skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing I like about enterprise software and selling to enterprises is that you can build big, sticky revenue flows. You're usually dealing with pretty meaty technical and organizational problems, which can be fun. And in the right circumstances, the customers will fund or subsidize your development efforts, which can make your investment go farther.

The tradeoff is it's less sexy. Sales cycles are long. The tools you build need to be robust.
Yes, I know all of that but weighed against the new social graph search and (what appears to me) to be a disingenuous and constantly shifting privacy policy, it isn't much.
This is absolutely fine with me. It's about time.
How the Lean Startup idea went from idiotic to overhyped
This week must have iOS Apps
Right, I was commenting on this:

"As others have pointed out, the safest way to protest a speech code that bans certain slurs against protected groups is to attack your own group. Rabois standing around using anti-gay slurs can easily prove that he's actually protesting the speech code by saying "look, I'm not homophobic, I'm actually gay myself.""

Also, if he were a closeted homosexual it would make sense as to why he didn't tell Square about the relationship.
Stair Racing, a Sport to Make an Ironman Whimper
> And yet, that's what the law said.

It wasn't the law[1] but rather a contractual restriction on surchages. This settlement with VISA and MasterCard removes that restriction. It doesn't apply to other companies like American Express.

[1] Some states did and still do prohibit credit card surchages.
We should agree on definition of terms, what actually is enterprise? Not all B2B is enterprise, so we should draw a line somewhere. There's a lot of SME B2B solutions where the sales and marketing process is quite similar to B2C. Should we say enterprise is when you start doing direct sales?
>You can expand as much as you want. Nature will fight back like it has with adaptive viruses and the Ice Age.

Ice Age? Can you point me to the theory that shows how Earth or "Nature" is somehow an entity that performs massive climate shifts in response to too-successful lifeforms?

There is no necessary balance in nature. It's a constant struggle and what you see just might be a somewhat stable state. If an actor in that system (like humans) finds a game-theoretic superior strategy, there's no fundamental reason why they won't "win" and destroy the rest of the ecosystem and go extinct. Plenty of other species go extinct all the time. That's nature.

Anyways, I'm not saying it's fine to kill elephants at all. Indeed, I find it disgusting, and it'd be fantastic if societies could figure out ways to ensure that poaching isn't a beneficial action. But I am pointing out there's no mandatory acceptance of any axioms that would generate an obligation to "take care of the Earth", whatever that means. And there's definitely no particular reason why a human killing elephants to feed his family is somehow invalid, whereas if lions do the same thing, it's OK.
When "I care" meets "who cares"
In what way is this a business?

And how is this bigger than the stuff sold on Flippa?

This is a site with virtually zero traffic.
Techcrunch cannot be considered a reputable news source for far more reasons than that.
Conscience offsetting.
Maybe with some quick retooling, this could be both a useful and a popular app.

Before sending off the FB message, record both the desired wake up time and the actual wake up time (which would be the time that the alarm was formally turned off as opposed to snooze). Store both values (and the date) in a spreadsheet.

And then give the user a quick visualization/dashboard of how well he/she has been doing. Maybe after 7 days straight of successful wake ups, the user sends a FB message that is congratulatory. After a month, the F message contains a summary of how well he/she did.

So, in other words, provide both thhe useful analytics and the ability to over share :)
I like Oxo products, but their silicon brush is a bad product. The silicon brush is glued into the plastic handle, and it eventually falls off.
>There are a number of flawed assumptions here. The first one is that population growth is naturally unbounded, but that idea has been outdated for a long time. Population growth follows a logistic growth curve.

The curve is on an upward climb while available resources have been declining.

>Finally, yet another bad assumption you're making is that we should limit population growth through draconian measures like… well murdering people, or allowing them to die unnecessarily.

I never said murder anyone. Nature's been doing that for a very long time.

Ever been to Africa? Do you think that the tribes care about education.

If the world had enough jobs to support everyone, then Western countries would have low job rates. Maybe you should have read my replies to similar comments.
> Also there is nothing classic about "server-side" MVC : it is ridiculous and never made any sense.

Given that the server doesn't produce any HTML, I agree with you more or less. On the other hand I like a separation of apps/modules into data aquisition (pulling the data into memory, producing something digestable) and the actual (business) logic. Mixing both up can bring you into hell's kitchen if the complexity is high enough.

After all MVC is anyway only a very loose recommendation. In practice it is not possible to distinct between M, V and C 100%. Anyway, I haven't seen any other global pattern being comparatively successful.
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Thanks for your reply.

> According to Jennifer Granick the sentencing guideline (assuming trumped-up loss calculations) would have been on the order of 1-2 years. There were a couple of plea bargains on offer, the worst of which was 6-8 months.

I'm not that familiar with the US Justice process, and nothing in that sentence makes sense to me :-/

Didn't he plan to go to trial? I thought he did.

In which case would the 1-2 years have been recommended?

By "trumped up loss", do you mean that the prosecution exaggerated the loss of the MIT/JSTOR?

At last, why is the 6-8 months plea bargain offer the worse? I thought it was the best one offered...
Pretty easy to turn this into a much more useable interface and expand it if people find it useful
Small gray text on a white background, really, Apple?

http://contrastrebellion.com/
My info is limited to San Francisco, but here many smaller businesses prefer cash. The processing fees are too high to make accepting cards profitable. I see this policy mainly in smaller restaurants, coffee shops, bars, corner butcher shop, etc.
Deploying openstack by ken pepple
There is data to support this. There's a well known phenomena called summer learning loss. Some of the research suggests that the majority of the gap between rich and poor students can be explained by summer learning loss.

And remember, parents have to enroll their children in KIPP. How is that any different than rich parents sending their children to afterschool and summer programs that are commonplace? In many ways their completely identical. Except that historically poor students haven't even had the option of good afterschool and summer program.

This is a voluntary program. If you think your child will thrive outside the program then don't send them there. Analogies to enslavement don't help. And saying that a parent who sends their child to KIPP is somehow denying their child some culture, yet not calling out middle-class/upper-class children who enjoy these benefits today, seems hypocritical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_learning_loss#Vulnerable...
Ex-Officer for C.I.A. Is Sentenced in Leak Case
I see. That will be confusing to non-americans to whom a 12-hour clock is far from standard. It's also seems a bit weird to have two checkboxes (= 4 bits of information) to choose between a 12-hour and 24-hour clock (2 bits). I guess only one can be checked at a time?

That said, however, what you probably should be doing is to respect the setting in iOS: http://i.imgur.com/kMQgw3m.png
Hi Dave, yep - absolutely fine to use the free account. Let me know if you guys run into any issues or have any feedback.
In vim, the ‘new’ behaviour (skipping the target if there would be no motion) is the default, and the original vi behaviour can be selected using cpoptions; see

:help cpo-;
I must say Ghostbuster is awesome.
US host maximum number of botnet servers in the world - The Hacker News
I'm going to guess you live in the Bay. I do.
> Getting a single page app to be sensibly indexed by Google is not easy.
if the backend is done correctly it is not a problem at all , an app should be able to degrade gracefully when javascript is deactivated. if not then it useless to bring the issue of SEO, SEO is not something to be thought about after the app development.
Interesting, that's like what Pentadactyl (a vim-based plugin everyone should also use) does for links on websites, but for text in vim instead.

(And I also had to remap the default keys away from the number row ...)
I think it's partly because so many of us grew up basically hating him for the software we had to work under (and before it's brought up, no, no gun to the head, but usually there were few options and for the most part you work with what the boss tells you to work with), rightly or wrongly.

It's also partly because there are some flaws in his methods here and there and it isn't perfect. That's more of a reason stemming from a complete disconnect from how charity projects usually work. It's very rare to see any metric, useful or otherwise, nor any consideration toward "Ok, so looking at the data, is there a better approach?". Most take a kind of "field of dreams" approach and at best confirm that they're doing more good than harm and leave it at that, rather than heavily crunch into how much good it's doing or isn't doing, how well it works compared to other approaches, what could be learned and applied to future efforts including area differences, and so forth. That's terrible - just because something is better than nothing is no excuse to not attempt to optimize it. Yet it never seems to happen outside of medicine (a field used to living and dying on it's data) and even then often taking a rather naive approach and considering improvements in cases rather than a more bulk-medicine approach similar to military medicine (people are dying constantly at a high rate, so the problem isn't so much how well an individual treatment works as how well a treatment, applied shotgun over a group, works considering it's cost).
maybe have a look at secushare.org
Did anyone grab a mirror or better screenshot of the page?

UPDATE: Google Cached it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sV8dPXf...
but the amount legally permissible will be between 1.5 percent and 4 percent of your purchase price

What's the reasoning behind a legal minimum? Why prevent a 1% fee?
A number of these have to do with statistics and calculus, but really isn't pertinent to overall software development. Yes, a math background helps with certain kinds of development, but it doesn't preclude general success in software development. I'd be more interested in questions about multitasking, threads, dynamic storage options and so forth rather than what percentage of spam hits my server. That's a basic math question.
Here's a blog article that should be mentioned:

http://www.whoismcafee.com/a-clear-and-present-danger/
Thanks for explaining. I think I understand a little better now.

This Wired article also helps,

Coulton said that while his lawyers have been looking
into the copyright issue, it seems unlikely that he
will have any legal recourse. ”It seems that because of
the compulsory license I purchased when I made a cover
of this song, the arrangement itself is not protected
under copyright, although it’s the darkest gray of the
gray areas [of the law]… While there may be some weird
offshoot of the law, it doesn’t seem like something
where a little guy could sue to get any satisfaction.”

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/jonathan-coulton-glee...
It's annoying as I use credit cards ONLY for building credit and cashback. Credit cards for me are a tool, not something that costs me money. If it will cost money to use it then I'll just stop using it :(
The government has that information. This is an attack by Facebook on the idea that you control your identity, or that you can have identity outside the confines of a private company over which you have no power.
I agree with the other commenters: great idea, but needs a designer.

By the way, are you based in Chicago? I met somebody at the Chicago HN meetup last year who was talking about building this exact idea, and I loved the idea back then too. Are you that person by chance?
The article does not mention the potential impact of Roomkey:

http://www.roomkey.com/

Based on the articles that the CTO of Roomkey has written, I am under the impression that their technology is very cutting edge:

http://www.colinsteele.org/post/27929539434/60-000-growth-in...

http://www.colinsteele.org/post/23103789647/against-the-grai...

It is important to note that the big hotel chains had realized that they had fallen behind, in terms of technology, and they needed to catchup. Unable or unwilling to build the technology themselves, they acquired Roomkey (or rather, they acquired Hotelicopter and renamed it Roomkey).
Numbers and how to represent them
Do you mean the old PC distribution model with security and usability problems, but not the must be connected to a network constantly problem?

Not allowing apks via bluetooth seems like a usability issue too.
Nevermind, this law does not apply in these states:
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas.

I'm in New York, so its fine for me :)
Nice idea, but i guess that maybe the message might be a little too generic. Why not have a random message appearing every day to make it a little more fun for all your friends?

E.g.

* "Your friend John has probably been reading Hacker News all night and didn't get up on time this morning"

* "Once again, your friend Suzanne could not get herself to hit the snooze button this morning. Please post stupid comments on this post."

* "Bob is in dreamland right now instead of on his work. Please call his boss and tell him."

;)
What happens when the cops find me with a phone full of pictures of them beating people up? I can imagine they may seek to remonstrate. Perhaps add a plausible deniability true-crypty bit?
I had a similar conversation about this with a friend yesterday instead of comparing it to Instagram - he compared it to YouTube.

I believe the difference between other apps etc is instead of capturing one continuous shot, Vine allows punctuated recording. In other words you can collate a selection of a few snips of video which Vine auto-generates into a longer combined version.

Sure you can do this and upload this to YouTube etc but I haven't seen anyone execute that as well as the Vine team.

However, for it to be successful Twitter (which acquired Vine before launch) doesn't need Vine to have users.

What Twitter needs/wants with Vine is engagement on Twitter (it doesn't necessarily need engagement within Vine, if it does that a bonus) because if there's engagement brands will create Vine's - which Twitter can then monetize.

Sure the app can share to Facebook too, but Twitter's goal with that is to grab your social graph (hence find your Facebook friends which has since been blocked) which then encourages users to "follow" each other on Twitter - again helping it to monetize with advertisers.

Twitter could have done this through encouraging advertisers to create short video ads on YouTube etc instead of Vine but then there is no value for Twitter as they can't tell advertisers how many people saw the video organically or because of the ad.

That's the real goal of Vine, users are just a "bonus".
He commented in so high level that debunking his comment would miss the point. That beig said, programming languages sucks.

Maybe I'm too drunk instead of being just high (blame Italy for that [can't get properly high here]). But I really think programming languages tare way to messy to accomplish anything useful without getting in our own way. I mean, what if instead of proving a point our real goal was just to be really effective? I think that would shift the state of things a tiny bit.

But who am I beyond just a drunk programmer?
The problem will be getting everyone onto that network. Although I now understand (and value) privacy and data ownership, there was a time when I'd refuse to pay for anything if there was a free alternative.

I'm currently working on distributed systems/networks which could form the basis of a 'social graph' but there are questions about how to make it profitable (hence self-sustaining). Getting people onto a network is only part of the problem.
>Ice Age? Can you point me to the theory that shows how Earth or "Nature" is somehow an entity that performs massive climate shifts in response to too-successful lifeforms?

I can point to scientific theses about how it will occur in the future. Are you willing to bet against 95% of the scientific community?

>why a human killing elephants to feed his family is somehow invalid, whereas if lions do the same thing, it's OK.

Are lions wiping out a species?
It’s time to throw in the towel on Apple
Can Social Media be Used as an Excuse for Relationship Problems?
Yes, it's a basic math question... and one any developer really ought to be able to solve.

As for other areas, you know this is just one of the four parts of the exam, right?
Perhaps it's a range of maxima.
This is far too loud and random to be similar to /r/asmr. Those videos need to be > 5 minutes and much quieter.
There is a wonderful writeup by PJ Eby about a Python codebase (Chandler) written by Java developers: http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html

Of note is that Java instincts are a bad thing for Python. Similar principles apply to other language combinations, and even services (eg SOAP vs REST) in addition to data as PJ wrote (eg XML vs JSON).
Google can solve this by defining some interoperability profiles like WebM = only VP8+Vorbis and WebM2 = only VP9+Opus. Or they could give a completely different name to VP9+Opus since WebM is not a popular name anyway.

The ITU/ISO camp has the same problem but worse, since MP4 may contain MPEG-4, H.264, or H.265.
I really like this. In the end I definitely want BetterMe to focus on positive reinforcement rather than negative ones.
It was a racist comment
Maybe the jstor articles were valued at what jstor charges for them individually. In that case you're talking about millions of dollars in value.

Another point: if you break into a house to steal a $5 watch you are looking at a lot more than just $5 theft. Aaron was charged with the equivalent of breaking and entering
# Welcome to my mind.

while (true) ...
# :-P
Definitely more efficient. You are right, I will change it.
Remove that float:left and replace with display: inline-block. Then you can get rid of those pseduo-selectors with the margin rules.

http://codepen.io/HugoGiraudel/full/DoAIB
If you're generating them with blacked-out DL number and address, that's not really a fake identification card, is it? Not to mention you'd be generating an image, not an actual ID. Creating real-looking ID cards is much more difficult than creating real-looking ID card scans.

The most difficult elements would probably be faking the font, and post-processing it to ensure the text looked real (pixel-perfect accuracy and color for text would be a dead giveaway of computer generation).
Indeed. It's not actually accurate to count Google+ as a separate product. They should be saying that Google has N number of active users.
Why is it population that is the metric and not something else, e.g. energy use? The developed world may have lower population growth, but it uses much more energy and it makes as much sense to reduce that as the number of humans.

Westerners who think population growth are usually talking about people living in underdeveloped countries, and are doing so in a way that is both prejudiced and dehumanizing. To me it looks like nothing more than people with power and money advocating for blatant cruelty towards those without either.
I have to agree with Diego Novillo's comment about Clang's parser. Projects like the Clang complete vim plugin come to mind. Ctags/Cscope doesn't really work to well with overloaded functions and having something that "understands" the language rather than just matching patterns helps.
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Is that a US specific thing only? Why would I have to disclose this deeply personal information to my employer? It is no one's business.

That said if crazy legal allegations like this come out of it I can understand the pressure. Still, it seems just wrong.
I believe every college maintains a backup fund to make sure that the college can survive at least 5-10 years if all else fails.

In such a scenario, the school would prioritize using the money to make sure that current students can graduate and that their degree is worth something for at least a couple years.

EDIT: That was poorly worded. I meant to say that the fund is meant as a buffer to help the school avoid shutting down, so that they have time to get their act together. But it also helps guarantee that their degrees will be worth something for at least a few years, so that students feel safe continuing at the school and so recent graduates are not screwed over by something that wasn't their fault. I'm not sure, but this might even be an accreditation requirement.
https://plus.google.com/116098411511850876544/posts/4t8sFLLK...
Remains of the Day: BitTorrent Launches a File Syncing App
Raven's Progressive Matrices, or Fun With Session Cookies
I hate links to pages that cause an application to launch on my computer. I wish apple would not do that. I feel like I'm getting rickrolled every time I click on a link about an app.
Ross King on his book "Leonardo and The Last Supper" [audio]
this is such a great site
"Have a debit card, or slip and extra $20 in your wallet."

Off topic, but why is it that the word "an" is so commonly misspelled as "and"? I've done it myself many times, but it doesn't make sense- why do our brains insert an extra letter where it should not be?
And by "humiliate you of Facebook" they mean "spam your friends with messages that'll quickly cause all posts from the app to be hidden." (I invariably hide all posts from apps anyway.) And, honestly, I don't find "Mike was too weak willed to wake up this morning" to be at all humiliating, and certainly not something I think my friends would even care about. Perhaps if you could queue up any text you like, with something truly embarrassing, like revealing your deep dark love for Justin Bieber or something, that might be more useful and interesting.
"Why in the world are schools building new buildings? What is required in a business school classroom that is any different than the classroom for psychology or sociology or english or any other number of classes?"

This question is easy to answer. In a time of declining public funds universities are trying to attract students, because tuition is about the only funding source left. Consequently, universities have to look appealing to students, and that means cushy dorms, spiffy libraries, the lot.

Again: these are investments made from the general fund, and the university tries to recover these through increased tuition income. A classic market failure.
Typically when this happens another college or set of colleges will step up to take the students. This occurred in the case of Parsons College (whose campus is interestingly now the Maharishi University of Management) and Antioch College.

More aggressively another college might take over the failed institution, as in the case of Compton College's failure in 1995. El Camino College not only accepted Compton's students but took over the facilities and faculty as well.