skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That said, Google changed the way those stats are recorded. It used to be based on all phones that connect to their servers. Now it is based on logins to the Google Play store "because they are more active". That's why the line graphs of version share over time are no longer on the dashboard, because it would show a big discontinuity where they changed their methodology.

That said, just like on the web it's all about what your users have. My app has roughly 25% Gingerbread and 75% Ice Cream Sandwich or newer. I hope that holds, but there really is no way to stop building for Gingerbread even with the majority on the newer versions.
PHP is the first language I learned what is so bad about it? I think its pretty robust language.
Just add qrencode[1] to the mix:

> gpg --export-secret-key my-key | paperkey | qrencode

[1]: https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode
Maybe there is a reason for not letting developers talk to the press. This is not good marketing...
I've built a gaming PC before. What I underestimated was how nice it was to have my console in my living room. Having to get up and go into another room to play games meant that games never got played. And then the PC started getting flaky and then it was old and new games didn't look good any more. This happened very quickly.

My consoles always work (no red ring on my 306 yet, knock on wood) and the new games always play great. I'm almost definitely getting one of the Microsoft or Sony next-gen consoles. I would definitely consider a steambox as well, as I love the idea of a living room game PC... Though I'm not sure how I'm supposed to manage the wireless keyboard and mouse while sitting on my couch.
If it's your job, you'd better get shots right out of the camera that need very little editing or touch ups.

So your preferred development environment is cat(1), then?
So did the original IBM PC BTW.
Did you see:

--output-type
can be "base16" or "raw". "base16" is human-readable, and "raw" is useful
if you want to pass the output to another program like a bar code or
QR code generator (though note that scannable codes have some of the
disadvantages discussed above).

It is as easy as:

paperkey --secret-key secret-key.gpg --output-type raw | qrencode -o qr-paperkey.png

If you are curious David Shaw is one of the main GPG developers.
50x, unless I'm missing something. They invested ~$5MM and got $253MM back.
Can you cite some sources with data that proves calling members of Congress is effective?

I don't know if it is or not and I see those words spoken a lot without any sort of proof.
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I was all ready to be snarky about this (don't make sexist jokes, etc.), until I actually read the article; I have a lot of respect for your focus and success. Thanks for this article!
The buildings remind me of puffball mushrooms.
Also another suggestion, for a Google Analytics replacement you could try using Piwik, an open source web analytics platform. Of course I think you'll have to provide your own hosting for it.
Thanks for the kind works, but it can be a plague, when you cannot stop doing what you do easily..

The environment you work on OS/Laptop Speed/Workflow is really crucial to be effective. Currently development stalled, because my laptop broke a little and isn't pushing anymore. Gotta get a new one.

I build meta software, concepts, software architecture, servers and experimental UIs. I'll try to work on ai projects to unite some projects without building glue-code after my current project. Step by step.
The biggest problem with Gmail alternatives is missing hotkeys. Outlook.com is the only one I've found that even comes close, but things are still different enough to be irritating.
Sam, I'm sure the past few months have been kind to you -- and with your dedication to the product, you assuredly deserve it.

If you get the chance, I'd love to see some sort of before & after the Reader shutdown a la Patrick McKenzie's "Year in Reviews" (http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/12/17/bingo-card-creator-etc-y...). I'm sure you'd have quite a few insights to share.
How does this handle subkeys?
I've been using NewsBlur with a paid account since pretty close to the shutdown announcement for Reader and finally switched all of my bookmarks over. I'm happy with the web app, and honestly, the Android app is way better than what I was using when I was over on Reader. There's been a few bumps with servers but they've seemed pretty smoothed out for the most part lately.

tldr keep up the good work, it's easy to recommend to other people looking to migrate. The redesign just makes it even easier.
Or it's a vocal minority of people who don't miss opportunities to talk about it. I don't care either way, especially since the article was posted as a little joke.
Ack! Acronym collision! EBS is Elastic Beanstalk, or Elastic Block Store?

If the former, it's in my opinion a question of what you're looking for. Here's my best response: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/introducing-awsbox-the-diy...
I would really like an ingredients list.
Incorrect!

General Mills got the smack down from the FDA for claiming that Cheerios lowered your cholesterol. [1]

[1]http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/u...

These claims indicate that Cheerios® is intended for use in lowering cholesterol, and therefore in preventing, mitigating, and treating the disease hypercholesterolemia. Additionally, the claims indicate that Cheerios® is intended for use in the treatment, mitigation, and prevention of coronary heart disease through, lowering total and "bad" (LDL) cholesterol. Elevated levels of total and LDL cholesterol are a risk factor for coronary heart disease and can be a sign of coronary heart disease. Because of these intended uses, the product is a drug within the meaning of section 201(g)(1)(B) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321 (g)P)(B)]. The product is also a new drug under section 201(p) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(p)] because it is not generally recognized as safe and effective for use in preventing or treating hypercholesterolemia or coronary heart disease. Therefore,under section 505(a) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 355(a)], it may not be legally marketed with the above claims in the United States without an approved new drug application.
Oh wow, this is smart. I forgot that it generates C code, hahah! :)

Well that'll be a lot easier that way. Glad that I could help a little. Ask me if you have any questions, I've worked with many servers and your project is very interesting.
The alternative would be a society not based on the law, but on connections and reputation - real-life examples would be a Brazilian favela, Wikipedia, the Iceland of the Sagas. Not something I'd prefer.
> Tumblr's employees will also do well. The company's first 10 employees will receive an average of $6.2 million in cash; the first 30 will receive an average of $3.3 million in cash, and the rest of the 178 employees will each receive $371,000.

Is it usual to announce these numbers for all employees with acquisitions like this?
But for the soylent product there is no need as it is perfect for all people. Yeah right. And why the dystopic branding?
The linked article states that the price will go down as production scales. Besides, ingredients tend to be cheaper (in dollars) in poorer countries.
I think the obvious alternative would be Open Street Maps. Microsoft is no better than Google in these regards, they're just not the current market leader.
However, I have the feeling you can inflate the REI one more because the pressure is higher. If I plan on sleeping on that thing overnight, I don't care about the added inconvenience, if it means it will be more comfortable.

I agree that for a nap in the park, the OP one is better and you look like less of a dork inflating it.
Well feel better - there is no right/left divide in America. By the standards of anywhere else there is only very right / slightly less right.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled off was convincing Americans that anyone to the left of Attila the Hun was a Communist...

What I find odd is that the article equates libertarianism with Rand and the Koch brothers, as if no other type exists. There's also a hint of conflating liberalism and libertarianism.
The problem is that it's increasingly hard to get interesting chips in through-hole packages. Pretty much the only stuff Atmel sells now in DIP packages are "legacy" AVR chips -- if you want something with USB, you've got to go surface mount. As such, the question becomes do you give up on the new and interesting to stick to your roots, or do you give up on some amount of hackability so you can provide interesting things with a gentle learning curve?
I'd settle for a Wayland driver running on SurfaceFlinger. run a chroot Linux distro and you can run Android apps and have an 'app' which behaves like a real computer.

I do wonder if the thing that is deterring Google from this path is that ChromeOs is designed to be Cloud and rather than give people what they want they are trying to give people something that would help their business model.
Hm, random idea: print your key on paper and have a unique fold pattern that "decrypts" it. It'd be obvious how you folded it if you keep it around past a one-time thing, but you could print a dozen of them and keep them non-folded.
I'm going to put $65 up for this as I've been eager to try Soylent since it first popped up on HN.

Clearly this is a very controversial topic, but the general attitude for most of the supporters (myself included) appears to be that if no serious negative effects have been exposed from consuming Soylent in three months, it must be safe to try.

Is there any possibility that consuming Soylent for a while (say, a week to a month) and then stopping cold-turkey could be significantly harmful to one's digestion? Maybe? I guess we'll find out when the first round of supplies is consumed.

Another thing, props on the campaign and having already been funded, but let's hope the next promo video does less to seem like a run-of-the-mill infomercial... :\
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I get the impression from several comments that many people think that if you just state in the hiring contract that you are hiring someone to make a "work for hire", that will mean that you own the copyright.

Not so, at least in the US!

To be a "work for hire", one of two things must be true.

1. It is a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment. The key word here is "employee". A contractor is generally NOT an employee for purposes of copyright law. Whether or not one is an employee is determined by looking at a bunch of factors, including who provides the tools for the work, the duration of the work, whether the hiring party has the right to assign additional work, the hired party's role in hiring assistants, benefits provides, and many others.

2. The parties expressly agree in a written, signed, instrument that the work shall be considered a work for hire AND it is a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas.

Things like wedding photographs probably cannot be construed as falling into any of those types of works listed in #2, and so cannot be works for hire, no matter what you say in the contract. Copyright will belong to the contractor (unless you manage to somehow actually end up with an employer/employee relationship under #1, which is hard). If you want copyright, write the contract so that you are buying the copyrights from the photographer.
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I doubt it. Landlords have to count rent as aggregate gross income on their tax returns, and it's probably both fairly easy to get caught and fairly serious if you do get caught.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...

(If you're just subletting, only any net gain is taxable, which is probably minor.)
Not sure whats wrong with blending some protein powder (ON is tasty), a full avocado, spinach if your feeling frisky, whole-milk if your feeling more frisky (higher fats / a bit more protein) for a near-meal replacement (near, nothing compares to whole foods).

~400 cals or so.

Or taking it further with blending/vitamixing (so you keep the fiber) veggies.

I thought this was the most hilarious article I've read. And it was not sarcastic...
Ad Hominem attacks don't strengthen your argument.

From what I can tell, the Soylent team appears to be pursuing their goals in an admirably scientific fashion. Although there's quite a bit of work to do, I recall an article from a couple of days ago on HN that was talking about the wonderful work the big guys are doing. This quote from General Mills is priceless:

>In a public comment posted on the FTC website, our friends at General Mills pointed out that under the IWG guidelines, the most commonly consumed foods in the US would be considered unhealthy. Specifically, according to General Mills, “of the 100 most commonly consumed foods and beverages in America, 88 would fail the IWG’s proposed standards.” [1]

I understand your disagreement, I disagree with your ad hominem attack and think that there may be some merit to the Soylent team and their claims, especially when taken in light of the General Mills comments.

[1]http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/de...
I think you missed the point of "externality": the people affected by the externality are not party to the negotiations.

In other words, when I buy the house next to yours, and from one day to the next, decide to use it to store decaying pig shit in the yard, or manufacture high explosives, all of a sudden, you got something really nasty that you did not choose. It's not as if you chose to move next door knowing full well what goes on in my business. All of a sudden, the value of your house has dropped, and you haven't been compensated for it at all.

I agree that zoning and restrictions should be regulated at a local level so that multiple solutions can arise, but it seems like trying to involve neighbors in contract negotiations becomes quite complicated quickly. The guy 2 houses down has seen his house fall in value too, although maybe not quite so much. The guy 20 houses away might still smell things on a bad day, so he's affected a little bit too, should he be included in negotiations as well?
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That's probably partially true, but that's not really true on HN. Every thread on "Google shutters product X" has at least one person asking for alternatives to gmail et al.

I almost wish we could pin a story like this just to cut some of those comments.

There are days when there will be multiple stories on the front page at the same time with comments asking, "what are the alternatives to gmail?" with the inevitable, "well, fastmail is a good choice" and then someone will bring up running your own server, and then someone else will respond about spam and blacklisting and downtime, and someone else will say something about they've been doing it for 5 years and it's not that hard, etc etc etc
If I have to listen to one more of you Silicon Valley coders...
...talk about how you're changing the world with an app, I'm going to put you in a box and ship you to a farm in Rwanda to do hard manual labor for a month.
I read this initially assuming it to be a clever spoof on the whole startup / crowdsourcing scene, because of the name: pick something that is obviously a joke product ("Soylent Green is people!") and run with it - start piling on impressive claims, include startup-y backgrounds for the founders, and be really vague about what the product actually is. Given my initial interpretation, I thought the "Is soylent vegan available yet" FAQ was particularly hilarious.

Then I started reading the HN comments, and initially assumed them to be tongue-in-cheek replies running with the joke: the typical "this is why it won't work", the usual "this is why it's a bad idea", the inevitable "it's actually amazing, stop being so negative". But that gradually stopped making sense the further I read, with people appearing to take it way too seriously for a simple spoof.

So thanks HN, you've managed to confuse me completely. This might be a sign I've been spending too much time here lately.
I agree to a large extent, but a lot of Democrats do support the healthcare reform which is one of the greatest wealth redistributions of our time. They may not explicitly call it a wealth redistribution, but the idea of making healthcare access available to people that can't currently afford it is a big redistribution.
Don't forget the null hypothesis: you're feeling the urge to eat because we evolved to eat solids and you're not.
I've noticed the same thing. I wrote this post[1] a month ago. I put a lot of time into it and posted it on /r/haskell. I got some very insightful comments and good discussion. Two days ago it got posted to HN and the comments were very different. Lots of people saying "I don't understand this, this post sucks" but very few responded to me when I asked where they were stumbling so I could fix it[2].

The upshot to all this is, I got way more exposure through HN than through /r/haskell, and a lot of people loved the post. I've gotten some cool emails out of this. So overall, I'd say trolls sure suck but the nice emails make it all worthwhile.

[1] http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5736004
If you hire a photographer and simply want digital copies of the photos you took, then you deserve what you get. You are making the mistake of thinking what the photographer is doing is simply capturing images. There's no reason to pay them a lot because they aren't providing a very good service.

A lot of newbie photographers do indeed cater to this segment of the business. Those photographers suck and do not wind up making very much money. It is the typical race to the bottom.

Photographers who are successful are creating experiences, and high-end presentations of their work are part of that experience.

If all you want is digital copies, then hire your Uncle Bob with a case of beer. Chances are he has the same high-end equipment a good pro does, and probably knows how to use it, too.

This same issue is true for a lot of professionals, not just photographer. The digital revolution has greatly lowered the barrier of entry, and that's a good thing, but it also means a lot of the photographers you are dealing with in the marketplace just aren't any good.
Same for Metafilter (though the rule set is much less strict).
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You're welcome, examples are pretty useful for this sort of thing. Plus, after you have a base to work off, it's trivial to extend.

I'll put this up in a post on my blog, maybe it'll help others as well.
The best replacement I found was to host my own instance of Kolab 3[1] which was a pain to setup, but seems to work pretty well and looks nice. I couldn't find any good hosted solutions though.

[1] http://kolab.org/
One of the biggest strengths of gchat is the integration with gmail, and why they have so much traction.

It makes less sense to chat on a free service that no one is using, but maybe some people will use it if there were a DDG email service.
No, but note that this information's not coming from Tumblr - it's coming from an analyst who claims it's based on some financing documents he obtained.

Whether you trust it or not is up to you.
The launch of this campaign is about a month and a half late. It would have been much more appropriate to launch on April 1st.
The true story isn't anything more than I think your writing would be a whole lot more effective if you weren't so impressed by yourself. Your blog reads like an ongoing hagiography of the sort the North Koreans would write.

While that vanity gets tiring, it's not a crime.

What's maddening is your lack of intellectually honest engagement of critique on that or any other matter. And your position, implied by your comments, that others cannot disagree unless their accomplishments somehow match yours is frankly stomach-turning from the perspective of a hacker culture that's all about upsetting the status quo.

I went on at great length here if that's interesting to you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5744686
There used to be a free tier, which was my first use of fastmail. At some point, possibly the Opera acquisition, the free tier went away.
Indeed there used to be whole areas of Usenet devoted to the mystery of white dogshit and why it had gone away....
Because the idea of being being metabolically disadvantaged is that you can't eat a traditionally balanced diet.

Soylent has none of the complex/unnecessary/unhealthy chemical substances tradional diets (milk,bread,nuts,fish) have that are the frequent object of intolerances.
If you are going that route anyway, you can just use optar[1] and just print the whole encrypted file.

[1] http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
It's about paying for services you use so the businesses that provide those services can have a sustainable business model.

I'm not a crazy person who hates ads in gmail (see http://www.maxmasnick.com/2012/02/12/gmail_paranoia/), but I do believe in paying for things so that the incentives for a company align with what's best for me as a user.
All I know is that I sleep a lot better that I have two-factor authentication turned on for gmail. I would leave gmail quickly if a good alternative had that. Looking at the OP's recommendation of fastmail.fm, it seems to have multi-factor authentication:

https://www.fastmail.fm/help/login_yubikey.html

It appears to depend on a physical key that I'll have to carry around with me. Gmail's MFA relies on an app on my iPhone which is far more convenient and they have a backup way of getting into the account with a hand-typed key that is very long.

Why is good web-based email MFA so hard to implement and why has Google been the only one to perfect it?
Because we tried your traditionally balanced diet, the high-protein diet, the high-fat diet, the paleo diet, the improved paleo diet, the four-hour diet, and yes, exercise, and nothing worked. (Shangri-La resulted in 20 pounds of very easy weight loss then stopped working and never worked again.) Maybe Soylent won't work either, but the concept behind Soylent seems dissimilar to all of those diets along dimensions in which they are similar to each other, so I'm going to try it.
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University of Austin. In addition to the school, you get the vibrant Austin City culture with it's growing tech scene.
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Soylent is not going to reduce the death toll from indoor stoves if those people have to continue using their stoves to stay warm (even if not also to cook). To make grandiose claims is to risk undermining legitimate ones.
You're right (and it's one of the reasons I enjoy reading HN) but it's kind of ironic in this context, isn't it?

We're all so good at not telling people to STFU and what-not, but we still have enumerable troubles with entire discussions not being derailed into hate-fests, albeit with some uncharacteristically (for an internet discussion) polite language.

Something to think about.