skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There speaks the man who never had to share files with twenty different people, each using different computing platforms and of varying technical competence.

Cross-platform internet file sharing in a transparent way is a (surprisingly?) hard problem. Before Dropbox there were many companies who had tried to make a success of it and they had all failed[1] in one way or another. (Not cross-platform enough, not seamless enough, reliance on ads for income etc etc.) DropBox succeeded because they took that hard problem and made it look easy.
Is it really so counterintuitive? I think PG is making it out to be more complicated than it really is.

Solve a big, annoying problem for lots of people. Dropbox was obviously a great idea; look at how much trouble people went through to share files (using flashdrives, CDs, email, spammy uploading sites or ones that enforced a delay) before it got big. Just because there are existing players in the space doesn't mean the problem is solved. There are so many other major inconveniences that people have to put up with that are incredibly ripe for disruption. Healthcare - why is it so damn hard to get an instant, cheap medical opinion on a non-urgent but still worrying issue if you don't have a doctor in the family? Apartment rental (for both owners and tenants).

The hard part is not telling whether or not something is a good idea. It's evaluating whether or not the team can pull it off.
Does this mean there is no way to even charge sellers who use your service, other than requiring them to fill out their own credit card on your site? That seems like an extra hassle for setting up a service that charges users for use of the marketplace.
You would certainly prefer to be the smartest. Do you feel threatened ?
Hopefully this will be the case that gives Cook the ability to "gracefully withdraw" from Jobs' legal intifada against Android, and we can end this silliness for good.
And this is one more reason not to use software which is free.

From customer perspective: If you are using something which is free then they will try to SPAM you as much as it is allowed by law.

From company perspective: If you ran a web service (SaaS or something) and you have "free-loaders" using your service, they will mark as spam all your legitimate emails.
How to Use Multiple Email Accounts with iMessage
With the introduction of iMessage on iOS and OS X, Apple has given way to exchange messages between Apple users. You can also use multiple accounts for iMessage. Let’s see how we can add and use multiple email accounts with iMessage on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Thanks. I always thought it's 'cover your assets' but I was wondering about the 'a' all along ;).
A 17 year old in a bikini isn't pornographic. I don't think anyone got arrested for that.
Mega Jump Gets A Big Update
'Martin Luther King, Jr. told us that “human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” Turns out he knew something about entrepreneurs.'

Good line to end on...

I think it depends on who's judging that entrepreneur. It takes someone who at times may seem like a jerk to push talented people to create something you can sell.

Sure you can cite the Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak relationship as an example of that. But I think the John Lennon/Paul McCartney relationship is also interesting to look at. Though Paul and George were surely talented musicians who liked to jam and play live shows..it was Lennon who really pushed them to be mainstream and wanted to establish themselves as stars. Lennon himself was noted for being a jerk to his loved ones (had a son he basically abandoned, treated his first wife poorly, got into aggressive disagreements with the people around him).

My point is, I think the typical talented person does things because its their passion and they purely enjoy doing it. The talent may not understand why the "entrepreneurs" do things the way they do it, perhaps the talent can even feel exploited and think the entrepreneur is a jerk as a result. At least that's my take on it..
Who submitted this garbage? Oh it was Garbage, we only need A players posting here in HN.
> Bjarne Stroustrop showed in a presentation a while back that std::list never becomes more optimal than std::vector regardless of size.

Until memory fragments and you can't allocate a contiguous block for a big vector.
I just tried this with my own Stripe account but it requested my business details all over again. Is it not able to use the details I first signed up with?
So basically she's making an amateur porn site, charging bucks for it, and dressing it up as moral supremacism?

I think fantasti.cc has been doing a great job at this for more than a year now (when they started featuring user-submitted porn on the frontpage and became more of a social network for sexy vids) ... except it's free and without the moral baggage.

However I do agree with her that most mainstream porn of the freely found online for free variety has become completely ridiculous.

That said, I might be willing to pay $5 to watch amateur porn that's longer than 3min bits and pieces and recorded at more than one pixel per frame.
You will experience much less eyestrain on the Kindle because it does not have a refresh rate, and it is ink, not light, which is better for your eye.

However, despite the Kindle engineers' efforts, the text still appears to float a bit above the screen rather than appearing to be firmly printed on the device itself. So, you will experience some slight annoyance there.
If he had said "all people add value" I would've agreed with you

Well, you could try ranking results and calculating a score based on how each person outperformed the dartboard, then calculating a score over time.
Being "smart" is relative. In what area is she smart? There are many types of intelligence. MMA fighters or Bikers are physically smart, musicians are smart in terms of auditory senses and so and so forth.

In a relationship, as applies to any other aspect in life, we have our roles to play. One major pitfall is to compare each other and make up for your weakness instead of focusing and honing your strengths.

Assuming you have a healthy relationship, her being "smart" doesn't mean anything and should not affect you in any way. She will ultimately depend on you leading her in the relationship. She will depend on you to stand up for her when she feels bad. She delights in you when you share your stories. She feels comfortable when you listen to her even if you don't understand what she is saying.

Be a man for her.
Pyramid Pitching
Am I the only one who is utterly tired of reading this sort of stuff?

All it proves is that smart phone vendors are universally asshats and this market is dangerous, risky and volatile so I don't want to be involved.
> A general rule of thumb when using C++ is that you shouldn't use Boost.

That's not a rule of thumb. It may be something you do, and a reason I'd never work with you. Boost is a wonderful library that IME solves far more problems than it creates. Compile times aren't a problem with modern compilers, and your scoped_ptr example is nonsense.
I really hope Firefox Mobile addresses most of the HTML5 pain points and go live on Android and iOS. We badly need a neutral, open browser on mobile.
I think the difference here is the assumption for failure rather than success for. The subprime bubble existed due to leverage - fancy models said that defaults were unlikely, so rather than extend loans from their own assets, banks decided to double (or triple, or quadruple...) down and lend out multiples of their own total assets. The models were wrong and they blew up.

This is quite different from assuming a high failure rate. The marginal cost of having say, 10% more failed startups isn't a big deal when 95% of them are already failing, and the model accounts for that high failure rate. The black swan is not the unexpected failure that wipes you out, but the unexpected success that outweighs all the failures.

Obviously, you'd still be screwed if none of the stuff you invest in pays off. But that would be the case even if your model was more pessimistic; if even 5% success was too much to ask for, perhaps the market for VC is busted, and there was no hope for profit anyway.

I don't think pg is implying that screening processes are useless. I'm sure many obviously hopeless ideas get filtered out. It's more that, given the current state of knowledge, everything beyond that basic filter is by nature difficult to discern and we may as well assume a random fat tail distribution.
This will lead to the same signing processes of other package managers, such as `pacman`.
I am claiming that calling 16 years old taking shots of themselves "producing and distributing child pornography" does not help any children.

I could not care less about actual child pornography being illegal. Do whatever pleases you. Just take your dirty hands off teenagers.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4196
I thought it was the other way around: mail to firstlast@gmail.com will be delivered to first.last@gmail.com unless firstlast@gmail.com was registered early on.
as always the truth probably lies somewhere in between

"The Truth Lies Somewhere in the Middle": Does It?
http://politics.ryanrenn.com/truth_in_middle.htm
>> "Also interesting to see that the majority of users (I see) use their real names for their accounts"

I think this might be because of their Facebook Open Graph integration. From what I've seen (at least anecdotally) it is very popular on Facebook and with most sites when you choose to use Facebook log in it will start using your real identity.
I didn't realise you can scroll down. Whatever happened to simple UI affordance.
I'd ditto the recommendation of http://www.amazon.com/Asking-Questions-Definitive-Questionna...

Also, if you're close to a university check out their social science courses for courses on survey/questionnaire design that you might be able to audit. They'll usually be something in that area on social psych courses for example.

The biggest mistakes I see are:

* Surveys being too long. Every additional question you have makes it less likely that people will bother to complete it.

* Not tracking abandonment rates. High abandonment rates mean that people cannot complete (because you've messed up a question design), or don't want to complete because of a perceived bias, or because it's too long, etc. It's a sign of a bug you need to fix.

* Trying to do too much in a single survey. If you have eight assumptions in your product that you're trying to explore do eight small surveys rather than one large one.

* Questions that assume the answer. You're often asking a survey because you hope people answer in a particular way ("Yes! People are going to be interested in my product!"). Get somebody else to read the survey and see if they can figure out from the questions what answers you want. If they can - rephrase the questions.

* Questions with no correct answer. For example "Do you prefer to log in with Facebook or LinkedIn? yes/no". I can't answer that truthfully (real answer "it depends"). People who can't answer questions truthfully either "lie" or abandon the survey. Both bias your results. Look at all your questions and think whether there is another way of answering it that you don't include.

* A preference for quantitative rather than qualitative data. Checkboxes and radio buttons and hard numbers make it easy to draw pretty graphs and fool yourself into thinking you're being scientific. The key info you need is often in the "soft" written answers.

* Doing surveys too early when you should actually be talking to people.

* More of a form design issue - but people tend to fit their answers to the box size. If you have a small text entry box people are more likely to give small answers, which may be less useful than the longer answer you would get from a bigger text area.

I'll shut up now since I should be doing actual work :-)

Will Evans has a nice series of slides on UX Research basics. There's one that covers some bits of survey design that you might find useful http://www.slideshare.net/willevans/introduction-to-user-exp...
A solution used in many countries including some definitely first-world countries (Japan, Germany, France, Sweden) is to have a mix of professional judges and lay judges. Seems that it preserves the benefits you talk about, at the same time fixing a lot of the problems we see with jury incompetence.
Yes did you miss the part that they brought in a new CEO to bring change. Lets just blame everything thats happened in the past on a guy who wasn't even on the job. Blaming mistakes on lack of resources is a little naive.
There are already far too many answers to the question--more wouldn't really help anything. Any new answers--even really good ones--would just get lost in the noise.

Apart from posting answers, there really isn't much else restricted by the question's being closed. I really think it is not a big deal.
My life after LulzSec: 'I feel more fulfilled without the internet'
I think the more important point though, is that both the permission and imagery is there (and the imagery is very high quality) so there's various other projects that e.g. trace outlines of lakes from the imagery (again basic color matching) or identify tennis courts via computer vision etc.
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It won't, it'll just wrap around. This is a massive Asteroids game.
Dear Judges of the World,

Please declare all relevant patent holders to modern mobile phone and tablet technology must grant Compulsory Licences.

Regards,

The World

This is getting ridiculous - very few of these patents are really innovative anyway!

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_licensing
Relax your coding self with the soothing sound of rain
Most markets where money can be made are like that, though...
Infographic: How US Fortune 500 Companies Are Using Social Media
Disclaimer: Not the coder nor part of the rainymood team, merely a fan who has used it while he works for over 6 months now.
Why is nobody using the ISO format for dates? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 yyyy-mm-dd? Another benefit is that it sorts correctly in the file explorers (I used to name my photo folders like that...).

Coming from a country where we typically do dd/mm I can never remember what the English standard is. I've taken to always writing the name of the month to be sure.

Also, can the huge lead of the iPhone still be true? I thought Android was outselling the iPhone by now. But perhaps the low end Android buyers don't really surf?
The comparison I'm trying to draw is about why the models were wrong. Subprime lenders planned for failure too; after all, this is why the loans were subprime, it was expected that a number of them would default. All of this is built into the business model: charge high interest rates on all the loans, to subsidize the cost of some expected number of failures.

The problem is that when the business grew and everyone entered, it changed the assumptions that the models were based upon. A certain percentage of mortgages would blow up when subprimes were 1% of the market. The fatal mistake was assuming that the same percentage of mortgages would blow up when subprimes were 10% of the market, because the process of going for 1% to 10% means writing many more loans and extending credit to buyers who should never have been buying houses in the first place.
Um, compile times are still a problem with modern compilers.

And regarding scoped_ptrs: you want what, fewer assertions? Okay... that's very counterproductive of you.
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Judging from the article, she also seems to have a very peculiar notion of what constitutes "real sex" (how common is her lifestyle?). Multiple generations separate her from the kids who could be exposed to her site before coming of age, shall we say, so one wonders how relevant her opinions could possibly be to them.
Ask HN: Good vendors/sites for making screencasts with voiceover?
Would like to delegate the creation of a screencast+voiceover for a mac product. Do fellow HN users have any battle tested recommendations?
At least here in Europe, PayPal is registered and acts as a bank. How much would you enjoy your bank denying you access to your last paycheck just because "who knows what might get billed to your account"...?
I think there is a subtle bug in his second two person::~person examples. Specifically, from the perspective of other threads an object is no longer valid once its destructor has been called. So, imagine two person objects side-by-side in a linked list. If they are both deleted simultaneously and both destructors get called at the same time, they can no longer safely unlink from each other even with locking because they are technically no longer valid.

The first two examples don't have this problem though.
Authority is here:

http://www.apra.gov.au/adi/Documents/cfdocs/PayPal-auth-and-...

They are classed as an ADI, which means banking rules applies to them.
One of problems, definitely not a big one, is accessing messages sent to you while you were offline. You have to sign in to gmail to grab them, because you want be notified about them via XMPP. (Assuming you have turned on storing of chats.)
https://stripe.com/docs/apps/fee-splitting
Next up ... an online effort to promote `Real`, not Twilight/50 Shades of Grey, relationships ...
Facebook used not only one WebView but many of these. Each WebView did fight against the others for CPU time. This was the main Problem and got fixed with the new App. Mainly by removing the Timeline-WebView.
In Matrix, minds are not simulated, and only a faux-earth is presented to people, much more like Descartes's evil genius[0]. Actually, most of the processing would actually happen in people brains, since only stimulations matter, and they would only need to be quite gross compared to a whole universe of physics iterated over at Planck intervals.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon
Stripe has fee-splitting. See my link above.
We wouldn't know what "virtual child porn" could/would be based on (real children depicted in virtual fantasies, pictures of real child abuse etc.).
I know virtual child porn is often a reference to unrealistically drawn lolicon material. But what causes much more controversy is realistic material (3D, photorealistic).
Replying to myself. ucLinux + hello world + gdb via OpenOCD online at 4AM :)

Now for the go toolchain...
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I personally love using the ISO format as well.

As for the iPhone vs Android thing, the graph used by OP is a bit misleading (it's restricted to AUS only). I'd take a look at these ones instead: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201108-... or http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201108-20120... for worldwide.

I guess he's trying to highlight how it's different in different places around the world though.
I can't tell here if you're just off-hand mentioning something you like about HN, or if you're also suggesting that it's something other people should like too.

The point I was trying to make was that I would be disappointed if what pg clearly saw as a problem was "fixed", because for me it's a feature.
Like it or not, this is how fashion works.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?
And young people like to imitate their idols. Just make a few artists and a few athletes wear this product, and people will buy it.
Uh, you consider them to be something of a necessity, but you try to keep as little money as possible in the account because you fear your account will be frozen. I'd not say that they have "a middling to good reputation" - I'd say if that's what someone who speaks of them well thinks, that's an appalling reputation!
If she doesn't care, why should you? Learn from her and be exceptional as well. Be confident. She wouldn't date you if she had not found something special in you.
And some in the past tried charging for the result (rather than charging for support instead or as well, as RedHat and their ilk do).

It didn't work of course, but due to user education [the sort of people looking for Linux know they are likely to be able to get the same thing or better for free (plus media/transmission costs where relevant) elsewhere] rather than because it is wrong legally speaking, copyright or otherwise.
I've been yearning to do something pretty for a while now, so when I stumbled on these beautiful images, I built a website around them. I also used them as an excuse to learn about a few canvas and Raphael.js features. TypeKit came into play as well.

Running on a free EC2 instance and backed by a name.com domain it's pretty lean too.
I just visited fantasti.cc and was greeted with an ad showing some girl streching her ass, the copy claiming something about the most extreme whatever. I can’t comment on the vids on the site, but this ad shows precisely what’s wrong with most of the modern porn (and disqualifies the site for me). If Gallop makes a decent site showing people having more real sex, then I think she does more than “just build another amateur porn site”.

And I don’t think it’s appropriate to protest against “moral baggage”. She’s just offering an alternative, a different point of view, not pushing for new legislation against the forms of intercourse she doesn’t like.
A lot of comments suggest that Apple and maybe even Google are deliberately keeping HTML5 performance subpar. I think this misses a key fact: Google has struggled for years to make native Android apps match iOS performance, even for simple things like scrolling a list. The fact is Apple set a standard with iOS that is incredibly hard to meet regardless of the technology.

The conclusion is sound though. Companies that build mobile apps using HTML5 in 2012 will almost certainly face the fate of companies that built web apps using Java applets in 1998.
launchd isn't bad, but it lacks good admin tools. Even upstart has better admin tools than launchd, and systemd has the best you could ask for.
Indian IT employees among the worst paid in the world
Qihoo’s 360 browser is not a full browser it behaves like an addon to IE. It will use the IE kernel of whatever version is installed on the users machine. So if the user still has IE6 it will render pages with the IE6 kernel. You dont really need to pay attention to it as a web developer you just need to know that if it the page displays correctly in IE6 then it should display correctly for a user Qihoo’s 360 browser that uses IE6 kernel
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She is your girlfriend? Or you just started dating her? Which is it? ;)

For all your dating questions, go search for "Doc Love" at Ask Men. He writes articles there and they are gold for dating advice. This man is a wizard. Don't take advice from anyone else. Thank me later.

Appearances are everything. Don't worry about being smart, rather, shoot for appearing smart.

One of the most powerful ways to appear smart is to be able to communicate well with good grammar and writing. I see that you could use a lot of improvement in those areas, so that's where I would start.

Learn the difference between the usage of "affect" and "effect" (don't let your bad grammar _affect_ your self esteem. ) Learn the difference between the usage of "who" and "that" (the girl _who_ you are dating is better than the girl _that_ your friend is dating.)

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11204/how-to-use-...

Go look at just about any list of "top ten skills" and communication and good writing skills are probably on that list.

Do a search for grammar resources and spend time each day reading through these resources. Also spend time writing every day.

Good luck!
The prices you charge are probably a bit steep. Just my 2 cents.
Maybe this is just idiomatic, but when I see "it is thought (at least by people with property foo) that...", I read the parenthetical comment as meaning "people without property foo don't think this way".