skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he was aiming more at living life rather than being a photographer. Experience listening to your kids sing in a choir, rather than experiencing being a semi-pro photographer at a school while the kids make noise or something while you're trying to compose a great pix. Or experience being on a nature trail, which is pretty cool, rather than experience being a photographer on a nature trail, which is kind of a PITA to haul all that stuff then miss the cool experience because you have camera time instead of nature time.

It drives my wife insane when I buy a professionally taken and professionally printed postcard for a buck instead of trying my hand at cruddy homemade pix, then again I get the last laugh because I'm having more fun and get more memories out of the experience...

Obviously if you are a pro or semi pro photographer or serious wanna be, you have to look at that as a job and disregard my suggestion. However if you can't experience life because of your "job" you should still find some way to experience life at an alternative time and place. Like if you miss one sister's wedding because you were there but were a photographer instead of a sibling, try to avoid being a photographer at the other sisters wedding or whatever, so at least you get the experience one time instead of missing out on both. Life moves fast, don't miss out.
New adventures with DataMapper
Wow, that's coming in perfectly in time!!

I'v just submitted a list of VPS Providers and was asking for the best Domain registrars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5675472
Laravel 4 [1] has something called Tinker built in, that lets you interact with your application in a REPL environment.

[1] http://four.laravel.com/
This is what makes stuff like closing AOL Music even sadder- AOL is in a really weird position where they're making a ton of money where they shouldn't be- they are in a prime position to do some really interesting things on the net. But they don't.
Thanks! I actually bought it all the way back in 2006-7 for another project I launched. It was a small local review site I was working on for a few months before beginning to work on Carbonmade.
There's this lingering myth about app store charts. The myth pertains to a magical "line", some sort of tipping point, over which all your download problems go away.

This myth is patently false.

From what I've seen with apps ranked anywhere from #1 to #5000, the organic download boost from being in the Top 50 is minuscule. It's not self sustaining. It's not magical. And it certainly doesn't make your problems go away.

As this article points out, the number of downloads you need to rank higher in the app store grows exponentially. What it doesn't point out is that organic download growth from ranking higher grows linearly. That means it gets harder and harder to keep your position in the app store unless you support those downloads somehow.

How can apps maintain their app store ranking? All the big co's do the following (starting with the most effective):

* Big ad spend

* Aggressive cross promotion

* Purchasing incentivized installs

* App store search optimization

* App Store features

Now, the story is a little different when you look at the top grossing chart. The reason for this should be obvious - the more money you make, the more you can dump in to ads. More ads means more users means more revenue. None of this is by accident - these companies understand their user acquisition channels extremely well and are constantly looking for new opportunities to spend.

A little more info: How people discover apps by type -
http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/503fd59beab8eab44a0...
I guess if it made losses in other areas, then added together, the total profit would be less than the revenue in "services like AIM"...
Connecting Things to the Internet Does Not an Internet of Things Make
One thing that I think would be amazing would be using gps and/or cell radio signals to do a very rough estimation of atmospheric conditions. Having done a bit of research with in geodesy at MIT, I remember using Trimble GPS receivers to track continental drift but having to account for environmental (mostly atmospheric) effects adding noise to our GPS readings. With a bit of low level signals processing, I believe it'd be possible to make plausible weather readings based on the noise in GPS receivers, though having done little mobile development, I'm not sure whether the Android OS would allow such low level access to GPS chips (or if the chips themselves are precise enough for the noise to come from the signal rather than the chip itself).
I don't find it that odd. 32-bit applications are still very common, if not the standard. Most processes don't need more than 4GB.

More importantly, blindly increasing all of your 32-bit integers to 64-bit is going to double your memory usage, and ultimately just mask the real issue (i.e. improper bounds checking).
Have you tried Wikipedia Nearby on your phone?
Maybe the amount of profit from those two equals say a number that is 120% of their total net profit, but losses in other divisions bring their total net profit down.

Therefore, the profits of those two divisions is greater than the profit of the company?
I don't see where TFA aruges that the food business in the EU is sorted, rather that many practices which are rightly illegal in the EU are legal in the US.

Murder is illegal everywhere, but that's not to say it never happens.
Bet they have better metrics. This is just eye candy.
You can't just dismiss science and fact when it's inconvenient. Well, you can, but then your beliefs have no more backing than those of astrologers, and you're guilty of willfully spreading misinformation. You asserted a falsifiable statement as fact ("Sans-serifs are generally harder to read") and in the face of fairly compelling evidence that it is in fact a false statement, you immediately appealed to "common knowledge". It's also "common knowledge" that Einstein failed math as a kid and that eating before swimming will give you cramps, but these are both untrue statements.

Comfort of reading is very quantifiable. You can present text to a bunch of people in serif and sans serif fonts (double-blind and randomized) and ask them to rate how pleasant the text was. You can be clever and ask questions that measure understanding and retention, or you can ask them how much they enjoyed reading the passage, and these will give you indirect measures of reading comfort. Or you can be blunt and ask if they enjoy reading in the font, though this will pick up biases more. Either way is significantly more scientific than an appeal to common knowledge, though.

> Just pick up a couple of fiction books, one set in serif and another in sans-serif, go through a pageful of text and see for yourself.

This isn't science. This is just bias confirmation. ("Wow, I prefer the one I expected to prefer!")

But for the record, my e-reader font is set to Gill Sans.
> If artists are motivated by the economic incentive afforded by copyright, then the level of that motivation is variable based on the length of copyright.

While that's undeniably true, I think the objection is to your leap from observing that motivation significantly increases with term length at term = 1 day, to concluding it's still significantly increasing at term = life+70yrs.

Economic incentive can be measured and modelled, and while there isn't that much research into this, there is some. One Cambridge study (Pollock [2007]) found that the optimum length of copyright term is ~14 years (any longer and the economic benefits of works going into the public domain outweigh further increases in incentive to produce). Now, yes, economics models should be taken with a large grain of salt (especially ones when it's unfeasible to test their predictions). But it's a start, and certainly there don't seem to be any econ studies supporting a length anywhere near life+70 or longer.
One could argue that given the number of stars out there, there must be some in fairly interesting orbits. I was trying to figure out what these would look like edge on if we were observing them from earth. In some scenarios (like the box) they would look kind of like a binary star system where the spectrum of the stars changed periodically (depending in which of the stars were in 'front' toward our point of view)
I'm not sure if Tal had underlying motives behind her OKCupid use, but I don't see any problems with someone (regardless of sex) going on a date, and going, "Hey, you work at [company]? Do you know [person]? Mind if you introduce me to him/her?"

Especially if the person's also in the startup scene. The ecosystem thrives on people helping each other out.
They continue to be a great example of a company that tries to communicate when something is an issue (or is going great).

It seems like the critics of which metrics are highlighted are missing the point... the average person who uses their products or plans to sees a company who is willing to communicate how they are doing.

If you need to dig into more detailed stats, they're not doing a good job with how their service performs. The whole point of their services is so that you don't need to worry about those things :o)
Being neither noob nor gamer. Does anybody else feel stuck in the middle?
> It's not make $1mm, it's sell $1mm.

Its not either. Its have over $1 million in remote sales in the prior year.

> At a 3-5% net profit, that's $30-50k/year before taxes, or so small you can't even hire a first employee yet.

Well, since net profit is after operating expenses (including labor costs), that's only "so small you can't even hire a first employee yet" if you expect the net value produced by that employee to be negative 30-50k per annum, in which case you it would be economically irrational to hire the employee even if you could afford it while remaining profitable. (While the numbers change, the general observation is true for any non-negative net profit amount: if you expect a positive return from an employee, you can "afford" to hire them -- and expect to be profitable afterwards -- anytime you have either a non-negative net profit, or a negative net profit that is smaller than the expected net value provided by the employee.)
This is why we can't have nice firearms.

Seriously: I fully support background checks -- extending what we already have, to cover all sales. I also think that if motor vehicles require registration, insurance, and license to operate, then firearms sure as heck should, too.

Even so, if I'm being intellectually honest, I also have a twinge of doubt when it comes to "mental health" grounds, and I have some concern about a Minority Report pre-cog sort of exercise.

This will probably just get me down-votes from both sides of the debate, but, there you have it.
Our Failure As An Industry
Questions Must Ask When You Interview Your Next Developer
An app I worked on was briefly in the top 10 best selling on the day it launched. We made it above some pretty notable games like Plants vs. Zombies. The app definitely sold well that day, but it was surprising how low the sales needed to be to make it that high in the rankings. It would have been a good living making those sales every day, but it wasn't going to make anyone millionaires.
Klout's New Plan to Become a Social Network
I'm pretty sure a good chunk of their profits are coming from people who have gone years without realizing they can cancel their "AOL" and still have access to the internet via the DSL/Cable they are paying the phone/cable company for.

I've seen this many, many times.
I hear what you're saying, but I don't think the time spent learning Chef (or Puppet) is ever wasted. It's sort of like mastering a unix shell or getting good at automated testing: initially there is this steep learning curve where you are definitely less productive, but over time it pays huge dividends.

Have you ever had to install multiple versions of some package on the same machine? Have you ever had to help a colleague debug a weird issue that was particular to their setup? Have you ever had to work on the same project from multiple platforms and some component didn't work on one of them? Have you ever had a bug only appear in production because of a platform subtlety?
You can use backup/sync software to copy stuff across automatically. Otherwise, I didn't say your pain-in-the-ass idevices went away, I just said you could reduce their pain-in-the-assness.
What this is saying is that subscriptions are making more money for AOL overall than the other ventures are losing, so they are making profit above and beyond other losses (as opposed to breaking them even.)

It's a shorthand way for the writer to say that subscriptions are such a cash cow, it really doesn't matter what the other divisions are doing.
Thanks a lot. I'm familiar with Rypple, but I haven't used it to be honest. We're definitely working on something similar, but with a slightly different approach.

We have a feature called Rewards that allow employers to reward employees for going the extra mile. With that feature you can reward one or more employees and tailor the gift and message to them.
But look at the growth! Yesterday I had one pizza, and today I have two. By the law of extrapolation that makes pizza compass the fastest growing company ever with a roughly 7.5X10^107% annual growth rate!
Let's add a few more for fun.

"salt tastes ok": 324658 years

"intel password sweepstakes": 8441109 years

"dictionary attack": 390 years
Interesting idea. We'll look into that. Thanks.
It's because the other part of their business, media and advertising, loses money, as the article states.

If you make $168M from subscriptions and lose $5M from media, then subscriptions account for about 103% of your profits (168/(168-5)).
First, the quoted WSJ data is stated on an absolute basis (inflating/sensationalizing the numbers, obviously), while the graph in this article is stated on a relative basis. This still leaves an apparent discrepancy. Other real causes for the discrepancy could be improvements in emergency response in areas with gun violence. This could cause in increase in hospitalizations based on people not dying before getting to the hospital, but this doesn't seem like a large factor. This leaves quality of data as the more likely culprit. The article goes on to say after the portion tokenadult quoted:

> Criminologists say they are cautious about using such medical statistics to draw conclusions because of year-to-year inconsistencies in the number of medical institutions reporting data. The FBI collects annual homicide and aggravated assault statistics but doesn't have reliable numbers for gun and knife attacks.

> Jens Ludwig, a law professor and the director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, said he was leery of any number beyond reported homicides.

> "Homicide is the one thing we're measuring well," he said. "Everything else is subject to much more uncertainty," including varying numbers of emergency departments contributing data, as well as differences in how injuries are classified.

So basically, take your pre-existing political biases and use that as a guide to choose which data you believe, just like everyone else does.
Here's one from a few months ago:

http://spencerfry.com/why-and-when-to-learn-to-program

I wanted to keep the most recent blog post solely focused on Uncover. I'll follow up with more coding posts shortly.
Great App! I can't figure out how to Zoom in/out or enlarge the map view. I often map 60-100 mile routes so the ability to zoom in to see the roads selected.
What were the coding steps you took? as too what did you learn first and etc.
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I read two Einstein's biographies and I have come to the conclusion that if he was born today he would probably be a college drop out. Some people say that geniuses always survives life hardships, but the fact that there are no new Einsteins (or Maxwells, Plancks...) seems to show this isn't true.
You can still get them all from Google Takeout: https://www.google.com/takeout/?pli=1#custom:picasa
The rest of the company has a negative profit (loss). For example, with made up numbers: $100mm profit from subscription division + $50mm net loss from advertising business = $50mm total profit, but 200% of that total profit comes from the subscriptions.
Me too! I am currently learning to code to (re)launch my startup!

But I am on the struggle, "is this worthy", full of doubts stage. I hope I can learn a thing or two from you...
> It took billions of years for the nature to create the foods that are perfect for us, we cannot create something better (in a few hundred years).

Technically it's not that nature created those foods for us to be perfect. It's more like that the available food has shaped human evolution. Those individuals who could make best use of those foods, also had the best chance of passing their genes onto following generations.

This evolution continues today, probably even at a faster pace, especially since we are processing foods to the limit.
Revenue for that division/activity happens to be larger than overall company-wide profit. The author's use of "accounts for" implies some sort of causality, but I suspect literary flourish and innumeracy.
Syncing Is Only Part of the Future
Selecting your storage is part of the signup process. A selection list that you might have overlooked?

If you have not uploaded any photos (or delete photos in your account) you can link it at the following URLs (for the popular options).

https://trovebox.com/signup/storage/dropbox

https://trovebox.com/signup/storage/s3

https://trovebox.com/signup/storage/box
I agree, at first I thought it was a service that taught you how to roll sushi. It wasn't until I read other bits of information spread out on your page that I started to figure it out.
A-fscking-men.
Meet earl the android tablet that wants to be your backcountry buddy
I was just asked for an Interview by AOL for their Streaming Media business. The recruiter told me that the media business was totally profitable as I questioned AOLs future.

I guess now, in hindsight, im glad they were working with tech I didn't want to put my hands into or someday, I would be looking for another job.
profits = revenue - expenses

So, the revenue from their subscriptions/AIM customers is not merely the only thing which is profitable for them, but the other lines of business are all run at a loss.

Fictional example:

Line Revenue - Expenses = Profit
dialup 1000 - 100 = 900
everything else 200 - 500 = (-300)
Totals: 1200 - 600 = 600
"...I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance."
Preach it brother.
There are advantages to using VMs even if you've installed Linux as the base OS on Mac hardware.

The VMs provide isolation for testing and developing the server components. (I'm assuming you are developing server code). Through synced folders, you can still use your favorite $EDITOR on the host machine -- vim, emacs, sublime text, whatever. Onboarding is faster, and you can manage multiple node setups.

Further, you have the additional advantage of being able to replicate staging or production systems on your local box. This reduces time spent round-tripping to a staging server.

This lets you standardize the server code without requiring all developers to standardize on editors/ide/etc.

Personally, I am more productive on OSX than on Linux. But that's because my actual dev environment is tmux+vim. I let OSX and Mac hardware handle the stuff that it does much better than Linux: being able to talk to anyone, anywhere, with anything. (Networking) Being able to reliably suspend and wake.
You got it wrong: you should be providing feedback
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Do Cheaters Prosper? Understanding the Rules of Application Development
"Low self-esteem", sometimes colloquially called "people pleasing" or "being a doormat". A good therapist will recognize this and encourage the child to develop more of their own interests and assert themselves more.
At least it used to be the case that many school children played rounders, and you typically use a baseball bat for that. (I don't remember what you call the bat you use for rounders - probably just "bat", as it's usually obvious from context you're not talking about cricket or golf.)

Perhaps most UK people posting here don't expect Americans to have heard of this game.

You're doubtless right that most are probably purchased for hitting people in the face, perhaps without necessarily even waiting for them to break in to one's house first.
How To Read A Balance Sheet
We should just find some statistics. For instance, this article pegs the number of AR 15s in the United States in the low millions:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/20/assault_rifle_st...

It makes a credible case for less than 5 million. So you only need 20 or 30 similarly collectible guns to get to 100 million.

We also should not bother to argue too much over what constitutes collecting (that is, we should find middle ground or agree to disagree and abandon the whole discussion). I certainly wouldn't include someone buying 1 or 2 reliable and cost effective guns.
I do a fair bit of this sort of contract work. I normally either charge $100/hr or give a fixed price. For project work I normally charge a fixed price, but I make sure I get a reasonably detailed spec before doing this (and I insist on not doing any more work without further pay, unless it's very minor stuff).

Note that I've got 20+ years experience, and ALL of my contract work comes through my website (collaborative whiteboard/conferencing software) - normally it is customizing the software to the customer's requirements.

It's very difficult just finding this sort of contract work unless you have some way to funnel in new customers. In your case I'd recommend maybe just taking on a full-time on-site contract job.
Nice job! Did you learn to code on both the front and back end?
I got it pretty quick, but it never hurts to test, test, test!
With the difference that steam is not exactly as toxic as chlorine, and even ozone is likely to be less of a problem.
password = 0 seconds

password1 = 0 seconds

password12 = 0.0002 seconds

password123 = 0.0027 seconds

password1234 = 0.0272 seconds

Conclusion - password1234 is 100 times safer than password12. Thanks Intel! Changing my passwords now!
This is a false equivalency. Opening a retail store in a state is not the same as opening a website people in that state can access. There's no conscious decision, or deployment of capital to that state. My website does not use any of the public resources of infrastructure of other states. There's no legal or practical justification for having me taxed by those states.

Laws should also consider practical aspects like whether they're going to dampen the economy, restrain commerce and favor corporations over small businesses. It may be equivalent in your academic mind, but it's not equivalent to the people who will have to do 50 times more work just to continue running their single-location family-owned business as they have for the past 10-20 years.
Failure Analysis: How Apple Screwed the Xserve Pooch
How about the best of both worlds? A common VM image with CLI tools and dev server inside the guest OS, with VirtualBox folder sharing to permit a GUI IDE and the git repo to live on the host OS?
Isn't retina just another word for higher resolutions?

Why do they make it sound like it's all magical and needs you to be "retina ready"? I don't remember seeing that kind of stuff back when computer resolutions could be anything from 320x200 pixels to 1024x768 pixels...
> Picasa comes close but is useless when it comes to intelligently syncing a canonical "cloud" copy of each photo to a variety of devices linked to the account.

This might just be my device experience, but with automatic upload on, this is a non-issue for me; pictures taken on an Android device or uploaded to Picasa are available everywhere my Google account is.