skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using a Galaxy Nexus.

I was able to bring the loading times down to something reasonable but it isn't consistent. Out of 10 times, only 30 or 40 percent were < 5 seconds.

There are anywhere from 5 to 10 articles at any given time on the first page of my feed. It still takes a second or two to reload and after about 6 pages, the scrolling is so laggy so I can't be bothered to use the app.

It's a shame, really, that a platform that popular with all the resources, still has massive performances problems and still has legacy stuff lying around (like the three dot menu in the bottom right on 4.0+ devices).
It's a criticism of the article for speaking over-generally based on a narrow experience, not of the author's lifestyle.
I go to Yale and I can assure you that Harvard sucks and is no fun. That sounds like hyperbole but is surprisingly accurate. Harvard is teeming with strangely elitist once-nerds who want to exclude you from their "finals club". Apply to Yale. Everyone here is mad chill and if you got deferred from Harvard, you probably have a pretty good chance of acceptance. So take the application seriously. And who knows, maybe getting deferred from Harvard will become the best moment of your life.
Cypherpunks using G+ sounds like folks starting an alcoholics anonymous meeting in Munich at the end of October.
I tried, but I couldn't find the info I was looking for, and the drop down menus gave me seizures.
The pixellation here is your phone waiting to download the higher-res vector tile. While it waits for the higher-res tile it draws a bitmap representation of the lower-res tile "above" it.
If only they partnered with a company that was really good at search and maps and could fill in the parts that Apple isn't good at ..
Perhaps you could elaborate, because your comment seems a bit snarky and not at all educational for those of us who have a "profound lack of understanding".
I think in 10 years this question will be regarded the same as "who needs a personal computer?" is today. Similar questions were asked about always-on broadband (vs dialup), gigabytes/terabytes of memory/disk, etc. We've been pretty good at finding ways to use whatever tech is thrown at us.

My pet example use case for 1Gbps is my product, Dropcam (shameless plug: http://www.dropcam.com), where we could use that extra bandwidth to provide amazingly higher quality video, support for more cameras per location, and generally do much more cutting edge stuff.

Symmetric 1Gbps means you don't just access the "cloud" anymore ... you become a part of it. Kinda like the original pioneers of the Internet imagined in the first place.
Atypical cystic fibrosis.
Very thorough explanation, awesome! What I'm more curious of is, how did astronomers measure the radius of the earth and moon several hundred (1000?) years ago?
Screen Capture features in iOS devices (tutorial)
The issue is purchasing services within WA -- those services will be marked up due to B&O (tax pyramiding).

the 0.5-1% rate on final sales is inconsequential; it's the tax pyramiding on every purchase before that. Admittedly it matters a whole lot less for a startup than for a purely local business (say a coffee shop who buys bread locally which is made from facilities, staff, and multiple other inputs, each of which is also produced within the state and has gross receipts taxes added.

It's particularly bad because it essentially discourages outsourcing and encourages vertical integration, counter to efficiency and new business formation. The same product can cost a lot more if you use the best components and best assembly vs. more expensive and lower quality things produced entirely in-house.
(2) - I have Challengify.com a web 2.0 ify type domain, which can be used by startups and goes with various innovative web startup ideas.some are - self motivating app, programming challenges

I am either willing to giveaway this domain name or ready to partner with developers and like minded people to start something BIG!
Multiscreen Support in Mobile AIR Applications (tutorial)
I think you are vastly over estimating the number of iOS users who will seek to replace a default app. I'd wager that the friction of not being one of the default apps will ensure that Apple Maps continues to be the dominant iOS mapping app for the foreseeable future.

There are a huge number of un-tech savvy users with iPhones that barely download any 3rd party apps at all. Those of us who have been voicing our opinion about Apple Maps and anticipating Google's new app are the vocal minority.
They dramatically changed their business model twice. The second change was less dramatic in direction, but more dramatic in that the business had much more inertia.

That's the point of the post, and it's an impressive achievement. Read Tony Hsieh's (Zappos) "Delivering Happiness" if you want to appreciate how hard it is to build a business on drop-shipping, and how hard it is to move to full inventory.

I realize this isn't a battle worth fighting, but everyone needs to stop being pedantic over the use of the word "pivot". It had meaning before Eric Ries used it, and it will continue to have intrinsic meaning no matter how narrowly it's defined in the context of the Lean Startup movement. The business changed directions. Let the man call it a pivot.
"it's also extremely unlikely to be accepted after being deferred" - What are your sources on this?

I meant your essays for other applications.

I'm a recent college grad. I didn't apply to Harvard but did get into Stanford, MIT, Princeton, etc. One thing you learn attending a top school and actually meeting a large volume of admits is that the people who talked about college admissions back in high school (on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere) didn't know jack shit.
Because it can be offered, and we've been ripped off by ISPs for quite some time now.
Cool domain thanks for posting. Quick heads up: make sure you have an email in the "about" section of your HN profile so other users can contact you.
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If they are going to compute market share of MSFT by framing it in terms of "market share of consumer compute" and including all sorts of mobile devices, then they should weight each device by the computing power it has accordingly.

Otherwise the number the come up with will underestimate the true market share of "consumer compute" of MSFT.

Or is that what they are aiming for?
30 comments discussing the nuances of the buzzword "pivot".
An agenda for small companies
Many sites around the web don't publish RSS anymore, and browsers have removed the default RSS readers.
I don't know for the Moon, but for the Earth try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Eratosthenes.27_m...
confirmed, I now have 502 and see downvote.

Don't worry, I take downvotes seriously and don't cast them without a reason. That's why downvotes on answers cost you 1 reputation on Stack Exchange.

(here is why question downvotes are free, since I know you are wondering: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/optimizing-for-pearls-... )
Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of Thousands Of Books
Ask HN: Best practices in reporting site status?
Everything goes down, and usually it's not an all-or-nothing thing; sites and services have partial outages frequently, affecting some users or some features.

What's the best way for a site to report in-depth status to external stakeholders (customers, vendors, etc.)? Why is there no RFC on the topic?

It would be nice to have a standard (maybe specified in a dns IN TXT, defaulting to status.example.com over HTTP) returning both human-readable and machine-readable information, both current and historical.

Ideally there would be a way to accept multiple external views (from commercial uptime monitors like pingdom, or incidental to operations at a CDN, or from customer or community reported monitors), and to do reporting into specific API features or URLs as makes sense for each site or service. And being able to testify to the provenance of each monitor; say a monitoring company could attest to accuracy and freshness of reports about specific sites, helpful if you want to make a purchasing decision based on uptime over the past year.

Obviously a lot of this is specific to each site (many sites don't export an API, and many have complex APIs which are hard to monitor, and actions which are not idempotent, etc.), but just having a good framework for some of it would be nice.
BootstrapCDN: Twitter's Bootstrap hosted on NetDNA's Content Delivery Network
Hmm, I think I'll use this instead of our homegrown approach. I like it.
Given the radius of the Earth, they could probably get the radius of the moon by looking at the curvature of the edge of the Earth's shadow upon the moon during a lunar eclipse.
But this is like they didn't even _try_.
Don't tell their marketing department that. I want to see them more stones cast from that glass house of theirs.
you're suggesting the majority of google's ad revenue is misclicks?
You mean Wyoming, right? Yellowstone is closer to Idaho and Montana than it is Colorado.
In an update to the article, the author concedes that this attack was only made possible because they didn't go through the real licensing process, which cryptographically signs the resources and protects against things like XAML tampering. Wow, that's slimy.

If the premise of the article is debunked, then the article should be taken down. Keeping it up for pageviews raises profits for Ars but incurs big externalities on MS, as it spreads misinformation and FUD.
Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Sudan... I don't think I'd side with them either.
Dropbox acquires Audiogalaxy, possibly hinting at a future cloud music offering
> this is why almost no sites are actually a linear model

Pretty much every forum on the web is a flat discussion. There are a lot of forums out there. It is quite rare to find a forum that has any kind of threading at all. If you can point me to any web discussion communities that are 10+ years old which use threading, I'd love to see them.

Now, you could argue that lots of topics on a forum is a "kind" of threading, and I guess if I squint really hard I could see it, but that's a far cry from here or Reddit, where it's indentation city all the time.

> it still does help slow the rate at which a thread can get very deep.

I think that's too clever by half, but more than that, nowhere near as effective as an explicit cap on reply depth. Hacker News would be a better discussion system for everyone if the reply depth was capped at, say, 3.

(And of course if it had the ability to collapse branches, which is sorely needed. Nothing is more frustrating to me than being forced to read through 50+ replies about some dumb tangent I don't care about, to possibly get to something I do care about.)

And now that I've written the above, I realize that there might still be some awesomely insightful reply in that 50+ branch on politics -- but I'd never, ever see it because it is forever married to its place in the tree and the iron-clad parent child reply hierarchy... and cannot be sorted independently on its own merits and votes. That's sad.
Not for startups! They're special.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on this pitch deck from Square?
http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/13971387?rel=0
Barcode inventor Norman Joseph Woodland dies
Biking and public transit in seattle are both hit or miss, although both are also improving. If you need to bike into downtown then you're fucked, you better be an aggressive, confident biker who's ok riding in heavy traffic and sharing lanes with cars. If you just want to bike recreationally rather than to get somewhere then things are a lot better.

As for public transit there are two big problems. One, coverage outside of the core downtown areas is comparatively sparse and irregular. Two, buses generally get stuck in the same traffic as cars and metro isn't smart enough to figure out how to adjust the schedules. This can mean that the same commute by bus can take an additional hour depending on the time of day. Also, using public transit for anything other than commuting to/from a normal 9-5 weekday job can be a huge hassle. These problems are very slowly being fixed though.
Reading your description below (test cases et. al.), it doesn't seem as simple as you first make it seem. I start with something like, "Write a loop that displays the numbers 1 to 100." About 80% of the people I phone interview fail this test. Almost 100% of newly graduated students fail. I'm not sure if they are overthinking it, if schools are no longer teaching anything practical, or what.
Wow. Just amazing. Humble thanks.
CALM down - New American law stops TV advertisers from turning up the volume
I'm squinting at the pictures and wondering. How on earth is this thing going to handle real projects? You know, where you have like twenty different kinds of files all related to the same project, which should be grouped together because they're about the same thing, even though they're in different apps.

I mean, here's what I find in the directory for my current comics project:

a bunch of Illustrator files (this is what I draw it in)
a few CBZs of the content
some PDFs of the same content
a bunch of web-res gifs of the pages
some Indesign files (related to publishing the book)
a couple .csv files used in an Indesign data merge
various other gifs/jpgs/tiffs
a Word doc
a link to an external directory full of print-res TIFFs

Plus a subdirectory structure to chunk all of this into stuff related to book production, model sheets, fan art, and whatnot.

This is the use case where every "We're going to replace and simplify the file browser!" effort seems to fall down. Recognizing that real people's projects sprawl across many file formats.
I don't even... not even close, no. Sorry.
>"Negotiators from Denmark, the Czech Republic, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Costa Rica and Kenya have said they would need to consult with their national governments about how to proceed and would also not be able to sign the treaty as planned on Friday."

The full list is available here. In particular I am glad to see Japan has also refused to ratify:

http://www.ipv.sx/wcit/
Totally agree on your thoughts with relying on env. variables - I hit the same issue with trying to write re-usable Chef code.

Another pro tip w/r/t environment variables: NEVER rely on $PATH - that should be considered a global variable that any arbitrary piece of code in your process can modify at will since everyone knows about it. I know Jruby use to rely on this for their Ant integration and it was annoying as hell before it was fixed.
This set of slides goes over how some astronomical measurements were made hundreds of years ago:

http://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/cosmic-distance-...
SlideShare: Why can't I fullscreen? (Nexus 7)
The map is a nice touch.
Cool thread. I like the idea. Would also like to see some good projects that people can't continue with or have abandoned.

I also agree that flippa has a lot of non-interesting sites - HN has the best quality
The distinction between philosophy and science (and math, engineering, etc.) is a very recent one (less than 200 years old). You may have heard the term "natural philosophy" as an old term for science, but it betrays that fact that what we now call science was just another branch of philosophy.

Remember that Descartes also authored major mathematical works. Philosophers of that day could and did do a little bit of everything. Anyway, his argument, and the other arguments of them time, were based on things like the fact that if the speed of light were finite, you would notice things like the sun, moon, and earth being out of alignment during an eclipse, since the earth's shadow would lag behind it. Since no such misalignment was observed, the speed of light must be infinite. Later philosophers pointed out, of course, that it was also possible that the speed of light was finite but very fast, and the eclipse lag time was immeasurably small. Then Roemer settled things once and for all.
To put it in perspective, Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" was first published 11 years later.
Gigabit currently available in Burlington Vermont
Nasa: Why the World didn't end on 12/21/12
One of Apple's biggest failings in its Maps, though, was its search. Many many users were reporting that searches would take them to entirely different areas if they weren't worded perfectly.
A primer to using data to build a Minimum Viable Product
Ridiculous claim at the bottom of the page that AirPlay would be faster.
A sophisticated solution to a putative problem of non-sophisticated users that only sophisticated users would use.
Is the new Ubuntu / Unity Dash somewhat like this (without as many services)?
Maybe I'm not representative, but I live in zsh on mac and linux/freebsd.

What I'd really like is a way to specify files within zsh, then open a new finder window with just those files in it, without moving them. Right now, I can do "open ." and get a Finder window with the current working directory, but what I want is something like "openw [1-5]*/" and get a new finder window containing just things matching that. They could easily be in multiple directories too.
I'm Canadian, and I support our government's decision here. They've done some boneheaded things with respect to Internet policy over the last few years, but this isn't one.

I don't like the idea that the US governs major parts of the Internet's infrastructure. In principle, I would like to see its governance transferred to some sort of an international body. I just don't trust the ITU to play that role impartially. Until we find such a steward, I think we should follow the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" maxim.
Just for some clarification, when I say fail, I really mean fail to do it well.

Most of them at least manage to get it working but don't necessarily cover all the problems that can arise and can get it to 100%, with some prompting.

It's a real joy when someone comes in who obviously loves programming. Like night and day.
http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/13971387?rel=...

Direct link
Sorry for changing the title, but the original ("Mike Maples Gets On Board Blueseed’s Sea Platform") is the kind of obnoxious pun style headline I hate, and really makes little sense out of context.

I thought SEO had saved publications from that kind of thing.
Which is why you say "A pack of cigarettes *cost $5"? :)

(should be "costs" in us-en, of course)
Is the issue what you give up to (a) facebook; or (b) the third party? systemic use of FB login vs single use? Do you consider your online history something of value? That's part of the dynamic for some people concerned about FB logins.
Usually less than six hours. I don't need much sleep, and never feel tired.
Root Android using another Android [Without PC]
They take action on abuse. I am not sure scraping is abuse.
This comment thread is about this blog post. Given what he has revealed about himself and his family, and the way he has revealed it, he absolutely deserves praise, if only for the courage of putting pen to paper to express it (figuratively speaking, of course). He has shared something that I'm sure he has kept very close to himself.

He went through what is most certainly the most painful thing one can possibly experience (the death of a loved one by their own hand). You are trivializing something that is both moving and a show of great courage on his part. Now is not the time for personal criticism. Please, allow him whatever therapeutic benefit he can get by writing his post, and save your trivial criticisms for another post; most likely, (admittedly, I don't know you) he has suffered more from this than you ever have about anything.
It's great, I totally don't have to water the garden most of the year. Thanks nature!
Thanks, just changed it.
Massive quote trees (or, if you're considerate, a truncated quote tree) are pretty much the norm for old school forums. Sites like 4chan use links. Say what you want, but humans haven't really had a problem projecting threaded discussion onto flat forums since forever.
People are complicated.
Easier explanation, yesterday was 12/12/12 != 12/21/12
Look, people that want to make copies of your software without paying are going to. If they want to modify the local game options to get infinite money, it's only their own enjoyment of the game that gets hurt. If they disable your ads, well that can be a problem if done in significant numbers. But if not, who cares?

People that are going to pay will pay. Otherwise, it's not lost revenue, it's revenue you were never going to have in the first place. It's been seen time and again where "piracy" often helps increase earnings rather than decrease it. It's called word of mouth. If enough edge cases feel like cracking your game and then tell more people what a great game it is, that's FREE ADVERTISING. Just put out a free version!

In the case where you want to sell in-game upgrades or have some user profile, store that shit on the server.

I don't have an answer for free ad-based apps. They're annoying and I don't use any. Because I pay for shit I like and copy when you make it too annoying or hard to take my freaking money.
Find the moon's distance by parallax, then the radius follows from the angle it subtends.
The World Is Slowly Turning Into One Big Stock Market
The "Root Transmission" link is dead. Looks like it was pulled from the Google Play Store.
Whew, I bet that causes some problems for threaded readers: I know when I used to be more active on forums I rarely used the proper reply buttons to compose my posts.
Free workout! My office is moving to East Lake which puts it within biking distance, but the hills between here and there are going to be pretty rough for a while.
Police taser woman after she tried to buy too many iPhones from Apple store
I guess they have to use some sort of obfuscation in order to prevent spam bots from using text-to-speech software to get around the mechanism, but that is REALLY confusing. My guess is that the audio characters don't necessarily match up with the ones displayed in the image, but all I could make out was A (S/F) M
Crowd-sourced prior art will easily invalidate this patent. Cool idea though. Wikipedia books are also excellent and machine generated.
that is true - it's a genuine collaboration between the various people and their skills + the original idea evolves as part of the process
US National Intelligence Council Publishes Outlook For 2030
Personally, I don't see Bitcoin replacing nationalized currencies like the USD as a store of value. I just see it as a great way to send and receive payments online. Kind of like PayPal, but decentralized.

For that use-case, it doesn't even matter if the value of BTC continues to fluctuate a lot over the course of weeks, since people only have to hold onto BTC long enough to trade with it, and then they can exchange back into more stable currencies, if they wish.

Sure, there are the Randian/libertarian fanboys, but whatever. They don't have any real control over Bitcoin anyway, and they're not too hard to ignore.
Cool. Might be useful for configuration files. It can be executed so it's possible to make it able to list all parameters, descriptions, default values, etc. Since it's valid python, it can be read by a python script. People can also open the file and modify the configuration themselves.
I think you're right.

I know I'm going to be downvoted for this, but adding the expression "I know I'm going to be downvoted for this" is probably the easiest way to get upvotes on any social site. I guess it reminds people to vote, and most readers don't actually care to downvote you. (Usually comments will make "haters" really angry but not have any impact on people that agree or are neutral, so you get downvoted on a comment that most people like. "I know I'm going to get downvoted" causes the neutrals to realize that they need to upvote you to avoid the evil downvotes from the Other Clan. Or something.)
A hash based DOS attack on btrfs