skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm hesitant to move to the cloud until privacy issues are fundamentally addressed. All these vendors pouring over user data is not in our interest. I think it will take laws and government action to stop this sort of privacy invasion. Until that happens, I'll keep my local storage.
Not to mention, this guy released to the app store early.
Not exactly.

This article makes an odd, meandering case behind such a direct headline.

The points made are true of trends in the game industry in general, but in no way intrinsic to consoles.

He seems to want to equate a peak in console sales to death, but invokes properties (WoW, Farmville) which themselves have also peaked in doing so.

I expect the the popularity of carrot dangling non-games like some of those mentioned to die off long before consoles do.
I don't really like the way this is written. It seems akin to calling the cellphone "dead" because we now have smartphones which do so much more than just make calls.
You can read an interesting argument for that in On Intelligence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence
To make it even better, I see that message from work where I simultaneously can't watch iPlayer because then the BBC think I'm coming from outside the UK. Goodness knows how they manage that...

I feel like, having paid them £145, they could make it available to me anyway - it's hardly going to affect their bottom line to do so.
It's remarkable how terrible the Game Center looks in Letterpress. Totally different and ugly aesthetic, stuck in randomly when you want to start games.
The Register hates the iPhone (or loves the page view they get from hating it) so no surprises there.
Great, as long as your codebase does not become too diverse! :)
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ZooKeeper in Go: https://github.com/ha/doozerd
True, im afraid its unlikely they will make it. I would really like this Kickstarter campaign and ultimately this project to succeed, but I believe they have not delivered sufficient proof that they are capable of delivering the product they are promising.

If this post manages to stay on the front page, they may get enough traction, but still unlikely
I think it's actually one of the point he made ... nobody teaches students "how to learn".

It might be good adding this to their courses. (And before reaching University would be even better. :))
New York Times: Running faster & faster to stay in same place
Using Ubuntu To Create An Illegitimate Referral Based Profit Center
I've heard you can get your app and its updates published on the Play Store almost immediately, or within a day.
I can read posts without being logged into google. The settings for the group [1] indicate that its public, but only members can post.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!aboutgroup/gol...
A comedy of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and the rise of Technology Titans
Did you try Tomato.es[1] to track your pomodoros? I'd like to get feedbacks from GTD gurus.

About music I warmly recommend musicForProgramming();[2]

[1] http://tomato.es

[2] http://musicforprogramming.net
Why Wall Street Is Battering Tech's Biggest Names
Citation? AFAIK this is just Apple's claim, not a real test: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/26/iphone-battery-life-grea...

I love how Apple locks down apps, but dislike how many taps it takes to toggle LTE.
Hi Madmaze, why do you think that they have not delivered sufficient proof?
Unless Ayn Rand murdered a few million people on the side, her face is in no way commensurate with a swastika.
>I have rejected a large number of apps because they want write access to my twitter account for no discernible reason.

"a large number" - at some point wouldn't it have become worth your time to spend a minhute creating a quick disposable twitter account for them to use?

It doesn't really have to be linked to you, just call it "lolwhywriteaccess" or whatever and don't give it out except to these apps - problem solved.
I'm confused. What was the point of posting this link? This is just the Steam group for the beta. It doesn't include any new information (or a way to get in the beta) that I can see.
Is it better to turn up the volume in the software or on the speakers?
57 updates 1016.18 MB will be downloaded
I just noticed that there are new Ubuntu updates today, 57 of them totaling over a 1 Gig. It looks like one large item is libwebkitgtk-3.0-0-dbg weighing at 461.9 MB, the other is also for webkit around the same size (massive). Is it just me or does this seem like a really huge library?
Can somebody explain what precisely this page means?
Look, if Apple can't manage to do a curated app store in a way that "works" for developers, if Microsoft can't manage to do it... maybe a curated app store isn't a good idea. I mean, it's obviously a good idea for whoever curates the app store (they can leverage their power in all kinds of ways), but perhaps the problems for developers is not because these companies are doing it poorly, but just that injecting a review process by a third party between the developer and their customers is NATURALLY bad for developers.
The "iPad 3" did have a retina display; the one that went on sale today is the successor to that version.

Differences that I can remember off the top of my head include a faster processor, better global LTE support, an improved front-facing camera, and the use of Apple's new Lightning connector instead of the older 30-pin connector.

These differences are all internal, so the same cases should work for both models.
I vaguely remember the source. It was a book of Jewish humour, unfortunately I don't remember the title.
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Show HN: Indies can make multiplayer games too
I recently launched my project of the past two years: Gimbal, a 2D space shooter.

Gimbal is multiplayer because my best gaming experiences have been in multiplayer games. Multiplayer is a bit of a gamble because it requires a sturdy player base, but I think it is essential. My feature list was also ambitious (physics, custom UI, ship editor), but I just pushed my launch date back until I reached my goals. I'm very happy with the final product. Check it out! There is a free demo as well.
http://www.readability.com/articles/9nkvm72p
This is why I use ocaml. The type system power to simplicity ratio beats out all other languages I've come across so far.
> The iPhone 5 manages to match Apple's estimates, just breaking the 10 hour barrier.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/13
Well consoles will evolve certainly. I'm sure the primary distribution method for the next generation will be to download games rather than buy on a disc.

There is also the argument that as consoles do more things they are going to blur the lines between a general computer , a "media consumption device" and a dedicated games console.

The real killer feature of something like the XBox360 though is that it is designed for games out of the box, any compromises or decisions they made in the design always focused on games first.

Sure, tablets are becoming more capable in the graphics department, but the primary method of control is still a touch screen that prioritises usability for things like web browsing and navigating photo albums not shooting people in the head.

Tablets are also designed to be lightweight, thin and consume less power. This will always lead to tradeoffs with performance. The article seems to compare current tablets with current gen consoles whereas I'm sure next gen consoles will have significantly boosted graphics performance.

I'm also unsure of the market moving to a "free to play" model. It's true that this is becoming a more popular model; however would a game like skyrim be more compelling if you had to purchase each sword upgrade with real cash?
Beautiful explanation. And one that I can remember while writing in markdown.
The Deferred Dreams of Mars
It's an official group for the beta which is hopefully coming soon that appeared on Wednesday. There are no news about the beta and there has been no clarification about this page's purpose. Nothing has been announced yet.
Also note that one of the common reasons for failing Requirement 3.2 now includes a reference to using CurrentAppSimulator that wasn't in the one linked in the original article.

I guess the OP just got stung by being an early adopter and the FAQ/requirement pages not being anywhere near complete as not enough people had gone through the certification process for MSFT to find all of the common reasons for rejection.
I'm growing tired of data caps being measured on 'how long it would take you to download that amount of data'. Faster speed and lower latency are boons for less data intensive applications too.

My iPhone's on a 3G plan with a 500MB monthly cap at the moment. I never go over it, even though the good 3G coverage here is plenty fast enough for video streaming etc. - I just don't want to use it for that. I'd love a faster, lower latency connection, but I don't anticipate my habits changing such that the /quantity/ of data I consume increases.
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This comes up every time someone links to Google. If you have any Google cookies it will make you log in. Open it up in an incognito window or something if you don't want to.
Ahh, okay! Thanks so much for the info! :)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony?s=t is informative:

> Irony, sarcasm, satire indicate mockery of something or someone. The essential feature of irony is the indirect presentation of a contradiction between an action or expression and the context in which it occurs. In the figure of speech, emphasis is placed on the opposition between the literal and intended meaning of a statement; one thing is said and its opposite implied, as in the comment, “Beautiful weather, isn't it?” made when it is raining or nasty. Ironic literature exploits, in addition to the rhetorical figure, such devices as character development, situation, and plot to stress the paradoxical nature of reality or the contrast between an ideal and actual condition, set of circumstances, etc., frequently in such a way as to stress the absurdity present in the contradiction between substance and form.

> Irony differs from sarcasm in greater subtlety and wit. In sarcasm ridicule or mockery is used harshly, often crudely and contemptuously, for destructive purposes.

> It may be used in an indirect manner, and have the form of irony, as in “What a fine musician you turned out to be!” or it may be used in the form of a direct statement, “You couldn't play one piece correctly if you had two assistants.” The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflection, whereas satire and irony, arising originally as literary and rhetorical forms, are exhibited in the organization or structuring of either language or literary material. Satire usually implies the use of irony or sarcasm for censorious or critical purposes and is often directed at public figures or institutions, conventional behavior, political situations, etc.
In the context of software business it could be argued that the US is less safe because of software patents.
On the "not getting enough sleep" problem, why don't you incorporate exercise/sleep/diet into your GTD (or what you're using to measure productivity) ? Then, if you aren't sleeping enough, it will show up in your tools.
Are you sure your data coverage is good? I've noticed that with sinking latencies and rising bandwidth (but probably mostly the latency), data consumption rises.

For me at least.
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Amazon hosts some large data sets for public usage, I suspect a deal could be arranged here. The cost of access is then on the user.

http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/
Makes me glad that I live somewhere which has absolutely no shortage of clean water and where water supply and sewer systems are handled by what appears to be a reasonably efficient state owned company.
The way it was written was as a requirement:

"Requirement 3.2: the app crashes"

3.2 as a reason something is rejected ("app crashes") makes more sense. I wasn't sure if they're written it that casually, as it was quoted as such.
Does anyone know if this has any tangential relationship to the fact that billionaires like t.boone pickens are buying up water rights across the country?
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Ok , so I joined the group but I can't get into group chat from my Linux box.
What's really entertaining about your comment is that the linked article doesn't mention the iPhone even once.
Dead or alive: Is SEO vs. PPC really a debate?
I don't disagree speech is hard, but _everything_ gets messed up when you are tired or recovering, e.g. eye hand coordination. It's just that its easier to spot it when speech is less than perfect, then when coordination is less than perfect.
I really, really like this idea. http://www.startuppack.org/

There are several apps here which can individually help lift a nascent company by the bootstraps.
I wonder if it would be possible to go farther. Couldn't these companies afford to give away a combined value of $50,000 to companies, with the tacit underestanding* that as they grow, become post-product, post-revenue, profitable, and better-funded, the relationship (and margins with these companies) also grows?

To me, this is like why YCombinator companies are given so much Rackspace Cloud access. It's about starting a relationship early.

If so maybe the sweet spot is lowering the threshold to companies that have raised less than $50,000, and giving away nearly as much in early value. Then, after the company has at least $50,000 they can start paying more and more, especially as they are better and better funded. Initially a very small amount, but then a small treadmill upwards.

also, about building it into a contract? Let's be honest: an unfunded startup company that has incorporated has two years to sink or swim. A lot of unfunded but incorporated companies would jump at contracts that give them $50,000 in value to start growing with, and if they succeed, they are locked into (reasonable) service agreements. it's about cash flow and relationships. since the margins are high on these products, it makes sense for the companies that offer them to get in on it - it's a small gamble because there is a low direct cost (definition of high margin), and no opportunity cost because the companies don't have money anyway. (they just have to make sure the startups aren't reselling their services, but using them) In short, I think it's a really great idea.

*or hell, build it into an SLA!
Looks like it's gonna be a closed beta.
Cities like Vegas, Tucson, and Phoenix were created because of federally subsidized water. Allowing water prices to 'float' to the market value might keep these areas from growing beyond their resources.
I couldn't place it on a scale or give you figures, but it seems good to me in use. I certainly never feel its stopping me from doing anything.

As well as browsing, maps etc., I also use it to listen to (low bandwidth, admittedly) radio streams while jogging and iTunes Match occasionally with no problems.
It's definitely possible to raise this money. The rate of funding has increased a lot over the past day or so. Think about it like this, if they average about $4600 an hour for the next 32 hours they'll make $147200 more, which will take them over the goal. Watch the funding for an hour or two and you'll see it's definitely going to be close to making it, just need an extra push to get there.
I've submitted multiple apps to the Windows Store.

They're not desperate and they don't want crap, which is why they have a high bar. The problem is the testing procedures aren't always consistent, so something may pass once and get rejected when you do your next update for a bug that existed in a previous version. But, that's the nature of testing - the same thing has happened for us on Apple's app store.

Android appears to be the only store that lets you ship anything you want.
Most high-profile Kickstarter projects raise 20 % or more of their total pledges in the last 48 hours. If you check the pledge total trendline on Kicktraq , you'll see that it aligns pretty close with that number.
I disagree with a previous commenter. They've delivered enough proof as far as their ability to deliver. The problem is their "old" pitch was targeted towards developers & there is just not enough of these on Kickstarter to raise 750k, only yesterday did they fine-tune their selling points & replaced the project video with one that's more likely to resonate with mainstream users (Ubuntu, media center, a Rapsberry Pi on roids etc..)
I wish them nothing but the best.
I'm really interested in learning more about how use use FreeMind. I've been using a collection of text documents as "cheatsheets" that I can refer to, but it's less than perfect.
But the original iPhone was banned from South Korea for 2 years, almost certainly at Samsung's behest.
And brings legal actions around the world wanting injunctions against Apple products for infringing standards essential patents or did you miss that?

Apple is certainly no angel but if you think Samsung is a company with no ethical concerns or that it isn't a ruthless competitor you haven't been looking very closely. [No very large company is completely free of ethical issues. I'm not aware of Samsung being over the line to the extent that I wouldn't work for them on that basis.]
Hopefully you get access by joining to group.
I don't believe the correlation that the popularity of Angry Birds or Farmville spells disaster for the console. Those games tapped into a different audience than your normal gamer. Not to say that "different" audience is not more lucrative, but the groups are discrete.
Yes, please. I switched from socket.io to SockJS a long time ago. I bought into it when I was first writing my app, but it is so unbelievably flaky and the design priorities are all wrong.
Pricing is more complex than the classic Econ 101 diagram for maximising revenues under the demand curve on a particular price point. Much, much more complex.

There's also considerations of customer value, segmentation, price fencing, bundling, unbundling, price strategy and so on and so forth.

In fact ... whole books are written about it. I read one recently: http://chester.id.au/2012/09/12/review-the-strategy-and-tact...

It's probably the most important business I book I can remember reading. Pricing is the low-hanging fruit, the big juicy lever of profitability.
Yes it is. Example - sometimes people are "tongue-tied" - they know what they want to say, but can't remember the word for that.
From the article:

In 1996, [California] introduced an electronic bulletin board for
farmers to buy and sell their rights to Westlands' water from their
home computers.

This has had municipal support for 16 years now.
Amazon results disappoint
Yes, I had that thought about why it wasn't blocked too, but now it's become history... About this article, it's now a big news in China...
Europe nothing but a downer for Apple and Amazon
Bees communicate a remarkable amount of accurate info about the amount of food available at a particular source & where that source is. The other bees immediately respond by going there, in appropriate numbers to get it. I don't think people really understand exactly how all this works, but the assumption is that it's probably pretty mechanical. IE, the same way that the tasty sensation maps directly to your swallow action, dancing maps to a bee's "go that way" action.

I think that this is that this is just an assumption based on bees' small brains. We don't really know if how fundamental the difference between bee dance understanding and human language understanding. We don't really know the mechanics of either.
Until the standardised VoLTE software (Voice over IP for LTE) is working correctly aren't LTE phones all going to suffer from poor battery life thanks to having to keep both the LTE and the 3G radio on even in LTE capable locations?
Thanks!

Actually, this has nothing to do right now with my Stanford research. I do computational biology for my PhD, not psychology. I built Quantified Mind because I want to discover effective ways to boost cognitive abilities and slow down age-related cognitive decline, and I did not find any existing tools that are sufficiently precise and give me the kind of access I want to the data. It's all about doing science and making discoveries about the associations between our actions and our cognition.
As a developer (albeit not of Appstore Apps) I can understand the frustration of being told "It crashes" without being told why.

However, there was a very interesting comment on the actual blog itself suggesting something along the line of "re-submit the app under a different name". I actually think that may not be that bad of an idea. If you have done as much verification as possible as to the stability and performance of your product, sometimes you have to do some sideways thinking to get it approved by the powers that be.

I would like to see (just as an experiment) what would happen if the original developer would try this, and see what happens. The worst thing that could happen is that he could get told no (again).
In an ideal world, the spec would be the test. A spec is just a human readable test. A test is just a machine readable spec.
That's really strange. My friends and I from the University of Virginia published a couple apps (total 5 apps) and we each got through on our first round.

My app is a simple Truth Table application that reduces boolean algebra http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-US/app/truth-table/9e87b...

Our apps didn't required internet connection, so that might explain the success-rate. So I guess if you want your app in he store as soon as possible, build version 1.0 without internet features.
Thanks! I need to speak to the founders about that, it isn't my say about open sourcing unfortunately!
Isn't this more or less the plot of the 2008 James Bond film "Quantum of Solace"?
I'm just speculating like everyone else. It's difficult to extrapolate from a single person's nightmarish experience what the experience will be like for an unknown but large number of developers. I hope that gets sorted out quickly. From some other comments it sounds like they still have some bugs in their process.

Unless Microsoft is purposely being opaque with details of why something has failed for the purpose of thwarting malicious or wayward developers, then they should take this as a hint that they need to provide developers with more information so they can track down issues and fix them.
Looks like they might be going to announce something at the upcoming Ubuntu conference: http://cdr.thebronasium.com/sub/17746
> I'm very happy that GitHub has an Org Mode renderer, even if rudimentary - I don't have to rewrite my notes and READMEs to Markdown.

For that situation, wouldn't a org mode to markdown converter be more useful?
It reminds me a lot of the app "Circa" on iOS. IT the same sort of snippets for news. An interesting way to display research. Also, really nice looking.
> It's so infuriating that the lawmakers just don't get it.

It's you who doesn't get it. Despite the whole election facade, the government is not working for you or your benefit. It's working for the benefit of a very small minority, that cares not about your freedom, and believes that they are served by enforceable DRM.
Why are Indians so active on Quora?
> I'm curious whether NYT will get the block as well.

And HN too for linking to it.
China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article