skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with what's said here, and that it's tough. I have an iphone time tracking app and here are my sales
http://seriouslackofdirection.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-app-st...

I also suggest:

-changing the price (price reductions shows up on app tracker apps and twitter feeds).

-get good reviews from your friends.

-you might look into app store keyword optimization also.
Thanks for the feedback!

We're actually using the colors from each individual image:

- The most dominant color is the background

- The color that contrasts most with the background is the text color

- The second most contrasting color is the title color

We really like the way it pops!
That's after half of US states successfully collected 25k+ votes on petitions to allow them to separate from US. Whitehouse copy/pasted same reply to all them, but figured that 25,000 is too easy for today's social media aware buggers and raised a quote.
Stephen Heymann linked to another hacker's suicide
Only Chrome for now. FireFox is coming soon.
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Sadly this is likely true. Just look at the effectiveness of mass protests and legislation put in place in last 2-3 years to make them illegal (UK, Canada, Poland come to mind).
I like using the multiple-equality-comparison technique mentioned as the top example by the OP:

foo == "bar" || foo == "baz" || foo == :sed || foo == 5
["bar", "baz", :sed, 5].include?(foo)

But that just has to be several times slower than the boolean check with the array usage, enough that you wouldn't want this refactoring in a mega-loop, right?
Well, it's democratized cheating, so the playing field is still level. I think people would just adapt.

Either that or casinos would change their games.

Anyway, you can already do card counting via computer pretty easily at a casino if you think about it--I'm pretty sure they don't care enough to stop you as long as you aren't obvious and you aren't robbing them.
You can always use HelloFax (same company) if you're interested in paying ;-).

I get what you're saying though. B2B is not like building a consumer app. I'd rather pay as long as it's reasonable.
This is quite possible, and will be handled by a jury that probably doesn't understand why anyone would randomize their MAC address any more than they would understand why anyone would habitually walk around wearing a ski mask.

I would hope that someone would realize that wearing a ski mask for no reason has considerable downsides, while changing you MAC address for no reason has none.

What if someone uses different devices instead of changing the identifier of one device? A policy that very explicitly says you can only take so much food on a plate, but that anyone can take a new plate, doesn't suggest that the server is too concerned about how much food is served.
I really agree with this aswell. On some corporate networks vimeo and youtube are always blocked, and it is impossible to see what your app does, etc.
"The easiest way to avoid responsibility is to not talk about the issue all together."

Yes, but often politicians and public figures aren't given that choice. In this case, the man in question was either a judge or a lawyer at the time, and it seems likely that he was being asked or compelled to weigh in on the issue. His speech was a way of satisfying the weigh-in requirement without taking a controversial stance.
Congrats guys! It should be mentioned that Clustrix was part of YC's W06 batch.
What's the legality of distributing a binary-patched app covered by the GPL? Something makes me think it's questionable.
The game looks fantastic. I think you developed for the wrong platform. On iOS you would have seen tangible results.
Nope. Craigslist means having sketchy people come over to your place and examine your unit of stuff while you talk about why you're selling it, when you got it, etc. Ebay and Amazon mean the work of putting the stuff online and then mailing them off. It's time consuming. Screw it - load the crap up and drive it to the thrift store.

I suppose a garage sale might be worth the effort since you can do everything at once.
It's still not precisely centered. Check out this version using a table.

http://jsfiddle.net/nJy8t/

I added a background image with a grid that extends 80px from top and bottom. There's also a small margin/padding/border reset and doctype just to make sure defaults and quirks aren't messing with anything.
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For me this is the best of the online courses. Jennifer Widom has a fantastic teaching style, and the conversational presentations are far more effective that recorded lectures. The exercises were good an challenging. I took the original course, and the one area I gave feedback that needed improvement were the forums. The new forums run by Piazza seem to be a big step forward.

It was so good that I will take a refresher and try to find time to do more exercises.
I would even go as far as assuming there are many more reasons why Apple attracts so much criticism, unfounded rumors and hate, besides 'emotional opinions' (which as far as I'm concerned indeed also includes hate). Rational reasons such as trying to make money by manipulating the stock, trying to fit into some kind of peer group that appears to dislike Apple, a general need for attention, a lack of inspiration and creativity when writing blog posts or news articles, etc.

Large successful companies gather mind share, be it positive or negative, which makes them an appropriate subject for all kinds of attention. Just like many people feel Apple gets a disproportionate amount of positive attention (which is probably true), many others feel the get too much bad press (which is also true). Usually hate attracts much more attention though.
True.

I realized I should leave a certain job right around the time I noticed that my quickest-promoted peers were the ones who handed off close to 100% of their responsibilities and, instead, spent their time organizing office karaoke nights, group lunches, and birthday parties. At one point, my boss (!) even confided in me that she rose very quickly up the ranks not by working hard, but by freeing herself up from her work in order to plan frivolous, but high-visibility office socials. (She sounded genuinely guilt-ridden in saying as much, though I suspect she was pretty good at compartmentalizing that guilt in the long run).

Now, I'm not a naif. I realize that office politics is always going to be a decisive factor in one's career at BigCorp (if not in general). And I'm all for a fun office function. But when politics is the sole criterion for advancement, something's rotten in Denmark.

Incidentally, I've noticed a strong correlation between this type of culture and the poor performance of said company. There's a general feeling, among middle management types, that the company is basically a giant ATM. You clock in, collect a fairly generous paycheck, and spend your time trying to do as little as possible for it.

By contrast, what subsequently attracted me so much to the tech industry was a genuine engagement with one's job. You may not love every day of it, but you feel connected to what you're doing, and you actually want to see the results in the market. Typically there are fewer layers of abstraction between your work and the actual product, and so there's less room to emotionally distance yourself from it and slip into the clock in / clock out mentality.
Agreed, plea bargains should be based on charges, not sentences.
He wrote a disassembler as a hand-hacked state machine. A crazy amount of focus.

"-26%"?
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>Obviously this is ridiculous, but even so, how could we possibly cover all of the motivations for breaking a lock?

But here's the thing: That's why it isn't illegal to "break a lock." It's illegal to e.g. steal things. Because that's what we want to prohibit, not breaking locks, even if breaking locks is a thing mostly done by criminals who are trying to steal things.
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Check out Hopper.app.
Nice, this is exactly I figured last year. Now I'm learning web development (HTML/CSS/JS/Ruby), here is the 'product' I build (or you can call it shipped) recently:

http://hamxiaoz.com/BeijingAir/

It monitors the PM2.5 reading of Beijing and changes color/text based on the reading. Nothing fancy but I'm happy I made my idea come to true.
This is definitely the way I prefer to learn things. I've had a few of successes and one failures doing things this way. Things I learned this way:

- PHP, CodeIgniter
- Ruby, Rails
- CSS
- Javascript, jQuery

I'm hoping to get into some of the newer JS projects this way as well, node.js, backbone.js, etc.

I think having a deliverable project in mind keeps you focused while learning. It's an extra layer of motivation, but unlike finishing a book, you're left with a real asset. I don't think everyone learns best this way, however, and realize that others may prefer going through book exercises or online tutorials. One drawback I've ran into every time I've learned this way is that you tend to cut corners out of ignorance and end up having to invest time down the road in either learning things your project didn't require or unlearning the bad habits you picked up when you were focused on the end rather than the means.

I will say that I failed miserably when I had an idea for an iPhone app and jumped in head first this way. The process was intensely frustrating and I felt like I spent a lot of time spinning my wheels. Looking back, I would have been much better off working through an intro book on iPhone / Cocoa development than trying to piecemeal educational materials and tutorials. I'm not sure why this one specific process didn't work. I may have been too ambitious or it may just have been entirely out of my wheelhouse, coming from a web-only background.
In your second: If you changed a value in a configuration file and it triggered an exception somewhere, many people would say you are at fault for not testing your change.

Exactly. However, the exception will likely be thrown from somewhere in the network stack, not from a config file, so whoever last modified the error checking code in the network stack will get an email instead.
So, TV and newspaper have that long to live?
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This looks lovely! In the context of my job, though, collaboration features would make HelloSign absolutely killer. I often deal with documents that 2+ people need to sign. Currently use RightSignature for this, which is an elegant solution - but I'd welcome the opportunity to cut out a couple steps :)
IMHO I like the concept but your "travel post" could use a visual refresh. I think the top of the post could have a google map showing start location to end location. It sounds really stupid but many people cant connect the location to its place in the world. I think the key to success for your site will be in revamping the posts to feel less like blog posts with massive blocks of info.

Contact me for some help on doing this if you want. I have a day job but could be an "intern" of sorts. I am sending you an email so you can have mine.
Ollydbg has more or less given way to Immunity Debugger, which is what you should be checking out if that's the flavor of reversing tool you're after.

I don't know a lot of people who use IDA as a debugger and like it.

On the other hand, IDA's a better disassembler (and not just because it handles multiple architectures) than Olly. It's the industry standard for a good reason.

Hopper.app is giving it a run for its money on x86 and ARM. Hopper is all I use now.

I think it's ironic that people think IDA is too expensive; it's not expensive enough, given its total addressable market. IDA's prices are so low that they artificially depress the market for all reverse engineering tools, which anchor or orbit around IDA's price point. Hex-Rays is trying to break out of that with the decompiler, but then Hopper did a good-enough decompiler and bundled it into a $100 tool.

Professionals that use IDA (a) rely on it heavily (b) can use the same version of IDA for years and years (c) routinely bill out over 250-300/hr and (d) number in the tens of thousands. It's an interesting business case study.
This is a framework that cuts the unnecessary metaprogramming and sugar that has been obscuring architecture and slowing code for years. There are no helpers. I called it a framework for ironic effect, however it is a framework - an extremely minimilist one, a program that fetches data and serves requests, and renders data.

Other Go web frameworks are like houses of cards, while this one is like a computer monitor. The cards can be knocked over, but the computer monitor is 27".

Forthcoming features for Gooo v2:
- more speed
- faster
- documentation
- quicker
- higher rate of movement

Eventually: integrating a persistent key-value store
Cool and useless. BTW it is not 'color-based', you're not basing anything on colors.

Pretty sad that you didn't create an algorithm for the images and simply using Embedly data, which I have to say it's a smart move anyway ;)
> Also, use your freaking time to do something more interesting than surf Reddit and Facebook.

Or, if surfing Reddit and Facebook make you happy, by all means do that.
My dynos come up just fine.
You seem to not understand how fiction works.

When all the spinning 3d shit appears on the movie screen, the audience does not automatically think "hacking". But they do think that once the movie tells them it is hacking. (Of course audience members have come to expect certain depictions to be described as hacking) If you spew technobabble at a layman and tell them that you are rehashing a microwave oven, they'll believe you, even though that makes no sense. When a prosecutor spews technobabble about graphology, the layman is going to think it is evidence, not because when they hear the technobabble they think "hard evidence" but because when the prosecutor spews it and calls it evidence, they think "evidence".

When a prosecutor spews what seems to be nonsense about MAC addresses, and calls it leet illegal hacks, do you really think that the layman is going to sit there and second guess that assessment? Really?

The general public cares about illegal hacking. The general public has no idea what illegal hacking looks like. When the general public is shown something alien to them, and then told it is illegal hacking, you would be insane to think they would not react in fear of it.

If they understood the subject matter, they would act rationally even if they did not understand the particulars; for example, if they understand the basic premises of medicine. Now, if you had a surgeon describe the familiar (say an appendectomy) in unfamilar detailed medical jargon, your standard layman is going to be a hell of a lot more stressed out over the procedure. Why? Because the unfamilar frightens.
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So managing an outsourced team is worth nothing? The China group probably wasn't working during his 9-to-5.
If you only need to go into the office once a fortnight (common with telecommuting jobs) you can have 10 on the go at once. Many telecommuting jobs will be much less office time than that too, I've done several where I never went I've never even been to an office.
It's a full time job. Some devs think they can spend a few minutes promoting it. There's almost an infinite number of ways you could get out there and push your product 24/7 offline and online.
I'm still looking forward to when HelloFax has an API. My existing providers have terrible APIs and pretty bad reliability.
he is probably over qualified old man
You're continuing to miss the point. If I leave my door wide open and put up a sign that says "Private Property, Do Not Enter", it is legally the same as a deadbolt, despite the complete engineering uselessness of a sign in preventing physical access.

You can't answer legal questions with engineering. They are different fields with different goals.
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Saying this app teaches "mind control" seems a bit disingenuous. Perhaps "heart rate control" (with additional hardware)? Without the additional hardware, the app is simply a meditation tracker.

The Muse promises to monitor brain waves via mobile device: http://www.gizmag.com/interaxon-muse-brain-wave-headband/246...

EDIT: Apparently there is already such a device on the market: http://www.neurosky.com/Products/MindWaveMobile.aspx

I remember a similar but much cruder device in the mid-90s which used a glove and allowed basic control over a ski game via brain waves.
From the docs, interesting to see they are using leveldb for storage engine. Nice to see a server version of leveldb. Also excited to see first class python interface.

Does search performance depend on the fact that leveldb keys are also sorted?
The author has not bothered to read the indictment. Maybe he should talk with MIT's sysadmins, who were attempting to block Swartz's MAC address as he changed them when the MIT sysadmins found out about them. They were trying to block Swartz. It's their network. The author's blog post doesn't mention any of this. What the author should do is block his own access based on his MAC address, change his MAC address to get around his own block, and then blog about it. He could wear a bike helmet to conceal his identity and run away when he attempts to apprehend himself, for extra realism. Then he could think about the implications for the case, as a "security" expert.
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> As a company, we have made a conscious decision not to disclose our funding. But, for the purposes of transparency, we'd like to make clear that he's an investor.

I think the situation requires it. If you want to keep your investors secret you can remove the quote, otherwise you can just add that Paul Buchheit is an investor. You don't even have to change the markup. There is plenty of room to change it to "Paul Buchheit, founder of Gmail and investor in HelloSign".
Facebook just blew up the server and disrupted a $55B market
Thanks!

Totally agree, beta signups is almost the definition of a vanity metric. That said, at this particular (very early) stage of product development I wanted to solicit as much feedback as possible much of which was gathered from usage data - particularly first time users usage patterns. Having a reserve of signups that I could drip into the app as we released new features was useful in itself.

Will have have a think about whether I can add any value above the noise of the generic blog posts that you mention, thanks for your interest.

Feel free to drop me a line for a private discussion. I'm seriously impressed what you're doing with BitDeli!
I think there's a more fundamental problem here: entering a market where there are already literally 1000s of other competitors. It doesn't really matter how much he promotes his app - the people who like to play Sudoku probably already have a Sudoku app installed. And there're limited ways to be "better" than existing entrants.

Perhaps a non-technical cofounder could've helped here, but really what he needed is courage and the ability to take risks. People who strike it big - in any market - do so by providing what other people are not providing; you have to be willing to say "I'm going to do what other people are not doing, because they're doing it wrong" and then be right about that.
Repeat after me:

I will not discuss politics on HN.

I will not discuss politics on HN.

I will not discuss politics on HN.

I will not discuss politics on HN.

I will not discuss politics on HN.

One of my personal guidance statements (I hate resolutions) for this year in order to (a) keep the off-topic noise down and, (b) not engage in debates that are often pointless, can be offensive and end-up not helping anyone or fixing anything.

I am trying hard to stick to this. So far, so good. Although temptation is sometimes great. Almost caved-in a couple of times.

I rather be far more constructive and focus on tech.
> They may not be trying to keep everyone out

Which was exactly my point. That's why your original comment about "that laptop should've been discovered within 15 minutes" doesn't make sense.

Their network model deliberately doesn't care about an extra random laptop, until somebody complains.
This is brilliant! Now why didn't I think of that :)

Small comment: It's probably just me but when you said "sign documents in GMail" I thought you meant you were doing some sort of email encryption/editing the email signature. Then I thought "ok this is just another random plugin for GMail". I had to watch the video and then i went "OOHHH!!".
I have similar experience. When I built my blog (Jekyll) I knew nothing about css/html so I was constantly tweaking elements in an inefficient way. Now I have finish some basic css/html books/tutorials I have much better understanding what I was doing.

When learning new things, reading a book first works best for me. You might feel slow at the beginning, but it'll pay you off in the long run.
Statistics gone wrong: $50 million. 3 years. Still no clue.
The idea that abusing people's computers to disable their businesses or gain access to confidential information should be legal because "that problem is best solved using technical means" is so hostile to my perspective that there's probably little chance of us learning anything from each other by debating it.
AppCode is $100 if you make the purchase using your own money and are not reimbursed in any way by the company. I try to keep work and personal stuff very separate and have no personal need for AppCode. $100/200 is still pretty steep for a code reformatting tool!

"If you, as an individual, are purchasing a product license using your own funds, then the personal license is right for you.

Personal licenses are not available to companies in any way or form. Transfer of personal licenses to any third party and/or reimbursement for personal license purchase by a company are prohibited by the Personal License Agreement."
Actually 1) is wrong. The issue is, in software development how good of code you write usually doesn't matter at all. Just deliver a solution that does what management wants and you win. Unless other people work on the code base, literally no one cares how well it's written. This guy was just doing arbitrage on that.
How do you pick the trend news at the backend?
Slightly off-topic: I managed to snag an invite and play around with ingress a bit and I have to say, as a game, it is pretty terrible. You have to find portals, get within a few dozen meters, and then interact with them on a cool down. If there are no portals in your area, there is literally nothing to do in it.

It looks like it was designed as an excuse for people to walk around with their GPS enabled and take pictures of "interesting" places. Which is too bad because the concept is kind of cool, but without any actual playability outside of these key locations...what's to keep me playing?
> If petitions actually worked, they'd be banned.

By this logic, if your comment was correct, your comment wouldn't exist.
So, there's Amazon Redshift (which is cloud-postgres)
https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/

and now there's Clustrix (which is cloud-mysql)
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