skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to get more optimal than "read a page of text" "press button for next page". Scroll wheels require some combination of

* Have to move it more to travel the same distance

* Have to fiddle with it to get exactly one page

* Have to track your position during the scroll

* Have to scroll more often than once per page

This (among numerous other near-universal UX transgressions) has gotten to the point that my first action on almost any internet article is to hit ⇧⌘R.
Q1. When your website conversion rate jumps from 10% to 12% then is it 2% rise in conversion rate or 20% rise in conversion rate?

This question doesn't have a clear answer, because the values are already percentages. Imagine the original numbers refer to apples. First there were 10 apples, then 12 apples. The absolute increase is 2 apples; the relative increase is 20%. Obviously, if you say "the increase is __ apples" or "the increase is __ %" there's only one right way to replace the blanks with numbers. But since 10 and 12 are already percentages, the absolute and relative changes would be stated as "the increase is 2%" (absolute increase) and "the increase is 20%" (relative increase.) They mean different things, but they're both correct statements if interpreted correctly.

In practice, people will expect one and interpret the other as wrong. Knowing which one they expect is not a matter of statistics.
I know this is obvious, but Facebook is the first thing that came to mind.
> The article doesn't seem to indicate so, but shouldn't the Best Buy executives who took this decision (and against whom there seems to be incriminating email evidence), be punished in some way as well?

In a word, no. And no, precisely because of the legal entity we call a corporation. IANAL, mind you, so I might have this completely wrong. But as I understand it, the whole point is that Best Buy as a whole is punished, and if the corporation feels that the best way to learn from this mistake is to punish its executives, that's their prerogative. The bad decision was made by representatives of the corporation acting in the capacity of said corporation: therefore the party at fault is the corporation, not the individuals.

(To people more familiar with law, I'd appreciate confirmation that I got this right.)
link to the memo on scribd
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/113637600
I assume parent is referring to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive. Not a Bitcoin specific law.
Holy crap, you're right. That's messed up.
We figure reliability of your database as one of our chief missions. To that end, we prefer not to do anything which could even remotely be a possible cause of operational issues. Since changing over to a new version is easy, we tend to let users do so at their leisure. That said, in the event of a major 0-day we could be forced to migrate people, but it hasn't happened yet.
Well, it's a pretty far-fetched idea anyways, but, a few things to consider:

- I never said you have to use wifi. You're right that radio would have a much greater range.
- The main advantage I can think of for a system like this would be speed of deployment. In an area with poor line of sight, they could be used to bridge the gap until a proper base-station can be positioned.
- They're more versatile. For example, they could be used as a mobile PA system.
- Of course, it's all hypothetical. Nevertheless, it'd be fun to implement and more useful than the Pirate Bay's idea of a flying datacenter.
If they'd managed to work in the actual reason for the change, it'd be just that much better.

Other than that, that's one bored dev.

Or, that's the kind of stuff I write when I'm bored and punchy at the end of a long night.
I work at Sauce and I upvoted your comment because I think it's great feedback.

But "internet love fest news" sounds like a great Show HN.
A bit of advice: your post is missing the one word that matters: sales.
Don't say what you're not(ie not technical) or that you have "people skills". Just talk about your sales ability.
If I were looking for a tech cofounder, this is what my entire pitch would be:
"If you build a product, I can sell it. Here's how much revenue I brought in at my last job."
And that's all you need.
No, it's not a good message. It's masturbation. Fun for the person who wrote it, but useless to anyone else.
Actually, T-Mobile offers 100 minutes, unlimited SMS and data for $30 a month. Might be cheaper if you don't use voice too much- and you might even be able to get LTE on your Nexus 4 when T-Mobile launch it (I forget what the final verdict was on that whole story)
That's funny, the reverse process created the word "nuncle" from "mine uncle". http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuncle
Why? whats the need or advantage of going to Huskel from Ruby??
First of all, the fact that paramilitary raids on marijuana dispensaries even happen with the full approval of the Obama administration is bad enough. That being said, California's medical marijuana program has been in place since 1996, long before Obama even had aspirations to be in the white house.
Yes, but by no means strongly.

Even before more recent actions like their stance with SOPA, I always found their commercials distasteful so I never used their service. I judge websites a little bit and people who mention GoDaddy as a place to buy a new name from, but probably less than I would judge someone for throwing out an aluminum can vs recycling it. It is a venial sin.
If you want a taste of that today, there are places you could move (Yemen, Pakistan..)
Three: Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama.
Just talking aloud, here. Sorta frustrated.

I recently dove into Scala for fun and I enjoy its terse syntax (often more terse than Ruby's!) and principles. I was really excited about it at first.

But the excitement went away pretty quickly last weekend when I actually tried building things with it.

Setting up a Sinatra app in Ruby is a matter of 'gem install sinatra', a 'require "sinatra"', and you're ready to roll.

Meanwhile setting up a Scalatra app in Scala was a far more involved process, every tutorial getting me to use a tool called 'giter8' just to copy down app boilerplate from github. I also ran into general difficulties just setting up IntelliJ/Eclipse, falling back to Vim which makes compilation errors feel like runtime errors since I had to go back to the terminal to see that my program didn't even compile.

I pine for a world where I can just `scale install scalatra` (or pop it into my Scalefile), `$ vim app.scala`, and begin coding.

I still plan on writing some "Scala for Rubyists"-type blog posts, but it's a shame I couldn't figure out and enjoy the actual workflow. I'd have more patience coming from an ecosystem that didn't make things as easy as Ruby's does, but I've realized that tools/workflow/environment are showstoppers no matter how much you enjoy a language.
This must be a customized result for you. Have you been looking at lots of bacon bras lately?
Page 32 is content from a discovered email in which a Megaupload employee calculates the affiliate bonus due to a user based on the value of the copyrighted files that user uploaded.

This isn't reading-between-the-lines stuff. It's there in black and white.
This is great. I'm always reminded of my mother, who I handed down my 2G iPhone to a few years ago. She's more than happy with it, but only has data on wifi because adding data onto her plan would triple the cost of it, or some other crazy margin.

She'll be much more likely to sign up if she can get it more affordably, with her existing phone. She, and many others I suspect, have no need to get a new phone every two years.
There is no such thing as a single page rank anymore. It is all customized to you. For example, my search brought up nothing but various Google inc-related content on my first page of search results.
In the Ruby webdev community, RSpec and Devise are considered to be the most Ruby-ic gems around. The idea, much as with Lisp, is to transform the language into something that describes the problem at hand as naturally as possible. RSpec is considered to be a fine example of a language designed for writing software specifications, and it still happens to be valid Ruby.

One of the take-aways from this is that within the Python community, "Pythonic" means "keep close to the language as envisioned by GVR", and within the Ruby community, "Ruby-ic" means "the closer you can get it to English and still keep the code executing, the better."

I personally dislike RSpec, but that's a minority opinion. I dislike the general aim to make everything look as natural as possible, because that approach hides too much complexity, a lot of which leaks often in unpredictable ways. Nevertheless, when it comes to pumping out websites, Ruby is my language of choice, and my efficiency in Rails smokes my efficiency in everything else out of the water.
Yup, I realized the typo this morning. Hanging my head in shame. In fairness, this message was written at 4am after working for 18 hours straight (and 63 of the previous 84 hours, according to rescuetime).
I googled "Best Buy gross margin" and this was the second result: http://ycharts.com/companies/BBY/gross_profit_margin
No, the initial part of the message should be a short log that does not exceed 78 characters. /monocle
> If you read it as "stop using Ruby and start
> using Haskell", you read it wrong.

He also goes into why he likes some of the things Haskell brings to the table in the remainder of the article.
Sounds like more of a 'currency exchange' blanket law that was probably on the books, but applies to Bit Coin.
The only difference between a handful of wankers with a whiteboard and the scenario you describe is budget.
I first thought. Why is everything so small? Barely taking up the left 50% of the screen and the icons for the channels I subscribe to are almost too small to make out anything. Not even 1/4" on a side.

But turns out it scales up well. And it seems to remember your scaling settings between sessions.
No! (Well, besides ratcheting terms back). That's the thing I'm trying to point out. If, like me and I think a lot of people, you think that the 2 big problems with our current copyright regime are (1) ordinary people are under constant threat of being bankrupted by studios for availing themselves of the most convenient access to a TV show or movie, and (2) that it's dangerous to start a consumer Internet company that deals in media, then these reforms meaningfully solve none of those problems. But at the same time they manage to be inflammatory to the content industry: exemptions for remixing rights-encumbered songs, punitive measures for mistaken takedowns, and slightly but not meaningfully increased costs of litigating infringement.
In terms of git features, I think I value correcting embarrassing typos in my commit messages higher than fixing typos in my code! They're a lot more frequent due to the fast and loose typing, and lack of a compiler on my back.
Digital Shredding: Best Use of Encryption You Never Considered
Google to stop free version of Google Apps
How Trusting in Vice Led to John McAfee’s Downfall
The lyric is actually "when all you need is a knife" --- but that might have been intentional on your part, Thomas?
Yes, I run it with Ghostery as well.
Sauce for Mac is my project, and I totally appreciate the feedback. Fixes for all those comments are going directly into the queue.

FWIW - it's an open source project and you can always directly get the latest download from github here: https://github.com/saucelabs/sauce-for-mac/downloads

We realize the signup flow is a nightmare, the rules of the app store are not nice :-(
Hi, author of that blog post here. I meant to follow up with a more detailed tutorial on how to specifically spin up a Mac VM using those patches. Sorry I haven't done that yet. :-(
That's a platitude. People who work in content would say, this is about the rights of people to control the product of their own labor, and to realize the maximum value from that labor by being able to sell it to other people. That would be the same argument used by software developers when their rights are abridged by piracy, or when their code is misappropriated by (much larger) partners.
I'd think it was odd if I saw it too, but I don't. Your link just brings up very meta google results for more links to google.com.

What kind of bizarre search history does google have on you to give you those weird results? :-)
Can you point to a single instance of someone or some organization being successfully prosecuted for issuing a false or fraudulent DMCA take-down request? Yes, such requests are illegal under current law, but that law is never enforced. Part of the problem (in my, possibly uniformed, opinion) is that the legal standard is too high: you have to "knowingly" issue a false DMCA request, and that is a tough standard to prove in court. There is no penalty for shotgunning take-downs every which way and seeing what sticks (and saying "oops, my bad" for the ones that don't).

Why does issuing a DMCA counter-notification not automatically trigger an investigation by the FBI?

Then there is the problem that DMCA is woefully inadequate to deal with Fair Use. Fair Use is often cited inappropriately to justify unauthorized copying that does not rightfully fall under Fair Use exceptions. However. DMCA makes no such distinction, and it is up to the entity hosting the allegedly-infringing content (i.e., the one to which the DMCA notice is sent) to determine whether the content is actually infringing. Even when an unauthorized copy of a work passes each of the four parts of Fair Use test with flying colors, the DMCA takedown requester is still not in violation of the law you cited. So there is no disincentive to issuing spurious take-down requests.
Good concept, but prefer one of their competitors:
https://browserling.com/

+ Web based

+ No account needed to try it

+ Tunnels also available

+ Great blog from one of the founders catonmat.com
This is just a personal observation that probably isn't universally true, but what I've noticed is that people who live on the extremes tend to be extremely unhappy - particularly entrepreneurs (yes, even the successful ones). "Get rich and live the life you want" is a myth. Being rich doesn't make you happy. And that ruthless process of eliminating the unnecessary, laser focus, dogged pursuit of one goal, changes you as a person and often not for the better.

In PG's essay "How to Make Wealth" he wrote "you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four." [1] But the reality I've observed (and experienced myself) is that this period of working intensely for four years changes you deeply. Rather than working for four years intensely, you'll either burn out entirely in that time span or spend the entirety of your life working intensely - you become a workaholic, hanging out for the next start-up, next opportunity, etc. and constantly feeling like shit because you never made the big break. Or perhaps you did make the break, so instead you'll feel like shit because it wasn't big enough. Or maybe you did make it big in the past but _right now_ you're not so you feel like a one trick wonder, etc.

I'm confident that a random sampling of HN regulars will show most are depressed, even if they've been successful.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I actually like this idea. But the non-profit angle loses me entirely. Good luck though.

There are also plenty of public domain films out there.
Even better, how about using teams of drones to deploy basestations? :)
That's not exactly a sterling asset.
Because FBI investigations are horrendously expensive, and most of what's happening in DMCA issues is civil, not criminal?
Oh, you're right. I read the original exchange too hastily. I think the OP was being a bit sarcastic.

Now I read it as him expressing the spirit of the opportunistic conflation between the two issues, even though there isn't any literal case where CP was used to justify DRM.

edit: Interesting side-note, I seem to get the same number of upvotes on comments where I have to say 'oops, you're right' as on comments where I don't. Hmm.
This article is behind the pay wall.
Next time they should combine these with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
That is more of a weird bit of rhetoric framing than Apple speeding up. Even though there are new versions of the iPhone and big iPad, very few people would consider them products that didn't exist 60 days ago.
"Commit that shit", after watching the wire.
> This isn't a feature. It's a bug.

Some stupid people would cause chaos if they enabled it, of course, but generally those are exactly the same people that would never even realize it was possible do so.

For the rest of us who have half a clue, it's a nice feature. Reply-to-all is the right thing something like 70-80% of the time, so it's useful to make it easier.
You need to deeply examine whatever burried anxieties are causing you to feel a need to try to get other people to live their lives the way you think they should. Why do you feel this need? Why does it "torture" you that someone else may have a different outlook on what makes him happy?
There are plenty of pay-as-you-go carriers that do voice + data for $50/mo. I was on T-Mobile Monthly 4G, but their coverage is crappy. Straight Talk lets you do either AT&T or T-Mobile for $50.
Another example - I can make Viber the default handler for all messaging, both sms and Viber messages.

I can make Firefox my default browser for everything and it's not just a wrapper around webkit.

I can share to pocket from almost any app, not just those that explicitly code for it.

When I want to attach a photo to an email I can choose from any app on the phone that provides images, not just those that the app developer found time to support.
No. People don't read commit logs for fun. They read them to try to find the source of a bug or who changed a line last and what they thought they were doing.

This breaks that functionality in two ways:

1. Recognizing the joke takes attention, which therefore means I have less attention available to track the thing I'm really hunting. The thing I'm hunting may take a lot of "state info" in my brain so I need that concentration. A commit log of "fix typo" can be quickly ignored without interrupting my brain state.

2. The commit log is not self-explainatory. You have to look at the diff to understand the joke. The whole point of a commit log is to summarize the change so I don't need to look at the diffs unless the commit is related to the functionality I'm investigating.

"Fix typo" followed by the joke would have been acceptable.
NZ blinked and sent in the helicopters, but the recent events have shown that NZ has not folded. And we won't.
So, the memo wasn't vetted. Techdirt just thinks it must have been to have made it onto the RSC site.
I looked into this, and Straight Talk doesn't allow tethering per agreement. That was frustrating.
Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups
Users Guide to Startup Advisors
Well, Kickstarter might be a bit rough if you don't have loyal fans already. However, there are multiple marketplace where you could start (iOS, Android, Steam...).

However, still keep in mind that if you don't absolutely love creating games, there are a lot of other hard problems to be solved as a programmer. Game market tends to be over saturated and I know ppl who earn half of what they could in non-gaming company.
I wonder if Apple could build a factory somewhere touristy in the US (California, or maybe near Disney World, or something), designed specifically for tours (like the BMW factory and European Delivery center), and make enough from tourism (either cash or "brand value") to overcome the costs of production in the US.

I'd pay $20 to see the modern equivalent of the NeXT factory for 30 minutes, from an overhead viewing gallery.

Obviously Apple wouldn't want to reveal trade secrets, but I don't think there's much secret about how Apple produces the desktop and laptop products.
T-Mobile will block you if you tether on Monthly4G. Your phone data will still work, but if you use it for more than a couple minutes, the tethering will start going to dead links.
The way it's phrased makes it sound like the Board was the reluctant party, rather than the founders.
Straight Talk, though, has some major limits on what you can do with the data connection (web only, no audio, no video), and they'll cut off your line if you do anything they don't like, or if you use more data than they expect you to use on their "unlimited" service. T-Mobile lets you do whatever you like with your data connection.
Original announcement: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/12/changes-to-goog...
HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4884665
Again, doesn't matter. He was convicted of felony theft, a serious crime, and sentenced accordingly. To say he was sentenced for stealing a slice of pizza is entirely wrong. Whether the additional factors were threats at the time of the theft or previous crimes or whatever, that's what he was sentenced for.
+ Our browser based testing service is also available at http://saucelabs.com

+ We have an accountless version on the front page, followed by free and open source accounts.

+We have a very secure and mature tunneling system called Sauce Connect: http://www.saucelabs.com/docs/connect

Five minutes of research would have been helpful.
Same here. I remember in '97 my grandma bought me a Geocities "plus" (or whatever it was called) account so I could have a geocities.com/~username vanity address. All my real life nerd friends were so jealous of me. :-)

Having free home pages on Geocities did a lot for my career. What will my son gain from whatever "social" web site is around when he starts using a computer (and yeah he also already has his own domain name)?
That's a clue as to the site-awfulness-to-article-value ratio...
zeromq/czmq equivalent: https://gist.github.com/4229625

Does 3M+ messages a second over tcp/loopback in my test.

(The fact that this go is competitive is pretty sweet.)
If you're working in PHP, you should be used to fast and loose typing (also the lack of a compiler unless you work at Facebook).
> It’s the same with being raised by parents who got rich. You saw what they did, you know it can be done.

Also, you are already rich without doing a damn thing. The post seems to ignore this fine point.
Couldn't agree more. I'll also be the first to admit though that some commit messages I've sent off after particularly infuriating bugs have had language that my mother would slap me for (and not very helpful, to boot). We're only human
BigMLer in da Cloud: Machine Learning made even easier
Thanks. Just came to ask for the original to get around the paywall.
Correct, and this is why Amazon S3 probably the biggest filesharing system in existence is not being sued and being taken offline. Megaupload, not so much.
Apple courting Chinese developers to strengthen iOS in China