skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Behavioral economics. People are willing to pay $50 for 24/7 access to 40 channels, but they won't pay $1 each for the 50 things they actually watch.
Self Promotion from Notre Dame
One thing learned the hard way is that if you are working for a contractor on a project managed by civil servants (especially where the lead civil servant used to work for the contractor), "success" isn't necessarily completing the project on time.
How I got over 22k unique impressions, 130 likes & 30 comments in $5 on Facebook
They were hired to work on it and then Valve decided they had no interest in AR. Why not let them take it?
Judging by their recent change of making GChats part of the Google+ Hangout system I am nervous and skeptical about the changes to GMail.
While I do agree with your sentiment that some are being too quick to dismiss the idea without trying it, I'd like to add that this feature (or one very much like it) has actually been available in Labs for a while, so it's possible that some commenters may have real feedback on it already.
"Relevance by proximity" is the cousin of "just add internet!" stories.
> The Windows 8 EULA says:

Which is absolutely irrelevant for example in Germany, as customers (a) buy the computer/license before agreeing to the EULA and (b) most of the statements in the EULA (no warranties, e.g.) cannot be legally included in any contract with a customer/end-user.
A sobering day
It sounds like that would fall into the "Updates" category
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yale-student-tom-friedman-actu...

HN officially jumped the shark when some off hand comment becomes yahoo headline
I have a client that insists I believe things simply because he says them, all evidence to the contrary. Situations change, priorities change, 'facts' are rarely actually facts, and even statements that are currently true often don't stay that way...

I'm not suggesting he's being dishonest or that it won't last, but even the statement you cite indicates it's not currently for sale, and even then, what's the guarantee?
Who said I want them to 'add' anything?

They can make it possible for me to easily search a trillion pages online from one input box, with a great hit ratio for what I'm actually looking for. But they need to add comical layers of complexity - none of which is new or unique - just to sort my email? It's depressing if that's the best their Gmail team can do.

These 'features' have been done before by other companies and other services, and they didn't solve the sorting problem of email. They're just repeating mistakes other companies made many years ago. There's nothing special about sub folders for an inbox folder, even if you call it a tab.

I would argue that Google needs to think originally again about email, as they did when they first came up with Gmail, and not repeat the poor product choices made by other email products and services.
Actually the feature is already live (or at least I can see it), so most of the comments probably aren't based on the blog alone.
Interesting, are you aware of any such algorithm (proven to exist but not discovered yet)?
Check this out as well: http://www.awsnow.info/#ec2
'Mars rat' spied by NASA's Curiosity rover
"Except for one little problem: the economics of cord-cutting simply don’t make sense, for neither networks nor viewers."

Actually, it makes perfect sense for the viewers - the networks are the ones that it inconveniences. People simply won't pay the increasingly high rates which are borderline ridiculous. You could get a nice used car for the same monthly payment of some of these internet/cable bundles.
Write/Speak/Code: professional development conference for women by women
> I've ascertained that they're probably looking for

Not to beat a dead horse, but why not talk to some potential customers about that rather than trying to extrapolate from questionable data?
Err, what? The labels only sort your existing email. There's no new content involved.
You're paying $40 for internet because of the same economics detailed in the article. I'd guess only 1-5% (very generous) of households have cut the cord and are doing what you do. The other 95%+ spend $100+ per month and are subsidizing your internet-only.
That doesn't answer anything. I know what pretentious means.

What I don't understand is why people _don't_ think what Molyneux is doing is important, or have culture. Why do people _feel_ hatred and shame for him?
Lastpass. I like switching between OSes(mobile & desktop) and I found that Lastpass exists on all of them.
Trust the Results, Not the Conclusions
My issues are three fold: that Mozilla is propagating proprietary standards, that it is selectively implementing per platform on a majority basis, and that by doing this it is further fragmenting the web.

My issue was not whether it actually works or not on a smattering of platforms. I believe you there. Though I appreciate the response.
Except it's three times more expensive.

And anyway, I really don't think guys at Projecteo are aiming at those in the market for a portable projector. Yeah it is a borderline toy I guess, but that doesn't mean it's 'dumb'. Seems cool as a quick little gift for someone, it has that charm/novelty factor that everyday people will like.

No need to dismiss it solely because it's technically inferior to a serious $130+ device, they're both aimed at totally different people.
I actually like the tabs idea, but at the moment I find it useless. If there was an option to show my custom labels (instead of the predefined ones) it would be an awesome addition.
Ok, I see what you're saying. I guess that pic just comes off as being in poor taste in this post then. Because, in reality, those are not the tabs normal people would set up. So I began to question what the point of the feature was. Is it really to help me organize my inbox? Or is it for Google to show me things they want me to spend money on?
Were they just hacked?
This article has a lot of theory and very little data.

I don't think you can correct someone without producing any actual evidence, or at least trying to.
JavaScript is Literature is JavaScript
Most of the Bio students were doing degrees in Bioinformatics, which is an offshoot of data mining, which is run by CS department. Most were good with SQL, but that's about it. It worked out for me since I always had a place in group work. I wrote the software, they did the biology. So to be more clear, there were no Bio students in my OS class, just the data mining classes.
I want to argue this.

A bunch of years ago I read about "Passivhaus" insulation in the New York Times. The wiki page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

Basically, invest 14% more in construction up-front, and save 86% on space-heating costs over the long term. THAT'S FUCKING HUGE! These things are a major hit in new construction in Central and Northern Europe.

More, these things are pretty much exactly what you would want as a new, high-tech business for the bottom 60%, or at worst the bottom 80% or bottom 90%. I mean, everyone wants to save 86% on heating, and America has a whole lot of people who live in cold, temperate climates.

So here's a Big Idea for the Unexotic "Underclass", and the middle class, too: how do we bring down the up-front cost to the point where people start being able to afford investing in energy-efficiency, particularly in cold areas that can really use this kind of thing?

(Because this kind of stuff doesn't even really matter to the capitalist/upper class: their utility bills are negligible versus everything else they do.)
http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/how_many_licenses.html
I think the parent is referring to how numbers are constructed verbally.

A number like 52347 would be said like "five ten thousands, two thousands, three hundreds, four tens, seven ones"

Of course, this doesn't really apply above the ten thousands. To say 1,000,000 you have to say "one hundred ten thousands".
I called it may 3rd :). https://twitter.com/shuri_org/status/330487333449244673
Challenge HN: Break my in-browser crypto for $1000
After reading arguments about using cryptography in the browser, I wanted to see how easy it was to fail in practice so I built a simple app: notecrypt.appspot.com. It encrypts notes using SJCL and stores their encrypted form on the server and enables retrieval with the same credentials.

This approach is uniformly as good as or better than a browser app not using in-browser crypto from a security perspective. As daeken noted in a discussion a few days ago, it provides protection against a demand to produce the notes. He also claims that "For all other cases, there are a million simple means by which you can break it." So I challenge anyone on HN: Show me such simple means.

The instructions for claiming a reward are contained in a note stored in the app's database. To help you along, I'll navigate to any URL you send me while logged into the site. If you'd like to try your hand at finding a vulnerability in the AES implementation used, I'll send you a snapshot of the database. If you want to try injecting code, I'm happy to use a network you control if we can arrange the logistics though I won't promise to log in if you can't provide a valid SSL certificate :). If you need assistance to demonstrate a reasonable attack, ask. Post your attacks below or email my user name @gmail.com. The first successful attack wins. Usual disclaimers apply.

You might argue that this doesn't prove anything about JavaScript cryptography since additional security is used. That's true. If this survives, it doesn't provide evidence that the in-browser cryptography is sufficient; it only suggests that it can defeat some additional threats against an otherwise secure application.
Sure, but communications are also important. If this post is giving an incorrect impression of these new features, there might be something for all of us to learn about how to communicate things to our customers.
We are planning the first few groups in the bay area but we have gotten so many inquiries from Seattle that we can organize something soon
The most interesting part of that article is the non-chalant last line: "Once the [wooly mammoth's] tissues have been treated to a nuclear transfer process, the eggs will be implanted into the womb of a live elephant for a 22-month pregnancy."

Cloning wooly mammoths! Now that is cool.
Not just the word but the whole concept of accountability seems to be lacking in spanish speaking cultures. The language reflects the culture of its speakers...
You can get a mobi or other ebook format from O'Reilly right now: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027072.do
I think it's only acceptable if it's made very clear before you accept or decline the job offer. Otherwise it seems like it's taking advantage of people.

The main reason I view it that way is because Facebook hires a lot of fresh college graduates who don't necessarily have much (if any) money saved up. To work for Facebook, they're going to have to find a place to live in one of the most expensive areas of the United States. I think it is quite disrespectful to put young people with little money in a situation where they are signing extended leases only to be let go within six weeks.

Granted, Facebook gives out pretty good signing bonuses, so that softens the impact a bit, but still if I knew that the first six weeks were effectively a probationary period I'd make a special effort to find a housing situation where I could pay on a monthly basis rather than entering a six- or twelve-month lease.

Moreover, if I had a family, I'd definitely think twice before going into a sort of six week interview, no matter who the company was. I wouldn't want to put my family through the difficulties of moving there only for me to get let go soon after arriving.
The magazine: under old management
Event Machine In Normal Ruby (or Rails) Apps
Moving Beyond Telephone Numbers - The Need For An Application-Layer Identifier
For just an extra year, I would go for it. At another school, your program would be twice as long because they don't know your background. Also, even if the value of an MS is dropping, so is the value of an BS, but that only makes it more important to have.
I've never heard of Sass before, so I thought this was a standard for how to communicate sassiness online.
On the other hand I suddenly thought about HTML/CSS. I think HTML for reflowable and PDF for fixed would be awesome. The only thing is that you need a very good wysiwyg editor for html that's as good as word yet produces clean code.
Unconditional cash transfers may be the best tool for fighting poverty
I'm not sure how Apple is relevant to this, but that's a subjective question. Having used all 3, I haven't found one head and shoulders above the rest. I was a long time user of LastPass but recently purchased 1Password because I found its Chrome extension much more pleasant. Having said that, LastPass has a great bookmarklet that can be use on any device (they all have apps, but the apps require using a bespoke browser) and has a Dolphin Browser extension too. I think 1Password gets the edge for me, it's functional and beautiful, and is available on all devices. It even has a HTML app you can access on your dropbox to read your passwords.

I really urge you to try them, it really is a personal preference thing.
You're piling more contemptible behavior on top of what you already did, while pretending to apologize. So you admit you were wrong, and have no evidence that I lied, but are tying to suggest that I'm a liar anyway with the ambiguous phrase "it still seems the behavior fits". Amazing.

You know other people can see your comments, right? Not just me?
Though I've never tried 1Password I'm also a happy and content premium subscriber of LastPass - On my Mac, office Windows, Android and office Linux.
I suspect that giving users a blank field to fill out may result in increased payment amounts. If a user tries to checkout with no amount, maybe reload the page with a high amount pre-filled for them, like $25, that they can then reduce.

But there's just no way, psychologically, I'm going to move that slider to the right. (If many have, I'd be interested to hear that.)
It's "consistently" not "conaistently". The fifteen year funnel apparently omitted proofreading...
WebRTC vs. Flash - Not Much of a Competition
Just because something does not have a direct translation in a person's language doesn't mean it doesn't exist in that person's thinking.

I'm a Turkish native speaker. The other day I was looking for the Turkish equivalent of the English phrase, "calling dibs on something." I asked my mom, my dad, and my sister, and none of them knew. But they knew exactly what I was talking about. Turkish people also call dibs on stuff, they just don't say it out the way English speakers do. At the end of the day you're announcing your claim on something (usually an object), and that's a very common concept.

I think the same would apply to the examples you gave.
What Tim Cook’s cryptic comments at D11 can tell us about iOS 7
Zach Sims of Codecademy (YC S11) on lessons raising $12.5 M for the first time
I've watched this scenario play out on multiple occasions, in different variations.

In one memorable case, the developer missed some pretty important requirements that mattered a lot to management but did not matter to him. The developer certainly felt that he was railroaded by politics. But I, as an independent observer at the same level, could easily see that management was right to want what they wanted, and that the developer was too emotionally invested to see what he was missing.

Same company, same team, same developer, a different project, not too long earlier. He went off and developed something that really did meet the needs we had, and got rewarded for it. The difference is that he actually understood the requirements and nailed them.

Drive, ambition, technical chops, and an unwillingness to listen first can get a lot done, very quickly. The same characteristics can create a lot of conflict very quickly as well. It is hit or miss which happens in any particular case. And on the misses, management is easy to blame but they are not really to blame.
the same old whining. If you don't like the new features, the blog clearly says you can choose not to use them, they provide backward compatibility.

You say this has been done before, what hasn't. You should live with the features for a while before jumping to immediately trashing them without even having used them.

Nothing is "new or unique" - and nobody wants that either. They want steady improvements without losing familiarity.
How many clones of different DNA would you need to produce a viable herd? Otherwise wooly mammoth coats and steaks will be really expensive.
It's not difficult to construct a situation where dipole attraction would be unstable, but gravity isn't. E.g. an odd number of point particles evenly spaced in a circle.

(Real answer: plausible-sounding explanations are ten a penny. Which is why scientific theories claiming Y is an example of X generally need to either (a) mathematically derive the governing equations of Y starting from those of X, or else (b) make a testable prediction about Y that would not be true if Y was not an example of X).
when does Jurassic Park: Woolly Mammoth 3D come out now?
That said, I somewhat jokingly predicted this trend previously. With the
explosive growth of digital information and electronics, I think we'll see a
renaissance of analog, mechanical, and otherwise "physical" things.

I've also mentioned this to people, however, not jokingly but in all seriousness. I think it might have something to do with engaging the senses. The more senses you can uniquely engage, the stronger your connection to something will be. Vinyl records, for example, are doing nothing but exploding. I have all of my music in digital format for listening on the go, at work, etc., but there's something special about pulling a record off the shelf and out of the sleeve, setting it on the turntable and dropping the needle on it. It's more work, but you're rewarded handsomely for that work.
The problem with user generated pricing is there is no supply/demand, so the user will basically pick the lowest price they feel non-guilty about, which is usually a buck or so. Something I always thought would be interesting is a floating market price, so you start the price at say $1, and as demand increases at that price, it keeps going up.
"If the new inbox isn't quite your style, you can simply switch off all optional tabs to go back to classic view, or switch to any of your other favorite inbox types."

If this new Gmail feature doesn't suit you, you can TURN IT OFF.
Amazon: Creating A Customer Utopia One Culture Hack At A Time
I thought the point of gmail was that you didn't need to organize. Just search.
Certain companies have code freezes during large sales pushes, mainly e-commerce and the like. These are times when whole weeks could be spent on a hackathon-like deal with little impact on other plans.
Wow, that would be so cool - imaging going to the zoo to see one, something people 20 years ago had absolutely no hope of doing.
formalizing and automating. having your messages automatically filed into one of those tabs (without having to set up any rules) is a lot more exciting than the fact that the tabs exist.
If you read the article, it says you can turn off this feature.
So basically you have no real constructive suggestions and are just instinctively lashing out at anything that doesn't feel "new". Gotcha.
On the one hand there is no substitute for hard work. On the other hand some people don't have to work as hard as others to to reach the same level in a given domain.

So the upshot is you can use this as an excuse or a motivator. If you're an optimist you look at those two sentences and go "Cool!! I can do anything I decide I want to as long as I put in the requisite effort." If you're a pessimist you look at them and say. "I'm going to have to work harder than other people if I want to some things"

And if you're a realist you look at them and go "So, how much effort do I need to put in to reach my any of my goals?" and start prioritizing.
Throwing away code should be a regular part of your workflow. The best programmers I know do it often.

Programming isn't just about generating more lines of code. It's about understanding the problem you're working on. Sometimes writing code is a good way to understand the problem.
How Good Is Amazon's Route 53 Latency Based Routing?
They make a Windows version [1]. As some have said, I find the experience much better than other managers, mainly due to the browser extension.

Edit: oops, this is assuming you meant you were on Windows.

[1] https://agilebits.com/onepassword/win
Including people NOT reading the post?

It says in the post that this feature can be turned off.
REST APIs with Baucis v0.5.0 — More expressive, more flexible
Incidentally, "AVR" == "Arduino", so if you want a HEX file to execute you can have the Arduino toolkit drive the GCC cross-compiler for you, while you sit back sipping mojitos. Download the Arduino toolkit, open up the "Blink" demo, and press "Verify / Compile". Watch the little message window as your code compiles: Near the end of the process it will cough up a line like this:

/var/folders/4x/cwc9yvnx071_9whsft75cjvc0000gn/T/build8742301187783484704.tmp/Blink.cpp.hex

That file seems like it would be a fun thing to explore.
And yet, you still consider the foreign BS + US MS higher than just a foreign BS, so it was valuable to them.
Hear hear. This advert should not be on HN.
I wish it ran on Linux too, but I can't complain. I've used it for five years now, I think it was the first piece of online software I paid for. Very satisfied, would recommend, especially for those of you who are a tad paranoid.
One, own the project, think of what is the best approach - maybe a rewrite...

Fess up, let them know what is wrong (since you aren't the one that created the mess, offer to be the one than can fix it... if you can do...). Do triage examples on what is there, offer solutions to potential problem points, give examples of a more perfect world. Make sure to point out things that worked good ideas (you are going to hurt feelings, but never tell them the whole concept was idiotic. Show there was good effort and value created in the current system - probably the analysis was spot on, and that's when a lot of the problems were realized and now it needs a rework.

An excuse wont look good on a resume.
If you have never heard of someone, you wouldn't know what they usually sound like

EDIT: PS I haven't heard (of) her before either
What CS programs require undergrads to become fluent in "chemistry, biology, and economics"?
People who want their email under control already have something similar - for instance, I have filters and labels and folders for Newsletters and offers, one for Family and friends, University and so on.

People who haven't taken control of their inbox yet won't be bothered to do that now.

Loved the music in the video though.
Using MQTT Protocol Advantages Over HTTP in Mobile Application Development
Maybe he's just finding that after polishing his yachts and helicopters he doesn't have time to work on all these projects.
I, for one, am hoping he makes good on his threats to make a podcasting app. This space desperately needs some innovation and a solid bare-bones app to help facilitate the podcasting sector's growth.
I switched from an iPhone 5 to a HTC One recently and while almost all my iOS apps have decent/good replacements on Android, 1Password was one of the few that stuck out like a sore thumb. I still have an iPad, so I'm hesitant to switch password apps, but I almost couldn't believe the android version came from the same developers. Soo bad.
why are you remembering passwords?
I actually didn't know that Valve "fired" people in the traditional sense. Everything I've read about the company indicates that everyone there is on equal footing in terms of rank. So who would do the firing? Gabe?
How I (really) fixed my Galaxy Nexus after 4.2.2 slowed it down