skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitterrific for a no-frills Twitter client with a clean interface. The antidote to Tweetbot.

NextDraft is a great "summary of the day's news" app. No frills, no Newsstand subscription, and it's free.

The NYT app is a bit unstable, but it's arguably the best Newsstand app (yes, better than The Magazine, which is too barebones for me). You also get top stories for free.

Check The Weather gets you hourly rain forecasts (using the Dark Sky API) as well as daily/weekly weather.

Xbox SmartGlass is great for the 360 gamers here. The second screen is useful for, say, checking challenges or K-D ration in Halo 4.
The clame the the democrats or the republicans are anyway free market oriented is crazy. Both partys like to spend money, and the like to spend money on there friends.

Sure Bush talked about Free Markets but not even closly did anything about it, what he did was start a war, make a lot of debt, regulation increased in that time too.

Goverment only ever gets bigger, with very few expetion. From a free market perspective the republicans are not any diffrent then the democrats.

I btw am not from america, I have no idiolocial views in american politics, I just obeserve that both partys are not free market at all.

It was actually a democrat who was the only one that at least ran on a balanced buget (clinton).
Feel free to get started on that. You already have.
Pointless rant by some math student, or some programmer who feels he is missing out on math. Unclear on demands, probably wants to teach more math to kids.
Gotta hand it to Uber (and the others) here. They are making good on their strategy: Disrupt now, break the rules, apologize & make nice later.

It's remarkable how the tables are turning in their direction with respect to the local governments.

Keep it up guys!

(And as an avid AirBNB user, I hope the tide goes in the same direction for them on this score...)
White House releases their home brewing recipes
I'm working on matchist (http://matchist.com/talent) to help American based developers find quality clients. Have you tried us yet?

We're focusing on attracting the right type of client and we'd love to have your feedback along the way.
If "You" wasn't jumping the shark, I don't know what is. There was no shortage of bad ones before that, but I don't think any quite stack up.
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They went to all that trouble, and spelled Illinois wrong on the address label?
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Hm, which iPhone do you have? Is it a 3GS? We use very detailed images etc that just don't look great on non-retina display. Retina images will look great.
It's worse than that. He rambles on, and then immediately shifts the metaphor to a more complicated and less clear one. He should have just stuck with the thermostat: if the temperature inside a house is determined by a thermostat, the outside temperature has no correlation with the inside temperature.
> A general general purpose device that can be programmed by the user to perform tasks beyond what was initially designed into the device.

The user bit is sticky. What about green screen mainframe apps? Those weren't programmed by their users, but they were certainly computers. Chromebooks come to mind too.
SolarCity soars in morning trading
Who is involved in these types of conspiracies anyway? Are there Android "fanboys" that short Apple stock and then go on the Internet and... do what exactly?
I'm reading RFC 6238 and it looks like it's based on a single shared secret:

> Basically, the output of the HMAC-SHA-1 calculation is truncated to
> obtain user-friendly values:
>
> HOTP(K,C) = Truncate(HMAC-SHA-1(K,C))
>
> where Truncate represents the function that can convert an HMAC-SHA-1
> value into an HOTP value. K and C represent the shared secret and
> counter value;

Does that mean it's formally/theoretically equivalent to simply having two separate passwords?
> A good network programmer should have at least passing knowledge about graph theory (the network is a graph), queueing theory (how else are you going to size your buffers?), and also some statistics (given these numbers, how much bandwidth will be taken by resends? How much data can we send per hour? How many 9s do we get for 'probability that a messages is handled within 10 seconds'?)

Partial differential equations can also be useful there. From Danny Hillis' TEDxCaltech talk about Feynman's work on the Connection Machine, where Feynman was figuring out how many buffers they needed in the routers:

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By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations. To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange. Feynman's router equations were in terms of variables representing continuous quantities such as "the average number of 1 bits in a message address." I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of "the number of 1's" with respect to time. Our discrete analysis said we needed seven buffers per chip; Feynman's equations suggested that we only needed five. We decided to play it safe and ignore Feynman.

The decision to ignore Feynman's analysis was made in September, but by next spring we were up against a wall. The chips that we had designed were slightly too big to manufacture and the only way to solve the problem was to cut the number of buffers per chip back to five. Since Feynman's equations claimed we could do this safely, his unconventional methods of analysis started looking better and better to us. We decided to go ahead and make the chips with the smaller number of buffers.

Fortunately, he was right. When we put together the chips the machine worked. The first program run on the machine in April of 1985 was Conway's game of Life.

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Source: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
But do you mean top of the field in terms of best employee at their rank or at the top of their workplace's hierarchy of ranks?
It's in bad taste to edit one's own Wikipedia page, even if there is an error.
That's precisely what I was trying to illustrate. This isn't an issue that has one simple answer.
Podcast displays have been broken in a variety of ways since day one and that's a lot simpler to fix than the problems they have in maps.
It's still not clear to me at all why the first room is rubberized. There's an escape slide, a rubber room and the actual chamber that's blast-proof. Why does the middle room need to be rubberized?
An informal and confusing vote determines that most want ITU's Resolution
http://playground.last.fm/

Same. I switched to spotify (and spotify radio, which is free) a while ago. But I still scrobble everything and it's cool to look back! Not to mention you can do a lot with the data.
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Startup? Marketing Matters
Kinda what I was highlighting...
Including the .vcf in the confirmation email is much smoother than those "add us to your contacts" messages. Very nice touch.
U.S. refuses to back U.N. treaty, saying it endorses restricting the Internet
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Death Star petition on White House website succeeds
If you are a regular “cash customer” of a restaurant, you get treated like a king.

Good inside move.
Talking about something and doint something are very diffrent things.

First of all neither stimules nor saving companys is anything to do with free markets.

Both party want to spend more money, I would not belive for a second that republicans are more free market then democrats. The like to talk about it more but they infact are just ass bad. The real diffrence is what friends they have.

Both partys like to spend money on there friends.

Lets talk about free markets again when the actually DID cut the buged and I think nobody denys that the stimuls is keynesian.
Nassim Taleb: Antifragility (applicable to startups)
This move isn't really surprising.

From what I've heard/understand Daniel Leob wanted David Goldberg and Max Levchin 'on his side' when he was launching his proxy battle with Yahoo. He gave up the battle in exchange for a board seat as well as, an additional seat which - again from what I've heard/understand - he was going to give to one of them to help "spearhead the talent" at Yahoo. Since Goldberg has joined Washington Posts board, the obvious choice was Max Levchin (although he may have been the choice regardless).

Either way, it's a great move for Yahoo and helps gives them ability to attract the talent they're after.
I'm fairly sure that the $10k purchase was made towards the end of the bundle. I was check on it fairly often, and didn't hear about it until after the bundle was finished (the highest purchase was ~$1,650, and I'm reasonably sure that was still the highest purchase with <24 hours to go)
Absolutly not. It's one secret seed but you use the time to generate different One Time Passwords every 10 seconds, which means you never reuse passwords.

This would be the equivalent of having 2 passwords, one of which you change every-time you use it and it's fully random.
Do we know these are facts or are these pundit interpretations of nods and whispers? I see a lot of people screaming about how it went down, but they are just citing thrice-removed speculation from a blog four months ago.
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Nice idea, but you're missing out on a lot of points.

1) Turn right where? You need the street name.

2) Changing the icon to Go, you're relying on the user to remember what state the dialog was in. Bad idea. When you're driving and have a lot of things going on, you're not going to remember what the dialog directed them to do.

3) Adding distance remaining indicators has always been confusing because it's difficult to translate what distance the navigation app is giving you to real world distance. "Turn. Right. In. Five-Hundred. Meters". SUDDENLY RIGHT TURN, SLAM BRAKES, SCREEEEEECH.

You get the idea.
Its Ridiculous To Believe That Apple Led Mobile PC Market In Q2 2012
I'll leave it up to you to research why I possibly might have inferred that the Chinese government has a hand in their economic boom.
> An exploding Saturn V was calculated to have the power of a small nuclear bomb

So all you need is a lead-lined refrigerator
Notch, if you're reading this, my deepest sympathy. I understand the devastation of losing a parent; I lost my mother about a year ago. I'm still not "back to normal" and don't know if I ever will be.

I used to do art, music, and comedy, and even practiced my religion, often just for her. I loved to make her laugh and it was so easy to make her proud. In the past year, I have done none of that stuff and don't know when or if I ever will.

Programming is one of the few things I've ever done that I never did just to say, "Hey Ma! Look what I did!" She never understood it. So in the past year, it's one of the few things I've been able to do. I've written a ton of code and taken great comfort it in.

I won't even attempt to give advice; none of the advice I've received from well-intentioned others in the past year has been helpful. I just hope you, me, and others like us find comfort in the wonderful memories of beloved parents and find a way to move on with our lives.

More about my mother here: http://edweissman.com/betty-weissman-1930-2011
Doesn't sound like anyone inside Apple actually uses that junk.
Awesome! I hope it was a cool postcard ;)
maps might be a higher priority.
It'd like to introduce you to this crazy person (I can't tell if they are joking or not, but they followed up with even more crazy, so I don't think they are joking): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4914414
I love it. Plus this is a smart way to market your work.
My reading is that when the door's closed you don't need the sign at all since if you can see it, you're already in the blast room. The left-pointing arrow seems like the better way to do it to me, when viewing the open door from the hall (though either is probably perfectly clear). The two sites being built by different contractors seems enough to cover the differences in painting/finishing touches (unless there's a standard open/close direction for vault doors, I wouldn't know :) ).

But then, "raytraced" never occured to me looking at the photos, just "taken by an actual good camera, not a phone, with a fast lens so that it can take good indoors photos without flash."
Well, but other subscribers paid as much as you but may not be using Youtube as heavily. When they do use Youtube, they want that fast connection, but in aggregate they use less capacity because they are less frequent users. Charging Youtube is one way to account for this difference in usage. Charging consumers based on aggregate usage (like mobile carriers now do) would be another way.
sincerely hope it does but doubt it will
I very much agree that the ration acter model is BS. Even befor behavioral economics it was BS, I think it should have been common sence.

What has to be considerd is that goverment actors are just as dumb ass market acters, with the importend diffrance that there own ass is not on the line.

I think the biggest error in 20 century economics has been to think that the general equillibrium model has any relevane to the real world.
Your phone has vibration. Why not just just have the phone do the vibration you want?
Gmail: What are some lesser known Gmail tips and hacks?
Wu-Tang’s GZA is Not a Science Genius, Wants Your Kid to Be One
The bottom interactive graph is kinda neat. Setting zero friction and minimal spring tension and gravity center turns the whole thing into a spheroidal structure much like the accretion of objects in space.
I did expect that ending and was sad to be right. Why do we only take the time to say these things after it's too late?
You better replace your development error pages with proper 404
Take a look at http://blog.authy.com/feed
If this is truly a new precedent, a new lowering of the bar for freedom, than one can chart all of the legislation you list as data-points, and create a simple graph of freedom. That graph is negative. Expand that chart out, and eventually it does indeed reach Hitler.

Though perhaps it's more "Brave New World" than 1984. Color-Coded terror alerts and terrorists-as-wolves commercials seem to have gone out of style and replaced with more subtle phenomenon.
The lighting in the first few photos looks really strange, but the rest look fine, I think.
> I think the biggest error in 20 century economics has been to think that the general equillibrium model has any relevane to the real world.

We can agree on this part, and I'll further add that it's also a tremendous error to ignore that the equillibrium is dynamic and to ignore or downplay what happens in the intermediate periods during which the system is in disequillibrium.
Spec Ops: The Line is not a pretty, nor particularly fun game, but by golly is it good.

That's probably a good indicator of deep media. Not whether something is entertaining, or was created for entertainment, but whether it can be considered good regardless of entertainment value (ignoring technical value, which is generally only useful to a small subgroup of consumers).
I'll admit it, I am one of the 4-star raters. I took it down a notch for not at least including a "zoom out" button. I can double-tap to zoom, but I sure as hell can't pinch to zoom out. I think that UI flaw is one of the most ignored in all that exist in iOS.
"Are you aware of this idea? Maybe under some other name??"

First paragraph of blog article.
Made in Waterloo ;)

http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/velocity-startups/mantaphrase-l...
That's a great question, and I'm afraid I'm not going to do it justice. But the place where I think you see the thermostat concern is in the paragraph:

A 1983 study by Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Kenneth Singleton of Stanford showed that short-term rates on Treasury bills and short-term returns on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange had very little correlation with consumer spending. Many empirical studies have confirmed this sort of result (this comparison of inflation-adjusted Treasury bill returns and business sector profitability is a recent example).

This summarizes "many empirical studies" in a single sentence. Unfortunately, it doesn't include citations.

There are a number of ways to address the "thermostat" problem. Each potential solution only works in specific circumstances. I'd hope the underlying research adequately addresses this concern, but it's hard to say without seeing the research.

In general, summarizing "many" 40 page papers in a paragraph is inherently difficult, and Mulligan seems to be especially vague here. If the claims here have any credibility, it would only be through an "appeal to authority," which most of us won't find very compelling.

So to answer your question, I'm unimpressed with the Mulligan column... in part because we have no indication what problems there are in the underlying analysis.
Oh, really, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was, in 1992-93, the blessed 'right place' showering unearned success on anyone nearby?

Or perhaps it was that Andreesen (HN username: pmarca) and his Mosaic collaborators helped make it into the right place with their perceptive, opportunistic actions?

Also, has everyone else at those same places and times since, achieved the same investment results and current vantage point into the whole industry?

Or perhaps instead Andreesen continued to assemble a portfolio of more hits than misses, and an ever-larger network of quality collaborators?

This piss-on-success/noone-earned-or-knows-anything attitude is toxic and it saddens me that at two hours old it was the top comment on this submission.

I'll value the opinions coming from Andreesen's 20-year track record, and deep involvement in some of the signature businesses of our times, over those of bitter comment-thread potshot-takers. If he says labor costs in the US are a business problem, it's got a lot more credibility than a disapproving 'ugh' grunt from someone who offers negative judgement without any argument/support.
I'm guessing they would prefer to be referenced as a "Counterterrorism Agency" rather than a "Terrorism Agency"...
I don't think it's un-PC. I'm sure you are right. The point is, you look at the family, culture and environments they were brought up in and you understand where that mentality is bred.
You know those aren't even the same kind of thing, right?
Libre.fm[0] have a compatible api for scrobbling but it doesn't seem to have had very much activity as a project and you'll have to add an entry to your hosts file (or otherwise alter your DNS) so that applications such as spotify talk to their servers instead of last.fm's.

http://libre.fm/
To me a poor is who can't get food and shelter for living.
In order to help your addicted father you should consider first focusing on yourself. The stress and guilt of having an addicted loved one can affect your own mental health. Speak to an addiction specialist, they can help you formulate appropriate actions in dealing with your father, perhaps an intervention, perhaps something else. Al-Anon (http://al-anon.alateen.org/) is a good resource.
I agree entirely with the sentiments about politicians - but this article confuses "government" with "politics" and assumes the market solved problems without any influence from prior sources.

There is zero analysis or even allusion to what factors might have influenced the demand that ultimately caused the market to react. Just a blanket statement about how the governments of the world aren't doing anything useful.
Thanks!. We're using Blossome, a blog engine I wrote for developers:

https://github.com/danpal/blossome

I've been meaning to add lots of features, I jsut haven't had the time. This holiday vacations I am going to the beach, so I'll be hacking on Blossome there a lot.
Checking for Global Variable Leaks in JS Unit Tests
Not by a long shot. An astar will get you out of a 10x10 maze in 10 steps since this particular maze has no barriers...
I asked my wife if she were trapped in a maze how she would get out.
She thought for a while and said... if I could clone myself I would fill up the whole maze with me...and one of me would be at the maze door in no time!

I thought that was a pretty radical and creative algorithm... so I coded it up
You can double-tap-keep-finger-down-then-move-finger-down to zoom out with a single hand.
While the current CA system is widely acknowledged to be broken, this seems like the emperor's new clothes. Is this the best technology we have?
Combating accidental clicks in mobile ads
Cheetah: Nature's Speed Machine (animated infographic)
True, but if project creators don't promise completion as part of the pledge reward, then they don't assume so much risk.
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Got some downvotes pretty quick. Didn't expect such a negative reaction so fast. I'm relatively new on this site; now I have some idea of how well the HN community takes this kind of humor. So thanks.
good to know, was breaking my head to figure out why the auto-dj feature from musicBee was not working (it shuffles your mp3s and adds some recommended streams from last.fm). it will be hard to replace, I know spotify does something similar but not as well.
Ok, please don't take this the wrong way, but you guys don't seem to know enough about security to be running this kind of service. Being able to access your MFA token from multiple devices defeats the purpose of it being a second factor (since it's must exist only in a single place to be "something you have"), and now you're recommending a backup passcode with less security than WPA2 - a passcode to a backup that by definition should not be allowed to exist.

It's bad enough that Google's TOTP keys are too short (80 bits, below the required 128 and recommended 160+), especially given the clarity of the spec and the size of their organization, nevermind being the first large-scale rollout. It's also unfortunate that they half-assed their Authenticator app, which hasn't seen an update in over two years. At least they've had the good sense to improve the workflow of regenerating a token for a new device.

I appreciate the problem you're trying to solve and am aware that there tends to be a lot of headache in additional security, but doing this kind of thing provides a false sense of security if not outright lowering the security of what already existed. If I can get access to my MFA tokens by typing in a password, then it's a knowledge factor and not a possession factor. That's one-factor auth with two passwords, like the "security" questions on many banks.
You're surprised that people write buggy software without discipline?
Isn't "air-breathing rocket engine" a misnomer? A rocket is a jet engine that carries all of its propellant (fuel + oxidizer) on board, right?

From looking at the info posted, this thing appears to have two modes: jet (air-breathing) and rocket (non-air-breathing). It smells like they came up with the name first, then figured out an acronym to fit. :-)