skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the easy answer is "all such things suck". You spend the time and money developing an app, and you want your visitors to know about the app. The prime candidates are those who visit your site on that device. So, the targeting is right, but the execution is what typically sucks.

From my own personal experience, if I'm visiting a specific article on the site, my immediate interest is getting the information from the article. Downloading an app is not going to take priority, even if I do ultimately want the app.

We had mocked up a "email me a link to this app" link for our site, in order to give the reader an option to email themselves an iTunes link for later, without taking them outside of the scope of reading the specific article they are looking at. In the end, we switched over to Apple's HTML banner thingy, which gives the opporutnity for people who have already installed the app the ability to open the specific article in the app itself.
I feel the same way about sites with special iPad interfaces. Every time I visit one I start to see/read the content as it loads and then the site goes blank while some heavy and slow annoying swipe theme finally comes up. when this happens I just leave.
Provided you have enough traffic, sampling shouldn't affect the results in any meaningful way.
Implementing a dynamically sized array in C
It's not an "easter egg": http://searchengineland.com/google-finance-brings-up-apple-s...
I like Digital Ocean (use them for http://bngal.com and http://cheergram.com) but be warned: I wasn't even able to compile nginx on the $5 plan. Kept getting memory-related errors. YMMV
The another type of controls:

3 = 3min

then there is a 30sec button that increments by 30secs. There is no entering of say, 3min 45sec
Silly hacker, TeX is for kids!
ASK Joe Gebbia of AirBnb
Hey Joe, we met at RISD a couple months ago when you gave a talk at the Entrepreneur MindShare Conference. I am going to Ukraine for a month and noticed that several of the offerings do not have verified photos/accounts. I don't know if you work with travelers to verify these units but if you are interested, I would be happy to talk with you about it.
The blogs of the founders, enough for my point:

http://unschooled.org/

http://dave.is/
I really like the idea of a game designed to help you out with real life.

I am inspired to perhaps create one along these lines myself!
Someone just wrote on CNN.com forums:

Hey folks, I'm writing from Google. This isn't deliberate -- our algorithms seem to be keying off of the words "sell" and "sells" in the description of this very popular stock symbol. We're working on how to adjust things so it doesn't happen anymore. Thanks... back to the eggnog.
I've got an Emerson microwave here. Pressing 1 immediately starts it cooking for 1 minute.

There is no obvious button to push to enter a specific time. The proper button turns out to be labelled "power". Pressing this multiple times will cycle through the power settings, and then allows a time to be entered in the way you describe.

Discovering this took Googling.
I think he's right to question the viability of the brand. Facebook has accumulated a pretty incredible amount of unflattering connotations over time, and is now probably one of the least cool tech companies around, at least in the eyes of normal people. Personally I find it telling that the people I respect the most are those that publicly post on Facebook the least (naturally I use it post publicly never :) )

The danger here is that once a company gets uncool, they often get desperate to try and prove that they're cool again. For an example of how well that tends to work out, see Microsoft's increasingly-shrill efforts to prove that they're still hip. The problem as far as I see it stems from the fact that the best companies project an image of selflessness - they're not actually trying to make money, they're just people who have a really, really amazing product, that they love so much, and are so happy introducing to the world. Once a company gets uncool and desperate, and starts casting around trying to reinvent themselves, they are basically openly admitting that their only purpose is to make money and their only desire is to beat their competition. This is Microsoft's position right now, and it's not tenable in the long-term in my opinion. People just don't like desperation and the dishonest posturing it breeds. Facebook could walk right into that same trap (not helped by the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is so uncool.)
Apple and the FSF have long had an antagonistic relationship. Some history in this talk: http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/LinuxTag-2011/compliance.html
I'm not going to say this proves it, but I'm convinced it's shenanigans. I can't figure out whether or not I have a problem with it. There are some good arguments why it's bad, but not good enough that I actually care. I just don't see the issue, unless I was Selestra, the company that should be popping up. Actually, if I was Selestra, I'd be pretty upset.
I'm young and naive. Please tell me why there is no way for you to receive your money? Are they not contractually bound to give you a specific sum? Is getting that money just too much legal hassle and money spent on court fees?
For many engagements, we required both an upfront deposit and invoiced payments every two weeks. In addition to the benefits you guys cited, billing often can also help manage scope creep - though I know some agencies thrived off the additional income from change requests.

I agree that it's possible to build a roster of clients that always pay you, but when you start casting your net wider (which we did), you encounter a greater variety of clients. We grew to a team of 20+ developers and aimed to keep our pipeline near 100% utilization.

With that said, we only had a handful of clients that didn't or couldn't pay. This was early in our existence and we learned quickly how to avoid, and dump, bad clients.
To paraphrase Churchill, Word is the worst text processor, except for all others that have been tried.
On a lot of microwaves I've used, I've needed to press some sort of "cook" button somewhere in the button sequence.
I think that people who say that mean "without special interpretation tools"; like, where if you came across the format in the wild tou would immediately e able to understand it, at least a little, based on nothing more than an understanding of some simple protocols like SMTP and some training in common programming languages like JavaScript.

That said, personally, I find tagged-length binary protocols very easy to read with nothing more than a hex editor, and often feel that their simplicity of implementation (no state machine required for their parser) to put them much farther into the camp of "human usable" than most file formats people like to claim are "human readable".
I made a flash game at one point with gravity as the core feature, tuned the acceleration, etc, then added collision detection. The simplest way I found was to give everything a destination x, y first, then collision detection checked current to destination vector and updated destination with the results (drag, bounce, etc.). Destination then became current. The downside was the multi wall reflection caused n + 1 collision checks (n being number of collisions). This wasn't an issue for my game, but one with lots of collisions could have slowed it down.
This, and the ability to add or remove 10 seconds from the current time (while it's on), are the two main features I consider indispensable on a microwave apart from the time entry.
Are developers choosing mobile because it's new and big, or because they see it in coffee shops all the time?

Mobile devices give unskilled users access to incredible computing power everywhere they go. All else equal, if my app X works in more environments than your app Y, my app > your app. Mobile support can be an inherent competitive advantage in many cases. It may not be. It depends on your app and your users.
My impression is the exact opposite: I see people reading and debating more than ever thanks to the internet. I think thanks to the internet we are in a golden era of literacy, but we just don't notice it because we're too busy complaining with other highly-literate people on highly debate-focussed websites such at this one about the more obvious non-literary manifestations of popular culture.
No reason to link this unless it has been updated.
California's revival of classic license plates faces barriers
Note well that you do not have to be O.K. with what happened in Guantanamo Bay or with how the civil courts are used by the RIAA or how the CFAA is used against hackers to maintain the perspective that your rights in 2012 are stronger than they've ever been in recent memory.

I tend to assume that people with alarmist stances about online rights aren't old enough to remember that the Clinton administration attempted to criminalize encryption.
consulting for 15 years here as well.. Ths is great advice. At the end of the day you work for the people who sign your cheques. The sooner you learn and remember that the more you can focus on creating more value than which you're paid.
FWIW: I'll definitely be checking out HabitRPG, and will not be able to use the other app, as I do not have an iPhone, or other smartphone.
There's plenty of room for increased dynamic range, if not more colors, than what 8 bits per channel gives us. See raw files from digital cameras, HDR, etc.
Facebook suspends account over Ghandi quote
Given the fact that common european microwave has two big mechanical knobs (timer and "power" typically implemented as fairly slow PWM, probably mostly mechanically) and door switch for power switch it seems to me that overly complex UI of other microwaves (as well as existence of these patents) seems to me being primarily motivated by someone trying to market microwave as high-tech gadget instead of simple kitchen appliance.
yes.

http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl...

look at rto_min, rto_max, rto_initial.

you can do something like:

ip route replace dev eth0 rto_min 10ms
But I bet the page will be corrected by this fad's promoters.
If they are then they are tampering with information that mattters, SELL is a valid stock descriptor (SELL.ME, selestra corp: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SELL.ME).

Financial data sites are not a good place to be pranking your users.

That alone makes me seriously doubt that this is an easter egg, if it is google will have easter egg all over its oos.
Yes I used to love Business 2.0

I'd say now its a combination of Wired, Inc, and Fast Company.
I worry that I'm not writing enough. One day, my life is going to become jarringly mundane again. I'm going to have nothing from my trip but my memories, photos, and my travel diary. And my memories will fade quickly. A travel buddy of mine captures detailed stories in his notebook, while I just write short-to-medium length quips for Facebook. The entire social media layer I have added to my diary complicates things. I think the feedback actually helps me hone my writing, and I love the conversations and validation it generates, but I'm also concerned about my desire to entertain people. It makes me hold back my true feelings a bit, as sometimes my most honest posts are also the least liked.
The query matches a term that can be found in the stocks description. Give it a try yourself, copy something unique enough from the description and use it as a query, you will be redirected to that stocks page.

Romance, Mystery:
https://www.google.com/finance?q=Romance%2C+Mystery

X.commerce:
https://www.google.com/finance?q=X.commerce

Its unbelievable how many people in this thread accuse Google, conspiracy theories and all that. The thread was up-voted enough to be on front page.
Don't believe everything you hear, do some research on it first ?
12:24 on 12/24. Interesting coincidence. What are the odds?
Typing "Buy" in Google Finance, redirects to Best Buy Co., Inc.
Why save it just for christmas? ;)

ESR telling people how to be hackers is pretty galling when you consider what a massive pile of bugs it is/was. For my money, getmail (http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/) is far better value.
I, too, would love to hear on this from Patrick or anyone else.

NextDoor.com is using direct mail (I know because I got a postcard from them!) and I'm curious whether or not it's working.
Look out of the train, talk to people.
My gut reaction is "not going to happen." Because I think people are drawn to companies with honest, relaxed attitudes - not companies carefully calculating their identity to win a new market share and desperately attempting to avoid obsolescence. And I think this consumer preference is becoming even more influential as the main arena of corporate competition becomes increasingly digital and social. Look at how successful Microsoft has been so far at proving that it's still cool.

But then, maybe you're right - maybe we should look forward to some incredibly sophisticated, calculating companies in the future.
@windexh8er we are not as naïve as it probably seems to someone of your experience ;) We are taking a different approach to the established players and definitely the other startups - who we aren't directly trying to compete with anyway.

Would love to chat offline if you were interested in hearing our take and/or brain dumping on us - pete at ninjablocks com
Why data will never replace thinking
Can you delve more into how you develop and close your first few enterprise sales? Especially in a market that you haven't been in for a long time already. Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.
or just wait for Java 8(coming in 2013); java 8 supposedly cuts down a lot verbosity and is sprinkled with functional programming features.
How many people are searching for MCX:SELL, and how many are searching for Apple? AAPL's trading volume is like four orders of magnitude higher than MCX:SELL's.
You actually didn't mention your age. I gather from the rest of your comment, you're in high school?

You have a lot of good thoughts about the mobile/tablet stuff and I think you're right. Just to add some quantitative info to it, I work for an e-commerce site and a quarter of our traffic is mobile, and that's not including people using our native mobile apps, which means that our real mobile traffic is more than 25%. I don't believe that includes tablets, but I'm not sure (there isn't a tablet-specific site, although we do have native tablet apps.)
Yeah. Computing has trickled down from the intellectual elite to the masses. I suspect more curious, analytical and information-seeking attitudes will trickle down in time too.
Is this the sort of "tampering" that would have any sort of effect, positive or negative, on anything at all?
Linux and Open Source stickers, ideas?
Hello guys,
I'm part of a group of unix lovers who run a stickers online store at http://www.unixstickers.com

We currently have several sticker models in our collection, and many others are coming soon.

We will be very happy to hear some ideas about new stickers related to unix/linux/open source.

Any preference?
Thank you, Stefano.
I might buy 10 bits, but it's pretty easy to distinguish 8-bit brightness levels.

Edit: Found a source quoting 450 light levels the eye can distinguish, so adding a bit of buffer for smooth transitions and imperfect gamma you'd need 10 or 12 bits.
You have inspired me to start writing 1000 words per day. While I'm typically satisfied with my finished written product, the process of writing usually isn't enjoyable for me. Hopefully, I will find a love for the craft of writing with this challenge. Thanks for sharing!
I think debit cards are easy. I had one around 15 and my sister even younger. It was my account, but it was linked to my mom's so she should could transfer money into it.
And the developer ought to be fired. He cost me a considerable amount of money since my heroku site with SSL endpoint was down over 12 hours during one if our biggest days of the year. Of course, heroku still (over)bills me those hours for Dynos and Workers.

I course, I am small potatoes compared to Netflix being down (while Amazon instant video wasn't.)

Amazon is populated by jackasses apparently and Heroku isn't much better. Why the f*(k doesn't Heroku have some kind of fall-over or something to protect clients from the inevitable AWS-East failures?

Buh, bye Heroku and AWS. Hello Bluebox. I run other apps on Bluebox and have never had any downtime except for some mild nonsense due to my own damned ignorance. Luckily the Blueboxers saved me from myself. AWS needs to get their shit together.
It's amazing that the team worked through what is likely the least fun night of the year to be working to fix this issue.
A coffee shop has very little equipment, and what they have tends to be isolated from other utilities (such as gas): they could easily run their shop off a generator (mate even a battery for a short time).
Show HN: Another Magic 8ball App
I built a web-based magic 8ball to test out CSS3 Animations and Transitions. Feedback is appreciated.
This was on reddit all day.
Sending Emails Through Python and GMail
Woosh right over your head. That certain political agendas prefix industries with "Big" doesn't make you think. Yeah, whatever
Do you personally know Mark Zuckerberg? Maybe you meant that the popular image of him in the media is uncool.
It seems like a mistake to intermingle an iOS an Android list. They should be treated separately.
Hacking Cisco Phones
f it really does lead to obesity and the connected illnesses, treatment will indirectly take money away from all of the other people with the same insurance company.

Socialists like rb2k claim that every individual action has some reprehensible act on "society".

The new (or maybe old) tactic of the fascist left.
Social Media Blunder
We will be shipping these http://www.shop.wattsclever.com/european-socket-type/47-ea.h... in a couple of weeks. They don't have UL/ETL unfortunately so we won't be selling them in the US. You can get these from amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005OH2EUS/ref=oh_details_o... which work alright.

In Australia, central heating/cooling is rare and high-end - in most places cooling matters much more than heating. The most common climate control method by far are split system airconditioners. We are working on a retrofit device specifically for these, though it will work on any IR controlled appliance.
I'm not beating myself up over it. I just notice that there is a debt, and a substantial one and that it is unlikely to be paid back.

And these things are still happening today, for instance this man that decided to speak out against the royal Dutch Shell oil company and got murdered for that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa
Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History
and through the magic of StackExchange, it is now reclosed.
I think the same thing different box idea has more merit than the patent idea. Microwaves have been around for decades. Patents last 15? 20? years?

Plenty of good ideas for microwave interfaces must no longer be patented. But if you have the same layout as the next guy (and your own older models) the only things you can compete on are (perceived) build quality and price.
To be clear, Facebook doesn't tell any advertisers any information about any users. Advertisers tell Facebook what kinds of people they want to see their advertisement, and Facebook shows the advertisement to those kinds of people.
The capitalist system is continually evolving and eliminating inefficiencies which allow people to profit from harming others. The trend has been strongly towards better controls to prevent businesses from externalising costs to the detriment of society, these controls have in turned spurred innovation which has resulted in cleaner, better, more productive technology benefitting everyone. Just like going around beating people up and stealing their wallets is no longer a viable road to financial success, businesses can no longer expect to profit from dumping harmful chemicals into waterways. The range of options for profit are continually being tightened and focussed exclusively in the realm of mutual benefit.

We are, hopefully, on the verge of sensible legislation to prevent businesses and individuals externalising the costs of greenhouse gases too, and so spur healthy innovation in that most important area, and in so doing securing the future habitability of the planet - hopefully once we do so your objections to capitalism will begin to fade.
Rethinking the `static` keyword in OOP
LaTeX -> thesis ~= 29. sounds about right.
Hacks that improved my life
Revisiting JavaScript Objects
I think there is a fascinating split personality to the internet these days. On the one hand, there is a big drive to move traditional desktop application functionality into the web browser (e.g. google and microsoft's office web apps, photo editing, and even some computation in the case of Wolfram Alpha.) On the other hand, there is a big drive to push traditional internet content into standalone apps, as this author outlines. Currently it seems that the vast majority of the apps in the Windows 8 store fall into this category.
No. Based on everything I have seen or heard of him in the media, including videos of him in speaking or interacing in social situations. He seems extremely awkward and completely bereft of charisma. The polar opposite of Jobs.
I blogged about that a while back. It's particularly bad on iOS since it seems more sites have iPhone apps. And many of them don't even just put a small link. Many, like Techcrunch, put a full page modal ad. Then there's sites who don't even ask you and redirect to an AppStore link. Stupid.
In my experience, most really great developers have made similar mistakes at some point in their pasts. Often these mistakes are what catalyze growth and create the scar tissue that helps them (and organizations) to not repeat the same classes of mistakes. You don't fire people when they make mistakes like these, you ask them what they will do to make sure that nobody in the organization is likely to make a similar one. Seems like that is generally Amazon's reaction too.

That said, I understand it's pretty damn frustrating having downtime during peak periods :)
All of it I think?
> ESR telling people how to be hackers is pretty galling when you consider what a massive pile of bugs it is/was

What is "it"? Fetchmail?
1. Purchase Atomic Web Browser

2. Configure the User Agent setting to use Safari Desktop instead of Safari iPhone/iPad

3. Win 9000+ internets when you're no longer prompted to download their shitty app
I wonder who gets stuck working those shifts -- would it just be following the normal schedule, in the name of fairness? Do more senior people get to claim the day of vacation? Do parents get priority over single people?
When looking at the trend for Apple, I was surprised. Earlier this year some people expected Apple could be the first company to reach the market cap of $1.000.000.000. Right now they're under the $500.000.000 from $700.000.000 last september.
"tech" a hundred years ago was the beginnings of the aviation sector you see today. What you're seeing now is "tech" moving away from the _____ sector (the one HN belongs to) into to the _____ sector (the one with brain-machine interfaces as well as brain enhancing implants).

So I agree with you, 2012 may well be the year the technology sector of 2011 is not the technology sector of 2012.
Forget the developer if you actually read what happened, ELB state data is code for "configuration", and amazon has no backup for config data fro load balancers. And we "worked through the night", well of course you did.

Idiots.