skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Game Dev Tycoon forces those who pirate the game to unwittingly fail from piracy
This note is interesting: "Don't get 1000 fans (never really worked)".

Love the idea of looking for 150 true customers instead. The marketing breakdown (on how to get those 150) that Jason gives is excellent (OP wrote them down in the post).
Ask HN: Has any SaaS company successfully used a 'name your price' pricing plan?
As much as fixed pricing plans make sense, has any company successfully used a pricing option similar to how insurance companies and travel sites use "name your price" features?

My initial thought is that it may lead to many customers with a $1 payment, but some may pay derive more value, therefore paying above your fixed pricing tiers.

Thoughts?
Crawler to crawl wikipedia pages
It's location based, but if it can't access the network or the location for some reason, it uses snow capped mountains as a placeholder.
It's one of those wishful-thinking things, I think. Despite a pool of people who actually use feeds and prefer to use feeds over getting their mailboxes spammed, using your custom app to follow your site, etc., some people and companies just want RSS to die.
Because the masses of underpaid Infosys developers are really bad. I used to work at a name-brand, large corporation known for hiring top-end talent, and did a lot of interviewing while there.

Inevitably the people who are looking to jump ship from Infosys or other low-end consultancy are woefully underqualified for even entry-level positions. I've actually interviewed people from these shops who cannot write Hello World in a language of their own choosing, I've also had people who didn't know what a tree data structure was. I'm unsure how Infosys et al can farm these guys out for such high hourly rates, it's surely criminal.

Sniping from Infosys and Wipro isn't worth it for top companies because there's hardly anyone there worth sniping. They do try sometimes though, since inevitably there is a diamond in there just waiting to get the hell out of dodge. There is effectively zero intersection between the types of developers Google wants, and the types of developers Infosys wants.

As for who Google/Microsoft/etc are trying to hire... I wouldn't call it "top talent" exactly. The H-1B pool in these companies isn't a parade of who's whos of the software industry, though some of them are certainly top-1% coders. It's more like "very good coders" - people who know the tech, learn fast, have solid fundamentals, and get shit done - which is more than can be said for the majority of the talent pool. Simply eyeballing it, I'd say that Facebook/Google/etc are targeting the top 5-10 percentile of coders.
ppcoin
The tendency among physicians to be dismissive towards remedies that are procedural in nature reminds me of the tendency of programmers to show disinterest in non-technical solutions to problems.

But as Jeff Atwood reminds us, "The Best Code is No Code At All," and I imagine that physicians could use a similar reminder: "The Best Treatment is No Treatment at All."
What you describe is precisely the sort of thing I dislike in mobile apps. On a (non-Windows) desktop, no one would dare do such crazy, confusing things.
I'd love to see a quick way to copy the URL of the page you're on, since I more often text people links rather than email them, and "Share via iMessage" doesn't seem to be implemented yet
The component was developed by the Exchange 2000 team, and was integrated in MSXML as a convenient deployment tactic (the sort of thing that gets you in DOJ troubles) at the very last moment. I have no doubt that Bosworth valued it later, but if we're talking specifically about XmlHttp, it was in many ways snuck in because the Exchange team wanted functionality on the client.
Only certain types of rich people can pick up and move like that, though. Moving to a new country or even a new city means leaving behind the business connections and infrastructure they've built over the course of years and years. You'd have to be one of the idle rich or work in an industry that is location-independent and knowledge-based. That doesn't describe most rich people.

You're absolutely right about the ability of the rich to buy their way to the front of the immigration line, I just don't see it happening in significant numbers.
It tries to be predictive - if an event is added that happens too soon it won't pick up on it. Add a calendar event for tomorrow and see what happens.
Ask HN: Installing Ubuntu on Chromebook
Is it worth installing Ubuntu on my Chromebook if I've never used Linux or Unix?

I read that one can run Skype on Ubuntu which is the major flaw I've encountered with using Google Chrome.

If it's not too complicated I'd appreciate if you can share a "good" link that shows how to do it.

Thank you,
So Google UK is now allowed to use everyone's photographs (not just thumbnails) and use those photographs to sell ads next to it. How is that right ?

It only applies to orphan works but you can easily and in an anonymous way strip out the metadata.

And companies like Google could take it one step further.
All they have to do is start a LLC in the UK for the Google image search part of its business, go to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, ... take all the photos, strip the metadata, say it was someone else who must have done it, make a lot of money.
That drop from the mothership seems like it would make a few people sick. :)
The brokerage and banking company Charles Schwab has strict length limits—
passwords can be no longer than six characters.

I'm a little dubious of this claim as I have several accounts (checking, savings and brokerage) with Charles Schwab and my password is longer than 6 characters. I'd be interested in knowing where they got this information.
Or to the restaurant around the corner that just happens to be on the same path.
In Seattle it shows a snow-capped volcano (Mount Rainier), an illustrated version of the Space Needle, the Pike Place Market sign, and a couple downtown buildings from the viewpoint of Kerry Park[1]. They have a generic rotation of images plus some location-specific ones. I'd love to see the whole collection laid out somewhere.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/UgOhEUR.jpg
>They manage it by making actually keeping that money after obtaining it without getting caught really hard. I have no idea how it can be protected against when it's bitcoin.

Well, you can trace bitcoin more easily than you can trace other currencies.
I found this very strange

The permitted characters and length for passwords are defined as a regular
expression in Evernote’s API, but spaces are left out, Evernote says,
because leading and trailing spaces presents a problem. “Software needs to
precisely determine how to treat leading and trailing spaces,” Dave
Engberg, Evernote’s CTO, told Ars. “Some UI frameworks and third-party
applications would unreliably trim spaces, others would not.”

What frameworks and third party applications are they passing the password through? And what kind of framework strips anything from a password field anyway?

Sounds like the guy writing the regex thought it might be a problem so instead of thinking about it just opted for the safer option.

Why do any kind of a regex validation at all for a password? As long as you are hashing it straight after receiving it the user should be able to send whatever they want.
Kentucky Derby Bans All Interchangeable Lens Cameras for ‘Security Purposes’
> The free market offers no incentive to give health services to people who cannot pay for it

Yes, thank you. I've said it many times before - the Free Market cares about your problems to the exact extent that you can Pay for them. Any benefits that happen to flow to the impecunious are incidental (though still nice when they do occur).
What TokuDB Might Mean for MongoDB
Losing Ownership of New Ideas: A Mark of Success
Yes, but in SimCity you play the part of the government. So if you only collect $5000 in taxes, but provide $6000 in services, you lose. Ideally, government should be break-even, where services rendered = taxes collected, at least on the small-scale microeconomics of SimCity.

Even still, the above doesn't work out because you are responsible for providing city infrastructure as well, which costs money up front. If you don't collect tax revenues, you can't afford to build new infrastructure without going into debt.

You know, forget everything I said. It's a simulation game with only lose ties to real-world economics. It doesn't have to make sense.
I haven't played the latest version of the game, but the easiest way to achieve a nice SC4 city with full of shiny buildings, cleantech and high approval ratings was to levy much higher percentage taxes on low incomes than high incomes (thereby driving all the poor out of your city). And without those pesky low income Sims your city would continue to do just fine. That's almost as much a of a far-right fantasy as solving suburban crime by placing police stations every six blocks.
I don't understand. What possible security purpose could this serve?
Almost all of the time I agree. But sometimes code is the clearest and most understandable way to describe an algorithm, and sometimes you want to describe an algorithm for a reason other than that you want it to execute. For example, you might want to say "This would be simpler but it fails when x is denormalized," or you might want to say "This is how you could call this method," which is common in Python and elisp docstrings — and, I think, wholly defensible in that case.
If you change the last Length-6 characters and login, does it fail?
I think you're looking for the 666 rule which I can't find a link to, but its an engineering rough estimate that mach 6 at 60 kft is 6% of the way to orbit (from an energy perspective). It comes up a lot in back of the envelope type debates about overall system / stage design and performance. Note that 6% of the way to orbit sounds pitiful for a first stage but it actually has a pretty big effect on available payload and nozzle design of the second stage and reusability of the first stage and all that. SSTO is tough, but sticking something close to a SSTO on top of a 666 booster helps a surprising amount.

On the other hand in aerospace its unusual to bolt the first prototype together then just punch it and see what happens, like a drag racer driver. Smallest reasonable steps and all that.
^^ This

Confession.... I own a modded Xbox and only use it to play pirated games, Why? I simply do not play it enough to justify cost, when buying it my consideration was simply hacked Xbox vs no Xbox. I last turned it on about 3 months ago for about 30 minutes. Games are way too expensive, I would gladly pay some money but not the crazy prices of most games vs my usage.
Emacs's is M-;.
And that is the reason why there is a mass of underpaid talents.
"Born on third, thought they hit a triple."
I appreciate the reply. I put in my email and look forward to trying it out.
Xbox 720 - IllumiRoom
does Dommy provide a pure API on top of the DOM? (e.g., lens based) I don't immediately understand how one would make that performant given that the DOM is a mutable data structure.

edit: WebFUI[1] is one clojurescript project trying to provide a pure interface for dom manipulation; there are others.

[1] https://github.com/drcode/webfui
Introduction to Functional Programming with Clojure
Implementing a copy protection mechanism like this is giving pirates Quad Damage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
I remember once reading a bank's FAQ trying to explain why passwords couldn't contain SELECT, UPDATE, DROP, or DELETE. I can't find it now so hopefully that little problem has been fixed...
I have a brokerage account with Schwab and I am using a 10 character password, so I can confirm your skepticism.
Read the apple page on safe mode. It performs several checks which most likely fix the problem.
Additionally.

"Adding support for spaces only in the middle of the password would make the regular expression defining them three times longer, Engberg said."

So they admit they already have the regex definition that would allow this, but for some reason don't want to put it in production? How strange.
Nope. It silently truncates whatever you give it to 6 characters.

edit: I just tried on my account and it's actually 8 characters, not 6.
Prisioneiros Criam Apartamento com o Tamanho de Uma Cela Prisional
The semantic web has gotten one step closer!
So, some third party strips your work of contact information such that due diligence does not turn up any way of finding you, and redistributes it. Can this third party be in any way legally liable for lost income or other damages?
A third user thought the length limit suggested that the company may then be storing
the password themselves rather than hashing them

This was my first thought at well, and none of the examples in the article refute it satisfactorily.

Is there any point at all to capping the maximum length? Are sites worried that if the 64-character limit is lifted, 64+ character passwords will become common, leading to a bad user experience?
Paragraphs benefit from zebra striping, too
It's pretty much a given that tables present from zebra striping because people face confusion about which line they are on... just like happens in text. So it would be easier to read text that has been zebra striping, <a href="http://JonathansCorner.com">which can be accomplished by a one pixel wide, two line-heights high, with the top half and the bottom half colored different colors.</a> <a href="http://JonathansCorner.com/">This site demonstrates it</a>, and <a href="http://JonathansCorner.com/library/#technology">the technology section gives more of a sense of reading a regular article with zebra striping</a>.
My tweaked version of Monokai: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12091499/Share/Monokai%2....
Isn't "skills improve over time" kind of common knowledge though?
What device are you using? I just checked on my phone and I didn't see a tab for recent searches available.

What I found though were starred places. I like the ability to be able to see my search history. How can you get to that from the navigation app ?
No. We're not trying to do something pure on top of the DOM. That isn't feasible for performant manipulation. Being functional is about more than just immutability.

We use standard manipulation.
ClojureScript is so different from JavaScript that it makes sense write a more native DOM library for it. As someone with a lisp background, it's very cool to see a high-profile company like Prismatic using it.

However, macros for javascript are being worked on. sweet.js is coming along really well, and just needs to continue ironing out bugs and maturing. http://sweetjs.org/ I believe that it could have a profound effect on JavaScript, such as parsing selector string at expand time.
OT: I was using Wikipedia the other day and it occurred to me how primitive it is to have all the inner links to other Wikipedia articles defined manually, surely these should have been automated by now (i.e., marking a word or two would link you to the relevant article).
> 'riffraff

Completely OT, but is this an established HN convention for marking usernames? I've noticed it here and there, and it seems like a goodish idea.
He wasn't going to the exploratorium for a meeting. I'm not sure what the solution is, or if there is one, but the point is that it was not useful.
I would suggest taking your own advice. The example was hyperbolic, but it was meant to be. It was meant to highlight the underestimation and oversimplication of his comment.

Then again, with generalizations like "that New Yorkers say" and assumptions like "if you elected a guy", I suppose my comment also applies to you.
You throw regular batteries into the regular trash?

We have special bins for any batteries. The bins are available in many shops.

All packets of batteries (here) ask you to not just throw them into the trash but to send them to the special bins. This is part of law.

(http://www.environmentlaw.org.uk/rte.asp?id=245)

This law is part of EU directives.
That's interesting. What is it about Typescript specifically that you think aligns it with "A Theory of Objects"? (not expecting a thesis in your answer)
LOL, yes that's what I said too. This should be the case in any industry.
Yes, “design flaw” in 1Password is a problem, just not for end users
The only line of reasoning in the article that seems somewhat convincing to me is Microsoft's point that stronger passwords don't prevent phishing, malware, or compromise via another site (and I'm not sure about the third one -- I guess it's true if the other site is storing passwords in the clear, but if they're hashed, I'd think stronger passwords would be harder to get using rainbow tables). But even if it's true that password strength isn't the weakest link for MS, why not allow for stronger passwords anyway? Is it really a big investment that would require tradeoffs to make that kind of change?

Evernote's reason seems more like an admission of a technical debt than any kind of defense.

AT&T's reason doesn't make sense either -- if users don't like entering certain characters on a mobile phone, they can pick a different password.
Sure, I can elaborate. The article assumed a little bit of familiarity with Zapier. The basic mechanics are creating a new Zap on Zapier (which is a pair of one trigger and one action).

For the trigger, choose "GTalk" and "New Message". Specifically, the Zap will trigger whenever you send a message to our always-on bot.

You can pick any action that suites you, see the article for ideas.

We'll automatically perform the action whenever the trigger occurs.

There is a lot of flexibility in the system but that's the 500 foot view.
Sharp's 32-inch 4K LCD monitors (eyes-on)
For something with just 10 points before I upvoted it, I'm not seeing anything weird.
I don't know about Infosys, but we have a TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) branch here in Uruguay, and it is very common for junior developers to do a few years there, and then quickly realize they've "outgrown" the company and get recruited somewhere else or start their own company - and those "child" companies recruit the cream of the remaining crop, leaving the worse/less motivated employees at the mother company.

TCS does try to keep some of the better ones around, but from the outside I cannot know how succesful they are.
1984...
"Freedom is Slavery!"
"War is Peace!"
There are multiple managers in use at the moment, I've used v3 and v5 within the past 6 months. It's a shame they didn't mention the version they're using.
Other languages can totally have macros, but unless you have homoiconicity, which lisp languages do, macros aren't easy to use or support. In ClojureScript, macros are built into the language.
Retailers have to take the old gadget if you buy a new gadget from them.

Distributors need to provide centers to take stuff from consumers.

Consumers have a responsibility to look at the packaging to see if something can be thrown in the garbage or if it needs to be sent for special disposal.

(http://www.environmentlaw.org.uk/rte.asp?id=245)
Per your graphics issues, try installing gfxCardStatus[1] and watch for if/when it switches between integrated and discreet. I've found the integrated Intel graphics to be slow for OS GUI stuff like "reveal all windows" but discreet video is fine.

It will also let you choose which GPU to use which is useful for testing.

[1]: http://gfx.io/
That's really cool -- certainly very nifty for Zapier users.

The title, though, implies a service (or hack) that isn't dependent on any other system -- maybe it might be better titled "Turn Gtalk into a Command Line for the Web using Zapier" or something?
a few small anecdotes about him: http://semantic-domain.blogspot.fr/2013/04/john-c-reynolds-j...
This is a device that's designed to work for fifteen days and then instantly become garbage despite being perfectly functional.

Do you really have trouble understanding that part?

I'm a proponent of the idea that companies that sell you products should have to take them back at the end of their useful life. That is, Apple would take back your unwanted phone and be responsible for recycling or disposing of it, it would no longer be your problem. This would encourage companies to engineer products with longer useful lifespans, or to facilitate refurbishing instead of destruction.
The problem as I see it, is that the dev himself uploaded the "gimped version" to the torrent site.

Most indie games (unless they're a hit) never make it to TPB or some other place because the game is only available through legitimate sources, and most indie-loving gamers care too much about the developers to casually crack a game and upload it onto some shady torrent site.

It's easy to blame inefficiency to piracy. Minecraft was pirated heavily, did Mojang go bankrupt?

Gaming has evolved, Games are no longer a product to be packed up and shipped off. Constant updates, content packs, etc (free or otherwise) keep a customer engaged. If someone really likes the game, the lore and whatnot they will pay to get the original game. Heck, I personally know a ton of my classmates buying CoD4 since they couldn't access various multiplayer modded servers.

Piracy in general(be it games, movies, or music) is a problem that the content makers need to solve. New and effective services, sources will conquer it - Online streaming music has to an extent, Bollywood has taken warmly to YouTube and uploads ad-supported official HD movies (barely months after they launch). As Gabe Newell said, Piracy is a service problem. It has always been and it always will be.
Kill Your Heroes
With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan
URLs too often devolve into machine formats for no good reason other than that its easier for machines (read, the machines' developers).

Friendly URLs help people understand the hierarchy of information and orient themselves within it. Friendly URLs serve as a kind of breadcrumb navigation. Friendly URLs are "hackable" by normals.

> not precise enough to serve as a reliable permalink to a specific location

If delivering mail is solvable, and considering the miracle of Street View exists, surely giving each address its own human-friendly URL is solvable too.

> And who types URLs anyway.

Everyone who uses the web.
Fracking Not the Source of Methane in Water, Says Pa. DEP
Speaking as someone who has interviewed quite a lot of people, I would say we have an ample supply of kids who started programming in college and successfully graduated with a 4-year degree, or even a masters. But we have a huge shortage on people who can actually write code and be hireable.
> [...] an AT&T spokesperson [...] told Ars that the company decided not to allow symbols because customers did not like typing them when using mobile phones.

That argument does not compute.
Tried. Couldn't find a copy.
Good call! I've updated it.
> "... it's probably less than 10% who can be persuaded to actually buy it."

Elsewhere in this thread I've seen other figures bandied about, ranging anywhere from 1-30%. Where are they coming from? Was there ever any actual market research performed, or are we collectively inventing figures that sound reasonable to us?
It's super easy here, I'm generating nice multi-page PDFs with colours and images and all that - from HTML5 based content. I have a similar API available at http://edoceo.io#pdf
> Some times for example you are not actually linking to an address

You, and the parent you're agreeing with, seem to have overlooked I'd already made that point:

> Presumably one would fall back to lat/lon if one is trying to do something other than find an address.
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I've been using the Google map's star feature for this type of address transferring - star a location on PC and it will show up on your phone in seconds, you just need to unstar it later if it's not an address you want your map to remember.
Do you have an Java apps running in the background, such as a Java based backup tool? On my previous Macbook I had problems with it beachballing and it seemed to be caused by issues with Java.