skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This shouldn't have come as that much of a surprise, given that AppShopper was pulled last December.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/12/18/apple-removes-popular...

That was also a very useful app that provided real functionality that is missing from the Apple Store, like price history and price sale alerts. But Apple doesn't want to make it easier to figure out if you should wait to buy an app. Good for Apple, bad for users.
Don't forget to intersperse that with random little projects that you start because you enjoy or want to fix something that bothers you.

IMHO the programmer mindset has less to do with knowing exactly how to fix a problem than with "Hey, I bet I can fix that, and it probably wouldn't even be too hard!" (which are also famous last words, but you can ignore that :)
I spent four years studying physics and mathematics, and I only had one professor that used transparent acetate sheets with notes pre-written and examples on them. All my other professors wrote out everything with chalk. Heck, we were excited when they used more than one colour of chalk, because that meant there was something exciting about to come up.

Additionally, having chalk & talk meant that many students showed up to class, instead of just relying on "reading" printouts of slides that the professor made available. I would venture a guess that I would have performed rather poorly in a class that had powerpoint slides, due to my inherent laziness in my early 20s.
My guess is that app-discovery platforms could also not be allowed for reasons other than "built on paid recommendations"
> My intuition is still that a much higher fraction of billionaires are business/management types than the general population of people at their intelligence level.

It can be true that business types and engineers are over-represented among billionaires.

It also depends on how you define "engineer." Nobody makes billions as a line engineer (but nobody makes billions as a line "manager" either). But in my experience once you get a degree in engineering, that totally shapes your world view and how you approach problems even if you go on and do other things. So I think those people should count too.

Using a relatively narrow definition, out of the Forbes 25 you might count Charles and David Koch (BS/MS in ChemE/MechE), Jeff Bezos (BS EECS), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (BS CS), and Mukesh Ambani (BS ChemE). These guys all made their fortune at companies related to their engineering discipline. Broadening the definition, you can also throw in there Larry Ellison (no degree, but worked at Amdahl and Ampex as a programmer on databases), and Bill Gates. Finally, you could throw in Michael Bloomberg (BS EE--went straight into finance) and Bernard Arnault (BS CivE, worked as a civil engineer but made his fortune elsewhere).

That's disproportionate, considering that only 1-3% of the population is engineers.
The linked Website needs serious help in its layout and font size choices.
http://www.feeddemon.com/
This is fantastic. There have been a few times where I've thought to myself it would be handy to have a view of server-side events in the inspector. Very eager to spend some time later today to get this set up.
There is also a big difference between "some deflation" and run-away thousand percent exponential deflation. The Austrians may not have been contemplating the later. Or not have been contemplating that any sober person would propose a currency scheme with that as a fundamental feature throughout it's adoption phase.
Probably this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ-719EGIts

Anything from Cliff Click is quite good. This guy has a very deep understanding of compilers, virtual-machines, CPUs, and their interactions.

A JVM does that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2D3qzHtqY

Java on a 1000 Cores http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uljtqyBLxI
That's what they told me it would be like when I interviewed at Google, but that's not what actually happened. I believe that it does work that way for some people, but the system is not transparent; it did not work for me and I don't believe that my manager or Google HR were ever being completely straight with me about what was going on.

Perhaps there is some narrow, undocumented window during which you can do this kind of transfer, and I unknowingly passed it? It did take me about three months to understand what was going on well enough to realize just how much I hated the project I'd been assigned, another month to figure out where I wanted to go and to talk things over with the team I wanted to join, and another month for them to deal with some headcount freeze and some apparently-brand-new interdepartmental transfer process (!?). By that time the manager who'd hired me had moved on to something else, and the team was run by some guy in another city who was clearly overextended. When I told him I wanted out, there was no "sorry the starter project didn't work out, enjoy your new team"; instead it was "what the hell do you think you're doing" and a PEP, blocking the transfer.
Collada support pls.
I have zero sympathy for them

Anyone that basis their entire business on a single platform controlled by a draconian company like Apple should not be surprised when things like this happen
It's good that my colleagues can see what I'm working on. It's not going to slow them down when they don't want it to, since git only fetches those branches you ask it for. So no, I have to disagree.
Torn Between Two Start-Up Communities
That might work if you're getting recruited by a company - but if you're already in a "butt-in-seat" arrangement, you're going to have to bring up a value add for them to contemplate changing things (especially if everyone else in the office is happy with their butt-in-seat arrangement).

It's tough to renegotiate a position if you're simply just asking for things and not giving up any sort of consideration or adding some benefit to for the other party.
most of the time

All the crashes I've read about on the web were fatal failures with total data loss. I hope it'll get better.
Yep, it'll be great to see the prices keep coming down. My main workstation has a 128GB SSD which is split between Linux (for work) and Windows (for Blizzard games); in this situation a 256GB would be a lot more comfortable.
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50% sounds pretty bad. How long did they last? Were you able to recover your data from them?
There is this expectation? I've never heard about such expectations before today.
Unfortunately, it's also a learning experience of those padding their resumes.

If all it took was to apply, there would definitely be an opportunity for a data market: I would create submissions for the sole purpose of getting the credential response. From there I could build a map of what the industry is hiring. With that I can sell resume coaching services. (Amongst other data sales.)
Is the blog post broken for anybody else using Firefox? The font is completely messed up for me. Both in Nightly and 20.0.
There's not much data to go on, but in the KC area the schedule for suburban build-outs looks like it's being driven by politics as much as by demographic or infrastructural factors. (Of course, the initial choices of the KC and Austin metros themselves suggest that sort of decision-making.)

In KC, Google's first announced suburban hook-ups were a couple of tiny, affluent suburbs adjacent to KCK and KCMO, likely due to the ease of negotiating the terms of construction. It then announced availability for Olathe, an large exurb on the Kansas side, skipping over the even larger suburb of Overland Park, which is home to Sprint and some other tech firms. Olathe has Garmin, etc., but I don't think corporate tech headquarters are a consideration.

Google has also so far left out North Kansas City, a municipality that's completely surrounded by KCMO, perhaps because it has its own municipal ISP that provides FTTH. I imagine that has made negotiations difficult.
Why Bitcoin Addresses are so Screwy Looking
Show HN: We are unemployed, so we made an iPhone game
Shogun is a game, not software ;)
No, but I have full faith in SSDs for laptops and desktops now. I've never found the need for them a server.

Does anyone know of any large scale operations using them in servers?
What are "best practices" here? I've been unable to find any guidance about how these types of issues should be handled.
Pointing out places within the US where (some) guns are banned is a bad choice of example, unless you can't get in without being searched.
I had the same problem. Thanks for fixing it!
The problem for Microsoft is XP (along with Office XP) is good enough for many people around the world. Want to surf the net, edit documents, listen to music, watch movies and install most programs and most hardware? Well XP does that. It does all this and doesn't crash that often and can run on a P3, P4, dual core, etc.

XP one of the worst mistakes Microsoft has ever made!
Here is an idea: use different nicknames for different things then you wont have to live in a self prescribed virtual prison
No, in the US there is no safety net.

Actually, there is one for urgent care. If someone stabbed her with a knife, any hospital would need to take her regardless of whether her insurance was willing to pay. (Afterward, she would be forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs or perhaps give up all possessions and declare bankruptcy, but at that point at least she's alive.)

But she'd not in need of emergency care: she has months to live, not hours. And in the US there is ABSOLUTELY NO PROTECTION for this. Really. It is unbelievable but true, and changing it is politically impossible.

Possible solution: she should get a friend to stab her with a knife, fairly close to the site of the metal object. Then the hospital is required to offer treatment and they can remove the object while they're at it. Do the stabbing inside the emergency room of the hospital to increase her chance of surviving.

You probably think I'm kidding about the stabbing. I might be... I HOPE I'm kidding.
Created by three of us over the course of about a month (including testing on testflight and waiting on app store approvals, etc.).

Two of us are engineers (ex-YouTube, ex-finance guy) and a designer, two of which did the hackstar program last summer.

The game is similar to Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity. Try it out, let us know what you think!
To be fair, if you want to understand why something is supposedly secure, you will have to spend some time :)

Let's see if I can help.

Your identity is tied to your ability to prove that you own an email address. You can do that by clicking a confirmation link we send you. Or, as of Beta2 (today!), you can do that by having your domain implement the Persona Identity Provider API, where your domain publishes a public-key and issues certificates to you based on that public key, which you can then use to sign into web sites. Also as of today, we do that for Yahoo users by bridging to Yahoo OpenID, so basically Persona is an OpenID client to Yahoo, gets Yahoo to vouch for your email, and based on that issues you a Persona certificate (backed by our public key) for your email address.

But whatever way you go, it's about proving you own an email address and obtaining a certificate for it.

Yes, someone who has access to your browser can fake your identity if you don't lock your browser/OS, but that's nothing new. In fact, the simple password change is how we mitigate that. As soon as you change your password, we invalidate all sessions on all devices. Certificates last only a few hours, so they'll be disabled quickly too.
> at least have the courtesy to respond

It may occur to someone that the person begging for resumes is nothing other than a low-level gnat who is fishing for applicants in the hopes of landing a scouting fee. After receiving no response from someone listing positions on HN, I worked myself into their company's recruiting workflow and landed an hour-long phone screen with the very same unresponsive individual. Turns out he was a turd and I was overqualified for the job. A simple salary query would've sufficed.
Amazingly, you're being down voted.

If using public services to make billions of private profit is not evil, I don't know what is.
They're more predictable on lifespan, but hardware errors can always occur.
I live in Uruguay. I don't lose what I paid so far in pension, but I "switch" pension funds when I switch industries, so unless I get work at another bank, some special rules apply.

When you switch jobs voluntarily, the unemployment benefits and holidays "counters" reset, so if you get fired within the first 3 months you get nothing, during the 1st year afterwards you get 1 month unemployment, etc.. This does not happen if you get fired (I'm currently almost unfireable since the company has to pay me the maximum amount of pay by law if I get fired without a serious offense, 12 months of my salary in addition to accrued wages).

This of course makes switching jobs once you have job security very hard.
You understand that pretty much any Googler who wishes to defend their employer's practices against you is placed in the same position? I don't like the personal attacks that are made against you either, but you have to realize that how you see your experience at Google is different from how many people who were there at the time see your experience at Google, and that every time you make some assertion about how things work that, well, isn't exactly how we would've analyzed the situation, we're forced to choose between (a) letting the attacks stand or (b) airing dirty laundry.
The problem with VC firms' "value-adds"
North Korea's missile capabilities (visualization)
I think it would be fair to say that if something like this happened to Sacramento again, lots of people would blame global warming, far in excess of any actual scientific understanding of a connection between global warming and the flood in question.

The precise ramifications of this excess blame are not clear.
I really am sick of people making photo sharing apps.

Can we please make something different? Please.
I think Simon's point regarding #2 above is that the push notification is just letting the user know about an event ("deal is ready"). It is not pushing advertising or promotion. I wonder if it would be in violation of the rule if the app sent push notification stating, "It's noon. You know what to do!". Of course, this is not in the spirit of the rule...
Does 5.6 apply to all apps? Is it a black and white issue? For instance, the Southwest Airline app, Ding, sends me push notifications when there are sales.
My heart goes out to those 45 employees that suddenly had the carpet pulled from under them. Double so if they have a family to support.
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An aside, tower information is/was available via the Android frameworks.

When I was on Android, I wrote a little widget that displayed the tower ID and other information of the tower I was currently connected to.

In short order, I had the few tower IDs that I used as I roamed around the metro memorized.

After reading the article, which was great and had many details, I think this would be a viable strategy for activists worried about governmental abuse, harassment, and surveillance. Spoofing tower IDs would probably present some operational issues amongst customers. Of course, I wouldn't rely on this if my life or freedom depended on it -- and I'd certainly use a community-based ROM, such as Cyanogenmod.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/cdm...

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/cdm...

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/gsm...
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The main problem is the failure mode (complete). Either you get a bad one or, like most, you don't... but if it breaks, it's completely gone.

I'd like to know how many have experienced a failure after 90 days or whatever the cut-off is so that I can stop worrying so much beyond a certain point.
This is a very old article. 10.000 hours originates from this article. It's the original.
Hackers Obtain Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Why are you writing your own headline, that differs substantially from that of the linked article?
> I am fine with rudeness. In fact, in many circumstances, I encourage it.

It'd be really nice if HN was not one of those circumstances.
Anxiety while programming
Hi,

I don`t think I am cut out to be a programmer (electrical engineering background), I got moved from a role where I was performing support & operations into a programming role after a bit restructuring.
The group is pretty hostile (though highly experienced), and will comment when tasks are not completed fast enough. We are not really a team, everyone eats lunch at their desk or with other groups and people raise their voice frequently (and management does nothing about it...I think they see it as passion).

We are using Agile where we time-box everything and commit to its delivery. And if I say a task needs to take 7 days, the team will say no, it should take 4.
After 2 months of struggling to deliver (working weekends but still delivering in the ehnd) I couldn`t take the constant anxiety attacks, I checked my blooodp ressure, and It`s very high (160+/90+)...and I am 28, turning 29 this year.

I went to the doctor, and got prescribed anti-axiety medecin, which is actually an anti-depressant (Citalopram).
It's my first days on it, I feel mellow and I no longer feel my heart pumping away while I am sitting on my desk, though I think it is affecting my decision making (causes drowsiness) and it has slowed me down considerably.

What should I do ?
Others with similar experience ?
Am I not cut out to be a programmer (or at least unable to become a good one -- I feel its almost like I am allergic to it, even though I like the "idea" of becoming a professional programmer) ?
Regardless of if you are in the "It's Apple's store, they can do what they want" camp or the "Apple should not be allowed to have this level of control" camp I think we can all agree that it's not good when one single entity holds this amount of power over arguably one the world's most important computing platforms.

Essentially, Apple can block any app they want for any reason they want. Even if you play by their rules they can change them tomorrow.

While I'm a free market supporter I don't think this is a good situation. It breaks innovation and makes our smartphones less capable than they should be. Sad.
Where would this github be? Do you mean the browserid repository on Github?
Must be an OCZ user ;)
Ahh, this is very interesting. Thanks much.
My steam account would sadly fill a 1TB ssd quickly. I also use them at work for a shared development Cassandra cluster which runs awesome but uses a lot of space (albeit we use 512GB drives)
You say your competitors are a-ok but the appshopper app was pulled months ago for similar reasons.
Netflix appears to be using SSD instances for their Cassandra deployment on AWS.[1]

Also, more and more hosting providers start offering SSD-based products (e.g. DigitalOcean)

[1]: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-perfor...
Nyc also had a pretty bad immigration problem. Those pesky italians and their mafia. The Irish were no better. And on top of that Mexicans are no arriving in droves. When will it ever end? When?
As I understand it, there's nothing to stop you using a separate Persona ID for each site you visit, and none of your IDs has to be tied to your real life identity. But most people already give the same username and same e-mail on loads of different websites, so we're happy to carry on doing that.

For now, most Persona users are stored in a central location by Mozilla. The idea is that e-mail providers take over authenticating users, so eventually there should only be a few users that Mozilla stores credentials for. I'm hoping that GMail will add support soon.
Last year's corporate tax incomes amounted to something like 200 billion. The last four years have seen deficit spending over 1 trillion per year.

Even if you managed to alter the tax code and bring in five times as much corporate taxes, you would only get us out of deficit spending, assuming no other drop in revenue or increase in spending. We would still have 15 trillion in federal debt.
I've heard from one investor in Spain who was recently pitched by an AppGratis competitor that, depending on the client, AppGratis might charge big companies between $12/14K a day to promote their apps.

Take it with a grain of salt as this information comes from one of their competitors. But I wouldn't be totally surprised if they charge that amount.
Finally! Who said #3 isn't going to be RAM? :)
I'm looking for someone to translate this into an angular adapter and combine it with Yeoman's 1.0b4's AngularJS generator, among other things to test out hoodie. If you were already going to do it, might as well do it sooner than later and get payed for it! :-)

I posted the job on Elance, Freelancer, and Odesk if anyone is interested.

Elance: https://www.elance.com/job/40077787/proposals
Freelancer: http://www.freelancer.com/projects/Javascript-Software-Archi...
ODesk: https://www.odesk.com/jobs/Create-Hoodie-AngularJS-adapter-w...
I think you're overestimating what applicants are expecting here. Obviously a form rejection opens up a lot of problems, but a form acknowledgement doesn't share those issues. Something as simple as "Thank you for your resume, we will review it and contact you if it appears that we may have a position suitable for you." Stress on the "will review" so that it's clear the applicant hasn't been considered yet, favorably or otherwise.

In particular, I consider this worthwhile for resumes submitted at various career fairs. The process employed there frequently comes down to handing over a paper resume and being told "Thank you for your resume, we'll digitize it and put it into our system." This is far from reassuring, particularly after the first few times you get clear proof that your resume was never digitized at all. A form note simply acknowledging the submission provides your applicants with confidence that their resume is truly in your possession and a better feeling than applying to a black hole.
This method breaks rather quickly because, when you multiply two order-of-magnitude estimates, you get a two-orders-of magnitude estimate. (And so forth.) In the piano tuners example, there are some five independent quantities being estimated. Of course, the answer "I think there are 500 piano tuners in NYC" doesn't sound as impressive when you add "within five orders of magnitude"...
I hope the fiber roll-out will also include the 78758/78759 Austin areas, not just because I live in the area, but also cause Google's Austin office is located there too :).
What a timing. Going out to meet someone over coffee. Although I tend to buy coffee for the other person by invitation, "I would love to buy you coffee and chat about xyz".
The number is changing because I am slowly reducing my position in BTC given that it appears (to me) to be in a bubble. (Note: I DO think it has an inherent value and it is unquestionably an interesting technical advance. That inherent value may someday be around or above $200USD/BTC. But I believe that the current behavior is a bubble.)
I'm on Aurora, it's not here.
no they do not, I linked to a very basic overview of some of the technologies used to have web applications work offline (the storage one is also relevant). There is a relatively huge ecosystem that isnt touched upon in that article, offline web apps are very much a thing.

I have been using a mobile phone whose OS(UI/App layer) was written entirely in web technologies, it most certainly doesnt turn into a brick when I dont have a data connection.

It is fine to not know these things, but its not a very good idea to be publically dismissing technologies you obviously arent very familiar with, and when people point out that you are wrong you should probably do some research before defending it.