skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what makes the whole app store count metric such a farce. MS is feeling envious because it doesn't have 800,000 apps like Google Play does? Who cares? Of those 800,000 apps maybe only 8000 are decent, 800 actually good, and maybe only 80 truly essential to the platform.

Until about a month ago I had been an Android user since the Google 1 phone, I think over the course of several phones I probably used about 30 or so apps, most getting only infrequent use aside from the ones like Twitter and my banking apps. Losing any of them wouldn't have been a deal breaker as long as my phone continued to work as, well you know, a phone.

I switched to a Windows Phone recently, of my essential apps from Android I lost only one (INGDirect banking app). Whenever I browse through the Windows app store I keep hoping that Msft will purge about 69,000 of their 70,000 apps because almost all of them, as on Android and iOS, are pathetic facades over simple mobile websites.

M'eh, rant over. Journalists will keep flogging app store penis sizes causes it russles the jimmies of each platforms respective fanboys and runs up the page views and retweets. I fall for it too but less frequently these days. But Microsoft does have a serious problem with the platform in not being able to play XBox video (even though WP7 can), they launched without it and it doesn't sound like 8.1 is addressing the problem either. Cutting themselves off from their own service, after they already had it no less, reeks of incompetence. It's almost comical that the only video you can play on WP8 would be considered "pirated" video. Apple would never have pulled shit like that.
They've sold 1022 items at about 100GBP a pop over the last two years. That's less than $80k USD per year. I'm not sure how much of a factory you can afford with that in Bali, or how much profit would be left over. (They claim to be 3 people, so before any overhead, that's less than $26k per person per year.)

I would suggest they are resellers but the amount of customization makes that seem very unlikely.
Years of effort have gone into making javascript VMs faster than they have any right to be. Even an ideal bytecode would likely be slower than javascript for years. It seems unlikely that many people would be willing to give up performance now for theoretical future performance, and without a reasonable amount of use, there's no good reason for browsers to implement the new bytecode.

For better or for worse, we're stuck with javascript for the foreseeable future.
This "threat" already exists with cash though (and with cash you can throw it into an ocean or burn it, but the blockchain will forever record your Bitcoin ID and you have to hope DHS never figures out which ID is yours).
For a few years after my MS I started focusing on programming exclusively.
After a trip to NY and meeting lots of interesting people in Brooklyn, I remembered that things such as cross expertise, learning totally different disciplines and inspiration are actually the most important things if you are going to spend more time thinking than coding.
Google close to launching streaming music service
It might be a good idea for Kickstarter to only release the goal amount initially until the project lead can prove they meet their initial pledges. The remainder can get held in an escrow account and released once the project is off on the right foot.
I wonder if it would help to put some sort of heart rate monitor or something on the drivers, some way to detect that they are bone tired and require the companies to let them sleep.
Copyright infringement doesn't require establishment of a license, in fact just the opposite. The license is there to underpin the value of the good that is infringed. The court might not buy it, but that's a separate issue to that of infringement, it's only there to establish the level of damages.

The machine excuse is inoperable - the agreed mode of operation of such machines is to refuse to follow links in a robots.txt file. If the machine has been programmed to ignore this de facto regulation then there's mens rea to go with actus rea performed by the machine for and at the behest of those who programmed it.

I can't program a tank to drive me on to your land and then claim that I haven't committed the tort of trespass, same goes here.

IANA(IP)L either, but sometimes I play one on the internet.
Either you are typing from your phone or I'm lost in today kids' lingo, but I don't understand what "are you sing to bump people into action" means.

In any case, I'd like to point out to the parent comment that jumping into a thread in which people is calling your company spammy and using sentences such as "In our email communications, it's our goal to try to help (our customers) across the finish line to a high-quality site" along with the name-dropping in "We are working with entrepreneurs such as X.com, Y.com and Z.com" is not really supporting their case. At first I learned that they might spam me. Now I also learned that they are likely to forward my problems to PR instead of the tech department.
The Debate over Apple’s Skeuomorph Interface is a Mess
The routine in the NY Times doesn't seem like snake oil. Jumping jacks and push-ups? Hardly revolutionary. It's not like their were promoting strange supplements or buying expensive fitness equipment.
Since it's DHS, I'd bet it's Customs related, and from there, Silk Road.

If it was money laundering/ofac, you'd see Treasury or Secret Service involved. Widespread fraud would add the FBI and AGs.
We hire fairly regularly. After skimming the page and glancing at the screenshots - as many of your prospects will do - I was left wondering why this is any better than letting people email me their resumes and applying labels to them.

If you hear this question more often, it probably needs to be addressed directly. Also, I've never found hiring by email to be a hassle; my pain point is finding good applicants and screening them - the latter is something Codility did a good job of helping with.
It's funny to watch documentaries about the collapse of the soviet union and then read about US companies doing this.

As long as a government is not doing it, I don't really any problem. But if american companies sell those tech to other countries, maybe there's a problem. Aren't there laws that prevent US companies to sell spying tools to some countries ?

I really think that as time pass, the world will want more and more p2p or pseudonymous/anonymous techs to evade such problems.
What about it? How will recording and data mining text messages fix that problem?

Furthermore, if the government has already screwed up their systems and made them publicly available in the first place, how can you be so sure they'll competently implement their surveillance systems?
So, the quickly building another while getting photos thing was a bad idea?

It seems to me that the OP probably has an assembled unit on hand. If so, disassembly followed by reassembly while getting some good photos shouldn't be too tough to do.
As a user we are free to click whatever we want but if you do too many clicks on one site, that site owners account might get suspended.
This is why I will always make sure that I know (as others have suggested) what I'd do if I got booted off of a platform. This happened to me with Amazon: I was selling a few used books a month, when one day my email got hijacked. That meant I wasn't receiving the sales emails from them, and, because I obviously wasn't shipping them out, got banned from selling by robots with no process at all for being reviewed by a real human (let alone by one who could understand what happened and provide a satisfactory resolution). What am I going to do, sue them? Even arbitration would've been a waste of money, since I wasn't selling the books as a living (I was selling like one a month). Ever since then I've always made sure I have an alternative (Half.com now gets their cut of all my book sales).
do you know how many highly funded projects did fail?

i only know of zion eyez, where engagdet even featured a prototype and it still somehow vaporized.
Super slick. Great application! Are you planning on monetizing it? You could do it 'per project' or by # of uploads.

Definitely don't go crazy by adding features, but it'd be cool to add versioning (so people could compare), and comment off to the side or below, so that people could provide holistic comments.
Is there some reason to think that is the case?
I can't believe Dwolla took a 30k risk for $0.25. Their risk management just isn't priced into their fees.
Nope. In fact, that whole branch of math simply didn't exist back then--category theory was only introduced in the 1940s. By mathematical standards, it's still brand new!
He was referring to the bidder, not Tim Cook. The bidder is the one gaining connections.

But that's why it's an act of charity by Tim Cook, not by the bidder. It's like a bake sale -- it's the person making cupcakes that's donating to the cause, not the person stuffing their face.
Have you ever been to China? I promise you it's not hordes of people saying "WE WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA" everywhere you go.

Can you please explain why "I want to live in a world where the U.S. has the upper hand in it, not China"?

I find it odd that many Americans tend to adopt this Us vs. Them mentality.

My personal perception is that China needs America to consume it's products and America needs China to cheaply produce the stuff it wants. So it's more give and take vs. outright rooting for the home team etc. etc.
Good to know its multi-language.

There seems to be a mixup though; the button on the comment page says 'Arreeverderchi', which I believe is spanish or italian, but I'm not sure what it means.

What happens when I click that button?
I'm pretty sure he's referring to the winning bidder with the "money they stole" comment.
Why should I care about being "unfair" to advertisers ?
Performance checklist for the mobile web
I noticed a bug; I went to masonhensley's sample project, added a comment (on the engine of his car), and then I noticed that any other comments showing up in realtime were labelled "Scott", in addition to some of the ones that had previously been "Mason". Refreshing fixed the issue.
Etsy should open up a new site that handles businesses that outgrow Etsy. Seems silly to try and squeeze everyone into the same mold and then not have an option to make money on those who are "too" successful to hand make everything.
Have you tried running this anywhere else? How much processing time does a linode vps actually give you? It says activerecord is taking 15ms, that's the time spent querying the database. The view is taking the majority of the time which is normally going to be cpu time because it has to compile the template. Are you running it in cached mode? Because if not its going to read each template off disk before generating the view right?
I feel like Joshua is just good at acquisitions. I noticed he updated his position to advisor @ walmart labs today on my LinkedIn feed so I knew something was up. Nice job.
I never thought anyone else would do something like this too, but yeah I do it all the time
I've never done this and was unaware that other people did.
To be pedantic, they're really an algebraic structure rather than an abstract data type. This means that many different things can form monads, much like many different things can form groups or rings.
Touche will_brown. Point taken.
For one, Etsy is neither an arm of the US government nor a mega-corporation. It's got a few hundred employees.

Secondly, the issue is that they think he isn't making his stuff by hand. They're not somehow persecuting him because he's a handcraftsman. Selling stuff you make by hand is the entire point of Etsy, and they've built a successful business around it.

Politics is beside the point. You're just not making any sense.
Yes, that's my point.

It's not acceptable to merely "manage" dependency hell as the net result is still unmanageable at OSS scale. You have to essentially eliminate the interplay of "which exact version do I have" with your code, which is why things like semver and soversions (on .ld.so's) try to accomplish.

Being able to have an unknown user download your code and the listed dependencies and have a repeatable build is invaluable for development.
So the outcome looks something like this:

1. holders of dollars at MtGox will buy as many btc as possible and remove them from MtGox, because there's no other escape for their dollars

2. holders of btc at MtGox will presumably send them elsewhere because selling them for dollars doesn't make sense if you can't get the dollars (although perhaps it still makes sense for euros/pounds/yen etc)

3. There is a loss of liquidity at Gox from all the btc being pulled from there

4. The dollar price at other exchanges starts falling because they are still exit points for dollars

Most of the trading volume is in dollars at Gox if I'm not mistaken, so this might be the death blow for them. Although given their history of incompetence, it was kind of sad the network effect was protecting them. Perhaps a phoenix will rise from the ashes.
EU countries spend roughly half the amount on defence that the US does. Given that the US spends an insane amount on its military that seems plenty enough to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_European_Union

Possibly also worth mentioning the tens of billions of dollars (and many hundreds of lives) that countries like the UK have spent in fighting mainly US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blackberry expands BBM chat app to Android and iOS
Good move by Blackberry.

Business wise it wont gain direct income, but will gain more users and with that the silly stock market market types will fall over themselfs to buy shares once this gets going and even though they are not making extra money, they will be gaiing share price. So good for them :).

Old BB uses who went onto the other forms will grab this to speak with the odd old mates and it will propergate from there so will quickly gain momentum.

Intersting times and something they could of done ages ago as a charged for application and made from it instead of having to now jump in with free.

Probably do more for the share price than QNX ironicly, funny old world shares, but watch this space it is not out yet.
That causes stuff to be knocked off the top of the truck onto other cars on the road possibly killing innocent people.
How Facebook Used Science To Design More Emotional Emoticons
Ha ! There is an email notification every time someone comments, and no way to unsubscribe. I just got 6 emails and one minute, and Chrome re-focusing the tab automatically because gn commented <script>alert('Moo!');</script>
Security issue!
You can run arbitrary Javascript!

Comments along the lines of:

<script>alert('Moo!');</script>

Be careful about staying on a page!
A new look at the newly official Nvidia  Shield
>I assume that Tim Cook is probably an extraordinarily interesting man with many great insights.

He probably won't say anything more than you could get from an MBA at University of Phoenix (which costs a smidgen less than $610,000). While I'm sure he's an intelligent man, I wouldn't assume that he's anything more than just a skilled businessman. If you're looking for managerial advice he's probably a good person to talk to, but I wouldn't call him interesting or say he has many great insights. So yeah, it's probably just bragging rights or having something to pitch to Apple.
Good engineering design decisions for startup companies
Have you seen some of the horrific efforts that populate both the App Store and Google Play now? Let's not pretend that either Apple or Google are curating anything beyond "meets requirements/guidelines/rules", certainly not "brand-positive User Experience".
I would never use a service like this with such terrible language. I understand trying to give the service a personality but this is just dumb.
Safari for most needs, with Chrome as a great secondary browser. IE and Firefox for testing.
I know some one who works at Etsy, so I forwarded this along to him, he has since passed it along to their support team in hopes of finding a better resolution; it's been reported that a lot of other engineers at Etsy have escalated this post throughout the day.
Hosting providers' terms of service are usually pretty straightforward: unless you engage in illegal activities or interfere with their operations, they won't shut you down. In any case, it's easy to find another hosting provider if you need one.

Landlords can't easily throw you out before your lease expires. They usually have to give you notice in advance that they won't be renewing your lease. Commercial leases are frequently long-term, since no company wants to have to deal with relocating every year. A lease is a contract enforceable in court.

Dealing with Etsy's somewhat arbitrary rules seems quite a bit more precarious. I don't think that anyone who invested a significant amount of capital in their business would want to put up with that kind of uncertainty.
Phobia in the original greek covers "fear", "hatred", and "aversion". For instance, hydrophobic molecules do not fear water.

That said, homophobia, in cultures like North America, is very much based on fear. It's not a simple sort of fear, but it is wrapped up in how gay people challenge gender roles, and the fear that men have of being less than dominant. People who aspire to socially dominant roles, who secretly have same-sex feelings, are often the worst oppressors. Before you condemn the term, I suggest you read up on it.
There are already THREE HUGE flashing stop signs that light up on the way to the tunnel if your truck is too big. The water sign is a last resort only.
Why does quickly assembling another unit while getting good photos not make sense?
My guess (based on your other posts as well) is that you might be running through a transparent proxy that's stripping gzip. :-)

I got my headers in Chrome on Windows 7.
Properties in Spain
Hardware manufacturers cannot possibly guess how much data people want to store. You could always find someone who would want to store more data.

Trucks are different - they can only have certain dimensions, and there's an upper limit on both width and height of the vehicle. If you make your tunnel that big,then any road-legal vehicle will definitely fit through it.

Oversized vehicles are different,but they need to have their routes approved first and get a permit anyway,so there is zero chance they could crash into a tunnel, because a route through it would never get approved in the first place.
That is awesome. Probably one of mashups I loved the most lately. Great design and execution!
Lift some weights, 2-3 minutes a day, every day.

Eat/drink/do whatever else you want and you will stay fit regardless, because it is about increasing your metabolism and not how much or even what you do, just that you do it every single day before eating.

Oh and don't drink sweet drinks of any kind.

#unsubstantiated personal experience
This is crazy. You've got some cool lookin synths. We'd be happy to offer you a home over at reverb.com
I don't see any relevant applications in the database, but applications are only published ~18 months after filing so there may (barely) be some lurking.
Why shopping for clothes sucks
Mattrobs, this is absolutely beautiful. I agree that the language is a little too informal (see the confusion on "Arreevaderchi" for example), but very useable.

Once there's a bit more security polish, I'd be happy to use this in production with clients, at least for quick-and-dirty comments!
Why would you say something like that?
The keys to great beginner strength training are low reps and linear progression. Let's say you're an average male and start squatting 135 pounds in 3 sets of 5 reps. Next time you lift 140. Then 145. Etc. Once you reach the 300lb neighborhood a few months later, you will be massively stronger, but still only an intermediate beginner in the view of a good strength coach.

If you're like me and you reach that point, you'll then look back at the years wasted doing pushups and biking or whatever and consider it time wasted. You'll wonder "why isn't this more widely known?!"
To be fair, the 2x figure was from a few months ago, and was from the very first prototype of OdinMonkey (asm.js optimizations) in Firefox. Things have improved since then and will continue to do so, see

http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=12&view=breakdown&s...
http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=12&view=breakdown&s...

for more current numbers. Many are better than 2x slower than native.

The first prototype was basically a few months of work by 1 engineer specifically on OdinMonkey, building on a few years of work on the more general IonMonkey optimizing compiler. Those are far far smaller amounts of time than have been spent on compilers like gcc and clang, so it is not surprising there is a performance difference. But it will get much smaller.
Without an exchange, price discovery is dead and bitcoin as a monetary phenomena essentially is too. The one thing that could save bitcoin is a distributed exchange, or something like Ripple taking off. Then shutting it down becomes essentially impossible
Nginx Gzip, High Concurrency and Memory
It could also be argued that they did good things in spite of being lawyers.

Looked up the thing about Thomas Jefferson drafting the Declaration of Independence at 21 and this is what I found in wikipedia [1]:

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776)

Seems like he was in his thirties. Care to correct yourself?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
HSBC paid a $2 billion fine for a "crime" that was rooted in negligence rather than malicious intent.
Ask HN: Can you hire a JS aficionado?
HN, I really need your help!

I have been selected for a Diversity Immigrant Visa (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa) and in order to receive the visa the US consul lady requested, after I presented all other required documents, that I also present a letter of intent from a US firm that is interested in hiring me in my field of expertise. She specifically mentioned that this is a non-binding letter and the firm would have no obligation of employing me.

You can find my resumé at sorin.iclanzan.com and at SongPane.com a webapp I’m currently working on.

This is a huge opportunity for me, one that I do not want to throw away. I would really appreciate if anyone could help me with this letter or better yet hire me!
I didn't flag it, but the article is fairly content free. It's just saying they're going to release an update. Well, yes, of course - it's safe to assume Windows developers are still working.
Easily, act as if you proved it. We are generally very hesistent to do this (with good reason), but sometimes practicality takes over.

For example, we have not proven that are current construction of mathematics contains no contradictions (indeed, we have proved that such a proof is impossible), however, we continue to act as if it does.

We have also not proved that factoring numbers is hard, or that NP/=P, but we still act as if these are true.
Good move by Blackberry.

Business wise it wont gain direct income, but will gain more users and with that the silly stock market market types will fall over themselves to buy shares once this gets going and even though they are not making extra money, they will be gaining share price. So good for them :).

Old BB uses who went onto the other forms will grab this to speak with the odd old mates and it will propagate from there so will quickly gain momentum.

Interesting times and something they could of done ages ago as a charged for application and made from it instead of having to now jump in with free.

Probably do more for the share price than QNX ironically, funny old world shares, but watch this space it is not out yet.
New Photowerks app for iPhone and iPad makes it easier to find your own pics