skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iPhone App is the best example of this waste of space.

That banner image takes up about 1/3 of the screen, leaving 2/3 for UI elements, actual information like follower/following and tweet count and one single tweet.

It's not only a waste of space if you are already following someone but also if you want to discover new people to start following.
What users are talking about should be the primary focus in every case - whether you are already following the user or not.
I think a web-of-trust-style reputation system would work well here, since "votes" cost money.

The reputation of a buyer is the mean of the reputations of the projects they've backed (times some confidence metric).

The reputation of a project six months after it started is 1 if they kept their promises (as measured by confirmation emails sent to the backers) and -1 otherwise.

The reputation of a project before six months is the mean of (the mean of the reputations of its backers (again times some confidence)) and the reputation of the person who started the project.
Padgram, InstaPin.... --> Instagram...

This is not really creative + the logo which is also copied
Here's a few I've been thinking about:

- Remote aid delivery by drone: build and send small robotic aircraft to remote areas and drop aid, preferably starting with medicine (lightweight and very useful). Small helicopters (quadrotor drone copters as you see at TED/MIT) could land and accept return packages if necessary. Trips could be made to hazardous places where human-driven aid drops can't venture. Additionally, all aid drops could be done cheaper and more efficiently. [The drones should be solar-powered?]

- Microwave oven with a solid, opaque door. On the door put a nice 1020p screen and inside put video cameras. You could microwave food, see a convincing video of it cook and not have to deal with harmful radiation or an unpleasant grilled screen.

- Pizza button. I had this idea about two years ago, someone in Dubai is currently executing (I think). You order a button, a physical red button (or an app with a big button, but that's not as cool). If you press the button, a pizza arrives at your location (tracked either by smartphone or by pre-set address). Default pizza arrives unless other instructions are set. I would insist on extreme simplicity: no options, no choices. Just "press button to receive pizza".
the obvious explanation is that women aren't as good at STEM subjects.
Clickable links: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55974 and http://www.waybackletter.com/archive/daily/09-18-2012.html
Seems as though the only thing one needs to earn money on the internet is to make a video with good cameras and be good at Computer generated 3D models of products that will never be completed.
I too think that the kickstarter should stop project starters from giving out material things.
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Similar feature has been on Plunker (http://plnkr.co/edit/?p=streamer) for a while now though, perhaps, with less polish.
hmm, upper left has no camera, i think...
Good summary, made me skip.
I agree with the premise and it's a smart article, but the outcomes aren't mutually exclusive. You can recognize imminent change and thus plan for the future while still suing to protect a revenue stream. If it makes economic (both directly or indirectly) sense to sue, people will sue - regardless of future innovations they may or may not have in the pipeline.
Startup activity in the US is down
I think you misunderstood what I meant; I meant that MongoDB is as good as it gets for our requirements, not availability-wise. I agree if availability is your only concern, there are far better solutions.
"This is the intersection between Macro economic theories (op cost) and consumer behavior."

This is as Micro as it gets. And why do you think oppurtunity cost is restricted to Macro?
Inside Paul Allen's Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain
gotcha, thanks,
I'm not sure why this is any sort of surprise. Ever since Kickstarter began there have been lots of great ideas, lots of awful ideas. Some of the great ideas have been clearly way too ambitious for small teams but people happily donate money. Given this isn't an investment and what you're doing is giving someone money to follow their dream, to my mind it's almost irrelevant if at the end you don't get your $30 lightbulb. You've lived vicariously through the Lifehacker in question and got to see something go to market or crash and burn.
How do you know whether the increase in downloads is due to "good design" vs. confusion with an official instagram product? The new icon bears a strong resemblance to the instagram icon (particularly at small sizes). Isn't it possible that instead of good design you're simply seeing an increase in conversions by unsophisticated buyers and you're gaining a benefit from that confusion with a well-established brand? It sounds like you're probably not US-based, but it might be worth considering whether there is any legal exposure for trade dress infringement and/or trademark dilution.
I'm talking about the efficiency of the pipeline starting with a fossil fuel and ending with a car moving down the road. It's also fair to start the comparison with a fossil fuel in the ground, but in that case you also have to start the electric pipeline at a coal mine.

Electric might well win by a significant margin, but it isn't nearly the 85% to 20% claimed.
except many of these "scientists" won't release their data sets to allow verifiable and reproducible science.
Just because they're a major corporation doesn't mean anyone with any clout gives a shit about whether or not customer logins are being brute forced, or if their servers can be DDOS'd. Even if somebody cared to mention it, somebody else would mention that it's too expensive, they're not getting attacked right now, and there's more important problems to worry about, so it gets ignored. This is not just cynicism on my part - this is how most companies operate. When they start losing money they'll start caring about security.

Oh, and DDOS has nothing to do with rate limiting. If you fill up a pipe with incoming packets it's going to become unresponsive. There's no real way to stop it, but multi-homing, global distribution and some tricks administered by DDOS mitigation companies can help.
I know that MongoDB is very different in architecture from BigTable (as opposed to HBase and BigTable, for example), but I always understood that the fundamental way they choose to assign and lookup regions to regionservers (or, in mongodb terminology, shards and shard servers) was based on the BigTable architecture.

Could you elaborate on the differences in the sharding model between the two?
> American security during a war

Just a reminder, but there's no declared war. There's military action, yes. But no war has been declared.

Manning is only a traitor if one enjoys fellating the Military-Industrial Complex.
Perhaps, but how much revenue did Instagram have?
German watchdog warns of Internet Explorer breach
Islam does not have a hierarchy. Imams are simply considered more learned in Islam than others and usually are clerics who head prayers in mosques and give Friday sermon. In truth, where many of them do know more about Islam than the layman, some of them just have no clue whatsoever and take it as a job like any other (government pays salaries, etc). Some Imams are even pretty much despised by Muslims. Adherence to Imams is also varied, we have nothing in Islam that makes adhering to a fatwa or Imam compulsory. Usually a person would have a couple of Imams that he admires and "usually" abides by their fatwas, again, with nothing forcing him to do so.

In Shia Islam, it's a bit different because Al Khomeeni is considered a legislator like the prophet himself. So his command is supreme and absolute and you'd expect most Shias to abide by it. Other Shia Imams vary in popularity and usually have some committed followers in varying numbers and their Imams too have a hierarchy usually leading up to Al Khomeeni. In reality, you will find Shias who would not follow these Fatwas, but they are a minority. And again, Al Khomeeni is undoubtedly learned in Islam to make stupid Fatwas. I'm a sunni, not a Shia.

Finally, yes, the fatwas do pose a risk to these people. There's no way to say otherwise. But at the same time, the moderate more learned Muslims always follow up. Where sentiment reigned supreme at the beginning of the event, now religion/logic is catching up to tell these brainless idiots that they've screwed up badly. Many supporters of the latest events have even recounted and realized their mistakes. But alas, a little too late. Islam, through its teachings, forbids the kinds of actions that happened in Libya (check my previous response for sources). I'll try my best to spread the letter that's been passed here.
The pizza button info is here, but they're out of stock:
http://www.redtomato.biz/magnet/
>And why do banks (or credit card companies) even let users pick their own PIN codes?

Sure the PIN sucks, but ATM security is actually two factor, something you have and something you know. The cards can be duplicated, they've made good inroads on that but haven't rolled those cards out in the states.

Its an example of "good enough" security. Not only is the barrier to theft much higher than the cash next to it in their wallet, you only have a 30% chance of getting into their account before the ATM eats the card. If you do get in, you can typically only withdraw $300 and your face has been recorded.

Which kinda sucks that security is compromised to make more profit.

I find it kind of strange that you're picking up on this, do you not read everything on HN as a stream of soul-crushing money-first attitudes too?
Ok, I've always wondered about that '?' operator. What's the point?

It was said (at the time) that C-like syntax meant a program was a series of expression, not statements. So something like

(void)1;

is valid syntax. Even compound expressions are valid:

a=5, b=6;

Where I feel abandoned (betrayed?) is this: why then aren't compound statements also expressions? E.g.

{
int x=Foo(50);
Bar(x);
}

The value returned could just be the value of the final executed expression (Bar yields a value). No need for 'return' at all.

And no need for '?'.

int x = { if (i > j) 5; else 6; }
thanks for the comments, @francov88, i will keep up the work and keep sharing. Up to now, I think Padgram still has potential to grow. Among all the Instagram iPad app, Padgram has relatively good design and distinguishing features. I will share more data as it goes.
OK, I'm curious what kind of model you have. Is it a top or front loaded?

Mine (front loaded) has a pre-wash (2 hour program) or "soaking" mode for extra dirty clothes (4h), and I can select temperatures from 0-90 degrees celsius, but most clothes get clean at 40 degrees.

I had to do an obscure button trick described in the user manual to have it remember the previous settings after a completed cycle, though.
The other side to this is that higher numbers give them the benefits of scale. Ordering 1000 rather than 100 of a particular part allows you much cheaper prices. Which means higher chance of success. Having to deal with a few million dollars worth of orders is a good problem to have. Much better than the same product, but only a few thousand.
But enough about 1999.

Honestly, wasn't that always what /. was about?
I'm using Coq for a formal method class and the CoqIde is a piece of software that falls into this category. If I have two files open and I run a search, there is a good chance that the CoqIde will crash and I'll lose my work. I've worked around it by saving my work before I search but I shouldn't have to worry about searching in an IDE
"negativity, bile and cynicism"

Sounds like a niche to me. Niches are good.
Causation and correlation?

1) You redesigned your entire app

2) You updated your app icon

Downloads go up because of #2?
Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Hmm, aren't there artificial diamonds used for jewelry, indistinguishable from the real thing (well, sans the certificates, I guess)?

I thought they made and sold "fake diamonds" that were molecularly indistinguishable from real diamonds nowadays, is that not the case?
Thanks for a good explanation, that was mostly poor wording on my part. I did not mean in any way to imply "no foul, no harm". I agree with you on all this. My personal view of Manning is that it is correct to charge him but that the treatment of him by the US authorities has been horrible.

As for if he is a traitor or not: since I do not think there is an ongoing war involving the US in the middle east I cannot really count it as treason. Still criminal of course.
The radiation from your microwave isn't harmful, but I will admit it's kinda hard to see what's going on through that mesh.

I really like your drone delivery idea.
just wanted to say that if alcohol is related to 31% of the deaths in driving crashes. Then being sober accounts for 69% of the deaths therefore it is safer to be drunk then to be sober. Woohoo!
When developing iOS apps, if you cannot hire a designer in your team, then you or someone else in your team should try and learn some basic design skills. In a market like the Apple App Store where there are a huge number of apps, the easiest way to differentiate yourself is with the help of good design.

You are going in the right direction though with the design. Best of luck.
Congratulations on the exit. Slashdot started my addiction to technology news and sourceforge started the niche that has given us things like assembla and github today. Well deserved.
"Remote aid delivery by drone" is something I know Matternet, a Singularity University affiliated startup, is doing: http://matternet.us/our-vision/
I like the idea of thematic days.

Some days i just feel like writing all day. I should do all the writing for everything I am working on.

I could also setup meetings for all projects on certain days.

Finally, like my dad say, it is all about discipline. Without it, it is not going to work.
This needs to be covered by http://pizzaornot.com/.
Sorry!

Just to make it worse for you: why don't people also pronounce 1492 as "one thousand and four hundred and ninety and two"?
Hi @reidrac, i guess you're right. Anyway it's an Instagram iPad app, the simplest way to make user accept an app is make him/her understand what the app does at first glance. The new icon better conveys the info
i too like drone delivery idea
The trademark symbols can provide constructive notice of the registrant's ownership of the mark, and can be used to support enhanced damages for willful infringement which may not be available in the absence of marking.
The longer a post has been around, the most points it requires to get to the front page.

I believe this is still relevant: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574

PG's post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417
Many profitable businesses tail off very slowly over years, throwing off excellent revenue in the process. Last year, for example, AOL made $175 million off 3 million customers who still subscribe to its dial-up business.[1] Those businesses can become even more profitable in the near term if your strategy is to cut marketing/operating costs to the bone and "ride them down". It sounds very mercenary, but that can be the right approach when there is no growth potential.

[1] http://www.splatf.com/2012/07/aol-3million-chart/
Oh, I see you're using a definition of Cartel that's rather different than the standard one[1]. If you just mean that commodity producers more or less converging around a price without an explicit agreement between them to inflate that price than of course every commodity ends up being a "cartel" and you'd have a hard time finding an economist who would disagree with you.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel
I think the article is trying to define what you call ravioli code as a modern version of spaghetti code. But I think ravioli is a handier, more specific name. Is it your coinage?
I don't know why this was downvoted - technically a private company harassing you is trespassing and I am within my rights to remove him.

(also I didn't have a television for 10 years).
>> I verified this by writing a script to “brute force” the PIN number of my own account.

They need to turn on ip rate limiting to stop brute force attacks or make them impractical. At least that's my understanding of the purpose of rate limiting.
Reading Sourceforge is not unlike reading magazines at the dentist's office while awaiting a root canal. All the magazines are old, dog-eared, and full of things you don't care about and the environment is extremely disconcerting.

This latest redesign takes Sourceforge from Slashdot-flavored ugly into domain-squatter horrendous.
Being Behind Schedule
Creating apps with PhoneGap: Lessons learned
Ask HN: Why do Haskellers discourage FP newbies from learning Clojure?
I have noticed this pattern in IRC discussions on #haskell. Chime in as to why Haskellers have a low opinion of Clojure.
Why is it not creative? I think the logo is just a little common, but not copied.
The issue here doesn't have anything to do with Federal funding of research, but the fact that he is technically an employee of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Freedom of information laws vary by State, but in general, employees of State Universities are State employees, and as such information related to their positions, etc may be subject to a freedom of information request. I'm not intimately familiar with the FOI laws in Virginia, but I do know that they require salaries of all State University employees be divulged under a FOI request (you can get that information here: http://datacenter.timesdispatch.com/databases/salaries-virgi... or any other number of places)

It is not at all unprecedented to ask for emails of State employees in a freedom of information request, though the scope must be pretty narrow to be successful. You may see, for example, requests being made for emails related to deliberations around specific procurements.

Personally, I think a blanket off limits approach to university personel is a slippery slope. People biased enough to be upset over a request like this should feel free to submit similar requests to researchers (at State institutions) whose results they disagree with.

One more point - no FOI request would ever have a chance of being approved asking for something like 'all emails from an email account' - these requests need to be very narrow and specific to be granted so it would likely be something more like 'emails related to one specific research topic in a specific timeframe'. So, folks who think they're looking for a broad selection of personal emails to find something personally embarrassing are off base.
Hm. How do you compare uranium fuel efficiency to coal? Chemical vs nuclear reactions - by weight? cost? heat?
Short Classification of Minds
Windows 8 Tablets: Born to fail
Haha, it's a great life lesson no doubt. I learned this concept a few years ago when I first started to ride a motorcycle, and they have a phrase for it - target fixation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation

What amazed me more was how the fundamentals of riding a motorcycle contained many great life lessons. It's not just target fixation, but rider awareness, maintaining margin, and all sorts of other little things.
Not quite the remote aid delivery, but at least a Doner Kebab delivery is the goal of this start up (in German):
http://www.doenercopter.de/
The increased emphasis on photo sharing is interesting. Facebook bought Instagram a few months back. Just the other day Google announced the acquisition of Snapseed. Now Twitter is making changes to make photo sharing more relevant to the experience.

It seems like photo sharing is strategically important to each of these companies. Anyone have any insights as to why?
It got a lot better since that crowd migrated over to Reddit.
"Last September, Israel's major banks quietly informed the Israeli government that they faced losses of disastrous proportions from defaulted accounts almost entirely collateralized with diamonds. Three of Israel's largest banks—the Union Bank of Israel, the Israel Discount Bank, and Barclays Discount Bank—had loans of some $660 million outstanding to diamond dealers, which constituted a significant portion of the bank debt in Israel. To be sure, not all of these loans were in jeopardy; but, according to bank estimates, defaults in diamond accounts rose to 20 percent of their loan portfolios. The crisis had to be resolved either by selling the diamonds that had been put up as collateral, which might precipitate a worldwide selling panic, or by some sort of outside assistance from the Israeli government or De Beers or both. The negotiations provided only stopgap assistance: De Beers would buy back a small proportion of the diamonds, and the Israeli government would not force the banks to conform to banking regulations that would result in the liquidation of the stockpile."

from the article about trying to sell diamonds - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
On the Verge of New Industrial Revolution
When should you consider a potential acquisition in tech decisions?
In the early stages, the consensus in advice seems to be:

- Building an MVP: Use whatever is quickest.

- After you've got product market fit: Use whatever the team knows best/is best for the medium to long term.

But at what point do you start to consider potential acquisitions? Not necessarily a single company, but should you avoid using an (relatively) obscure language that would be slightly quicker in favour of a tried and trusted language that you know a lot of the big companies that may one day buy you use?

There has to be a point when this comes in to consideration, when would it be for you?
To be fair those were a lot of names for what pretty much was the same company, as VA Research went on a decade-long journey from being a Wall Street IPO hit selling Linux workstations to selling T-shirts to people who use Linux workstations.
I did both. I think people are more interested in #2 (because it's outsourced and the icon itself is a 'camera'), but #1 is definitely one of the reasons
The normal response to this would be "You get an app if you're more interested in the content", but then I realized that Twitter is going out of their way to kill off apps.

Somewhat distressing.
> Wooden texture is a fashionable design in 2012. It’s said to be good for photo viewing app. Our design combines wooden texture with transparent glass. It has the metaphor that your iPad is a wooden table, you put glass on it and photo over the glass. It’s good, isn’t it?

> It costs us $50, but absolutely worth the money

> Brush Script used as a logo

This is a fucking joke… right?
Not in the laundry room right now, but its from Sears, top-loaded (cramped laundry room doesn't permit front-loading), all electronic, has no agitator(!) and is a piece of junk.

Maybe I can find a trick in the manual; thanks for that idea.
Hmm. Let's assume 2 page views per visit for simplicity.

44.2M visitors /mo = 88.4M page views /mo

If they're bringing in $20m revenue per year, that means $1.66m per month, or $19 CPM, more or less.

Either they've got a lot of page views per user or they're monetising at pretty high rates. Do /. or Sourceforge have non-ad monetisation methods, or are they just getting very good ad deals?
Would have been interesting to see github acquire SorceForge, for nothing more than the projects. I guess a migration wouldn't be worth it, the projects with life and activity would have left SF sometime ago?
Agreed. Who thinks work email addresses are personal ones?
Entrepreneurs are the New Labor
Get what you pay for.

Considering a good designer will control every interaction between users and your product then $500 is a bargain (I personally wouldn't have touched this project for that much).