skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me get you the statistics for the US market:

Education	3811

Entertainment	3587

Photo	562

Music & Video	1012

Health & Fitness	867

Security	134

Tools	2387

Government	111

Shopping	179

Games	3657

Lifestyle	1292

Food & Dining	754

Business	708

Travel	1050

Social	523

Finance	360

Productivity	1154

Sports	816

News & Weather	1598

Books & Reference	3158

As you can see there are only 111 'government' apps for example. Since the list of 'top x apps' only contains 100 entries, you're pretty much guaranteed to be in the top 100 of government apps when you make one (it can be anything, an app for a political party, an app for polls, etc.). The same goes for 'shopping' and 'security' (and a little bit for finance, which has 360 apps).

Edit: here are the stats for the different 'games' subcategories:

Action	183

Adventure	72

Arcade	512

Card	167

Casino	73

Family	258

Kids	390

Music	27

Puzzle	1269

Racing	33

Role playing	48

Shooter	92

Simulation	54

Sports	71

Strategy	203
Synchronized note taking. That part's nothing too special. The killer feature for me is they do OCR on your uploaded pictures, which makes saving whiteboard drawings and back-of-napkin diagrams a breeze, or for snapping pics of business cards and then having searchability over the contents.
Android emulator crashes when used with multiple screens
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Or: Worse is better: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html .

Or, in a different way, you need to be in fire and motion: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html .

(Note: this is reinforcing the original submission, not belittling it.)
Colonel O. North, nice to see you again!
Science and gun violence: why is the research so weak?
the UK system is an extremely poor version of the German system. To implement an apprenticeship model, the state HAS to take direct control over the hiring of almost all entry level employees. otherwise the incentives and work culture is simply not in place for a large number of meaningful training opportunities to exist.
It has, google "epistemic injustice".
Is anyone else totally fascinated by the UI design of slide 8 in the slideshow?

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/03/03/business/03alask...

I'm counting up the datapoints in the 150+ flights in that display, which appears to be based on a particular aircraft:

* origin/destination
* flight number
* dep/arr times
* airport status (color of airport code)
* flight status (color of bar - complete/inprogress/delayed/cancelled/?)
* still trying to figure out what the little red/green whiskers are...
You should probably change it now...
Right, it's not really for the club or bar scene where they would have their own set list. It's more for birthdays, Sweet 16, high school dances, weddings or bar mitzvahs. These types of events the DJ's actually take requests.
I wonder why this never made it into...

That can be said for so many of these programs.
I would not call source control "backup". More like a standard requirement for collaboration.
Hate Valet? Not to Worry; Help Is at Hand
> But glass has no CPU, there's not enough power or space for one. The intelligence lives on google servers where the speach recognition is done, and everything else, and glass is useless without a net connection (So you have to be in an area with wifi or have a smartphone handy to tether to.)

I guess this CPU-less device talks to a Wifi connection via... magic.
SpaceX Dragon successfully docks with International Space Station
If you are genuinely successful at coping with difficulties of that sort, it typically goes unnoticed. You live a normalish life, not worth remarking upon. If you try to tell people your ordinary life is a grand accomplishment, they think you suffer from something akin to Munchausen Syndrome.
I find it interesting that you bring up CloudFront, because they are also very expensive. As far as I can tell, because there are so many people of there who have a mental aversion to talking to another human and negotiating, they can charge an insane premium on an "engh" service.

Regardless, if picking up the phone and negotiating with a CDN, someone whose opinion of you is totally irrelevant and where the worst-case outcome is "we won't do business with you", how are you going to handle support on your own product, or court investors of your company?
Ksplice [1] lets you do that. For a while they had very limited support for it, but I just checked and they seem to support Ubuntu on the desktop as well [2]. Once this comes to the server edition and/or is bundled by Canonical, using Ubuntu would become much smoother.

[1] http://www.ksplice.com/

[2] http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/download-ubuntu
Misleading in one sense, but revealing in another.

That 10MW wind turbine on your 10,000m^2 of land will only get to that output by using wind blowing into it from other land.

So, if your neighbor builds another such turbine on his land, your output will drop.

So, you will have to pay your neighbors for not building such a turbine on their land. In that sense, you really need that area to get that output.

Having said that, ROI of wind turbines seems to be way better than that for photovoltaics, in almost every aspect. https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofglobalclimatechangevj..., for example, gives you about 6 months to recover the energy investment of building a wind mill and 3 years for photovoltaics.
Based on my recent personal experience, I don't feel that much has improved. Perhaps society is more accepting of the condition, and less likely to stigmatized. But helping a mentally ill person (in the USA) is pretty much not an option. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough.
It's clear, but it's still wrong: your risk tolerance analysis appears to include "money in the bank ... to survive through the fluctuations" of the market, but not to survive a simultaneous loss of your job. Which, because it is in the same sector as your investment portfolio, is very likely to be correlated with those downward fluctuations.

Stated again, and for the third time: for technical professionals, investment of personal assets in the tech industry carries higher risk than it does for fund managers and other general investors. If you aren't investing with that in mind, you're fundamentally doing it wrong. This isn't a question of "risk tolerance", it's a question of correct mathematics.
Way too many pictures...
That's not the tone I got from the article at all. Your comment seems incredibly defensive and largely blinded by your own experience, how is your view any more valid than his? You must have never encountered any of the numerous CS graduates that can't code their way out of a paper bag.
Don't Hire Entrepreneurs; Hire Entrepreneurial Spirit
Browsing the web on an iPad stinks–and Apple likes it that way
For the record, serving assets off S3 directly isn't a good idea. We use cloud front for that as well. Making the actual app the root origin is a good idea though. Need to think a little about the full ramifications of that versus simply having the S3 asset bucket the origin.
You're quite right. I was too young and inexperienced to know it at the time. It took several years to realize just how much they were taking advantage of me.

Still, he said it, and it incremented that internal counter of "reasons to resent", even if it was unfounded.
Wealth Inequality in America
Lean documentation: how hackpad helps us empower remote communication.
Two things:

1. That video of the BGP routes disappearing is awesome, and

2. A 40 minute outage sounds bad, but consider the following timeline (based on the writeup):

> T+0: route change made, propagates

> T+10: Response team online, attempting local fixes

> T+30: Routers across 23 data centres in 14 countries hard reset and networks coming back up.
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I think that depends on how you frame the problem. It helps to start with wondering why they do things instead of labeling them "mentally ill" from the get go. But I am sorry to hear of your frustrations.

That is intended to be a helpful observation, not a criticism.
Evaluated them both for quite a while: No desktop client, no note formatting, no embedded images. So no.
>> "But helping a mentally ill person (in the USA) is pretty much not an option."

Could you explain why? Here (the UK) there is quite a lot of free help from the health service and there are a lot of charities I know of which provide counselling. Local GP's are also able to work with people and refer them to specialists if necessary.
Glad you found it helpful! The model presents them as four distinct types, though each organization is likely a blend of the four with tendencies mostly in one direction or another.
This post describes an approach:

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....

and this little page demonstrates an adaptation to a 5-star rating system:

http://www.goproblems.com/test/wilson/wilson.php?v1=0&v2...

Randall Munroe gave a user-oriented explanation of the system here:

http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...
Yeah right, my PC happily sends 2560x1600 picture to my monitor over DVI right now. All HDMI ports I've seen are limited to 1920x1200.
Compared to what we used to have to do to write CRUD apps, Rails et al ARE app generators!

Seriously though, my knee jerk reaction was to write all the reasons this couldn't work. But instead, I think you should go ahead and start trying to build it. In the end even if you fail you'll have learned a great deal, and at least have created some code worth turning into libraries.
I've done a bunch of these and whenever they say "oh, we use something thats a lot like javascript but we've slightly modified it" I just groan.

I'd much rather work harder to learn something real than learn a simplified style that is utterly useless outside your website.
Was it a question of conscience though?

As far as I could tell from the statement that was linked, he came to no conclusion more specific than that "war sucks" when leaking the SIGACTs. Good job, but we've known that since before the Code of Hammurabi.

Did he really think that Americans were convinced that no civilian casualties ever occurred, or that a population of hundreds of thousands (that had been a bunch of high schoolers just a few years prior) were 100% "good guys" without exception? Many of those soldiers aren't even old enough to drink. That wasn't an oversight; the public has known, and always have.

That is the big difference from the Pentagon Papers. In that situation it was uncovered that the President had been trying to force the country to war. Here we already know why we're at war (9/11 and Dubya for Afghanistan and Iraq resp.). Manning had nothing to add about why the U.S. was at war. A 'smoking gun' revealing gov't interference beyond what is already known for Iraq would have been useful, at least.

So, if that [war being bad] was his reason for wanting to "start a public debate" it was pointless, completely dead on arrival. And in the event, look what happened. A bunch of people have died in Africa and the Middle East, but the military plans of the U.S. itself were never seriously questioned, let alone altered. The U.S. still goes after Islamists, don't they?

> Manning can speak about why he did and you can speak about why you didn't.

Oh you're so cute, with your Cloak of Superior Morality. Answer this for me: You're obviously skilled with computing, why aren't you extracting the information you need, if it's a moral imperative?

For what it's worth I'm pretty sure that everything I'm holding onto is actually better in the grand scheme of things but by all means, point out my "guilty conscience" to me.
I live in Seattle and would definitely use them more often if we hadn't repeatedly been screwed by their customer service.
The APIs are a super nice touch. Running through tutorials can get really monotonous but the API stuff gave me a burst of excitement to play with the software I use every day.
>(And, I'd wager that they're better for my career in the long term, but that's not really relevant to this discussion.)

How so?
Can someone provide a clickable link for us poor souls living in the Android Ghetto?
Update your Twitter profile location when you checkin on foursquare.
A ruby application which will update your twitter profile location when you check in on foursquare.

Prevents those annoying checkin tweets.
You could setup tor nodes on your own servers, than configure your client to use them and mix in some regular public nodes.

Its even better if you make your tor nodes public and let other people use them too, to make it more difficult to correlate traffic sent from/to the server with you.
Sorry if you found that insulting. I guess I got used to this aspetic cold language you see on HN to make emotion invisible. That's one of the things I miss from Reddit.

I know there are many people like you that somehow intuitively capture these abstract concepts, and I respect that. I just find it amusing that you can notice these things even when the person is out of work. That's when you differentiate the manipulative managers from the true ones.

My point wasn't particularly focusing in offices. Being pragmatic and rather emotion-less, I find programming requires more logic and method than feelings.
I'm guessing the red/green lines are showing if the planes are running late/early. Red lines indicate a delay with the start of the line being the expected take off/landing, and the opposite for green lines.
The New Guest Workers: A German Dream for Crisis Refugees
Hah! I actually majored in Latin in college -- and it was certainly disturbing to learn the etymology of the word 'rape'.
I wonder if there were cries for acid bans in the wake of this.
Start learning Ruby on Rails. Check out and use the scaffold generators for a bit.

Eventually you'll see for yourself that you can't make the scaffold generators do X, Y, or Z custom requirements yourself and you'll probably drop this notion.

Libraries and frameworks can make repetitive tasks easier, but there's nothing out there yet that's going to write the majority of a non-trivial App for you.
Show HN: We just launched our first original interactive storybook. 
Hey guys, not asking anyone to purchase this by any means. Just really proud of what my team has done and want to show it off. I'd love to give out some promo codes to any hacker parents that need something to keep their young kids busy.
Hey guys, not asking anyone to purchase this by any means. Just really proud of what my team has done and want to show it off. I'd love to give out some promo codes to any hacker parents that need something to keep their young kids busy.

I would also love to discuss any of the technical's of the app and or the marketing campaign that anyone might be interested in knowing. Its a pretty low budget grass roots campaign... I am not the developer on the project, but I can easily pull the lead developer into the conversation as soon as anything goes above my head. We built it in Unity 3D using the 2D Toolkit. All of our animation was done in Flash and then output to sprite sheets. We also created a pretty awesome method to output individual components of some of the characters and elements that can then be tweened via XML which significantly cuts down the amount of full sprites that we needed to include in the app as well as made the animations super smooth.

We were fortunate to get featured in the New and Noteworthy sections of two categories: Books & Education. We are first in the New and Noteworthy section in Books and 4th in Education and thirteenth on the featured landing page of the iPad app store. We are currently running about #32 in top paid apps in the Books category.

We will be releasing on the Nook and Kindle stores in the next week or so as well as the Google Play store. It will be interesting to see and compare how this type of app does in each of those segments. I will be tracking it closely and hope to share my findings in a few months.

So far the only hiccup is that the app doesn't perform well on iPad 1 or iPhones before the 4s. We have just about addressed the problem and plan to release an update next week. In our first release the app only included retina size graphics and each device sizes them on the fly. Unfortunately the older generation devices don't hold up too well in this process, so we have downsized all the graphics to a non-retina alternative that those devices will have access to. Unfortunately it added to our already heavy file size, but it will make the app run smooth on a lot more devices, so it's probably worthwhile.

I'd love to get any questions, comments/thoughts and/or advice from anyone that has successfully marketed an app. I am handling all the marketing, so I have a vested interest!
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Almost crapped myself reading this, working on something very similar... I wonder if it will meet the same fate.
I'm the OP. I meant that the experience that you have matters, the degree doesn't.

Pursuing a degree gives you valuable experience - it would be a disaster if it didn't. There are other ways to get experience as well and some of those are better suited for certain individuals like myself. Our industry, when it works well, is meritocratic. If you are great at what you do the way you collected that experience is irrelevant.

I couldn't tell you who at Shopify has CS degrees and who doesn't. It simply never comes up. What comes up a lot is how good and how helpful people are and there seems to be little correlation with the degree.
Marissa Mayer still used as example in Android docs
Because partisans are not interested in solid science. They are interested in getting their way.
I dont know about you, but a lot of the joy that I get out of building things has nothing to do with money.
I'm the process of getting a H-1B visa denied because of my lack of degree on IT. I order to get working H-1B visa without a degree one would need to have near 12 years (which I have, but not 12 straight years obviously with a few months lacking here and there) of working verified experience. My company however, seems to find me valuable enough to want me to work for them even if remotely. The US gov does not....go figure....
https://hackerlist.net:1443/rss -- done, please let me know if you'd like it in a different format or if there are any mistakes. Thanks, stillbourne!
Occasionally when stories about acid attacks reach lesser online forums, the comments will indeed be filled with cries of "why the hell are they even selling acid?". The commenters presumably do not realize that their local hardware store just a few minutes away is selling nasty shit as well.
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I'd argue that anyone with the technical ability to get a game featured, yet without the experience to capitalize on that exposure needs a whole lot of advice. And frankly, I'm glad that HN is here because this 'worthless anecdote' taught me:

- there are only 43,000 apps in the Windows 8 store. Of those, only ~ 3,600 are games. Despite these numbers, one particular developer only sold nine apps for a total of about twenty pounds.

- how not to advocate for a platform. Or, how to genuinely annoy people while trying to persuade them to do what you want.
Some services, like squid have logs with the time in UTC seconds...
Because the data doesn't really back up the either side in USA.

USA is really violent for a western civilization

The only correlation is identified that poorer regions have more violence, regardless of guns.

Guns doesn't really play a big role at all, according to the statistics.

Of course one thing the statistics cannot account for that guns are available in any state.
Tutorial was fun as a complete coding novice. Would like to know the answer to the question above. Would love to see a good summary example video of what Python can do start to finish and how it fits into the process of say.. creating a cool web app. i.e. Take this chunk of code, do this, this and this and now you literally have your own web app. At that point I would like to learn / get excited to learn Python by messing around with it. Does anyone know of anything like this?
To be clear, while I wrote out the effective command that was pushed to the router, it was a script that generated it and the fault lies with the script not having adequate error handling.
I think where the college and credentials bit is failing--for me at least--is the lack of differentiation between "learning to do" and "learning to think." I went to a liberal arts college and spent most of my four years learning to think. Liberal Arts are good for that kind of thing, and depending on your background (I'm not the product of highly educated parents) it can be extremely useful and a completely justified reason for going to college. One can learn to think elsewhere, but college is still a great place to do it.

As recently as ten years ago, it was impossible to learn to do outside of a formal training program, but today it's completely possible to learn to do almost anything via Youtube, iTunes, and the rest of the internet. And the problem is that today's university system--except in fairly rare cases--actually hinders learning to do. The world outside moves too fast for the educational bureaucracy to keep up. Formal education is valuable, but maybe more for learning to think than learning to do, at least in modern times.
Ask PG: Auto-ban commenters who repeatedly respond to replies?
Background: I've noticed that the commenters on HN who are the least useful, most adversarial, and who generally I, at least, could do without on HN have the following behavioral signature:

They respond to most (or even all) of the people that reply to their comments, especially in a deeply nested fashion.

This commenting behavior is independent of the actual topic, so there's no need to evaluate the quality of the comment (or whatever). It's more like spam.

Now, of course, all of us reply to people who ask us questions, or for clarification, or whatever. Infrequent replies shouldn't trigger any kind of action.

But the commenters I'm talking about essentially comment spam entire threads with their replies, and it's really, really obvious who they are. I'm certain a Bayesian filter could easily detect them.

My proposal is to consider auto-banning, or otherwise slowing down these people (perhaps reducing their ability to post replies for a period of time). Their behavior is hurting the whole community.

If other HNers have any other suggestions on how to improve this aspect of HN, please let PG know in the comments. Thanks.
When Apple announced this framework back then at WWDC they showed a cool sample plugin: The plugin would receive a message, feed it through ELIZA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) to create a response message. The demo ended with two iMessage instances chatting to each other and both used ELIZA. :)
Couldn't the fashion problem be solved by making hats cool again. Already some hipsters are wearing them, should provide plenty of space for hiding computing gear. Perhaps even the projector into the eye could be hidden in the rim of the hat?