skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you only target Android, which is 85% of the smartphone market (IDC) despite what some would like you to believe, you can try this and conquer the world: http://laughton.com/basic/

Or you could try http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/studio/professional which will cost you some money.

Both solutions are easy to learn.

Personally, I don't want to help Apple gain market share. They're too lawsuit-happy and they take unilateral decisions when it comes to getting apps approved.
I'm confused with the comments here - we do all know Garageband is the app in the ad, right? It just so happens that people see a piano and search "piano" in the app store.

I may also be missing jokes and/or sarcasm :)
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Before it was only the chimps and other apes, and now dolphins, then the parrots ... we have to step up our game people! Next thing you know they are submitting pull requests ...
Thanks for the curiosity. :) I'd just prefer that my badmouthing of my employer up above be traced back to me.
Why is 'hot-linking' images considered 'bad form'?
This service lets you use Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, and Rdio from any country
The app in the ad is Garageband. However people just saw a piano and went searched for "piano" in the App Store and downloaded this instead of GarageBand (probably because the thumbnail looked like what they were looking for).
It is still very popular in western europe, aol and yahoo messenger never made any real entry here and msn took the whole cake. More and more people are moving out to skype and facebook, but I still have a big list of contacts there.
Remark: After reading your points system I've recognised how happy I am for not having ever in my life to participate in any sort of that bullshit. Not having to pass (or worry about) any entry exams: priceless.

I feel so bad about children, tho. Real pity.
I am sure the Feds are going to slap it down.
profitable as far as Bill of Materials versus price. This doesnt take into account how many are sold, marketing etc etc which brings the net profits down
I actively use it to talk to my brother, 1/2 friends and for school group projects. It's super easy when I need to take a screenshot with the snipping tool and send to them. Not sure how easy that is to do in Skype (which I have but don't use).
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They kill the client or the protocol ? It's not really clear from the article. Don't care about the client itself (most IM clients suck anyway), that's why we have pidgin.
I think your explanation is reasonable, but that's no excuse.

His US model makes a lot of allowances for things like how self-proclaimed independents are likely to vote.

It didn't work as well in the UK though.
"C++11 still lacks a few useful libraries such as an XML API, sockets, GUI, reflection"

that's a bit of a strange statement, no? Since when is a GUI or even an XML API part of the core language features? And adding reflection would, erm, kinda mean that every compiler has to be rewritten almost from scratch.
Such extrapolations are really tough -- keep in mind, for each state we only have results with a sample size of 1.
I wrote something similar, but with the added capability of having elements stack against each other as well: https://github.com/matb33/jquery-vertical-stack
Most users, including myself, provide solutions for fun. Look on StackOverflow; a lot of answers are very involved, and it's a free service. Bountify is like a Stack Overflow for code tasks, with a bonus of beer money if your solution is selected. Bottom line is that it's mostly for fun, as the bounty amounts are trivial wherever you live.
I use it to talk to my other half whilst in the office - that is it.

I'll switch to IRSSI over SSH onto my hosted server (I'll just run a local ircd) and she can use mIRC on her laptop instead. I have no intention of using another hosted service. It would be more reliable as well - Live Messenger reliability has always been crap.

(For ref, I do not use Skype, Facebook or any social tools).
The prototypical example of why a tax on financial transactions is urgently needed.
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MSN is probably big in China next only to QQ. In India, msn messenger never caught up and people started with yahoo and then moved on to gtalk.
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PhD's from the Faculty's Perspective: cheap slave labor.
Good work Tony!
The world is just. Highs and lows balance.

God says Line 65363

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when
he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried
away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive
unto Babylon.

40:2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him,
The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

40:3 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said:
because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his
voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were
upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into
Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto
thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is
before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go,
thither go.

40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of
Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with
him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto
thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a
reward, and let him go.

God says...

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Here is a list of Steam games that already have a Linux client: http://steamlinux.flibitijibibo.com/

It seems only a few of those have (yet) been added to Steam. Notable missing are all the id Software (Doom, Quake) games.
Skype client should be axed instead. It's a pile of ugly looking mess and eats half of computer's resources. I dread to turn it on anywhere else than on my overpowered home PC. And don't even get me started on the Android client. It's completely useless on a high-powered tablet, and equally useless on a low-powered phone.

I remember the times when official IM clients were lightweight and pleasant to use. Now you either have to go to third party / open source stuff (WTW, Pidgin, you name it), or just keep that GMail and Facebook tabs open.
It's not about working on the beach, it's about being able to go to the beach to rest and having an amazing work place for the time you want to be effective.
Focus / Defocus are for me the best way to be effective.
Sure, but once you're printing them at home, they're no longer cheap. The material that a manufacturer uses to print a million items will be purchased at wholesale prices. Your onesy-twosy items will be priced retail costing orders of magnitude more.
My school (Northeastern University CCIS) has a list of suggested salaries: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/co-op/employers/index.html#salaries

Average CCIS Co-op Salaries
Student Level Average Midpoint Average top 25%
Undergraduate First Co-op $20.00 $19.00 $28.00
Undergraduate Second Co-op $22.00 $22.00 $29.00
Undergraduate Third Co-op $23.50 $23.00 $30.00
Graduate Co-op $28.00 $28.50 $34.00
Maybe this will help the uptake of xmpp.
What I'm saying is that the same people who creates those violent crimes selling marijuana is going to create violent crimes selling other more dangerous drugs. Should we then legalize that as well so that those people will stop making those drugs and focus on another more dangerous drug?
Do the Republicans have people who would make compelling candidates in the Presidential election? (Who?)

Yes. In this election John Huntsman would have had a good chance of winning the election by carrying the moderates and picking up a few Democrat voters (although he probably would never have got enough Republican voters). In many ways Rick Perry was a better candidate than Romney (in terms of who could win the election), but he screwed up in the debate and I think the US is a little wary of another Texas Republican.

If not is there a structural problem in the Republican party that means extreme views (or massive personal cash) is required to reach the position to become a candidate and it somehow weeds out the compelling candidates?

Sort of. To win the primary you need to carry either the Christian conservatives or the business wing of the Republican party. In this election the Christian conservatives vote was split many ways which left Romney.

Romney's big problem was that he didn't appeal to Republicans enough for them to vote for him. He was sort of a Republican version of John Kerry - someone they thought moderates could vote for (which was kind of, somewhat true - he wasn't 100% insane anyway), but he didn't really appeal to his own party that much.
But would you do that for 2 years. You would need to do something else too I guess. What if you did not have enough savings for 2 years. You would need to work. But what kind of work would be available?
If thermal imaging is no longer effective then governments may try to restrict the supply of suitable LEDs instead. (I am thinking of the UK here - it is probably less likely in the US.)
There's rumour about C++14/C++17 supporting reflection:

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/c14
Maturity and technical chops are not always correlated.
A distended abdomen, you can prevent - Good to know it | Good to know it
What programming language are you writing in? That heavily matters with regards to whether you should finish your degree.
PhoneGap Build + Mobundler (iOS apps without Mac)
You can alternate time on the island and time in your native place (the life is not black and white ;))
I actually disagree, I think the public medium by which we can see every interaction is what makes this place so good, if you want to be needlessly bitchy, you need to do it in public where everyone else can see it.

It keeps us in check and thinking carefully about our comments and stops a lot of degradation of standards, with regards to quality of comments.
The c++ standard library is pretty sparse if you compare it to python's or java's, say. Good point about reflection; personally I don't miss it though. Where I would have used it in java, for example, I often find I can get a better result using templates - it just takes a bit more thought.
Thank you :-)
The plugin has been around for some time now.
So far it has been installed on the Jenkins JIRA (ex: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-12345).
Now I think it's time to get it known by other projects!
Can they optimize Skype so that it doesn't require 80MB-130MB just to run in the background? How can it require this much memory to run an instant messenger? Couldn't they delay load some of the features if they aren't yet being used (such as video codecs and audio codecs and other such features?)
Team Fortress 2 is free to play.
Why not to tell people what they are signing up for in a few sentences on the front page?

Seems like the signup is broken.
https://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C%2B%2B0xCompilerSupport
Personally, I would remove the bounty price restriction, and find a way to allow the market to let the all good listings rise the top, and bad ones towards the bottom.

Lots of $1 spam.
Am I the only one to find this a bit sad? People do what Apple does. I know, it's always been like this...
Looks like I need to get myself a proper (no-scrollwheel) three-button mouse again. :)
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Does Pinterest allow third party advertisement?
I thought the protocol used a central server for transferring contact information between users. If they shutdown those severs, then pidgin's msn implementation wont do us any good.
There we are, now uplift isn't as hard as it appeared: just introduce agriculture to a population and wait 10,000 years ;)
The way they seem to be recruiting in the UK, I would speculate that they are going to re-write it.
Okay, thanks. A few minor points.

I agree that "why" doesn't matter, if you know "what". When you don't however, "why" is a useful predictor.

I understand the value of arbitrage, to some extent. In its current form, it's quite heavy, but I can imagine we're better off allowing it.

We should compensate for value, not for risk. The two are not always correlated. I know trading is risky, but that's not the point. If it doesn't create value, it shouldn't be compensated. And I suspect some forms of trading create little to no value at all.

By itself, closing a deal doesn't mean you provided value. It means the other party thinks you provided value to them. When both parties think that, either it's a win-win situation, or someone got tricked. (Delayed bids and offerings complicate this, but it's the same principle.)

If I got it right, the OP did what we could call "short term speculation". If you predict something will rise, buy from a sucker who didn't. If you predict something will fall, sell it to a sucker who didn't. And of course, pray you are not the sucker. Locally, it's totally zero-sum.

Now maybe the whole system facilitates real transactions (with non-speculators) at the boundaries? But even then, for a given volume your reward doesn't seem to be proportional to your facilitation power (which I have no idea how to compute), but to how well you manage to trick your fellow traders. I very much doubt that such twisted incentives can foster a useful, let alone efficient, system.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering revising the bounty amount options and will most likely remove the $1 category.
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No it doesnot yet. But did you try out the gifts feature on Pinterest? It could evolve into something like sponsored tweets soon.
http://www.capitalideasonline.com/articles/index.php?id=2049 claims that it's from a "Memorandum for the Estates Committee, King's College, Cambridge" dated the 8th of May, 1938.
umm.. Skype certainly has some usability problems, but "half of computer's resources"? Are you trying to use it on a raspberry pi?
It was really popular over here (UK), but it died out fairly quickly when Facebook took over. My girlfriend is a teacher and she says that none of her students really knew what Windows Live Messenger was; kids today stick to Facebook, BBM and some use Twitter.
Gaining traction with unspectacular predictions in the spectacle of politics is spectacular.
I have never noticed any slowness with it on my Nexus.
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Build one!

There are many people on CncZone building DIY routers that will work with a 4x8 sheet, or at least will route an entire door.
Found some more info about this at http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/micros... .Apparently the won't kill the servers too so there's still hope of continuing with pidgin.
In the last Canadian federal election, we gave one party a majority government even though they only won 39.62% of the popular vote. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_2011
Another solution would be to allow people to stack up bounties. Like the upvote system in SO in fact.

I like the idea of the solution being presented. This way you do not work only for money, but money do come as a bonus
Skype has a Win8 App
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The guy I replied to asked for a source for the statement,

Someone who votes Democrat is equally likely to have a college education as a Republican.

I provided a source showing that this is at least close to true, and possibly it tilts a bit towards the Republicans rather than being equally likely. I also provided an interesting tidbit that, while the college educated demographic is best for Republicans, the no high school degree demographic is best for Democrats.

Are you offended that I answered the guy's question by linking to some data, or that I added a sentence about an interesting tidbit of information from that data? Because immediately after I posted, you replied with unnecessary insults and ridiculous straw men. I hope you can understand why your post elicited a facetious response from me, which you self-righteously deem "ad hominem".
A lot of the work silver doesn't isn't just aggregating the polls. He tries to take into account the probability that the polls are wrong.

According to a couple of his blog posts, going just by the most recent polls (and their margins of error) Obama had a 100% chance of winning -- but in the past, polls have sometimes been systematically misleading.
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Do I predict this sparking a restriction in data availability in the API?
Looks pretty cool, I can definitely imagine outsourcing some easy-but-long tasks. I think that you should not aim at becomming "stack overflow with bounties" but a real marketplace, so the "do it for fun and a few beer bucks" tasks should be pruned.
I used to. Oddly enough in finance AOL instant messenger is still used a lot.

You are legally allowed to issue trade orders via AOL IM.

Bloomberg chat also allows you to put your AOL contacts into it and use it as your chat program.

These two things have helped to keep it alive alot longer than maybe it should have been.
Rhetorics. Of course I didn't eat half the resources, but was a noticable drain on the overall performance of some computers I was working on, and the UI of Skype itself was very unresponsive and freezed for seconds quite often.
The same sense that the Banach-Tarksi paradox[1] is: it's a counter-intuitive mathematical truth.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
Interesting, but not very surprising. A very small percentage of people come up with genuinely new ideas. A slightly larger percentage synthesize those ideas into other ideas. About half the remaining can learn those ideas, and the other half stares into the abyss of natural selection.
I guess in a time where 4-8gb ram is the norm, 80-130mb memory consumption is not seen as a priority.
True, but other articles have said the main reason is that their business changed. The contest was based on DVD rentals, now they emphasize streaming, and that changes viewing patterns...people skip around, sample several movies before settling on one, watch their favorite parts, etc.
It also has devastating effects inside the US, in the form of a disproportionately large prison population with a disproportionately high percentage of minorities.

I am proud of my state (Colorado) today, which I am sad to say houses an outsized share of this country's huge prison population, for leading the way on this issue.
The governments of ex french colonies in Africa are corrupt to the bone. A handful French corporations own and rule the place (Bolloré, Bouygues, and others).

For example, 70% of the economy in Ivory Coast is owned by private French companies. Bolloré basically owns the seaport, which was partially controlled by the state under Gbagbo. Martin Bouygues was the witness of Ouatara for his wedding...

You get the idea. The same goes for most if not all of West Africa.
looking great, consider bundling 5 clean, professional looking themes/designs with it and you'll probably touch even closer to home
Megaupload-redo-is-shut-down-even-before-debut
The issue is that we've (we as in humanity) committed some great injustices that have left certain groups at a major disadvantage. The only viable solution, for now, is to give those groups an unfair advantage at the cost of some efficiency, lost opportunities, "white discrimination" and so on. Hopefully, this strategy may one day level the field enough that it's not needed.

Anyway, it's still probably statistically better to be a white male who went to a "less than Harvard" college than a minority from Harvard.
Well, except they don't split the water, but the urea contained in the urine. Now, I don't know whether that process takes more or less energy than you gain by burning the end result, but it's not the same process.
Seal gaps around windows and doors
RIM bailout? That one I would believe.

Open government? Wow, I remember that one from 4 years ago.

Skilled immigration? They don't vote for Dems. Unskilled immigration is all he cares about.

Pour more money into failing "green" tech. Yes, let's build more Chevy Volts filled with toxic batteries.

Seriously, there is no tech agenda from this pres.
This should've been top comment. Nails it for me. I couldn't find the words so thank you for finding them for me.
Awesome! So that list is not complete? Any more games missing from that list?
Ugh I hate it when people make this claim or link this article. If you follow one more article link deep, they say implemented some of the earlier code that came out of it, code that provided the real business value consistently.

Do you know what caused a team to win?

They Realized (1) people rate movies higher on specific days ( why would you want to implement that into your estimator? And (2) they realized that all the movies that Netflix was asking about we're movies the user was willing to rate, and because users tended to rate movies they like, this biased the results, so basically, they didn't implement the hacking the test
And that they took some of the learnings during the contest and saw some decent gains.
>> Cannabis may have valid clinical applications, but there are still dangers associated with its use, especially increased risk of psychotic symptoms

I'm not disputing cannabis has no dangers associated with it, but similar studies that reached that conclusion that I know of always mention that the increased psychosis risks are almost exclusively apparent in people who started using at very young age (up to 16). Similar effects are observed in alcohol use at young age, which is exactly why we have age limits on buying alcohol.

Lot's of other factors can contribute to the development of psychotic symptoms that are not prohibited by law by the way. I know this sounds like the 'broken window' fallacy, but of all the things with possible negative health effects, I think cannabis is really one of the least important ones to worry about.
Why would they, it's a civil matter surely, some form of breach of contract and the correct recourse is to the courts.

It also depends why the company have done what they've done. Given his previous history it's entirely reasonable that they've decided they don't wish to deal with him (having not realised it was him originally - I'm sure they don't check every domain registration) and have terminated their contract based on some perfectly reasonable clause or other.

Dotcom has the right to do what he wants within the law, however other companies don't have to deal with him if they don't want to and given his past have plenty of reasons to think that way.
'Registered'? With whom? I didn't register with anyone as far as I know, yet I received an email (on one of my 5 email addresses).