skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Learn" might be seen somewhat insulting if you have dyslexia — it may not be that you don't know the right order, but when you type your brain sends the wrong signals to your hand. So I'd advise you to come up with a better label.

Also if you're dyslexic it's easier to read white text on a black background, and it's easier to tell the differences between letters that have a serif since dyslexic is really about letter recognition.

Lastly dyslexia is as much about reading and verbal skills as it is about writing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia

I think you should re-label your app around the issue of learning to spell rather (which is a good market) rather than dyslexia. It's that or find an expert on dyslexia and evolve the app.
Its not an abstract point. My costs may go up, without my income going up, if I need more repos, which I can't necessarily predict in advance. I then either have to eat the extra cost or go cap in hand to the client because part way through the project or starting the next stage we've restructured the way we're using repos. Maybe we should plan better in advance, but with the other service he is using he doesn't have to.
20k miles is like 1-2 years of ownership. Maybe a Porsche needs that kind of crazy maintenance?
This blog post should be titled "Skeumorphism is Holding Back iOS UI". At least that way readers could see the clear lack of evidence.

There may be a growing anti-skeumorphic trend on the Internet, but I could reasonably imagine most iPhone users either being okay with skeumorphism, or frankly, not caring at all.
Apple loses Brazilian iPhone trademark ruling
In this post from Ryan Carson from six years ago http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/building_a_web_app_dont_f... he says adding a plan that cost "$80 more ($19 vs. $99)" increased revenue by 30% within two weeks. There are many posts like this out there.

Generous SaaS operators have been sharing this experience and wisdom for years and still people (usually without experience) refuse to believe it. Why?

Thanks patio11 and Amy Hoy for sharing your experiences.
My car spent 15 salty winters in Michigan.

1 exhaust component has rusted through so far (too bad for me, one of the convertors). Quality control and goes a long way. I don't even wash it as much as I should. Just an anecdote, but I bet the data on modern vehicles is pretty ok.

Also fuel injection is a huge innovation. A thousand carburetors in a chip and all that.
I don't see that connection at all. How at all are they similar to the 'Win32 API'? Win32 API was required to write Windows applications. It's like saying that WebKit and jQuery are becoming HTML4. Does not compute.
I think your proposal is sound...the people that get primary benefit of the infrastructure should be the ones that pay for it.

Unfortunately, that causes more problems for drivers than it does for transit riders (which is why we are in the current state that we are in). You see, the cost structure of automobiles is linear, and when you throw in density, exponential. The cost structure for transit is inverse to its ridership (within vehicle capacity limits).

In other words, small increases in ridership produce huge decreases in costs per passenger. So much so that the most heavily used transit systems in the world are completely profitable (Hong Kong's MTR is an exceptionally profitable publicly traded corporation).

Now currently, both roads and transit systems are subsidized. But since they are substitutes (in the economic definition), a small decrease in subsidies to roads will push more people to transit, thus requiring fewer subsidies to transit.

But we can't have that, can we?
COBOL will outlive us all
Right, that's why the pyramids were build during a cold snap.
And we know how much more developed Norther Europe was during the classical age than Greece, Persia, Egypt, etc.
And this is also why Russia has always been one of the most developed and wealthiest countries in the world. And why Hokkaido is the wealthiest part of Japan. Etc.

Or maybe even a pile of anecdotes, like most of the developed world happens to be in the north today, does not actually mean anything.
Seafile is my horse : http://seafile.com/en/home
"A fish or cat or any animal, cannot consent to anything due to lack of intelligence."

Now come over to my house and try to pet my cat without her consent...

Not really on-topic in any way but I just dislike people who disrespect animals.
Don't issue pull requests that you don't want merged. It's really that simple. The maintainer could easily merge it by accident by absentmindedly clicking the button they normally click in response to well-formed pull requests while thinking they'd rejected it. Maybe they have a cat, or a toddler, who knows?

Don't put your name on stuff you don't want merged.
The "Broken Window" Theory
Maybe you want to try linuxfromscratch.org or Gentoo.
center, center, center...
"I don’t think anyone can successfully argue that Chome/Chromium isn’t a better browser than Safari [...]"

That sounds like Chrome was somehow superior to Safari. Chrome has some nice features that Safari lacks (and vice versa) but from browser engine perspective they are definitely on par.
You're right. The point he is making is that there is no need to maintain a rendering engine if it is no longer a point of differentiation when you can focus your efforts on improving the features that make your browser stand out.
I am in the same position as you: Want to invest money in a startup. So I had a look at different seed investments/crowd funding sites like [1] but often they are heavily tied to your physical location cause of funding/financing laws in your country. Found a couple of german sites that act as a funding mediator which looked quite nice: They analyse businesses, providing regular business insights, earnings, spendings and so on. But mind you, I am a total beginner with that so I am easy to impress.

[1] https://www.seedinvest.com/
Why say Win32? Why not say WebKit and jQuery are the new Linux? It's actually a better analogy.

Software monoculture is not inherently a bad thing; it can be a good thing. Re-inventing the wheel isn't progress. The world is much better off with Linux than 20 different Unix variants. And the world is likely better off with WebKit than dozens of different browser variants.

The issue isn't having a software monoculture, it's who is in control of it. The situation with both Linux and WebKit is that we have all the benefits of a monoculture and very few of the downsides.
Three sides to every Scroogled: Microsoft's, Google's, and the truth
The February Revolution
I know of at least one person who is doing lots of science / scientific projects/experiments for themselves and does not have access via uni libraries etc. but needs to consult scientific literature (as in, academic papers) fairly often. (Granted, the case does not fall within the aforementioned 'theor.phys. / mathematics' field.) They use http://reddit.com/r/scholar to ask for papers to be uploaded (it's a very nice and useful subreddit for those folk, I try to fill out some requests now and then).

Of course, 'knowing one person' is anecdotal / talk about bad representative samples, but I can attest to the fact that those people exist. (I don't know the details why that person in question cannot register under a public library; public libraries may not have subscriptions to their journals of interest perhaps.)

In any regard, there are cases where old theories / research were dug up by contemporary researchers who realized that those original models were useful for their modern research etc. [citation needed, could dig something up, but googling is probably more effective than asking in this case.]
> How would you know about a paper you don't have and doesn't have any cites and is 50 years old?

Google Scholar?

> How can a paper be perennial if it doesn't have any cites?

It was a bit exaggerated. But _in mathematics_ typical span of citation accumulation is decades, not years. And typical total citation count is way lower than in, say, biology.

> A paper being perennial is, I'd argue, defined by getting cites on a regular basis even after many years.

No. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/perennial

Don't confuse it with "popular" or even "with lasting popularity".

Again, in mathematics things (almost) do not age...
"need to drive"

Don't confuse aspirational desire with actual need or even claimed need.

For a good laugh, compare what SUV drivers actually need in an engineering analysis, with what they claim to need, with what the commercials focus on the product as providing, which is primarily driving offroad in an extreme manner at 90 MPH while carrying 9 people and 7 kayaks.
There's nothing wrong with skeuomorphism when it informs the user, the problem is when the skeuomorphism imposes limitations and lack of clarity.

For example, on iOS the dialer is fine, the podcast app sucks.
My dad is a baby boomer, and hasn't touched a computer for over fifteen years. I just sent my parents my old iPhone and he hasn't put it down. Within an hour of unboxing it, he was facetiming, looking stuff up online, listening to podcasts... There are still a _lot_ of new users out there.
> ..not blindly (or maliciously) merged..

Or accidentally.

He saw someone making a careless rookie mistake, who quite obviously didn't really understand what they were doing, and equally obviously didn't understand how dangerous it was, and then deliberately put a live landmine in their way.

He then posted to his blog saying how shocked, amazed and not in any way responsible he was for the resulting explosion.

How would you characterise that?
I think we should at least touch on the real reason Chrome is the de facto standard and baseline for web page rendering: it's essentially to front end development what IntelliJ is to backend.
The thing about $1 casual games is that they're now $0 casual games capable of drawing substantial income after the initial "sale".

Pre-paid boxed game software is not a growth industry, and post-paid digital is. It's not theoretical, this is happening now. It's not potentially lucrative, it's currently lucrative. The industry as a whole needs to adapt.
Ask HN: I want to design with 80's and 90's art assets and computer graphics
Hello, I am a student who was born in 1990, and I vaguely remember all of the art elements I would like to use. I need help with finding books and resources from the say the 1980's- 1990's which can give me the techniques used back then for graphic design and special effects. I am looking to incorporate these things into my apps I would like to build. Can someone point me in the right direction of what relevant keywords and topics I could use in order to get started.
I really hope this is the year we realize that debating about skeutomorphism is a waste of time. Whatever its merits, I'd like to hear about a single case where an anti-skeutomorphic design was elemental in disrupting a market leader. I've been using a prime example, Ableton Live, for the better part of a decade, and while it's done well, it hasn't exactly left highly skeutomorphic competitors like Reason in the dust or enabled stunning usability breakthroughs. If skeutomorphism is not actually that important in the market, then let's just acknowledge that we're talking about personal taste more than anything.
This is just PR from Micro Focus (a COBOL compiler vendor). COBOL is dead and a joke.

I've never heard of a successful startup in the last 30 years that wrote their main revenue-generating product in COBOL, and there's a reason for that.
I had that request to the team. I hear it's coming soon.

Everyone get's something different - it's highly personalized picks, and the stylists work with through. Last month I sent back 3 pairs of pants till I finally got the one pair I loved. Shameless Invite Link: http://bombfell.com/?rc=3075PuHAG
you're right in that I should have checked first, and really if you think about it it's no surprise that YouTube, Yahoo, Google etc are using their own tools. That does not detract from the point that jQuery has massive, ridiculous mind share and completely dominates the web though. Your point about it being impossible to build a gmail style app in jQuery is extremely dubious. There are an awful lot of complicated JS apps built on jQuery.
My parents live about 7 hours away, we go visit them a couple times a year.

My wife got a masters degree a couple years ago, that was 2 hours away a couple times a week.

If we only had an electric car, either of these would require renting a gas car for the trip. Which could well be reasonable for a couple times a year, but probably not if we visited my parents more often (say, every month).

Of course this being the US we both have cars, and there wouldn't be any problem if only one of them was electric.
Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text
Hacking Mobile Invites With The Help of the U.S. Government
They remodel the offices pretty frequently. Sometimes ... too often, I think.
Yes, one.

Is the original statement true?
I just found out about mining pools; interesting idea to spread the risk of not finding any bitcoins for a long time. Why would a user with such massive mining speed need this though? Wouldn't it be more efficient for him to bear the risk himself and earn a bit more?
It is always about women’s rights and animals’ rights. When somebody is going to talk about men’s rights? All the things she talks about, I have seen happening to male developers too.
I wouldn't say mobile is the only world we live; that's a bit of a stretch for me.
AOL Acquires gdgt
I'm not sure you're correct here. A developer can specify a particular package to launch Gmail or the stock mail app, something like:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setPackage("com.adobe.reader");

Would open the adobe pdf reader for instance.

That said this is hardly desirable from a users perspective.
range is only important if it takes a significant time (more than the few minutes it takes to refuel gasoline) to charge, or if there aren't a critical mass of charging stations.

refuel time may be subject to physical constraints, but you could envisage a system where you exchange an empty for a full battery pack, much like you exchange a barbecue gas cannister instead of trying to fill it up yourself. this relies on the batteries being much more of a fungible commodity than they currently are.

a critical mass of charging stations is a chicken-egg problem; decent range mitigates this, but ultimately needs a lot of infrastructure investment without short-term revenue guarantees.
cscope is an amazingly useful tool for a C developer, even without using an associated editor plugin. I was very impressed by its speed years ago when I could instantly look up the definition of any symbol in the Linux kernel (IIRC - it's been a while since I've had occasion to use it).
Ahh, looks like I misunderstood, thanks.

But will developers/users really flock to Opera just because it has a fast JIT? For me, Opera is just something to check for compliance.
Never, ever, give up
Bottom line ...

"By the way, whoever user 67117 is they will be generating about 122.83 bitcoins a day at the rate of 800 GH/s, or $3,000 US Dollars at today’s rates."

Using the bitcoin mining hardware info at: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison ,

... assuming that the miner is using the Avalon ASIC batch #1 device, the reported hash rate per device is 68,000 mega hashes per second - which is 500 times faster than an example AMD 5770 graphics card. The Avalon box uses 400 watts. 800 giga hash per second could be supplied by 11 Avalon ASIC devices. Total they would cost $14000 plus shipping from China.

Plugging this data into the bitcoin mining profitability calculator at: http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ , we get 122 bitcoins mined from the pool each day, at this moment valued at $26, for a total daily revenue of $3193. Only $15 worth of electricity is consumed at $0.15 kWh.

The mining hardware for this lucky miner pays for itself within a week.

More info about Avalon at: http://launch.avalon-asics.com/

As the owner of the BTCGuild mining pool said on his IRC channel, "welcome to the future"! Its obvious that graphic card based mining will not be profitable when ASIC mining rigs become common.

Lucky miners are those who invest first in disruptive technology rigs. Most miners are gambling that they can pay off their rigs before the technology changes.
So since we're all so busy assigning blame here, who is going to blame the end user for deciding to pipe a script straight from the Internet into a shell, whether directed by a README or not?

Saves the trouble of having to learn how to attack security vulnerabilities if you can simply have the user r00t themselves for you...
With e-comm, the issue with Europe (from the prelim investigations we've done) is the lack of centralized shipping service. Whereas in US you can use one system to cost-effectively reach any of 300 million people, for Europe you're dealing with lot of local fiefdoms, OR you're paying significantly higher rates for UPS/Fedex. Not to mention return logistics!
It's being fixed now! Thanks for pointing this out.
Partial support for other formats is planned. It's quite obvious that all currently documented C++ is using one of the existing formats and that it's nonsense to expect people to convert their already written documentation. The question is exactly how much of the other types of syntax needs to be supported to be useful.
I wish stagnation was Safari's problem. I wish.
That stuck out for me as well, I could argue that Chrome isn't a better browser than Safari for me, but functionally they're both using WebKit so they render sites identically in most cases.
I have no idea on the concrete numbers, but the two sources you cite appear to be separated by almost one year (jan/2012 for the Kinect and nov/2012 for the Move one)
Digital Ocean Android app Basin
I thought the cold caused batteries to slow down on discharge rate. The LiPo batteries I use for RC planes keep a charge much longer if they are refrigerated. They have a horrible discharge rate when cold though.
If you were an enterprising hacker with a lot of time on his/her hands, I imagine Adobe Reader and Flash Player would be a great place to focus on for selling software exploits to the US Government. I hear they are paying nicely these days for verifiable not-yet-released in the wild exploits.
You seriously underestimate the complexity of Gmail. It may well be the most complex JavaScript application in existence with an appreciable user base.
Yes,
See Alternatives --> Benchmarks
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optimizerplus
HF!
I don't disagree but I also see it more as WebKit as the "Linux kernel" of browser engines. Safari and Chrome both use WebKit but are very different in what they offer.. so they're like the Ubuntu and RedHat.

Is it a bad thing that AIX and Solaris fell by the wayside in a rush to Linux? I don't think so. So neither should adopting WebKit as a sort of common kernel in browsers, IMHO. But that's all it is.. MHO ;-)
Virtual patching: a way out of the patch maelstrom
Shouldn't you be pushing for a dialoge around the the more aptly named developers' rights then?
As a follow up, PHP as he mentioned he considered an entry level language. Scala is not. He had skilled developers who could pick up Scala? I think in most cases the 'retooling' would be a big problem.
No. The EU is not just a free-trade zone. It is an economic union, with both a single market and customs union. There is an enormous difference.

Just like all previous bilateral "free trade" agreements between the US and any sovereign state, the US will not play fairly and the amount of actual trade tariff reductions and trade promotion in it will pale in comparison to US demands on cross-regional rights, privileges for trans-national corporations and the US state, and even internal regulation changes for the other on key issues of enormous importance to the US.

At this time those key issues for the US are:

1. Intellectual Property normalization. Particularly, on software patents, digital sharing, cross-regional copyright and licensing, generic medicines, grey market imports, etc.

2. Agricultural Products normalization, especially Genetically-Modified crops and artificial hormone meat products.

3. Human Rights normalization and deferral removal, i.e. reduction of the impact of human rights legislation, particularly European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) on any aspect of (bilateral) trade, including "privacy" rights.

So, why now? The problem is while the EU single market is functioning better than ever (otherwise why would the US be interested), the core members who are also part of the broken Eurozone, are still reeling from the impact of the 2008 financial crisis and the associated sovereign debt crisis.

This gives significant leverage for the US, who have largely paid down the upfront cost of the financial crises, certainly at least all their banks are fully recapitalized or resolved, unlike the EU.

There may be additional leverage from the European people themselves who are strongly feeling the impact of the economic crises, and more importantly from the European national parliament politicians plus media, since this gives them a type of "deus ex machina" to support, when in reality all real and most difficult change has to start internally.

So, yes, it would be "huge" - for the US...
Yeah, this is kind of the fundamental disconnect.

One side sees "this meet 90% of your needs."

The other side says "this doesn't meet all my needs."
How about foundersclub.com ?
Well, for electricity the world still burns coal, gas or destroys nature for things like dams.

I imagined it takes a bit of electricity to transform the H2O to hydrogen at first, but than the hydrogen that is released takes over. It would be so great if the only thing cars produce is clean water and oxygen. Imagine entire city's with clean air. That is something to behold.
I spent most of my free time in middle and high school programming. My parents would threaten to take away the internet when I did poorly in classes, and routinely encouraged me to spend more time playing guitar instead of "wasting so much time on the computer." They meant well, but essentially discouraged me from pursuing programming.

Last month I launched a startup, which I built during my free time while working as a senior full stack web developer.

What it comes down to, like any other pursuit, is that you have to spend a LOT of time programming. But the great thing is that every 6-12 months, you'll look back and think "wow, I sucked at programming compared to now." And as soon as you know enough to build a blog from scratch, you'll be able to start taking small contract jobs. After two or three years, charging $50/hr++ is absolutely easy.

One small tip to get started: For each project, create todo.txt and todo_future.txt. The first file is a scratch pad to keep track of what you're working on this week. The second file is for keeping track of ideas you want to work on in the future. It's a great way to prevent "scope creep" or giving yourself too much work to handle.
Has anyone applied the reverse argument to nursing?

I'm getting sick of the gender argument to be honest. Sure, women in tech are a minority. Sure we'd all like to see more of a gender balance. However I have yet to see someone actively retarding that balance.
Congestion is fairly independent of the amount of parking in a city. It also pushes people to use public transit where available. Public transit requires public buy in or it's not viable. Increased public transit allows for increased density, but in no way increases the carrying capacity of the local road system pushing up demand for public transportation further.

In other words think of congestion as the engine of public transportation systems. Now, looking a small city's inside major metro areas vs outside major metro areas congestion is vary different.

PS: Not to mention the relative student populations have direct effects on car ownership. Now, if they had looked at more city's this would have been less of an issue, but look at the 12 chosen.