skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would highly advise you to rethink that. What if we're a larger site? To be honest, your pricing is way out of our ballpark anyway (We're a smallish daily newspaper, ~300k uniques/monthly), there's no way I'd ever get approval for $20k/yr for analytics, no matter how cool, and I'd never get approval to spend $1k+ just to try it.

For orgs like us, your pricing seems rather brutal, as we're probably much lower in pages/visit than an "app" type website. (We're at ~10 page views per visit, average)
Your move from self-hosted WordPress assets to S3 left some weird stray URLs on your blog that you could fix too...

http://blog.heapanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/blo... for example.

Now can I have an invite? ;) mattl [at] gnu org
> The only long term solution is a basic income system

We already have basic income (guaranteed income/'living wage'/whatever buzzword you want to use) in the US, it's called... welfare and disability.
Interesting idea - however, without some close-up example photos of how those patterns would look on a sock, I wouldn't want to purchase any of those.
While this is interesting, it breaks down -- suggested logical fallacy notwithstanding -- at "the only long term solution is [x]." Applying enough reasoning to see and understand our larger problems is a necessary first step, but to find one potential solution and stop there, as though further consideration could not possibly find alternatives, is extremely baffling.
Dropbox is certainly out of startup realm and the time from now to possible IPO is good time to hire best engineering talent in the valley.
> all genuinely unable to perform moderate physical labor

I know of several people who spend all day sitting at home blogging or chatting on email because they're physically disabled. Yet I've employed multiple people as customer support techs who's job description is "sit at home and chat on email".

Our government is unwilling to tell people that they're free to either work or not work, but if they choose not to work, they won't get paid.

It's a collective action problem: no politician wants to be the first one to be "mean" and tell perfectly competent people that they can't live off of the stolen labor of others.

...so we continue to have "disability" for people who are entirely capable of working, albeit not at wages that they'd prefer to earn.
You could read all the responses into a Queue-type structure and then populate the database in the background.
The free dichotomy
If you don't know what forking and repo means,

If you think that, you're reading way too much into my question.
They article states it's $13k/year in cash. Not sure what the value of the medical benefits, but $13k/year would be pretty miserable on a family. I know someone who subsists basically on minimum wage and made just about $12k last year, he's still pretty young and healthy and is looking for a job that's better (has a degree), but he's spent a significant amount of time having to live with family/friends to get by. He's always on the lookout for $.99 taco night, but I think really at some point he'd like to get past that phase of life.
Sorry. Wrong again.

When a cell reaches capacity, you subdivide the cell. e.g. You turn a single 3-sector cell into three smaller cells. Each cell operates in either a different frequency range or in the case of OFDMA (LTE) via a remapping of the timeslots and a lower upper power range.

Exactly the same way that you can re-use the 2.4Ghz band for WiFi a bazillion times over.

So the challenge isn't the available spectrum; it's the available dollars to install base-stations and do backhaul. QED.
This is the point made by blogger The Last Psychiatrist.
"even some employed people feel that way"

I'd venture that most employed people would feel that an income of $100,000/year is rich. While the definition of rich isn't exactly set in stone, $100,000 is nearly twice the national median household income. If you're making $100,000 a year, you're almost certainly rich.

Edit: And while those of us earning "average engineer salaries" might not be getting bailouts, I'd reckon we're at least more likely to feel the effects of them than a poor, or even "average" person. The financial services sector got bailouts -- they also buy a lot of software. Maybe we keep our jobs because of those bailouts.
Glasses-Free 3-D From Almost Any Angle
Joke about Dongles at a Conference Led to Two People Losing Their Jobs
That's the thing. You don't 'claim' copyright. It is a right established by the Berne Convention. You would file a claim if your copyright were violated, but other than that, you control distribution of your original work as long as Sonny Bono says. :-)

Points for coining a new abbrev. YDNR is going into my "snarky, not explained" responses in emails. :-) "What does that mean?" "Oh, I often hit some keys for a macro on my home computer that don't expand on this machine."
I'm with you on the live tiles and default apps.

As for live tiles, again I think it's Apple optimizing for understanding. If they allow apps to have widgets, they risk users unknowingly eating up bandwidth and battery. I could see them starting with their apps and then opening up some sort of new API for these types of apps.
I can't police my own language. I chose the word. I have that right.
I feel like Dart's emphasis on a fast but chrome-only vm has hindered it's adoption. I understand their goal, unlike most compile-to-js languages, was a language more amenable to fast implementation. However, I think the initial community reaction would have been more positive if Dart was positioned first as a language that compiled to js, with the added benefit that it runs significantly faster on Chrome.
In my case, if you just say "we don't count bouncing visitors as users", tchanananam!! you just became the perfect analytics tool for me. Even still considering that I have a lot of users that just click once and leave.
Please, consider it.

PS: "tchanananam" is a brazilian expression onomatopoeia when there is a punch line revelation...
Apparently you don't hang in bars too often.

If you're at a bar and you're ruining the vibe in any way, you need to get out. If you don't leave when asked, you will be gently but firmly escorted to the door. It's just the way things work.

But again, this refers to bars and other private establishments. I wasn't talking about how things should be handled in society at large.
I agree with you on not incentivizing idleness. That's why basic income is superior to minimum income. The difference is that a basic income is one that everyone (rich or poor) gets. There's no "welfare valley" (or plateau) where earning money on the market makes you worse off. Every $1 you make on the market is $1 (less taxes, which would go up under BI) earned.

I think some degree of discretionary income is useful, if only from a complexity-reducing standpoint (better to give the person funds than to regulate "how much phone" is necessary to get jobs and what is a luxury).

At any rate, I don't worry about the parasites we might have at the bottom of society if we're more compassionate. The costs they induce are a rounding error. We lose a lot more to the parasites we already have at the top of society.
Why Do People Love To Draw Dicks in Games? An Investigative Report.
Yeah, I should think more like that.
More like each country had its own furniture making factories, but your point still stands. The ideal would be a society in which quality locally produced goods would be valued over trashy throwaway goods like those sold at Ikea, but this requires a complete rethinking of what's valuable in life by individuals and the society as a whole. Past experience has shown that attempts to manipulate this bureaucratically through tariffs, fixed pricing, closed guilds or the like just cause market distortions that bring about new problems without solving the old ones. In the meantime, though it's far from ideal, at least there is a way that hardworking people with no market for their labor can avoid starvation, although at a personal loss of dignity and a societal loss of that person's potential contribution.
If you play for points, of course it makes sense to cheat.

If you play to be a better human being, and better at tennis, you are just fucking yourself in the ear if you cheat.

When you cheat, you know you can't win in a fair fight. You may win -- but you know you don't "deserve" it. You can tell yourself you "deserve" it because you were smart enough to take advantage, but some part of you will know you're a liar, and you couldn't hack it in a fair fight.

This is also why lying to people is a waste of time, because it creates a layer between you and the rest of the world. Chronic liars often find themselves facing depression because "nobody knows the real me." And cheats, when in a position where cheating won't help them, lack confidence.
Absolutely fantastic content and presentation.
Awesome Google Reader skin for Feedly
I know you're reworking the pricing page as you said but you may want to consider doing what a lot of email service providers do and list the per-user price in tiers.

Something like

* Users 1-2,500: $0.01/user

* Users 2,501-20,000: $0.0625/user

* Users 20,001-80,000: $0.0583/user

might be a tad more intuitive, especially if you listed the top-end price along with that.
Depends on the costs involved. Network externalities are a killer.
Nice little marketing material for CodeEval and ReadyForce.
Except when a horse became a cost instead of providing income, it would likely have been slaughtered. I don't think that's the path we want to take with people.
That's closer to a minimum income program, in any case. The difference is that a basic income means that X amount is paid to everyone. There's no "welfare valley" (or plateau). Every $1 earned on the market is $1 (less taxes) earned.
Like the concept of "open source as an interview"

But you could do it the other way around as well. Do some open source work for a company you're interested in joining/contracting for. For example, a developer wrote an iOS client library for our payments API. https://github.com/balanced/balanced-ios
To be clear, your on page is basically tracked regardless of whether you even use an analytics service, at least any on page activity that interacts with a webserver.

In other words, if you are object to website owners tracking you on their site, then basically you can't use the internet. And to be clear, if you object to in store tracking in physical locations, you are going to be able to shop at fewer and fewer locations (anyplace with a security camera).

If you are concerned about cross site tracking or permanent cookies, that is a different issue. Did you see any mention of that for this product? KissMetrics has definitely taken heat for this.
IE8 doesn't support some of the javascript functions/methods they provide you. Namely Array.prototype.slice.call

So no I'm not trolling, I'm being 100% honest.
While not related to the topic of this article, the UI around the pictures for the article is impressive. It's modern and clever, but not in a distracting way like a lot of attempts to do things that are clever. And it's still perfectly readable on my phone. Normally I don't like "clever" designs, but this one is pretty neat.
Look at my original comment that started this subthread. If it's a derivative work (which it seems to be) Google owns the copyright to OP's image.
Ha they just added it!
While you may be technically correct according to current "law" as defined by the government, I posit that there is absolutely nothing wrong with building said secret compartments under those circumstances. If you haven't initiated force or fraud against someone and violated their rights, you probably haven't committed a crime.
Compared to a Bitmapped Vector Trie.

If you don't want to watch the video, a version of this talk was also given at Strange Loop, the slides for that one are available online: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Functional-Data-Structure...
This is our strategy as well at Uniiverse. This is also an effective way of ensuring that data is in sync, should that be a requirement in a particular state. Just attach the call on State.enter() and you're good to go.
"nor did we give anyone incentive to make shell accounts"
vs
"We offered our community free tickets to our next event if they helped us with up-votes"

Cognitive dissonance much?
Agree, was typing my thoughts prior to seeing this pop up.
Pay off your $60K house by the time your 30 (perhaps from commuting to some distant town) - and entertain yourself with television and playing cards, and you don't need much annual income.
This wouldn't work though where the username != email address which is a pretty common situation.
The original SproutCore was pretty close to rails-level usability. At least, it helped frame up controllers and views with a handy tool.
Very contrived scenario. No two candidates are perfectly similar.

Further, it is not legal to ask about medical status in an interview, other than job requirements (can you lift 40 pounds, can you stand on your feet for 4 hours).
I think he meant max (timeout) is 250ms or sooner if the server responds in < 250ms.
Ask HN: How do you report your progress or status to your Manager/Boss?
1) How do you report your progress or status to your Manager/Boss?

2) How often do you submit these reports?
Mozilla changes their privacy policy
Map of the Dead just released into the iTunes store
The team behind the essential survival tool Map of the Dead have created Map of the Dead: Zombie Apocalypse Survival, a location-based app that has you battling zombies around town and stealing supplies from neighbors. Yeah, stealing from your neighbors. It’s a zombie-eat-brain world out there and sometimes you gotta steal from your friends to get ahead.

The game uses real-world location and Foursquare data to display businesses within a three to four block radius. The app determines a business’s potential as a supply cache (food, clothing and weapons) and how many zombies could hide inside. To keep you from running into the neighborhood coffee shop only to be mauled by a zombie horde, the app assigns a threat level of one (safest) to four (Walking Dead finale kind of danger) for each business.

Fights are turn-based. Take a swipe with your axe or shot with your rifle by tapping a moving slide bar when it’s in the red hit zone. Score a few hits, then wait for the zombies to take their turn. The outcome is determined by how powerful your weapon is, what type of armor you’re wearing and, as in all RPGs, a bit or random battle randomness. That means your axe might be capable of delivering 43 hit points but only gives you half that.

All this zombie fighting is needed to scavenge local businesses for weapons, food, medicine and clothing. Pretty standard RPG loot.
In sublime text the shortcut is Alt-F3.

You get one cursor for each instance, so you can select and then edit all at the same time.

I'm sure it is a readily available feature. In fact, I use it every day several times since I first installed ST.
Yeah. Even North Korea, which has its own Linux variant, seems to use Windows XP extensively.
AMI Creation with Aminator
So, one of the restrictions could be that my stuff would only be online if there is activity on it, subject to a maximum of say, a year.

I would like to try Posthaven and only if I feel that its worth 5$/month to me, then I can consider upgrading from the free plan to the paid one.

A free plan is beneficial to the company, since it would help in popularizing the app.
I agree. They stumbled initially because the "hello world" JavaScript output was something huge (17,000 LOC if I remember correctly.) But I think they are recovering nicely and people will notice.
Advert turns air into drinking water
Germans and Jaywalking: An American's Perspective on the Berlin Tech Scene
Feel free to reach us at sales@heapanalytics.com. We'd love to talk about fair pricing, and we certainly need more data points to evaluate what that fair pricing is.
I feel pretty hesitant giving full access of my Amazon Account to this website I just heard of today. I love the concept but I'm too uninformed of the potential risks to actually go through with pasting my credentials in there.

Anyone care to alleviate my ignorance?
Or a table with two columns, Key and Value. Index by key. Specify keys in code with constants. No need to alter table when adding new metrics.
Ignore mobile advertising at your peril
Glad the post ends with "time and metrics will tell". It doesn't really matter what readers of the blog post think. All that really matters is what do customers think (as demonstrated by their actions - signups? retention? support requests?).
Piwik (http://piwik.org/ , GPL 3, PHP-based) is perhaps the best analytics solution that you can host on your own.
Pluggr.com Pre-Launch Questions
App Url: www.pluggr.com

Basic concept of the site is that you can promote anything you want, whether it's your facebook page, twitter account, links you like, startups. It's a mash up of all of that. You can only plug one thing every 24 hours, the content is moderated. I'm close to launching this little application, it seems that is is missing a couple of features and this is why I'm creating this thread.

The plug statistics work in the following way: When a link from the plug is clicked, whether it's the website url, twitter account, facebook page, linkedin page or youtube channel link it adds 1 to the plug statistics. Statistics are IP based, one IP can click one of the links and increase the plug count by one for each links in the plug. So example: One plug has 4 links, one user can ultimately increase the plug count 4 times by clicking each of the links within the plug.

1. Is location filtering a feature that users would like to see on the site. My thought was that you could attach a location to your plug so in case you're promoting an event, people can search within certain areas and find content relevant to their areas.

2. Feed filtering, right now I just have two options, one being "Newest" plugs and "Most Plugged"

3. Promoted content, eventually if the site gains traction I was thinking it may be a good platform for advertisement. It is not the main goal of the site to be monetized, this is more of a fun little project at the moment.

I'm looking for user feedback at the moment, if you guys could suggest features to add or remove on the site it would be greatly appreciated. I would like to launch by middle / end of next week!

Thank you.
Also, this won't work if your website is actually a corn field.
We are going full-in on Ember at my consultancy, DockYard. I've been a big fan of the organization and the possibility of the framework. I've been developing in Rails and for me Ember has the most common-sense choices for building larget-scale complex client side apps. The framework is such that building abstractions on top of Ember is very nice. (for example my form builder library: https://github.com/dockyard/ember-easyform)

I do feel the pain of Ember-Data at times but the bad rep it is getting is not valid, this is pre-release software we're talking about. There are people (like us) "living on the edge" and working around the difficult sections of ember-data but there is a great plan in place to move ember-data forward: https://gist.github.com/stefanpenner/9ccb0503e451a9792ed0
Sometimes I think that Romanians (and people who have lived under genuinely despotic regimes) are the only ones who really understand American politics.
Thank you, this was absolutely necessary. Can't wait for it to release.
The thing about the curse of dimensionality is that it only really kicks into play when you try to put every variable into a model (or when you have low n relative to p, generally). If you restrict yourself to analysing events that you actually care about, its much less of an issue.
I'm all for girls learning how to program, but the negativity in this campaign is rubbing me the wrong way. There's male-bashing - her brothers are "mean" and "brats", and woman-shaming (the photos of the "gold diggers" - perhaps not a life choice I would make, but if both parties are happy, who am I to judge?) - if the point of this kickstarter is really to empower women (well, one woman), do we really need to point judgy fingers at other women and bring them down? There's a million amazing reasons for girls today to learn to code besides "if you don't, you'll have to marry some old fart for his money." Why couldn't they have highlighted some of those? ugh
It's less literal than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_admission
If you're unfamiliar with finger trees, I recommend staring at this [1] for a while.

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2-3_finger_tree,_samp...
The only suitable editor for any flavor of Lisp is still Emacs.
Why would anyone use eight different emails to (presumably) eight different accounts?
A free trial version would be useful for people interested in checking it out. I'd rather have it feature limited to the point that it's unsuitable for long term use than have to remember to cancel a "free for one month" trial account.
Adria Richards, I don't care about your forkin' dongle
Pure intuition and probably wrong. Better odds than as casino to though. And probably just as accurate as any model.
I don't understand the comment about Array.prototype.slice.call. I only see them using it to convert arguments to an array which works fine in IE8.
What if you tracked the event's parents, e.g. button <- div <- .sidebar <- body, etc.? When presenting the events to the user, you could hide generic parents like 'div' and only show interesting parents with ids or classes. To search through events, perhaps the user could use css selector syntax in addition to the current UI you have.
The entire article has been cobbled from websites. It's interesting as an indicator of how far behind the MSM have fallen.
I spend more time fixing issues in IE10, Opera, and the WebKit family then I do fixing IE8.

Sure it doesn't support a lot of HTML5/CSS3. But if you build a site using 100% HTML5/CSS3 then why do you even care what it looks like in anything but WebKit. Why spend 15 hours getting it to work in IE8. Let IE8 look like IE8, and the rest look like the rest. That's how it's suppose to be done.

IE8 is old, if you want to support it. You use older technologies. That's the point. If you want to use the newest and greatest you lose old support.

But to call it terrible is wrong, it is/was a solid browser.
South east of where?

I'm certainly interested if it's south east UK!
Was It Appropriate For Adria Richards To Tweet A Photo Of Two Men At PyCon?
1) At my job we have a Word Template to fill in and send to our boss every Friday. At a previous job we just created an email answering: What did you work on this week? What are you planning on working on next week.

2) We had to submit these reports weekly.
This is true, but given that unemployment in the US is still sitting at 7% (or whatever -- pick your favorite metric), we as a society have a strong incentive for them not to try. It's much better for all of us that they be comfortable and (importantly!) consuming in the marketplace than that they be destitute and looking for work.

And even so, the disincentive thing really isn't a macro-scale problem. During the boom years in the late 90's, for example, we came very (some might say perilously, heh) close to full employment. If this policy, which is broadly unchnaged from what it was 15 years ago, was really a drag on the labor economy, it would have been visible then. It really wasn't.