skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is actually UI for inspecting storage. As long as you have no more than 20 keys stored, it shows up on the left-hand side of the page, but you have to refresh the page to get the latest. My excuse for this not being discoverable and automatic: we just launched today. :-)

I'd say we're generally for quick-and-dirty, not necessarily disposable or even not-very-important. But I may be splitting hairs here.

We've been thinking a bit about a sort of global store for credentials. I'm curious to see what people end up doing with Webscript and how often they're typing the same credentials into multiple scripts.

Thanks for pointing out the non-obviousness of creating new scripts in the same subdomain. We'll take a look.
FACEBOOK

Web app for taking and sharing pictures taken with your digital camera over ADSL broadband to brag/talk to your friends about.

2 years of existence

1 product

24 employees

30M+ users

$0 revenue

What exactly is your point? Instagram had insane adoption and was eroding Facebook's control over both pictures and mobile - the two biggest drivers of future growth over the next decade in both users and ad dollars.

Facebook bought them with overvalued stock (before IPO) so it was ~$500 million which is the same as what the VCs valued it at a month before it was acquired.

It was a good acquisition - basically a hedge against market obsolescence, easy injection of new IP and easy injection of mobile users.

Excite could've bought Google for ~$1 million back in the late 90s. Yahoo! could've had Facebook for ~$1 billion if the pressure on Zuckerberg was higher.

They choose not to buy that option. They don't exist anymore.
Does publicity influence admission to YC?
If the start-up receives publicity after the application D/L, should we let YC know somehow?
"Societal value" is a veeerrrry loaded term here, to the point that trying to argue from it verges on tautology. Who are you to decide what the "value" to society of a large company is?

Besides, usually when people are flinging around that ill-defined loaded term, they're comparing something like a farmer to a social media platform, where one provides obvious concrete value and the other is providing value much higher up the Maslow hierarchy. But here we're talking about two entertainment companies, one built on two-way communication and one built on the older one-way consumption model, that peculiarly 20th-century aberration. Is it really so obvious that the valuations are that wrong? I'm totally unconvinced it is so obvious that it goes without saying.
If this is the same one on android, I don't see where the excitement comes from.

I love their image search though. Take a picture of painting, show you a lot of info.
Why would I change my OS to develop for a phone ecosystem that nobody I know uses? I can develop the Windows applications I need to just fine on Windows 7. Then I don't have to do anything differently. I'll just continue _not_ developing for Windows Phone 8.
I use it for hosting my resume, a personal link shortener, and shortcut to my GitHub page. I've handed it out to recruiters and other people in tech, and more broadly, to some clients who are less than tech-savvy. Generally it's been well-received, but it helps that it's wicked short and much easier to recall than my old domain.
http://insecure.org/stc/ (e.g. Information Leakage at the Packet Level) + staples.com/server-status page = legal profit?
TeamUp - www.getteamup.com - likewise provides a WebGL preview of 3D assets, but is also paired to a realtime production renderer. Disclaimer: I work there.
How about a static HTML site hosted on Site44: http://www.site44.com? ;-)

(That's my startup's other product.)
INoobs: What are HTML Meta Description Tags?
With all the articles written about all this, I am not sure what the real motivations behind Apple's recent shuffle are. However, I can say that the 'war on complacency', regardless of whether it is applicable here, is something sorely needed across many large companies (Microsoft for example) - mediocrity in leadership and middle-management generally seems to persist forever.
Posted on HN 49 minutes ago, closed as "not a real question" 48 minutes ago. Wow.
I just found the gwan topic interesting and the blog posts even more so.
To eliminate any sort of crazy conspiracy theories, I am in no way shape and or form associated with gwan,nginx,msql,mongodb ect ect.

I enjoy using gwan for my projects. So far my stack is usually nginx+gwan+mysql+mongodb.I use nginx for it's modules and it's PHP support. I use gwan to write C scripts and which is basically the original PHP scripts just converted to C for way better performance. I'v used PHP for a while now so much that I have grown to absolutely hate how slow it is. Still, PHP is easy to dev with so I keep it in my stack.

Also i did not rename the topic someone else did as stated in one of the first comments by the person who actually did the change.

That being said you are incorrect on your first point "submitter renamed it" and paranoid on your second "Coincidence?".

I usually post about gwan that being only 2 topics so far because it just so happens to be my current interest in my field of work.
I wish I could down vote apple news stories. Does that make me a hater?
I think I read this advice on Getting Real (http://gettingreal.37signals.com) and it's been useful so far: listen to your customers and their requests but don't do anything about it. Important stuff will keep coming back frequently so by the time you get the 10th email asking for custom emails you can start considering to add it as a feature.

Caveat: This works as long as you many small customers. If you have a few large customers you can go for the customization route and just charge them a lot to make it worth the extra effort.
"Good" developers have had the SDK for months. IIRC they didn't want to leak some WinPho8 features via the SDK.
I've now used HelloSign for client SOWs, tax stuff and divorce paperwork. Absolutely awesome service and I can't recommend it any higher. Crazy that it's free.
Congrats Abinash and team. A highly committed and focused team. Finding help and engaging with app creators seems very important and I personally have found no way to send feedback or ask questions without the hassle of going on searching the app in the AppStore. This, in my opinion, is the holy grail of CRM in Mobile.
Surprised no one's mentioned the goggles search. I was pretty blown away to maximize an application on my desktop, snap a picture and have it recognize it (down to the version number, for Outlook 2010)
>something so trivial.
Getting the layout, typography and stylized components working correctly across all browsers is a tedious, tedious task.

Delegating to a framework that has an implementation that has resolved these browser idiosyncrasies is a huge win.
The Horrible Future of Blogging. I give you, the professional complainer...
Square jobs page (scroll down for animations)
Yes, a week or two after being invited.
How many people this year will pay to use Facebook?

Just because it doesn't have a price tag doesn't mean it can't generate revenue, silly.
Not that I have any love for MS, but is any of this really worse than what Apple does?
I agree. After we visited Disneyland this year with my kids, I looked up the profit to Disney from movies vs theme parks, and they make a lot more profit on theme parks than movies. So, you could consider that the media arm is just an advertisement to get people to visit Disneyland/World parks.
Leveling up in business means making more money. The way to make more money is to use leverage. You can leverage time by hiring employees. You can leverage technology by reaching a larger audience and selling things that can be cheaply duplicated (software.)

If you want to level up, you will never get there being an independent development services provider. You are basically trading dollars for hours. Raise your rates all you like and you will still be up against that time ceiling.

Web development shops are hard to scale. It's an industry that's full of independent developers and small teams (unlike gaming for example, which is dominated by the big players and difficult to be in as an independent.) If you want to go big, then you probably need to switch the focus of your skills from providing development services to others to building your own products.
Trademarkia.com is a very simple and straightforward process. Also, they helped me via email and phone at the drop of a dime. I got started with Legalzoom but bailed and went with Trademarkia because they focused on trademarks and incorporating.
We've deployed a number of challenging wifi installs over the last few years, trying out a bunch of hardware+software approaches. Meraki is one of the ones we haven't tried, mostly due to their enterprise cost.

So if you're interested in this kind of stuff but willing to try out something other than Meraki, try Ubiquiti (http://www.ubnt.com/). They're our current favorite wireless equipment vendor. Very reliable hardware, really really good prices -- enterprise class wireless for close to off-the-shelf consumer prices. I liked them a little better when their hardware could easily be reflashed to Robin/open-mesh, but Open Mesh has since gone and moved to their own hardware offerings, and Ubiquiti got hit pretty hard by the FCC for making it too easy for hackers to circumvent radio power settings, so they tweaked their ROM chip without updating their model numbers and everybody got screwed by that for a while.

The Ubiquiti management console seems pretty decent so far. We just did an installation for a client where we were seeing 10dB - 20db of difference between his Cisco wireless router and the Ubiquiti unit in the same room. We did have some trouble with Ubiquiti's Java-based management software that ate up almost an hour of troubleshooting time, so there is that. There are ways to do "cloud management" with Ubiquiti's hardware (I liked CloudTrax better...), but it's not real great right now.

If you want to get a wireless point-to-point backhaul going up to around 8 miles, you can do that for about $3,000 of Ubiquiti gear -- really cheap for that kind of thing.

Engenius is another popular brand. We initially liked them a lot, their support for flashing their units to other control software was really good, and Engenius still has a deal with CloudTrax, which is our preferred cloud management software. Unfortunately, their radios just stink. We've had a ton of hardware failures, and we've eaten the cost on some of those. I'm not sure if that's the hot/cold differentials we get here or what, but they just don't seem to last long. In fact ... come to think of it, I think every single one of our Engenius units have been replaced out of necessity. Yuck.

We started out with the off-the-shelf Linksys / Cisco / other routers option, and honestly those really aren't worth the trouble unless you just want basic coverage with fancier management options. Now that Cisco has finished eating Linksys, if you're looking for an up-to-date replacement for that trusty old WRT54GL, try Buffalo's wireless routers. We set up a client with an N300 unit not too long ago. The hardware seems really similar to the WRT54G series (according to my hardware guy), but the built-in Buffalo software was already basically dd-wrt so we didn't feel the need to re-flash.
So true, but somehow a lot of people don't know it. He was just a facilitator at Pixar. A damn good facilitator, one who made it all happen, but still he wasn't Pixar's visionary (like he was Apple's). Lasseter deserves all the credit for that part.
The game works pretty well with ResidualVM (http://residualvm.org/) on modern operating systems.
Woah you're the guy that did Braid - glad to see you on HN :D

Love to hear more about your 2000-2005 paratrooper work at the AAA shops - have you discussed that at all anywhere?

I've always been interested in seeing how the really tough stuff gets done at AAA shops.
Git add -p: The most powerful git feature you're not using yet
I would of thought more people on this planet know more about star wars than they do facebook. Yet Facebook valued at 100bn (initialy) and Lucasfilm valued at 4bn and like many people the response was thats low.

Lets look at it another way - do a google search for star wars and then facebook and notice the number of results:

star wars: About 420,000,000 results (0.21 seconds)

facebook:
About 20,570,000,000 results (0.17 seconds)

Now if you get (100/fb results)* star wars results you get a value of around 2

So with that you could say if facebook was overvalued at twice its value then you can say that lucasfilm is worth 4bn, or at least argue that as a price.

Personaly I would of thought that had Lucasfilm ran a share sale, then the value would of been alot more, just from fans collecting a share certificate for there star wars collection alone. Now they can own a Disney share and feel all dirty I suppose somehow.

Either way when you sell a company directly, I tend to see low ball prices in consumer valuations of the company. Now if you sell it as shares or are flavour of the month and can get silly offers, the prices seems to be over consumer valuations. Though even after this news, the share price has not changed much and still values Disney at around 90bn.
> It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, see the FAQ.

It seems pretty specific to me. If you have evidence, present it.

I can see an argument for it being too broad, but it saddens me that a question such as this is closed when it has the potential to be very interesting.

I suppose it also has the potential to devolve into a giant drugs flamewar, which may be why it was really closed.
And thus a million server blades evaporated into the night, taking my precious opinion with them. Reboot your fucking phone and try again.
Worse, they didn't actually get a 15% speedup. They reduced the frame time from 16.7ms (around 60FPS) to 15.3ms (around 65 FPS), which is only a speedup of something like 7%.

They didn't seem to mention how much they're actually utilizing the remaining cores either. From the look of it, they've basically parallelized a couple of loops in the renderer. That strikes me as being the wrong way to go about this, especially considering that modern AAA games apparently break everything down into tasks, and run the separate tasks in parallel (idTech5 apparently does this, for example).
I think they are just following Apple's lead on this. I couldn't get my app on my ipad for testing until I registered with Apple developer for a signature.

I think there should be multiple tiers. As a hobbyist, or somebody who just wants to check-out the platform and play on their own devices, you shouldn't have to pay.

I hope they don't charge a separate fee for Windows 8 (non-phone).

The 3 device limit is definitely not enough. I think Apple limits you to 100, but I'm not entirely sure.
it doesn't address the content of the article

I wholeheartedly disagree. The singing and dancing crap that people surround their text and images with is content. It's just crap content. Think about it the other way: if it's not content, why is it even there? Why does a blog need a loading screen?
Codemap -- Improving the Mental Model of Software Developers
The great thing about "user engagement" is it means whatever you want it to!
What are you worried about? If it's support or API, don't be. There is a ton of support for Node.js already. As far as web technologies go, I dare say Node.js has approached stability by now. Personally I love the asynchronous flow which is comparatively simple to implement and it only took me a day to go from zero to building a webapp in Node.js. However, you'll be working in JS. For small things it's bearable. For larger projects it's a pain, at least for me.

As a related question, has anyone tried using Node.js as the final glue code, taking advantage of easy asynchronous function implementation while writing the core logic in some other language? I know you can technically do that but I don't know what overhead I should expect if I attempted it?!
I completely don't see the problem he's writing about, my favourite blogs don't post daily, some authors post 1-3 times a month[1]. Others are bringing co-bloggers on board, and even then only come up with a few posts a week[2].

That's why RSS must live on. It takes over 200 subscriptions to get a decent daily dose of reading out of blogs like that.

[1] http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
[2] http://www.overcomingbias.com/
He kind of was leading technological development for a whole industry, too. Well deserved.
Can i make a webscript that recreates all the other webscripts in my accounts to get around the free 7-day limitation? :)
I'm in the same area and it is basically the same. You have to find a private individual who is willing to help. Usually these people work 1 or 2 houses per week. Ask your profs for a recommendation.
the thai noodles ("met cocos") in the library's cafeteria weren't bad either.
I want a remake of the first three episodes.

They were a shame for fans. The best one was "the empire strikes back" and it was not directed by George Lucas.
Yes, but that other hierarchical PKI is one that we already trust almost everywhere: although extended validation SSL certificates give you an idea of the legal entity in control of the site, in general the only thing it means to be the legitimate owner of a domain is for the DNS roots to recognize you as such. In particular, I don't know any system other than certificate pinning in which a rogue operator of .ly wouldn't be able to get a certificate for bit.ly, or even if that would be considered inherently illegitimate; I like the idea of alternative, decentralized DNS roots like .bit, but fixed authorities are what we're stuck with today. Making the entity that you trust the only entity that you trust is a strict improvement.

And yes, certificate pinning is an exception, making the browser vendor the CA for a small number of domains, but Convergence and other systems depend on the DNS, and TACK only helps on subsequent visits to an already visited site.
I think you have to phrase it in the form of a question in order to get a voice response.

Things like "How many meters in a mile", "Did the Tigers win?" and "What is the weather like?" all came up with an audible reply for me.
Since when does popularity substantially determine share valuation?
There are a million cleaner lead generation companies... They all suck.
I agree partly with this but it fails to take competition into account.
Try something with a one-shot answer like "When was the constitution of Argentina ratified"? It should speak assuming the latest Google app version.
At 200% DPI, I can't even find the splitter. Like, my mouse cursor doesn't change to the two-headed arrow.
> If so, wouldn't you need a sample data file (map, demo, whatever)

> that covers 100% of branches and dependencies in order to know

> for absolutely sure that there are no dependencies between code.

I am curious about that too.

Even 100% statement coverage does not guarantee that you have
discovered all dependencies. Think “array of pointers”. You may
have good enough coverage to execute once the statement that gets a
pointer from the array, but it does not mean that different values
do not result in other pointers that create dependencies where you
haven't seen any.

I think this is why they call it “semiautomatic”. The tool hints
at what looks parallelizable. The user takes responsibility for the
changes.

> Could you make a huge SSA of the program and determine

> dependencies that way

The difficulty with just C is not so much multiple assignments to
the same memory locations, but everything else, including the
pervasive reliance on pointers. C++ adds several abstractions
on top of that that do not make it easier to statically tell what
the program may do.

There are whole-program static analyzers whose results can be
used to resolve pointers and get useful dependencies on
medium-sized C programs. I work on one:
http://frama-c.com/try_out.html
I believe for the app to talk back, your language settings have to be set to "US English". That's how it is on Android.
I wrote WP7 apps. I can't justify paying $99 once, let alone each year for the privilege of developing for a fledgling platform.

The fee is $8 for the first year right now, but note they still charge you $99 and refund the difference in 30-45 days.
It's like this in Canada too. Very irritating. Especially because somethings are subject to tax and some aren't so it isn't even as simple as just adding a percentage to every price.
Meraki APs can handle hundreds of clients, while most off-the-shelf APs fail beyond 8 or 16. You can manage them remotely. If someone is hogging your bandwidth, you can boot them off remotely. Clients can roam seamlessly between APs, which is essential when you have an office bigger than a few thousand square feet. I felt it was worth the money.
Ironically, if you posted the same question on stackoverflow you'd probably be directed (or have it moved) to programmers.stackexchange.

Frustratingly, I can't find anything in the FAQ which would indicate why the thread (and countless others) have been closed: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq

Questions which are similarly open ended and perhaps more subjective are still left open ( http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/99445/is-micr... ). If anyone has more insight into how/why questions get closed on programmers.stackexchange I'd love to hear it!
I think I agree with this. In my experience with my 4- and 5-year-olds, the concepts/images they retain are completely character/personality driven. E.g. they love individual characters, but the larger messages are completely lost. I don't think pop cultural references started appearing until the Shrek series, which included a bunch of funny, adult pop culture references. I think they did this for a really simple reason: to make it easier for parents to take kids to the movies, and still get some laughs. Throwing in pop culture references makes the parents laugh, but kids pay no attention--they love the animation, expressions, sounds, etc. And parents are more likely to sit through repeated viewings because of this.

My kids get their "bearings" from their Judeo/Christian upbringing, both at home and at school. That is their "culture", not the characters they see in Disney movies. Looking over the list of recent Disney movies, the themes I pick out are "individuality, loyalty, determination, perseverance." All of which are reflective of our culture, and all of which fly completely over the heads of small kids.
Thanks for the link, it's great! I see they are using the spacing algo in their flashcards...
Apple does limit you to 100 test devices. Enterprise accounts have an unlimited number of devices ($299/year).
Nice musics for gangsta' programmers
Trello is running on a diesel generator and may go down at anytime
Google hasn't always been great in this area. Google dictation search is borderline unusable on my HTC android phone. All this will do is force Apple to improve. Great for everybody.
If he'd described a social gamification platform for serial killers or rapists, I'd be "disgusted".

Truth is that I had a girlfriend that was tracking her orgasms on a freaking leaderboard in 2004. I'm not sure I was shocked by it then.

Frankly, I don't mind people checking in on their phones in social situations so long as they are discreet and I'm not talking with them at the very moment. I can appreciate why others might feel differently, but I'm secretly relieved that I've been given implicit permission to check my email, too. You can pretend like that's a horrible way to live, but I do just fine socially.

I'm glad I'm addicted to email and not smoking cigarettes.