skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poker sites do need traffic to attract players. Players love choice of tables / type of games / tournaments / not having to wait before a game starts / etc.

Despite "black friday" (when the U.S. DoJ confiscated all the dot coms from the four biggest poker sites) PokerStars is still number one. Moreover PokerStars bought Full Tilt (which died due to their ponzi scheme being discovered sooner than they had planned "thanks" to Black Friday). Just look at pokerscout.com's main page and you'll see just how big of a % of the market PokerStars+Full Tilt are representing.

Long story short: unless one of the major site starts accepting bitcoins bitcoins ain't going to grab a big share of the online poker market.
FYI, for people who have not been on Craigslist in awhile...it's also been a long time for me since I've used the service...I was just about to complain that CL doesn't need a radical redesign, it just needs features grafted on that users could choose.

For example, whenever I do apartment/furniture searching, I'll write a script to pull down the links so I can create my own webview of the links juxtaposed with the images...but I just checked the site and I guess CL has created a number of different views for the traditional list, including thumbnail-listings, a grid-layout, and mapping:

http://nyc.craigslist.org/search/sya?zoomToPosting=&altV...

I guess this was just added recently?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/03/craigslist-finally-gets-mor...
While I don't disagree with the general sentiment of simplification by reducing choices, a pattern that I consider productive emerged and solidified for me over the years for buying food.

When I first moved to Manhattan, I used to buy food from two deli's that were within a couple of blocks of my downtown apartment. Then I discovered FreshDirect and for almost a year ordered food online that got delivered to my apartment on the 29th floor at a time slot of my choosing. Ultimate efficiency (including, streamlined periodic re-order).

But then I discovered Whole Foods and would from then on walk to the TriBeCa store (the largest in Manhattan) every other day. The walk is about 10 minutes and is a great way to build in exercise, clear the mind, and stumble upon new things en route. I would usually buy the same stuff, with the occasional dipping into something new and interesting. The only times when I would change this pattern was some nights on my way back from violin class - then I would go to Zabar's or Whole Foods Columbus Circle; or if I crave something at 3am - then the 24 hour Duane Reade on Wall Street or the deli on John are there to satisfy me.

Now that I live in Palo Alto, I have a similar, pattern - I walk to Whole Foods (sometimes taking a detour so that the walk is a little longer) and pick up the few things I'll need for the next day or two. I never buy food for more than 3 days out. Alas, there are no decent 24 hour options anywhere but Manhattan, but I've learned to cope.

EDIT: grammar
Big +1 on the detailed checklist. That would be hugely helpful, and probably quite popular.
I remember when this would have been considered noise here; now it's the top comment.
I'm guessing they are skilled and versatile C++ programmers with years of experience even on difficult and restricted platforms.

Where could they not go?
> Because forming a core identity and a core business is actually tremendously hard. Picking up one that is already socially validated seems easier.

Truth.
...are almost certainly going to get the lion's share of this new money.

Not sure why you think that.

Here's the pdf for your link (I can only guess that you find this paper convincing): http://bit.ly/Y2AXtz
Thanks. That was part of the problem. Turns our $.get wasn't parsing the response data as JSON in firefox. fixed now!
Since this seems not to work, I made one that does. http://luna.thehorseplace.us/ipcolor.php
Where/how do you order groceries online in North America?
Here's a discussion about that point in the original article's comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5216553

The conclusion is that it will buy you a bit more time, but does not fix the underlying issue.

In Rap Genius' case, they're large enough that they would still have significant issues even if they switched to cedar and unicorn with 2-4 worker processes.
for `M-x ns-toggle-fullscreen` you need `brew install emacs --cocoa`
Heh, thanks for the correction - will make that change now!
Sprint LTE is now live in San Francisco
Very interesting read. As someone who struggled through the implementation of Jenks[1] a few years ago in PHP, I can attest to the fact that it was extremely difficult to find any programming of Jenks that was understandable and clear. I was able to find some examples of code, but nothing could explain what was actually happening and, as you said, there were no comments or poor comments in those examples.

What I was able to find, were a couple of different explanations of the mathematics. Instead of trying to decode some crappy programming implementations, I spent my time teaching myself the math to understand what the representation of the process[2] actually meant. From there, I was able to understand the iterative process involved and dream up a working solution.

Instead of concluding programmers should be better or knowledge should be more free, I came to the conclusion that I just needed to understand the problem and the math behind it better.

Could it be that maybe the assertion regarding the problem of availability is actually just a problem of lack of understanding or desire for proper comprehension? I'm not accusing the author of laziness, merely wondering if a different conclusion and solution could be arrived at with an alternate point of view on the problem.

[1] - https://github.com/randomdrake/jenks - feel free to check out my implementation. I wrote it a few years ago, so it's probably not the greatest, but it's commented, and worked fine and fast.

[2] - http://randomdrake.com/jenks.gif
>"Those laid off are terrified to say anything publicly."

I'm curious as to why?

Norway doesn't seem like a place where people would fear their ex-employers.
Ask HN: Source for test data with company names and logos?
Does anyone have a source that they use for test data when demoing/testing applications that are based on company data? I'm just looking for company name, logo, website and maybe address if it is possible. They don't have to be actual companies.
Ancient teeth bacteria record disease evolution
some precision here:

I said "abuse" because it is still a hack to use only one plain GLSL fragment for everything (a fragment shader aims to be used with a vertex shader, whereas mine is just static and take one vertex for the whole canvas). BTW, the glsl.heroku.com demoscene platform use exactly the same idea and was an inspiration.

The limit of this hack, is the fact that GLSL fragment uniforms number is limited (depending on the machine, 1024 variables on my macbook).
For instance, a `Ball ball[1000]` wouldn't compile because it is too much variables (if Ball has 2 fields). AFAIK, you could still solve this by using a big Array of float, but it would be less structured then.
Adwords has advertised private jet leasing in the past. The fact that they appeared in my google apps indicates that the technology isn't as scary / all knowing as the article tries to lead readers to believe.

It touches on but IMO fails to explore a bunch of legitimately interesting topics - the sociological effects of filter bubbles, the ethics/legality of digital 'redlining' (and how Google just picked up a patent for it no less), formation of digital class divides as well as others.

It's a post that would have benefited from a less hyperbolic title, and posting on eg a blog where it wouldn't be completely destroyed by editing. I'm not sure who the 1% are supposed to be (advertisers, I guess?) and fluff aside, the article doesn't really have much meat in its current form.

Also, wtf with having a second page containing 15 words that on their own read like a drunken friday night text message and don't really tie in as a conclusion?
Datomisca Delicatessen - the Scala Reactive Cherry on the Datomic Cake of Facts
Someone posted Pantametron when http://www.140verses.com/discover was posted last week or so. Both are strangely delightful.
Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench 2.0.0 Released
Is Elon Musk wearing lipstick in that picture, or is it just a wicked colour balancing issue?
I think the idea is that you own a dozen of the same outfit, which solves the laundry problem.
How We Simplified our Dev Process Only Using Trello
Yet they are spending a crazy amount on hosting with Heroku when they could be doing it themselves and get cost savings plus know the entire stack.
Building a Peer to Peer Marketplace: Single User Utility
Because that would reveal that the whole thing is a racket. They're all in on it.
I would hazard a guess that if they were all paid as well as him, they would retire too.
I have (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullboth) in my .emacs, and it just works (GNU Emacs 24.2.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)).
Theoretical particles required by my unified theory of HN.
Thanks, that does look quite awesome!
Laundry takes about the same time whether it all looks the same or not.
Disruptions: On the Fast Track to Routine 3-D Printing
Thanks! Its crazy how many little typos and issues get exposed by the HN crowd even for a tiny experiment like this :-)
You seem to have missed the fact that this is a service. It's a SAAS targeted at businesses. The economics have little to do with iphone apps and desktop software. And complexity of software has no relation whatsoever to its utility.

Running a service is expensive. First you have customer acquisition, which is not magical and free as you seem to believe, then you have servers to run, email services to pay, security updates, new features, server admin, customer support .. unless you are running at an amazing scale you just cannot do that for $10/year.

> would you rather sell one hundred subscription at $120 per year or ten thousands subscription at $10 per year

Where on earth are you getting these numbers from? You don't automatically get 100x the sales if you drop the price. This is just pure fantasy IMO. More likely he is going to get 100 sales either way, because he might manage to get his product in front of 100 people for whom the problem solving value exceeds the cost, and who has a $10/yr problem?

Fact is this a product targeted at businesses. The type of people who are actually interested in paying money for someone to solve their problem do not care about the difference between $10 and $100. Do you save them $101 worth of time? Then sold! If anything I would be suspicious of a low price like $10/yr because I know it's not viable.
Like many other folks here, I can tell good wine from bad too, in so much as I can tell wine I like from wine I don't like. Even better, I can usually find lots of wines I like that are under $12-10.

I even have regions I know have a higher probability of making wines I'll probably like.

But I've had some pleasant surprises. I don't typically like Virginia wines for example, but I was recently introduced to Virginia Chambourcin wines, most of which I've found great. Likewise I don't typically like most White wines, but the Viogniers from Virginia have typically been to my taste.

More importantly, over the last few years I've gotten to appreciate wines that I may not like on their own, but pair well with certain foods and round out the flavor profile, vs. wines I can just sit with and drink.

The truth is the difference between good and bad wine is not some pretentious expert's objective ranking, but whether you like it or not.

For the record, my three favorite wines at the moment are:

Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet - Australia - $10

Cantina Zaccagnini Montepulciano d’Abruzzo - Italy - $12

Santa Rita Cabernet Reserva - Chile - $10

All go well with various foods or just by themselves. And yes I steer towards full-bodied reds.

But context can be just as important, I've also enjoyed cheap house wine while eating just as cheap food at local family eateries in Italy. I probably wouldn't buy that wine, but in that milieu it just "worked".

One rule of thumb I like to use when selecting from wines I don't know is that generally, a deeper punt (the indentation on the bottom of the bottle) on the bottle leads to wines I like better -- it's supposed to help with collecting sediment before pouring. But of course there's always exceptions. Excelsior (South Africa) makes some stupid cheap ($6-7) but pretty good wines with a twist off top and a shallow punt.

There are more "fashionable" wines I just don't like. I've yet to meet a California Pinot Noir I liked for example (the central wine in the movie Sideways).

Just try lots of wines, get a feel for the flavors, start to catalog which ones you like and don't like and you'll eventually develop your own taste. There's no shortage of wines to try, and there's thousands of under $10 bottles you can experiment with.

Just go with that and have fun.
Maquillaje novias | Maquillaje y peinados para novias
Slate also recently started supporting configs written in JavaScript (https://github.com/jigish/slate/wiki/JavaScript-Configs) which is very powerful.
I'm sorry for my angry comment. I guess I didn't hit the proper tone. I'm leaving it here for my eternal embarrassment, but here's what I meant to say:

I have had many bad experiences with incompetently-written libraries. A bad library can cost you days/weeks of productivity lost in fighting its idiosyncrasies and/or straight up bugs.
A really-good indicator of the quality of a lib is the attention to detail in "minor" details like documentation.

Obviously if the docs are littered with typos they will be less useful, but there's another layer to it. English isn't much of a problem for sufficiently-skilled programmers, even if they are of foreign descent.

So, when I see a lib written in broken english like this, I make my conclusions about the attentiveness and skill of whoever wrote it.
I'm not saying it's always right, but in the long-term this has saved me a lot of headaches.

Sorry for raining on everyone's parade, though. This really isn't the proper way to start a conversation.
Yes, a web development agency, though really any profitable business that could use this.

Each hour you spend improving/interating/integrating your DIY app is an hour of developer time that you can't bill for.

You'd easily spend over an hour per year on a DIY app. Agencies charge at least $120 per hour so the choice between building yourself or paying someone else to do it is a no-brainer.

At the enterprise level $500 is the amount employees can generally spend themselves without getting approval, so there should really be a plan at that level of pricing too.
Why working on Open Source software makes you a better developer
Depending on how they played it, it might have been a "good" way to get rid of employees with a lot of seniority and big pay packages.
To minimize the subjective speed of time (and thus maximize the perceptual length), one must constantly vary one's routine [citation needed]. The disciple of those recommendations will feel freer, and perhaps more creative, but is sacrificing experience on their alter of efficiency.
Github ought to support POD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_Old_Documentation
I think I like this idea but I'm not sure if I can decompose my applications into small enough chunks. Maybe you could add mock services to call out to?
My guess is that a lot of big data is deployed on linux, and thus the development environment as well as the well known deployment routines on linux revolves around tools that traditionally work well on Linux, like the headless JRE (for the servers) and Eclipse/Netbeans/IntelliJ (for the development environment).

Can you even set up a bunch of windows server nodes without running into a licensing headache?
The design is the least of Craigslist's problems. The scams and spam are what turn me off.
Replace RVM with rbenv in a few steps
Just to set facts straight - for best of Indian students UK hasn't been destination of choice for higher studies (for awhile I think). I come from one of the top 10 engineering universities and none in my batch selected UK for higher education. I repeat None.

It may sound little weird, but the reason UK, Australia and New Zealand universities needs selling in India is because "it needs selling". UK isn't attracting brightest Indians (probably just richer students), it is US that gets best of them.

As for India's education system - it is meh agreed. But I believe our undergrad (read B.S) is just fine. It is higher education and research facilities where we have done a thorough whack job. But this won't be fixed overnight. Problem starts from rather poor salary of university professors, little research grants and last but not the least, smart people attract other smart people.

Brain drain[1] indeed is a problem for us, but the problem will need fixing by improving quality of higher education.

1.http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...
Why Intel could be the company to finally crack Internet TV
No, but you did choose to interpret them in a totally different context, deliberately giving them a meaning that was clearly not part of my statement. Then you ignored, yet still replied to, my clarification.

From my perspective this looks like either a huge misunderstanding or the definition of straw man rhetorics. And I have to say I don't get where your hostility comes from, but I neither recognize my message as it was apparently understood by you nor do I appreciate the tone. I'm always ready to admit that issues like these could be my fault as I all-too-often like to hide behind the fact that I'm not a native speaker. I just don't see it this time though.

In the spirit of being constructive: I don't think the application of the label "normalcy" or the lack thereof is a value judgement in any way, and being "normal" is something that must be interpreted within the given context - otherwise it makes no sense because it's not a global property that encompasses the entire personality of a person.
Google security updates a prime example of what’s wrong with Android
This is awesome. I feel like I owe you a couple of beers or something.
Cool. But when will browser games be taken seriously? I'd like to see it happen, but web-based games are still mostly considered something to do when you've got five minutes to spare.
It is a book excerpt from 2011 - the actual book is very well written and documents a lot of cognitive biases.
Thank you so much.

I'm gonna read ur subscription. Like them. And probably subscribe to them :)
It really depends on how things progress. Apple might be in the history books as a "shining example of how tightly integrated hardware and software works so well"; or as "the last big attempt which showed that in the long run closed systems never work". It could really go either way from here.

How these events are remembered is going to be very coloured by how they are perceived after the event.
A Simple HTML5 Game, the Design Decisions
100 Greatest Publicity Stunts of All Time
I hate hate hate the idea of the use of drones by police fishing for crimes to prosecute. OTOH, I agree with the sentiment of the article on the notion that drones are simply a new (as in newly economical) technology, and neither good nor bad. One of my favorite ideas for drones is scouting for forest fires during drought. Finding a forest fire before it becomes too large to fight could save lives and property.
I was with him up till this:

>Vodka, for instance, has no flavor

Maybe not if you're doing shots, but on the rocks / straight definitely has flavors. Personally I dislike some expensive brands, and for the one that I like best I don't even like the branding.
I have been using Slate since that last post came out on HN (a few months ago?) and am absolutely loving it.

Combined with binding your caps lock key to "hyper", I have a whole suite of customized keyboard shortcuts that are super useful!

A recent version of Slate fixed automatically detecting your screen layout, so whenever I plug/unplug my external monitor it will automatically re-layout my screens.
GPS attack, broadcast bogus GPS signals to it. Make it fly itself into the ground, or just stall out and crash.
RapBot: a Freestyle 80s Battle Rap Generator
A friend of mine used to run blind themed wine tastings: Each of us would bring a Barolo, say. They'd go into numbered brown paper bags and we'd taste, make notes, rate, then reveal and taste some more. Typically these 8-10 wines would range from $25-$200/bottle, and other than the host we'd have no real idea of the selection until they'd been revealed. We'd typically intermix some suitable "matching" small plates so we could try the wines with and without food.

From a half dozen or so of these, my anecdotal conclusions: A good percentage of expensive wines are either very difficult to enjoy or flatly bad. On the other hand, the pre-reveal consensus winners for the night were very rarely bottles costing less than $40-50, and often were among the most expensive.

My guess is that if you asked two expert sommeliers to pair six wines with two six course meals, and gave one a budget of $200 for six bottles and another a budget of $1000, almost anyone with a passion for drinking fine wine could distinguish the more expensive wines and would enjoy them more.
I don't see the value add over the many existing bookmarking services. What am I missing?
Reading through this article it was easy to see that this was all bunk.

There's no way you can tell me that Pepsi and Coca-Cola pretty much taste the same.

The difference between the two is immense. I suspect that this person didn't obtain a sample of properly bottled Coca-Cola from Atlanta GA. Don't go for that canned stuff in cheap aluminum, if it's not in a glass bottle then you lose the subtle flavors of the syrup, as the metal changes it over time. Don't fall for that notion that other bottling plants produce a superior product because of the differences in local water. Every drinker that enjoys a good soda knows that the best location of water for Coca-Cola is where it was created.

Although, New Coke did indeed taste much the same as Pepsi, but that was a misguided attempt to market to a group of people that don't appreciate a fine soda. This was quickly stopped and shouldn't be mentioned again.

In fact, the only location that competes are those fine people south of the border who still insist on using sugar as opposed to corn syrup. I too enjoy a sugar Coke from time-to-time but nothing beats a bottle from the home plant.

I took the Pepsi Challenge back when it was offered and I don't recall seeing this M and Q business. The sodas were offered to me in plain, white cups. That day, I purposely chose Pepsi so that the young person behind the counter would feel good about their work, since they were employed by Pepsi.
"But if there’s anything I do aspire to, it’s being a writer. ... I’m not vain enough to think it’s my snappy prose that drew the visitors. It was the subject matter."

Don (if you're out there reading this), your blog has almost single-handedly returned me to using an RSS reader. Yes, initially this was for your Safari/WebKit war stories, but please stop being so humble. You've won the technical-yet-engaging lottery -- please take advantage of this for those of us who fail in one (or both) categories.
a) Do you still use them? b) Can we see it? :)
re white vs red.

In the experiments with white vs red I've heard of, the tasters described the tinted wine with adjectives generally used with red wines.

It's all very subjective. Do they use "red wine" adjectives because the wine looks red or because of it's taste characteristics.
At columbia.edu via scholar.google.com:

http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac%3A147969
http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/download/fedora_content/...
Could you point me to such distributed queue algorithms that can handle failure gracefully? I'm interested in reading on the topic.