skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that revenue for the App Store in Feb 2011 was "break-even" doesn't mean that Apple never wants it to be a source of profits.
In sunhsine-blessed countries, one does not have a pocket, and indeed I would be happy of my iPad-New if it were light, thin, and would recharge itself while I used it for shade ..
S2S4S - I'm working on this startup for startups who market for startups. I'll post your startup on hacker news and filter out complaining and only send you constructive criticism.
Hacker News: Poison and to be avoided
Having worked with OpenERP for a few years, I can say it is an amazing piece of software that does great things, but for a USA based company to be considering it against SAP is laughable.

I would strongly recommend anyone considering using OpenERP in the US to find a company currently running any version and ask them about their experience.
Yes, especially since there appears to be a set of almost new accounts with little or no karma and no comment history being positive in response. This is an old marketing trick and is also a serious dilution problem.

Your favorite deity of choice forbid HN turns into a marketing gimmick that plagued Digg.
Anyway, they were called out before being sued but did nothing about it.

I am cynic because many big corps still have this attitude. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18866018 and http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-hsbc-confirms...
tl;dr: it's a hosted framework, or so it seems.
There is a law that says FedEx has to charge the rates they advertise, though. I believe that is what is at issue here.
If this is the piece of software I remember, SAP has nothing to worry about.
I did. 260x160 is absurdly small. I didn't have anything that small just lying around.

Still, I wanted to see what exactly the thing did. This being HN and all, I thought it was somehow an auto-holidizer, or something, and I was curious. So I launched photoshop, and crushed my logo down to the size of a darn pea.

Once I got in, I was a touch disappointed. On top of the already small logo restriction, you have clipart that's so small I can barely see it on my 1920x1080 monitor. All in all, too much work for a simple toy, in my opinion. A little more explanation of what it does on the landing page would have been welcome.

Also, what the hell, man?

>However, by uploading, submitting, or otherwise transmitting any Content via the Holidizemylogo Website you hereby grant to Conduit a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, right and license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, display, publish, perform, transmit and access your Content and the Customized Content, as applicable, for promotional and marketing purposes, at Conduit sole discretion, in any media formats and through any media channels during the term you use the Holidizemylogo Website and/or Services and for the twelve month period following the end of such term. You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents and permissions to grant the foregoing licenses to Conduit. You agree to immediately notify Conduit, in writing, if, at any time during the term hereof, your license, right, consent and/or permissions to share Content are revised, revoked, or become limited in any way.

Now I'm sad I even played with the thing at all.
It's a design flaw. Should be designed like this:

try {
// Do syncing things.
} catch(...) {
// Continuing browsing.
}
I don't know the answer either way, to be completely honest, but my personal view is that that particular style of landing page gives the notion that "this site is such a new idea in my head that I haven't even begun it!". That's my opinion, anyway.

I feel like that in relation to LaunchRock pages now that so many throwaway projects are using it. Same feeling I get from unthemed Bootstrap sites too.
European Parliament votes for a unified patent scheme
Yahoo Mail gets a big redesign across all major platforms
> still no paypal integration, Google checkout, stripe, paymil etc.

Not sure what you're aiming at but ERPs are not magento plugins.
(%i1) float(solve(sum(y*1.08^x,x,0,25)=1500000,y));
(%o1) [y = 18760.69004076126]

Rasing 1.5M in non-inflation adjusted dollars in 25 years requires saving only about $1563/mo.

It's quite possible that they did better with their leveraged housing purchase than they could have otherwise since they needed housing anyways... but they were fortunate to be in a location that went up in demand, many places barely kept up with inflation.

But raising 1.5M in 25 years is no astounding feat on its own.
The short answer is no, Twitter is not trying to overtake bootstrap. Although we have some ownership of the code base, the community has definitely let its mark on Bootstrap with Mark and Jacob's great leadership.

In fact, we have been working closely with Mark and Jacob on the bootstrap transition. There are plans to migrate bootstrap into its own organization soon and kick off an effort to migrate it to the MIT license, all supported by Twitter.

Stay tuned for details!
Judging by their "examples" pages, these all look really cheap and tacky. If yours was anything like it, that's the reason I wouldn't sign up. Design might take a backseat on other pages, but you can't afford not to have a professional/trustworthy-looking sign up/landing/features page.
Kindergarten
Yes, owners definitely rent out rooms in New York apartments.
Show HN: glipho.com, newborn approach to social content publishing
the order of the shuffled deck is 52!
You are a smarter man then I. I blithely uploaded a company logo to the thing.. curiosity got the better of me.

Should have read that insane TaC first.
I'm sick of a lot of things... but one of them is all the "Ask HN: Anyone else sick of $foo" submissions. If you don't like a submission, don't click it. If you think it doesn't belong, flag it.

If other people were, in fact, sick of topics they'd disappear off the front page rather quickly.
Ask HN: Anyone Making Money on Windows Phone 8 Apps?
I'm getting annoyed with the changes in the iOS App Store so I just finished porting several apps to Android and now I'm working on Windows 8. Just wondering if anyone has any experience good or bad with the new Windows platform.
It happens.
When you feature on Hacker News server crashes or site becomes offline.
LOL
The crash wasn't happening if you signed out of the sync
> those brave netizens who patrol the windswept frontier of /newest

I don't know how they feel about it, but I sometimes feel that visiting /newest to vote / flag stuff is a kind of civic duty. For the good of all of us (except the ones who are dead).
It introduces drawbacks of its own. I think the best idea is to decide how willing you are to put up with Apple's guff, and then use that to guide whether you even get an iPhone at all. They design their products to be used in certain ways and going outside of that is doable, but annoying.

Also, jailbreaking doesn't address this problem at all. Unless you think MS will put out a SkyDrive app that you can get from Cydia or whatever, which they won't.
Guy Kawasaki is doing an AMA on Reddit Right Now
Hope they're getting rid of their old fashioned advertisement bar on the right and hope they're getting rid of the junk applications. I am really not hopeful but I would go back to my first ever email address if I see them provide better experience than Gmail. But what are the chances?
Congrats on building a successful business. But the hyperbole is slightly laughable. This company is nowhere near competing with the likes of SAP. I recognize the ambition is there and it's great to have vision, but some of the statements are way off.

The business model is interesting though. The days of the 90% profit margins SAP/Oracle get on their maintenance combined with their outdated software licensing model, lends itself to be highly disrupted. My money is currently on Workday to be the market leader.
When I started developing and selling my own product, my obsession on code quality definitely relaxed. First and foremost, it's now about the end product and not the code.

It's painful for an engineer to be told to do MORE with less time and less "quality", but the business cares about more than just code.
>'"Fast Open" is a optimization to the process of stablishing a TCP connection that allows the elimination of one round time trip from certain kinds of TCP conversations. Fast Open could result in speed improvements of between 4% and 41% in the page load times on popular web sites.'

Interesting... anyone know more about this?
It's not ok to publicly announce who has signed up for your app
So note that in your example it's irrelevant whether one person or many people own the property around your house--no matter what you have to trespass on someone's land to go to the shops, etc. Moreover, in that hypothetical, you certainly got your house for a bargain basement price precisely because it didn't have access to a public road. "Access to a public road" isn't one of the features of the property that you paid for. So why should you get to have your cake and eat it too?

In your example, you want something you didn't buy: access to a public road. I have three ways to monetize my property right with respect to you. I can sell you an easement across my land, I can lease you an easement across my land, or I can sue you for trespass and collect a nominal damages everytime you pass my land. The latter is somewhat inefficient, but all are totally legitimate--they are all just ways to transact in property rights between the two of us.
I think this is a great list. But just because you follow the list doesn't mean you won't look like a spammer. This is not an attack on ajjuliani.
Weird Al "using the same notes" is not fair use. He pays the compulsory license.

Using the music verbatim would not likely be fair use, and the videomaker owes a license fee.
I hope they do threading some day...
Looking spammy does not make it spam. And all that matters it that is converts.
I'm really interested to see if there's any traction here, or if its all smoke and mirrors like with Windows Phone 7...
Thanks for the kind words.

Guess what, this is a presentation not a blog post. Maybe in your presentation you write blog posts but I don't.
When I talked about guest posts I went over mostly how to write a good guest post and how to get it to the editor of the blog.

Same for every other slide....
Within the past few months, I've noticed a lot of things on the front page with 20+ points, no comments, and little value.

Judging by the comments at the bottom of this discussion, I think I see a growing trend.
Hi all, we have been holding off doing a Show HN as we wanted the platform to be as good as possible, but we finally realised that will never happen. Feedback more than welcomed guys!
Startups of Puerto Rico's first hackathon
Recommended LWN article: TCP Fast Open: expediting web services http://lwn.net/Articles/508865/
Beautiful scenery, a very fine telephone system!
To a first approximation, the MID pushes up the costs of housing by as much as the tax deduction. Making it entirely useless for "encouraging home ownership."
The homepage is so clean and compelling that I scrolled down to learn more, causing me to miss the "About" link in the primary nav and use the learn more links on the bottom of each page. That might not be typical of most people browsing the site, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

In hindsight, maybe it just needs something snappy like "It's like a CMS for your next social app" (or an equivalent analogy), like startups coming out of YC often do for demo day. "An open platform for social apps" made me pause a bit too long because it's a relatively new concept.
Sorry that I recommended a few people at the presentation to sign up for Hacker News and they saw that I posted this here and commented.
Didn't realized Hacker News was closed for registration in your opinion.
A startup with no money is not in business. Yes they have limited funding, and they have to use that funding wisely to build their product and customer base. But if you sell them a tool that will clearly help them to do those things, they will spend money. Heroku is the canonical example of this. They extract a premium price from many small startups who value a hassle-free production environment more than a few hundred dollars a month they could save by hosting themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_Fast_Open

I guess CentOS will get this in 2020, sigh, still waiting for initrwnd 10 support.
It's not that these ideas are necessarily bad. But they need to convince me that they're not being done purely out of the fear of getting out and talking to potential customers.

Make a product you would use yourself is all well and good, but there are two ways to get there: limit your products to the domains you know, or go out and learn new domains.

I believe the second strategy has a dramatically higher chance of success, because you can pick from a near-infinite choice of domains, many of which are woefully lacking in people who understand software.
LWN had a detailed article about it: https://lwn.net/Articles/508865/
A Free Game CAN Make it on Kickstarter
We have been wondering about this for months, and now our questions have been answered. Congrats to Greed Monger!
You can follow all the checklists in the world, but it still boils down to passing the eye ball test. Just a simple test of judgement as to whether or not something looks/is high quality or not. This is the test that your visitors will be using, anyway.
I'm not sure exactly. It was a bank so I guess it was something to do with wanting to appear professional.

There were all kinds of rules and strict dress code, no dyed hair, no personal effects on desks, no mobile phones, no visible tattoos etc.

Not the most fun place to work, so after about a year I actually left for a job with longer hours and a worse salary.
If the code in the try block caused a segfault, would that have helped?
Yeah same here. Numbers from Microsoft keep saying it's better, but only with relative numbers. Sure app sales have doubled in a month, but if it's from 10-20 I'm not that excited.

That's why I started this thread though. See if any indies have something out yet and are making actual money comparable to either iPhone or Android.
Optimization of file deletion in ext4 gives nice results (from a commit message):

> X86 before (linux 3.6-rc4):

> # time rm -f test1

> real 0m2.710s

> user 0m0.000s

> sys 0m1.530s

> X86 after:

> # time rm -f test1

> real 0m0.644s

> user 0m0.003s

> sys 0m0.060s

The commit affects 5 lines only.

EDIT. Not sure if this optimization applies to filesystems mounted with standard journaling options...
Do other rubies require specific support for installation tools? It seems like third-party installation tools should be the ones supporting ruby versions, and not the other way around?
A couple of more recent posts on the state of the fundraising campaign:

"FreeBSD end-of-year fund raiser on target"
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/FreeBSD-end-of-year-f...

"FreeBSD veteran confident of reaching fund-raising goal"
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/57855-fre...
My wild, bystander-who-knows-nothing peanut-gallery guess: some manage-osaur had the internet use logs mined and found out that a lot of people were on Youtube (for music) and decided that people were "spending too much time" "on" Youtube.
I think there's a disagreement about what is design and what is implementation.
It seems that unemployment shouldn't function that way: the employer has to actively deny the UI claim, not have to do work to make their own UI premiums go up.

Said friend may also suffer from social anxiety and just not want to talk to the UI office.

By all means, anyone in this situation should call your state's unemployment office to find out. The worst they can do is say no. The one time I got laid off I was amazed at how nice they were.
"If the counter isn’t going up when you check all those boxes, give the page a refresh. It’s finicky."

Mere words cannot express the emotions that reading this made me feel.
Special $3m Milner prizes go to Stephen Hawking and seven CERN scientists
This is getting too close to describing how making the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs is meaningful.

The introduction is quite clear that the mathematics is understandable by other mathematicians. The commentary from the Encyclopedia Galactica (116th edition, published about 1020 years after Sheldon's death) describes "Seldon found the field little more than a set of vague axioms; he left it a profound statistical science." Gaal, by the end of a day of collaboration, was able to accept that its predictions were valid. It's hard to imagine that Seldon managed to hide the uncertainties in his work, given that others would be looking for precisely those uncertainties.

The justification in the series was that need drove development of micro atomic power units. Terminus is described as a metal-poor planet which needs to import just about everything. (Which then makes me wonder how there's enough minerals in the soil to provide the food needed for humans to survive. Do they even import the zinc needed to prevent zinc deficiency?)

But atomics weren't the only power source. Trantor uses only geothermal power because it's cheaper than atomics. So it isn't like there's a complete power monopoly. In addition, the personal shield would be quite the coup. Given "the known probability of Imperial assassination", there's a strong inventive for the Emperor and others to push for a personal shield, and a matching power source.

So you have the strange case where out of the million inhabited planets, only one retained atomic power and the rest fell into "barbarism." 200 years in the new era, fully 1/4 of the population was no longer under Imperial control, and yet all the rest of the people stopped understanding how nuclear power worked. That speaks to a very rote-based education system. But then how did the people of Terminus manage to not only remember it but advance on it?

It just doesn't make sense. Of course, in book it's all a fraud. The Second Foundation, full of psychics, and of course the robots, are working behind the scenes to keep everything on track. I think that's a cop-out, and I found it very hard to accept the later books in the series.

And of course in real life it's a SF version of the fall of the Roman Empire, and as that's the history that we (as Western readers) know best, the parallels feel comfortable. Had it been based on the Incan or Mongol empires, there would be a completely different sense of inevitability.
See this issue for more information:

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/2054
Application Design Styles for Mac OSX
The OP's article describes a Swedish school's overreaction to gender bias by forcing behaviour modification on students who display gender-conforming behaviour. This is an overreaction to gender bias issues both real and perceived. Ignoring the context presented by the article, emmapersky is advocating gender neutrality. They aren't advocating the forced minimization of gender differences; they want to end bias against those who display gender-variant behaviour.

Gender bias is present in our society along with the pressure to conform to gender stereotypes. Boys who play with dolls are often bullied by other boys and are socially rejected by their peers. Girls who don't dress the right way are bullied by other girls and are also socially rejected by their peers. In adult life, men who chose careers such as nursing are chastised for it by members of both genders. Women who chose professional careers are pressured forgo their careers to have children, again, by the members of both genders. To those who take gender-variant roles, this is a problem.

While there is a problem, some overreact to it trying to treat gender-conforming behaviour as a disease; as this example in the article:

Hunter College psychologist Virginia Valian, a strong
proponent of Swedish-style re-genderization, wrote in the
book Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women, "We do not
accept biology as destiny ... We vaccinate, we inoculate,
we medicate... I propose we adopt the same attitude toward
biological sex differences."

That is not a reasonable solution. Gender-variant behaviour should be tolerated instead of being discouraged. The article's conclusion agrees:

There was a time when a boy who displayed a persistent
aversion to trucks and rough play and a fixation on frilly
dolls or princess paraphernalia would have been considered
a candidate for behavior modification therapy. Today, most
experts encourage tolerance, understanding, and
acceptance: just leave him alone and let him play as he
wants. The Swedes should extend the same tolerant
understanding to the gender identity and preferences of
the vast majority of children.

Postscript: Anyone engaged in the debate of gender bias and gender stereotypes should be aware of both their own and other's social biases[1].

[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biases_in_judgment_and_...;
Spamming usually means bombarding some communication channel, email or craigslist for example, with advertisements or deceptive links to get a visitor to your landing page. It's all about what happens prior to seeing the LP.

Once the visitor is on the landing page they are "post-spammed" (if they were even spammed at all, not all advertisement is spam). Proper landing page design has zero to do with spamming.
"I'm pretty sure I could fake my way through it."

How would you fake bowing to the statue? Would you just sort of start to nod your head and then stop, and then ... well, no, I can't think of any way to fake bowing. You know you're not required to actually worship it, right? Just the bow. It's not like you're relinquishing your citizenship or making a formal statement in support of the government.

As for running off your mouth, seriously? You can't keep your mouth shut for a week? There were dozens of people on my tour group, split amongst three roving packs, and nobody had any trouble at all (including the religious amongst us, who managed to bow to the statue without experiencing a crisis of faith). Americans, Brits, Chinese, Chileans, Belgians, Singaporeans, Swiss, Germans, Australians, New Zealanders, people from all over the world, and nobody had any trouble shutting up.
Suburbia
A demo of the new version is available here: https://www.openerp.com/saas_master/demo?lang=en_US&modu...
Agree completely. It's not like people need to discuss what to do about the things they're 'sick' of - the mechanism for getting rid of stuff like that is already in place.

Another thing: make a habit of browsing /newest. I actually have that page bookmarked, instead of the front page, just to ensure that I don't simply 'consume' HN.
+1 on speed and memory.. Some table and figure heavy documents I've done have had internal memory overruns on latex.

A lot of my forays into programming started with the Bell Labs books (with troff | pic | eqn ...) prominently on the copyright page. So, it was one of the first things I looked up when I got access to a UNIX terminal. Then I discovered that all the UNIX books by Stevens were done up with troff/groff. From there, it was all "steadily downhill" for me ;-)

P.S: If you already know (La/Con)TeX then groff is literally a walk in the park. And it is always good to know more than one way to do things imho. Good luck with it.
So how is 3G coverage in Nigeria?
The Hacked-Together Productivity Tool I Can't Live Without: My Master Planner
It is not being reindexed (it is really difficult to know when it is actually triggered). Do you think that it is a problem? You could let them notice this flaw at http://www.apple.com/feedback/