skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no evidence for this, but my guess is your group's name (Symfony2) fails a heuristics challenge, and was disabled by a bot. Perhaps other groups with variants on "phony" or ending with a number have been used for ill purpose by others.

(Yes, I realize Symfony is a software framework, but my hypothetical bot may be using name-matching alone.)
I have an OS X machine. Otherwise I would jailbreak the device for developing and buy a Mac Mini or something if it turns out I need OS X to do codesigning when I submit it.

If anyone develops for iPhone without Xcode I'd love to hear it. I'd switch in a second if something could provide even half the functionality as long as it had half the usability issues.
For programmers it might feel odd, if pressing tab makes the textarea loosing the focus, instead of putting a tab character in the text.
Tez: Accelerating processing of data stored in HDFS
The article makes a good point. But what's more useful is that programmers skills matrix that someone posted to HN about a year ago. It had a row for every area in comp sci, and then it had columns progrssing in order of depth of knowledge. Over the ten years you chould check off each box one by one.
Work perks disappear as hours expand
Electric showers should already heat up water immediately, any water already in the shower head might be cold though..

Houses with "combi" boilers should always have hot water on demand. The water that has been sat in the pipes for a while will have cooled though.
Interesting. Thanks! :)
seems its not catchy enough for the hn crowd...
The AppStore is direct retail, even if we are disinclined to view it that way.

Walmart won't guarantee shelf space for stuffed unicorns just because a company makes them. It won't guarantee shelf space tomorrow just because a company has some today.

Apple offers the same standard terms to everyone. Those who think they make business sense can agree. Those who don't are free to pursue other options.

The inconsistency in Apple's interpretation and implementation of Appstore policies is a known risk. The dominance and dependence relationship between Apple and developers is spelled out clearly and multiple times. Your good business decision to enter the app store is irrelevant when making my business decision.
I can't even compile it on my mac and my C is too rusty, would you be kind enough to explain? =)
This is how I use HN: http://i.imgur.com/IRzF5LQ.png

Browser: Chromium, Extension: "HipsterNews" -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...

It's a copy of news.layervault.com, which copied news.yc in the first place. I'm sure there is some sort of joke in there somewhere.
https://lockitron.com/ is close to that
If it's in the 2040s or 2050s, and I'm into my dotage and pushing 100, I'll spring for a one-way. They can fill my return slot with someone younger, or bring home an extra 150lbs of Mars rocks.
I enable "Undo Send" to recover from accidental sends. I just hit tab here and it shifted me to "add comment" :D
I know it's irrelevant, but I really can't get past the terrible name "Rust", meaning corrosion. Why not call it "Ruined", "Broken", "Stupid" or "Bug-ridden"? It's almost as bad as naming it for emasculated slaves.
If I didn't have an Apple computer and sorely needed one I would probably use http://www.macincloud.com/ or get a Mac Mini.
The problem is that if you go for a clean (read: white-heavy) design, then you end up with black text on white background. I prefer the classic HN purely because it is (to me) a bit milder on the eye. Kudos for trying though.
I've had a TERRIBLE experience with PAYING app engine commercial account. Important document disappeared, took a week and constant 'nagging' from myself in order to finally get this under control. As a note I was the one who pushed for our company to start using this service from 'do no evil' corporation ...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5292645
Project Orion was much more than science fiction (http://www.scribd.com/doc/28668567/Nuclear-Pulse-Space-Vehic...) though it was much less than operational. Very big Orion spaceships would have used fusion explosions (http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/321.jvn.fall02/Dyso...), but not the relatively small ones that were subjected to detailed analysis.
By the way, it's worth pointing out, to those who want to make a judgement on the reasons project Orion could not be implemented nowadays, that nuclear detonations are effectively a modern tabu.

This tabu is effective, has proven extremely useful (no detonations of nukes in a war since 1945) and thus cannot be considered the sign of a scientifically ignorant society.

Having said that, Orion would be quite cool.
Perfect example of how Music Companies are in the business of distribution and not content creation. They've co-opted YT into allowing them to control distribution "required to remove specific videos from the site, block specific videos in certain territories," of content regardless if it's something they have copyright over or not.

Without absurd efforts to prop up its model the business of distribution of content is near worthless in age of near zero cost, perfect copies and Internet.
It does by making important elements stand out (such as author, comments...). Bigger arrow which is sometimes tricky to hit.

The colors kinda kills the eyes though.
Any redesign should make the voting buttons significantly larger. It is really hard to hit them on a tablet.
I have an ancient blog on my ancient website, not much about ioccc though - but you can at least find links to my previous entries here http://stephensykes.com
Deterministic keypair generation isn't such a bad idea, but to email yourself the seed to your BTC keys and all transaction history? That sounds like an awfully bad idea...
Come on Github, just release the only feature you are lacking! mailing lists!
You're supposed to use g+ communities now. Have you not been following? E-mail based lists you say? pfffff, didn't you hear they're shutting down email and replacing it with 'Babble'?
It is important to note that this book and others talk about negotiating and reaching a win-win agreement but you can confront on situations where the other party is happy only in a win-loose situation. This aspect of negotiation change with culture.
I get where you are coming from but I strongly thing you should test it.

So if for instance, the user enters his email and is using a persona identity provider, e.g Yahoo It could just give a message 'Sweet, why don't you login with Yahoo " or create an account.

If the user has a Persona account already, once the email is put, it could say "Perfect! You are logged in"

If the user is using persona for the first time and does not user an identity provider, it could just bring a persona form.

Of course, for each instance, you could have a tiny "powered by persona" somewhere. With a bit of thinking it can be refined.

I do not see any reason why a user will want to start thinking about what persona is. They will just use an alternative (Facebook). What persona should be aiming for should be to become "login with email" and not another 3-in-one brand called persona.
Maybe it's a matter of adjusting some copy... "Show HN" was appropriate when HN consisted of its higher quality membership. You were showing your project to people who were more likely to provide better quality feedback.

Now that the population has grown, there are more commenters and more Show HNs, yet the presentation hasn't changed to accommodate this (same number of posts per page, same comment layout despite more comments, etc).

Maybe something like "Review HN"? Whatever it would be, it may be time to get more specific. Ultimately you're trying to filter out unhelpful comments. Those will always appear, but now there's just more of them in the same space...
The New Blogger Template Editor
The Holy Grail of reaction GIFs archive
Population-wide weight loss in relation to cardiovascular mortality
I don't think this is true, Google seem to be doing pretty well financially, as do plenty of other companies with terrible support.
GNU Guile 2.0.9 released
It happened to me several times. To avoid that I always write the destination email address after having finished my message.

Also, the combination <TAB> + Space also sends messages here in Hacker Ne
Wanted on Craigslist: bitcoins
RC Helicopter vs. Wasps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXec7zBaPxA
Well in most contexts, an exploding offer is an offer with a set deadline - as in, an offer is going to "explode" (aka expire or be taken back) within a specified timeframe.

Using this, I'm guessing pg meant that if applicants have got an offer from another fund/accelerator/incubator that expires before they get an Y combinator acceptance, they should let him know.
yes, because only google does this.
Any thoughts as to why nobody else seems to be competing with a spot market? Plenty of competitors look compelling on a per-hour basis, but if you don't require much bandwidth it's really hard to beat EC2's spot market pricing.
Moped: cross-platform messaging plugged into Dropbox, Foursquare, and Aviary
link: http://www.starling-software.com/employment/programmer-compe...
Perverse Incentives in Age and Funding Longevity Research
Thanks, these look like exactly what I was looking for.

Re NLP, I meant to say NLP from sentiment analysis perspective (not sure if that's the right way to put it). So my question was whether you had to extract meaning of one or few related sentences or only process the text in a statistical manner (which you answered).
Is it really appropriate to repost someone else's content without their consent?
Disclaimer: I'm the iOS dev for Moped.
Music is Code
Author (submitter, really) and comments are the last two things I care about.
Oh. The rest of the data didn't really seem related to my location so I thought it was a screenshot. Especially since Nowy Sacz is more than 200km from me, normally my geoip shows Krakow, Nowy Sacz is much much further away.
Me, too. I hope it never goes away in favour of flavour-of-the-month web design.

There's just enough space between articles and a ton of stuff fits on the screen at once. If it's not to your liking, there's a ton of alternative HN design services out there you can use.
Tagging millions of photos through Mechanical Turk
Who are you to call these sources "blatantly biased" and IP lawyers and professors on the same payroll as you "unbiased"?
From the parent:

> Can you point us to your popular time-saving framework that does all of this the correct way then?

So please suggest something. I'm curious to see what product (perhaps that you've worked on?) solves all of Bootstrap's obvious shortcomings.
Did the author of that post actually called? "Word has" doesn't inspire much confidence. Not that I believe Google doesn't lie, sure they do.
You can build your own branded YouTube player by using the API.
"Fanboys"? Can you save this for The Verge or similar please.
Is $5 per month too expensive?
Why did you use Arial narrow in the Header and Footer? In my opinion this looks a bit crammed.
Sex, Dinosaurs, and Placoderms
Ask HN: Has your AdSense CPC gone up over the years?
AdWords CPC rates have steadily gone up over the years. Given AdSense operates on a percentage revenue share model, I'm curious how many people have actually seen their AdSense CPC payouts go up in similar amounts?
Who is Tracking the Trackers?
This is an excellent idea. It also brings up the question of why email UI hasn't been redesigned to show the To: field after the message box. It makes so much more sense that way.

A holdover from the old snail mail days?
I can't help but think that there's some connection between this announcement and Firefox OS. Purely speculation but I suspect that Samsung will be selling cheaper phones running Firefox OS and over time move towards it for more and more phones.
If they wanted to pay 6k $ to each of these 20k support guy, they could ask for 6k*20k/(1 billion/3) = 36 cents per 10 minutes support !
This one is better. But still two things remain:
1. the font is a little tad too big by my preference.
2. The orange is a little too bright.

It seems this is editable, I will check back later to add my perception of HN.
Can people get by on four hours' sleep?
Support for what?

Interesting how the above responses all said they paid for Google Apps and then used the support, nothing wrong with that, but it seems as soon as you pay for something that offers support, people then feel like they need to use it just because they can, almost as a justification for paying for it.

I can't see why you would need support for a single personal GMail account? What problem could you possibly have that Google haven't spotted or the answer isn't available on the internet somewhere?!
When buttons are focused, enter and space both submit the button.
Don't you think that by showing that you have negotiation skills, even by employing more or less obvious ploys, you actually show the other part you can play the game just as well as they can? ...so they can stop trying to out-game you and they can start thinking about offers that really make sense both for you and for them.

...I think a lot of business deals start to make more sense once you "de-gamificate" them: you show the other part that "gaming" tricks won't work in this negotiation because you're on the same level as they are on using them, so both parties can now concentrate on a compromise offer that provides the best "real value" for both! I know, "make more sense" doesn't mean "make more money", but you end up with more satisfied customers and you end up doing business in segment of the market where there's less "gaming" to waste your energy on, so you can concentrate on improving and diversifying products or forging better customer relations.

Maybe the best way to "win" a negotiation is to "kill" it, i.e. turn it into something that's no longer a negotiation, where it's obvious that no one side can "win", no fucking way, so both parties can concentrate on the best possible compromise. (Yeah, the "pro gamers" will never want to do business with you again an will try to keep you away from any of their future businesses and negotiations, because your ways are "bad for business", but maybe this is not the segment you want to play in in the first place!)
Well, the price difference is largely because the investion cost of building the infrastructure is long since paid back, so all that has to be paid for now is a little maintenance and customer service.
Google can afford to provide support and not charge for it, Google makes plenty of profit.

The guy in the video acts as if hiring 40,000 people is ludicrous and unheard of. In reality, it's not even a large workforce compared to companies like Wal*Mart (2.1 million employees), Foxconn (1.2 employees) and Volkswagen (500k, employees).

Every decent company has customer support, Google couldn't care less. It doesn't even provide human support to advertisers, its source of income.
If you only get one book on negotiation, get Getting to Yes. If you get two books, get Bargaining for Advantage as well.

Bargaining for advantage differs from Getting to Yes in that it's more of a tactical guide, and BFA's advice works not only in collaborative situations, but also in adversarial zero-sum negotiations.

I truly understood the value of negotiation when I walked out of a happy vendor's boardroom having just cut my expenses by over $60,000 using a couple emails, a phone call, and a two-hour meeting.
Google's explination is a terrible explanation. The assumption that everyone would need support, but that cannot be true. It is just an excuse with no reasoning behind it.
It means that, unlike before, a entrepreneur can register his TM, in 88+ countries, using one application, instead of registering his TM in each one of them.

This leads to huge cost cuts, time savings, and accessibility.
I would love, just once, for someone to make an argument on the internet without coming up with some ridiculous scenario to make a direct comparison to. It's really not that hard to "draw the line" between assault/robbery and getting your app rejected by Apple.
Support this statement! Design that sacrifices content for sake of nice looking white-spaces can be used only on personal pages that nobody reads.
It seems that arguments siding with Apple here are all various flavors of "The rules are the rules". But after you leave grade school, if you still think the rules really are the rules, you haven't been paying attention. Rules at every level, business, government, personal, are all flexible and open to constant interpretation depending on who benefits most from the interpretation.

I'm struck by another recent headline case in this community, that of Aaron Swartz. The rules were capriciously enforced in that case as well. Yet the community largely came out on the side of Swartz (and probably rightly so) then. But it's just another high profile case where rules are never the rules when humans are involved.

Saying that AppGratis should have known not to build their business on the AppStore platform or they should have known not to break the rules is an easy way to ignore the fact that capricious enforcement of rules has consequences far beyond the ecosystem in which they are made. It's a viewpoint that
is naive at best and callous at worst.

Which is a bunch of words to say exactly what mattdeboard said: "There's a bunch of Ayn Rand horseshit going on in this thread"
> Obviously anything less than break-even is not worth having

No. Not at all. We are talking propulsion, using fusion reactions to pass on energy to the propellant and convert that into thrust. Although it would be desirable, it's not required to make it a net-positive reaction - just giving the propellant more energy than a chemical reaction is enough to be more efficient than a chemical rocket.

As the article mentioned, you can power this rocket with an ISS worth of solar panels (which is quite a lot of mass). Or, as it didn't mention, a very small fission reactor (provided you could negotiate putting a 200 KW reactor in space).
lol. I've been reading hackernews for years and didn't even know there was a voting button
The status is listed as "new." I suspect that were this bug to be reviewed, it would end up "not a bug" because it depends on software that's not part of Android. That is, like a phone that's missing a GPS driver, that function will fail for lack of what should be OEM provided drivers/firmware.

Yes, it is bad that this bug has lingered without attention. But I also see how it could fall to the bottom of the priority list for review.

Tl;dr: It doesn't work because it's not implemented.
Lulu: An App No One Should Accept
I'm kind of surprised they're still working on Blogger.
Fs-Utils: Use Kernel Drivers to Access File Systems Without Mounting
I kinda prefer http://cheeaun.github.com/hackerweb/#/ though.
I'm a Google Apps authorized reseller. Even for me it is very hard to get support.

Recently we had a problem concerning the Gmail IMAP API and the X-GM_RAW extension.

- https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/imap_extensi...

Quoting from the docs: "Arguments passed along with the X-GM-RAW attribute when executing the SEARCH or UID SEARCH commands will be interpreted in the same manner as in the Gmail web interface"

But this is not true. For example, the in:anywhere filter will not work in the same manner as in the Gmail web interface. In fact, it is ignored. We opened a support ticket at the "enterprise support" portal (https://enterprise.google.com/supportcenter/), and after 2 weeks dealing with some entity that could very well be a chat bot, no solution.

By trial and error we discovered that in order to get the same result as "in:anywhere" you have to issue an IMAP select to the folder "[Gmail]/All Mail" - which has a different name depending on the user Gmail language settings - for example, its "[Gmail]/Todos" in Spanish (you have to list all folders and look for a folder with the "\All" flag).

The document is still incorrect today. Having a billion users is not an excuse for crappy support. Seems like the whole experience is designed to be opaque and frustrating, to make you feel like you were the character of "The Trial" from Kafka.
Nice, clean and easy on the eyes. Showing the right information in the right place, cool.
> For zero dollar sales of apps, you will not see any transactions reported.

Aren't most of the apps that AppGratis links to discounted to free for the day. Apple doesn't pay commission on free downloads, right?
Same but different. And ugly?!
Yes, the nice thing about HN is the de-emphasis of the submitter...the content should stand on its own, not on the authority of whoever submitted it.

Number of upvotes is also irrelevant to emphasize. This attribute is inherently reflected in the vertical position of the item.

Edit: oops, OP did not emphasize upvotes. I'm ambivalent about holding number of comments...again, the number of them can mean several conflicting things
But it isn't speed in general. Most users open several applications and do little actually saving. Most systems now have copious memory, with GBs dedicated to cache. Windows since Vista has started even pre-caching files on a predicted need. Most file system access that does happen ends up being asynchronous.

I love my SSDs in my desktop, but the truth is that it simply doesn't make that big of a difference. Even in I/O heavy apps I quickly learned that the storage was much less of a restriction than I thought it was.
Yes. Google charges you money only because they make it easier for you to host your email and have calendar, chat etc.

And on any given day hosting these things on your own is the best option out there but you might have to get your hands dirty or get it from a service provider who doesn't deny the existence of need for human interaction in customer service.
Yes. Always be willing to walk away from that deal (I should have pointed that out!), but make sure that if you're at the point where you've decided to do so, that it's impossible to get the other side past that point. Being at that point doesn't mean you'll stay there.
Why the obsession with tiny fonts?
The TrailingSpaces plugin isn't necessary. ST2 has an option in the default preferences to trim whitespace at the end of the line - just enable it. Not to come down too hard on the article or anything, but there are many other, far better resources for setting up and learning how to be productive in ST2. This book is good https://leanpub.com/sublime-productivity (I have no affiliation with the book.)
I don't want to nit pick, but even 2500 hours a year is only 52-53 hours a week with 4 weeks off for vacation every year. Use the 2900 figure and you're still just barely over 60 with a month for vacation. Not a bad deal to make ~4x the median US salary.

I understand what you're saying though. It's a lot "easier" to go to school for four years, make $90-120k and have $0-40k in student debt than it is to go to school for a decade, make $125-175k and have $80-150k in student debt. But truthfully, when you have that kind of buying power you can live like a student for just two more years and completely pay off your debt (or very close to it). Software developers usually don't have that kind of buying power. Outside of the Valley and NYC an entry-level developer may only make $30k a year. Even a $200-300/mo student loan payment at that income is tight.
Very nice reply. Wish I had thought to include that :)
BfA is my goto book, +1 on the recommendation
Not willing to license that business opportunity to smaller/outsourced companies is regretful.
Perhaps related, on a Nexus 7 titles that wrap cause the comments line to lose their indentation.
I use this chrome extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...

It's probably not the prettiest but I like it.
Bitcoin Is A Disruptive Technology
Try projectile: https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

It fills in the common project search and fuzzy filename search features(amount other things) and otherwise stays out of the way.
Support for social entrepreneurs under 21 and in a UK university