skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet Safety Tips for Parents
This is a cheat sheet I made for other parents who wanna make their computers and mobile devices a little safer for their kids. :)
Except they made it pretty clear that it will be an always-on game. :/
le sigh.

I'm not even really sure how to reply to you, because there seems to be a complete lack of common ground here. Let me try again.

Garriot programmer. Garriot not artist. Garriot no choose art direction. Garriot just want to make program. Garriot just use whatever model laying around on hard drive.

No, it's not strange to create prototypes without choosing an art direction. Games are typically products of real substance. They aren't your random Rails+Illustrator startup making something flashy and pretty, banking on everyone being distracted by their "elegance" long enough to make a few bucks before the users realize they offer nothing of real substance. Art in a game is content. You can substitute any content into the game and the gameplay will be unaffected. If the game can stand on its own with unattractive content, then it will be even better with pretty content. If a game needs pretty content to catch your attention, then it's probably not a good game.

And that is where game projects fail, when they don't offer anything of substance. My point about Minecraft was that your point about "exploring on your own" not being a good concept for a game didn't hold water. A game concept can be anything, if you make it substantial.
Half the people here are just too dramatic about simple things. "My identity is sacred and my privacy is sacred". If you want to be private you already know what to do, first world problems man. Geez.
Most of these sites will go down due to one big hurdle. Payments.

Underwriting merchants and get verified by Visa/MasterCard as a payment service provider is a bitch. Aggregating credit cards is a heavily regulated area - but most of these sites are unaware of this issue.

We initially started on Stripe, and got told what we were doing was unregulated/not allowed on stripe, so we then grabbed a coffee with them and learnt about this process.

In fact I was grabbing coffee with Sahil (Gumroad) a few months ago and they've just run into this issue themselves - which they are starting to solve. so you'll probably notice them asking you for more information to underwrite you, unless they find a way around this.

That's also why we ask users to go through an activate process.
The same reason blatant scams get allowed, kickstarted has a significant financial incentive to allow as much as possible. Why would they shut down a kickstarter that will put $50,000 in their pockets?
Holy shit, I need this and I would use it often! Please support DTLA soon! This is perfect for DTLA because there are few Wash-N-Folds nearby.
Oh I see now, there's huge gap between two walls of text, I never scrolled down.
Ask HN: What are ways to make money on the web?
Hello,

I'm going to back to grad school and won't be working for a while. I'm wondering if there are ways to make to make money off the internet?
I'm not looking to make millions of dollars; more like pocket change.
thanks.
I predict that EA will cave-in to some extent and release a modified version of Sim City.

Let the game be used in the manner that the vast majority of your paying customers prefer, or suffer a major loss of reputation.
I just recently switched from iPhone to Android and from the iPhone 4 to the Nexus 4.

Here are my impressions after a few weeks:

* Everything is so fast and smooth. It's the first Android device I've used that this was the case. My iPhone 4 was sluggish by comparison. I feel like iOS is getting slower while Android has been getting faster - at least on the phones.

* It's so much cheaper. $30/mo for tmobile pre-paid, no contract and unlimited data (though only 5GB/mo at high speeds).

* Lots of apps I used existed on the other side, and were as good or almost as good. Notably Gmail is better on the iPhone and Reeder still beats anything I've found on Android so far.

* I enjoy the bigger screen and find myself reading more on the phone than I did with the iPhone, but even with big hands it's some work to manage one handed use.

* The average quality of apps is pretty poor. So far I've managed to find nice ones for everything I wanted.

* Lots of things work in Android how they should work. The intents system is great.

All in all, I'm quite pleased. I don't think I'm ready to give up the iPad for a Nexus 7 or 10 yet, but it no longer seems like I'd be losing all that much even there.

UPDATED to add:

* The keyboard is just way better. I can type so much faster, and the result is that I'll actually use it to write emails now, instead of just waiting until I'm back at my desk. Some of this is due to increased size, but some is due to the keyboard software being that much better. For example, spelling correction is way better on Android. Just tap and choose after you've written everything else.

* Cut and paste is sort of frustrating on Android. One example: try to copy the url from the Firefox address bar. I've managed to do it, but it took a few minutes of trying various things.
So, its in no way like Uber, but Uber is cool.

Sorry, but I think that "on demand" and "pickup" explain stuff much better than a bad comparison with another company.

I was left puzzled.
Language Comparison --- A Simple AST example
I beg to disagree. It barely did. The jump from iOS 5 to 6 was the most egregious in terms of not delivering much besides cosmetics. Sure I like iCloud, notifications & multitasking. But when you look at how far Android & Windows phone have come since they first came out, it's no contest. The pace of innovation is relative, & on the mobile OS front -that Apple spearheaded with their once nothing short of mind-blowing iPhone OS- they're now a laggard.
Are there penalties for being wrong or mistaken? It seems pretty one-sided.
Towns is its own genre. It's like third-person Minecraft. Not the same.
"Server woes are a necessary evil with MMOs"

I am not sure that is true. What other than DRM stops people from setting up their own competing servers? What other than a lack of incentive for the game makers prevents community-run servers from interoperating, creating an enormous peer-to-peer universe?
This is awesome! Good job!
As an Android user, the loudest complaint about iOS seems to be 'it's boring,' despite it's reliability and constantly improving feature set.

Seems like iOS's next killer feature needs to be customization/skinning/theme support.

(Correct me if I'm overlooking an already existing feature like this in non jailbroken iOS)
Here's the post that I responded to.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5342078

> the arrangement of a phone book is copyrightable

An alphabetical list is not copyrightable, but you can arrange a phonebook to make it copyrightable.

The arrangement of a phonebook can be copyrightable.
SFWA Response to Hydra Letter
Was this an intended joke on Heroku?

Heroku started out as "develop Rails in your browser", but quickly pivoted into "host Rails in the cloud".
Set up a ssh tunnel, using ssh on *nix, or putty on windows.
Then point the VNC viewer to the local port of that tunnel.
Interestingly enough, it appears that the wheels of capitalism (free markets) have run out of the lubrication (purchasing power) that allows them to function.

Wealth inequality is at record highs [1], and is being further fueled as a result of productivity gains from technology. Thus, corporate profitability is no longer coupled to wage growth, and "trickle-down" economics no longer applies.

This is a brave new world indeed, and I'm not sure more startups in the web sector will help. However, applying the lean productivity philosophy of startups to government while simultaneously laying out a new plan for revitalizing the purchasing power of the public, through redistribution mechanisms such as Negative Income Tax or otherwise, may be steps in the right direction.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5345267
That wasn't papsosouid's complaint, which pertained to the fact that the project creator can afford to pay for the project, and so shouldn't be using KS.
Simple Divisor Problem
Yes, it's free and works.
It's not github policy, it's explicitly part of the law.
Re: Reeder, I'd highly recommend gReader (Pro), especially the new Holo beta available on their website. Super slick without being anywhere near over the top of visual effects and has all of the features that any RSS reader I've seen has had. I went through numerous RSS readers to finally find it and be quite happy with it. (Frankly, Google's Reader app is an embarrassment, but then again Google Voice continues to more or less be an eyesore.)
Maybe it will in 20 years time...? I honestly have no idea. I'm speaking way outside of my knowledge realm and am more thinking aloud and asking questions than anything
Different ways to undo in Git
Can't be. Has to say "0" sometimes.
I think you underestimate how pervasive the demonstrated superiority of autonomous vehicles will be.

Right now, we just have some videos showing fancy parallel parking: http://www.gizmag.com/just-how-good-will-autonomous-automobi...

By the time legislation is being contemplated, everyone will have seen groups of autonomous vehicles moving in near perfect synchronization through lights, around obstacles, etc. The statistics will be overwhelming. The evidence will be all around us and only the last few hold-outs will need to be convinced with financial incentives (insurance rates) or legal ones.
This discussion might be worth a read: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=129291
Making Cython Work with Machine Learning's Hash Trick
There is also a "LAN connect" option which will not depend on teamviewer servers to broker a connection. If your endpoints are directly addressable and don't have any firewall/NAT complications, the workflow is just like a VNC or RDP.
Nokia is suing HTC, claiming VP8 infringes their patent
This article really loves that dock, but I've heard mixed things about it on reddit (/r/nexus4). In particular, the phone slides off when it gets dusty, because the dock is NOT in fact magnetic (as the article mentions). You can tell (apparently) because if you put a piece of paper behind the phone, it isn't held up at all. The phone is completely held up by the rubber rings on wireless charger. I don't have the wireless charger though, it's a bit expensive for me; maybe someone else here on Hackernews has some more concrete opinions?
I think it's very hard to say how much of the simulation is happening online. When I was playing last night I repeatedly got messages saying I'd been disconnected and then a few minutes later that I was reconnected. The game played fine between those messages. That said, I did notice some weirdness. For example, sewage and electricity and water would be perfectly fine one moment and then the next they would be way overloaded. I could interpret this as meaning the that part of the sim was happening online, or I could chalk it up to just being how the game goes.

I also ran into what many others have seen in the first few days. I built up a large city over a few hours and then quit. When I started back up, nothing was there. The city was claimed but it was a clean slate. You might see this from any number of things. Maybe the sim is all on the computer. Maybe the saves are just borked. Maybe the saves are fine on one node but haven't been replicated to whatever node I my request got load balanced to when i reconnected.
"Notably Gmail is better on the iPhone..."

Interesting... I've always used Android and assumed the Android GMail client was better than the iPhone one. In what way is the iPhone GMail client better?
This is the future of gaming.

Then I guess I won't be gaming anymore. Not that I do much now, and I've mostly quit for other unrelated reasons, but if is the future of gaming, you can count me, and I'm sure many others, out.

I used to game a lot. I used to spend a not insignificant amount of money on games. If the publishers want to basically steal my money and call me the thief, then they can forget about having me as a customer.
Negative income tax is a good idea only if it replaces all the other forms of redistribution. Otherwise you are just adding another middleman bureaucrat who moves wealth around rather than creates it. It's main benefit is that it could cut out a lot of the bloat in government, while keeping a floor for the least fortunate amongst us.
You could go to a police station and ask for assistance searching the bag. You could go early to the airport and ask for the help of a drug sniffing dog.

Assuming you are innocent, what will absolutely doom your defense is any indication that you knew you were doing something not quite right and took any effort to not get caught. "Well, just in case, I will do this so it is more likely I get away with it."

Complying with the wishes of imagined unpleasant people you have never met implies you are probably doing something wrong on purpose, doesn't it? If that is your concern, immediately book a flight to your home country, pronto!
It's interesting, back in the Froyo/Gingerbread days, I was convinced that Google was going to give us native theming support. And then it came to CM by way of TMobile's Theme Chooser they contributed. And it was "fun" in the 2.x days, but there were very few high quality themes.

Now, I'll get curious every once in a while and download and there are a few that take minor creative liberties with Holo and look pleasant, but I always go back to stock.

I'd be very, very, very, very surprised to see Apple give users that level of control, not because I'm trying to be all holier than though about Apple, but because that would seem to betray their knack for polishing and making the experience universally whole. That having been said, I think it's really, really stale and am excited to see what they come up with for iPhone Next.

Also, it's interesting to hear people express "boredom". I went from being a crack-nightly flasher on Android who would build his own builds to include a patch that hadn't been accepted yet... and now I'm largely bored with my phone. It's a flashlight, a maps app and something to do when I'm in line at the grocery store. Maybe I've just changed, I'm certainly tired of the "appify everything" phase, but I can understand how a sense of boredom sets in.
Manti T'eo, anyone?
HBO Admits Game Of Thrones Needs Quicker Availability
Gotcha. If that truly is all that's punted to the server we should start seeing cracks in a few weeks, I would think.
Why The Domestic Use Of Armed Drones Is A Bad Thing
Nice paywall - "You've been busy! Looks like you hit your 2 article limit." You can only see two of the pictures before you get the boot.
Fixing Database Connections in Django
Looks like Webshell is integrating APIs into your site, while Runnable is about API discovery, prototyping, learning from others (more of a Stack Overflow direction).
Yes, because your claim you thought it was just a dumb empty suitcase will be very believable. You forgot it because (A) it was not your bag and (B) it was not valuable, so it was easy to forget.
Along those lines, a prof at UMich lost custody of his son because he gave him Mikes Hard Lemonade at a baseball game. So much brilliance and cluelessness wrapped up into one person.

http://www.annarbor.com/news/ann-arbor-familys-custody-ordea...
You may be unto something
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=memoryfailure
Nope, there's no skinning/theme support in iOS. The only thing you can customize are the lock screen and background.
Galaxy S IV to have floating touch and Green PHOLED material AMOLED display
It doesn't seem to work. I created product, but when I click "Secure Checkout" button on product page nothing happens.
I prefer to think of "finance" (to the extent that its myriad subfields can be subsumed under that label) as the oil that lubricates the machine. That is, necessary for proper operation, but incapable of providing a motive force by itself.

On a related note, it's easy for "financial types" to fall into the trap of equating GDP with the creation of wealth (indeed, some people define it this way), and during economic booms structural problems are often glossed over by citing increasing GDP as a sign of growing wealth. But at the end of the day, improving living standards have a subjective component that can't be fully captured by measuring the total value of the goods & services produced each year.
How to Setup a Lean Online Store Startup
I think that the reason we do not hear much about such things is either:

1- The 'drug mine' is wildly successful and has not been caught by the authorities yet

or

2- People intelligent enough to be building such devices found less risky and more profitable avenues for their skills. i.e.: criminals are not smart and that's why they are criminals.
We have a "space" on the black board that's reserved, in the security class I'm taking. It's commonly know as the "java 0-day calendar". Everyone thought it was funny at first. Yet, lately the professors has started whining about not having enough space left for their lectures. Yeah, now it's basically just sad.
Assuming the cops won't be sympathetic and there's no cameras in the men's room, dump the contents in the furthest stall you can find, without touching any of it. Then get the hell out of there on the first flight back you can get or head to the embassy.
Same here; only difference is, I don't rent books, music, movies, games or software. Sell me a copy, or lose a sale.
The article quotes Frampton as saying, "I have been accused of having a huge ego." Asking for proof would be admitting to himself (and her) that he can't realistically bag a swimsuit model.
But for a 100m radius it is accurate to 36 microns.
Why 90% of What You Read About Apple is Crap
I've not used RubyMotion despite coming from a Ruby background because it looks like you wind up writing a lot of Ruby that ends up looking an awful lot like, well, Objective C. It doesn't feel very much like Ruby. If the code is just (or nearly) as verbose and obscure, why bother giving up Xcode, storyboards, etc and adding a dependency on RubyMotion?

I feel like the hurdles of learning Cocoa are far greater than those of Objective C, and potentially even tricker because you've got to translate it into Ruby.

But I acknowledge this concern is not born of experience. Anyone care to comment?
I wasn't familiar with this, but Mark Jacobs is a founder and they are based out of DC like Mythic was.
iOS Evolved quite a lot in the first few releases. iOS 2, 3, and 4 all had major innovation to them and some fantastic new frameworks to take advantage of the hardware. Even iOS 5 had some neat new capabilities like CIDetector and some of the CoreVideo->OpenGLES stuff.

iOS 6 on the other hand offered practically nothing in terms of lower-level apis, or even bugfixes for bugs that have existed for a few years.
Please don't encourage the use of phantomjs and its wacky ecosystem. It's incredible instability will bite you in the face very soon.
The problem with your argument is the need of context; not everyone designing web pages is good at design and contextualization of interfaces, this is not an "opinion", is a FACT. And what it means is that in general, promoting practices such as flat buttons is counter-productive for usability.
You could say the wheels of capitalism has run out of lubrication, or you could say that the creeping growth of regulation and governemnt spending has thrown sand into wheels. See this graph of spending as a percent of GDP:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/outl...

You may want a lot of government spending but you have to acknowledge there is a cost. You may think we need a lot of the regulations, but there are plenty that are a drag on the economy (see patents).
I believe they are referring to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5332192
UO PvP was the golden era of my gaming experience. I was Dread Lord Phlux on Napa Valley shard and was playing from beta through go-live for ~2 years.

I worked in the Intel Game Developers Lab at the time and we had ~6 accounts machines all right next to one another. We had 100 hide and also had Great Lord Phlux characters as well.

It was so much fun logging in as Great Lord Phlux and people just saw "...Lord Phlux" and would attack my good rep character and lose their rep!

So many great memories on UO.

I long for such an experience again, and since I have been playing the ultima series since Ultima II on the Apple IIe - I will always support this series...
Thank you Jeremy.
Awesome link. The content is very subjective but I guess there is no definitive answer. The market will weed out the crappy submissions anyhow.
How many languages is it possible to know?
what you think guys?
Like Devan stated below - "We position ourselves between Gumroad & Shopify (if they did payments)".

In the future, we plan on adding widgets that will work within our application that will cater to some of the cases you pointed out. Some of these widgets will include date/time charging (tutor offering hours/days of work) and subscription based charging (SaaS service you mentioned). Of course, we're not limited to just that.

As for the PSD, we host the file for you so all you need to do is upload the PSD and after the checkout process, the buyer can immediately download it.
i'm a local startup founder too, just placed an order. couple of suggestions

* confirmation email from noreply@wash.io should have an actual reply address that someone reads

* i think something might be wrong with the confirmation page after clicking order, it popped up the confirmation dialog box, but then a blue stripe at the top with a white ">>" at the very left appeared that seems to be empty. i'm on latest safari/osx.

good luck guys.
Agreed. Ideally, government services would be completely self serve (via web apps), and all current government employees would be laid off and put on Negative Income Tax benefits. Law would be non-profit, as would healthcare, and there would be severe limits on legal complexity.

In a nutshell, the government must be engineered such that form follows function. Currently, it has become a malignant tumor that grows for the sake of growth itself. Until we agree that government must be leanest of all institutions, we will continue to fall into this ever deepening quagmire of bureaucratic impotency.
Facebook acquires Storylane, a story-telling platform
not true. look for Black Orbs as one example.

via http://www.redmondpie.com/top-tweaks-for-iphone-and-ipad-tha...
If I remember SimCity correctly, saved games are pretty important. One can only get so far without saving...
And wake up 3 weeks later with your throat cut.
As an iOS dev, I heavily disagree. If you look at the state of iOS3 vs. iOS6 the difference is immense. Much of this doesn't come in the form of directly user-visible features, but in the form of platform improvements that open the door for much better apps.

Just about everything you see in apps today is impossible on iOS3 (or absurdly impractical). Even something as simple as the ubiquitous slide-aside menu would have been insanely hard to implement in the first iOS SDK release.

Since the SDK first landed we've seen Grand Central Dispatch which has helped apps become way more responsive than before. We've seen large improvements to Core Data that helps apps cache more intelligently and easily. MapKit didn't even exist in the original SDK. The list goes on, and on.

This is a classic "frog boiling in water" phenomenon. You don't think there have been any real improvements to iOS because you've grown along with these evolutionary changes. If I gave you a iPhone 3G with iOS3 and a iPhone 5 with iOS6 - along with common, well-developed apps of their time - you will see and feel the difference immediately.