business but not addressing the US market, you're leaving a huge hole for someone else to fill, and global corps spend a lot of energy trying not to do that.
Just to expound upon this a bit, I think it's important the GP gave counter-examples. The implication of the article being all right-wing straw men is that anybody who holds a view point that could be supported by the argument is actually living in a fallacy-filled fantasy land. Truthfully, these should have been fairly non-political examples to drive the point home, but c'est la vie.

Given the immense amount of replies trying to tell the GP that evolution is fact, the very fact that these examples are politically charged help obscure the author's point.

Implications are important, and as we see time and again, people read whatever they want to read in these articles. I wonder how many people will read this and think I'm an ultra-conservative.
Many patents are "obvious" before the fact, thus prior art.
FAA Announces Plans for Working Group to Study Portable Electronics Usage
It's occurred to me the same basic advice might work well for lottery winners(1). Invest the money and live off the interest.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carroll_(lottery_winner...
They look to me like some drawings from a sci-fi book. It's amazing how close peoples imagination can come.
After blocking, then suing PadMapper, Craiglist builds its own map view