skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Website, iPhone app does not matter - desperate does not mean low income, desperate means insufficient income.

A quick look at their site - if I borrow 400 quid today and pay it back in one month (seems short term to me) I pay back 159 quid extra ontop of 400!!

And with all due respect I borrow 50 and pay it back a week later costs 9.50, so if you don't mind I am not going drinking at your pub. :-)
Time to go for 100% map completion...
Are you saying the usability of these apps don't matter.
Atleast I care about the slideshows.
Music playing is very rudimentary in dropbox. Tonido scores better when it
Comes to music -plays flac.
For people that use the phone a lot, and need something that just works, this isn't true. My parents use their home phone quite a bit, and the $25/month they pay for it is worth it.

I'd set them up with voip to save money, but I have tried voip setups, and even with qos I haven't been impressed with the audio quality when other people are on the internet.
Good catch! We're fixing this now.
Thank God this costs $5 dollars. I might have even gone as high as $10. To all those that think 5 bucks is too much: for you to actually get any value out of this app you have to use it over a non-significant portion of your life. We're talking on the timescale of years; I find it hilarious that 1 dollar is fine but 5 whole dollars is outrageous.
However, as the "analysis" section of the wikipedia article mentions, ever since the invention of ICBMs and other more accurate and faster methods of delivering nuclear bombs, the trend has been towards carpeting the target area with smaller and more numerous bombs. Since the energy of the explosion is inversely proportional to the square of the distance, for destroying a specific area I suspect having multiple smaller explosions would be more effective than one large explosion.
You're missing the point. There likely isn't a problem at all. His perception that drivers all of a sudden are greater in number and more aggressive since he moved in is probably completely inaccurate.

It's definitely the case that most drivers gain a bit of speed going down a hill, but it's been that way forever and it's not something you're going to change. So if one of your main concerns is the speed of traffic outside, don't buy a house at the bottom of a freaking hill.
> If I understand it correctly, Persona will give [identity services like Gmail] more direct control over user's identities.

No, Gmail already has that control. Almost every website out there allows you to reset your password by sending you an email. If you control the user's email, you can change their passwords. Persona changes nothing in this regard.
I agree that's the main reason online news is broken, and I started with that reason in my post. I'm proposing that the high quality content part won't be fixed, and see a possible alternative is us and our peers doing more work ourselves to provide the context that matters to us in our jobs.

Thanks for reading.
Dear hotels and airports,
... please charge me 5 or 10$ more on a booking but save me from this never ending agreementxyplan3.14142hoursickclickclicklegaltermredirect websites. Thanks :)
Cell towers are on backup power in a power outage.
I am always curious why when people say that $x.xx (or any app that is not $.99) is too expensive for an app.

A meal (burger, fries and a drink) in McDonalds will cost you at least $5~$9 depending on the size of the meal you get. Would you say that is expensive? Yet, when an app is anywhere from $2~$10, people will deem it as "expensive". It astounds me when people don't give a thought about spending $10 on food but when it comes to any software-related stuff, the same $10 is "too much".
Looks great, although I'm to worried of my iPhone's battery to install..
There are indications that is where UK system is trying to go, but there is a huge weight of baggage - everything from pointless stories about 14 children families living in million pound mansions and sponging off the state to reluctance to deal with structural geographic issues (frankly if you are under 25 move to London to get a job, there is nothing anywhere else for a certain value of nothing)

Sounds interesting approach though.
If there are hundreds of these vertically integrated stores, would a major challenge be exposure?

I've been thinking about how to bring the content of these stores together. Sites like svpply or Pinterest get close, but they don't tell the story of the brands (which is what people are really buying into).
"If you have extensive and current open source contributions, for most people it means ... you're violating your employer's contract terms."

Bingo (at least for me). Both companies I've worked for require you to submit a proposal to an open source review board for approval. I went through the process at my previous job and approximately 2 months later I was given the go-ahead. Not worth it.
I don't know about the worst in everyone :). Lots of people still manage to hold their temper. I've certainly gotten snippy here before.

I still come here for great commentary on complex topics, but usually resist the urge to look at comments on gotcha articles like this where I know there is probably nothing constructive to say, so the trollishness comes out.
Yikes, "love" isn't even worth $5 anymore? Glad I'm not in the flower industry.
Firefox 18 Gets Support for Retina Display
Nice concept.

Some feedback on the site itself: I'm having trouble reading the text due to the low contrast. (Maybe my monitor isn't setup properly?)
http://customer.io/
Wait a minute, they went to Brazil and chose... São Paulo?

They chose a crowded traffic-clogged endless concrete jungle, over the airy, green, lush beachside tropical paradise of Rio?

At least it says they went to Rio on long weekends.
Programmer pr0n straight up. I can't wait for Pyramid 1.3.x to support Python 3.3!!!
Yeah, I for space reasons I treated them as more similar than they are. Definitely a weakness of the post. My problems with Reddit are more my lack of ability to use it to filter only relevant content for me and strip out, for lack of a better phrase, the "geek content" that's always on its home page. Just seems really hard for a non-tech guy to navigate/get value out of. My concern is not getting content there, but being able to only read the right content for me as a user.
True. However, the spacecraft would still be radiating heat for quite a while, as I suspect the primary method of heat dissipation would be radiation. I suppose the spacecraft could carry some form of coolant, and eject it once the engines are shut off, but then the spacecraft would need to eject it while it is very far away from the enemy craft lest the enemy detect the ejected hot coolant. But then the spacecraft could not alter its trajectory, and so it would have to rely on the enemy craft keeping a constant trajectory.
Both David Pogue and Anil Dash have written about getting driving directions that takes them to the wrong location in places like New York city.

I'm just one user, but if a navigation app takes you the right address in the wrong location in a place like the Bay area or NYC, that's a "really bad" problem.
And lest you think you can avoid that fee (a "franchise tax") by incorporating in a different state, it applies to any company operating in California
Do you think rails or backbone was a mistake, or both? I'm a huge fan of backbone and would urge you to stick with it. It pays off!
I am assuming you have not met all the users of Dropbox then? Clearly there are people (like me) who do care about consuming the data other than just downloading them as raw files.
It should be white text on a blue background. That's what I see. Perhaps it looks different on different computers. I am NOT a designer though, so I won't even pretend to argue the current design is optimal.
Reduce Rails Boot Time by 30-40%
It's pretty hot in Brazil, and not common to have A/C in homes, outside of bedrooms. Men often don't wear shirts at home, or at friends' homes, and this is just someone's apartment.

When in Rome...
> My experience contributing lyrics to songmeanings.net, which used to be a community-run/crowdsourced lyrics repository, not full of pop-up ringtone ads, was similarly negative.

What is it with lyric sites and ringtone ads? LyricWiki went the same way.
You and I might be able to justify the price, but 99% of the people I know will not.

That means this is not a product I would be able to get most of my social group to use.
Whenever I see comments like this my first instinct is that their own products, if they have any, are priced too low.

The difference between 99cents and a higher price making the same profit is a significant difference in number of sales. Maybe if they get featured it would be worth it to lower the price to ensure it stays in the charts, but if it's not ranked it does not make sense to have a lower price.

People say what they wish for and then do another thing. People complain about prices, and then buy anyway if the product is right for them. And if the product is exactly made for them they will sense the value and know that the price is great. $5.49 for something you will potentially use for years? I have no trouble seeing the value. Though I only use Android devices.
> Congratulations, you have turned a peaceful and enjoyable experience into a slot machine.

So don't use it?
What can those of us who like this decentralized CA whitelist idea do to help it gain adoption? Can I start telling Chrome right now to use a whitelist maintained by an external source? Should I just pick someone's whitelist (e.g. ACLU, EFF, yours) and trim my browser and OS whitelists to only use those?

Also how does this affect SSL certificiate "pinning" as implemented in Chrome? I guess it doesn't since even if you have a pinned cert for a specific domain Chrome will still verify the trustworthiness of the CA that signed it?
"If only 5% of the data is wrong, and we have 2 billion searches per month, that means 100 million ..."

Please go back to stats class.
Nice work Jack! Going to see if I can work this into my Alfred flow.

Only a small request from me - a smaller menu bar icon and/or an option to hide it altogether (though I'm using Bartender to hide it for now).
What a breath of fresh air after reading the same old simplistic crap: "Europe is too socialist".
There is movement, though - lots of the core stuff is already ported to Python 3, and once matplotlib 1.2 comes out (any day now), it's quite feasible to do serious work with Python 3.
It comes down to risk.

I know exactly what I'm getting for $5 worth of McDonalds. $5 for an app feels more risky because I have no idea if there will be any value.
1. Right now, Gmail has only as much control over accounts as individual website developers give it. It's up to us to implement alternative password reset system and make them the default. Any website can (and in my opinion should) switch to something else at any time, because, firstly, password reset system is decoupled from core authentication mechanism and, secondly, it is under web developer's control. Mass adoption of Persona will change this problem from locally solvable to unsolvable. If this becomes the authentication standard (which seems to be the project's goal), you will have to trust user's email provider.

2. Right now, Gmail can reset your password, but it cannot silently authorize someone else to use your account without you knowing. It seems (and correct me if I'm wrong here), that with Persona such scenarios will become possible.
When I first got a cell phone I ported my landline number over to it. It has been with me through 2 carriers now, without issue.

My grandmother did the exact same thing, again without issue.

I am thinking that the market for people doing this is finite and limited, but there is likely money to be made on making a clean experience (versus Google Voice) serving the ever dwindling population of people who actually have land lines.
> Probably less than 1% of developers have GitHub repos

And if you count Google Code, Bitbucket, Sourceforge? Github alone has "2.1 million users hosting over 3.7 million repositories". What's your source for your statistic?

> When all of your work is online, it suggests you are not spending much time contributing value to whoever is employing you.

Or that you enjoy writing code so much that you do it in your free time.

> Companies that can't find developers often have bizarre and useless criteria such as "must have GitHub repository" ... none of which is correlated with ability.

Source?
Ограбление по-бельгийски / Il йtait une fois, une fois (2012) HDRip
It's a headache for your accountant for you to incorporate. However, it's a nightmare for you if you don't. Don't let his laziness put your finances in jeopardy.

I strongly suggest you find another accountant, because your current guy will get you screwed over when the tax man comes to collect.
Siri works fabulously for me. Here's how I use it, these use cases work consistently.

1. Call my wife at her office.
2. Text My Wife - I'll be home in 15 minutes.
3. Set a timer for 15 minutes.
4. Where's the closest Mc Donalds.

Obviously I'm not looking for a magic speaking encyclopedia of knowledge, that being said my primary use case for Siri is in the car, and for 90% of what I need to do it works fine.

BTW I just asked Siri "What is a class action" and it asked me if I wanted to search the web for "What is a class action" and it found the definition. I'll give it this though, whether automated or manually Siri's been pretty consistently tuned to get better and better as its gone along which was likely to happen as it got a larger and larger dataset to work with.
Sorry, I should have made my point clearer.

What I'm saying is the price is too expensive for me to get a large sample of my social group to try it out.

This will hinder the app's growth.
really cool! we can learn as they learn I hope.
The related problem I have is when I see a prospective employer that wants to see or discuss hobby projects. I understand that it is seen as an indication of passion for hacking/engineering or whatever, but when I'm at home I'm either drained from a day of focused work, or working on a hobby project related to my employer, like a new visualization or small tool that's fun to construct. It worries me when I think about having to interview out in the world without any good response when asked about hobby projects (except the truth as written above.)
I suggest the next step is crowd sourced expert curation. Some of the most popular posts on Reddit are where an expert enters the comments and lays the article bare for the masses. This is valuable. I'd pay for this.

But, and it's a big one, experts aren't cheap and their time is scarce. They're not going to curate content for free all day like Reddits 12 year olds and the granularity of expertise means you'll never cover everything with a small number of experts.

Two solutions: volume through scale to fund expert curation or find a way to gather and have them work for free. Maybe the research journal system could be used to provide non-financial incentives?
Any web developer who's ever attended WWDC or has an Apple Developer Connection account knows who Vicki Murley is.

Another way to look at the issue: who's fault is it that you don't know the key people behind the browse engine that powers Safari and Chrome and is dominating the mobile web?
While you're at it, don't hire a lawyer after you've been arrested until just before your sentencing hearing. That way, you can save a whole bunch of money. After all, the overwhelming majority of people plead guilty anyway, so what's the point in having a lawyer until the stage that really matters?
University education is the way to go, but 3 years is stupid and you could easily achieve the same thing in a single year in a well structured course.
Already covered at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4589563
You mean people who travel around the world can't spend 5 bucks on an iPhone app, makes sense :-)
Why people don't seem to get this is beyond me. Releasing Siri and Maps early were purely strategic decisions. Clearly both Siri and Maps can be improved more rapidly if some of the development is crowdsourced. Apple would believe (and rightly so) that the brand has enough excess credibility/goodwill with the public to ride this out.

Google has done this repeatedly with products like GOOG-411, a data collection exercise that was promptly shut down once it had served its purpose. Apple is taking a risk here because Maps is not some 'free' offering like GOOG-411, but they've done the math and will come out ahead when the dust settles.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that 90% of the examples of NIMBYism cited in this thread and the example cited in the original article revolve around cars?

Cars are the epitomy of an externality and are inherently anti-community and anti-commons. A vehicle that can move at 20mph to 70+ mph and comes in contact with human beings (as opposed to being segregated from them by barriers or being buried underground like a train) can only ever be detrimental to the commons. Everyone with a car wants it to move slowly around their own neighborhood and fast through everyone else's.
I'd argue that SMEs are the backbone of every successful economy.

If you look at big business, say the Fortune 500 for example, these organisations are typically much more high profile than their smaller brethren, but there are still... well, only 500 of them. And while the list includes giant individual employers like Walmart, those businesses collectively still only employ something like 20M-30M people depending on how you count. Similarly, while your revenues are probably $5B+ if you made the 500 this year, plenty of the businesses towards the lower end of the list only made perhaps $20M-30M in profit, and one or two didn't even land a profit at all.

Depending on whose definition you take for the maximum number of employees, companies of up to 100-300 people might be considered SMEs. At that point, you could certainly be earning profits that compete with the lower end of the Fortune 500, and there are a lot more SMEs out there than industry giants.

And that's just the most basic, raw economic data about business performance and employment, without even considering cultural differences and efficiencies and innovation and numerous other factors that make smaller businesses important to the wider economy.
GOOG-411 worked well, in my experience; and it also let you make free calls. I think it was probably a PR win for Google.
I disagree with almost everything you said, but I'm going to take note of one bit in particular:

"there's no correlation between skill level and having a GitHub repo"

There may be no evidence of any correlation, but I'm willing to bet there's no evidence in favor of a lack of correlation, because I'm pretty sure no one has done anything approaching a scientific study on this.
I work on the devops team for Voxeo Labs, the company behind Tropo, so I resent the implication that we don't have real servers. :-)

More seriously, I'm familiar with the Tropo API and know that no matter what direction this product goes, Tropo is a capable platform to build it on.
yeah, no. Just downloaded it.

http://i.imgur.com/pbGvv.png

whole thing looks like this.
I love this idea.

Unfortunately my GPX export from Foursquare doesn't seem to show up in the application.

I used this utility for what it's worth: http://etgps.net/gps/4sq/
Hauled up in apartment for 60 hours a week and going to restaurants or bar now and then with an entourage of familiar coworkers doesn't qualify 1% for coming in contact with the culture to cause culture shock. It's like knocking on the glass window of a lion pen at the zoo and claiming you bonded with the animals. Get real.
a) This is funny because even surface ships don't tend to use large guns as weapons except under specific circumstances. Other than torpedoes, modern submarines use guided missiles for attacking land targets or other ships that are out of range of their torpedoes.

b) Interestingly enough, this is probably the most dominant form of naval warfare in the last decade or so, due to the increase in piracy off the horn of Africa. Of course, this isn't the way things go down when warships are on both sides.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Protocol_Ov...
Why I Took My Child Out of Public School
Sorry, I should also have mentioned TACK, Moxie and Trevor Perrin's proposed system of allowing servers to dynamically update certificate pins. As many people here know, Chrome already has a system of pinned keys, which mean that as far as Chrome is concerned, Chrome is the final arbiter of GMail's public key, not Trustwave or any other CA. TACK allows browsers to keep a cached list of pins in somewhat similar fashion to HSTS, which caches a list of servers that must use TLS.

TACK is just a proposed standard right now; I have no idea where it's going. But it's a good band-aid on the existing CA system.
...something Apple has never (arguably) done before.

Well, pretty much every 10.x.0 OSX release has had some nasty regressions in it, but they're generally not quite as easy to spot as the maps fiasco. What's worse is that this isn't a new product that starts off a bit crap with the view of improving it over time - there have been a few examples of these as well.

Instead, from the users' point of view, the maps update falls plainly into the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" category. Users don't give a damn about contracts between Apple and Google. The Maps app has been there since iPhoneOS 1.0 and it's not had any drastic changes since then, despite its tremendous popularity. I find it baffling that they didn't release the new map material as an extra mode with more features (3D, turn by turn navigation), in addition to Google's map material for the classic 2D view until iOS7 comes along. That would probably have completely avoided the problem and given Apple an extra year to get their data into shape. The new features, although a little half-baked, would still have been seen as an improvement by users, whereas now they're just blinded by the seething rage of having the core functionality yanked out underneath them.
I had that problem before getting a retina MBP. I've basically retired my desktop at this point, and when I need some quiet time with the monitors, I can drive three externals plus the onboard display.

(I'm getting rid of my 3x23" 1080p panels for two 27" 2560x1440 panels, because I want to be able to drive those and my Cintiq at the same time.)