skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kickstarter is pretty amazing. My brother's company has had huge success and are only 7 days into their campaign (they got their initial funding in 3 hours) but they have a long time customer base and a lot of pent up demand as they are using Kickstarter to fund a less expensive version of the product they have been selling for years.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dwarvenforge/dwarven-for...
I would expect steady growth of Bitcoin's price to look like the logistic function. Exponential at first, then flattening out. At some point, it would just grow opposite the inflation of other currencies once it's stable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function

Of course growth will probably come in fits and starts, not so smoothly.
Thanks. I will try out the OS X port and see how it works. Currently there are only 2 people on the project, so everyone can see the passwords that I'm planning to store.
I don't know about celebration, but since Windows sales are highly correlated to PC sales, it is useful information. Growth in Windows 8 desktop shipments gives you a good litmus test about veracity of the "death of the PC" concept.

Windows 7 share is a completely different animal. Big enterprises are still in the middle of rolling out Windows 7, so you should see shifting from XP to 7. Deceleration there is bad news for Microsoft/PCs.
I don't think I would take things so far as to say that the Rails project has been a model for how to handle security problems.
Thank you, India.

Let me tell your my story. I am on a pill called Colchicine that I have to take 3 times a day for life. The pill's formula is hundreds of years old and would cost me pennies. That was until a company convinced FDA to ban the generics and only allow its own brand. The same pill that used to cost 10 cents now costs $5/pill to me here in the US. Meanwhile in India, it still costs pennies.

I wish US would take a page from India.
CDNs aren't necessarily faster because you have to have a connection to a different server. However the idea is that say you have jQuery loaded for a CDN, and so do a bunch of other sites (so, same URL), they will already have the thing cached when they load up your site.
There is a lot of mumbo-jumbo surrounding sleep and precious little science, but I have found a few things in my own life that have made me feel better (could be placebo, who knows?)

1) Sleeping in multiples of 90 minutes really does work. It takes me very little time to fall asleep, so I can pretty predictably set my alarm to wake myself up in-between sleep cycles. My baby likes to sleep in three hour increments, and with two of those I feel great in the morning, even though I wake up in the middle to feed her.

2) Establishing a comfortable sleep environment. I jack up a humidifier and put on a Breathe-Right strip. I have low-grade allergies half the year and while I can breathe without one, I find myself feeling much more refreshed in the morning when I sleep with one on.

Most of all, sleep is something worth experimenting with. People spend huge amounts of their time sleeping, and sleepiness has a tremendous impact on productivity, but I find that most people don't introspect much with regards to their sleep. Going from not sleeping well to sleeping well is the ultimate life hack in my opinion.
Link to the source (http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/) is in the comments.

However, as the author admits in the comments (after being corrected by a reader), he has interpreted the results of the source incorrectly. The cited report actually only says that "Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold."
Looking at previous pricing points though, it seems they changed their prices rapidly up and down. Isn't this blatant price manipulation? They're not banned yet.
Holy shit, this is the funniest thing I've seen all day. Although, kind of depressing at the same time...
With a s-expr edit tool like Paredit, you never have to write closing delimiters.
How did you find the "need" for Brightpod? It's niche, so I'm wondering how to find gaping holes in software offerings for small businesses. Everyone talks about how SMEs desperately need software, but how do I find out what these needs are if I'm not in the industry myself?
Why would apple want to ban people from dropping the price of an app from $999 to $0.99? Are they just trying to make sure that people who buy at high prices don't feel bad about their purchases?
WTF does anything going on outside of the computer industry have to with Windows? Lets setup some straw men and light them on fire.

The biggest issue with 8 is that there is enough interface change that people feel they have to relearn it. In business this takes time and money to teach the employees, or for them to learn themselves. Most people don't want to spend time learning something new when there is little to no benefit from doing so. Real computer users want to get a task done, not to spend half their life learning interface changes.

From the tone of your reply, I'm going to assume you are one of those designers that says "My interface is right, and you are too dumb to understand it's awesomeness", and then are shocked and amazed when no one uses it.
I don't understand -- why would they do this? Trying to trick someone into dropping $1k on their app? Or is there some way you can game the app store by messing with prices?
Why? He's taken almost every chance he's had to either bash responsive as bad for UX or completely misrepresent what responsive actually is (see here: http://www.netmagazine.com/interviews/nielsen-responds-mobil...)
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Just install Start8 [1] on his machine and he'll enjoy all the benefits Win8 brings without the downside of having to bother with Metro apps.

[1]: http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
Finally, 4/1 is looking up.

Finally, 4/1 is looking up.
Free marketing.
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Plus, who's to say he wouldn't have cashed out at some point during the downward spiral in the 90's?
I don't see it necessarily as a strawman since it is essentially true, as he did have jobs leading up to Apple. Keep in mind that he founded his company with funding, it's not as if he founded the company and was instantly making enough money to survive with.

One could make the argument that even a founder is "hired" when he requires somebody else's money to make it happen.
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Nicely said. My favourite insights into this system were in deep space nine, where many people did work for a living, and earned latinum.

I for one, am very much for sharing/pooling of necessary resources, but even in Star Trek, they didn't really explain the hows.
$2M and growing is significant, although it's only one of many companies. Every other day another business sets up with Bitcoin as a medium of exchange that is a low-fee, no-chargeback transactional currency. The fundamental value of such a currency, with a quasi-fixed money supply, scales as some multiple of real circulation. The momentary value is proportional to that fundamental value multiplied by short-term expectations of the BTC as an asset, which is driven by growth in usage and hype.

It's entirely possible that 99% of the value of a bitcoin is a self-reinforcing set of asset-bubble expectations, but this is something that really didn't exist before, that we don't have great paradigms to explain, that is undergoing massive daily shifts in its usage. It is explicitly not a stable national floating fiat currency with people who circulate the money their banking system provides & pay their taxes in those notes & denominate their salaries and grocery bills in sticky quantities of those notes, and so it's not directly comparable.
You know how there's people that can get by on 4-5 hours of sleep each night? I think I'm the opposite. Left to my own devices, I will sleep 10-10.5 hours a day. If I wake up with anything less than 9, I feel pretty horrible. Not sure why, but I sure wish I could get by on less.
Lack of deference to authority, independent mindset.
Freicoin is a scam. If you mine Freicoins 80% of the mined coins are automatically transferred to the "Freicoin Foundation" (see e.g. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134629.0). A real demurrage might be an interesting concept, but I wouldn't suggest to buy into Freicoin.
Thinking the same thing. It'll be interesting to see somebody going out sorosing the BTC "economy".
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I guess its because moving the price up and down a lot is a way to get people to buy it for cheap and review it, and then rise the price to catch people off guard. Apple might see giant price changes as a attempt to trick and fool people.

Instead of allowing it, a outright ban is a much better idea.

EDIT: see the activity here. http://appshopper.com/games/the-fleas-2 .

When its cheap they hook people in and get reviews on sites. then they rise it around the place trying to trap people. Instead of Apple giving these people the chance to correct course and set a fair price, they just ban which is far better. Never give scum a second chance, they always try to find a way.
I was actually totally surprised I find it waaay easier to read. I'd never have guessed.

Something about vertical lines being easier to "separate out", while parentheses, being curved, blend in more with the letters. Who'd have thought?
Gibberish I guess. Doing a lookahead for letters was how I started, and its kinda interesting to see how it turned out as a quick project. Storing the probabilities for each letter given a string prefix is the limiting factor, and took a bit of effort to get it to reasonable size for a browser. I think using words instead of letters may result in better sentences with the same amount of space though...
My guess is that is to manipulate all of the app discount sites that scan the app store and report on apps that have recently been discounted. If the developers drop the app to $0.99 then all of those sites will report this as a huge saving, and possibly feature it more prominently as a result (I'm assuming those sites are all automated - and there are a lot of them!)
Looks like it produces a lot of spam blog comments ...
When price changes from say free to 1K and people have to update do you have to pay for the update?
Because raising it to $999 temporarily is just a cheap, and obnoxious, way of getting free marketing.

It's trying to game the app store.
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Yep, sorry if I gave that impression.

All I mean to say is that the implication that the Rails community has been particularly lax over security issues is simply false.

Is there room for improvement? Yeah, probably so.
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I was prepared to flag every April Fool's day story but this is side-splitting, hilarious copy that stands on its own any day of the year.

Great job!
They do it so that when they lower the price to $.99 3 days later, the robots pick up on the 10000% lower price.
Very cool. It'd be nice if steam gave you the purchase price, then you could see all the games that are cheaper now than when you bought it. :)
Did you get all the way to the final feature on the lower right?
Why would you want your customers to feel cheated? It also leads to more refund requests, which have a processing overhead.
My sleep-wake cycle falls to 10-20 hours if I can let it, for some reason.

This of course spells disaster for my normal work week. I still haven't gotten used to 24 hour days.
As most of you know, this guy's career is very interesting. Every few years he's stepped up to another level of thinking, a higher, more abstract viewpoint of the world. It's natural for people to learn and abstract, but he does so much of it.

Just look at his books:

* Applied Cryptography - The principles of cryptography and their applications, from a non-theory POV. Basically, "here are some tools".

* Practical Cryptography - Let's look a bit bigger picture. The issue is about how to do what you want and how to not screw it up. Let's look at how to do that.

* Secrets and Lies - Security isn't about crypto, we need to think about the whole of networking and infrastructure. Here's how to think about security more generally.

* Beyond Fear - Security is an innate part of how we think, but we need to understand how to actually think about it in the first place.

* Liars and Outliers - What is security? What does it do, why do we need it, and how does it work at the basic human level?

* Power.com (subject to change) - On the principles of security on the largest human network ever.

It just keeps getting bigger.
same here. I like Win 8 on my main System (Desktop, dual Monitor, no touch), especially the new Features in the file manager, the taskmanager and the fast boot.
I took me around 10 minutes to optimize the modern ui menu - i now use it as a full screen start menu, I don't use any apps at all.
Yeah sometimes Apple doesn't catch them all. But they have banned developers in the past for this. If someone reports them, they have a high chance of getting banned.
In the late nineties I had a "dual-celly" workstation. They were all the rage then (especially if you visited Hard OCP and/or arstechnica back then). IIRC, there was a special adapter that sat between the CPU and the socket which did something to enable SMP.

I also recall some folks doing something with graphite to re-enable disabled traces. Can't remember if it was related to Celerons or not.

Similar examples would be the Promise Ultra66 -> UltraRAID conversion with a simple resistor and flashing of firmware. Of course that game is still being played to this day with graphics cards.
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I read the article and think the point is deeper than that. I would summarize it like this:

Tim O'Reilly's business has changed from selling things (books, conferences) to selling ideologies ("Web 2.0", "government as a framework"). This is a relationship that goes both ways: the books and conferences provide crucial support for the ideologies he sells (the existence of a "Web 2.0" conference can be cited as proof that "Web 2.0" is a real thing), and the ideologies create demand for books and conferences as they spread.

The primary problem the author (Evgeny Morozov) has with this isn't that O'Reilly profits from it, but rather that the ideologies O'Reilly sells tend to provide corporate-friendly alternatives that are used to marginalize rising ideologies that could threaten existing power structures. Examples discussed:

- "Open source" as an ideology focused on the rights of the software developer, as opposed to the ideology it was explicitly designed to compete with, Richard Stallman's "free software" movement, which focused instead on the rights of the software user

- "Web 2.0" companies wanted to package up information about their users and sell it to the highest bidder; the ideology supported this by positioning it as a natural evolution of the Web rather than a major power shift

- "Government as a service" would involve taking major systems currently run by government and privatizing them, but covers this with a layer of techno-dust to avoid having to talk about the negative implications of privatization

Hence the comparison of O'Reilly to famed Republican spin architect Frank Luntz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz). Luntz has made a career selling policies to people they will hurt by packaging them up with attractive-sounding words. Morozov argues that O'Reilly is in the same business.
I saw this on the page:

Repetition works.

I wasn't so sure... but then I read this:

Repetition works.

Now I'm convinced. I'll take 8!
I've been using Windows 8 as my primary OS since the new year. It was actually a no-brainer for me; I find more functionality with it overall.

It's strange to most that I admit this, but I really like the Start screen! It gives me a way to have the visual organization I appreciate while I can keep the desktop itself relatively clean for a workflow environment.

On top of all that it's blazing fast and has a ton of features that are great for power-users. So, yeah, I beam happiness with my Windows 8 so you now know of at least one dedicated fan!
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I'm super happy with windows 8 and miss it when I'm at work using windows 7. It's much better than windows 7 in almost every way. Of course as power user I was willing to actually do some reading, and learn about it and tweak it to my liking. I can imagine someone like my mother, coming directly from XP and perhaps not that interested in learning a new OS would react differently.
Rails _needs_ to produce security-patch-only patch releases.

This won't be foolproof; there is no such thing as foolproof in software development. There can still be unintentional regressions in security-patch-only releases (and even new security vulnerabilities), as well as new security vulnerabilities in other releases.

Yes, nothing is foolproof. But you can work at improving your quality. Yes, there are other things Rails could do to improve quality, including trying to actually do some variation of semver.

But the most obvious thing with the highest benefit/cost that Rails team could do is always release security patches in security patch only releases, so developers can apply security patch only releases and minimize their exposure to new regressions when doing so. Git should not make this hard to do, just cherry pick the security-patch commits into a branch created off the last release, and release it as a patch release seperately from any other changes.

Am I missing something?
For me, getting the first working example running is often the biggest step. Up until then, you don't know whether what you are doing will work at all. After that, you can start fiddling with it and changing bits and pieces.

Saying "Serve a website with 1 line of code!" and then starting apache with that 1 line is useful, because I can then go from there to changing configurations. Fewer lines for the rough draft => fewer places to mess up in unknown ways.
LOL. After skimming a few pages, I was hoping to just skip it and find the discussion about what this article is actually accusing O'Reilly of. I can see why the author may feel threatened by anyone who actually has communication skills.
I've said it before: j and k are the obvious replacements if you want to ruthlessly Huffman-code your Lisp-typing experience. I, mean how often do you really see j or k inside the text of an atom? Not very often.
Glad to see this is the top comment. Makes me believe hackernews is still a smart place.
It seem to be a good way to have free marketing.
They will probably drop it back tomorow to free or 0.99$
It's not my primary gaming machine OS, but I have an older laptop with XP on it that also happens to have Steam installed. For what I use it for, I have no reason to upgrade the OS.
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It's just base64..
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I am the developer of one of those "discount sites". Well I do not have a site but apps for iOS and OS X that show you the discounts. I filter those things out on the server side in extreme cases and my Mac app allows you to specify your own filter criteria like in iTunes where you can have smart playlists. So for example you could ignore apps where the old price is $999 and the new price is $0.99 or something like that.

http://store-news-app.com/
I was kinda interested when I started reading this thing, but the article assumes you're already a Tim O'Reilly scholar -- the article is devoid of examples of his behavior. Whenever an article makes claims about a figure, I like to have an exhibit A, B, and C for every point argued.