skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write about Android app development and consult to developers of mobile apps. It is still a tough business to make money selling mobile apps at app store retail prices. All of my clients have some other business model.

BUT this is changing. The number of app customers is growing very quickly. Eventually, perhaps soon-ish, volume will overwhelm the currently crappy economics of selling apps and collecting ad fees.

Ubiquity of smartphones is more than just more customers. Once penetration gets high enough you can actually buy advertising and PR and expect it to work. More users drive a virtuous cycle that cures most of what's wrong with trying to sell mobile apps.
Oh wow, okay I guess what I read the other day was incorrect.
If that's all you have to say, better to say nothing.
Not enough to wait.
> At least part of the answer is to use antibiotics less, and to do more to ensure that when they are used, the full course is used.

If it gets bad enough, outpatient antibiotics use will be a thing of the past. Need antibiotics? You're staying in a facility where someone will monitor you and make sure you take the full course and don't make our resistance problems worse. It won't necessarily be a hospital and you won't necessarily be watched by doctors or nurses, but compliance will be mandatory and enforced.

I hope it doesn't get that bad.
Facebook Announces That It's Out Of Ideas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
What should we do about it?
It looks like you're just using bootstrap templates, no?
What CSS/Framework/whatever are you using for that metro-style dashboard?
I agree. I'm pleasantly surprised (shocked?) at the lack of negativity in the comments thus far.
Definitely, there will be progress. Right now, conventional fuels provide 80% of electricity. It is estimated that by 2100, fusion energy will provide 20% of electricity generation.
> a ticking timebomb that presents an existential threat to modern society.

If it gets bad enough, outpatient antibiotics use will be a thing of the past. Need antibiotics? You're staying in a facility where someone will monitor you and make sure you take the full course and don't make our resistance problems worse. It won't necessarily be a hospital and you won't necessarily be watched by doctors or nurses, but compliance will be mandatory and enforced. Society has ways of defending itself.

I hope it doesn't get that bad, but needs must, when the Devil calls the tune.
I interviewed with them in the late 80's. they were just then moving away from their own proprietary programming language(s?), not ADA, just beginning to open into C, perhaps others. Anyone know of this? What is the name of this language? Interesting NSA history transition, presumably, from the considerable force of recruiting mass civilian literacy with the downside of its security vulnerability.
Looks like Dashing from Shopify:

http://shopify.github.io/dashing/
Really funny -- I've got several friends who work at Twitter, and they've all got... goofy senses of humor. I'd be willing to chalk most of these up to intentionally over the top.

Either way, that's a hilarious Twitter handle.
> its shown time and time again that it is the web back end that supports a company and all those services

Saying "it's the web back end" sounds a bit code-centric. Twitter originally had an extremely broken back-end that didn't scale at all, they were down half the day. It still got extremely popular.

It's about the gestalt - the service, novelty, differentiation, virality, targeting, marketing, etc etc.
Thats dashing from shopify. Its really awesome, took me only an hour or so to setup with the integrations. Here's the original https://github.com/Shopify/dashing.

I am using the nodejs port though - npm install dashing-js
I'll even admit that I once had a particular client whose hosts I managed with a Makefile that grepped a HOSTS file. I am ashamed and my neckbeard is burning!
Depends how you look at it. In hi-tech Japan low-level dull jobs are encouraged because they prefer that to unemployment. Thus there are 3 people servicing your car on the gas station (I only read about it, not sure if still true), every one of them has healthcare, etc. Nation-wide, in the long run supporting such jobs may be cheaper than dealing with the side-effects of unemployment.

As a different example, in GCC countries immigrants also tank your car, but there it's just cheap means of comfort.
All the more reason for everyone to use it for everyday, non-illegitimate purposes.
The future of the web is ideas, and the medium that it is delivered through, whether it be test, video, audio, or whatever that I can begin to comprehend, will hopefully be one that will be seen by as many as possible.
> perhaps I'll automate mailing randomly chosen chunks of 1984 and Brave New World to randomly chosen public keys/emails from public keyservers

Repurpose Sircam to do this, perhaps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sircam
Facts From the Latest NSA Leak
Btw, the blog author, Andrej Bauer, is an amazing guy.

I was really fascinated by some of his older blog publications (and I was only scratching the surface):

http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct... (by Martin Escardo, an article about a Haskell program doing exhaustive search over the “Cantor space” of infinite sequences)

http://math.andrej.com/eff/ (Language Eff, a functional programming language based on algebraic effects and their handlers.) My understanding is that in this language all effects and evaluation order are explicit; effects and pure functions are easily and explicitly composable. Something like monads but more advanced. (My interpretation is probably wrong!)

http://andrej.com/plzoo/ (The Programming Language Zoo). A number of mini languages which demonstrate various techniques in design and implementation of programming languages. (calculator, mini-ML, mini-Haskell, mini-Prolog, etc)
One thing that I haven't seen come up much is the idea that the electric car is going to be essential for a successful robotic car.

Sure robotic drivers will be masters of fuel efficiency, and quiet likely we'll end up sharing one car between many different people when that happens. But Jevon's paradox[0] suggests that we'll actually be using more fuel, not less. And it makes sense as well: driving will be so easy and not constrained by human factors (needing to sleep, eat, boredom with driving, being intoxicated etc) there are millions of reasons to have more cars doing more work.

Even ignoring environmental cost, the fuel cost to the individual would remove a lot of this usefulness (Why not commute 8 hours while you sleep, start your weekend on the beach the moment you wake up? Because it's so expensive!).

I pretty strongly believe that without fully electric cars, we'll never realize the benefits of fully robotic drivers.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Great points. Something like logstash for logging (which supports graphite/statsd type output) is a nice addition to the logging setup.

Also, for some apps deploying code during instance launch can be time consuming. Depending on your monitors and auto scale config, this might be acceptable. For some it may be appropriate to put code right in the ami and only ever deploy via new ami.
This is a complicated solution to a simple problem. How about just editing /etc/hosts or adding it to your DNS?
I've noticed while using this that the results are often very different to google's (and generally inferior).

Sometimes I find myself switching back to "regular" google, but not as often as when I used duck duck go.

One thing that really bugs me is that I can't do currency conversions or calculations in this one.
You know your philosophy has made it when it's being misunderstood on the Internet.
The data is classified and protected by law, yes, but there are other equally (or more important) laws that say the government is required to hand over all potentially exculpatory evidence to the defendant.

Which law trumps? That's for the courts to decide.
The Trajectory of Television—Internet rebellion and hardware renaissance
Unless the real message is "Yes, we will touch the media." which is relevant given the timing.
It wasn't sustainable. Maintaining enough of a calorie deficit to lose that much weight made me depressed and made it hard to do my job - I think better with more calorie consumption. So I stopped dieting for much the same reason other people stop smoking - it was having negative effects I didn't like.

(Also, the system I was following (hacker's diet) incorrectly claimed after losing the weight you wouldn't gain it back from simply returning to prior eating habits. Because it didn't account for the now well-known metabolism-lowering effect of dieting.)
What node? I am not seeing any nodes in:

128.61.0.0/19
128.61.32.0/19
128.61.64.0/18
128.61.128.0/17
130.207.0.0/16
143.215.0.0/16
204.152.10.0/23

Does GaTech have another ASN?
Something about simply reselling twitter bootstrap examples doesn't sit right with me ...

http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/getting-started.html#exam...
One mobile app seldom makes a business (unless it is instagram, whatsapp etc.). Sound business model or massive user acquisition will be key.
I thought autorecover was implemented with a normal save, not a delta.

Anyway if you have issues waiting minutes for the program to report the error then something has gone terribly wrong with your install. Possibly you have a broken DNS? I don't know, that is weird and has absolutely nothing to do with the saving mechanism.

The point I was making is that there should be constant/regular automatic saves that don't touch the original file.
Windows 8 does support high resolution screens, but unfortunately it has poor DPI scaling features. This means that instead of crisper text and contours, you get smaller text and touch/click targets. While this does give you a nice, big workspace, it can be hard to see things.

When you do increase the DPI through Windows settings, applications start to have issues rendering text appropriately, and often UI targets don't scale with the text.
Grubby fingerprints are the last thing I want on a screen I stare at 12 hours a day.
Richard Stallman still sounds crazy. But open source software has gotten credibility because it's very good. Linus Torvalds had more to do with the acceptance of open source than Richard Stallman.

PS: I hate the stupid fights over words: "Gnu/Linux", "Free software"... It's called "Linux" and it's called "open source software". Now get off my lawn.
Maybe I'm risking a middlebrow dismissal, but this makes me feel incredibly unhappy. I'm a happy capitalist and see no problem with monetizing Bootstrap, but I think the people who monetize Bootstrap should be the people who make Bootstrap. This seems like an unabashed attempt to milk the subset of people who a) want a website, b) think Bootstrap looks good enough to pay money for, and c) don't know Bootstrap is a thing. (Hint: b) is a lot smaller than you think.)

(Also, having multiple typos on a landing page just makes things worse. If you're going to embark on such a venture, at least do it with gusto. I mean, "hassel", really? And that flowchart?)
what is the problem with

>>ssh -i <yourkey> ec2-user@<yourinstance>.amazonaws.com

isn't it the easiest it can get to?
For your point to be persuasive you need to add why temperature and density would increase power. e.g. one could have a core of extremely hot, dense inert material.
>getting rare earth minerals

I don't know about other electric cars, but this one doesn't use rare earth metals in the motor or battery. They use an AC induction motor that doesn't require permanent magnets, invented by Nikola Tesla actually.

http://www.teslamotors.com/it_CH/forum/forums/no-rare-earth-...
Windows doesn't support vector art for its UI elements. So aside from a few crude scaling options, as DPI goes up, the size of widgets, fonts, icons, etc go down. The surface pro draws complaints because the UI elements are too small to hit with the mouse easily. This is going to be far worse. It will be interesting to see how the reviews go with it.
Here's my take on the situation as someone who bootstrapped a mobile app, got some traction, and did not end up raising a seed round (We even had a YC interview). I tried to use some real numbers/examples:

http://blog.zmitri.com/startups/2013/06/14/you-need-a-millio...

I can give you lots of specific examples if you send me an email, but I feel bad calling them out in public, because it's a grind and I don't think it's my place to do that.

You guys see so many companies that you probably have a fantastic, if not the best, take on this. I scoured around looking for data and statistics to figure out what was going on, but you can just ask your companies I imagine.

We're still going either way.
When you say "nicely designed handmade website", what does handmade means here? What about other billion websites including bootstrap, were they machine made or something? Please clear the confusion. Thanks.
> You probably have more privacy by not using Tor at all.

This statement is beyond absurdity. Controlling a few exit nodes doesn't compromise Tor, it's designed to resist that. Tracing someone is possible, but it is extremely difficult and/or unreliable unless you've managed to compromise nearly all nodes on a chain.
single app != startup in most cases
Also, if you don't want to run a node on your home network/machine http://cloud.torproject.org/ makes it ridiculously easy to set up one on EC2 (for as little as ~$3/month)
Considering you have to go through the app store approval process every time you push an update out (so sitting in queue for a week even for bug fixes), building for web or android first gives you much more agility.
I don't want your home address, I want you to realize this isn't reddit, 4chan, or whatever other group home for thugs has convinced you that deliberate antisocial behavior is normal or acceptable.
Bacon Wrapped Economy
I hate that the author is using terrorist and sociopath interchangeably
I'm calling it a long, long way in advance, but Tesla has won. Game, set, and match - in 50 years we will all be driving electric cars.

With the battery swap Tesla has finally alleviated the "cross-country road trip" problem in a way that superchargers really couldn't. Now when you are comparing car vs. car you have no reason to turn your nose up at electric. And with Tesla making the best cars ever in the luxury sedan price range, they will likely do the same as they scale and create an economy car. The cost of batteries and production will continue to drop until the only real choice you're making is Tesla vs. Chevrolet. And Tesla makes better cars.

If I weren't a broke startup founder I would pour in all my money to Tesla stock.
Detailed examples of the model of failure described in the post are bound to be few and far between because of the massive selection problem. People who fail are way less likely than people who succeed to to tell the Internet about their experiences.
All Microsoft Surface tablets have a magnetic power connector.
Ask HN: The research [presentation] video by Google(?) on friendship circles?
I remember seeing it around the time Google Plus was introduced (with an emphasis on circles), and it was an interesting video on the research they did on human interaction in social circles. I can't actually find it anymore - just want to see if someone else might be able to dig it up?
Yes. I can't imagine someone smart enough to encrypt their traffic wouldn't realize it makes them look dodgy to people who get paid to be paranoid.
I don't like to be overly negative off the cuff, and hope I've just missed the secret sauce here (perhaps the messaging isn't clear on the landing page?), but:

Why pay $300 and wait 7 days when something like Themeforest charges < $50 in most cases, get it immediately, and is far more unique than a stock Bootstrap template?
That implies TDEE doesn't change. But we know that TDEE does change when people diet. (One study found that a group of people who lost 10% of their weight through dieting had their resting metabolism decline by an average of 15%.) We don't actually know how TDEE reacts to weight loss in general - how much it declines or for how long it declines in response to a particular level of loss. We also don't know how subjective hunger levels react to weight loss.

...Other than that whatever the formulas are, they seem to make long-term loss nearly impossible for most people.
There are actually only two batteries – 85 kWh and 60 kWh. The 40 kWh was discontinued.
If I were on the jury, I would seek to nullify the jury for every single case where the NSA refuses to provide the defense with the information they want or where the prosecution uses NSA data to prove guilt.

The former because that data shouldn't be a one way street and the latter because the NSA shouldn't have that data in the first place.
Couldn't the same be said about Hacker News? Search has improved, but we still rely on "sites with links" to find interesting content.
Sadly really awesome screens havent been one of Lenovos strengths lately but i agree, something like this with full Linux support would be awesome!
That seems an extremely odd statement to make, but let's assume it's true: Then just make it an easily-accessible cable. Or leave it as an optional accessory, which is what everyone would have preferred in the first place.

Don't get stuck in the mode of thinking you must design the solution to fit arbitrary requirements already decided upon. Those requirements aren't merely the source of the problem, they are the problem, and they're causing Microsoft to deliberately put its customers at risk.
I think you mean blind people.
kind of related https://twitter.com/GSElevator
This blog post is 10 months old, if it matters.
I respectfully disagree with this ethos of positivity or nothing. Criticism is a valuable thing. We don't want our discourse to resemble some sort of Christian summer camp.
Spill a lot? NeverWet's ready to coat your gear
Won't work. Think a little harder. Why do you think this has happened?

Hint. Answer this brain-teaser: 'How can a piece of paper with words on it restrain legislators effectively?' Has history validated the proposition that constitutions are effective tools for restraining governments?
Ah, sorry. I didn't mean to imply that I wouldn't buy an electric car until we have fusion; only that I'm really looking forward to fusion. I've edited my comment to make it more clear.
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I'm still confused on the details of this. Surely you'll be required to come back on the way back and swap back into your original battery? (for warranty reasons). Seems like a complex & expensive logistical nightmare (vs the simplicity of superchargers)
System76 just launched a Linux friendly Ultrabook with 1080p IPS matte display, 16 GB ram, 2 hard drives, quad core cpu (8 hyperthreads) and Intel Iris Pro gfx (> Intel HD 5000).

https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1
Keyboard input on someone's phone is not something HN would be able to fix.
That's a stupid analogy dude.
They can read it until they're sure an American is on the line. If the person never identifies their nationality, who can say.
It's unhelpful to needlessly abbreviate ordinary words, like "infra" for "infrastructure" in the first paragraph.
depending on what you need for game dev there are a couple, but they are bulky thats right. But its also necessary i guess because they need to have proper cooling.

I have been game developing on a 2011 macbook pro (unity3d engine) for some time and ditched it fairly quickly because the constant fan noise was just unbearable for me and my co-workers.
As best I can gather, that estimate seems to be about as reliable as a weather forecast for 2100. We don't even have one working fusion reactor today, so we have literally no useful data from which to extrapolate.
There are GPL'ed peer to peer search engines like YaCy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy
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That I'm aware of there are only three places to get actual search index results in the US, Google, Bing (via Yahoo BOSS), and of course Blekko. You can also get index results from both Yandex (Russian) and Baidu (Chinese) but both serve them out of data centers in either Amsterdam or Asia respectively so latency is a bit longer.

With modern hardware (especially 3TB drives) you can crawl a significant chunk of the Internet with as few as a hundred machines but in practice you will want closer to 300. Of course crawling is but one (relatively small) step in the series of steps needed to create an index, next up is page extraction, then term extraction, then semantic analysis followed by meta-data decoration (is it likely porn or maybe malware or junk, did it change since the last time you looked at it, what is a good snippet, etc etc) Then you process link information and perhaps click stream data and create your ranking model, which then lets you build an index. At which point you need another bunch of machines which can efficiently take a query string and put together a set of documents that might be a good fit (straightforward for 1 term, harder for 2 terms, exponentially worse for 3, 4, 5, 6 or more terms).

Depending on latency requirements and load you make that part of the system in another few hundred machines.

Search results though also have an inverse power law associated with them, the most popular consumer results fit in a .5 billion URL index, the 95th percentile in a 3 - 5 billion URL index, the 99th percentile is probably closer to 45 - 50 billion URL index. At the 95th percentile you're up to a few thousand machines to hold it all.

It isn't really possible to build on a generic VPS yet (like ECS on steroids) without having latency being ridiculous. It would also be expensive, the last time I did the calculation for the memory/compute/storage resources (pretending the latency could be fixed) it was about $2.5M/month in resource fees for a 1/2 billion page index and crawl. Since that time both Amazon and Google have lowered some prices so it may be more affordable now.

Putting it in a data center is much cheaper than that but not quite cheap enough to just let it sit around without monetizing it somewhat.

I'm a bit surprised that someone hasn't put something together, there are bits and pieces out there. But even self-hosted you're looking at least a few hundred thousand $ a month to keep it up and since Yahoo will sell you access to their search API for a couple of bucks per thousand queries it's probably not worth it for most people to try and run their own.