skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Gmail team realized that there is spam that's not spam

That is a very good way to put it, and is just how I feel. It's too bad they were criticized that the tab move was just all about more effective advertising (it may be a little bit true, but doesn't negate the fact that this is a really good innovation on the email management front).
Apple Q3 Results:31.2m iPhones & 14.6m iPads; $35.3B Revenue, $6.9B In Profit
Apple has released their Q3 earnings report. The company sold 31.2 million iPhones, which is an increase of 20 percent from previous reports, but the iPad didn't achieve its estimate of 17.62 million to 18.64 million, selling only 14.6 million devices. Overall, the company made a revenue of $35.5 billion, from which, $6.9 billion are pure revenue. Apple shareholders are expected to receive in mid August $3.05 per share.
One of the most influential points in my graduate school was when I worked really really hard, and failed to get a result. My advisor gave me this piercing look that without words said firmly, "I'm not angry at you, I'm just disappointed". That woke me up and got me on the right path.
Of course. Lawyers are an enormous waste of money and in most circumstances a drain on society.
It is more that Canonical is asking for trust. They gave preview specs and made the claim they would improve the hardware near release if they took too long and better tech was available. You just depend on them actually putting the good stuff in the phone.
Yes Mark has the right approach here, the colour rendition/accuracy of the iPhone 5 really makes it the best looking display I've seen. And I can't see the pixels - no need for higher res than that.
Not quite the 'forgotten employee' story, but when I started a new job a few years ago, the company ordered me a Macbook Pro (or so they claimed...) While I was waiting for it, they gave me an old Linux box to work on, but I didn't really set up a full dev environment because it was temporary and the laptop would be here "any day now". Weeks passed, we checked in with support repeatedly, no sign of the laptop... but it would still be here "in a few days" or "next week", so I continued to put off customizing the Linux box and just installing things slowly, as I needed them.

Finally, 6 weeks after I started, we hired a new dev. Support immediately handed him a Macbook Pro that they apparently just had lying around (that is, the one they ordered for me 2 months earlier). My manager thankfully made sure it went to me, and the new dev received his own machine two days later.
Both Southwest and Expedia use SABRE as a backend.
For all 3 of these categories, the harder part is getting users.
What has your experience been like?
Great article. This reinforces the "Data informed, not data driven" mantra - you can optimise a feature on your site for a single metric but always take the human effects into account.

It also shows the importance of talking to your users in person. An A/B test may prove that ticking a box by default will get so and so many more users opting in, but it can't show you the look on their face when they realize what you just did to them.
Posting a comment to this website makes you rich globally. Not exactly a high bar.
thinkcomp is Aaron Greenspan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Aaron_Gre...
Except there are news articles about Facebook's email, as referenced in the report.
If you were in the US, we would use US conventions unless you had specified that you picked a different localized site (let's say the .es site) in which case we would switch to the conventions based on localization settings.
Stripe email receipts without writing code
All I'm going to say is that even though it's awful The Ladders have all those tricks, they're successful.

Not saying the ends justify the means, but I wonder how their business would look otherwise.
Back then I also was working on a Facebook app, not only working but I even finished it. You were find restaurants in whole europe and book a table right from facebook inviting your friends and stuff. We were just kicking in the advertising machinery when we found out that one of our core features, messaging your friends (about that you got a table for all of you) wasn't allowed anymore. This was one of the main reasons our application never took of, the other was that FBML was really slow, so while I had a normal HTML view which rendered in perhaps 300 ms the roundtrip for FBML from the browser to a facebook server then to our server then back to facebook and finally to the browser always took more then two seconds.

But honestly, even if I was disappointed about all the fuckups we as developers had to deal with, as a user I am really happy about the fact that there are no attention claiming apps on Facebook, it is actually therefore I still use Facebook, in my free time as a normal user.
I'm interested in that, too.

I go out a lot (in my home town, and even more so in holidays), and I'd love to have an app to give me suggestions of events (special nights, museums, openings, and such).

Why was it a bad idea ? Have brandond and al. research the market ?
I hope the backlash isn't enough to force them to change it. I think people misrepresented the (mostly positive) changes to get some google hate blog views.
I think you can get the same box by clicking the + next to your tabs now, right?
http://www.cvca.ca/member_search.aspx
Help me pitch Sketcherize to a VC (analog-to-digital converter for sketches)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_(voting)
I'm a Python guy, and there's something in this, I think. One of Python's underrated virtues is how uncontroversial a lot of Python idioms are. The "only one way to do it" attitude helps there.

In my (limited, biased) experience, there's three camps among the Python community:

1. people who want principle-of-least-surprise: there's a lot to be said for boring languages (if the language is the most interesting thing about your product...). Often the systems engineering/service engineering crowd.

2. people who want it to be more functional – the Haskell/Scala/ML crowd. (I guess the overlap between camp 1 and camp 2 is Erlang...)

3. people who want access to the library ecosystem, particularly the Numpy/Scipy/Pandas/Theano stack (the scientific community, latterly data scientists). This is my tribe.

So you've got three crowds here, at least, unified by a language. Where are they going to head?

Go has nothing for the second crowd; they're all going to go to a purer FP language sooner or later. It doesn't have much for the third (no IPython, LAPACK bindings, Fortran bindings, stats libraries, machine learning, etc...); we all have an eye on Julia. But for the first: great deployment story, small language, decent standard libraries, markedly better performance than Python, much better parallelism story...
I don't see how the referenced bug (Open Office won't print on Tuesdays) is an example. That's just a weird bug. A Heisenberg is more along the lines of the bug not repro'ing because injecting the debugger rejiggered memory, that weird offset is no longer present, and the bug goes away. Timing issues and race conditions could be other examples.
> I'm pretty sure that Stallman would love a post-copyright world...

See http://rudd-o.com/monopolies-of-the-mind/thoughts-after-my-d...:

"Richard is against abolishing copyrights because, to his view, without copyright, enforcing copyleft would be impossible."
=) This assumes you have correctly defined what"it" is and does? Or what current is? Current isn't on tv.
The DOT has tons of rules over how you show prices and other data about flights. They want the customer to know everything about what they are about to choose and make it difficult for anyone to sneak something in. Plus our lawyers are so scared of fines they go overboard to follow every exact rule. The DOT also loves to change the rules or their interpretation whenever they feel like it so it's a moving target. You can make it perfect then they change the rules and you get fined anyway. This means anyone who does booking is always on the lookout for potential fine issues and this makes innovation impossible. If you don't book the rules are not as bad.

For example if we fail to show that a flight on one carrier is operated by a different one (very common for some routes) they can fine us tens of thousands for each one we get wrong. A very strong incentive to be careful!
On iTunes Connect, inside Manage Apps, you can access App Metadata and Transporter guides on the bottom. After reading them, I first looked up my app's current metadata, then removed all IAP info and added just the locales, version and description and then uploaded with Transporter. Line breaks were done with
I believe.
Changing / upgrading of a dedicated server by avoiding a unavailability
Lately, I spend my time setting up a new dedicated server after receiving a mail from my hosting company. Indeed, my contract will be interrupted. So, I have no choice to change my server. In order to have the least impact for websites hosted on old server, the best solution is to use an IP fail-over.
Not if you're making APIs, which is essentially what the entire platform is.

The "Move Fast and Break Things" attitude is fine when you're releasing a complete product. Look at Twitter or GMail. Google and Twitter change their interfaces pretty much constantly, and outside of a few hours or days of grumbling, pretty much everyone goes back to using the services.

But if you're providing functionality that other people are coding against, it's a cardinal sin to break your API without warning everyone. When making API's, slower and more monolithic releases is often a better approach. It not only gives your teams time to develop and test the features, but it also gives downstream users of your API time to absorb the changes.
Show HN: My First iPhone Game – can you beat it?
Let's not forget about disabling "Interest-based ads," for which there is no path to get to... other than going to a link in Safari. The link is oo.apple.com

This KB article explains the process. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4228

Interestingly, this launches some sort of stealth app, not a hidden page in the "Settings" app.

Also, there is another setting for including your location with iAd calls. That one is Settings > Privacy > Location Services > (Scroll all the way to the bottom, yes, past every single app that uses your location, about 35 in my case) > System Services > Location-Based iAds
Why are specific words highlighted in the post? I'm seeing words like "McNealy", "CEO's", etc. highlighted.
Ask HN: How often do people request refunds?
I've seen many services offering no questions asked money back guarantees, and I'm curious to know how often do people, in your experience, actually ask for refunds using them.
man let it go, i was in a similar position - wanted to do research/programming and was moved to IT as i was low on the totem and the group was given a new mission. I was promised a transfer to a different group/job but they never delivered so i left. Funny thing is that i'm back at the same place now (as an intern since i went back to school) and love it. If i would have held the grudge i would have missed the opportunities i have now. Things change, people change, and missions change, if you don't you'll be left behind.
If you happen to own a swimming pool, you can also try running the water from there to radiators in the attic, cooling the house and heating the pool.
Google Ordered to Respond to Net Neutrality Blocking Complaint
Most people are ignoring licenses, because most developers think they have won.

There is a generation of developers for whom software freedom is in the bones.

Why bother putting a license on code, or releasing code under compatible licenses -its all free and open.

This attitude may seem naive - but i see it as wondrous - any attempts to put the genie back in the box will not be met by court cases led by Lessig, but simple mass global disobedience - software is free when everyone simply thinks it is free.
Stop trying to make location based social networking happen
How do you feel when somoene is suggesting you not to do something. Most of the time success happens not because of logical reasons but belief and willpower. what do you think?
Brandond, would you care to give insight why the local event idea is bad ?
Has it really? It dropped significantly in the 60s and 70s. Following that period, it tended to track economic trends (Poverty goes up during recession, comes back down during the good times)

Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/11/p...
When you have a business relationship with a company and you have not told them to not email you, the email is not entirely unsolicited, and thus not spam.

If you gave them your e-mail address obviously for another purpose (for example, as an account ID, or to receive a confirmation message when your order is dispatched or your card is charged) and they then use it for general marketing then that's so clearly an abuse of trust that IMHO they deserve and should expect to be treated as a spammer.

As far as what the law says, here in Europe, you might get away with sending marketing to such addresses under PECR if you still collected the address at the time of a sale or in connection with a genuine sales enquiry. However, it's a fine line, and one mis-step in any of several conditions will put you the wrong side of the law. Also, the preceding comments relate to the specific EU anti-spamming regulations, but there are more general laws regarding harassment etc. in most jurisdictions as well.

There's a pretty simple test for your situation, really: if you want to send people marketing messages but aren't willing to ask their permission explicitly because you think they'll say no, your messages are probably spam and you're probably a spammer.
> Trademark law simply does not exist for cases like this. It exists to prevent genuine outright infringement.

The link steps through the decisions, and gives case law for the reason. Which step do you disagree with?

EDIT: The link says clearly that a well known mark gets more protection just because it is well known.
Where’s the Money in Home Sensors? (comparison chart)
Huge list of Angular JsFiddle examples
The Scientist - bringing scientific news on the go to your iPhone
Hi guys,

We developed an app for the iPhone (we named it "The Scientist"). Our aim was to create a crowdsourced scientific news reader, a daily reference of the science world, providing the best reading experience possible. The app continuously presents to users the most shared articles in a simple and accessible way to anyone that wants to be informed about the latest discoveries in the science world.

It's free to download on the app store - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-scientist/id657192313?l=en&mt=8

We would love some feedback from you please, that would allow us to improve the app further in future releases.
Yep, I think a lot of us have probably worked with a few NNPPs[1].

[1] - http://www.pyxisinc.com/NNPP_Article.pdf
I've read this three times now and I'm still not sure I get it...
Well that's the kinda the point of Dark Patterns? Companies use them because they work. They are unethical, but they achieve success (in the short term at least, sometimes long tem). This is why there is law, to level to play in field so the ethical groups can be not disadvantaged.
It's funny. I'm on the phone trying to reach a student loan representative right now. I keep pressing 1 for English, 4 for a student loan representative, 1 again for the type of loan, then I'm back to pressing 4 for a loan representative. It's an infinite loop!

I try hitting 0 for an operator but then I'm prompted to give a 4 digit extension for the party I want to reach.
Arguably that problem is worse with permissively licensed software. In that case you don't just have the original copyright holder peddling a proprietary uber-version, you have every company and his dog doing it and every version is expensive and/or incompatible with each other.
How do you feel when somoene is suggesting you not to do something. Most of the time success happens not because of logical reasons but belief and willpower. what do you think?
You were looking for the Rankine scale: 0°R = 0K, and n °F - (n-1) °F = m °R - (m-1) °R

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_scale
There’s an actual Dover Publications programming book that I really enjoy: "An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus" [1]. So far it’s been enlightening, and even though it’s a 1989 reprint it doesn’t feel all that aged except for some of the semantics used (e.g. ALL_CAPS variable/function names).

The bibliography at the end is also a nice history lesson and very useful if you want to dig deeper into specific topics/paradigms the book touches on.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486478831
Improving End User Experience with AngularJS
Hi guys,

We developed an app for the iPhone (we named it "The Scientist"). Our aim was to create a crowdsourced scientific news reader, a daily reference of the science world, providing the best reading experience possible. The app continuously presents to users the most shared articles in a simple and accessible way to anyone that wants to be informed about the latest discoveries in the science world.

It's free to download on the app store - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-scientist/id657192313?l=...

We would love some feedback from you please, that would allow us to improve the app further in future releases.

Thanks!
Good feature with redundant interface. Labels and such already appear down the left side. No need to waste more vertical space.
They should compare the transcripts...
So you trust the phone company more than the NSA - remind me again what over sight the phone companies have from the FCC?

The FCC is unable to actually regulate in some areas (ADSL for example)as states rights trump its ability to be an effective regulator.
And how does this solution achieve that better than putting the option in the Privacy menu, labelled "Disable unique identification (this may break some apps)"?
Radian = AngularJS + D3 + open source
Retrolambda: Use Java 8 Lambdas on Java 7
Did I time-warp into a Tony Robbins seminar, here?

People have unlimited potential?

We are all the same?

The impossible is possible?

There is a fine line separating rational optimism from potentially dangerous delusion, and your post crosses it.

Stick to science and knowledge. Our potential is finite, we all have very real differences (biological and otherwise), and "the impossible is possible" is an obvious contradiction that renders both terms meaningless, so you're really saying nothing at all.
The laundering is to mixmaster possibly traced coins with new untainted coins so you can cash out ponzi stolen funds or drug money safely. Some of these mixmaster services were charging ridiculous fees in the beginning, but yeah total speculation. Either way this guy is screwed and should've fled while he had the chance.
"Go ahead" was a button, and "I don't want this" was a plain link beside it.
> Somehow everyone decided that because their business model is based on advertising they should forget about good customer experience

Somehow everyone decided that even though companies were being annoying they would put up with it to get the service, and here we are.

My point is that complaining publicly while not changing your behavior is pointless. If enough people actually DID choose a social network that wasn't as aggressive in it's emails, not only would there then be more people on those networks, but the others would change as well.

> It's certainly not OK. Why not just have pop-ups all over your page, like the more old-school "advertising-based" websites did?

And what happened with that? People took action, and either avoided those sites or used blockers so they were ineffective. If it still worked we would see more of it.
Samsung launches consumer level 1 TB SSD with 540/520 MB/s read/write for $650
Love how great apps like this make it to the front page. This under-the-radar game deserves more attention! #downloaded
Azure is absolutely awesome for PaaS. They have libraries for both PHP and Ruby. The services that Azure provides make it really easy to autoscale, use messaging, storage and caching across multiple servers, and there are services for all kinds of stuff like sending push notifications to mobile devices, transcoding video, etc.

I think it's cheaper than IaaS on Azure, but I'm not sure. I never compared them that well. Fortunately there's a pricing calculator on azure.com.
The real counterweight is to release your code into the public domain, opting out of the copyright industry's game altogether. See http://unlicense.org/
My wife is currently being asked to do the same thing at one of the largest FInancial SERVices company in the US. I was surprised by this kind of bureaucracy but it's falling into perspective now.
Screencasts (at $10-30 per sale) and online training ($200-700 per seat) are the bulk of my such sales and I've had only a few refunds on mid 5 figure sales of both.

In every case it was because they bought it by accident or wanted to change to a different level. I don't believe I've had any people request refunds out of dissatisfaction or with no straightforward reason. But my audience is professional software developers so I'd expect the rates to be pretty low.
This myopic myth-busting of yours assumes that the number of patent applications remains unchanged regardless of how many are granted when in reality more granted patents fuels the fire of more applications. If the USPTO did the right thing and severely limited or even eliminated software patents there's no question that the number of applications, and thus the USPTO's overall budget and staffing levels, would decrease dramatically.
The definition of spam is simple: unsolicited bulk email

It doesn't matter if I have a business relationship with the company. A 'business relationship' is what keeps them from violating the laws related to spam, but it's still spam.

Only when I purposefully and explicitly tell a company to put me on a mailing list is it not spam. If I'm making an account for other purposes it's not the same thing. If I make a purchase it's definitely not the same thing.
Does Facebook even have any products or features with the "face-" prefix?
I hadn't seen "Miss" in a while, until I saw it in the OP. Very unprofessional, yes.
My game uses the same 6ef8f4a6 prefix. Please stop using this ASAP. Thanks.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. In addition to your comment it would be more interesting to see a visualization over the past 5000 years rather than the past 100 years. 100 years is a small sample given the context.