skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not correct either. There are lots of free APIs that are reliably stable, available, and profitable. Think about how many tens of billions of dollars have been made writing to the win32 API. Likewise, the community of GNU/Linux APIs (Perhaps the first time I've ever felt it was appropriate to write GNU/Linux in a sentence :-) - glibc, etc...

The question you have to ask yourself is how much leverage the third-party has over you if they decided they want to screw you over. Even still, you may want to write for that platform if the $$$ is there. Look at iOS platform - Apple totally owns you. Or, even better, look at the PS3/Wii/XBox platforms - the owners of those APIs have even more control over what you can do - but still very profitable platforms to develop for.

At the end of the day, a judgement call has to be made. No easy rules.
Less than two weeks ago, this scathing comment showed up on HN about BalancedPayments:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744982

Did Balanced ever respond? The comments here about the founders are quite opposite.
This is very cool!

Have you seen vextab? http://vexflow.com/vextab/

It's a javascript library for displaying tablature and musical notation. It uses its own text format for describing tablature, but it is pretty easy to work with. I noticed that your tab doesn't have any slide/bend information, which vextab does. It may not be as necessary because the audio is well synchronized.
There was an article on HN a few weeks ago commenting on how "we can change the terms at any time" is actually a bad thing to put into click/shrink wrap agreements since the courts tend to be unimpressed by them.
Was going to say that myself. Downvotes be damned, this answer get to the heart of it.
"Time Warner" - I didn't know they were an ISP too in the States. Such a massive conflict of interest.
Fetish for making things ignores real work
Yeah the tax rates of the 1990s were so bawl-inducing...
This is suggesting doing something sketchy with 1 and then moving it and 2 and 3 to 4. You can improve your odds of evading detection by moving things around a bit, yes, but most applications I'm aware of will simply move them all in a single transaction. There have also been some fairly large-scale network analysis papers showing linked accounts and the flow of e.g. one big theft a while back - unless you run it through a mixer, you're only mixing with yourself, which runs the risk of revealing everything if you leak a little too much.

And regardless, if you then use 4 to do anything that's linked to you, it's further evidence that you are linked to all the accounts - in no way better than before, and possibly worse. You also can't use the money from 2 or 3 to do things linked to you, because now they're linked to you and the sketchy 1. If you had left them isolated, observers would only have information on 1, nothing would have changed, and you could use 2 and 3 without leaking any information about 1.
RethinkDB started as an optimized storage engine for SSDs and the current version is still using the engine. I'm pretty sure someone that worked on the original engine will chime in with more details, but afaik it involved everything from a specialized log-structured disk format and down to kernel hacking. You'll probably find a bit more details in this post old post http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/on-trim-ncq-and-write-amplific...
I like this a lot, it is a really nice way of seeing the data. I would also be interested to see:

- A version with the income on a logarithmic scale to make it extend past $300k in a sensible way. (Not because I need it, I just want to know how the changes affect taxes in the higher ranges).

- A plot of % increase in taxes vs. income. There are some poor sods on the left hand side of the graph who seem to be getting an almost 50% tax increase. Is that really true?
Sometimes I wish we had standards for these across the world. One metric system (miles or km? please agree on one), standard set of traffic signs (without any text), just drive on one side of the road (left or right?) etc - obviously some of these aren't practical (like driving) but some are (like establishing uniform traffic/road signs without any text, just pictures). I know it is wishful thinking :(
Beyond the Reader Monad: Dependency Injection with Jellyfish
Are these the same people who litter, or would walk past litter even if it was right in front of them?
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I wonder why something like "If you want more than 100k usernames, either pay us $x per username or use our advertisement API and put whatever tweets/ads we push where we tell you to" is not an option.

It would be refreshingly honest and for some people/clients it could work, plus it could earn them some of the needed cash.
Easy: some blogger in an embargoed country gains some notoriety, and then somebody else notices that they have a premium WP.com subscription. That's probably enough suspicious evidence to cause some headaches for the service provider.
Is that actually true? Seems to me the typical office is an ergonomic nightmare designed to tickle some manager's social dominance instincts at the cost of a hefty productivity hit (and schools are similar indeed). Obviously there are companies like Fog Creek that do optimize offices for productivity but I was under the impression these are still exceptions?
You're not saying the same thing at all. You're talking about Youtube performances, and rprasad is talking about tablature. Current tab-sharing sites are very much in a gray area at this point, and the SoundSlice founders have to deal with that somehow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature#Legal_issues

> The MPA had been pushing for websites offering free tablatures to be shut down. MPA president Lauren Keiser said that their goal is for owners of free tablature services to face fines and even imprisonment.
Show HN: Coffee Filter, useful coffeescript functions for user interaction
Not everyone likes tablets.
3 tips to getting un-stuck when you hit a problem in programming
Why are people calling it the "fiscal cliff"? Isn't it supposed to make the fiscal situation better?
Two things:

1) A project is more clearly defined as something that the creators intend an eventual completion. Or, perhaps better, a project is something that has a hard ship date. A project is not necessarily successful: that is, it may fail to make that ship date. If it fails, it may fail in such a way that it never completes. That is the worst case scenario: your money went into a black hole.

2) There's a difference between crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Crowdsourcing is a riff off "outsourcing"; it's using "the crowd" to accomplish tasks. Crowdfunding is a specific instance of this, in which the task is "give me money".
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Ah thanks! Love your attention to detail here.
#6 appears incorrect. 1099-K is a form prepared by credit card processing services informing the IRS about their merchants' annual transaction volume. It's not something FilePicker or any other company outside the payment services industry would send to vendors.

The author might be confusing it with 1099-MISC, which PayPal does not take care of for you. If you pay individuals (or LLCs that have not elected to be treated as a corporation) over $600 during the year, you have to send them and the IRS a 1099-MISC to report that non-employee compensation.
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they were starting from a significantly better place than the GOP, who were caught completely flat-footed on technology in 2008

Shouldn't the GOP have been funding an Orca-like system starting in 2008? I mean, how many elections does the other guy have to deploy superior technology to great effect before you start making your own better tech?

The Obama campaign also had a (comparatively) leisurely opportunity to implement and refine their system while the Republican primary battles raged on and any one potential GOP candidate was denied the money/focus to start the development of a national campaign tool.

But the national party could have started working on this 08 and just sold/licensed the tech to the campaign after the nominee was selected....
Nice concept. But I would like if you could display much more far back. And perhaps also how much upvotes each one got. Look at hneasy.com and maybe contact him.
I'm almost fearful for asking this given the somewhat anti-Rails sentiment I sometimes see here, but...

Anyone know of any projects to create a Rails ODM for RethinkDB? (a la Mongoid/MongoMapper?)

Seems to me a natural fit given the (relative) popularity of MongoDB in the Rails world and the comparisons/improvements of RethinkDB over MongoDB.
I disagree that the enterprise market is growing that fast. Each new mobile enterprise user used to be a laptop enterprise user. This isn't a market that's drawing in new people, only migrating the existing ones to a different technology.
It was also fault tolerant. In 2008, at least, Democrats had paper backup for things that went wrong with the tech, and did end up using it at times.

In 2012, Republicans hadn't done any due diligence and assumed their tech would work. So sure they were that their tech would work is that they only released it to users on Election Day itself...
Jquery essentials
My position, I've done a fair number of iOS apps and am well versed in Ruby. The meta-programming aspect of RubyMotion is what appealed to me. There's a ton of boilerplate in iOS that could be eliminated. I attempted to migrate an iOS app to RubyMotion. I stopped because the debug tools weren't mature enough. It was a lot of fun to work with when everything worked! Like everything in life I suppose...

I will go back to RubyMotion once it has better debug facilities. And I won't do an app re-write; I'll do a new app. HTH. :D
Thankyou.

I find it somewhat frustrating to follow a link that sounds interesting only to find a slide deck that makes little sense to me without the talk that goes with it.
muzz, don't be obtuse. This means hundreds of dollars a month gone from your paychecks. The less you earn the bigger the percentage increase in taxes, never mind the greater relative value of each $100 to you.

If you can afford to ignore the loss of a few hundred bucks every month then more power to you. Me and my family can't.
Why use Backbone.js?
You guys planning on integrating with Dwolla?
I liked the Internet better when we had things like irc and news to talk with that weren't controlled by any single corporate entity.
Essentially. At the lower end of the scale the majority of tax paid is FICA, which is almost increasing by 50%. I don't know how tax credits will affect the refund situation at the end of the year, but this will be the actual effect on paychecks.
I wish it would break down the added tax based on the following scenarios:

1) Cliff jumped off with a parachute - middle-class cuts preserved
2) Stephan Feck'd - no agreement = full increase

Also does reflect the cap gains tax increase (15% vs, 25%) which, for entrepreneurs seems more relevant?

Finally there is a much bigger impact to government spending and jobs as the budget cuts would cause furloghs or layoffs until the budget is restored (if at all).

Thanks, recalcitrant GOP, for your willingness to take the nation hostage for your idealism!
I found the interface annoying. Here's a rough copy of the text:

— CUSTORA PRESENTS — Clive AND THE Unsubscribe (OR, WHAT'S COSTING RETAILERS $5.8 BILLION EACH YEAR)

Clive loves shopping online From soaps to socks to jellyfish food, if he can think of it, it's only a few clicks away from his doorstep. It's miraculous, if you think about it. Along with 77% of shoppers, Clive actually prefers to receive emails from online retailers more than any other medium. It's an easy way for him to stay in touch with his favorite brands, discover new things, and take advantage of some great deals. Unfortunately, Clive is also one of those people who barely reads marketing emails.

50%* of people admit to never or almost never reading emails from retailers.

It's understandable, given people receive an average of 147 emails* per day. That's a lot to sort through. And sometimes, if he gets a bad vibe, Clive will unsubscribe.

And here's what happens: In fact, each year, "unsubscribes" cost U.S. retailers an estimated $ 5.8 Billion*. Yikes. That's $111 Million per week. We looked into when and why people unsubscribe, and discovered some interesting things.

5% of people unsubscribe within the first week of subscribing

6.5% within the first month

And 8.5% within the first three months

We also asked people to list their most common reasons for unsubscribing.

"Too frequent" Listed by 67% of people

"Too generic, not personalized" Listed by 63% of people

"Not relevant" Listed by 60% of people

"I hardly buy anything from them" Listed by 55% of people

So, back to Clive. How do you keep him "subscribed"?

Email works. Just keep it classy. Email's a really great way for retailers to stay in touch with millions of people, and customers actually prefer it over other direct mediums. The more tailored, the better.

First impressions matter. Those first few emails can make or break a relationship with a new customer, so make them count.

Timing + relevancy = happier customers It's all about delivering the right message to the right person at the right time. Not too much, and not so little that they forget why they love you.

We believe online marketing can be a whole lot better, and we're getting started with email.

EVERY CUSTOMER HAS A STORY. MAKE THE MOST OF IT.
Here's a series of charts that show what percentage of income taxes are paid by each group (top 1%, 5%, 10%, etc) and their overall share of total income. As you can see the top 1% earn about 20% of total income but pay 40% of all income taxes.

http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/top10-percent-income-e...
> I do think there are a lot of ideas like categorization and tiering that could help people better understand Kickstarter, and I think they'll continue to refine the concept, of course.

I think that tiering may help, though I don't have the variety of experience to suggest a set of tiers, and I suspect KS devs don't either. I would suggest to Kickstarter that, now that they have a few years' worth of data, mine it and figure out those tiers. Also, start actively going through failed projects and figuring out why they failed, and release that information to the public: you have inertia now; telling people that projects fail after funding is not going to stop them from contributing to ideas they're enthusiastic about.
Brainfuck interpreter written in the C preprocessor
Also how is Stripe enterprise? Is any of the big enterprises ever going to use a payment system like Stripe?
I don't understand why people bend over backward and provide also the grease to FB, Tweeter, AppStore & co?
What do you mean by "top users"? The top users are those with tons and tons of followers and those followers are what make Twitter valuable to them. Not any feature or any good developer relationships. Do you think any celebrity or company is going to want to put their message behind a paywall? I know I'd have a hard time moving enough of my friends to something like App.net to make it interesting for me.

It sucks that Twitter is blocking cool development like this, but they've managed to become "a place where people are" (which is no easy task) and it's a mistake to underestimate that value.
What I haven't seen anyone mention is the fact that it's NOT expectations that come from mobile/tablet (we're used to most of the space being available, because OS is usually tiny, but Windows 8 is not) vs expectations that come from the desktop (where we're used to the OS taking up 10+ GB).

It's simply a question of percentages. An iOS installation uses anywhere from 1.5% to 6% of available space (1 GB out of 16 to 64). A desktop OS might take up 16GB, but your HD is anywhere from 256-2,048 GB, so still in the range of 1-6%.

So, when consumers everywhere are pretty much used to all smartphones and computers both leaving more than 90% of advertised space still available for use, when Microsoft's Surface comes along and leaves only 50%, it really is qualitatively different, and you really have to give weight to the idea that this is deceptive and misleading to customers.
That's why we (LiveLoop) think Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc. will all grow to encompass Web Service in the application itself, rather than being replaced wholesale by Web apps the way Google wants you to.

LiveLoop is our PowerPoint plugin that makes presentations real-time collaborative without ever having to leave Office -- available at http://getliveloop.com
For the past several years the Facebook mobile site has been much better and performed faster than the iphone app.

Why then have people still been using the facebook app?

When you realize the answer to that, you'll understand.
Design and usability do matter, indeed. Most enterprise applications fail miserably in that respect. However, I'm wondering how or if it is possible at all to disrupt common enterprise software segments such as:

- document management
- time tracking
- issue tracking
- project management
- information management

For all of these there already are great solutions. Most enterprise companies still to stick to the SAP, IBM and Oracle solutions they're used to, though. Part of the reason for this is bureaucracy and aversion towards change. Another issue is support. Companies like IBM can agree on extensive support and SLAs, which startups or SMEs certainly cannot. Finally, there's this well-know issue that the people the software is sold to most of the time aren't those who in the end have to use it.

Anyway, I think the enterprise market is very interesting because there's lots of money and potential in it.

So, what do you think would be interesting areas of enterprise software to tackle?
also check out hnshowcase.com (not mine)

knocked over by all the meta in hnshowcase showing showinghn showing Show HNs while showing other Show HNs
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It's hard to tell with just the slides (and no talk), but it seems like this isn't presenting the complete/correct picture. Pip can use distribute or setuptools - it's not exactly an alternative as slide 31 makes it seem from just the text.

On a higher level, while it's interesting to know the evolution that things have taken, it's really not that complicated anymore - I haven't run into issues with Python packaging with ages; since pip is essentially fully featured (even including uninstallation), and pip is capable of working from source, I don't run into any issues when I use virtualenv (as everyone should be doing - and as is integrated into CPython since 3.3 anyway).

Python packaging has experimented with several different approaches, but it seems to have found the magical combination - in fact, I often miss the virtualenv + pip approach when working with other packaging systems in other languages (such as Haskell's cabal).
Hmm, but it seems to work in Safari for iOS6. There's no hover, of course, so one has to touch the bar that corresponds to income. I wonder what shenanigans are going on that it doesn't work on so many desktop browsers.
Looking forward to this. Would rather have a small tax increase than be dealing with 100% Debt-to-GDP in 10 years.
Regarding your 2nd question: A 50% increase in taxes sounds accurate. This is only because those on the left hand side of the graph pay little to no personal income tax. The largest tax they pay is the Social Security Tax, which is set to increase from 4.2% to 6.2% -- nearly a 50% increase.
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I have the suspicion this might not be a guide for people who want to prevent attacks, but a guide for people who want to attack poorly secured sites.
Ahem: http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/ (although support isn't great yet: http://caniuse.com/#feat=notifications)
Spain's economy is headed for a depression, Ireland's credit is shot after their bailout, Portugal collapsed almost immediately and is suffering high unemployment even after a bailout, Cyprus's credit rating is junk and they've applied for a bailout. So it's not just Greece. Several other countries were headed for trouble but seem to have things under control now: Italy, Belgium, France, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, and Slovenia.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_sovereign-debt_crisis
Just to add some notes to the FAQ:

1) Backbone gives you a handy way to interact with browsers and the DOM. It does not remove the necessity for you to interact with the browser.

2) It seems like a lot of folks get into trouble when talking about/thinking about event flows and using the abstract messaging layer that Backbone provides in Backbone.Event. Backbone gives some basic and handy defaults events for folks to use, but I always think it's worth considering which parts of your app talk to each other, and what that interface looks like.
Google Books team open sources their book scanner
My TEDx talk: Our phones are our weapons to change the world
Elance does divulge where these people live- you can restrict your hiring/contracting patterns accordingly.

Similarly, if you are up for reloing candidates, you're not restricted to a local hiring area.

Also, you can make your wants and needs transparent up front. If a freelancer doesn't like the idea of working in your office for a salary, they're free to be honest about it before you hire them for the contract.

I think it's kinda silly to imagine a site that's a crippled version of what's already out there when the existing solutions are more than capable of sufficing in this limited case.
Javascript-filled sites are often cleaner to scrape. Usually, at some point in the process, a nice JSON structure containing all the useful data exists.
Mail sending? Hmm, curious. Sure, there's STMP-settings in php.ini vs sendmail, but that can't be a show stopper, right? Also, PEAR::Mail did the rest for me, back in the days. I'm sure there's even better options these days.

I'm also curious how UTF8 was different. After all, since PHP arrays are simply binary arrays, how can it be different?
"What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8..."

What's wrong with everyone using the same web browser? After all, that's exactly what the HTML standard is for, right?
Show HN: selling college shirts for fun and profit
We had a skin-care salesgirl parked outside one of the Apple stores here in Austin. They really will try almost every trick in the book short of actual physical assault to keep you from leaving.
We haven't seen much demand for supporting Dwolla. However, could you create an issue on GitHub if you would like us to support Dwolla?
https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues
If the FBI were following a trail involving my wallet, I would also want to avoid being linked to the tumbling services.
At my university, the main library is called Hillman Library. As a joke, students call it "Club Hillman". It's a pretty popular term and has been going on for a few years now. During finals week, the library is packed full, and going there becomes a big social event.

So, a friend and I decided to capitalize on it. I designed the shirt and build the website over a week/weekend, and since launching Wednesday night, we've sold about 20 shirts. We're aiming for 200 by the 26th (so they're ready for finals week).

We're marketing both online (Reddit worked really well) and in person (putting up fliers everywhere around campus.)
Taliban Accidentally Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members
...ethnic diversity is a very good predictor of having a relatively stingy social welfare system compared to other countries of a similar wealth level.

Um, no.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/09/more-on-bryan-capl...
Think about it as cash: if someone knows that serial #AAAA was stolen, and then later you deposit that bill at a bank, they still have no idea if you are the person who stole it. It could have gone through any number of hands. I think I see your point about mixers though.