skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google and Bing are free to decide to just disregard 'nofollow' tags on stackoverflow.com if they want.

Remember the tag was only put in place to help search engines in the first place. (Well, to stop people from spamming to get good search engine results. I think you get my point.)
I don't think it was tasteless - it just wasn't very good. First, it was a bit funny - but the joke went on well after it needed to. Next, it tries to merge the professional actors with the people from the company - and then it gets....painful. The length of it definitely killed my interest, and I was left wondering why they weren't putting the money spent on this into the product. Or put another way, you've got the money to spend on hiring a video crew, actors (assuming you paid them) and edit - why would I give you money?
The video was so awkward and tacky that I can't help but be impressed by their video marketing strategy.

Guess who will remember the product now? This guy.
I have a transformer infinity I unlocked, have an ssh client on, and have the keyboard dock. It even has a USB port I could plug in a more ergonomic keyboard if I wanted.

I get around ~12 hours battery life on it just doing networking / terminal stuff, and I can just work on files on my desktop and compile / test there.
/proc/acpi is deprecated in favor of /sys. See here: http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/ACPI_PROCFS_POWER.html
> Currently, the number of Vidyard customers who upgrade their plans outpaces the number of those who cancel their accounts, Litt said, correlating with a negative churn rate.

Maybe i have a miss-understanding of churn. But given that definition any startup with growth would have negative churn.
I see no difference between upgrading to 'B' or registration with 'B'. Both is revenue. Both creates a customer.

Thanks in advance for any explanation
IntelliJ to add Cucumber support for Java & Groovy
Apple needs to start engaging in Pagerank-style ranking of applications in the store, and including metrics like "number of push notifications sent, per user" in the calculation. Please also include "number of applications per developer".

And please revise the guidelines such that if in-app purchases are turned off on the phone, showing the user a catalog or purchases screen is grounds for rejection.
Agreed. You need to get this down to 30 seconds or a minute. It is way too long. I watched for like 20 seconds and had no idea what the hell was going on... didn't find out for a good 2 minutes. Nobody is going to watch it.
The 4S was the first iPhone to support low-energy bluetooth.

Note that this use-case is handled specifically in the spec:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy#Electronic...
Alas, "publishing" is actually about a dozen different business models flying in loose formation. Generalizing from, say, trade fiction publishing to peer-reviewed academic journals to text books to newspapers is, shall we say, not going to work terribly well.
The clever bit is how it's constantly duplicating geolocation results from the phone to the wallet fob and then using that last-known successful transfer to determine if and when the phone and the wallet have become separated. Thus, no cellular requirement on the fob's part, thus a much simpler design. I like it, and the video. It's silly in all the right ways.
To play devils advocate - I'm not convinced =)

Wallets are used for more than just cash ...

NZ law for example requires you to carry your drivers licence at all times. Most (but not all!) people keep it it their wallet - sure you can attach it to your key chain or put it in the glovebox, but then if you're driving a work/friends car, you need to make sure you also have your keys with you (or remembered to grab your licence)

I keep receipts in there - normally for up to a few weeks until I sort them and keep the important ones. Without a wallet, these will just go in a random pocket and probably be lost (though maybe you could have electronic receipts...)

I keep business cards in there (both mine and others). Sure, some of the time you may be able to send a contact to the other persons phone, but if you're meeting a client etc for the first time, fumbling around trying to get phones to sync is probably not a good look. (Assuming the person has a phone that's compatible with yours). This ignores all the other advantages of business cards such as being able to scrawl a message on the back before leaving it with a receptionist, or tucked into a door.

I keep one time keys on a bit of paper tucked in there - both gmail and for financial accounts. These are bits of data I specifically never want to ever be found anywhere on my phone or online =)

And if you are young, where else are you going to keep that emergency condom? =)
Very cool. I think WebGL will be what gets me in to JS and client-side development.
How about Apple adds a "Support" link to every application listing, which developers can populate with a URL to their preferred issue tracking system?

Oh wait -- they do! It's just a shame that most developers don't put anything really useful in there.:(
You can? From all the reviews I've read it runs web-"apps" things. I've never read that it can run software developed for the platform specifically.
This was one thing I really enjoyed about camping out at Occupy last year. Most of the people being involved at the 'getting shit done' level, wanted to get stuff done, respected other's opinions, and left their ego in their tent.
And this is why users don't want to upgrade: the upgrade may be less valuable but out to monetize you.

So we developers can't get rid of our broken stuff because people are afraid to upgrade.
Yes, they were funded by both YCominator (YC S12) and FundersClub (>$600k)
When I say "trusted users", I mean "people who have the product's interests before their own". I don't think this applies to users, even high-reptuation users.

Arguably, it eliminates incentive to link to anything except the most useful resource. I have >11k reputation on SO, and I'll easily admit that I'd be tempted to link to my blog or whatnot for an answer whenever I could wedge it in, if I could siphon off some of SO's linkjuice. I'm not interested in spamming or anything, but that's how the game is played; SO has such a massive amount of clout with Google that any non-nofollow links from it confer an awful lot of weight.

By just nofollowing everything, they disincentivize people from even being tempted to game the system and promote their own stuff, even if it were done in a helpful way. Instead, I am incentivized to provide the most useful, comprehensive link I can find to answer a question. All my incentive is in earning an acceptance of my answer, rather than just in having an answer good enough to not not get spam-binned that sits there and feeds me pagerank.
'MTV Exec' Answers Age-Old Question: Why Doesn't MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?
Stating the obvious, energy directly affects military strategy.
It's a distinction between Revenue Churn and Customer Churn. If customer A cancels their account, it is a loss of 1 account. You can't really have negative customer churn.

Revenue churn would be Customer A cancels their account which was worth $5/month. But if customer B upgrades their existing account by $10/month, you would have negative revenue churn. The negative churn here is negative Revenue churn, ie. upgrades outpace cancelations.
This looks cool. It's unfortunate that it's Python-controlled rather than Python programmable. It uses a PIC16, so you'd probably have to throw out essentially all of Python's dynamic features. At that point, one might want to stick with Arduino or PIC Basic stamp.

I think a Lisp programmable uC would be infinitely cool, but again using these types of uC you would have to forgo the dynamic features.
McAfee Security founder wanted for murder in Belize
How to generate more revenue from your web application today
Natural disasters are a blessing in disguise; at least for those who survive.

Gaia often reminds us here in Australia that no matter how much we plan, how safe we feel, despite how high we build our dams, we're ultimately at her mercy.

The sense of community recent events seemed to extract from what is otherwise a reasonably un-spirited populace was nothing short of phenomenal. Humanity indeed possesses great redeeming qualities.

I wish all the best to anyone effected by the recent events. And my heart goes out to the friends and families of those less fortunate.

Please. Try to see it for what it is. An opportunity to rekindle your relationship with nature. To reflect on what's truly important. To fill the voids with something even greater than before.
Remember when Netscape pushed out its browser with a pop-up blocker? And when you first launched it you got a pop-up ad because their parent (I think it was AOL at the time) demanded to be both their homepage as well as have an exception from the pop-up blocker?

I'm coming around to the idea that there is no such thing as free (gratis) software.
It's not an ASCII v EBCDIC thing, its an ASCII vs Unicode thing.
> for every $ that Apple steals in patent BS

A billion for aping Apple's design IP doesn't sound like much when Apple has to pay $370M over the claim that Facetime violates the use of a domain-name service to set up virtual private networks.
The Story Behind Pixar – with Alvy Ray Smith
Who's filenames aren't unicode? Also domains and URLs can be unicode too.
Perhaps it'd be useful if Apple would make a distinction between applications with one-time IAPs (e.g, "upgrade to SurfWriter Plus for $1.99") and applications with consumable IAPs (e.g, "get ten thousand zorkberries for $1.99"). The latter are almost certainly the sort of IAPs that are fundamentally bothering you here.
That sounds pretty catastrophic to me.
These are just the general characteristics of any effective organization. I really don't see how Occupy Sandy is anything like a startup though. Steve Blank defines a startup as
"a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model."

Copying the tactics of existing disaster response organizations (albeit with a grass roots spin) Is hardly anything like a startup.
The coolest part of dateutil isn't the parser, it's the recurrence rules and recurrence rule sets. Doing that on your own is extremely error-prone if you have a non-trivial recurrence.
I still remember being blown away when I switched. I'd given up on SPAM. My wife still uses Yahoo and sometimes I'll go into her email to help with something and be shocked by how much she gets. Spam control is also the reason my two daughters have Gmail accounts so Google is capturing the next generation. (On a random side note my kids were actually disappointed when Buzz went away. They were all using it as their first SN experience as they were too young to be allowed access to anything else)
An Amazon engineer had a little idea that turned into a billion-dollar business
This seems to be a T-shirt advert, why am I reading this on HN?
The Greatest Lie of All
Police never have unlimited discretion in determining whether or not you have violated the law- that is for a judge and/or jury to determine. Still, I agree with the sentiment- I think we need to focus on the sociology of distracted driving, rather than the criminology.
I am pretty paranoid about my wallet, which means that I usually have a pretty good sense of awareness about where it is. (I am so used to it being in my pocket that when I have my wallet in my hand I sometimes have a mild panic about my wallet missing. Doh!) That said, I would not put a large device like this in my wallet, because I don't perceive the benefit as worth the cost of a larger wallet and missing card slot.

Still, the idea and implementation seem to be excellent. I would be much more likely to attach a tracker to my luggage while traveling or in my laptop bag. With a smaller device I might even put it on my keyring. If I had one in my car I wouldn't have to think about remembering my parking spot. The GPS tag will mark it for me as soon as I leave my car.
First reaction to this: "Wow, that must be annoying, I'm glad I don't have these apps. What were the developers thinking, how do they get away with these shady practices?"

Second reaction: "Perhaps they are doing something right and we should be doing that in our apps. Perhaps younger people actually like such things, after all they get dozens of sms every day and it makes them feel important/liked?"
In that statement, L. Von Mises is presuming some things that are not true of BitCoin. In particular, the BitCoin creator has essentially made it impossible for anybody to change the number of BitCoins in circulation. Thus while it may be true that no governmental entity or currency controller will choose to inflate the currency through some activity, it is not true that the currency will therefore not vary in value over time when compared to some other things, and it isn't unfair to say that if I need more BitCoins to buy something now than I did last year, the currency has inflated, and vice versa. It may not be precisely the same as fiat currency inflation in every detail, but it's broadly the same, but it won't be the result of changing policy. (Arguably one could call it the result of an unchanging policy set at the beginning.)
Electric Porsche Boxster
Code to search public tax filings of US non-profit orgs released
Jeepers... cut the guy some slack. He didn't say this is the bullet proof way of doing everything YOU want to do in all situations, every time, forever. He said "I thought I'd share my favorite regex of all time". And then explained what it does. Why does everyone have to poop on his favorite thing?
What do you feel could happen if somebody profiled you?
kaipakartik your account is dead
If you think that founding a start-up is tough, wait until you have children. Raising them (properly) is the toughest and most rewarding job that one can have...

Marriage is just a way that society found to keep both parties more committed into it.
Hope so! :) Feel free to let me know if you have specific questions, and if I can flow them into the podcast I will. I'd rather the episodes actually answered peoples' questions than be based on my hunches as to what's interesting or helpful.
For growth, looking at the historical revenues/profits/cashflows would be a better gauge than market cap. Public companies disclose annual numbers for the last 4 years in their 10-K statements, and you can look farther back by looking at historical 10-K statements.

Market cap is a proxy that has too many outside factors and should be eschewed in favor of more concrete and reliable numbers since they are readily available.
Agreed, Google fails at this, however alternative search engines,

http://searchco.de/?q=%5B+-~%5D+ext%3Apod&cs=on
http://symbolhound.com/?q=%5B+-~%5D

Symbolhound gives the answer quite well, and searchco.de has some examples of its use in the results.
Possibly of interest: Pycorn. It's a project a friend of mine is working on to port a Python interpreter to bare-metal ARM.

https://github.com/tornewuff/pycorn

From what I understand, though, it requires quite a bit more memory than is available on most microcontrollers. 64KB isn't enough for Python to even start up, let alone do anything useful.
I didn't. If you find it not unlikely that some publishers may themselves be disintermediated in whole or in part, that's all the support I need for the point I made. I never said that all publishers are doomed. I only said that given that publishers are themselves going to be facing this sort of pressure, even if some survive it quite well, how much more so would Amazon, trying to be a fourth party in the already-pressured three-way reader/publisher/author relationship.
Someone have a mirror of the article?
Web Audio API Prototype II — Conway's Melodies
Asked @pocketcasts to add it to their list. Enjoying the first episode.
Long live the demon!
I was thinking about this just yesterday. I think Google's spam blocking accuracy is just a reflection of their advertising acuity. The better their advertising becomes, the better they can fight spam because they know what you want, and by extension what you don't. Furthermore, any advances in spam blocking technology are also advances in advertising technology.
Text Messaging Declines in U.S. for First Time, Report Says
Parse Adds Log In with Facebook for Windows 8
Of Birthday Problems, Haskell and Floating Point Precision
Dang, wished known about that a week ago when I was kludging it for a couple of utilities (thinking "someone must have a library for this but I can't find it!"). Thank you.
There is one author of the code, and potentially many readers.

That one author is the only person who knows what s/he is trying to achieve.

That author taking a few minutes to add some comments will save other people the time to search for answers and the time it takes to grok everything.
Not to be devil's advocate too much, but if that was the case then why was nothing ever done?

To the outsider, Occupy (Wall St, at least) was the very opposite of "getting shit done"- it had the world's attention for a number of weeks and appeared to do absolutely nothing with it, before fading away.
So that makes a blackberry walking without shoes?
Yes, I have an Intel HD 3000 and Nvidia NVS 4200. I use bumblebee and bbswitch to handle dedicated GPU.
Only if you let it.

Sometimes God needs an advocate too :)
I have no issues with an app asking me ONCE (unless I press `later`) for a ranking. The fact of the matter is that once I install an app, I'm going to forget about the fact that it came from the Play Store and I'm just going to use it. If it weren't for those pop-ups, I would only ever write reviews when an app pissed me off.
I tried to give the internet a go without ads after an upgrade. It wasn't that bad, advertisers have improved.

Until I tried to watch a 10 second clip on youtube of Ace Ventura saying "yes Satan?". After a 20 second ad for a car, music started playing from the side ad. Clicking the mute button took me to their site. I closed it, refreshed the video and after sitting through the same car video the same side ad started playing.

So I installed adblock.

TV ads don't play same time when your show is on. You don't do the same on the internet.
But this is in fact the reason people don't pay for goods and services by mailing cash.
Hello Ben - thanks for your reply!
I remember a court case where a website's terms of use precluded search engine bots for indexing the site. The fact that the site owner did not use the industry standard of the nofollow tag ultimately worked against them.

So yes google can disregard nofollow on a case by case basis and face the associated potential legal consequences. I am sure that this would not be a problem in the case of stackoverflow, but I am not sure this is true in general.
My favorite regex is the following,

/^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/

Which finds prime numbers. Although, I can't for the life of me think of a reason for using it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3296050/how-does-this-reg...
You aren't describing Monads. You are describing a particular Monad.

You can use the same 'monad pattern' for a variety of stuff such as state computations to mimic mutability, asynchronous pipelining, IO (which if i'm not mistaken is pretty similar to the async pipelining), etc.

A 'monad' is just a term for objects that have flatmap(scala)/selectmany(.NET)/bind(Haskell?) and for comprehension/Do notation is just a convenient pattern built into the languages for working with them.
OK, so there is gratuitous use of push notifications, but it's also unfair to compare push usage between a utility app and apps that are trying to convince you to try something new.

How about we compare the pushes to email campaigns by companies?

I for one am constantly amazed at how much users tolerate these emails.

So I say, yes, make it easier to stop the pushes just like it's easy to unsubscribe from email campaigns. It could be as easy as making sure users know that the pushes stop when the app is uninstalled.

But I think outside of other app developers and the tech community, users may not feel as strongly that this is abuse.
Did hackers uncover Petraeus' saucy affair webmails before FBI?
google cache seems ok:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3sKnQOn...
Wouldn't given that ever freemium model (e.g. $0 -> $15) then automatically create negative churn?
Doesn't it make more sense to track first-time purchases/upgrades and future upgrades together?
Because if I am tracking revenue oriented I am not really interested in tracking customer growth but revenue growth
To the outsider
Looks like it is fixed now for me too.
Perforce killed my productivity again
what a plug - obviously the only real purpose of this was to sell those t-shirts.
I get spam robocalls on my iPhone and have no way to block them.

+1

Indeed. Somehow I've ended up on a number of phone spammer databases, such that I go through periods of getting 5+ calls per day. (Yes, of course I'm on the national do-not-call list and it's illegal to contact cell phones this way.) On Verizon you can block certain numbers (including "unkown"), though I believe it costs an additional 5$ a month. For the last 5 years or so I've been in the habit of not answering any call from a number not on my contact list, but I'd love a good (cheap) way to block spam calls. (And there aren't any good apps for this... I'm guessing Apple doesn't provide an API to actual phone functionality?)
Their Right Stuff
This really does not make the code more readable especially the last method show that's even less explicit.
I wonder if it's a UX difference. I don't use iOS, but looking at those notifications, they seem obtrusive and demanding of your attention. Whereas in Android, the notifications just accumulate in the tray at the top without really getting in the way.
I think this will go for well over $500.
True, but nothing beats positive reinforcement, for me at least. The whole happiness vs money thing.
The quote:

Anecdotes often refer to the exception, rather than the rule: "Anecdotes are useless precisely because they may point to idiosyncratic responses."[18] Even when many anecdotes are collected to prove a point, "The plural of anecdote is not data." (Roger Brinner[19])

The source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
Poor Gregory, the guy doesn't understand that the vast bulk of the public has absolutely zero idea of what a bug report is, let alone how to hunt down your app online, find the reporting mechanism, and writing a useful report with appropriate details.
I think it's fair that most effective organizations do the same things. One thing that stands out there is the lack of rigid hierarchy in decision making. If you want to start making PB&Js to help out you can, you don't need to register, get orientation etc.

I also think that Occupy Sandy is building a repeatable and scalable output - that is relief effort for a disaster. They iterate constantly on their ability to gather, parse, and disseminate donation goods and manpower.
What is interesting here is that if Samsung loses the Apple contract, it will have likely huge negative impacts on Samsung. Apple's huge parts purchasing has effectively bankrolled the R&D and overhead costs of Samsung's mobile operations for quite a while now. Thus, Samsung is able to use the same factories and parts in their own products cheaper than anyone else can because Apple's massive investments make it possible.

If Apple had HTC or LG making all of their parts, it would be much easier for LG and HTC to compete. Eventually, as Apple moves away from Samsung it will be interesting to see if Samsung can keep up with Apple as Apple's huge contract no longer pays for the massive production overhead and R&D costs for mobile tech.

My guess is over a 10 year period Samsung will lose a lot of its profitability advantage over other Android phone makers unless it can replace Apple's purchase volume their own sales.
Management theory was hijacked in the 80s. We're still suffering the fallout