skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly the user interface and visual design could use a lot of work, and I think improving this would make thie biggest difference in your results. At least for me, poor design of a page makes me assume that
A. Relatively little time and effort has been put into its creation
B. It may not be widely used
C. It may not even be actively maintained

In short, for better or for worse, for me UI is an instant indicator of how seriously I should take a site and how much time I should invest in it (when there are plenty other options to check out in that space)
The 60 day payment window was added in phase 2
I'm fond of occasionally leaving my laptop at work. It pretty effectively enforces no-internet (for the most part - still have phone) for the night.
"Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hideous"

>Could we please change the headline? No need to scream in HN headlines.

Don't blame the mirror when you see the reality of who you truly are.
That was brilliant, there's also a cartoon: http://chrisdone.com/posts/monads-are-burritos
Running ArangoDB on RaspberryPi
Huawei's K3v2...
no!!! i loved their service :O
I will share my experience working with both Platforms.

TL:DR; Non programmers should use Wordpress

When you are working in a small team of developers, and each one can "hack the code" Octopress is a natural environment.
You can host it on AWS S3 or Github pages and the setup is simple.

But when your marketing fellows start using it, Octopress is usually too complicated for them. Wordpress is more non-programmer friendly. And it has much more plugins and extensions.

Too summarize it: IMHO, Wordpress would be a better solution, unless you don't plan to hire marketers.
Ask HN: Will hardcore gaming ever be possible on mobile?
A fuck up of Apple Maps proportions. I disagree. Maps is so far down the list of things that are critical to Apple, but Office is either number 1 or 2 for Microsoft. And how many products does Microsoft make money on? Apple doesnt make much from Maps.
What... did they do?
> $300 MSRP is a just a little ridiculous

Is it? Sounds pretty normal to me. Belkin is a pretty good brand and charges accordingly. Like Apple, really.

I think that for their target market $300 won't be a barrier at all. In fact after checking it out I'm pretty tempted...
Net Neutrality was a reaction to a plan by ISPs to double-dip, charging both their subscribers and the businesses who use them. It was formed back in the days when the telcos first put forth a plan via which they would, in effect, charge for a lot of services they don't actually provide.

While people have come up with a lot of their own ideas since then, the "no servers" clause has been widespread for ages and predates Net Neutrality significantly.

In other words, you could very well fit it under "reasonable network management."
how is this wildly different than evernote? is it support of multiple types of documents (spreadsheets etc)? i was looking at the bullets under "what quip does differently", and i feel like evernote addresses all of those things. what am i missing?
> What have I said that suggests "MIT is not to blame for very much at all"? My comments have dealt with factual issues; I don't see where I advanced any opinions on MIT's deserved level of blame.

My comment should have been a question, let me put it explicitly: What is your personal opinion on MIT's deserved level of blame?
You can change tha app's name from within the app?
FYI, default minimum transaction fee is 0.0001 BTC in current version, or about $0.01.
Strangely enough, for me this is the real discussion. I think it speaks to the extent we are miscommunicating here.

> It's unscientific if I can't propose a buildable test at all, but it doesn't matter if the test can be built in 2013.

I agree that this is a better definition. I am unable to propose a buildable test that determines whether our brains have neurons dedicated specifically to cognitive processing and willpower and moreover that these functions draw separately from the same pool of processing resources. Perhaps neuroscience will get us there in the future.
We can use the exact same approach used in the bit reversal trick of the article:

((x * 0x01010101) & 0xC0300C03) % 1023

This is probably not gonna be faster than the naive approach, though.
from this URL that is still live, I gather it is kind of like Evernote: https://catch.com/learn-more/why/
Android is Samsung - more than Google. With its market power Samsung can now dictate terms.
Thanks! Why though would people click on the ad which is clearly about stocks, if they don't want a stocks app?

It's difficult for me to understand this.
> disgusting lie

Is a little extreme. This is what companies do in the computer biz. Nvidia, ATI have been doing this BS for decades now. As cscheid said it's quack.exe all over again.

If they just gave the user the option to enable this performance tweak for games, I wouldn't mind. The problem is it's only enabled for benchmarks.
sooo... trello meets google docs?
I don't understand why do all (and I mean ALL) screenshots have to be on an Apple device? Are you selling iPads or iPhones? Shouldn't your focus be on your product and not on Apple's product?

Perhaps in the beginning somebody could be fooled that if you like awesome Apple products your product will be awesome as well. Or that because iThingies near perfection your service is also going to be highly polished. Obviously, that is more often false than true - you're a damn startup and the products on the screenshots are sometimes little more than MVPs (not in this case, I guess).

What is wrong with just a screenshot?
One of the problems I have with word is that the paper paradigms still dominate everything there.

An word processor that is more rooted in the digital age have a fair shot if executed correctly.
They caught things. I'm not sure what but apparently those things did not include "on".
"However, I think this article goes wrong because it doesn't consider the purest case of collaborative F/OSS software:

The case where nobody meets, and everyone is anonymous - It's much easier for socio-normative forces to affect people if they are not interacting socially."

I agree, and I posted a question in the article comments asking how the author would characterize communities like Github where many users see it more as a practical resource for teamwork and access to useful libraries, etc., rather than a product of the idealism surrounding F/OSS (although they are certainly connected).
Lessons from Dropbox - One Million Files Saved Every 15 minutes (2011)
Meanwhile, in Europe, RIPE ran out of IPv4 a year ago[1], and people have been happily implementing IPv6 ever since. In Sweden, there is a government directive[2] that all state infrastructure should implement IPv6 and DNSSEC by this year (2013) at the latest.

1) https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion

2) http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/15234/a/177127
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic. I'd bet a lot.
Migration Plan to Warehouse, a re-implementation of PyPI
So if I fork Bitcoin by changing the hashing algorithm and tweaking a parameter, am I suddenly a
"creator" too? Get real. This is an insult to Satoshi Nakamoto.
I know this thread is getting reeeally long but I want to say that it bums me out as well. I ain't no karma whore but I do become a sad panda when the clock runs backwards and not forwards. I've self-censored on numerous occasions because I felt that I'd take a hit -- usually wisecracks, I'm a lot more jokey in real life and on other forums.

I've never used Reddit. I don't know if I want HN to turn into a kind of Reddit. I thought HN would self-limit because the type and level of discourse. If people feel that the politics stuff has gotten out of hand (I still would maintain that it has not, just that in fairness the Snowden thing is pretty big news) then maybe we could implement a technical solution. Like tagging. Then you could have a list of donotshowtags [politics, religion, kitten(s), ...] If a story contains a tag in your list it is hidden.
Does anyone know what happened? I found catch to be quite preferable to evernote (simpler, less permissions, cleaner interface on mobile).
It would also be completely useless, as implementing the reassignment would dwarf the cost of moving to IPv6.
How your website looks when accessed over my 3G connection:

http://imgur.com/fD2dC7f

Annoyingly, all your images are loaded first (and judging from the load times, they're not that small).
Doesn't look as nice. Apple sells. You don't reinvent the wheel when it's running well.
It means absolutely nothing. As the first sentence of the article says, "a comparison like that does not make any sense".

US student debt is ridiculous, but comparing it to the external debt of an export-heavy sovereign doesn't help anyone's understanding. It only perpetuates magical thinking.
The death of privacy in open-plan offices
Highs and lows balance.

http://biblehub.com/proverbs/30-8.htm

----

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\Words\AUGUST.TXT

should it be known by the
thing enlightened, and changeable. Therefore is my soul like a land
where no water is, because as it cannot of itself enlighten itself, so
can it not of itself satisfy itself. For so is the fountain of life
with Thee, like as in Thy light we shall see light.

Who gathered the embittered together into one society? For they have
all one end, a temporal and earthly felicity, for attaining whereof
they do all things, though they waver up and down with an
innumerable variet

-----

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commiserates Perish conjecture evincing passages joyfulness
watered death- suspense evidence I_could_be_wrong bribe
hark whoever flying thereupon Brazil spectator Church
condemned either delight bless gate provest enquiringly
recesses Had edition Senators vanquished renewed indicated
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I wish developers would experiment with new ways of "typing" on touch-screen devices. And I put typing in quotes because maybe writing on touch-screen devices should take on a new form. This "disruptive shift" would not be complete without a better way of working on tablet.
Or running recompiled version of any LOB internal apps. They should have just made it proper windows and it could have been a hit.
The project for that is here:
https://github.com/bslatkin/dpxdt
Good find, it looks like you're right, essentially another collaborative to-do app (note, visit the link yourself, I am grossly oversimplifying)

I really wonder why they are shutting down. This kind of service doesn't seem like it would take a lot to run, and even less so if they didn't have enough users
Aiding the enemy would have been the "show trial" result.
Still hundreds of years in jail is still not an encouragement to the next Manning or Anowden
No, I don't think so. Kicking the can down the road doesn't help much, the longer you kick it the more people say "Whatever, they'll keep putting this off for at least a decade, let's just drop IPv6 from Linux 3.2 and put it back in Linux 4.0" and then where are you.

IPv6 isn't going to just magically happen if you don't make it happen.
Moral of the story DO NOT SUE YOUR STUDENTS.
For crying out lout TALK with them first.

The other lesson is we can all trust the USA to not kill a person (indirectly and unwillingly but still dead non the less) when people commit minor crimes, and don't even cause significant financial losses.
The question the web answers is "Why wasn't I consulted?" (2011)
The signup process is totally screwed up, in an infinity loop kind of way.

I signup: email, name, password. Sends me a confirmation email. I click on confirmation link. Sends me again to the same signup page, only this time the fields are completed. The only available next step is to click on "Next" again, and the email verification is sent again, sending me to the same completed fields page...

It happens on both web and iOS. I guess I'll have to stick with Google Docs and Pages.
5th U.S. circuit court of appeals says no warrant needed for cellphone info
That's just what I thought, looks more like an Apple product page. I'm also surprised that there is no single desktop screenshot. Maybe I'm getting old, but that's where all my word processing happens, not on tiny touch screens.
Nvidia  Shield Review: At the Crossroads of PC and Mobile Gaming
I don't get why a word-processing app (which is mainly what Quip wants to do, if I got that right) would need my email address as a _base_ feature. If collaboration and sharing and social and the like (the last one of which is a huge red flag for me) are an _optional_ feature of a word processor, thats fine. But as a basic requirement for usage? I'd rather not have that.
You See Snapchat as Sexting and a Fad. I See the Future
What are you referring to by 'new platform'? ARM?
No, that part is already solved. That's what containers do.

I believe philips is saying that CoreOS is still experimenting with and reifying exactly what the layer above containerized applications should be composed of and look like.
I definetely get what OP was trying to say. Bret presented something that sounds a lot like the future even though it definitely isn't. Some of listed alternatives like direct data manipulation, or visual languages or non-text languages have MAJOR deficiences and stumbling blocks that prevented them from achieving dominance. Though in some cases it basically does boil down to which is cheaper, more familiar.
I was one of their happy users.

Clean interface, working sharing etc.

I also have an everyone account but preferred catch.
I would say it has moved great deal from there. And even if it is not good enough yet keep an eye on it - the pace of improvement is incredible from what I see.

(only hobbyist android development here)
Short answer : no
The comparison is not done for the sake of drawing any conclusion about China debt, it was just to "visualize" how big the debt is. I guess the author could have compared it with the value of total beer production in the world in the last decade, but comparing this debt with the debt of the biggest country in the world gives better impression how big the debt is, at least to someone that thinks there are to many zeroes there.

EDIT: s/depth/debt/g ;)
> Tell me, what is less effort: Implementing that, or building a small app/service that performs the functionality you need using existing tools?

I think it depends on your use case. In certain cases, you want to do work inline. In other cases, you want to do PS manipulation in the background. I could imagine projects that go in either direction. If I had a large Python desktop application, I'd port the code. If I had a Django application that wanted to do background processing of PS documents, I'd put the work on a queue and have Ruby take care of the messy bits.

> Also I'd consider the suitability of a given technology before this too, e.g. on my current project there is a lot of Ruby code, but it's a major bottleneck in one of our services performing a particular task. We rewrote that service in Clojure and it performs orders of magnitude faster and uses orders of magnitude less memory.

I take a different approach. If I find a bottleneck in Python code, I use ctypes or write a C extension. I'd do the same thing in Ruby. I'm hesitant to deploy multiple runtimes, since I worry about security updates, etc. If I were on JRuby, Clojure would be a natural fit -- I'd only be deploying one JVM.
Because $1.99 for the Word-killer is not a business.
New headline: My car loan is more than the net external debt of Norway (which is negative).
> As you can plainly see, the TOX logo was created from scratch ... the TOX logo concept was arrived upon totally independently of your logo

It is far from obvious. Linked posts show how they were stomping around a simpler logo for a long time busy with minor adjustments until someone posted a much improved logo, which just happened to be almost identical to the OP's. That was not an evolution.

But even that aside, you are viewing this situation all wrong. "Legalities", "legal ground to stand on", etc. The way Tox handled this is nothing short of peeing in a community pool. How do you envision Tox replacing Skype if the project leadership can't handle a simple dispute over a logo in a civilized manner? Look at latitude's creds, they should be wanting him on their side, but, no, let's mix him with a barrel of shit, because he dared to suggest that /gd/ might've ripped his work. Right on.
It would have taken a lot of convincing to switch me off Google Docs in the first place.
Or how about the more straightforward: "Cherry-picking statistics for fun and profit"
If you email me your account information ( powera@quip.com ) I can investigate this.
Yet another company making Android a second class citizen? Pass. When you send me that message early, all I can say is thanks. I know I will be disappointed because other devices are a priority. At least you are honest.
Not so simple -- if it means you are better able to support your market, features are faster to develop, etc, there may be a net benefit. Hell, if dropping Gingerbread support raises your average review from 4 to 5 stars, you might be in the black.
I'd guess that they wanted to say "Stripe for Android"; but didnt want to mention Stripe, so ended up suggesting that.
Also note that he was consuming nutritional yeast & vitamins which may have offset a small part of his energy use.
I rather prefer the idea of unplugging from the internet once a week. Some of my best hackings have been done without internet access. Aboard a flight comes to mind. Just me, vim and the terminal. But then of course, either a deep knowledge of the technologies at hand or a good offline documentation is mandatory.

As for winding down, for me two things suffice: exercising and socializing. During the week an hour-long religious barbell lifting session a la Mark Rippetoe is greatly savored by my mind (I find that tiring my body replenishes my brain) and on the weekends hanging out with friends.
Great stuff. Never easy tackling such an entrenced market.

I have a few suggestions though as someone that not only actively uses Google Docs but practically forces people I work with to do so too.

1. How do I make this appear in my existin Google Docs folder? I really do not want to have another place for my documents.

2. The pricing of Google Docs makes it really hard to beat. How does quip plan to fight that?

3. Still early days but people create different types of docs e.g Spreadsheets and slides for the same projects. How does it work with them without putting one type of doc in a differnt location from another? Especially when they are fr the same project?

4. My biggest issue when using Google Docs is that of formatting. The format does not play well with Word (we have to accept Word I'd boss for now and a monster number of people still use it ). Does the formatting work well with Word?

From my very limited knowledge, I have a few suggestions

1. Be the best at something and come inthrough the flanks. E.g the best way to edit your DropBox documents (I actually thought Dropbox would have launched a document processor by now). Coming through the flanks will remove the weight of expextation and at the same time allow people to

2. integrate you into an existing workflow for a large number of people. Eg. Sync with Google Doc.

3. Understandably, 17million is not a lot these days so you need to start earning money. But consider almost everyone will already have away of processing docs. I would find it hard to pay for something I have already paid to do. And does far much more work for me. You need people to start geting used to you and your pricing will limit adoption

The above is my feedback. I am sure you must have thought of it and more. I wish you all the best.
We've actually solved this and will be launching in about a week. We've been working on it for over a year now.

It runs inside Photoshop (there is no upload stage nor do you have to open up separate software) and it generates HTML and CSS that looks like a designer wrote it and slices up all your images. It also outputs LESS, SASS, HAML, Slim, Jade and I think there are some other formats I may be forgetting.

Text is output as text. If you use a Google font, it automatically links the fonts in for you.

It does not use absolute positioning so if you modify things like text and it grows taller or shrinks shorter, other items will be positioned properly (initially we did it with absolute positioning but later I figured out an algorithm to make it work the way it should, even with overlapping elements).

It's definitely not an easy problem to solve (hence why we've been working on it for over a year although not full time).

We've done some outputs now and the results are amazing.

I would link you to the website but it looks so bad right now that I don't want to show it. Anyways, we will launch in about a week so look for an announcement. If you have any questions about it, please leave a comment.

Sunny
Unstability is my new startup name.

Seriously, though, this kind of work ethic is terrible. You need to give your brain room to be creative. Your work will be better for it.
It is absolutely how landlines work in the USA.
They aren't trying to stop the FOIA request. They are intervenening to review it.
Who cares about the gimmicks?

Samsung galaxy s phones have generally good hardware compared to the competition as well as a few really important hardware features which their competitors don't have (all of the features at once, that is): 4g lte support, a removable battery, and (for me the deal(maker||breaker)) an SD card slot. Those aren't just gimmicks. They're real differences. Many people like me really care.

I couldn't care less about the default software - there are a wide range of roms which address most (unfortunately not all for super picky people like myself) issues you might have.
Maybe I should expand about why LaTeX is so important to me. I use it as my main text processor, not only because it produces nice maths. It allows to abstractly structure a document (e.g. by defining environments that give meaning to a paragraph, like summary, conclusion, proposal etc), it allows you to define new commands (like functions), variables, conditionals and much more. For me, LaTeX is something in between writing and programming, where content is strictly separated from the layout. That's why I especially like to use it for any creative activity, where a lot of ideas are floating around, which can not (yet) be forced into a consistent document. And alone the possibility to add comments in the source is indispensable.
$300 is about 3 times what it should be, in my opinion. It's not much more than a fancy USB hub with audio & a NIC. USB 3.0 hubs with NICs are about $50-60, or one could easily use a regular USB 3.0 hub and attach a USB NIC, sound card, etc. Perhaps not as clean but a hell of a lot cheaper.

Even worse, the price is not really $300 - in order to use it, you'll need a thunderbolt cable which is nearly $40 (!).

There are few to no storage solutions that can benefit from thunderbolt over USB 3.0 and the whole ecosystem reeks of greed and vendor lock-in. No, thanks.
It took me a long time to figure out why I loved working out so much. I didn't realize that it wasn't just the endorphins, it was because I didn't have my damn iPhone with me.

I now make sure to go off the grid for at least an hour a day, usually by going to the gym. No matter how much work I have, or how busy I am. Easily the most relaxing hour of the day, every day.

What's funny is, by the 55-minute mark, I usually start to get excited/antsy about all the emails/texts I must have waiting for me and all the people out there in the world that have been anxiously awaiting my return - 7 archived junk emails and a Snapchat later, it's usually like I was never gone.

I love technology, and I love my computer and phone to death, but I love them more after consistent unplugging.
What I learned pretending to be homeless (2011)