skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beware if you like sketching with pens only and use these stencils. Will screw up your pen tip.
Yeah, I certainly don't see it as a negative change. I think twitter is an informal (to the point of low-brow) place for this kind of information, but it is a broadcast messaging network. This is what it's made to do.
> One thing people usually understand as part of "message passing" is "no shared state". How/where do you fit that in?

Good question, it seems like all definitions of message passing involve not sharing state. Even OOP emphasizes data hiding as a core practice.
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So apple recurring payments (the ones like magazines) are really only allowed for things that grant monthly content. You can't do apps that have a service component like this through that payment scheme.

You can sell the app 1x with the service bundled in it, launch this as a website service that the apple app store just happens to have a client for (that has no way to take payment), or you can sell consumable credits the user can use in a pre-paid phone esque way to use the service, or lastly you can have a non-automatic way to do a subscription called a "non-renewing subscription" in which the person has to click every month to pay you.

I think you folks have some thinkin about how you're going to do this. Email me in my profile if you'd like to chat about this a bit, I do this for a living and have fought with apple about subscriptions for years for many clients
Yeah the keyword stuffing nauseated me. But I found the empirical information interesting.

I agree it doesn't feel "hacker-ish" per se, but despite the name, Hacker News has a broader following that includes startup people, i.e. the business counterparts of hackers (roles often shared by the same person). The core interest for them is in creating useful things that ultimately must generate revenue for sustainability. Online advertising, as superficially repulsive as it is, is a significant model for doing so.

Also, like most people, Hacker News readers are interested in individual-focused stories.
How to Tell if Your Cofounder is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen
We've actually been talking to gitlab devs a bit. Gitlab acts as a front-end interface on gitolite. Looking at the code it may very well be possible to fork it to set the appropriate redis keys instead, which is something we may look into doing
I sincerely doubt it. Then again, my standards for voice activated computer assistant is hardened by Star Trek since childhood - and nothing short of true AI will probably ever get there.
I signed up to be notified. I tried to buy many times and failed. I lost time and sleep because Google decided to play all these tricks on us. I never got an e-mail or any sort of communication. I guess it depends on your definition of customer but in the physical world when someone goes in a store to purchase something and talks with the staff I would consider them to meet the definition of a customer.

EDIT: Let's say you drive to a store knowing a product is going on sale. You go to a shelf, they have pieces of paper saying take this paper and claim the product at the register. You take the paper. You queue up, you get to the register and they tell you tough luck, we have no inventory. Wouldn't you be annoyed? Then you leave the store to find stalls of people selling the product for double the price.

This sort of stuff can happen but it would be nice if Google said something about it. The only thing they told the community is "sold out" and "check again soon". I was hoping to use this phone while traveling next month but I'll have to make some other arrangements for a reasonable unlocked phone.
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How do differences in supporting-hardware/density change the effective pricing? It seems to me like the Phi cores could end up cheaper once you factor in everything else that you need to get that many cores of something else.
Or use coffeescript and write
a.get('foo')?.bar?.foo
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Really interesting launch page - a fantastic way to get customer feedback before writing code... Steven Blank would be proud!
Just a note: I can't access it in Chrome. But in Safari I get this http://cl.ly/KwCk
I see. You are right. It doesn't fold. But probably it wouldn't take too long to disassemble an IKEA furniture. :)
Fun! Here's Ruby:

def top_four_ints_from(input_list)
working_set = []

input_list.each do |n|
working_set.push(n)
working_set.sort!.shift while working_set.count > 4
end

working_set
end

I'm pretty sure that's O(n). Constant time to insert any one value to the working set, Roughly n sorts performed but since each individual sort covers at most five elements we're still at (5 lg 5) * n -> O(n).
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Benchmarking Safari under Windows pretty meaningless.
Attracting a Technical Co-Founder
I too am on the Message Oriented bandwagon. I even wrote my own ORM (https://github.com/agentgt/jirm) because the current Java ORMs (Hibernate) kind of suck for messages where you generally want immutable objects.

The biggest problem I have had so far is Java is just not as friendly for this kind of architecture compared to Scala.
You gotta suspect they'll be forced into upgrading eventually. Developers simply can't continue supporting those archaic versions.

But then I suppose the operative word there is 'eventually' which can't come soon enough.
HTC One X using Chrome on ICS.

1.) The video just does not load up for me both on cellular data and WiFi.
2.) The Create submenu is cut off. I see "Create a Ree".
This is basically the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) checklist. Other than that, I wholeheartedly agree.
Free gifts with online purchasing increases customer retention by 40%
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Thank you very much for this! I have been looking for the name of that game for years!
While Google's voice recognition is much, much faster, the other comparisons are mostly apples and oranges. As long as you stick to what's in their wheelhouse, both perform fairly well.

Siri is a "personal assistant" while Google Search is more of a "personal librarian."
$5 you say? There's a YC company in here somewhere!
Has anyone heard anything yet?? I've been waiting like crazy, checking my email every 5 mins.
It's a full two days after the original order went through. Couldn't they know this information earlier?
It's the same reason that you never see the press mention congress's role in the subprime meltdown.

Politicians that are liked by the media say "Bankers! Wall Street!". That's what gets shown on the nightly news and repeated. Most voters don't care to dig further. Partly because the truth is more complicated. Partly because it causes cognitive dissonance to think contrarily to the narrative being told in the media. Mostly because looking into details would take people away from Monday Night Football, American Idol, and Dancing with the Stars.
I get what you are saying, but I disagree. If there were millions of invisible unicorns, surely we'd occassionally bump in to one. Azaleas would go missing. With the right technology, it might be possible to harvest them for ivory or meat or hoofs for glue.

If we live in a simulation, there may be experiments that would demonstrate the fact. There may be ways to 'hack' the simulation and break all kinds of physical laws.
Earnest question: have any of Lyft et al tried to just say "okay, we'll pay the tax, give us the form to fill out"?
I (the author) prefer Erlang's async messaging style, because CSP seems to assume that the messaging is reliable. Otherwise: Yes, definitely.
#War
I guess, yes: if you aren't going to use Facebook for three years, maybe you should disable your account before you leave.

However, this is still somewhat sensationalistic: the concept of these social ads was very clearly laid out as one of the launch features of Pages back in 2007.

https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=6972252130

"""Ads will be getting more relevant and more interesting to you. Instead of random messages from advertisers, we've launched Social Ads. Social Ads provide advertisements alongside related actions your friends have taken on the site. These actions may be things like "Leah is now a fan of The Offspring" (if I added The Offspring to my music) or "Justin wrote a review for Sushi Hut" (If Justin wrote this review on the Sushi Hut page). These actions could then be paired with an ad that either The Offspring or Sushi Hut provides."""

As for this specific feature to turn off these kinds of advertisements, that has existed since just about three years ago: January of 2010 is when they launched the new expanded Facebook privacy settings feature, and this is one of the settings people were talking about.

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/01/19/how-to-protect-your...

The scope of when and where they appear has changed somewhat over time, especially in early 2011 with the new "sponsored stories" feature, but the idea of how this feature will work and what it means has been there for much longer than that.

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/01/24/sponsored-stories-f...

Then, in 2012, they added these stories to the news feed (where they were in this article). Again: the places where these ads are shown has changed somewhat over time, but this is the exact same feature and privacy implication as all the earlier variants.

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/12/20/facebook-to-introdu...

I'm thereby somewhat at a loss as to what the real issue is here, or why this is suddenly "news" to anyone: nothing has really changed in how Facebook treats these ads in many years; I'd even go so far as to say in this specific case, they haven't done it ever, but they certainly haven't done it in the last 5 years (since 2007).

Regardless, you certainly have had many years now to understand and deactivate this feature: if someone, such as the author of this original post (not you, as maybe you haven't used Facebook since 2009), really care about your privacy, and somehow at the end of 2012 you haven't noticed a giant feature linked both from "Settings" and from "Privacy" on a website that is holding tons of personal information about you, I question whether you (again, OP) really care about your privacy ;P.
I doubt that there is any such thing as a perfect cofounder (I am almost certainly not such a beast myself). The challenge must therefore be to make the best of what you get. Value your team members for what they are good at and try and make up for what they are bad at.
Do other people __really__ want to speak to computers?

To me, at least, it seems silly... even for Star Trek.
Apologies to PG if this thread degrades into a political discussion
when politics are clearly against the site guidelines (linked on the
bottom of every HN page).

The coverage by Peter Kafka of AllThingsD is also worth reading:

http://allthingsd.com/20121114/social-warfare-israel-live-tw...

The social sites used to keep in contact with our families,
friends, fans, and favorites are now being used for this?

What side you're on is irrelevant; using the communication tech
we've created to celebrate and promote death and harm as forms
of propaganda and entertainment is just wrong.

It was wrong when the Syrian rebels posted video of the
execution of 10 Syrian Army members. It was wrong when the
Libyan rebels posted video of the execution of Kadafi. It
was also wrong for the Israeli Defense Force. And the list
goes on and on...

Maybe there's some minimal good in just knowing how violent others
can be, but when I wonder if our communication tech can be put to
far greater and more beneficial uses like promoting peace and
resolving differences, I remember the words of Douglas Adams:

"Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to
communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and
bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
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The funny thing is, I ordered 5 minutes after it opened. Then they closed it. Then they reopened it. I guess Canadians are getting the short end of the stick on this launch.

edit: I mean, they said 'Sold Out', then after a few hours apparently they allowed more people to buy. I wonder if anyone is getting a phone within the original time span, or if they're buying time at this point.
But there's a huge difference between working in a model where you can do it (even if you're "not supposed to") and working in a model where it's impossible. I've been writing a Chrome extension, where the programming model is a #3 in your system — everything is async and shared-nothing — and boy do I notice the difference. Calls between two Chrome contexts are done by async message-passing using JSON, and this is like walking through mud in heavy boots compared to calling something in the same context (a normal function call). No doubt well-designed languages and libraries help to make it easier, but still. I suspect asynchronousness is responsible for more of the mental burden than shared-nothingness is (or, more precisely, serialize-everything-into-JSON-ness), but they're definitely both contributors. It's the latter that makes it impossible for me to pass a DOM element from one context to another, for example.

When "passing a message" is a heavier operation syntactically than "calling a function" is, one thinks of the two as being more fundamentally different than they really are. I find that interesting because it's superficial yet influential.

Do Erlang programmers think of function calls as a kind of message passing? or as totally different things? How far apart are the two, psychologically? Is sync vs. async the more fundamental distinction?
Actually, the pace of Minecraft's sales has been holding steady/increasing over time, not decreasing.

1 million - January 12th, 2011

2 million - April 25th, 2011

3 million - August 7th, 2011

4 million - November 7th, 2011

5 million - February 18th, 2012

6 million - not sure.

7 million - August 15th, 2012

8 million - November 14th, 2012

Source: http://gameblaster64.xandorus.com/sales-numbers
Disclaimer: it's my site.

Second source: http://www.destructoid.com/minecraft-surpasses-one-million-s...
To be fair: the President is charged with executing the laws as written. Inasmuch as this EO covers top-down directives for how existing government agencies are to execute on their legislatively-defined missions, he's not going beyond the authority of his office whatsoever.

It's explicitly within his purview to create, or order the creation of, a coherent strategy to meet existing goals, to oversee its implementation, to appoint staff as necessary, to create protocols for inter-governmental operations, etc.

What he can't do, is explicitly order private industries to conform to new protocols or participate in new endeavors, establish penalties for not doing so, etc. -- except inasmuch as private industry is working for the government.

Which is to say: he couldn't order a power plant to overhaul their security to comply with some new government protocol. But he can order the creation of a new government security protocol, even if that requires defense contractors to update accordingly.
I've used these stencils before. I would not recommend them. The icon stencils are cut out at the exact size of the icons, but when you're using a stencil you often have to make the stencil larger than the icon you're trying to draw. The result of tracing them often looks like you did a -2px stroke on whatever icon you're illustrating. Also for finer detailed icons, you often can't fit a pencil into the groove of the stencil, even with the provided pencil that comes with it. The lead of the pencil is thicker than the groove in the stencil. The edges of the stencil are often quite sharp as well, and will cut the tips off of felt pens (and create grooves in pencil lead which will cause it to break). Honestly the only thing I now use my stencil for is as a dull knife to open packages (you can easily cut paper, foam, cardboard, or tape with the sides of these things, they aren't sanded down at all).
ktsmith mentioned the buffer, though, which seems to be the central innovation of Bounce. It factors in extra time that we are prone to forget about. Google Now accounts for traffic, but does it also easily (and automatically) account for extra time to cover some of these:

- find my shoes (the 1yo hid them)
- change the baby before I go
- whoops, today's trash day, I need to take those out
- I need to stop for gas

Many of these things are solvable by pre-planning (especially gas or chore management) and doing them the prior day, but the fact is that many of us still forget to do them, because we don't make an effort to do so. I know I frequently underestimate the time it takes for me to wrangle the kids, and also often forget to account for the likelihood of one-off things like gas/trash/errands. More importantly, when I discover those necessities, I forget to adjust my expected departure time for future events to reflect those new needs.

Thanks for the heads-up on Bounce, guys. The intro video is excellent, and I've installed the Android version.
Especially if they use those terms to describe themself.
From your second link, why do you think the licenses of DTrace and ZFS have limited their Linux popularity? Aren't their licenses compatible with (read: convertible to) the GPL?
It is my understanding that continuous inflation is a major goal of those working with the money supply, due to fears of a deflationary spiral. That the risks of deflation are significantly worse than manageable inflation. (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/why-is-deflation...)
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Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5
As soon as they insisted that one's likes be(come) public, I decided that that was the end of that (for me, at least).

Remember: Likes (or whatever they used to be called back then, e.g. items listed on your profile) used to be content you could restrict to your friends. Pointers for them to stuff you found cool and interesting. Then FB assigned them to the "forced to be public" part of your profile. Now, eventually, they've become primarily a vehicle for 1) Gaming people to participate (self-serving contests), in order to 2) Spam their graph.

Likes no longer represent user-generated content.
Maybe we are a simulation within some entities brain.
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> It sounds like your target audience is people who don't ever put their photos in one central location under their control (say, an iPhoto library), don't back up that location, and care a lot about preserving not just their photos but the online comments received on those photos?

I believe it's an OR, not an AND. If you don't have one spot where you keep all your photos then we help you do that. Not sure if you're married or not but my wife's photos are not on my Mac and not in my iPhoto.

> Um, what problem is it that you're solving here? What sort of "mobile apps" are you expecting would fail when dropbox or flickr shuts down?

Your Flickr or Dropbox app.
Apple Stock Hit by Panic Selling: 'Someone Yelled Fire'
Oh its not that. When I re-wrote the pages, or upgraded services, I just stopped including/thinking about prefetching for Firefox.

So it pretty rapidly disappeared from all the sites that I support/operate.
I'm considering taking on a technical co-founder for my company, PicDigest. I've gotten it this far, but for it to become than it is I need someone to take the majority of the technical burden off myself (since I only started learning RoR in May).

Thanks for this post. This was timely and helpful for me.
Off-topic, but I think the Nexus 4 is a good opportunity for Mozilla. It will be sold mostly unlocked, I imagine, and mostly to geeks, so it could be a great platform for Boot2Gecko. Nice looking, fast hardware for a relatively low price will make for a good development platform.
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And I accidentally ordered multiple Nexus 4 because it wasn't clear if the system took my order or not. I wonder if their ordering system was hosted on App Engine.
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Check the numbers. In 2009 Israel killed 1034, Palestinians killed... 9!!! That's around 115 for each one Israeli killed. That's genocide, not retaliation. And it's done with US military jet fighters and tanks, that Palestinians don't have (talk about terrorism!)

Let's look at it simply, Israel has the land, settlements in Palestinian territory, denying right of return and controlling East Jerusalem. All of which are Palestinian rights according to the UN. Give them back and whine all you want about terrorism to the world, until you do, any attacks on you are legitimate. And your retaliation is nothing other than trying to subject a free people to surrender their rights, which they never will.
No kidding. At least they are shipping from Kentucky otherwise I'd be even more upset seeing as how where I live I always get 2 day shipping from California when it's shipped via ground anyway.

While technically it's still "2-day shipping" since it's always been 2 business days, I wish they would have added Saturday delivery for the ones that were shipped on Thursday.

Oh well, better to have it shipped than to be one of the unfortunate that got the back-order email.
Good point, that's how I meant it :) Similarly, if the unicorns found a way to become visible, it would become a meaningul statement too.
I think the fundamental disconnect here is that many people think the freedom you mention is not some sort of moral right.

I have yet to meet anyone who can convince me that freedoms 1 to 3 should, in fact, be freedoms.

(I do not have a problem with anyone giving her or his software a license that requires everyone to respect those four freedoms. What I do have a problem with is when people are berated for picking a permissive license that, however, doesn’t quite line up with the four freedoms.)
> You can have perfectly encrypted communication that no one can eavesdrop on (not even theoretically).

Not exactly. Quantum "cryptography" assures you that only one party received the data, but not who that other party is. There is no authentication. To prevent a man in the middle attack, you have to use a conventional message authentication code, and the system as a whole is no stronger than the MAC algorithm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(functional_programming)#...

It shouldn't have to be a library with custom handling of the edge cases like that :|
Ask HN: Anyone heard anything regarding YC Winter 2013 Applications?
Has anyone heard anything about the YC applications for the Winter 2013 class?
Do some of your contacts offer green cards or is this a geographically restricted offer?
Ask HN: Any language that has syntactic support to highlight the main logic?
It beats me why almost all programming language has syntax for comments, but none of them have any syntax to show these are the lines that follow the main logic and every thing else is secondary.<p>If someone is looking at the code it is assumed he understands the syntax. what you really need is to suppress the noise for him to follow the main logic. This would work better than comments as most of the time the comments just repeats what the syntax says with an extra exclamation at the end.<p>If you like the idea pl. up vote. Hopefully new languages like "go" would jump on it.
You need just three of AMDs CPUs to match the 60 1GHz cores.

You can get a quad CPU motherboard relatively cheaply:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arima-Quad-CPU-16-Core-AMD-Opteron-M...

Also don't forget to add the same costs for the Phi solution.