skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you discover apps?
For web, mobile and desktop platforms, what is your go to source for finding the apps you use everyday? Do you rely on the native app stores, Google, independent app marketplaces, recommendations from friends?

I'm currently working on a solution to improve app discovery for users and user acquisition for app creators. I've asked this question dozens of times but would like to see what the response is on a larger scale. Hopefully this will be useful for anyone marketing their own apps as well.

Thanks.
Thanks! I like blog posts like this too -- they appeal to my didactic instincts.
</sarcasm>

I never really did mean to bet my car, can I have it back, please!

"Why sure, of course you can. Our mistake :D!"
Peter Cooper Union bankrupt in 2015 without help
Below is the daily http://thelistserve.com/ email and I thought is was worth sharing:

"My story today is not my own: it is Peter Cooper's. He died in 1883, but his legacy is just as important now as it was then. He believed that education is a public good - that it should be available to anyone, regardless of their ability to pay, gender, race, religion, social class, or political beliefs. This may not seem like a huge thing now, but it was then.

The reason I bring it up now is because the institution he founded, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, is in trouble. It has been a full-scholarship college for art, architecture, and engineering students since 1902 but it will run out of money in 2015 unless it gets significant help.

I am not soliciting donations (I doubt there are a lot of rogue billionaires on this list anyway. . .) but I would like you to take 10 second to Google"Cooper Union" and learn about Peter Cooper's dream for education. It has become my dream as well (I have taught there since 2009) and it makes me sad that its future is in jeopardy."

http://www.indiegogo.com/petercooper

Ben Davis
bdavis@cooper.edu
New York, NY
$165 Billion: Food Thrown Away By Americans Every Year
I'm not sure where to dig up historical curriculums to verify my memory, but I'm fairly certain that programming was a mandatory subject when I was in first grade. I remember the whole class going to the computer lab and using BASIC. Education is not handled at the country level here, so it was unlikely to be country-wide, but the local population served by said school system would exceed the population of Estonia.
HuffingtonPost: Is your Grandma Facebooking & tweeting?
Monadic music composition in Haskell
iPhone 5 would be more confusing considering this will be the 6th generation.
Yeah, I'm pretty surprised that the people working at the casino wouldn't notice the same pattern emerging and either stop the game or start manually shuffling the cards.
How to convert your business card into a trackable marketing tool
Americans waste $165 bn worth of food every year
I agree the analogy breaks down.

My point was mostly that mistakes are often forgiven in business.

Whichever way the legal ruling goes, once the gamblers discovered the mistake, they were, in my mind, cheating by exploiting it.

Imagine the opposite scenario. By my understanding, a deck full of face cards benefits the gambler in blackjack. If a dealer notices that his cards are missing say, the jack of diamonds, it would be wrong of him to keep dealing knowing that the house had a better advantage that intended. Surely players losing money in such a situation would want their money back.

Again, the analogy isn't perfect, but I can see the casino's point of view... even if the decision to sue customers is short-sighted.
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...none of which seem to have the actual data to support the table.
The Secret to Growth: Running to, Rather than From, Difficulty
But they just built a giant new fancy building, and unless I'm mistaken they just leveled another block to put up a new building. Am I missing something?
I think self driven cars are going to be an amazing blessing to senior citizens — this could really reinvent suburbia in a good way.
Atlantic City is in New Jersey. Where everyone sues everyone else when they have an issue.
Great to see Travis supporting Pull Requests.

At Mozilla we've been using Bot.io for several of our Github projects (PDF.js, Firefox OS, Popcorn.js, etc) since mid-2011 to launch regression tests right from Pull Requests. It's fully customizeable (runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, etc), open source, and a breeze to install:

http://github.com/arturadib/botio

We'll likely be implementing the status API very soon. Let me know if I can help at @arturadib.
I'm up north a bit in Madison, Wisconsin, and my co-founder and I have definitely been interested in what's going on in Chicago. I'd love to connect with more Chicago founders and learn more about the scene.
Hackers Claim Massive Apple IDs Leak Is Proof Of FBI Spying
Speaking as someone whose really likes topology, and who has been around boats their whole life, I suspect that you have not got the first fucking clue what I think regarding people who obsess about knots.

Also, I would rather you didn't attempt to try and act as some sort of translator for me, as you appear to be a complete and utter dick.

Sorry for my undue negativity about this.
That's quite the story - too bad it ends on such a downer...!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Union#Financial_support
Show HN: Moving Truck Alarm System With An Arduino & Twilio
Based on the article it seems like the motivation for the deduplication is as much bandwidth conservation as reduction of storage costs. What you're proposing would make sense if storage costs are your only concern, but it shuts out bandwidth limited users.
Over $100k last year from educationalrap.com

- ~45 educational rap songs, divided into middle school subject areas, that include PDF worksheets and multiple versions of each song

- One-time purchases via song/album downloads and shipped CDs; recurring subscriptions to rrr.fm, a streaming music service for schools we contracted out (built on Rails)

- rrr.fm signup happens via Formstack, which drops the data into Campaign Monitor, PayPal, and our app

- $0 spent on advertising

- Sells mostly to teachers directly, but also to schools, libraries, etc.

- Part-time help to handle support and ship the CDs

- Still paying off debt from production and high burns 2007-2008, but comfortably cash-flow positive for a while now
Stem cells bring back feeling for paralysed patients
In other news, Estonian children go to school naked?
Investors exchanging cash in hand for a discount on future cash flows, because they have different time or risk preferences. If you can't ever come out ahead without selling the asset (to a speculator who will of course have to kick it further down the hall of mirrors), its price has exceeded its fundamental value, which pretty much has to screw somebody over.
The other replies made to your original comment are defensive. Perhaps we all misinterpreted your comment.
I am actually more curious about the percent increase in performance from parallels 7 to parallels 8. Do you have any statistics on that?
How much faster is P8 than P7? A ballpark approximation would be helpful. Thanks for the report.
DVD-R discs with 160+ years lifespan
Really happy to see this partnership. It's definitely a perfect match.

My favorite line: "They built something for themselves on the hunch that there were plenty of people out there just like them. And they were right."

In a constant stream of articles about market research, fund raising, and investing, this is refreshing to be reminded what should be at the heart of all startups.
From Google Traduction:

I personally find it very unfortunate that connex.io is closing - it was once one of these promising and diversified Swiss startups. For the future I wish you both good luck with hopefully other projects - let the HN community know what's coming with you next.
Scalable Internet Architectures
I believe this deserves some attention. This is a company based in Czech Republic (Europe) which manufactures and sells DVD-R discs based on metal-ceramic recording layers for long term data storage and archival use. The product was tested by laboratories in Switzerland and guaranteed lifespan is 160 years. Among other things the disk should withstand (as they claim) 15 minutes in boiling water or putting in a freezer.
One disk costs about 3€/4$.

They have terribly looking website, but none the less, the product seems very interesting. Notable is that Czech Government uses this technology as part of their backup solution. I discovered it accidently, but I thing it may be interesting in context of recent discussion about backup solutions with regard to Amazon Glacier etc.

(I am not affiliated with the company in any way.)
http://cooper.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/assets/site/fi...
> if your manager says, "I'll fuck you over in Perf if you do a 20% project", then you don't have 20%-time.

I find it hard to imagine a manager could get away with saying that, but even if they did, I think it would be an empty threat. Perf is designed so that the manager is not a SPOF, your peers' reviews are considered at least as important as your manager's review. It would be pretty obvious if there was a big discrepancy between what your manager says and what your peers say, which would call your manager's review into question. The only way this would be a problem would be if your peers give you bad reviews too (and if that's the case, then maybe, just maybe, you need to take a look at yourself).
This is one of the main reasons I think that all money spent on lawyers should go into an account that both sides get to draw upon equally to pay legal expenses. You simply cannot have a system capable of meting out justice if money can skew "justice" in your favor.
Agriculture was compulsory at my high school for the first four years. We learned to drive tractors in the first year, managed our own vegetable allotments in the second, administered injections to animals in the third, and pregnancy tested cows in the forth. No, this wasn't decades ago, this is still the case at my school today.
"But when you have a lot of front- or backends, the configuration file will be huge, and reloading will take some time. If you need to reload every few seconds..."

Uh, yeah, I suspect your workload is unusual.
Why I Hated Meredith’s First Grade Teacher: An Open Letter to America’s Teachers
Apple Sends Out Invite For ‘iPhone 5′ Lauch Event On 12th September
Skepticism is deserved. It's a very fine balance, and bearing in mind not much software exist that is entirely bug-free.

What is the cost of a bug that is never discovered? Is it negative?
What is the cost of fixing a bug that would never have caused a problem (at each stage of development)?

It's way more complex than bugs == bad
In fact, the researchers never even use the term "dream."
Gist as a platform
Hacking Context to Talk To Someone New.
You say it makes up half of the purchasing population, and you also say that you tend to forget about them?

Sounds spurious.
http://www.techspot.com/news/49975-how-ants-have-used-the-in...

If you look at http://donttrack.us/, it says your data "can potentially end up" in those places, not "will be sold to..."
It will be less confusing as "iPhone 5". 5 comes after 4. Most people don't know what generation it is.
Windows RT and Office 2013 RT video demo
One million Apple IDs leaked online, hackers claim
All of the WPA2 attacks I've seen assume predictable SSIDs and Passwords.

Again , ISPs seem to be ahead of this. Looking in my local area most of the APs have names like "BThub543897534895" and I assume that the passwords are randomly generated.
That would log an IP to a computer that is it. If I'm at your house and jump on your computer and download the latest and greatest movie. That would be logged as you doing that not me. The ISP would only have one piece of the puzzle, hence the problem with just tracking IP address.
Last I heard, HAProxy does not perform any caching. I agree that fewer components in the stack would be an improvement, but we seem to be in the minority.
True, but not even that limited. Any individual that could benefit from not having to concern themselves with the outside environment. In addition to the senior citizens, you also have the handicapped, the makeup applicators, the cell phone users, limited eyesight drivers, the overall bad drivers, and more importantly, impaired drivers (alcohol especially).

Not just performance in terms of efficient driving and merging, but also safety and essentially taking human operator error out of the equation (for the most part)
China warns US on South China Sea row as Clinton visits 1 hour ago
or mask-image with the image being a url to some SVG... I think in this example the image is an SVGImage as well. mask-image would work on arbitrary HTML content (such as video, etc).

This example clips video to a path in a PNG, but it ought to work with the URL pointing to an SVG image: http://www.apple.com/html5/showcase/video/
Using Recursive SQL with ActiveRecord and Tree Structures
There are still plenty of WEP APs in my area. In fact there are local businesses still using WEP on their WiFi.

HN often fails to realize what 'normal' users are like. The world is still very unsecured.
Yeah i'm not really worried that burglars are going to use this data-set for harm. If they know about this data-set they likely know about databases of home sales or car sales or just plain old census data listing the average income by county.
Other than AMT tax no Facebook employee can see the difference between the stock IPOing at $38 then falling to $18 and the stock IPOing and $18. Sure the is a lot more sturm und drang in one of the scenarios but at some point the price starts representing the market's view (right or wrong of the future). This is predicated on my assumption that Facebook's true value is closer to $4 (adjusting down to a P/E of around 20- I don't see a lot of growth potential despite claims like: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/30/party-like-its-1990-some-ct... ). I don't short because for that to be profitable you need to be 1) more informed and more certain, 2) have some idea of the timing of the market coming around to your point of view.
160 years falls somewhat short of "forever"; as for the claims: how do you test for a 160 year lifespan, and more importantly: how will you read this in 160 years, assuming it is still readable? I have 25-year-old 9" floppy disks, but I have no way to read them - no drives, and even if I scavenged one online, no computers with a compatible interface.

Even though it's an impressive claim, unless they can somehow provide a 160-year lifespan drive, I'm less than impressed.
GNU Coreutils Cheat Sheet
Ask HN: Idea that solves the problem of same-day online delivery
Big box retailers like Best Buy, Target, Walmart would love a way to deliver same-day to online consumers, but it's too expensive. So here is my solution:

There are already hundreds of thousands of couriers that go in and out of these retailers everyday: consumers.

Why not make a mobile app that alerts them to deliveries that are needed near their home. They are already headed that way anyway, all they would need to do is stop by a neighbor's house to deliver the goods. I'm thinking the retailers can pay fees ranging from $10 - $20. Heck, I'd check the app to see if anyone needs deliveries near me for an extra few bucks, why not?

Anyway, what do you guys think? Obviously this idea needs a lot of work, but I think the gist of it could work in some way.
I'd love to read about his story, but I'd wager that he wasn't notable enough; it would be interesting to find his journal.

"August 17th, 1782. The idiot sent us to the West Indies with a boat-load of warming pans. It was only through my ingenuity and hustle that I was able to convince the locals that they would make excellent ladles - we actually managed to turn a profit! I can already imagine the smug look on Dexter's face when we tell him about this. I bet this will inspire him to send something even more idiotic next time, like wool mittens. Note to self, don't show him this journal lest he get any ideas."
Al Jazeera News network website hacked by Pro-Assad hackers
> Even in a relatively new profession like CS, we tend to specialize.

I suspect that this is exactly the challenge. From what I know of him, Franklin did not specialize. Was that the nature of who he was, or an artifact of the time? And, of course, what about the survivor bias? We probably wouldn't hold Franklin in such high regard if he had only excelled in one of the many areas that he's known for.

There are scientific names throughout history who shared Franklin's love of discovery. da Vinci, Pasteur, Einstein and Feynman all come to mind immediately. Who from our generations will join that list? I bet that whoever does will also have a broad set of accomplishments.
How did investors get "fleeced"? Nobody lied to them, they had all the info and just made the wrong choice. If next time investors decide to sit out Andrew Mason next business just because they did poorly on the last one. I for one will be around to pick up the easy money. Also you're only talk the subset of investor that bought Facebook. There will be an equal number picking it up for cheap.

The deal FB made was they tell everyone about the business, everyone else prices it. It's not Facebook's fault investor screwed up their end of the bargain.
> Fix the problem and get on with your life.
You see the irony in your trolling right?

I know all about copy, rewriting and reiterating on such. This is a blog, not a high level advertisement. Most advertising can't be changed when in the Real World™ - whereas a blog can be.

If you don't like the article, you don't have to read it. If you want to comment about it, read it so you actually know what you're talking about.
RubySource | Fiddling Around With SinatraRubySource
Cool! Maybe Apple will also tell why they allow spyware on iOS as reported by Bloomberg?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-29/spyware-matching-fi...
This would indeed be true for a sufficiently large price advantage of Glacier over S3, but note that tarsnap typically saves ~99.99% by de-duplicating my data (daily backups, usually only a few e-mail and code files have changed.) I imagine that the typical usage pattern may be a bit less extreme, but the price differential would have to be huge to be worth it.
Shouldn't the agile motto be, "If it hurts, find a better way"? The whole point is to have the agility to adjust around different circumstances. We're not bound by natural laws, and our output is more likened to art than science because of the many variations you can take. So take advantage of it!

This article assumes there is only one way to get something done, which smells of rigid Certified processes. And our industry has enough of a bravado culture that people put themselves through pain just so they can show off their scars. Why not promote pain-avoidance thinking instead? We should all be thinking, "there's got to be a better way", because most times, there is.

Knees hurt when you exercise? Try swimming. Merging is a painful process? Try scheduling the work better; dividing the codebase smarter; allowing the smaller work to be sacrificed in order to get the important worked checked in; finding tools to help visualize the merge easier.
Best hype machine ever.
Translation : In response to your attitude against Syria, ( Syrian people and Government ) and your support to the Terrorist & Armed Groups, and sharing Fake news, your site has been hacked and this is our response to you. ( Al Rashedon hakcker group.)
Tornado 2.4 released
Not to mention exciting opportunities for mass transit. Imagine jitneys or other smaller van-like transit options that have dynamic routes based on demand. No more fixed routes and inefficient buses.
H/W Hackathon this weekend in SF
Any individual that could benefit from not having to concern themselves with the outside environment.

I think people will take this way too far. They'll turn on the autopilot and take a nap while blasting through a school zone or something.
Wow, about a month ago on Reddit, I made a quick calculation where I predicted a 250% improvement in capacity.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/y28g8/suspend_al...
How Startups are Replacing the Role of Traditional Book Publishers
NRefactory itself depends on Cecil, so his translator might not use Cecil at all.
An excellent point. So capturing the bandwidth savings and the storage cost savings suggests an interesting mid-tier between longer term storage and shorter term.
If You Use Torrents, You're Most Likely Being Monitored
Economist-Innocentive entrepreneurship challenge
The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value Formula
they say: "this is a response to your stance against Syria (people and government) , and your support for terrorists and armed groups, and for posting fabricated and fake news.
You have been hacked, and this is our answer"
My favorite part of this whole writeup was:

"Epilogue: They each blame the other for the increased bill they're receiving from Amazon, leading to a breakdown in their relationship, and they get divorced a few months later. It was inevitable anyway: Cryptographers never really trust anyone."

Other than that, I think this whole post is spot on. The product pricing is clearly not in line with everything else they do.
Here's the actual Nature article (I love that io9 hides the link by removing any visual indication it's not normal text): http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn.320...
Is it just coincidence that this is essentially e? I know the natural log pops up in all kinds of unexpected places. Is this one of them?
Chrome Time Machine
I never buy books that don't have pdf version ;(
Oops. I pasted in the wrong link. I meant to give you the direct link to the preview: http://nathanbarry.com/wp-content/uploads/The-App-Design-Han...

Didn't mean to be a jerk and give you a link to the exact same page. Sorry!
Disinformation implies wilful, and to a lesser extent malicious. I made an honest mistake and get patronised and abused.

I claimed nothing, I merely offered an answer, which happened to be incorrect. Being human, I make mistakes. FTR, Unique Data Item Description is what the military use the acronym UDID for, I made an innocent assumption. So I was hardly making false statements, as you claim.

Seeings as the second point sailed over your head, I'll spell it out. I proffered and answer without being patronising and snarky, I could've said to the OP "Google it...", but I made an effort to be a decent member of the community. What's your excuse?
Not sure why this is downvoted.

The article starts with this quote:

We Sleep Peaceably In Our Beds At Night Only Because
Rough Men Stand Ready To Do Violence On Our Behalf

so it's really odd to find that a Vietnam War story follows. Of course this is orthogonal to the main point of the article (cf. the title), but it's still odd.
Because programming in itself is a language and now a fundamental language that you will need to understand to talk to "things" in the future?
They would never admit to something like that.
Many of us are trying to become more purposeful with the ways we use the web, but I haven't seen this done yet.

I think a more visual representation gleaned from the data could be insightful. Especially with respect to seeing habitual use of various categories of websites at certain times.