skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't the first time Apple do it. They've already removed Chan Elite [1] and every other 4chan's browser based on the same concern (and those were tagged as 17+ applications).

I wonder how Apple chose which apps are out, and which apps stay in.

Opera mini and Chrome are browsers, it's extremely easy to find porn with those. Yet they still are in the store.

Reddit has several subreddits for porn, and yet there are several application in the store that allow you to browse it.

This is just getting ridiculous.

[1] http://legendarysoftwarelabs.com/2012/06/13/chan-elite-is-go...
It depends more on your definition of "know." :)

Serious question: Isn't Rob originally a developer?

We outsource a lot of our development too, but outsourcing part (even if it's a large part) as a developer is very different than outsourcing all of it, or outsourcing the "core competency" of your product/business, or outsourcing all the code from day 1. Which I still find sketchy and predict will land a person in trouble if they are unable to work on their own product, just as I describe in the transcript!

As for Jason, I didn't know that, that's great. He does write that 40 promised, but only "20 actually did before launch." What I meant, in my terse way, was "presales to fund the development," which is what I understood Nathan to mean because of his only-$5k budget. Jason had some proof of concept in 20 people but that probably paid for just about nothing :) Or… he was able to get a significant pre-sale $$$ by reaching larger, institutional clients with his connections and track record! Which isn't something a bootstrapper starting out should count on.

Thanks for clarifying!
I've actually written a search crawler for clinicaltrials.gov. Their XML format is fairly convenient for parsing. I never thought for mining those types of data-points though. I suppose you could look at the study completion status and whether results are posted or not http://www.clinicaltrialweb.com
I'm from Germany, and whenever I have US friends over, they're aghast when they see our newspapers or magazines or TV ads, where nude bodies are nothing special and nobody cares if a kids sees boobs.

On the other hand, violent media, like gore, or blood depiction, is explicitly forbidden. In games that were to be sold for minors, the publishers usually color the blood blue before releasing it on the German market.

I tend to think that we're more open with the creation of life (nude, sexual intercourse) versus of the destruction of life (killing, gore, blood). While it is exactly the opposite in the US. I've never understood that, especially given that the us is so religious - isn't religion all about cherishing and praising life instead of death?
I was just clarifying that not all of the work that goes into the journal is a cost for paid-for journals. I'm not claiming that there are no costs.
We're pragmatic about FRP and also rely heavily on Backbone. For some cases, the MVC approach seems better, for others Bacon is a better fit.

In Flowdock, there is a form that automatically validates parts of the data in JS while needs to confirm other parts with server. During server-side validation, a loading indicator is shown and success enables the submit button. Using Bacon, it has been easier to focus on the logic instead of handling state. But the logic is quickly quite hairy, indeed.

Japsu pointed out that there is a TodoMVC implementation with Bacon and Backbone, but it'd certainly be interesting to see/do a pure-FRP implementation.
That I will gladly concede, so long as that expectation is communicated as a condition of the funding.
great job segment.io team!
Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Signed and donated.

This is a great effort, and I suggest others help out as well. The amount of fake trials and hidden experiment data that pharmas participate in is absurd. I can't recall the exact incident ('carbocation probably will) but within the last decade there was a rather large scandal where a particular drug was known to have a fatal side effect -- suicidal ideation, I believe [wrong, valvular heart damage - see below] -- and more than 90% of the trial data that pointed to said effect was hidden and concealed. The drug hit the market and was later pulled off the shelves because, you guessed it, people started dying! While I don't believe the reporting of all trials will fix that level of deceit, it's certainly a great step in the right direction. Pushing for public reporting of data concerning meds that people might eventually put into their bodies only makes sense.

Next up: Abolishing sponsored research clinical trials, or at least increasing the transparency of research sponsorship instead of burying the fact that the research PI is actually an employee of Pfizer somewhere deep in the appendices.

It's amazing how we have organizations like Consumer Reports to give us objective reviews of toasters and cars, yet nothing like that exists for medications or medical devices, isn't it?

Edit: So I'm confusing 2 things:

1) Fen-phen was a diet pill pushed to market despite evidence that it caused valvular heart damage. It was pulled from the market. Read: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/prescription/h...

2) SSRIs were the drugs that increase suicidality (something commonly known now) and the data confirming that was reportedly hidden by pharmas. Read: http://reason.com/archives/2007/07/10/can-caution-be-too-ris...
I think if you try a bit more (considering you have experience building Android apps), you can get similar setup which pays too. So I will suggest try other places.

There should be only and only one reason for you to do that unpaid internship, that is if you are going to learn something very unique which you will not learn anywhere else even if its paying a lot.
The position:fixed reference was a typo. Good catch!
Unless you are a real developer that has to write app supporting 4 databases. And you discover that simplest and most common use cases like implementing paginated query results work radically different in each DB and sometimes it's like "oh, you really want to limit result set from 100K-row query and view it piece-by-piece and not all at once? We didn't think about it..."
This is good in my opinion. The more the rejection, the more the developers will tend to flee away from arrogant Marketplaces like that of Apple's. It will also, in a way, probably force developers to try out other marketplaces like the Windows Phone Marketplace and the Google Play store.

Now, I do understand 500px is trying to create a uni-platform experience for its users, but now that 500px isn't allowed to publish their app, I'm sure it's only a positive sign for other market places. More and more developers will start (slowly, but surely) to neglect Apple's Appstore by default due to the fear of the ridiculous approval process and the uncertainty that their development efforts for the iOS platform may go a waste, because they have seen the history of popular apps like 500px and others.

There is a very thin line of difference between being an elitist and being a d*ck. Apple is making it clear to everyone that they are the latter.
Vim Touch
@mumrah thank you for the correction. you were right. I apologize for missing important points like the two things you mentioned.
Logging using Backbone.Events
Dell Said to Near Buyout as Microsoft Talks Deal Financing
Does apple restrict html5 mobile sites in safari? Seems like the best bet is to build as much in the website and use the app if certain native functionality is needed ...
Clustrix says it provides repeatable-read because it complies with the ANSI spec. In truth we actually provide something closer to snapshot-isolation by default. Snapshot isolation in summary is a guarantee that all reads made in a transaction will see a consistent state of the database. A transaction will only fail to commit if there is a conflict of two updates. This is a strong isolation level that does have a set of anomalies but most companies don't care about them. Microsoft put out a great paper about snapshot-isolation: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69541/tr-95-51.pdf

As the post points out, weaker isolation levels allow for more concurrency which translates to more scalability, which is why we chose our isolation level.
Stop the madness.

"While working on our new developer portal a UI bug led me to my new favorite interview question:"

...

"Questions like the sticky footer riddle tend to reveal great engineers. Great engineers understand that simple questions often have surprisingly complex answers. More importantly, a great engineer is not afraid to say they don’t know the answer."

What are the limits of the modern misnomer "engineer"?
Interview questions should test the thinking ability of the candidate. You should be looking to see how they solve problems. This is mindless trivia, the answer should be "by googling".
Can people submit more pictures? I lived there from 1990 and took a lot of shots (mostly on film bef 2000, and mostly in storage right now)
You write "on the contrary", but your statement didn't actually contradict the parent.

Yes, Cryonics is speculation - no one claims otherwise. But you're also speculating in saying that it will never work, which is what I understood from your statement.

You're very likely right. But the upside of Cryonics actually working would be worth a lot to most people, if they'd stop to think about it, and afaik might very well make a sensible investment.
I would rather say that US cities are broken because of design, not for lack of it. Sure, standardizing signs, and requiring access to parks are top-down design. But nearly all beautiful European cities weren't planned, they have evolved. With individuals adding, and replacing homes and buildings over the centuries in such a way that footpaths were not blocked, and people could go from A to B easily, even if that meant that roads would not be at straight angles, wide, or at fixed intervals.

Besides the ubiquitous grid-pattern in the US, other regulation such as zoning, maximum building heights, plot-sizes, and parking lots, only made things worse.

(of course there is a lot of regulation now in Europe, and there even was some historically, and due to scale increase the market likely would not be able to build beautiful cities anymore (and I am normally quite skeptical of the unbound market) but in this case it might actually have worked at some time)

Pining for a European-style urban environment was one of the reasons I left California and went back to the 'good old UK'.
Which in the larger scheme of things is a moronic position because the same device they are trying to keep pristine and pure through their app store can be used to see dirty things through the Web. We know what Apple has always been responded to these arguments with - what we are pointing out is that is that it is extremely douche-y to take such a position.
So Apple wants to compete in this space, and 500px is an active threat. The wonders of a closed ecosystem.
MIT hacked in the name of Aaron Swartz
Well, if you can afford it and want to move to California anyway the internship could be an excuse to do it. But never, ever trust anyone who asks you to work for free. It doesn't matter who they are or what they're promising, don't fucking trust them.
Logging for fun and profit
It's funny how things have progressed, isn't it?

For relatively little $$$, one can have hundreds of gigabytes of professional samples in VSTi plugins, and be able to render playback so good it would fool almost all listeners into thinking it was an actual, real, room miced recording.

All in the end still essentially driven by Midi.
I got a Korg X5 around '95 and clocked a lot of time using it for composing. (Poorly, but nonetheless.)

But a fun bonus was hooking it up to video games that supported putting out music in General MIDI.

In an era where everybody was listening to Adlib FM on their Tie Fighter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puvD_FDS_jE

I was listening to something more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajz-m0qIDCk

Although I think my X5 actually sounded even better. (I always thought the violin and viola were a bit tinny, but the cello was fantastic, and the bass not too bad. And the choir sounded better in the lower register than that recording, though you'd still never mistake it for a real choir.)

I also recall the Day of the Tentacle theme desperately needed a good clarinet sound to sound really good. I often though the theme must have been composed on the 05/W that the X5 had the same sound set as, because it sounded that good. Alas, no Youtube love here. (Closest is the MT-32 recording, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQeQzeVmN5w , but that is way worse than the X5 rendering.)
> There is no moral justification for the wholesale distribution and publication of material relating to other people's private lives and affairs.

Should state recognized marriage be considered something that is considered private? If you want public recognition of your marriage it makes sense that it isn't private.
Don't put all the blame on Oracle. Follow the money:

Oracle distributes Ask Toolbar
Ask Toolbar drives searches to Ask.com
Ask.com displays ads from its parent, IAC
IAC is the largest third-party distributor of Google ads
We have read it. And the argument is a very substantial. If you are funded by pretty much every tax paying person, you have a duty to prioritize efforts that will benefit the majority, or ideally all, of these people. If you can't do two at a time, you have to pick the one with the majority of users.

As simple as that.
It isn't a failing of the free market. It's a failing of zoning regulations which are decidedly not a free market institution. Developers would be happy to be build more walkable communities but zoning regulations like minimum setback, minimum lot size, parking requirements and the rest force them to build low density suburb neighborhoods. People choose the government they get (generally), and many people have a NIMBY attitude towards increased density, thus they seek out such communities.
I don't really need or want to use multiple analytics services, at the moment. I currently use frontend analytics with mixpanel to track funnels and whatnot. What is the benefit to instrumenting backend code over frontend?
Writing Testable Frontend Javascript – Anti-patterns and their fixes
We were called by Apple to let us know; they specifically told us to completely block even artistic nudes. Although I'm not sure of their stance on photos of Michaelangelo's David (see: http://500px.com/photo/765271). I'll have to get someone on the phone over there.

(NSFA warning: Nipples)
Stanford Vs MIT

When MIT makes education widely available you get "open courseware" notes and unstructured videos.

When Stanford makes education widely available you get coursra and udacity.

When MIT is presented with Aaron Swartz you get unfair prosecution.

When Stanford is presented with Aaron Swartz you get PACER.

Hmm.
Product Strategy in an Indigenous Community in Bolivia
Ben Goldacre has a new book out, Bad Pharma. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/17/bad-pharma-ben-g...

"His tales of drug companies buying the opinion of doctors is not the most alarming of his revelations. Goldacre sets out clearly what is wrong with the way drugs get on to the market.

New drugs are tested by the companies that make them, often in trials designed to make the drug look good, which are then written up and published in medical journals. Unless, that is, the company doesn't like the result of the trial (maybe it shows the drug not working or having severe side-effects), in which case this result might be hidden.

Regulators should have all the data on a drug's effects but they often don't share it, so researchers can't study the data. The book gives examples of regulatory bodies handing over page after page containing blacked-out results to academics trying to collect data from unpublished trials, the excuse for non-disclosure being commercial sensitivity.

Companies pay doctors to extol the virtues of their drugs on the conference circuit (spelling out the sources of information they want doctors to use) and fund patient groups to lobby regulators to approve new drugs."
> I wonder how Apple chose which apps are out, and which apps stay in.

If the process is in any way similar to the review process then it's just about luck. If you're lucky you get a reviewer who isn't too strict about the rules and lets your app through. If you're not so lucky you get one who will apply the rules like a robot.
I hate weekly status reports. Anyone else? or is it just me.

I am not saying anything negative about weekdone in specific.

Its just that I hate weekly reports or meetings where weekly reports are being collected.
Wearable technology: A jacket to create music with movements.
> More and more developers will start (slowly, but surely) to neglect Apple's Appstore by default due to the fear of the ridiculous approval process and the uncertainty that their development efforts for the iOS platform may go a waste, because they have seen the history of popular apps like 500px and others.

I really hope this happens, but it seems so far that people are more than happy to put up with Apple's draconian App Store policies. We're not even talking about equal treatment - iOS apps continue to come out before Android apps, and Windows Phone apps often aren't even made.
Type-inference doesn't provide anything related to parallel maps, though Haskell's type system can verify that they're safe. Switching an arbitrary loop to a parallel one in C#, Scala, Java, whatever, is certainly a crapshoot.

The real benefit to purity and laziness (imo) is the STM. The type system (and pure functions) allow rerunning transactions arbitrarily without worry about side effects, and laziness by default minimizes lock contention by deferring most code execution outside of the transaction block. Joe Duffy has a pretty good writeup a few years ago outlining the difficulty of writing an STM for languages without such guarantees, it's definitely worth a read: http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/01/03/ABriefRetros...
I hate flossing. My teeth are packed tightly together. Getting the floss between them is tough so I tend not to do it I have to.

I recently picked up a waterpik off of Amazon for about $40. It's essentially a water pressure based flossing system. I love it! It's easy to use and gets those spaces that are hard to reach with floss.

If you struggle with flossing like me, I recommend taking a look. I've been very happy with the results so far.
this made me laugh pretty good. thanks!
To provide evidence:
Posts about startups in NYC like Branch, buzzfeed, etsy, etc. are routinely ignored in favor of: "Next giant pictures of cats on the internet in SF startup"

As an example I recently saw this article posted: http://qz.com/45728/new-york-is-now-a-better-place-to-start-...

Now I can't even find the post anymore.

I see lots of posts about hackNY get flagged with no comments on why they were flagged?

It's just an odd phenomenon.
Has LinkedIn Lost its Edge?
Non-Profit vs Social Venture?
One feature addition that would be revolutionary (IMHO) would be to allow blog authors to embed an audio version of the story, in their own voice, using a custom HTML5 tag. Then, when you parse their page, use the supplied audio instead of TTS. Then, in conjunction with this, give preference to stories with supplied audio, so an HN page 3 story gets promoted to a top story on your radio app, as reward for the effort of supplying the audio.
Interesting. Is it Fedena? http://www.fedena.com/
You Need These 3 Things To Create a Successful Startup
Uh oh, watch out Tumblr.
Student expeled after he discovers security vulnerability
I'm still confused though, since the linked jsFiddle uses position:absolute. Clearly that would never work - That's pretty basic html/css wisdom. I would expect position:fixed to do work though, although your post suggest that that might not be the case on all platforms. I guess I wouldn't realise that until I began testing on a broader range of devices than the normal development stack holds.
This has to be one of the worst interview questions I've ever heard. It's mindless trivia and basically slices people into two groups: people who have had to do this before and people who haven't.
I could be mistaken, but I seem to recall an add-on in the Java installer during Sun's ownership. I don't think it was the Ask toolbar, but something else. I was out of Sun before that, but that's when I knew the "near-paradise" was over and Sun was circling the drain. Where's fuckedcompany.com when you need it.
Meet Shadow DOM – a New Kid in Town
Why doesn't the Bing app have to adhere to these same restrictions?
Like I said, I predict it will be a very slow change. You know how MySpace was once THE Social Network to be on, and when you weren't there, you would be looked down upon? Now, despite an epic re-design, nobody even talks about it, except for examples like these, perhaps. It could be the same case for Apple's Appstore, assuming they continue this painful trend of pissing off developers.
I don't know, i like the usual workflow in gmail.
The is "important and unread" (my priority todo), "starred" (my todo or remember some stuff list) and "everything else".
Why would i need to do so much processing as this guy suggests?!

I don't care for the large "everything else" list, it's just the latest stuff i got for a quick look, that's ok.
The first two lists are far more important and always contain only a few items that are worked through.

So in the end i guess everyone has his own best workflow but i also think that the gmail team did a pretty good job with the current design.

Hint: the only thing i really hated was the "comfortable" design theme that became the new default.. Luckily it's just a click away to get to the "compact" version, much much much better!
If, by CEO...
Tell me this, do you think public domain documents available through PACER today should, as a matter of principle, be available free of charge? And if not, why not?
It kind of works that way. The developers have to get their units approved by the city, which itself has a master plan of the type of growth/urban mix they'd like. The city government is making that decision to allow subdivision blooms at the city edge.

If the city is content with being a bedroom community, they'll allow developers to build anything. However, if the city wants to encourage more downtown or walkability, they'll only approve projects that offer wider sidewalks, business downstairs/lofts upstairs. Or they'll provide incentives to encourage this kind of growth.

My fathers civil engineering company is working with a small town on their 15-20 year master plan. You can see how they've blended their community values into the kind of development they want to attract (Shandon, CA):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/47280427/Shandon-Community-Plan-Up...

"In order to achieve a compact urban form, the Community Plan encourages floor area ratios consistent with those found in small downtowns rather than in suburban settings."

"The neighborhood commercial areas are intended to serve a neighborhood’s daily retail needs. Uses typically found within these areas include markets, restaurants, cafés/delis,bakeries, ice cream parlors, pharmacies, laundromats, barbershops, hair salons, hardwarestores, gas stations, banks, offices, and other similar uses generally serving nearby residential areas."
I always thought Mixel was an interesting, useful app and, in some ways, more useful than Instagram. The big question is how much they were acquired for.
People build on this pile of sand because "Apple can do no wrong" and "Everyone uses iOS products because they are soooooooo popular and hip" plus "Everyone else ripped off Apple, might as well develop for the original" and other logical fallacies Apple markets to developers.