skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm not saying that. I was thinking about the hypothetical coffee chain, and I'm countering his idea (from what he writes, that any market change that happens is "inevitable" and that businesses can merely accelerate or delay that change).

I don't think Google had any plans for Reader except that making Reader would be neat. And then they decided that killing it off would be a better idea. I'm certain that it's hurting their business long-term.
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That's not quite true is it? A distributed cryptographically-guaranteed ledger has fundamental value, no?
I quite like Bronte Capital's take on Microsoft's mistake with changing the interface http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2012/07/changing-my-mind-o...

I think it has really sped up the process of people willing to go for other products even if they're not familiar with it.
Google giving us support is akin to a beef farm offering massages and a counseling hotline to their cattle.

LOL! :)
I fail to see how the author is a credible expert on the matter of high-performance vehicles and their handling.
its dying because its not a wiki

http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/bplustree.html

there is tons of stuff on b+trees online but nothing there. Could easily remedy that with a small amount of work
May a Learner driver have additional passengers in his car?
It'd be nice if on the page they told us what kind of investment we would be looking at to actually make an informed decision -- "After only 12 hours of going through our tutorial, you'll be sight-reading better than ever!" or something.
Same here, so many hours. I'm still a moderator on the developer's forum, though I haven't been active in years.

Nova was also fun, I'll never forget the hours spent downloading the betas over a 33.6 modem, they were over 70MB!
Looks exactly like IRC.
On Bitcoin: Stop trying to be an economist. You are a software engineer.
What is the added value beyond what `bundle outdated` does?
There's the ASUS UX31A Zenbook model, which I have. It's not quite what I'd consider high-performance, but the screen is beautiful.
How do I use Ajax with Framework X?
Assuming he was pushed out to try and save grace with the public;

I'd say a well worded apology would have been a better approach.

Pushing the guy out doesn't really help their public image.
People now have a choice: iPad, Mac, Android or Windows 8

Microsoft have pushed themselves to the bottom of that list.
My thoughts when seeing this exactly.. "please don't change" - unless it's for the even better of course :)
These people are going to have to eventually accept that cameras will continue getting better and smaller. They're going to have to adapt somehow.

It's tough for casinos, but would you really go with off-the-shelf Glass to cheat? You'd hope a professional hustler would be a little more discrete than to walk around with an easily-recognizable piece of tech.

The theater ban is nonsense. If someone wants to film a movie, they already can with their phone or camera. Who wants to watch that low-quality film, though? This is not the kind of pirating that matters, but it will be a hassle for us prescription Glass users.
According to Ben Goldcare (Bad Science, Bad Pharma) the companies spend around 12% of their budgets on R&D and 30% on marketing ... so the R&D is the easy part to be funded - just outlaw the direct marketing to consumers and doctors and the companies can spend 3 times as much on R&D with no problems.
Looks like a well designed product, make sure you use https for login and registration, and here is a list of other web app vulnerabilities that you can avoid: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-T10
Automation, not outsourcing, is the problem we need to solve
Developer Tools Update – Firefox 22
Very nice, well done! Giving it a go today.
Still creating ajax forms by: 1) Find working code, 2) Copy/paste, 3) Pray it works?

This tut hopes to move you from Cargo Programming your ajax forms to understanding how to debug them, so you can cut out the frustration of this often asked for bit of code
I'm a big fan of gandi.net - I'll never use godaddy again.

http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit
Actually, the problem in the US is in the lack of the balance between the producers and customers of medicine. In Canada, as you point out, there is a state monopoly on the purchasing side, but there is a similar monopoly on the selling side, in the form of medical patents. In India, there isn't a monopoly on either side.

In the US, you have no monopoly on the healthcare side, but the drug companies have a monopoly on the drugs they produce. I'm not saying neither that you should drop the patents nor that you should introduce social healthcare -- but you should restore the balance in some way.

Personally, I'm for dropping or drastically reducing the patents on new drugs. I know that the argument against it is that it will discourage the research, but I don't believe it -- actually, it would enable further research on already existing drugs, improving them, and finding new uses and applications (think Viagra). But that's my personal opinion, and I'm not even a US citizen; you should find the right solution for yourselves.
Freshman hordes regress to the mean
Looks nice, the flat look fits the Windows 8 flat look nicely as well.
The same, if not worse applies to spammy backlinks.
You're forgetting an important factor. Competition. Pharmaceutical companies operate in an environment with very little competition. Obviously, the purpose of patents are to grant a limited monopoly in return for the innovation, but when that innovation is the only viable treatment for something, the manufacturer can just name a price and everyone has to live with it.

The problem is that the US healthcare system isn't a capitalist system; it's an oligopoly.
I appreciate your distinction.

This in fact is one of the red-flags he suggests:
"[Be leery if] the API offers no (or very little) prospect for being monetized in the future"
I've been waiting for over a week to get my account verified so I can start using my account (I'm not in the US), but they only seem to verify a few hundred a day and there are still 5000 people ahead of me.. quite frustrating.
ping www.jabbr.net: maybe redirect this to jabbr.net?
you just can't connect an IRC client to it. Which is sad, since IRC clients are pretty mature nowadays.
Not to sound too elitist, but github is used by the people who make things, important things. How much has the existence of github contributed to the success of major projects hosted there, such as rails, bootstrap, jquery, node, coffeescript, etc?
> Why would Google publicize how and which domains are penalized? That's a terrible idea that would simply play into the hands of spammers and make their job easier.

If spam detection relies on obscurity of the signals used, then it isn't good spam detection and for every change it's only a matter of time until spammers adapt. If a trained human can recognize spam in its many forms, then it's possible for spam detectors to do the same without relying on obscurity.

Speaking on the subject, if a human can recognize that a domain is not owned by the same entity and doesn't have the same content it used to, then I don't see where's the problem in white-listing such a domain.

> At the end of the day, it's not Google's job to make your life easier

At the end of the day it's not your job to explain their reasoning or apologize for their screw-ups. If you're not a Google employee, then you've got no idea what their internal goals are or what their "job" is.

> They only protect the Internet out of self-interest, and expecting more of them is unreasonable and unfair for a publicly traded company

What I don't understand is why in the world should a publicly traded company be treated any different from a real person? If somebody behaves like a jackass, do you tolerate that person? If somebody betrays your trust, are you going to give a damn about that person's bottom line?

And forget about comparisons to people's interrelationships. Why should publicly traded companies be viewed any differently by consumers and clients? Why would I give a damn if a company is privately owned or public, as long as that doesn't make a difference to my own bottom line?
Hard to imagine a world without GitHub now, it's become that pervasive. Great service, great people there. Hopefully we'll be saying happy birthday in another 5 years with even more people using it for open source projects.
nice; i just don't really like the folder icon.
Incidentally, this id is why we call wycats the "gate to enlightenment" -- it's proof that he's the "Mu" programmer.

A monk once asked, does JavaScript have a Buddha-nature or not?

Wycats said, "nil".

The monk said, "Above to all the Haskells, below to all the crawling Javas, all have Buddha-nature. Why is it that JavaScript has not?"

Wycats said, "Because it has the nature of karmic delusions."

(http://blog.bigbinary.com/2008/06/23/why-the-id-of-nil-is-4-...)
> In the US, you have no monopoly on the healthcare side, but the drug companies have a monopoly on the drugs they produce.

In a way there is a monopoly on the healthcare side in the US, but it only impacts a certain segment of the population. Medicare is able to negotiate significant discounts on the cost of healthcare compared to private insurers precisely because for so many people it is the de facto provider.

There was a really interesting Planet Money podcast a month or so ago about healthcare costs in the US which covered why the difference between private insurers and Medicare is so great: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/26/172996963/episode-...
Does this still work? I know this was the rage back in ~2005. But then google started to check for registration continuity and drop juice from old links if there was a large gap in the whois records.
CollabRx Partners With Sengenics for Molecular Diagnostics
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While it was dropping, there were two ways you could expect it to go. Either it was dropping and was going to stay low, in which case you should sell, or it would rise back up in which case you should sell and then buy when it got cheap.
I always liked the term 'Business Objects' - but that has always been co-opted by a company (SAP).

So hard to invent catchy new terms... Trying here but they all sound like business buzzwords...

Business Proxy, Business Delegate, Business Front, Business Agent, Company Blackbox, Business Interface, Company Platform, Company Rube Goldberg, Company Socket, Partner Interface?
Having spent many hours on IRC in the late 90s arguing with him... I agree.

But I'm filthy liberal scum, so what do I know :P
Great article!

typo: "If you do not heed that than chances..." than => then
My father has been on Glivec for the last 7 years, and this is the only reason he is still alive - when he was diagnosed with GIST doctors told him he would have 2 years left at best, but decided to add him to clinical trials of Glivec for GIST patients. The whole treatment is paid for by our national health care, I believe it costs....$3000 per month, that's how much a single box of Glivec costs here and my dad has to take a pill every day so he gets a new box every month.

Not really related, but I wanted to mention this, since some people really want to show Novartis as evil, and while they probably charge too much for their drugs in the US, their medicine actually saves lives, my dad being the best example of that.
So yeah, 79 million PCs were indeed sold, but I have a strong feeling that many of those were sold to businesses who take a hard line against SecureBoot. But if I, Joe Average Consumer, express a preference against SecureBoot, retailers and OEMs will just sneer and say "F-you, you'll take what we give you". Just like that cable company [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso
Alienware: an Ubuntu PC for gamers
This. The US patent system rewards the same kind of "innovation" as the financial sector did pre-subprime. Look at the introduction rate of new drugs vs derivatives of old (and about to expire) drugs over the past decades to see what I mean. The argument that "if drugs were cheaper (=they saved more lives) pharma r&d would crumble" is facetious and speaks volumes about the priorities of the individual making the argument.
> I'm bearish about any company that builds a data warehouse on the basis of access and open-ness and then decides to restrict that access at a later date for the sake of profitability. It's just distasteful and speaks volumes.

They have changed their terms for third party integration about 2 years ago (somebody correct me) and since then strongly discourage third parties from trying to leverage Twitter for their own profit. Anyone seriously betting on getting away despite the publicly expressed discouragement from 2 years ago is getting what is to be expected.
I hope this isn't true. I spend so many hours as a teenager in the Ambrosia community, and I beta tested a decent handful of their products. I still remember the hours spent downloading Escape Velocity: Nova over dialup.

However, 20 years is a good run for a small software company. I do hope they get another break though, for old time's sake.
Ask HN: Name a good location-based game platform.
I tried asking this yesterday, and it got buried pretty quickly... so here's a second try with an update.

I design location-specific scavenger hunts and themed games, and I was recently asked to design a game for a mall. They also asked if I could put it on a mobile device for people to download, and I said, "Of course!"

Oops.

SCVNGR is shuttered, and I only recently found a few additional tools. I'm not sure how designer friendly they are, and it would be nice to have others' opinions on them:

playground-thursday.com/

joyity.com/

placechallenge.com/

I don't know of any other platforms, either, but before I commit to one, it would be nice to hear about them from a designers perspective.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Critiques?

Much appreciated,
-s
You may want to add it it as a Package too via http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control/package_de...
From that list 48.17% of all health care R&D spend is by US based companies. Sounds like the US is subsidizing the world to me.
Following Twitter Tirade, Microsoft Creative Director Adam Orth Fired
I think you may have broken something while doing this?

I see this on your main page:
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The Api Paradox
APR 11TH, 2013
– layout: post title: The API Paradox date: 2013-04-11 11:00 comments: true categories: api development startups programming

permalink: /api-paradox

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And the page at http://jacquesmattheij.com/api-paradox still says "Api", not "API"?
I'm number 1000: https://api.github.com/users/aslakhellesoy

I was a rubyist at the time :-)
You can Add Repository as https://github.com/thinkpixellab/flatland and then Install Package, select Flatland and it'll work as if it's in the default repository list.

Although, after doing it, you then need to pull the Theme - Flatland folder out of "flatland", delete the other folder and rename the newly pasted folder to "Theme - Flatland"
Okay, how about SPI, Service Programming Interface?
In startups, we often tell each other that "the idea is useless", that is, startups are not about the technical details of the idea, they're about the human-to-human interaction of people and your business.

This is also true about data. Startups are not about the data. A dozen companies did what Dropbox did, but there was only one Dropbox. Everybody did search, but there is only one Google, and so forth. Yes, people consume the data, and yes, if you ask them they'll say that's why they're using your app, but that's confirmation bias. They already use your app and enjoy it. When you ask them, they just look at what the app does and repeat it in a way that makes them sound the smartest.

So, presto chango, adding those two things together along with Jacques' essay and we end up in a really weird spot: your startup may be about providing some kind of massaged data to end users. So you find an API to do that. But the guys providing the data, the heart of your app, have the least amount of reward in the entire equation! Hell, in many cases they're providing data willy-nilly out to just about everybody for free. To them, the data is worthless, yet you're building your business off them! Crazy world.

I have a personal news aggregator I wrote a couple of years ago, http://newspaper23.com Nothing fancy, just rips some headlines, then rips the plain text, then puts the plain text in json and makes a client-based detached reader.

To provide the plaintext, I was using ViewText. Great folks. Put in an URL and it'll give you a readable version of what's there.

But guess what? The ViewText guys didn't like my app ripping 50-60 articles a day. So I lost this huge amount of functionality when they decided to start rate-limiting. Now when you click an article, I bring up a frame and load it. I wanted plain text, this was the entire reason for the app, and now the critical thing I wanted is the exact thing that isn't working.

No big deal for my newspaper23 app, but it would be a freaking red alert if this was something I was selling. API use, like walled gardens, are high-risk.

EDIT: Fixed possessive version of "Jacques"
sorry, but how is filming a child in a shop or in a park "child pornography"?
If there was ever a company that would do great on iOS it'd be Ambrosia. I was addidcted to their games in the '90's/00's. A quick search of the App Store shows none of these games. There's even dev's out there copying their games because they're not available: "Despite being one of the most prolific and successful independent game development companies for the Mac, Ambrosia Software has been conspicuously absent on iOS. Independent developer Marc Guirao Majo has set out to address this issue by releasing his iOS game..
http://www.technologytell.com/apple/98534/ambrosia-softwares...
Hooray, it only took 20+ years for people to start realizing that inverse color schemes SUCK.

Apple's vaunted UI doesn't even allow you to set up a color scheme, which every other GUI-based OS has allowed since the early '90s. So you're stuck reading black text off the glaring surface of a light bulb all day. Brilliant.

The default inverse (black text on white background) color scheme is the product of a failed late-'80s/early-'90s attempt to make the screen an analogy for a piece of paper. It's a vestige of the "desktop publishing" craze. It fails for a simple reason: Paper doesn't EMIT light.
I agree, and I feel the author uses "handling" in a nonconventional manner. I typically see it used to refer to cornering, steering feedback, and overall nimbleness. He seems to equate it to controlling acceleration in a straight-line.

Also, the majority of supercars also come with "push the pedal and forget" multi-clutch transmissions, that make the pedal experience similar to the Tesla.

The post boils down to someone thinking the Tesla is a really cool car, which I agree with.
The French/UK/Swiss pharmas also count on the US market as a large part of their revenue. The incorporation country of these multinationals is irrelevant.
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Google Ingress

http://ingress.com
I vaguely remember you from the forums!

I too was a beta tester on Nova; I actually won a bet with Andrew and my reward was a character named after me in the game. :)

I later worked for Ambrosia for several years, and it was one of the best times of my life. The team then were absolutely great and a lot of fun. I hope they are all ok.
Interestingly the Z06 has a 50/50 weight distribution, whereas the Tesla has a higher weight distribution at the rear. Both are rear wheel drive, so if people are finding that the Tesla handles better it may just be down to the slight WD difference.

Or, they could be pretty damn close.
We can debate how large an obstacle it is, or whether learning to overcome it is valuable, but clearly it is there, even if it's just an annoyance. I just think it would be really nice for (e.g.) a clarinetist to be able to sub in on an alto sax part on sight without having to go the extra mental work of "Ah, right, up a perfect fourth --"
Health care R&D is extremely expensive in US (insanely high executive salaries, "lobbing" expenses, etc.). US companies may spend as much as the rest of the world, but deliver a lot less innovation.
That's not my own work. I'm using it and I like the project very much, so the link to the community, just for sharing :)
https://grove.io/ exists.

Also on what do you base "no one uses it"?
> ... along with Jacques essay ...

Tiny, irrelevant nitpick.

Assuming that Jacques Mattheij is using the French pronounciation of his first name, the possessive version of Jacques is Jacques's.

This is because in French the final letter of most words is silent, and in English the possessive form of spoken nouns not ending in an audible "s" is rendered in text as <singular>'s.

Phoenetically:

zhahk -> zhahks

Not:

zhahks -> zhahks.

Regards,

another Jacques.
IS there anything like GroupTalent for non-us? Or Remote even?
i don't know about American but when it comes to health-related issues, people in my country tends not to bargain about the price. That's least of their worry as long as they can afford it.
"I also suspect that the power from an ICE is pulsating as the cylinders fire which cause the tires to have a tendency to lose traction."

Anyone knows whether that is true? ICE uses a flywheel, cannot it fully smooth the action?
> IRC is old

Probably a positive

> and no one uses it

What in the fucking what?

> it's clumbersome to use in a browser too.

Not really, there are plenty of web-based IRC gateways. Hell, JabbR could pretty easily be an IRC gateway/interface.

> JabbR > IRC

assertion error: baseless

There are plenty of valid criticisms of IRC, but you're completely clueless about them. And it.
While on that subject: who codes on dark themes? Seemed like a good idea to me at first but in the long run I find it much harder on the eyes than white background.
As many of the posters here can attest, EV Nova was a brilliant game and one of the first games that I spent money on.

It looks that iOS port will never happen after all.

What happened?

edit: Were they so niche that a kickstarter for EV wouldn't have helped? Or did they lose all their game coding expertise?
I believe they shifted to focusing more on Utilities rather than Games.

I remember speaking to Andrew (Welch, CEO) about this a while back, and I believe he felt that the App Store (at least for games) was too unpredictable.
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Has anyone noticed they're showing the Portuguese flag instead of the Spanish one on the opening page? (I do prefer the Portuguese flag, but I would have thought they would get this kind of thing right..)
Wait what? Have you been to any IRC channel in the last ten years?

IRC is a well-supported, still widely used, open standard for real-time communication. It can work just as fine on the browser with any of the hundreds of browser-based IRC clients. Heck, you could probably hook this Jabbr front-end to an IRC server without much pain.

Jabbr looks nice, but it's just a cute IRC reimplementation.
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