skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that addresses one of the many costs, interest payments for the consumer. It doesn't address merchant costs through the percentage the cc company takes for card transactions and it doesn't address companies dealing with chargebacks.
I believe parody is considered protected speech. Everything on that site is so absurd (the zany video, the lists of email addresses) that I find it hard to believe a reasonable person would consider this a serious offer to DDoS somebody. The more I think about it, the more clear it is that this is part of this company's "guerilla marketing" strategy.
If only everyone could make that choice...
Windsor v US (the DOMA case up for a SCOTUS ruling) only challenges Section 3 of DOMA, not Section 2.

Section 3 forbids the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.

Section 2 says states are not required to recognize the same-sex marriages of other states.

The full-faith-and-credit clause of the Constitution gives Congress the power to "prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof", so it's very unlikely that Section 2 will be ruled unconstitutional.
Hi kevin,

First of all, thanks for replying!

I think without more view of the forest, as it were, I'm finding difficult as a reader to understand the type of analysis you're hoping to get out of your interviewees.

Would you agree that one interpretation of your thesis is to have interviewees be able to adress the "why" behind a given implementation? Your reply suggests that it's not the implementation specifics that you're after, but that was the understanding I got out of the original article.

> I just want them to recognize that when they compare using a hash table to other alternatives, that looking up items in a hash table has a performance cost.

As you obviously know, looking up items in a hash table has exactly a constant performance cost (amortizing the cost of a resize, and accounting for load factor, etc.), making it an attractive solution in cases where you need a lookup. I'm curious if your point is that the interviewee is missing that nasty c constant in front of the big o, (e.g. computing a hash for an item or the cost of a resize is impractical, say) or if the issue is that they are just missing something big picture and fundamental given the problem statement.

The former really speaks of "losing the tree for the forest", as in the person black-boxed something they needed to open up, whereas the latter strikes me as more of a lack of conceptual reasoning.

Thanks for your time! I noticed I was downvoted, so apologies if my inquiry frustrates or upset you.
'"9th Circuit Appeals Court" does not add useful information'

"9th circuit appeals court" is probably the most important part of the article. It tells me the Supreme Court didn't decide this -- so nothing has changed for 41 of the 50 states.
Years ago (but not as long as tolmasky's "exclusive"), I would have given everything to get a Mac (I was living in a place where Apple's product were neither available nor affordable).

I spend most of my time on my computer programming (or at least I did this until very recently).

What I've noticed in the last 2 years is that except maybe the Xcode environment, Apple has started to ignore every other dev environments. People have been working a lot on keeping things going (Fink, MacPort, homebrew), but by the day my feeling is that Apple doesn't care at all about this.

Basically the target audience shifted from geeks to mass audience (click to buy this app, watch a movie on this great display, etc.) and AppStore developers. Business-wise it's clear they can ignore the small segment of developers. Karma-wise I'm not convinced that's wise.
Indeed. They are not part of the standard daemontools source though, which is why I thought it worth mentioning.
"No mainstream 2D rendering system (not X.org, not Mac OS Quartz, not Windows GDI/WPF+DWM) uses any graphics acceleration to draw 2D primitives."

That isn't entirely true.
Windows has Direct2D for graphics and DirectWrite for text after all.

Direct2D and DirectWrite were first introduced for Windows Vista and 7 using Direct3D 10. Windows 8 expanded it using new features found in Direct3D 11.

You can see the high performance and fluid animations it brings in many of the Metro applications. Desktop applications need to migrate their existing code of course. IE and Firefox have done this already.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/07/23/hardware-accel...
I brought it up as a free speech decision that demonstrates that this court is not universally on the side of free speech. And yes, I think that the government should not be censoring political speech that takes place off of government property, no matter how much it dislikes the message.

As for your high school accusation, I'm in the top 50 posters on this site. You can easily check that I don't look like a high school student. In fact had I chosen to have children when I got married, they would have now been old enough to have graduated from college.)
I never said I wasn't part of the community ;)
I thought the article said he did look in the bag, it was empty and he filled it with laundry? Presumably it was in the lining, handle, etc. But I was thinking the same as you about the rest, hard to know what to believe.
>One-year validity

Yes but you can renew for free.
Inevitably, there will always be tension between the creative aspects of one's vision and the need for viable product to keep the lights on.

SotA is NOT UO or Ultima I-IX. It's a clean slate. Yes, it's good to have discussions about PvP and whatnot, because we are passionate about these things that have been with us through the years. On the other hand, consider why RG chose to go through Kickstarter. It's to free himself, his idea, from meddling managers who only care about the bottom line, the lowest common denominator, and not the creative aspects. And that's what kills art.

I would prefer that we discuss what new and interesting behavior could arise if a certain gameplay mechanic were implemented, instead of "SotA needs PvP/perma-death/what-have-you because every other MMO has it".
I didn't say what sort of Minix monoculture we might have wound up with. In particular, who says the licensing would have been fixed? Without Linux's success how many people would have thought there was a problem?
Wanted A Fabulous Co-founder for creating a fire breathing dragon
Show HN: Clerb. ERB-style Clojure templating
I don't think the type of growth advocated in the article, relying mostly on innovation and technology, is the type that the government can influence effectively. Outside of keeping the population educated and maybe reducing the sting of patents and regulatory capture, it is mostly up to the private sector.
How many of them will go through all four years and complete the degree? Based on experience from my undergrad, quite a few switch majors after 1st or 2nd year, and most of those who stick with it purposefully choose the absolute minimum CS/math that's required by the major, so that alone should give you an idea about the quality of most grads.
lean ninjas at work.
That's certainly a consideration, but every PAAS is "unique" by definition. Something like Google Apps has more lock-in than others. Some like Heroku are attractive because they have features not available elsewhere that would take a lot of resources to reproduce.

We chose heroku and Rails for the reasons you suggest, and even tried to avoid major tie-ins to the platform. That doesn't mean it's trivial to move to another platform.
We currently live in a world where most of those in power are old people who don't know wtf teh internets is, nevermind have any conceptual grasp of the changes that drones, nanotech, human modification and augmentation, and similar will cause in our society.

I am shocked, like I think you are, that these judges would have even the slightest clue. This is just uncharacteristic for the kinds of rulings we usually see when anything technology is related.

I expect that near the end of my lifetime, when people my age are in power, if not sooner, a large number of laws and rulings will be overturned and changed in radically legal-altering ways.

But it has always been that way. Even within my lifetime, we no longer think that ulcers are caused by stress, mobile phones/computers became reality, and a non-white person was elected present of my country. These are all pretty radical things.
I'm curious about how YC and your other investors influenced the pivot. Did you get good advice? What was the dialog like? Was code refactoring involved? Did this change your marketing strategy?
I'm the odd one out I know.
EA refunded my money for BF3 after I complained about silly requirement for a browser plugin to play single player.

Steam/Valve on the other hand actually did the opposite.
They did not refund my money for games that had invasive DRM and were not marked but pointed me to their EULA that said they would disable my whole account if I made a charge back.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5406-WFZ...

I despise online only DRM, but please lets not only bash EA here. Valve is just as bad.
Tried it and I can tell you it's not production ready. It would randomly go rogue on our production servers and would start falsely detecting a worker crash and start launching more.

It took us a long time to trace it down and we quickly switched to runit and supervisor on a few servers. All of our problems went away.
Supporting a Non-Profit for 2013: Resist Attack Foundation
No court is universally on the side of free speech. It was not an accusation of being a high school student. (I'm not even sure what the "accusation" would imply.) The question about high school was to assess why you thought the Morse decision was on the same level as Citizens United.

And I'm not sure what you being in the top 50 has to do with anything.
I'm not familiar with the details of Morse v Frederick, but I'm curious to know what makes it a narrow ruling other than the age restriction? It seems at first glance that it gives schools the power to restrict almost any form of protest by students in or near schools.
"Popular" and "network effect" are so similar as to be almost indistinguishable. Which came first: popularity, network effects, or cost of transition? Each one begat the others.

That's a fine suggestion for a product, and you're right about it competing with MS on its own turf: and that's why no one will use it. There is nothing super inherent with many documents that are currently emailed around as whole atomic units that they wouldn't be better represented as plain text. And git ALREADY handles plain text really well. It handles emailing diffs and applying changes from email. It is robust enough to not cause fear of using the tool for with it might do to the text. People are married their MS Office based workflow, and they will always find an excuse to maintain it. Migrating the individual components to a different platform (MS Office to ODF) is a valid way to challenge the status quo, and it's just as valid to challenge it by revisiting the assumptions that enforce the status quo (that you need to email diffs or documents around, for example; that can be challenged with on-line, simultaneous, collaborative editing -- which removes the need to email diffs around). Neither one is going to make significant inroads against the current momentum, no matter which of the finer points of momentum (popularity, network effects, cost of transition) can be resolved.
I agree and that's what is so terrible. Paper isn't pro or non-pro. You can go but expensive brushes and paint, or buy cheap stuff, or whatever you want. There are no limitations in the physical world. But in the digital world, you have severe, totalitarian definitions of pro and amateur. You are not free to paint on your typed document. Ever. Unless the developers foresaw and expressly allowed for that event.
Lisp: Basically Speaking (1981) [pdf]
Always my favorite video showing just how crazy DST makes everything: http://youtu.be/84aWtseb2-4
I found that task switching in webOS was REALLY nice.. and am glad that Android has since adopted a similar switcher. Now the lack of a physical menu button on most android devices is a different issue.
As someone who develops for iOS and Android I agree. Xcode and the Cocoa Touch frameworks have improved a huge amount in just a few short years.

Meanwhile, the Android frameworks seem to be crawling and it seems like no one can be bothered to create a decent IDE for making Android apps.
There is also Regal, a library that implements GL on top of GLES2. So it should still be possible even with only GLES2.
From Randall Beers main page:

"This one is just for fun. When I first learned Lisp in 1981, I did so by reading Winston and Horn's book and writing my own Lisp interpreter. The interpreter was written in Basic on the only system I had access to at the time: a TRS-80 Model I. This interpreter eventually ended up as part of a series of three articles on Lisp that I wrote for 80 Micro, a TRS-80 hobbyist magazine. The first part of the series, which contains the source code for the interpreter itself, is included here. Note that the listing has all optional spaces removed so that I could fit both the interpreter and 1100 (!) cons cells into 16K of memory."

http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/
They look similar design-wise, but both also look similar to Asana's API docs: http://developer.asana.com/documentation/ . It's just a nice way of laying out documentation.

Looking through the PayPal docs quickly, they don't show any particular similarity to Stripe, besides both being REST APIs for a payments platform.
I am at a top 10 UK university. One of the people I have been assigned to work on a group project with would probably fail this question, we are end-of-second year students.
Wow.

Maybe they're not going after "skill", they're going after people dumb enough to register.[0] They can pick up script kids that look good for the cameras and will undoubtedly brag about all their "hacking" exploits making them easier to convict.

[0]: 419 scammers use the same tactic to weed out people who likely won't fall for a 419 scam.
Did Apple give you a reason why, if so can you share?
Everpix's Image Analysis Software Understands the Content of your Photos
<rant>

Just the other day, I was googling for something in the library. I can't see so well, so I crank up the text size. It's quite readable to others sitting a few feet behind me.

On a whim, a stranger walks up behind me, addresses me by name, and tries to strike up a conversation. He wanted to know where the bathroom was or whatever, but he addressed me by name. I never saw him before.

"Wait wait wait. How'd you know my name?" I ask. "Who are you?"

"Oh, don't you see? It's right there in the corner of your browser window."

I looked, and sure enough, if you're signed in to Google Plus, Google will grace all of its web pages -- all of them, including gmail, search results, etc -- with your first and last name, as decided by your profile's display name. It's right there in the corner.

Since then, I learned my lesson: stay signed out of Google + when I'm browsing in pulbic places unless I want strangers to walk up to me and know who I am.

Sometimes I prefer to remain anonymous. Sometimes I feel like the increasing pressure to always use real names for services isn't a good thing, especially when those companies turn around and expose that valuable information in odd ways like Google is doing.

The option to exercise anonymity is one of the best defenses I have against these kinds of events.

That or I can simply stay signed out all the time...which is equivalent to not using the service.
>There is only one MD5. >you're doing them wrong and will get the wrong results.

I don't guess you're a developer or coder.

Being that the speed of MD5 has increased greatly on the same hardware over the years has shown there are many, if not infinite ways of finding an md5sum. Essentially code is math and number are infinite. You could calculate a number with multiplication and call it NumberTwizzle(TM), I could then look at your formula and write a new formula with bit shifts that runs twice and outputs the exact same answer. I could not call it NumberTwizzle though.

>Creativity is essential, but unless you do those kinds of things the same way as everyone else,

This partial sentence, I don't even. Creativity is looking at what other people are doing and coming up with a 'better', 'cheaper', or 'faster' (maybe all) solution to an existing problem. doing 'things' the same way as everyone else is the exact opposite of creativity.
They all use a document generator: http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/ (MIT License)

That is why they look so similar.
CPS Recursive Ascent Parsing
I will personally kill the irritating dog of your choosing for $50.

There. Felonious and public.
What makes it a narrow decision other than the issue of age and interests of a school administrator at a school function? Nothing. That seems to make it pretty narrow. Unlike other commenters in this thread I don't think "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" is political speech at a school function.
Isnt this the default stylesheet of rocco? http://rtomayko.github.com/rocco/

Rocco is open-source.
Don't build a business on anything that doesn't cost you money.
While I agree it's your call to make entirely but those "million of [sites] on the Internet" don't have the community like SO. I cannot expect Jon Skeet to answer my question on yahoo answers or experts exchange or any other site for that matter. Sometimes products have to change according to user's needs.
Whats your country? I thought that was scenario of only India.
Computer Science is a very interesting degree. Having done the program myself, you learn math you will never use* and ton of other things that can be counted as useless, however I am better for it. Calculus taught me less about how to do Calculus (I don't remember how to do an integral, but I don't get paid to do that), but it did teach me how to study properly and that grinding (hard work) really can solve some issues you have. Discrete Mathematics taught me to look deeper into things, and not just observe the first thing you see as the conclusion. Overall, I went into Computer Science wanting to learn how to program and left not learning how to code from the program (I worked full time as a software engineer through school) but I learned valuable skills that have helped me get where I am today. If you are thinking about not going to college (college is not for everyone*), I suggest you do. College isnt about what books can teach you (you can read those), its about the experiences that you gain (like my stories above), the people you meet and the bonds that you make. That is what makes it all worth it!
> So they juuuust squeaked back into profitability last year; probably mainly due to the slowly improving economy (games are luxury items ...

The jury is still out on how the economy affects video games.

It's often argued that video games perform similarly in recessions to the 'sin industries' - alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, etc. Some quick googling found plenty of articles about whether the video game industry is 'recession proof', but nothing I found unequivocal enough to cite.
Jitsi 2.0 released, includes Multiparty Video Conferencing
If you'll forgive the self-quote:

"If I had to pick a major disagreement between the present world and the past, it would be the importance of invisible amounts of mass and energy, be they trace chemicals or transistors. Moreover we tend to care about emergent information content, the patterns in the material, rather than the actual material.

To a typical Victorian that wouldn't be heresy so much as fantastic nonsense. Your great-grandparents' world was populated by people, animals, and human-scale artifacts. Man was more literally the measure of all things. Important things were assumed to be big and obvious, or at least visible to the senses."

http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/10/predicting-the-future.html
The founding fathers likely never contemplated that groups of people would have different free speech rights than individual people. And Citizens United was about a political movie critical of Hilary Clinton during an election season when she was running for office. It's not "is money speech." I can't think of anything more deserving of free speech protections than political speech, especially critical political speech.

Clapper was a very sensible decision. The plaintiffs in the case couldn't even prove that they had been harmed!
I wonder what the attrition rate would be.
Only way with 98% (at peak) market availability... Also, the tools for working with flash (for creative content) are better than those for Java.
FreeType Development and Maintainance
Paid APIs and services get the axe too.
This could be a good thing for developers who need to support multiple APIs.
For what it's worth, we (Stripe) don't use docco. Though, the design was repurposed with permission from @jashkenas.

I probably was not the first person to extend the idea of the side by side layout to an API spec and example, but I had not seen anything like it when I built the Stripe docs two years ago.
1) age restriction;
2) school grounds;
3) encouraging illegal activity.

That's extremely narrow.
Make sure that they are able to retrieve their product. Less chance of them taking it personally to come after you.
In my experience, Comp Sci grads are among the best prepared employees that we hire for programming careers. It's a great general-purpose education for the kind of work we do, although it's no substitute for hard-gained experience.
Hey guys, we actually built a tool that lets you create custom tutorials with no IT experience necessary. You can easily customize them to fit the look and feel of your site. We offer a 30 day free trial as well! Check us out at www.tutorialize.me.
Two billion variables and possibly millions of labels. I'd be interested in knowing what machine-learning algorithm they're using.
They probably shut it down due to http://www.bateflix.com
I've loved the django document generator[1] but it does not seem to adopted widely. Is the side-by-side layout more appealing?

https://readthedocs.org/
Porn Stars Before and After Their Makeup Makeover
Ask HN: How to start building an Enterprise Tech Marketplace?
Hi,

I developed www.salesmoto.com, reverse-auctioning for enterprise technology purchasing. Buyers open up proposal, vendors join the network to provide a quality pitch.

I built Salesmoto to focus on technology services and quality consultation by vendors rather than focusing on products and quotations. - because services at the end is a B2B partnership, and cheapest is not necessarily the best. I also want to dedicate to introducing enterprise buyers (or SMB buyers) to alternatives and new enterprise startups.

Upon research, its a chicken and egg problem. Get buyers first or sellers first.
This is a very excellent article analyzing how to build ANY marketplace: http://blog.asmartbear.com/marketplace-business-model.html
- Jason recommends getting sellers first

How do I ensure building a proper enterprise buy / sales marketplace?
- Business-model, user repeatability, value-added

What are some unorthodox ways or approaches you guys can recommend from past experiences to get the ball rolling?

Thanks,
Gary