skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

2:
* http://www.diaryofaninja.com/blog/2012/04/25/cause-for-conce...
* http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/12/window...
* http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/piracy-and-the-apple-app-...
* http://www.switched.com/2011/01/07/apple-mac-app-store-drm-h...
If I roll my own protection, I can make changes quickly. If I rely on store owner I need to deal with their priorities when they're approaching solution of their cracked scheme (backwards compatibility and minimal effect on store).
I started with ASProtect, but eventually decided that people who download my software off of warez websites are not my customers anyway and replaced it with a brain-dead serial number verification, which I could bin-patch even myself.

3: Desktop application != C++ application. C#/WinForms, C#/WPF are desktop applications as well. But yeah, developing decent UI in MFC is quite a bit of pain. Although, you could take some shortcuts with implementing UI with HTML/js, loading them from resources. I did that once, it is possible. Localization is a solved problem for both native and .NET.

4: So? Company policies and UAC doesn't go anywhere with Store. Antiviruses - yeah, those are more painful for regular software.

5: Applies to Store too. If something is wrong with customer's PC, it will be wrong regardless of your path of distribution.

Look, software is never simple (unless we're talking about fart apps), but the Store is not some kind of unicorn that alleviates all problems. Yes, certain things will be simpler, but usually the bigger problem is marketing and promotion and for its costs and risks of rejections/removals Store just not worth it.
Really cool, but am I the only one who finds this creepy as hell?
Apparently there was a maintenance procedure being performed quite consistently on these engines. But it was a bad one.
I often find myself performing optimizations that are generally best-practices under V8 (and also work well in Firefox) that most in this community would consider "premature optimizations," ...

Do you have any references you could point to? I'm really curious as to whether or not I'm doing something stupidly inefficient. :)
Mandatory voting would solve some problems caused by strongly motivated minorities voting for their own interests. For example, even apathetic young people forced to vote would be unlikely to vote for an elderly care plan that would inevitably bankrupt their country.
Best of luck to you regardless. My opinion would be hard to change on this issue without really exploring the details your caffeine consumption and the particulars of how you became convinced that that's not what it is. I don't want to badger you about it. Maybe just file this thought away somewhere. Caffeine is a drug, and you may be ingesting large quantities of it daily. That will affect you.
No dubbing in Finland. I don't think English in Finland is any worse than in aforementioned Scandinavian countries, considering that quality of teaching is equal if not better. Of course, if someone simply just doesn't bother learning the language in school, it's probably much harder to pick it up later on by Finns due to completely differing native language.
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Why do you think it is "self-serving" to suggest that you ought to have an open mind? If you don't want to take the trouble to investigate subjects which are of no interest to you, and for which you are just too darn busy, that is just fine, you don't need a reason.

You might choose to live your life in a cardboard box, after all, as long as you're happy there. Plenty of people will think you are missing out on life, though. But since you avoid people, you wouldn't care, I guess. Have a good one...
First off, do you need an app or just a website?

I can tell you that most of the stuff you're questioning about already exists as separate forums, and you'd really have to demonstrate value to have it in one place. There's already a rate a professor website. Theres abundant course data, along with GPAs per semester so you can draw conclusions. Campus jobs are posted on boards across campus, along with some subleases. Help with campus life is vague, why should I trust you (aka anonymous people that claim they're from my school) rather than people I know?

Basically, college kids will probably have a network to get this information from, whether it's a fraternity/sorority, or just their friends from class.

Should you do this, you're going to have a hard time with data startup, because most of the other sites have crowdsourced data over time. If it's not useful, no one will use it, and no one will put data in it.

I'd also argue that those questions are not daily decisions. Once a semester maybe.
> If someone says "tl;dr", I assume they mean "it was too long; I didn't read it."

This would be correct, however 'tl;dr: <summary>' is pretty common for providing a summary.
I appreciate the backup, though I'm not really hurt-- getting downvoted for that is pretty amusing.

It does seems like an interesting little pattern on HN, though. I've found I tend to get the most upvotes for expressing the strongest opinions, even "controversial" ones. Maybe it goes against the conventional wisdom, but usually, when I get downvoted, it's not because I've said something unpopular, but because I've said something mildly challenging, but otherwise completely blasé-- like pointing out that there's nothing privileged about the north pole of a dipole magnet. (It's the sort of thing liberal arts grads love to talk about, I'm not surprised it doesn't play well here.)

Normally, of course, there'll be a downvote or two and that's that. On the extreme end, you'll see this strange phenomenon where something is so insultingly boring that it necessitates a whole comment thread complaining about it. I actually find it really fascinating.
You offering me a job?
I guess it's time to take a random nick list from freenode and paste them somewhere online with allusions to a nefarious channel.

I don't mean that's what has happened here, but that this event should be as trustworthy as my proposition above.
This is a good one. So good that it's part of the next version. Here is a demo:

http://flowplayer.github.com/demo/seek/
Thank you for this wonderful comment. It really encapsulates my thoughts on the matter but I have been unable to express it so elegantly - even to myself.

Drugs truly are unnecessary. People do themselves a great disservice to believe that through drugs they gain valuable, worthy insight. It's there! You, who took that drug, had that insight inside you. Drugs are not a key to some hidden wealth of wisdom and knowledge.

(I occasionally drink and smoke marijuana, so I am by no means antagonizing against those who do.)
You're making the exact same mistake. Check the wikipedia article on this particular flight, under the heading 'Cause':

""The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the accident was "the omission of all the O-ring seals on the master chip detector assemblies leading to the loss of lubrication and damage to the airplane's three engines as a result of the failure of mechanics to follow the established and proper procedures for the installation of master chip detectors in the engine lubrication system, the repeated failure of supervisory personnel to require mechanics to comply strictly with the prescribed installation procedures, and the failure of Eastern Air Lines management to assess adequately the significance of similar previous occurrences and to act effectively to institute corrective action. Contributing to the cause of the accident was the failure of Federal Aviation Administration maintenance inspectors to assess the significance of the incidents involving master chip detectors and to take effective surveillance and enforcement measures to prevent the recurrence of the incidents.""

A faulty procedure means that every plane of this make and model would have this defect. A faulty execution of a correct procedure would only affect those aircraft that were handled by the people executing the procedure incorrectly.

It is the difference between a bug in the software (the procedure) or a computer with a faulty ram chip. Both will cause your program to crash, but the first will cause every instance of that program to crash, the second only affects the specific instance run on that hardware.

There is a huge difference when it comes to root causes. If perfect procedures are executed sloppily then it doesn't matter how good the procedures are. And that is why there was a huge flap over this particular incident because if there is one thing that the whole airline industry revolves around then it is adherence to procedures.
I've used similar techniques (such as reciprocal multiplication, which is not mentioned on this page) to provide a significant speed advantage for some code on ARM systems. Actual performance-sensitive code, such as the core routines video codecs, is still written in assembly language or with intrinsics.
Pediatricians treat children. Podiatrists treat feet. Notice the first vowel in each.
Also called "South Beach" diet.
There are ways to do it, like focusing the menu bar and what not, but I never remember shortcuts for that, which is one of the reasons I wrote Shortcat. Shortcuts themselves are another thing to have to remember, and I have a terrible memory. Until a shortcut becomes muscle memory, I find them annoying.

I don't think Apple will shut the door for Shortcat unless they're willing to remove the Accessibility API completely. That said, the Mac App Store doesn't allow apps that use the Accessibility API which is rather annoying...
>This October challenge reemphasizes the misplaced focus of Ludum Dare: make something overnight that makes just $1.

The October challenge is for the whole month, not overnight. You submit your game to market on November 1st but you have the whole month to produce it.
And most humans developed a method to make inedible foods edible: cooking.
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I love everything about it except the gamification. They were really onto something inspiring, and then I got to the part about achievements and leaderboards. Beyond a certain audience, that's patronizing, and it undermines anything more serious you're trying to do (c.f. "your whole life journey").
Thanks!

Right now, I'm working on making it faster and more stable before I move to cosmetics, but if you request it at http://shortcat.userecho.com/ and enough people vote it up, I'll make it a priority :)

Also, is Bartender more stable now? I had issues with it not working well when I first heard about it a few months back.
I don't know if this is quite what you mean but I've been doing something like this for a couple of years now and am bringing in decent revenues doing it. One example: http://javascriptweekly.com/ .. and an actual issue: http://javascriptweekly.com/archive/96.html .. I have almost 80,000 subscribers to publications like this now and people seem to keep wanting more (so I'm looking for and bringing in expert curators, as you suggest, since I'm close to exhausting my topic range).
I've used psilocybin twice and both times it busted me out of a long-lasting and difficult bout of depression. I should use psilocybin more often to maintain a healthy and happy outlook on life (or maybe just quit the startup world and do something more sane).

You might not know which people you know use drugs. Unfortunately, due to the illegality of many useful and helpful drugs, more harmful ones have become popular. Not all drugs are created equal.
Example 3 is very disconcerting from a privacy standpoint.
I've been operating under the assumption that Google (and others) has been building this sort of data up on their users for a while now; I actually appreciate said data being used (visibly) for my benefit for once.
PA city council is already hard at work at this, choking off key arteries like Arastradero/Charleston Rd for "safety" (their attempt at lowering speed was to choke bandwidth, worsening traffic jams at peak hours).
Well it seems to me that when you said:

"> Part of the reason why people want others to use the same drug is to feel less guilty about their using.

I think that about sums it up."

that is an extremely negative judgement.

So you think that anyone who recommends a drug to you is doing do for the selfish reason that this makes them feel "less guilty" about something they actually consider wrong?

Bizarre. Judgmental. And very wrong.
Not really. They (Apple, Google, FB etc.) always had this data. At least they're putting it to good use.
Yes. Your filter bubble won't let you know that anybody else finds it creepy. "If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."
This really helps. Thanks a lot, as I dont have to spend time for 5 months and realize that I really wasted my time

Appreciate your time for the comment
I'm not trying to be glib, but: so what? Some people will use it, because it will provide value to them. I may be one of them. Kids born today will, if nothing changes, think this stuff is absolutely normal.

Your reaction is a valid one, and I have my limits too, but I think we're beyond the point of merely acknowledging that it's creepy. Please go further: Where is the line? Why? And what are you willing to do about it?
Why you can't smile for your N.J. driver's license
Pants were optional for the Reddit staff.
The physics of making an iPad into an accurate aviation instrument
This is purely speculative, but I think there are a couple of reasons why apps like this runs better on Android.

I think it mainly boils down to the fact that app developers on Android have much more freedom than on iOS, for example - instead of having to run the whole app in the background they can just run a small daemon. Android apps don't resort to weird workarounds, like in regular intervals doing something that requires some CPU power, in order to not get autokilled/paused like inactive apps often are on iOS.

On Android they can also do stuff like only using the GPS (which is very battery intensive) if they notice that the cell phone antenna/wifi reception is changing (indicating that you're not standing/sitting still) while GPS background logging on iOS requires constant GPS-logging.

Limits like that makes iOS use way more battery for background location tracking, in my experience at least. Another reason may be simply that Android phones tend to have larger batteries (in mAh) than iPhones do (the iPhone 5 has a 1440mAh battery, the Samsung Galaxy S3 has 2100mAh battery).

While the iPhone 5 is generally more power efficient than the S3 (due to slower CPU with less cores, smaller display and a more optimized OS), I'd imagine that their GPS chips uses approximately the same power, draining the iPhone battery faster since it simply has less power stored.
How can anyone up-vote this? No argument or facts, just a list of random features. In the comments section the author reveals he isn't an iOS user? So I'd presume isn't an iPhone 5 user.

Breaking down the G+ users' list:

- "Maps": Yep, the mapping data is basic as it's brand new, specifically the POI data is seriously lacking. This isn't due to the iPhone 5, requires iteration via software. There are alternative apps if not but this is an iOS issue, yes.

- "scratches": No evidence yet that there's an issue, other than some owners say that you should be careful with the corners of the black model because the band is painted. Being careful with your phone or having a bumper or case fixes this.

- "camera": I have no idea what this is about? The camera is better, in tests the camera hasn't been able to crack or scratch because of the new lens-cover.

- "touchscreen & home button - seems VERY serious": Again, I have no idea what this means.

- "WiFi": Was an iOS issue not iPhone 5, fixed and could be fixed by changing a setting in Settings.app.

- "antenna": No such antenna issues.

I'm not sure why I've even spent my time discrediting this. Software isn't perfect, every OS has bugs. Some worse than others: http://www.techieinsider.com/news/15225/android-smartphones-...
Do you any reference links for this being Google's stance? If so, I'd really like to see them.

Thanks
I STRONGLY oppose speed bumps. They do not slow down traffic; they just make people drive erratically. People race in between the bumps and then brake hard and go over the bumps at a ridiculously low speed. All the while, the drivers are paying more attention to the bumps than to any pedestrians or pets or cars that might be about. Enforcement may help; intelligent road design may help; speed bumps are not the answer.
Well it seems to be the logical choice, but the UK is currently backing out of the EU, so we would not have any native speakers. And while some countries (spain probably included) are reasonable blasé about adopting other languages, forget about the french doing that.

Well... not enough labour mobility without a common language and without labour mobility no optimal currency area. Somebody should really have thought this through...
I wonder what building a Chromium version would entail. Do you think it would be a lot of work? I feel like it would have been done already if it were possible with the present extension APIs.
the magic of public (asymmetric) key crypto is what stops you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

in step 4 above the client sends data to the server that is encrypted with the server's public key. you don't have the server's private key, so you cannot decrypt that data. but the server can. so you cannot duplicate things, even if you are watching.

[edited to swap client/server roles]
> "Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”

Aside from explicitly stating "Hey, encapsulate IF/ELIF/ELSE statements in a FOR loop", FizzBuzz doesn't seem too analytical--am I wrong?
My horse is named Friday.
Congrats to Flightfox, YC S12:

http://www.startupsmart.com.au/success-stories/flightfox-acc...
Spelling mistake: bale => able
I have only worked remotely in my career (as in by myself inside a home office), and I have worked in full remote as well as in mixed local/remote teams.

If you are in a position to choose/offer to work remotely, make sure that everyone you have to interact with is communicating in the same way, at least for work stuff. If half of your team is in an office and they aren't making an effort to communicate equally with the both local and remote team members, it will not work well. Having a remote team means an overhead in the communication for the local team.

Anyways, here is a great collection of resources on working remotely: http://www.wideteams.com/
I will assume you are trolling.
Thanks, pushing fix.
>The fiber present in fruit blunts the impact of the sugars they contain (addressing the "quality" issue I mentioned elsewhere).

Some, but not enough to discount the fact that it is essentially sugar you're eating.

>That said, whole fruit (as opposed to juice, in which much of the fiber is removed) is a reasonably good food choice. Especially for breakfast or post-workout.

I think that's problematic though. People use fruit as a food choice, a mainstay of their diet, thinking it's healthy because it's "natural" or a similar line of reasoning. But it's still sugar and needs to be eaten sparingly just like candy or cake. A lot of fruits have a GI of candy bars, and almost all are in the blood sugar disrupting range of starches, refined wheat, etc, that should be eaten in very limited quantifies. For breakfast, that depends, if you are eating it with a lot of protein and fat, and it's a small amount, sure. But just eating mostly fruit for breakfast is a bad idea.
Some people much smarter than myself, like Dr. Robert Lustig at UCSF, believe that sugar is the main cause for "diseases of affluence" like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. I've been on the Paleo diet, which eschews refined sugar, for over four years. I've lost a lot of weight and feel better than I have felt in many years. I know this is just an n=1 study and doesn't vilify sugar in isolation, but I believe it played a huge role in making me healthier. Sugar is just as bad as those other drugs and maybe more so. Eating it is like shooting yourself, but with a very slow moving bullet. It'll catch up to you at some point.
On Ubuntu, Chrome and FF updates are pushed through the repos and are updated through apt-get / Update Manager. It's not annoying at all, and works like clockwork. Kudos to Chrome, FF and Ubuntu!

On Windows, Chrome does a good job auto update in the background. Firefox am not so sure but they too are working on some kind of auto update. Good for them, not being stubborn, and implementing a good feature that their rival has.

Good for Chrome that they aren't suing others trying to implement auto update. :-)
I take a completely different view. If these sellers are only lacking capital in order to see growth, wouldn't they be getting it from others by now, even in a tight lending market? I look at the wording: "pre-qualified for a loan up to <XXX see below>" and then "If approved, the funds will be advanced" and it reads just like every junk mail credit application ever. You are "pre-qualified" because you made it onto the suckers list, and you'll be approved if you're gold plated. Here comes the internet lending bubble?
Try stevia, which (as far as we know) is a totally non-toxic sweetener. It doesn't work for everything, but I think it'd be just fine for tea.
Interesting. I'm thinking that Android vs Apple may be decided on the simple fact that sufficiently-better AI trumps any-amount-better UI. Lawsuits and supposed openness be damned.
It seems trivial, but yes, to some degree, it requires a little analytical thinking to get over the hurdle of deciding what to print and when. It's shocking just how many "programmers" can't figure it out, even with a little prompting.
Be careful what you measure because measuring affects what you measure. You'll probably end up travelling a lot more, probably driving more and so on.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that technical difficulties during "traditional"desktop development are, while real, more of a red herring with app stores: the main problem is sales and Store doesn't really solve it.
> Is there a language, like Latin, that can help form the basis for understanding other languages and make learning easier?

As inetsee says, Scheme is this. It will provide you with a firm basis for actually understanding how programs execute. (Theoretically, learning C will also do this, but if you want to come from that direction I recommend learning some assembly language instead, since the semantics of C are surprisingly complex). Stretching the analogy rather dangerously, Scheme is as relevant to the past, present and future of other languages as Latin (though this is a conceptual rather than historical truth), as pedagogical/minimalist as Esperanto, and as expressive as English.

Also, if you find HtDP too tame or SICP too challenging (certainly possible unless you have a science/math background, though most parts requiring specific knowledge are optional), try Concrete Abstractions (http://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.html).
I've got to disagree here. The whole point of FizzBuzz is that it's a straight-forward analytical problem that you should be able to do easily if you understand the fundamentals.
I assume that's providing the reason they didn't read it. How's about we just say "Here's my summary:".