skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Curious how this any different than uploading your photos to Facebook...

Technically it's not: app developers are using another service to handle file storage. However, the difference lies in the promise from app.net that they won't arbitrarily shut off your app because they feel like it or because it somehow competes with their own service. Facebook has introduced fear into their developer ecosystem that they can't be trusted to build a popular product on top of. App.net is saying, "you can trust us, we are an infrastructure company..." like Amazon.

> Specifically, how's that make my content portable?

I suppose it doesn't. Any file storage service has some amount of lock-in, but people can create tools to import/export data to and from different services. Unless you have all of your data stored locally on harddrives in your house, you will have to use some service and trust their level of non-evilness.

OpenPhoto offers S3, Dropbox, and local storage out of the box (which is awesome), but even if I want to switch storage providers, I'm going to incur a switching cost (mostly paid with time to export/import).
Different in that app.net is supposed to be fully accessible and is more "yours" then it is on Facebook.
I wouldn't hold your breath. They've never replied to me on any of the times I've filled in a complaint form.
There's an old joke that the word "Ubuntu" is the Swahili for "Can't install Debian".

Ubuntu is aimed at beginners and people that don't want to fiddle around (too much). Earlier distros were very very good and very useable compared to others, so they attracted a lot of users. When Vista came out there was an influx of Linux newbies.

At some point Canonical decided they needed to make money from Ubuntu, so deals like the Amazon search come in. Obviously they're still aiming for the goal they were originally looking for (an easy to use distro for people to switch to) but their actions are alienating some of the more technical users who wanted a quieter life compared to other distros.

Unless something changes to retain the more tech savvy users (and those users that have grown to be more tech savvy because of Ubuntu's low barrier to entry) I wouldn't be surprised if we see a brain drain in the Ubuntu community as the more technical flee to Arch, Debian and Mint.
I don't think OP said they are easy majors. Rather that graduating with a degree in those fields doesn't leave you very employable.
Agreed. It doesn't fit in with the metaphor of the flying apparatuses (unless you are expecting Mary Poppins to sign up). I think a paper airplane would be a better placeholder, but that's the two cents of a non-designer.
I live in Michigan and wife's cousin's husband (still with me here?) was the first in Michigan to get a Model S. I've had the privilege to ride in it and it's an amazing piece of engineering. No detail was overlooked and I truly felt like I was riding in the future.

Everything from the LCD center panel to the door handles popping out when you get close to them--just fucking amazing. I'm a huge supporter of Tesla and everything Musk is doing--crossing my fingers that they can stay viable.
How does it determine whether someone is male from such a long distance?
Maybe he worked in the London porn industry, and any shirt is over-dressed.
Apple Releases iOS 6.1 with New LTE Carriers and Fandango Siri Integration
Uh, hello!? Blekko is a web scale search engine that is built using Perl.

It's not the language that makes handling big data slow. It's the algorithms and how you move the bits around.
Paul Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity [2009]
Great idea! One UX suggestion, after logging in it would be useful if I didn't have click the "Get Started" button again.
[Show HN]: Test your arithmetic against other HNers with my first Socket.IO app
I created this game for my game dev course at Auburn University. The game was created using nothing but open source technologies and is available on Github --> http://github.com/CoryG89/Get24
Quepy: transform natural language questions to queries in a DB.
4 Signs You Will Fail as a Leader
Always Be Testing
Check out https://readthedocs.org/ which is directly related to writethedocs.org. Here's a bit more instruction on how they're building up a repository of these docs: https://docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
On average that's around 11.6 requests per second. That's about 500 million CPU cycles per request on single low end CPU. Of course DDG probably isn't CPU bound, but it does give an indication that 11 requests per second is not a lot relative to the raw power of modern hardware.
Gumroad Stories: Two Scoops of Django
WhatsApp violates privacy laws over phone numbers: report
Thanks. Is there a firewall level rule we can use to block requests (in addition to updating rails itself). We have a ton of apps to update, so a catchall rule would be very helpful.
I created this game for my game dev course at Auburn University. The game was created using nothing but open source technologies and is available on Github --> http://github.com/CoryG89/Get24
As I haven't seen an App.net thread on HN for a while, and i've never really "stumbled" across app.net status updates or mentions, a question to its users: how's it been? Has the community and ecosystem grown? Do you plan to maintain your subscription for the foreseeable future? Do you see value in maintaining a corporate presence on the service?
He didn't respond to my e-mail about if its planned in the future but we'll see if he gets back to me
There is certainly a weakness in the way that games implement the Wii remote pointer. Since there isn't a direct connection to the screen, the options are either to have a calibration step, or to either use a cursor/reticule and let the player's brain compensate for the discrepancy. Everyone opts for the latter because having to calibrate pisses users off and is probably why the Super Scope failed. FPSes opt for a variant which treats the remote like a mouse on a PC FPS, and this is arguably the most immersive option.

The cursor technique is where you see lag. There really isn't much lag in terms of processing angle of the remote. But in order for the cursor to be usable, it needs to have continuity of motion. Smoothing its position as it moves around on screen introduces a delay, and that's why it feels laggy.

But in principle, there's no reason that a game couldn't have a calibrated mode that would act just like an old light gun. Players would just hate it.
What are "20K feet" in meters?
If you really paid attention and grokked the problems with the taxi business on a fundamental level, you might be in a position to launch a competitor for Uber.

But yeah, unlikely.
Show HN: Our first app - Hitpoints for real life games
1 million searches per day is not really that much. If evenly distributed, it's only 11.6 searches per second.
I'm the king of using ambiguous terminology (I wish I were clever enough to be ambiguous right now).
on iPad the "Stack Overflow Questions" section flows down below to "Top Answerers" section.
With such overwhelming evidence that a degree does not make for a good investment in most cases, and enrolment rates only increasing, there must be something else attracting people. My hunch is that people want to look important. Similarly, taking out a massive loan to drive a brand new BMW doesn't make financial sense either, but lots of people still do it because it shapes their image.
HN is helping Davids against Goliaths and I consider it a very good thing.
> Of course, if the rails community responds quite rapidly, the return-on-effort for the black hats drops substantially. (hint hint)

Well, not quite. In security there's a fundamental imbalance between attackers and defenders: a defender needs to find every bug, where an attacker only needs to find one. At the end of the day, if it's a platform that's worth attacking, attackers will always have the upper hand. This is why finding and fixing individual bugs is not nearly as effective as eliminating whole classes of bugs; of course, it's much cheaper to do.

Rails has been pretty good on the whole, in terms of security. Given the size and wide distribution of the platform, it's held up impressively well. Of course, the last couple bugs have marred that a bit, and there are definitely places where Rails apps have traditionally failed badly (e.g. mass assignment).
The Trouble with Boeing’s 787
Very enlightening! I am building a single-page application, was one of the "unaware" that will definitely be much more mindful of this now. Thank you!
On a second thought, however, this line of thinking overlooked a major problem in real life -- that most of the fear comes from unknown.

By acknowledging that you do not know enough about a problem, the natural next step is to do more research, which causes you to, well, research more and do less.

On the other hand, a lot of successful entrepreneurs just embrace their ignorance and go for it, they end up failing or succeeding much more quickly.
not to mention the health concerns of going around randomly Xray-ing people... "A cancer for you.. and a cancer for you.. "
I've seen a lot of Lotuses which look exactly like a Tesla roadsters (since they have the same frame). I don't drive down the 280 much though, so maybe that's my problem. I imagine there are quite a few more lower in the Peninsula where people aren't afraid of dinging their cars.
I'm only mentioning OpenPhoto for philosophical reasons as I think these two services solve entirely different problems.

We support S3, Dropbox, CX, Box.com, DreamObjects and local file system. Two of which were contributed by the community. The point being, this list isn't controlled by any single person or entitiy.

> However, the difference lies in the promise from app.net that they won't arbitrarily shut off your app because they feel like it or because it somehow competes with their own service.

Perhaps I'm in the minority that doesn't trust promises of a company with valuable data (photos, for me). If it's not valuable data then why care at all (my tweets).

> I'm going to incur a switching cost

For hosted accounts we provide a migration option. All your photos are seamlessly moved from Dropbox to S3 and all your links and mobile apps work as they always have. http://i.imgur.com/wWUc5uA.png

That being said, someone should write an App.net file system adapter for OpenPhoto :).
Reading this makes me stop and think - I would not be willing to "give up everything else in my life" to start a company.

That said, good luck to you and I hope you find something worthwhile to apply your talents to.
Founder Dialogues IX featuring Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot [video]
Pebble smartwatch review
Long time ago, i switched to Ubuntu when it arrived.
Besides drivers, i still wouldn't want to fiddle around with unstable repos, apt pinning and those long release cycles on my desktop. Nowadays you get PPAs for most stuff you need, that's nice, too. So there is still some additional value that Ubuntu provides. If not that then the arguably larger "Desktop community". Launchpad is a nice-to-have platform as well, in my opinion.
We're also trying to build a resource around this kind of information on docs.writethedocs.org. It just launched today as part of this, and is half baked. However, this is the start of that doc: http://docs.writethedocs.org/en/latest/starting.html

It isn't so much about how to write documentation, but adding that section is something we want to do.

We also have a section currently linked to a couple of interesting projects: http://docs.writethedocs.org/en/latest/about/alternatives.ht...
> is supposed to be

That's my point.
Then that's an interesting statistic in its own right: propaganda is the central debate in such cases. (It's not confusion, by definition.) If it were originally submitted to HN verbatim, with the word "terrorist," I would actually expect more of the focus of the debate to be on that reporting detail.
This is not a bug in the library, it is a browsers security feature. Audio files can only be played from the same domain that you are trying to play them from because an XHR request is used to fetch the audio file.
A Look Into Japan’s Burgeoning Android, iOS App Economy
Founders to be, take note: I worked with Jeff and David for a little over a month last year. The thing that stuck with me most wasn't their app (which is awesome by the way) but rather the way they treated me and every other team member. They were kind, gracious, wicked smart, and extraordinarily driven. They were always open to new ideas but never afraid to say "no".

If you're trying to figure out what type of founder to be, borrow generously from these guys.
Ah, no. Ghostery has its own problems, stemming from who wrote it.
Pharōkh Balsārā‌
If you can do it well, that's quite a talent!
... like socialist countries? In this case it's definitely not "no cost"; people pay for these with high tax rates.
He doesn't need to "buy" anyone's legitimacy, and he's not just famous. Do your research.

He's Marc fucking Andreessen. He founded Netscape Communications, which he took public and then sold to AOL for $4.2B in 1999, becoming AOL's CTO. Then he founded Loudcloud, which went public in 2001, later being acquired by HP for $1.6B.

He's now a founding partner of one of the most prestigious software-oriented venture capital firms, Andreessen-Horowitz. Their investment portfolio includes Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Pinterest, and GitHub.

I'd say if any single person is equipped to understand the ebb and flow of the software industry as it relates to the financial markets, it'd be him.
sheer curiosity, where _is_ that you live?
Piggybacking on your question: isn't Tent.io a better answer to concerns about Twitter's control of its ecosystem?
"Jobs": That’s the Steve I knew
WhatsApp Violates Privacy Laws
From what we know, they do. The car actually VPNs into Tesla HQ to download updates. As such, we don't know what happens after that, but the fact that they've gone to the level of setting up a Car<->Manufacturer VPN suggests that they do more beyond that.
It seems as though a lot of App Store features can be quite political. Everything is oriented around US front page position -- it can bring in ~10K downloads a day in the US without much marketing.

In order to endorse content like that however, Apple wants to know that the app can handle the traffic and the server costs. If they know you are a big company, or even a funded startup, it plays a role in the selection process.
How round is your circle?
Citations: Pandoc has its own format for citations that it translates to LaTeX etc as needed. Most Markdown editors I have seen or used don't have any support for pandoc's extended features. So while I am sure this could be possible with work on Emacs (or vim, or whatever) I'm not aware of anything that does what you do out of the box. Personally, I am writing in Byword (with some tweaks in macvim as necessary) and storing/looking up citations in BibDesk.

Same deal with preview-latex - you can include LaTeX directly in pandoc documents, but no editor I know of will do previews of it for you. I do think that is an awesome feature though.

Overall I think the audience for Markdown is people who don't want to get down in the weeds with, say, LaTeX and Emacs like you do. Thus, the feature set for Markdown-focused editors is still fairly simple. Pandoc is useful because it lets you add a layer of complexity on top of your Markdown as necessary (through templates) and get it into different formats easily. (The same can probably be said for other Markdown systems like MultiMarkdown but I like Pandoc) I have managed to set up my workflow to get Pandoc-flavored markdown into an apa6 LaTeX template without any significant issues, due to pandoc being fairly flexible, but it's not quite at WYSIWYG-style writing just yet.
You can turn everything uncomfortable, or nothing at all, it's up to the one using the name, not the name itself.
Ulrich Drepper? Is that you?

There are valid reasons not to use strlcpy, but we need something like it. What we do not need is this _s shit, which has all the same problems (which sometimes matter, and sometimes don't) WHILE BEING MASSIVELY HARDER TO USE. And what's the advantage? Just that it returns an errno. That's fine, but what about the rest of it? Just read the instructions for it - it's crap! (I can imagine why they think they want it to work this way, because it gives you a fighting chance again non-0-terminated source strings, but it's just never going to work properly if you've only got one size argument.)

Using strlcpy, by contrast, is simplicity itself.

About 99% of the time when you're using strlcpy (and strlcat), you can just do your calls, passing the same size value into each one (how convenient), then check the length of the result using strlen. Is it one less than the size of the buffer? Yes? Then assume there's an overflow, and disregard the result, assuming you even care about that. This is very straightforward to do, and (unlike this _s junk) doesn't require you to go updating counts or checking maximum values or any of that error-prone nonsense. Just one check at the end, rather than a bunch of updates and stuff scattered all through your string code.

strlcpy! Just say yes!
:\ you are joking right! did you read the policy? i'll quote "If your profile is suspended, you will not be able to make full use of Google services that require an active profile such as Google+, Reader and Picasa. This will not prevent you from using other Google services, like Gmail. Your profile can be restored by editing your name and submitting an appeal that will be reviewed by our team, as directed by on-screen instructions."

soooo nothing has changed! if they dont like your name or if you dont have a good enough proof bye bye!!! im not spreading misinformation, my coment is still pretty much valid, there is still to this day a chance that by signing up to Google+ that they will suspend your account!
A rather extraordinary play in Basketball[Funny] 
UNBELIEVABLE! A Russian basketball coach has the assist of the year as his team score a three pointer

Monday, January 28th, 2013
This ridiculous footage comes from the Russian basketball league on Sunday, in the match between Unics Kazan v Spartak Vladivostok, where Unics' coach Gundars Vetra claimed this crazy assist.

"The best" pass in the history of PBL
The other problem with quickly making new models is repairs.

Yes! Yes! Yes! As someone who has owned 30yo motorcycles that went out of production 30 years ago, and also 30yo motorcycles that are still in production, the difference is tremendous.

Vehicles that have been around for a while have superb parts availability, and a community often develops with a large amount of very specific know-how. Those of you who have not wrenched on vehicles may not realize this, but sometimes the community can be even more valuable than any other feature of the vehicle.
Of the languages that I possess more than just a passing understanding, I'd have to say: CoffeeScript, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and C#.
Any reason they can't just route the current generated when battery is full to a big resistor/heatsink?

That would seem to avoid the problem of changing braking dynamics, and potentially save wear on friction brake components (pads, discs, etc)...
Just curious, to the people buying these up: are you buying on speculation or are you going to be designing an app based on the domain name? Or is there another reason?
Yes, but ....

There is a demographic issue there as well: The gamer population on the verge of swapping windows for linux due to game availibility, might be getting through life changes that will reduce their impact as a customer base, although they purchase power might have substantively grown with them. The best bet would be for a video game console base on a linux distribution to serve those linux games, that would not have a entry tax to get published as opposed to the current competition in this market.

Demand seems to always drives supply in this electronic economy (not based on any studies or scientific process; more like an observation).

Just 2 cents.
Let me speak in App.net's defense and say that I'm really enjoying the service. I know that's not really a popular opinion around here, but there it is.

Yes it has a stupid name, yes it has fewer users than twitter/facebook, and yes it's hard to articulate to your non-tech friends why they should spend $36/year on this. But it's becoming a pretty positive place to hang out, and most of the people I care about listening to are there.

In practical terms, this file API means that if you want to post a picture you don't have to use yet another here-today-gone-tomorrow photo sharing service with no revenue model, which I would hope means there's a better chance of your photos sticking around permanently (or at least as permanently as anything ever gets on the web).
It's not going great judging by this list of new users per day.. http://appnetizens.com/nupd

"Turns out App.net currently has approximately 20,000 users, of which a small minority seemingly dominates the conversation: Basch estimates that 250 users (1.25 percent) have so far accounted for half the posts."
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/09/07/off-slow-start-...

So once every 3-4 days a new active user is born..
Bead store
A Russian Gains Prominence Among Fine Watchmakers
Bonfire: flexible Backbone/Firebase connector
Ask HN:Where can I find software I can resell outside the US?
These devices, as best I can tell, actually don't come with a radiation risk. They're passive scanners, meaning they don't emit their own radiation.

TSA scanners on the other hand... ;)
Godel Incompleteness for Startups
How so? Do you mind giving an example of a printf like function that needs variable length arrays?
Darpa Builds A 1.8-Gigapixel Camera (Six-Inch Targets From 20,000 Feet)
http://backbonejs.org/#Collection-create
It is shown immediately, but you can change this behaviour by passing {wait: true}.

You can listen to the collection event "error" to display error messages.

Regarding MVC I don't really know. Everyone seems to have their own definition of what MVC should be.
It doesn't apply to the UK. If you're sick, be sick. You'll be paid, too.

A few caveats:

1. The above is for permanent positions. If you're a contractor the rules are different.

2. The above is true once you're through probation, which might be the first six months.

3. I have no idea what it's like in startups. I've only ever worked for big companies or the government.

But in general, sick leave is a benefit like a company car or flexible working. If it's in your contract, no one will mind you using it.

A point about holiday leave, too. In the UK, it's usual to take holidays. Everyone does, and then we talk about them in the office afterwards. It's considered part of being a rounded human being. Most holiday entitlements don't roll over, either, so if you don't use your 30 days (for example), you lose the remainder. This means there's a bit of a scramble to get them used up before rollover day. Everyone does this, and you'll be looked upon as a bit peculiar if you don't use the holidays you're entitled to.