skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A new AppGratis blogpost shares their perspective:

http://appgratis.com/blog/2013/04/18/setting-things-straight...

> And to guide them through their complicated media buying, we’d
> send them – with no guarantees whatsoever – a spreadsheet that
> indicates the forecasts of installs we thought we’d be a able
> to drive for their app in each country.

The crux of the issue (from my limited perspective):

> Since the App Store algorithm relies mostly on download velocity,
> it’s simple math to buy your way to the top of the charts by
> purchasing the numbers of installs you need combining multiple
> vendors. It’s the most common marketing strategy in the market
> today, and at the end of the day, it’s just regular advertising.

Glad this is out in the open in this way; it is useful to see where people line up on this issue.
As I install/develop my python apps into VMs with a fixed python version, I rarely use virtualenv... don't see the need for the extra complexity.

I've eagerly read pieces like this but haven't yet found out the reason this solution is problematic or that I'm doing it wrong. Just that no one else seems to be recommending it. Anyone have an idea?

Btw, one of the best discussions of the various deployment options I've seen is from the Pylons book: http://pylonsbook.com/en/1.1/deployment.html#choosing-or-set...

One other thing I'm not happy about regarding packaging best-practices (and PyPi) is that security updates are not able to be automated leading to vulnerable packages.
Python actually has another, more primitive, package manager called
easy_install, which is installed automatically when you install Python itself.
pip is vastly superior to easy_install for lots of reasons, and so should
generally be used instead. You can use easy_install to install pip as follows:

I found it quite ironic that the author says pip is "vastly superior" to easy_install and then proceeds to install pip using easy_install.
One would think that people on Hacker News, of all places, would appreciate the distinction between "opt-in" and "opt-out".
He seems like such a celebrity that I didn't dare to dream that there might be a way to get him to mention the service.
At this point there is nothing to me that would suggest that it should. Obviously over time the idea of a true international currency would be beneficial. But something like bitcoin that was created by a random individual with no government support, no inherent or scarce value shouldn't be able to hold value.

To me it is irrational to put money behind bitcoin, it's a bubble like the Dutch Tulip Mania from the 1600's. No reason for it, and it won't last.
Just curious, but why bother fighting a privacy act if you think that the government could not be overthrown in revolution? If the government wants it, they will take it since nothing can stop them.
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We've been building a pretty large, single-page Rails app at Salsify, and rely on Delayed Jobs pretty heavily. Combining Delayed Jobs callbacks and the hooks gem has been great.
To be fair, the article recognizes intrinsic value in the dollar, but not in bitcoin, applying double standards. Btc 's divisibility, the fact that it s hard to counterfeit, and anonymity are intrinsic values although the whole concept of intrinsic value is vague, because in the end all values are market-determined

That doesnt make sense. The dollar has extrinsic value too, which comes from the legal requirement of governments to accept it as payment. Unless you feed on paper, it doesn't paper money has less intrinsic value than digital, the latter is more divisible and easily exchangeable worldwide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_value_(numismatics)
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That's interesting. Have you (or someone else) written about the issues with DNSSEC somewhere? It always seemed to me that the role of the registrars wouldn't change much.
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Yep, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
To move a bit on from the others and security status. It is worth noting that the entire game is PVP. The only place where you aren't indirectly or directly interacting with another player is the mission system. Every other part of the game you are interacting or at least impeding other players. Everything you do is at least preventing another player from accessing the resource.

As an example, let's look at the classic non PVP activity of mining. Mining is a race against others to get all the asteroids before they are gone. Sure, you didn't directly kill anyone, but those asteroids you destroyed are gonna be gone for at least a few days. Thus preventing access to them by another player. Meanwhile, some enterprising gentlemen are trying to steal the ore you are creating. Once you get the ore back to the station, someone else is buying the at vastly under the going rate but offering local pickup. A third girl is offering a kings ransom if you drive the whole pile of stuff over to the bad side of town and drop it off at pirate central. You decline both offers and decide to set up a sell order for a reasonable rate. You make money

That is non PVP in eve, only three people tried to screw you over. You screwed over some smaller miner by strip mining an asteroid belt, made some money selling the loot to other players. You avoided an attempt to screw you by the market, one by a theif, and an obvious pirate trap. But nobody shot at you. No one declared war on you.

Good times.
This is a really cool breakdown + analysis.
So far in my experience, cold-contacting bloggers doesn't really work. Also, it makes me feel like a pest to try it. Perhaps if I got an introduction or met them at an event I might have better luck.
Haha, thanks for that. We'll bear it in mind in future. Glad you like the look of the app though.
Because malware and attack signature might be classified depending on how they were collected.

In the general case, I really wish we could agree to not try to argue factual or legal matters according to vague notions of "common sense." I feel like a lot of these types of discussions on HN quickly devolve into one person stating a fact, and the other person saying "that doesn't seem right." Lots of things that are factually true don't match your or my conceptions of how the world should work.
A bit of background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5541880

I'll be uploading PDFs of the files as they come in here: http://www.scribd.com/collections/4230081/-why-s-print-spool
Good point, I would guess it is lower than 50% of total (irrespective of active vs. not active).

Not sure where you sourced your GR data but maybe the ratios of GR/uniques across a few different types of sites to find out if GR ratios varies by site type could sharpen the straw man.
I have JS enabled, don't use adblock, but I do use Ghostery. Quartz is the only site (that I've found) which blocks content because I block third-party tracking. I have no idea if this is by design.
pip install --user XXX

should get you what you want. Not default but not a huge burden either.
Nothing. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sffcei

If UD doesn't have it, I'm convinced nobody has ever used the word to mean anything dirty.
More CO2 --> warmer is understood pretty well. What is not understood where else the gas can go and what feedback mechanisms there are.

A climate model is very complex, and it is build on basic premises, which can all be tested separately (like the CO2 part). Some points remain unclear:
For example, a great part of the CO2 that has already been emitted has apparently gone into the ocean (which will lead to acidification, another problem). The ocean has a turn-over time of about 1000 years, so we can expect more uptake. On the other hand, a warmer ocean can dissolve less gas. ..it's a very long list of interleaved issues, and small changes of parameters (whose values are not known precisely) can change big things. Great care is taken in making these models. Scientists are usually not interested in politics very much. Even if a few had an agenda, they wouldn't manage to push a made-up idea.
Btw, the solar influence is also factored in (see [1]). The next ice age would be due soon, but it won't happen due to the CO2 (a good thing, I reckon).

Looking at the climate history of our planet is a scary thing since it is far from stable. It appears that there are periods where the whole globe was covered in ice, and periods where it was very much warmer than today. It's ok for life, but not for individual species such as us who have build their civilisation on one specific situation (precipitation patterns!). In the long run, we will have to manage/stabilize the climate anyway, so research is needed either way.

disclaimer:
I study and do research in this area. If I could show there was no problem, I'd be a hero; nobody of us wants this. My professors seem to have given up on the issue at this point.

Can I answer some questions or is this a lost battle as it is so very often?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
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I may not understand the full context here, but it sounds like a failure of the game mechanics/net code/implementation if they can't fully enforce some rule via in-game means and have to resort to banning accounts of those who break it.
What frameworks are good for HTML5 phone apps?
I know of Apache Cordova, Phonegap, Sencha Touch. Anything else I am missing I should check out?
I wouldn't know. I don't know anyone at Github who might answer this.
What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space?
Yeah, but it will probably become very messy if an article gets any kind of movement.

from my experience on G+ people don't correspond as coharently as they do on blogs themselves.
Given that the cost is 0, it seems like a fairly efficient use of money for the end user.
Here's the petition: http://www.saveyourprivacypolicy.org/
The PCI-DSS deals specifically with cryptographic keys used to protect CC details. It is in no way a standard for API keys. Even then it is enormously vague in its rules.

There are lots of organizations with notions about passwords and keys and ciphers, etc. However in the context of this discussion I don't believe there is anything that could be considered a standard.
Chartboost (Raised 21m from Sequoia Capital, et al.) and SendGrid (Raised 27m from BVP, et al.) are probably the two largest (by valuation) startups which have publicly stated that they were rejected from YC.

There may be others of similar size who haven't publicly disclosed, but it's unlikely there's anyone an order of magnitude larger (pg has stated there hasn't been any YC reject who has reached the $1bn+ valuation mark).

Only eight YC companies have raised more than $20m in investment (dropbox, airbnb, xobni, stripe, loopt, scribd, hipmunk, and optimizly).

LightSail Energy ($48m; Kholsa, et al) was also technically a YC reject but given how far it is outside of "typical" YC companies I'm not sure I'd count it.
Facebook builds public dashboards to show real-time power and water usage
How come? Any reason they are giving all this for free? I am not saying there some catch, but I just want to know.
Seconded. My investment in "Two Scoops of Django" has repaid itself many, many times over. Concrete "best practices" book.
Yuck. Without a doubt, the biggest failures in my marketing career started with "let's give them a free..."

Gaining market share or customers via free X promos is a doomed strategy. I have my theories, but the main thrust is some mumbo jumbo about perceived value. I've sat in interviews with more than one company that said with a not-ironic face that suffering now will cause explosive results in the long term. I pipe up and explain why this isn't so. Why I offer this advice for free is beyond me.
False dichotomy. Dems are just as bad obviously. The original CISPA was "bipartisan".
> My guess is that he may have deleted all the keys to early coins traceable back to him, just to avoid temptation.

If he did that, he was, for once, very stupid. You don't want to delete the keys, since no one will believe you. ('Sure you did, pal, sure you did. You took all those careful precautions to remain completely pseudonymous and you expect me to believe that?')

What you want to do is publicly, verifiably, irreversibly destroy coins. This is perfectly doable and there are at least two ways to do it: you can send bitcoins to invalid addresses where no corresponding key can possibly exist, and you send the coins with a transaction where the scripting language will never evaluate to true and release the coins (something along the lines of 'release coins iff 1==2'). As the inventor of Bitcoin, one would expect Satoshi to know of these methods and other approaches I don't know of.
I know this is referring to the iOS app, but can I ask why you require the permissions you do for the Android App?

I'm not sure why a network scanner needs access to my contact list, call log and SMS messages. Is this the only way to have access to usage meters? I would of thought they're exposed another way as android tracks that as well natively?
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Google Glass Explorer Edition comes with extreme restrictions
Turning cities around, how long is too long?
I've written a lot about DNSSEC, but we tore the blog down so I can't cite it; the best I can do is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4071178
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EVE has done one truly innovative trick, which I suspect is going to be template for many mass unit virtual battles in future - time dilation.

Not everyone can just throw hard ware at a problem, Time dilation is one of the coolest things that have happened to make the Massively part MMO feel massive.
The town of Cumming GA is subject to some interesting objections. Entering the address, one system refused with the comment "My, what colorful language you have."
Thanks. How is local storage in your experience? Last I talked to people about this, everyone was cursing it for lack of capacity and general quirkiness.

My concern with HTML is that if FB and LinkedIn were unable to muster the required resources to overcome the engineering challenges of HTML, chances are I won't have those resources either. Native is more predictable. Your experience is valuable in that it proves the existence of a solution. Would you say your team is extraordinary in its capacity to wrangle with HTML, or is something like this available to your average YC startup, or to most startups out there?
OK, I knew intellectually exactly what would happen. Seeing it for real is one of the best things Ive ever seen.
I'm open to more creative analogies. I'll happily send some AWS stickers to the first 5 truly great ones that show up under this reply...
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I found the book's website -- it has the errata and you can download all of the scripts from the book:

http://www.dtracebook.com/index.php/Main_Page

There's another very detailed book available for free from illumos (the OpenSolaris fork):

http://dtrace.org/guide/preface.html
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Surveys may be getting at the wrong question.

As http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html says, you want to work on an idea that a few people really want. Then you want to go out and find some of those people. Talk to them. And make what they want.

Concrete case in point. I remember reading an example of how an early focus group mostly panned a particular automobile, but 1/3 of people REALLY LOVED IT. On a survey it would have looked bad, but went on to be one of the most successful vehicles on the road. (I think it might have been the Ford Bronco, but don't quote me on that.) You don't care how many won't buy, you want something that you can find sufficient enthusiastic customers for.

When a woman finds something perfect, she likes to tell her friends about it. Suppose that your friend is standing in front of you in great clothing talking about how good the clothing from ____ is, you just sent them your measurements, browse the clothing, and they will send them to you tailored to fit, then you're likely sold. You've got to get those women started.

To do that you've got to do like Zappos did. You've got to have a generous return policy. Furthermore when you get returns, you need to try to get information about why it is returned. Because one of the reasons why stuff will get returned is fit, and the descriptions you get back are going to help you learn more about how to customize clothing to that women to give her a better fit next time. This is essential.

There is a lot to learn to make this work. And if you want it to work, it is absolutely necessary that you've got to get it right before trying to get popular.
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That wasn't the only amendment up for a vote, and before being absolutely sure that carve out would hold up it would need examination in light of e.g. the "advertised on the Internet or any publication", and how the courts interpret it and many other parts of this at best very badly drafted amendment.

To the extent we were able to analyze it in the time we had, it was clear Toomey had no experts helping him (the list of qualified lawyers is rather small, after all, but the errors, if they were that, in what were supposed to be pro-RKBA provisions were telling). Whereas part of this law was lifted straight from the horrible Schumer bill it was proposing to amend (that would go a lot further, its definitions of "transfer" were lethal), not surprising given that Schumer was also a co-sponsor along with anti-RKBA Kirk and drama queen trending anti-RKBA Manchin.

Requiring NICS checks for all "transfers" was very much up for discussion (heck, even quasi-relevant to Newtown, except of course transfer by murder and theft is already illegal), so making that point in a general discussion is hardly illegitimate, let alone FUD.
Since the PC, every iteration toward new form factors has come with progressively less freedom and openness: PDAs, smart phones, tablets, and now this.

IMHO Microsoft's dominance was the big threat to open computing in the 90s, but feudal devices and feudal security models are the big threat today. The open source movement successfully countered the threat of the Internet as a Microsoft fiefdom, but what can be done to counter this? Especially since these big players have locked down these form factors with massive patent thickets around their UIs and interaction metaphors.

Technologically Glass is awesome, but politically and socially it is horrible, nightmarish, and insane. Imagine if Microsoft proposed that in its new version of Windows they could:

* Remotely deactivate your computer.

* Videotape everything through your computer's camera and upload it to their servers and do whatever they like with it.

* Constantly track your location and do whatever they like with this information, as well.

* Forbid you from selling or even lending your device. (Granted, this restriction is probably temporary... but still... the fact that they can and would do this...)

* Control what software you may run, and under what terms.

* Demand that all software developers follow their precise and very nit-picky guidelines.

The outcry would have been deafening.

There has been some outcry around Glass, but little around smart phones which are only marginally better. And much of the outcry about Glass has been framed as ludditeism. If anything, the idea of going back to feudal models of society is ludditeism. This issue is more complex than "new technology baaaddd!" vs. "new technology gooood!" It's about what we are doing with our technology and how it shapes our society.

Edit: interesting thought: if Microsoft wants to become relevant again, the single biggest move they could make would be to array themselves in opposition to this trend. Never going to happen... probably too big of a culture shift for them... but it would instantly make them relevant in mobile if they offered a platform where you, the user, have total control and which built in privacy awareness as a central feature. Basically build things like "little snitch" and friends into the OS, open all the APIs, create tools allowing users to monitor what their devices are doing, etc. It wouldn't even have to be open source... just... maybe I can coin a new term here... "open agenda?" As in "your device has no agenda but yours?"
It's also a thing that is attempting to be a currency/commodity. I suppose in any discussion we should make clear which aspect we're talking about. I was talking about the currency/commodity aspect as that's what this entire thread was started on. For the protocol, I agree with you.
Actually, it's the opposite. The original CISPA was the free-market deregulating alternative to Rockefeller. It's taken on more bipartisan support over the last year (but that's now receding, I think due to the climate in DC).

You're right that it's not a dichotomy; I'll try not to portray it as one (as much --- the failure of CISPA does set the Democrats up for another bite at the apple on their proposed regs, which are OMG worse).
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Exception that proves the rule.
Unfortunately those are the permissions required for monitoring usage, so it looks more sinister than it is. It's irritating that in order to count data use and texts sent we have to ask for permission to access texts and contacts, which we NEVER do.
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