skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's absolutely it. All it takes is one or two decent jobs and you've paid for your Creative Suite. It's a lot of money overall, but not as much as it appears when you're new to it all.

It's a little regrettable that Adobe maintains so much control over the market, but as a creative professional myself, I can't find much that can actually compete with their software, especially for the price.
I have lots of ideas of where we can go from here. We're just getting started and I think there's a lot to look forward to. I'm glad you like the idea. I've been waiting for this for a long time too. I'm just building the service that I want to use.
The streak is just the number of consecutive days that you've contributed at least 1 thing to a project on GitHub.
Because security is hard, and when you are storing untraceable money you become an attractive target way before you get big enough to invest heavily in security.

That said, Coinbase has raised some cash, so perhaps they can avoid this fate.
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Indeed. It used to be that the only way to glean such information (for an arbitrary user) would be to crawl all the projects and sift through the data yourself.

I'm hoping that they make this info available through the API, and allow us to see contributions over all time, instead of just in the last year / month.
Very cool! I used calendaraboutnothing /extensively/ - it was a hugely important motivational tool for me.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this counts contributions to non-master branches? I work mostly in branches and my calenderaboutnothing streaks were much longer.
I get that this is, in fact, a real problem - but it's hardly one related to banking or finance. Sounds more like relationship trouble to me.

I'd be more concerned about the bitcoin conversion services showing up in some sort of record than porn since it's so easy to connect with far more questionable services. Yes, a lot of people want to be off the grid (especially financially), but the reality is that a lot of people buy into the "why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide" mantra. Even spouses.
I give credit to their team, I can hardly imagine how hard it is to reach goals and deliver a hardware product while driving a martetplace and partnerships to deliver content to your new device.

That being said, I think you're making too many assumptions before it exists. Hardware is expensive, I have no idea how much profit they make per device, or if all the seed money from kickstarter is completely gone. But I know that their future depends on several things. Aside from future sales being a must. In order to iterate, they need to get a lot right -- now. I don't think Ouya is that much more free than any other piece of hardware. They will not be able to iterate that fast, fix bugs that fast, push updates that fast, or sell consoles every year, easily. There's always hope that a random assortmant of people will hack it to the point it's constantly relevant, or that the games that end up getting launched on their marketplace all hit a home run. But it's completely unclear to me at this point. In the age of crowd-funding, a funny thing happens. Backers are already invested in products before they are even created. Speaking much further than just monetarily. There's a fake sense of success and security even knowing that projects can and will fail. Ouya's massive funding only proved the idea, not the implementation.

That being said, when it's finally here, it still has to get people excited. People will still have to want it when it arrives, and when they plug it in, it still has to essentially be awesome. Right now, its too much speculation, if you pick up the real thing and say -- hey, aside from the shit controller, and the lack of power, i still love it. Than, that will mean something significant. As it stands now, Ouya is kind of floating aimlessly in the market, they got too big too fast, haven't really carved out a dedicated chunk of the market. And is already falling far behind as far as the technology used. It falls between a media device and a toy, but in kind of a bad way. If I wanted a media device, i'd buy a roku or build one. If I wanted an android based gaming system in 2013, as of right now, i'd probably end up with a shield. I think that says something. I think the ouya will be a nice little device for sometime, but i'm having a lot of doubts about it's future and it's ability to grow in the competitive and expensive space they opted to jump into.

Ouya, on launch day, will not be able to handle the newest games on the android market. That is a significant issue, one crowd-funded projects are going to have to solve or abandon in the next few years.
If it is the price "we" paid, I didn't agree to pay it. I'd much rather read a slower source that, you know, doesn't libel people at the drop of a hat and without apology. I honestly wish, as damaging to the free flow of information on the Internet as it would be, that victims like Adobe would start cleaning bloggers out for shit like this. I know I'm harping on Gizmodo/Gawker/whatever, but I know they're definitely not the only blog slum lord out there.

The expectation for immediate news is damaging in a lot of ways, this one is just the worst and most visible.
Ah man... I'd love to see a documentary on this, in the style of Wordplay or Spellbound.

Meanwhile, here are some programming battle games you can play at home!

Core War (Redcode, assembly dialect): http://www.corewar.info/

Robocode (Java/.NET): http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

Scalatron(Scala): http://programminggames.org/Scalatron.ashx

BitBath (Java): http://bitbath.org/
If AirBNB are taking a cut and facilitating the rental than of course they need to know the laws in each location they operate.
A similar story:
I read years ago that there was a gang of people that would steal laptops at airports when businessmen were tired and unattentive.
The reason they gave was that it was easy to move them (this was 10 years ago so a Macbook Pro was about $5k) and if they got caught they could pretend they accidently picked it up instead of their own bag. If they got caught it was very unlikely to be prosecuted.

The robbers said that compared to robbing a convenience store etc it made as much cash but the risk was extremely low.
Ninja are fundamentally political tools. As long as we have politics, someone will be interested in their services, I am sure.
Our algorithm attempts to filter out things like covers and live performances, but admittedly it's not perfect. It works pretty well but there's definitely room for improvement. We're constantly improving this aspect because of how crucial it is to the product.

Thanks for that example, it'll help me tweak the algorithm to fix that occurrence. Thanks for the feedback!
You want to incentivize the best developers, not those who want (a relatively small amount of) money. By replacing intrinsic incentive with monetary incentive it may end up making the situation worse.

Someone might happily sign-up to a mailing list for interesting jobs based on the inherent incentive, but offer that person $10 to do the same and they'll think "my time is worth more than $10" and just walk away.

You'll almost certainly better off just putting that same amount of money into traditional marketing channels.
Right, but at the same time the ability to copy was restricted.

That is what has changed, the cost to copying digital files is almost zero. The cost to copy even with a printing press is not nearly the same. In addition the equipment required can be regulated much easier. That too is almost impossible to do with computers.
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I have always been under the impression that the lack of atmosphere on mars was due to its magnetic field weakening and allowing solar winds to carry away the atmosphere over the billions of years.
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> Adobe took down the page that was linked

The links are not down. Someone listed them here:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/freebies/adobe-cs2-creative-suite-...

I tried a few and they appeared to start (although I didn't actually download them).
Just to clarify something, Derby apps aren't single page apps. They render on both the server and the client which means that it's just as multi-page as any normal website. The distinction is that once you load the page, in most browsers, the page never has to refresh. Data is sent through the wire and the client renders the HTML.

Disable javascript and visit http://phishvids.com – everything works as if it were a normal website. The server handles all of the rendering.
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I have daily commits to a main branch of several of my projects but I'm on a 0 current streak.

Also, damn, the disparity between my public and private profile is huge. Imma gonna commit more to open source!
Hm, I'm divided on this. It's cool to be able to see what someone works most on... But at the same time, there's the privacy concern of being able to see what someone works most on. I'd like the ability to turn it off—hell, you can already decide what repos you expose to the public, so why not activity?

Of course, I realize that your activity on GitHub is public anyway—but it's never been so obvious.
to put it more politely ;)

Maybe you should do some research to find out about the article before writing comments. If you don't know who 37 signals are then its extremely easy to find out and would probably allow you to frame your argument in a way that other people will better understand.
There's always the problem of when.

While it's becoming more likely that a life supporting planet exists outside our solar system, we have the problem that mankind's recorded history is measured in thousands of years (and more than likely will only be measured in thousands of years) while the universe is a tale of billions of years.

I'd still say we are likely to see artificial satellites at some point, as our own would likely survive for millions of years in some capacity (even as junk), but the possibility of direct communication is probably never going to happen.
Thanks, I started using it, it's already 5 hours. I see now it doesn't track very well. Then I've read in their website that it doesn't support firefox. It does track websites with firefox but has some errors.
Reminded me of one the best games on the C64... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ninja
It's not the same as stealing. When you steal something the person who formerly had it no longer has it. This term is commonly used inappropriately when talking about software and media licensing.
My read is entirely the opposite. I think people have been responding defensively to "[...] better [...] than you" and sympathetically to "Host me in California".
Ask HN: Whats the point of hyper-uber fast phones?
Do we really need that much power in our mobile phones? What do we do with them ?
Using professional image editing software, a professional video editing software ? I don't think so.

I can understand large screen for more comfortable surfing/reading but what's the point of spending money on new quad core phone when you can do same tasks with single core/512-1gb ram device?

Don't get me wrong i'm writing this cause just couple minutes ago i was click away from ordering note II but than i asked my self do i really need it, can note II do anything that my current phone can't (nexus fyi)?

This mood will hold me back for couple days, and than i'll click that order button for sure.

But ill always wonder how do we fall under marketing influence,
how do they makes us believe that we need something when most of us don't.

Anyway it's just me thinking out loud :)

Good night

ps

Sorry about bad english its not my primary language and i'm trying :)
Disingenuity is a specific kind of dishonesty. Look it up.
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My auntie was telling me this weekend that she has to keep running Windows to keep an old Quilting application running. There are newer/cross-platform ones available but they can cost thousands and she doesn't want to change.
I think we are seeing the beginning of innovation from Silicon Valley. We are just starting to apply computers to everyday life. We've largely tackled communications. The next things seem to be more interactions between the real and digital worlds (which self-driving cars seem to be an early example of). 3D printing (and the things it enables) and more widespread robotics seem like obvious next innovations.
This article mentions Reputation.com, whose ads always come up on my Pandora station. I've never looked at them before, but checking it out now confirms: they really are as scummy as the commercials try to make them sound, creating fake websites and presumably reviews on websites to make your company look artificially better.
I don't understand -- if you want a slower news source, read one! It's up to you. You can read the New York Times Sunday Review, the Economist, the New Yorker, the daily New York Times... whatever you want. All of these outfits reported this story correctly, which is to say, they didn't write about it. Nobody is forcing you to read Gizmodo.

The idea that getting things fast and wrong is a staple of "media in general" is ridiculous. The vast majority of the media acquitted themselves fine here.
I've often thought that the best bill to introduce if the national GOP finally had enough of Big Media would be a "truth in royalty accounting act" or the "Yes, Forest Gump made money act". It would be very fun to watch each studio's news division spin that.
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Fake security
Or Microsoft having a Home & Student version of Office that can't be used by businesses. Nothing technical stops them, except that it's no different from a pirate copy if you get audited by the software police.
Not if the country is Cuba.
Yep, we don't count contributions until they hit a repository's default or gh-pages branch.
Thanks for the reply, John. I did check out the gists of the apps, so I guess it's only fair to explain why I'm not a fan yet.

In the "download sample apps" gists, you don't actually include all the files: where are the views? Where is the public directory? Clearly, someone could create these themselves, but when I click a link to download the sample app, I want to download the entire sample app and not just selected files. I don't want to spend time debugging what's missing.

In the MMS sample app2, there are files for phone number lists and a "tokens" file. But you'd have to go directly to the github repository to find out what they're used for and how to use them. (I'm still not sure how/what "tokens" does.)

I appreciate the amount of work it takes to release a public API (and one as robust as this), but it's just kinda .... AT&T-y at this point.
Microsoft's online services have a different, user-specific status page
Outlook.com is down for me right now. When I look at the status page at https://status.live.com/detail/outlook it says that everything is running normally.

If I view the same page while logged in the status is magically different: 'We're having problems signing you in to some email programs' and 'We're working on the problem and will provide an update by Jan 7 6:45 PM'

If some users are having problems shouldn't the global status page reflect that?
Former investigative journalist here, though I'm not entirely sure what that has to do with the topic at hand. You'll notice, if you read carefully, that I didn't say anybody was forcing me to do anything and instead I took issue with being lumped into the sweeping "this is the price we pay" assertion made by the comment to which I was replying.

I'm perfectly aware of what I can read. I wish blogs were a bit higher-standard, so I could enjoy them as well without the reservations that it requires.

EDIT: Okay, now that you've ninja-edited in a second paragraph, I'll respond to that too.

Even CNN is guilty of this. "This Just In" during Hurricane Sandy ran some Twitter troll's report of the NYSE flooding. Remember Ryan Lanza? Yep, "This Just In" as well. Half of the rest of the world sees the story on CNN.com and says, hey, that's a confirm, it aired on CNN! It's probably an associate producer manning the desk straight out of J-school, and that big "Publish" button is pretty God damned alluring.

Something about blogs, even under the CNN umbrella, seems to make facts a second-class citizen. "Breaking" doesn't mean the same thing that it did a couple decades ago, and integrity is crumbling with Internet journalism.
Service that provides legal structure and bank accounts?
Hey,

I have a new side project every few months. Mostly little rink-a-dink things that never take off, but it's fun work work on them. Pretty often, however, I get to the "Ok - now I want to start charging for this" phase... and that usually means "file an llc, talk with a bank, etc" and that's a pain in the ass.

Is there a service that will do this for me? Give me a legal structure and bank accounts I can hook up to paypal/whatever? Preferably a service that would charge a percentage of what the business makes to do this... but a subscription fee would be fine too.

Thoughts?
I'm not sure you understand how bad some USA highschools are.
On skeuomorphs, flatness, and the character of an app
Is having a large moon a requirement for not being tidally locked?

My understanding was that planets further from the star would take more time to get tidally locked. Since we are quite far from the sun, it would take some time even without a moon.
We're only indexing computer and information science related articles right now. One of the interface's most obvious failures is communicating that- we'll try to improve the messaging and make that more clear. Coverage of material in philosophy is down the road.

What about following keywords in Scholrly doesn't satisfy what you need?
You're conflating copyright on the text of the source code with the algorithm itself.

Go read a little about the differences between copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents. It's not that hard to get the basic ideas.
I 100% agree with you. Ouya currently is falling in a very strange place in the market. I think they priced themselves correctly, but it falls between a roku and a toy as you mentioned. Where that leaves them is beyond me. The point that matters, is I think if someone was looking for a media device, they'd end up with a roku or apple tv. If they wanted a gaming system, right now the shield is far more appealing. A huge issue with crowdfunding these projects is keeping them relevant. If I buy something this year, and get it next year, it's very difficult to stay relevant. In order for an Ouya 2.0 to be possible, I think they will have to sell a number of post-kickstarter consoles. In order for that to happen, people are going to have to love it when it hits their door steps. They will have to get excited about it. Right now, on launch day, the ouya will not be able to play the newest games on the android market. Despite it having it's own market, if my friend is playing a better quality game on his phone next to me, there is a significant issue there. Even just a mental one, where my new shiny device, doesn't feel all that new and shiny. I don't think it's too late for the Ouya, but think a lot is going to have to go their way in the next year in order for them to succeed in that space. And I think this is going to be yet another eye opening experience for everyone with regards to crowd-funding and how it currently works--The realities of it.
On windows

findstr /SPINC:"some random debug message" *

Will do the same. FINDSTR is no grep, but for very simple cases like this is just fine

SPINC and SPIMC are my favorite options...
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1) Identify a market that you know something about - not necessarily much, but something - and where a medium-sized number of people spend a fair amount of money with minimal resistance, regularly.

2) Talk to those people about their problems. Find out what really scares them, pisses them off, or simply takes too much time.

3) Build something to fix that problem. Keep talking to real people who have the problem you're fixing as you build it.

This is the methodology I've heard quoted by a dozen successful entrepreneurs, from Jason Cohen to Naomi Dunford. It's also extremely close to Tim Ferriss' recommended approach in Four Hour Work Week.

I make money in slightly different ways to this - at present - but as far as I can tell, it works. If you follow all the steps.

(Note: building something for WoW players fails at step #1. The market simply doesn't support spending a lot of money regularly.)
Mobile devices quite frequently find themselves on low-bandwidth networks. (Edit: and many mobile users have low transfer caps on their data plans)
I'm not as surprised. I'm not certain MSR markets the project at all, for all the promise it has.
The page that was linked means the URL the blogs gave as the link. Click Gizmodo's link here[1].

So, yes, the link is down.

[1]: http://gizmodo.com/5973730/grab-photoshop-and-cs2-for-absolu...
Video of developer building a game in 48 hours.
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_...

But seriously, where is your JavaScript? You're calling functions that don't exist. You don't seem to have implemented anything, and you're not importing any libraries.
It's not their distance from the sun, it's the presence of liquid being affected by gravity and creating a tidal bulge. The bulge slows down the planet's rotation via friction, and eventually the planet stops rotating.
Since when is Albania a neighbor of Slovakia? Nearby maybe but it's not an neighbor. This being a bit of off-topic, now the main part:

There are a lot of high schools in those countries. So you just CAN'T say the high-schools "are better", "are worse" or something like that. Which high-school do you mean exactly? Which course? The questions go on ...

So going deeper in that struct -- being one of the brightest in your Albanian high-school, could make you one of the good ones in some of the USA high-schools ... but sorry that is just not enough to say, that the Albanian educational system is better compared to that of the USA.

We had some problems in that part of Europe and sadly the education suffered a lot ...
Get those pull requests merged! :)
She should also add comments...
I remember an old Chaos Manor column that talked about a book detailing what was needed, but I have not been able to find the book or remember the title.
Hmm, but once they hit master they will be back-dated as contributions for that time period?
If you visit your "contributions" page while you are logged out, you will notice that all non-public activity is hidden.

I feel that you've raised a valid concern -- for the sake of privacy it would be best to have the option to deactivate this feature.
It might have been a screw-up, but Oracle does the exact same thing for all their products: you are free to download and install everything you want (and they provide universal license codes for acquired products that might still need them), but you're not actually allowed to run anything past 30 days (with some exceptions, like Enteprise Linux, SQLDeveloper, XE etc). Nothing in the software actually forces you to stop, but should Oracle sue you, you're screwed. It's a win-win for everyone: users can easily train themselves, and Oracle gets mindshare and goodwill without renouncing their expensive support contracts and license renewals.
I don't think "blogs" deserve collective guilt for Gizmodo's sins any more than "the media" do. The vast majority of blogs acquitted themselves fine here. But wishing for better standards from "blogs" is like wishing "novels were a bit higher-standard." There are a lot of terrible novels in print (the majority even!), but you'd be foolish to blame the whole genre for the literary sins of "Fifty Shades of Grey."