skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are still thinking about this as an API, with for example JavaScript and some AJAX. The use case here is zone apex static website hosting: if you go to http://mycompany.com/ and get a 500 error, the user is just going to be staring at an error screen... there will be no JavaScript, and the browser will not retry. As I actually explicitly said multiple times: for an API that is a perfectly reasonable thing to have, but for static website hosting it just doesn't fly.
"what does it really mean?"

It means he's a node troll. They take a shot at the dominant frameworks any chance they can get. Node trolls have reached the level of obnoxious arrogance that early Rails developers were once mocked for. Don't feed the trolls.
When I met Virool's founder I grilled him about how they actually get the views people pay for, for obvious reasons. As far as I can tell it's fully legit.

It's probably possible to test this by checking your YouTube analytics and seeing if the view increase came from the embedded player (which it should) or mobile (which might indicate foul play).
I think the point is less about social proof here and more about understanding that a good portion of rejection from investors and prospects could simply be the way you are pitching elevates you above their level, and their natural ego -based response will be to reject it, find holes in it, etc...

If you want to succeed at pitching investors or finding customers, it would do you well to check your vanity at the door, focus less on what you created and more on what it will do for them.

A simple adaptation would be approaching your prospects saying, "Hey I came across this interesting product and thought you would be interested in it." No need to lie, just ommit your involvement.
TCS (and the other similar companies) have plenty of very good developers, but many of their clients are only willing to pay for the cheapest available, technically qualified, body in a seat, so that's what they get.

However, if you're willing to pay for the quality (or you're a new client that they're trying to impress), you'll see some excellent people working for them.
Samsung could face $15 billion fine for trying to ban Apple devices
I'm sure that usually, they have no idea what the "real" story is or how to find it.
Yeah, for images you can probably deal with that; but what if your JavaScript doesn't load because the script itself was a 500 error, or the entire website doesn't load because of a 500 error... well, you're screwed. The use case here is for zone-apex whole-site static website hosting (either of just canonicalizing redirects or of the final webpage: same issue).
Actually my New Year wish is that all gadgets come with a nuclear battery that will last more than the entire lifespan of the gadget and will never need to be recharged. Let's solve this silly battery recharge problem once for all...Please.
AWS just keeps on getting better and better. Although, this particular release isn't that exciting and press-worthy.
Completely different motive, here.
Introduction to AndEngine - Part 1
No. That resolution is way below Retina display.
Oh it's all about social proof. How human beings generally operate: "What's in it for me?" and "Why should I help you?"
As far as I can tell, it's all about selling peoples' pictures versus using them to leverage targeted ads. I don't think most Instagram users ever thought about how the service would be monetized, but I think even the ones that did assumed it would just be ads like FB, etc. But taking someone's pictures and selling them is a whole different ball game.
Parallax Movie #1337 - An endless CSS animation with one icon font
Motive doesn't matter. It's the method.
They do, sometimes, indirectly. i.e. The Republicans argue that rich people are "job creators" and tax cuts given to them will feed back into the economy (i.e. be multiplied). It's the new generation of "trickle down" economics.

Unfortunately some people believe them. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=job+creators+myth
I read the whole article expecting to find some report of patient opinions post-surgery but it wasn't there.
The video still shows over 1B views on its page, so I'm assuming not.
Do you hide the chrome? Don't know if I could work with that much chrome in my face.
Facebook Phone OS based on Firefox OS
Right, but you can't always do everything. Sometimes tradeoffs have to be made. I'm not saying this is necessarily one of them, but Instagram could see it as one.
Is it worth selling software on Ubuntu Software Centre?
Do you have experience selling your apps on Ubuntu Software Centre? Is it worth to develop software for Ubuntu/Linux(moneywise)?

I'm more interested to hear stories about non-game software, but game developers can also share their thoughts,
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4830303

I made a formal complaint to authorities about this.
I wrote a blog post about Sikuli a long while ago: http://randomtype.ca/blog/a-look-at-sikuli/
When I read the part about how the iPhone camera icon worked, I pulled out my iPhone and tried it. I didn't understand before then how to get directly to the camera from the lock screen.

I think I had even read about it, but never bothered to try it until now.
Can you elaborate on how that has a relevant impact on my point?
Both versions will work just fine. And number mod 7 will give an index of 0 to 6, which covers any color index from the colors tuple. Also, I tested it out just in case.

EDIT: The only issue is that if the string has a repeated letter it will be the same color.
OP: Stop generalizing about Americans.
Launching a filehosting site that is end-to-end encrypted at the browser and using 3rd party nodes for the file hosting without being a torrent network sounds revolutionary, at least to me.

By providing the encryption keys that only the user owns is helping to stay within the DMCA Safe Harbour. In that case the legal issues of the content are the concern of the user, not the service provider. Please correct if I'm wrong.
I didn't claim it was the only factor. Read this:

http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/428250-michael-clark/60563...
Well the point I was making was that if by monetizing your userbase you're going to lose some of your userbase, it's still better to monetize a smaller userbase than to have a large userbase with no cash inflow.

Were there other options available to them that wouldn't have lost users? Possibly. I have no stats to back it up other than personal experience, but I would venture to say that no matter how you monetize your userbase, there's always going to be some people who expect it for free, no strings attached, and will cause a stink then leave if there's any monetizable component to it.
You are a hero. I wish you well. Let me know how you get on
The CNBC page has one paragraph that mentions Instagram, and cites the New York Post for its info. Here's the NYP article about Instagram: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/rage_against_Dh05rPifi...
Because it's easy? I have 100 static websites on S3. After initial setup of buckets, it's trivial to update/sync all of these sites using command line tool (I use S3 Sync) with one click on a batch file. And hosting on S3 is cheap.
If this was some indie youtuber, they would've been banned from advertising revenue as well.
I think it's Jonathan Hutchings, a Finnish DJ.
Got it from here: http://www.whiskyfun.com/Gigs/Husky-Rescue.html
This just seems to be the chinese equivalent of the Lobotomy [1]. I guess one can learn how to create Aluminium and bend steel, but ethics?

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
You can get rid of that unpleasant indexing:

(3.2)

from itertools import cycle
for colour, character in zip(cycle(colours), string):
print(termcolor.colored(character, colour))

(2.7)

from itertools import cycle, izip
for colour, character in izip(cycle(colours, string):
print termcolor.colored(character, colour)
He spoke here at NASA Goddard just recently about his experiences at Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Apollo era. I grew up in Huntsville during that time and my father also worked at Marshall so it was an especially interesting talk for me. I spoke briefly to him after his talk and now I'm even more pleased that I had that opportunity. This is a loss for all of us in the Space community.
caveat emptor with development boards, the term implies it might not be product quality. eg the sheevaplugs I bought died within a few months of purchase.
Funny that after more than a week this linkbait story hits HN. Original or not ;)
In fact those views happened and are still there: They were just tranfered to the Vevo channel.
Read more at http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/w...
Good point. I should know better than to dash off a quick code sample on HN without first running a test suite. :)
By the way: http://spanish.about.com/b/2012/04/01/spains-equivalent-of-a...
The network effect is nice, but money is nicer - especially if you were just bought for $1b by the epitome of the network effect. Instagram needs something to sell in order for companies to be willing to pay to join them, and what can they offer but the personal information of their users?
I've been there myself and its a helluva slippery slope. When you're a start up growth is everything so losing 25% of your uniques is terrible BUT... They've already been acquired so now for Facebook to lost 25% of instagrams uniques... You may have a point.

However how many are already Facebook users and thus already profitable?
"Within five years, 53% had relapsed and were addicted again to opiates, leaving 47% drug free.

"Conventional treatment only results in significant recovery in about 30-40% of cases, so the procedure apparently improves on that, but experts do not believe that such a small increase in benefit is worth the tremendous risk the surgery poses."
Ah ok! Anyways, amazing piece of work!
I'm so excited about this. I can't wait to see how this guy sticks it to the US government and the MAFIAA that's basically bribing them through campaign donations and lobbying.
It is a welsh DJ living in Helsinki named Jonathan Hutchings.
Don't worry, you got your message across. And blog more, it's a good way to get better :)
Marco Arment talked about this in some detail on Build and Analyze a while back. (Can't look up the EP number right now unfortunately, sorry)
Policy Implications of Capital-Biased Technology: Opening Remarks
Enjoy? Enjoy is an interesting way to think about it. I guess probably gedit. Just enough features to be useful. If I could print from sublime text, I might put in the effort, because it seems like I could enjoy it.

Notepad++ is my favorite in windows.
Dotcloud[1] is ideal for this sort of thing (to me). If it's a production app and you're just looking for a free/cheap ride, you might need to look elsewhere, but if the complaint is that the spinup time is too slow during development, I would definitely look into Dotcloud, which lets you have development instances free, and only production apps are charged.
Christmas Day 2012 saw record-breaking number of iOS and Android activations
> They are rapidly approaching the West's level of technological sophistication

really? a few months ago one of their rapid trains crashed into another because a lightning strike disabled it's system and the following one didn't even know the hit one slowed down. all other super rails have systems and procedures to prevent such occurences (let's not even get started on the Japanese one). say what you want, I wouldn't want to live or work in one of those Chinese 'build in 14 days' buildings.
I'm kind of surprised by how small Instagram is. Facebook paid a billion dollars for those 12 million users.
Ouya dev kit update reveals system
The claim that Instagram lost a quarter of its users isn’t supported by the data
Billy - a tiny visually orientated programming language
On 1) True
On 2) Mostly ture.
On 3.1) Huh? A real economist doesn't see the economic fallout from the bankruptcy of auto companies? These auto companies 1) employed hundreds of thousands of people directly 2) have hundreds of supplier companies which rely on them for for billions of dollars in receipts 3) Supply otherwise healthy auto companies (a fact made clear by Ford, Toyota and Honda at the time) It's possible you're more focused on capital and risk than actual assets, which is unsurprising, because that's why 2008 happened in the first place.

Perhaps you believe errantly, (or maybe you choose to ignore, as Mitt Romney did), that during one of the worst recessions and liquidity crisis in modern American history, that they would have gotten funding from an equity company?

The auto bailout was about stopping the freefall. It was common sense. Markets fail. Look at the history before the Fed. Look at how people starved to death in Russia because of rigid adherence to free market principals. If they had taken a more balanced approach, markets would be freer today.

On 3.2) True.
On 4) Capital does not erode the position of labor. It has nothing to do with it at all. It is an estimate of labors worth. Simple supply and demand. The policies of a nation (globalization, unionization), technology, are the levers which cause supply of labor to fall or rise. Capital might make it easier to exchange labor, but that's about it.
If you can't think of any way to create a small business other than by using a credit card, you probably shouldn't be starting a business.

Making a "big education investment" on a credit card is insanity. The student loan debt crisis may well be the next domino to fall in the the US economic meltdown - it was half the motivation for the participants in Occupy:

http://business.time.com/2012/11/29/is-the-student-loan-debt...

Rates on credit cards are generally less than reasonable, and their policies are frequently abusive. And this is in America, not the "wild East".

http://www.mybudget360.com/endgame-credit-card-nation-40-yea...

Watch, or listen to this, if you are concerned about India's future exploitation:

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/23/robert_manning_credit_...
If it makes the beloved unviable overhyped startup look bad, it must be because of "sensationalism", "bad journalism", or maybe the numbers are just down because of "the holidays". Or maybe if the article is accurate about the drop in daily users, maybe, just maybe, the user count is still the same??
Sometimes it's difficult to accept the truth.
This is exactly what I was looking for too. I'm disappointed not to find it.
Yesterday's discussion of the same article:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4975792
I already have a Roomba. Many issues. It is not powerful enough. It cannot do stairs. It cannot clean furnitures. It cannot self clean.
Seems like it's time to prosecute the companies for fraud for every single instance of the fraud they committed.
Android Adapter Good Practices
Without the intention to lessen what you did ... it's pretty laggy on my Galaxy Nexus in the default android browser.

But cool stuff indeed.
Yes, quite right. I probably wasn't clear enough there, but I was referring to this from the article:

<input type="text" required><label>Social Security Number</label></input>

Should be marked up as

<label>Social Security Number<input type="text" required /></label>

if you want to omit the 'for' attribute.

Doing it the wrong way around will still render as you expect, but defeats the purpose as you won't get the click-to-activate behaviour.
If you go to the shady side of the internet, the one with lots of ads that autoplay, you might see the Gangnam Style video as one of them. I guess they buy the ads as part of their marketing for the song, but I'm not really sure how that works. I've seen other popular songs being auto-played as well. I guess being in the top viewed is important enough that you spend money on it.
Pebble, The Crowdfunded Smartwatch, Passes FCC En Route To Shipping
2001 called, it wants its debate back. For all the new kids on the internet: OO doesn't enable re-use, inheritance generally sucks, and bloating your code with new types just to solve something three lines of if/then/else could solve isn't worth it.
How I Made my Blog 2.3x Faster
Amazon S3 Introduces Root Domain Support for Hosting Websites
I have used M-Audio AV 40s, and have liked the results. They're compact, well built, and sound good.

Amazon link, no affiliate:
http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-Studiophile-Powered-Monitor-Sp...
Thanks for the advice :). I didn't proof read it. Hence the 'it's'. Oh well, lesson number 1 I guess
I had the assumption that YouTube/Google would have already tracked how much of a video was being watched, or even what segments.
Michael , you say we're already in "robot utopia" in terms of tech but there already new jobs. If i look at it from the position of capabilities, not specific jobs, it doesn't seem that this is the case.

For example if you look at agriculture from the point of capabilities(physical repetitive labor), you see machines replacing humans. You see same powers in manufacturing.

But what about eye sight, coordination, adaptivity, ability to offer good enough human service, retaining and sorting large knowledge bases, intelligence and other capabilities ? Computers are improving in all those capabilities, and contionously replace people.

The "robot utopia" will be when machines can do those things better/cheaper than us. Then maybe the only capability that will be left is being an authentic human, for jobs that people prefer authentic humans would do.

Whether humans have this advantage over machine replicas, how many jobs like this would be available and what form this jobs would take(maybe being humiliated as servants like so common in India today?) are interesting questions.
That's more than 1% of Facebook's users. At the time, Facebook was worth 100B.
sorry , it didn't work.
If I'm not mistaken, this is the same issue run into by the creators of Trifecta: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4896805

> While we were ready to submit Trifecta at the beginning of November, we ran into issues due to how hard Apple makes it for a pair of developers to release an app together. To do so and have both of us credited we had to form a company (R&K Labs) and obtain a D.U.N.s number which took us a month.
It's not ready for mobile... Audio gets unsynced and animations aren't smooth. :/
I know...but I don't like some stranger coming to my place...therefore the robot.
It seems like the surgery is only marginally more effective than conventional methods, and has drastic side effects.

The only scientists interested in this procedure seem to be sating a morbid curiosity rather than trying to cure addiction.
If everyone flagged blogspam when they saw it, blogspam would disappear.

Because of your comment I flagged the blogspam.
I help people who are less fortunate. I listen to people, instead of waiting for my turn to talk. I try to compare myself to myself, and improve on that metric.
I think they have been for a while. Rogue Amoeba has offered Airfoil with support for acting like an Airplay speaker for a while now.
Looking back: 2008-2012
This is a fine animation. Congratulations for syncing sound and getting a good narration voice. I guess you used a JS library to achieve this. My difficulties with CSS3/HTML5/JQuery animation as of "t.o.d.a.y" are:

1. If one has to programmatically create all animations, then browser based animation is at same stage as 1985'ish BYTE issues where drawing a chess grid in CG was a major achievement. A lot of great animation work is done by animators who don't code or won't code (http://www.ninapaley.com). Flash provides timeline to achieve this. The newer Edge is nowhere close to that level of fineness. Where are the tools for animators who animate to create these animations? (Psst. We need another Flash!).

2. Most of the current animation we see in CSS3/HTML5/Jquery is boxy, geometric stuff. Where are animated characters? and how easy is it to do it all in one environment like Flash? I am not a banner holder for Flash but it did provide a good integrated environment to draw, animate and code too.

This is neither a rant nor any stand. I am just wishing that tools develop faster and better so that animators who visually create animation can do cool stuff in browser based animations.

Thanks for sharing a nice work of art :-)
But also consider that many if not most of those users were already on Facebook.
Fuzzyset.js - a fuzzy string set for javascript
well, I heard this before but just read this wiki page today.
good redirection.
This is really fascinating. Great article.
I think fiddling with paper->web (or something else digital) and improving that workflow sounds like fun.
"It has come to our attention that the hat you knitted infringes on certain designs patented by our client..."
They did but at the time it was not done for mobile views.
Instagram Sees A Drop Of 4M Daily Active Users Over Christmas
Most animation designers couldn't do this well in flash or something similar!

Incredibly well-done.
Ok, I had time to check and it was apparently this ep. http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/93
Put some contact details in your profile and I'll be able to contact you.
Your analysis of the problems with the tutorial is spot-on. It also really doesn't help that it's presented as "this is a description of what's changing on this page, and here's wall of updated code - go figure out the differences from the previous page"
I'll have a listen thank you :)
Why is it that whenever they use the word "harmonize" it means we're going in a more restrictive direction instead of less?
Amazing showcase of CSS3 animation and of course, talent!

I know, it's not meant for mobile, but I'm just curious what will happen and tested it in my 4th gen iPod Touch. Too bad both Safari and Chrome in iOS6 crashed when I press the Start button.
Thanks for the answers guys, at least I want to try for 5-6 months and will see what will happen. I will write down progress.
This dumb year: The 57 lamest moments in tech 2012
I'll be willing to forget about megaupload when they give everyone access back to the files they uploaded. Sure everyone is supposed to have backups, but that doesn't mean it's okay for a third party to take away their cloud-hosted copy.
Krugman has just started a multi-part series on "Policy Implications of Capital-Biased Technology", which I think is wonkish for what TFA is about.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/policy-implicati...

HN story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4978136