skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised that Twitter has not used features for bigger customers like this as a monitizing strategy. When they used to have a user cap, they could have just charged companies or people to go over that cap. Same thing here, charge for two factor authentication. Maybe even charge for verified accounts.
Police arrest admin of Sweden’s #2 BitTorrent site
especially if it's near the $15 dollar level (which is pretty much cost).

I remember ordering once (this was 7 years ago) at $5-$7 a tee and USPS charged around 2.75 at the time, for a grand total closer to $10
It would be hard for a "retail investor" like myself, but 30 seconds is a lifetime to the high frequency guys. I'm sure there is a pretty big group of people who would have no trouble doing it.
With regard to point 1, I suspect older workers are also less willing to switch jobs, which would also make it harder to increase their salaries.
Quick and dirty custom video player using SproutVideo and jQuery
Such research would presumably lead to better guidelines for brain-death, which would give us clearer boundaries on when to pull the plug.
the link doesn't work for me. anyone knows why?
Your TL;DR doesn't actually apply to the article...

The article is two paragraphs related to programming and technical debt - worth reading on it's own merits.
Paypal would do very well buying and selling Bitcoins. Buying bitcoins with Paypal is a very common request, which most sellers won't do because Paypal makes it very easy to rip off the seller.
Pretty clever choices of rewards. There's nothing physical as a reward until the $40 t-shirt level. And the digital stuff is generally ephemeral, like a stream of the soundtrack vs a download of it, or a stream of the movie vs a download of it.

A lot of movide / documentary Kickstarters make the mistake of having a lot of physical rewards, on different timetables that need to be shipped separately, and end up not getting much money for the movie.
TokBox Brings WebRTC To The Cloud, Enables Multi-Party Video Chats & SIP Interop
What To Do When Clients Don't Pay You
I disagree: If they did spread FUD they would be widely considered to be out of touch by the IT crowd. The same crowd they need to be incorporating the Paypal APIs into their apps.
The HN reaction to ageism is interesting--the comments are extremely skeptical, but of course, HN suffers from survivor bias. Those who wash out of software development in their 30s and 40s don't read or comment on HN. In fact, wasting time on social news sites is a young person's game even if ageism were not a factor.
The thing I never understood was why Flash Player continues to be a binary blob. They don't even sell it for money. Just BSD license the damn thing and inside of a few months it will be on the standards track and people will have incorporated the code into all the major browsers and be fixing all the bugs for you.

Popular image file formats are open standards and people still buy Photoshop. Popular video codecs are open standards and people still buy Premier. Why they decided to go with a binary blob for ActionScript and in so doing make everyone hate them is a mystery.
I too have played a lot of L4D. What I find interesting about L4D is the way the game changes dramatically as go up the difficulty levels. On normal difficulty you can just run'n'gun. On expert you'll be knocked down in five hits, so you need to be much more cautious (unless you have amazing reflexes). Manipulating your environment becomes much more important, particularly the use of throwable items redirect the zombies or stop them attacking from all directions.

Tying this back to the article, the L4D bot AI, in my opinion, is intended to just be good enough to get you enough experience to play online reasonably competently. Multiplayer is the real game, and perhaps PvP is the real real game (I haven't played it much.) Bots are pretty poor at tactics, just bunching up by the player. They also don't use throwables at all.
Agreed. Doing a freemium model where you can save only save 1 poem. Unlocking adds theming, Facebook+Twitter connection, and unlimited poems. Worth $.99? That's subjective, but this entire app is more of an experiment than a business. Just going to iterate and improve on the next one.
The pool of participants is much narrower in scope - people that have specifically spent years training to be that profession. Not people who started out doing it as a hobby or a quiet thing on the side.
Yes.

You've only linked to print advertising and newspapers' declining revenue, i.e printing on dead trees. Printing on paper then selling that paper isn't a requirement for journalism to happen.
Imagine logging in to services only using Google Glass. When prompted to log in, a temporary passcode pops up on Glass. I think it would make two-factor authentication much more streamlined and unobtrusive compared to having your phone beside you and opening an app just to log in.
Flying cars are ridiculously inefficient and dangerous.

And so what about the tweet? You can not only act on information you are 100% certain about or the markets wouldn't work at all. If using tweets to make predictions wasn't more accurate than not people wouldn't do it or lose money.
Good luck with that. There is nothing about "White House attacked" that is less plausible than "bomb attack on Boston marathon".
Pixel-free CSS
If only the site would load.
Sometimes I just want to buy a product known as a monitor, not a pixel-based temporally-dynamic visualization solution.
My own impression of the tech industry are that young programmers are like stem cells--stick them anywhere and they'll differentiate into what they need to be. However, mature, differentiated developers often find it very hard to adapt to the second, third, or fourth new wave of tech. companies--both culturally and technically.
Depends... Which is a worse attack vector: a single account with a shared password, or a shared account where each person has their own personal account password?

Twitter really needs shared accounts + required two-factor for the personal accounts.
It doesn't. If you don't want to see Scribd then don't click on the "[Scribd]" - the rest of the title takes you straight to the PDF itself.
Slightly off topic, but not too much: the article offers good advice as far as compensation goes. I have found another trick works really well in consulting: avoid locking in customers. Document everything, be willing to help train replacements, train employees to take over your tasks, etc. This gives customers a warm-fuzzy feeling about using your services, which seems to attract more work.
In 8 years (by 2021) 90% of Bitcoins will have been issued. Strictly speaking, the supply is inflating continuously, though it is unlikely to ever be growing faster than future demand (we seem to have past that point within the last year). The only reason economists would call Bitcoin deflationary is the presumption of constantly growing demand.
This might be considered a legitimate point, but isn't just a failing of the internet media.

This also covers the ad-supported local/national or cable subscription-based news coverage. Neither are "free", but all of them (and especially the 24/7 media) fall victim to regurgitating these releases as "news" to fill the gap where "expensive" news would do far more good in between the celebrity gossip.
Made my first $ and won the bet.
I create this site few months ago to learn and play with stripe API. Also I had a bet with coworker to see who can quickly hack a site and make the first dollar.
I will, considering the battery lasts a day on moderate use anyway, and considering I'm the one using it. Do you use Flash on your mobile phone?
3 Years of the Sun in 3 Minutes
For that we really need a mass-producible synthetic blood substitute. The holy grail is if someone suffers major damage, we put them on a continuous supply of the stuff until we can sew up all the holes, and then we get to work growing them some replacement clone organs in a lab with 3D printers.
Map of the words used for 'cucumber' in Europe
It'd be interesting to see how the future-people interpret the dominance of Wikipedia.

I guess other people made mistakes. MS didn't think the Internet was important early enough; they didn't make Encarta available sensibly; MS was deeply unpopular with a sizable section of the population.

Other people got stuck in a reference library mode - and thus they concentrated on selling DVDs to libraries rather than making access public.

I will, grudgingly[1], admit that Wikipedia is amazing. Probably a Wonder of the World.

[1] I actually hate it, and try to avoid it where possible. If I had the money I'd fork it and create a lower-cruft, more accurate, closed for edits, version. Every article would have a 3 sentence 'elevator pitch' style introduction. Sourcing would be fixed. And the focus would be on "accurate", not "verifiable".
I've added 'window.onbeforeunload' to test a weird behavior of IE<=8 (actually I could tweak the JS on the page to add the listener only for old IE). When you have a link like '<a href="javascript:void(0);">' + onbeforeunload + click event listener bound to <a> doesn't return false, then clicking (from mouse/kbd) such a link triggers onbeforeunload().

It's documented under http://jakub-g.github.io/accessibility/onclick/#note6
I thought this would be about hacking your financial debt. Perhaps useful tips to achieve financial freedom.
Illegal kidney trade booms as new organ is 'sold every hour'
Care to fill us in on the process?

I tried a sample tweet and the following page wasn't particularly helpful in terms of 'what happens next'.
Will the passing of the Jobs Act allow everyday people to make an actual investment with upside potential in something like a film? Is the corporate structure similar to that of a startup?
It's nice that Apple offer scholarships for students wishing to attend, but it's unfortunate that they don't cover travel expenses. I would really like to apply to attend, but living in the UK and not having enough funds to travel such a large distance is preventing me.

Guess I'll have to wait!
PayPal already is considered out of touch by the IT crowd (and many other crowds that are actually involved in the selling or payment gateway integration end of things beyond "put this HTML on your page and use the Buy Now button").

It's still widely used because everyone knows about them and they're well-established. It's often hard to talk clients out of using PayPal because the barrier to entry for setting up an account is so low, despite the arbitrary terms and the relatively high fees and limits.

This could potentially be a bid to impress the IT crowd, which would be a good move for them if they actually follow through (it certainly won't affect my view of them, but that hardly means anything).
If nothing helps another option is to register the domain in somewhere like GoDaddy, not because of their "great" service but just because they offer a service to grab the domain as soon as it expires.
Then you can wait for it to expire. After the domain will be at GoDaddy you can easily transfer it to another registrar. Risky but might be the only choice.
Deploying Clojure Apps to EC2 with OpDemand
I don't like seeing Kickstarter as a celebrity offering plate . I also find the "rewards" to be incredibly self-aggrandizing: "For just $250, I will take 15 full seconds out of my day to acknowledge you as a human being and utter a phrase of your choosing into a microphone. Or, for $10K, I'll give you the incredible privilege of working for me." Gee, thanks.

Not to mention that Garden State was basically an hour and a half of me rolling my eyes from how obsessively hard Braff tries to be 'original'. I'll pass.
Unity right now gets the benefit of security through obscurity. Nobody exploits Unity, because nobody cares about Unity. The install base is inconsequential. Flash penetration is something to the order of 90%+ of all PCs, which makes it a target.

Are you trying to argue that somehow Flash Player and JVM engineers don't know security like Unity engineers? Give me a break. It takes years to secure a leading platform, and even then you get zero-day exploits.
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Well, blow me over. How did I miss that?

Thanks.
"others are simply humdrum announcements of new products or services."

Perhaps the business model would fail less if you made the companies pay for their product placement versus giving them billions of dollars in free adspace? I'd rather the adverts get called out explicitly versus lazy rehashings of an uninteresting, possibly factually inaccurate release that someone used as the majority of their "story". It's not interesting, it's not insightful.
Did you read the article? He was saying "We launched, but it wasn't worth it; we probably shouldn't have."
Hey, I resent that remark. I'm wasting plenty of time on social news sites and I haven't been young for decades.
Sounds interesting (pun intended..)
The two best programmers I've met were over 50.

I agree. The badasses tend to get better as they age.

I wrote about this: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/gervais-macle...

The career yellow belts (1.2-1.3; 4th kyu) only get more set in their belief in their own rightness. They also tend to fall out of date, despite their expertise in the local maximum they've conquered. Also, since they tend to drive out the 1.4+, they aren't surrounded by better people.

There seems to be a bifurcation that happens very early on, based on a person's first few programming jobs as well as access to non-professional programming resources. Either you plateau as a yellow belt (1.2-1.3) or you start climbing, and that climb takes a long time (a 2.0 under age 30 would be very rare). I've worked about 3000 hours per year for seven years and that got me from ~0.8 to 1.8, but that's also with a lot of early exposure to programming (QBasic, Java in school, applied math research).

The shame of it is that some people conflate the career yellow belts (Expert Experts) with the older people who keep getting better each year.
The biggest difference from when I was a starving 19 year-old is that I don't need to use recruiters to find work anymore. It's strange that this article comes from LinkedIn and it does not mention the power of having connections. My hope is that by lifting up the people around me wherever I go, I'll build up a larger, better, and more enthusiastic network of colleagues whose help I can draw on later.
I don't understand why this comment is being downvoted. I just learned something.

If Go enforces a specific coding convention at the compiler level, then that could legitimately be considered at least slightly unusual.

While it's true that this style is far from esoteric, it's also typically just that ( a coding style ). This strikes me as at least somewhat analogous to Python's whitespace indentation rules or Java's checked exceptions, in that what is typically a design choice is enforced by the compiler / interpreter.
Twitter is pretty amazing, even if it's not a flying car.

I think it's worse that we don't have flying cars, but we do still have "fat finger trades".

If anything, they're worse now because algorithms aren't built to defend against them.

(http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/09/19/fat-finger-error-...)
> They had a reasonably capable plug-in shipped in just about every browser, with a huge ecosystem around it, and then they just chucked it all away. This seems to make no business sense at all to me.

They only made money off of development tools and services, not plugin installs, and they can do that off of HTML5 as well. (They would have competition there, which is a disadvantage, of course.)

They did try to monetize higher-end games, with the 9% revenue model they introduced. But apparently they found with their partners that it had no future, so they cancelled it.
This. I've been trying it off and on for half an hour now, how did all these other people manage to see it?
While Asha phones are very well designed, they are fighting a losing battle. In the developing world, your phone is your internet access. Choosing between an Asha and an Android is going to be a hopeless proposition for the Asha. Dozens of Chinese OEMs are making Android phones for India and Africa, some of which cost less than $100. Rockchip, Mediatek and other chip makers are pushing the price down as fast as they can on Android-ready chipsets.
Mailbox.app is a security concern because it copies all of your Gmail to it's own cloud server, and delivers the email to the app from there. Sure, it's exposing your emails on the device. I'm more concerned about them exposing _everyone's_ emails when their cloud platform is exploited.
Fair points, I'm not a huge Garden State fan and always saw Scrubs as an ensemble more than his starring vehicle. I can see that he's got a lot of Reddit cred and an enthusiastic twitter following. Will be interesting to see where it ends up.
Economics as Religion
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This is really an alpha version to validate the idea. Working on the code to show you your recent tweets that got retweeted so you can pick from them instead of retyping. Step 2 would be a pre-constructed tweet linking to the correction that you can retweet yourself. Step 3, @rtrtweet tweets the first 100 people who retweeted you with the correction. Trying to build this in Golang to learn the language.
Large study finds no vaccine link to nerve disorder
The clip showing the water interacting with breaking glass blew my mind. It may well be a while before we see anything close to that level of realism being incorporated into games though.
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I nonchalantly told him to look at the source code of the library
we were using. He looked at me like I had asked him to help me dig up a grave.

I can't imagine not examining the source code of the various frameworks I use on a daily basis.

I think the next time I interview a candidate I will ask them what major open-source libraries they use. Then I will ask them what they think of the quality of the source code, how it's implemented, what they find difficult to reason about, etc. Getting a blank stare at this point will be a kind of FizzBuzz moment.

Edit: I'm not suggesting that candidates should be an expert on the internals of the libraries they use (I'm certainly not). What I'm looking for is the ability to crack them open when you hit a wall.
Robots Are Already Replacing Us [Wired]
*retraction : its @RTretract
Actually, we are pretty close to having flying cars: http://www.terrafugia.com/
I'd agree with the two you have but maybe add:

3) Google Glass - seems cool. <flips channel/closes tab>

And I'm not just talking about Grandma and Grandpa here - I'm talking about people within the tech community.
Why?

I think everything Apple said about their reason for not allowing Flash was true. I think they really did believe it made a sucky experience that people would blame on the phones, instead of flash.

I also think that wasn't all of their reasoning on the subject. The business value of not allowing cross-platform tools was huge. It effectively created a lock-in early-on in the iPhone's tenure. Of course, I have no evidence of this, but Apple has been too shrewd not to consider it.

So, in our world, where flash sucked, it wouldn't get on the iPhone regardless of the lockin implications. But in a world where flash didn't suck, I think the same decision would have been made.

The interesting thought question is whether consumers and developers would have allowed it in that world, and, if they didn't, how would the reduced lock-in have affected iOS share.
Shouldn't there be some sort of login? Otherwise anyone can "retract" anything and no one will trust your handle.
> Thing is, Adobe is a corporation. They think business first, technology second. Market is there. Plugin availability is there. Tools are there. Developers are there. Wtf?

The momentum is behind HTML5, and Adobe sees that. They can make the same amount of money selling HTML5 devtools as they can Flash tools, while not swimming against the current and not having to deal with building their own technology stack and maintaining it on multiple platforms.

With IE apparently going to support WebGL, HTML5 has become a complete solution for things like games. Flash's advantages in the games space are much reduced, and Adobe rationally can't ignore that.
For hacking financial debt, see http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/11/02/snowball-strategy/.
A month-long project to observe Saturn's auroras
Good story on the beginnings Uberflip in TO.
> I very much doubt that this is true.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, both drain the battery. Flash probably does drain it faster, but I'm only talking from a user perspective. I will watch about five minutes of video online a day, on average. The difference isn't noticeable for my use case, and probably not for most other peoples.

> Why? I think at this point history has shown that those publicly stated reasons were entirely valid.

No one said they weren't. What I'm saying is that it is likely that there are other reasons for Apple not wanting Flash on their system.

> Efforts to make Flash run efficiently on tablets and smartphones failed, despite energetic attempts to do so.

What efforts?

> Evidence tends to support the view that Flash failed on mobile on its own shortcomings.

Again, no one has said anything different. I'm saying that Flash works well on the Galaxy Nexus, and as a result will probably work fine on the iPhone if Apple wanted Flash on its system.
Mailbox was nice, but I dropped it after a week when your point occurred to me. As far as I could tell, the only reason it needed full access was for push notifications. There was no discussion at all of account security, and I just couldn't bring myself to trust them. There's no way one of the usual cutesy startup apologies would cut it here if they compromised my email.

I'm back to Sparrow now (which doesn't do push) and quite happy: Mail.app tells me I have a new message, then I process my emails in Sparrow.
The problem here is willful ignorance, what a person does when confronted by fact. There's probably a lot of antivaxers new-age woo believers and homeopaths who enjoy the fashionable "quantum" quips but have zero interest in doing anything but republishing the images. They ape the language, but don't understand the mindset.
In my opinion, the beauty of Kickstarter is that it's a democratic platform. If you don't think the rewards or the project itself are worth backing, then don't back it. If you do, back it.

It's not as if Kickstarter is this magical service to give celebrities more money: for example, Melissa Joan Hart's Kickstarter is doing pretty poorly (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/318676760/darcis-walk-of...).
I see a correlation but not causation. Have we any good evidence that this tweet caused the market drop or is it just a supposition?
Sure. You could have a scaleable/responsive UI, separate layouts for each platform i.e. xibs or completely separate interfaces. But you would still need that common SDK.

It looks that everyone is working to that goal. But no one is sure yet.
I think it also depends on the language too. In languages with more expressive type systems, you can usually make an educated guess about something based on the type signatures it has. For the dynamic languages, though, reading the code is an absolute must.
Add value or die - "Playing to Your Strengths"
This is exactly why I asked the question. I simply want to know how they go about getting a retraction request executed.