skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty interesting statistics. The one that caught my eye was that Mac App Store accounted for 1% of revenue. That seems low, but damning enough to discourage Mac game development in general? SBSS was out on iOS for a good while (it seemed) before the Mac port...it had a huge push of publicity and rave reviews, so I would suspect that everyone who was conceivably interested in the game got it for iOS. And the universe of people who have a Mac but not either an iPhone, iPod, or iPad, must be pretty small.

The Android numbers don't seem that different compared to other lopsided iOS vs Android sales statistics.
No offense but you failed miserably. If you were trying to reproduce the python code in Haskell, the example is not what you would write. This is a 1 liner in Haskell. The two examples do not represent the same thing.
Was a cleverly chosen publication day to be honest. I wouldn't be surprised if there's other bad news that we haven't even heard about that was completely blanked off the news by baby discussion.
That is what it was about, but didn't you notice it was written from the perspective that legalizing is bad because it's hurting this group of people? There's a significant dose of irony here.
If read their response you'd know you're dead wrong.

Tl;dr for you: e get several formats and because we underpay or temp workers sometimes we upload the wrong one to some region, but we try to fix it fast if someone complains.
A Modern Petzval Lens
WTF ??
My guess is that Mac users got it through Steam, not the Mac store.
Why I designed a front-end programming language from scratch
"Popular web app" implies a level of traffic - and thus demands at scale - that most other domains do not have. It's not the fact that someone was able to make a Haskell-based web-app popular that is indicative of much, but that the Haskell-based web-app stood up to popularity on the web that gives some reassurance and thus helps establish the maturity of the ecosystem.
Totally right as well.
Since they are charged a percent upstream, then they will have to pass that on to operate.

So I would imagine they could pass on the percent component of cost with no markup, and then charge a flat fee (ex: $1). I'm assuming they are never stuck with the bill in a fraud case. If they are, then the price should include that risk component as a percentage as well.
OP here. I went to Wright Plus (http://gowright.org/wp2013) this year. It was real interesting to walk around your neighborhood and seeing all of the houses there.

Whenever I travel around the US (sometimes the world) I feel that a lot of the construction of houses are the same. It was refreshing to see the way a lot of those houses were designed regardless if they were designed by FLW or not. I'm hoping the next house I live in can share that ethos.
It's standard. Have a look at New Zealand design awards though the 90s. Leaky building, untreated/poorly treated wood, complete environmental unsuitability etc. Careful what trends you follow.
I love the idea. It works like Bandcamp, but its for all type of files and it takes smaller cut (5% instead of 10%).

Well done.
Growth Hacking with Infographics
Wouldn't we close the achievement gap as effectively by jailing the affluent parents as by jailing their kids? And the parents are grown-ups and expect to suffer. The kids could be spared their illusions for a few more years.

I would prefer to define as evil the urge to take an institution that more or less works sometimes, namely school, and make it an all-purpose institution for child care and social amelioration. Am I in favor of summer school for those who could use it? Sure. Am I in favor of summer school for all because some need it? No.
The % model would indeed work better with a low volume sales. So, if I wanted to distribute a file just once or twice, then this would work, since I end up paying just 50c (if the price of the digital goods were $10) instead of a fixed price for the subscription.

But if someone intends to sell several hundreds of copies, or the price is bigger (say, 5% of $10,000), then it is not a good deal.

So, I really only see the target audience as someone that must have DropBox integration (though other services also have integration with your webserver, and mounting a DropBox folder and exposing that through the webserver seems trivial), or maybe people with such a dispersion of files that the other services won't work (they allow you a fixed number of products).
Neil Gaiman would like to introduce you to Wayward Manor
You should not ever have to debug generated code. That's what source-maps are for.
If this is not a reason for government backed Open Source hardware I don't know what is. If you know the hardware design you can check it

And I am willing to bet there is a way to take a circuit "fingerprint"
Just lean back and enjoy the view :-)
I've been at a large web company where this feature provided a non-trivial bump in conversion.
You seem to claim both that Republicans are radicalized to the point of being unelectable (clearly wrong on the facts, as Republicans control the House and the difference between Obama and Romney vote results was not nearly large enough to deem Republicans "unelectable") and that both parties converge to the point of being indistinguishable. It seems to be pretty hard to reconcile both claims. Fortunately, if you look at the facts both appear to be wrong - Republicans are not more "radical" than they ever were unless you define "radical" as "disagreeing with a point of view I happen to support", they are plenty electable and the differences in parties' approaches can be clearly seen, even though important questions are not always divided along the party lines. For example, among people who favor expansion of government there are many Democrats and many Republicans, though they support it for very different tactical reasons probably.
oooh so dirty, i like it
The big distorting effect here was that it was available for a long time on iOS before other platforms -- if you wanted the game, initially you had no choice other than iOS. And despite it being significantly more enjoyable on a touch screen, it was ported to Android last out of all the platforms supported.

Anyone know of a major game that had simultaneous releases on both Android and iOS at the same price?

e: Oh, another factor: it was available through the Humble Bundle on Android before it was in the Play store.

I guess I should also mention that it's a pretty fun game. :)
Unfortunately this is broken just like all other attempts I've ever seen.

If this is true: http://i.snag.gy/RSwiG.jpg

Then explain why the e-mail is arriving: http://i.snag.gy/gWPn5.jpg

Sure this is an extreme edge-case, but this was my second test. Who knows what else it rejects. Actually, why do we validate email addresses anyway? Whynot just try and send that validation email that you're going to send anyway? And on top of that, why would I ever trust a free third party service to check all my user's addresses?
iOS has exponential backoff, Android does not.
Hacker News makes for a really good comment section.
Cool service! I spent a few months researching and writing an article about self-driving cars. I'm selling my research for $1 just as an experiment.

https://sellboxhq.com/l/A6KW/How-Google-Cars-Will-Change-Com...
That was fun. Now I feel like making such a "programming puzzle game" myself.
I jumped on this right away and still have not seen even acknowledgement of my identity documents. Has anyone else had success getting this working?
Hey russ,
Yeah, I know you couldn't on gmail or yahoo, but I didn't know that you are using domain specific rules. Thats great!
A flat fee per file seems to make the most sense, since their operation costs are per transaction. They should just figure out how much it costs them per transaction, then bake in a percent of their startup costs to reach the black in a reasonable time and use that as a flat fee. I can't see a justification for a percentage approach, its the same amount of work either way on their end.
Really, you should try it sometime. Or at least take the ignorant nonsense to reddit where it belongs.

I've read the papers and I've tried a bit of Haskell. I write lots of C++ too. I've tried different flavours of typing. I still prefer dynamic, strong-typing any day. Common Lisp or Python generally do the trick.

And I've been programming for > 10 years. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't assume I'm an ignorant dumbass because I don't agree with you.

And my point was that is exactly what happened with both me and my wife.

Does not imply it's true for everyone. Maybe I should quantify that my original point with most web developers using existing technologies aren't going to hop over to Haskell because of state transformation and combinator monads and strong typing.
Recognize an unknown serial usb device
His example is intentionally contrived to show a minimal example of StateT. This is who you'd really do it in Haskell:

for strings:

main = repl ""

repl :: String -> IO ()
repl a = getLine >>= \c -> print (a++c) >> repl (a++c)

and it's not that much harder for Ints

main = repl 0

repl :: Int -> IO ()
repl a = fmap read getLine >>= \b -> print (a+b) >> repl (a+b)

or using do notation

repl a = do $
b <- getLine
print sum
repl sum
where
sum = a + read b

which is still concise and easy to read.
Which defeats the whole point of trying to secure your data.
If weed is legalized nationally and this phenomenon in SF is observed in other places, it might get people to start thinking about whether the war on drugs is effective in general, in which case other relatively harmless drugs like LSD would be next in line.

Ha! Just kidding, as if people used reason when thinking about political issues! No, the question is really whether tribal forces will drift in the direction of ending prohibition in general. Superficially, it will appear to be reasoned arguments swaying public opinion, but the true nature of the beast is betrayed by its slowness.

In any case, the problems with them switching to selling LSD are that the demand isn't anywhere near as high, and that producing it requires a fair bit more education than reading about gardening on the internet and then growing some plants in your closet.
Actually from what little I know, Sonoma County isn't really part of the main weed growing region:

"The Emerald Triangle refers to a region in Northern California so named because it is the largest cannabis producing region in the United States. Mendocino County, Humboldt County, and Trinity County are the three counties in Northern California that make up this region."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Triangle
Ah, yes, maximizing profit for the owners at the expense of laborers. This has never happened before. I'll argue that the money saved could also be used to fund further automation of the labor that is one of their largest annual expenses.

Typically when people espouse the want to "change the world" it is for the betterment of humanity; though it is interesting that you identify with the sentiment.
Decriminalizing all mainstream drugs (PCP, etc. probably don't matter since there is limited demand, but anything where there's enough demand should be decriminalized, and you may as well do everything) would reduce profits for the narcos, which would make them less potent. They'd probably switch to cigarettes and counterfeit goods and other tax or regulation evasion operations, but those are much less profitable.
The legalization argument has strong undertones of free-market, common-sense economics to it. Solutions where government gets out of the way are not typically favored by government.

To modify your point:

Better question: why does $_GOVERNMENT so frequently think the right answer to a problem is $_GOVERNMENT_ACTION?

Examples include: $_HUGE_SPENDING_PROGRAM, $_HUGE_SOCIAL_WELFARE_PROGRAM, taxpayer-funded bailout of $_INDUSTRY, massive new regulations for $_INDUSTRY, price controls on $_PRODUCT, etc.

Maybe it's simply the general distrust of the individual and free markets by those in government, combined with voters who believe what politicians promise regarding that same government.
Is giving 5% equity to a UI/UX designer a good decision?
What do you guys think?
That's the genius of it, you see.
Great implementation!
This view is much more usable than the official one. Thanks!
you just made me miss all the great architecture that I had the privilege of being around when I was in grad school (was at the "other" school for a year).

Gloucester Cathedral reminds me of the Fungus Forests from the Nausicca animated film: https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=nausicca%20fo...
I wasn't super diligent in keeping analytics for my website, but each app would have maybe 1 click every 2-3 days, and the big blue button I used to have for all of my apps had about 5 per day. Overall, very little traffic from my website. It was mostly about less work for maintenance when I built new apps.

You probably already know, but for the benefit of everyone else: if you're advertising an app, when you create a new ad, make sure to select "App / digital content ad" and then "App promotion ad". It will do all of the OS targeting for you and pull in your app icon, name, and URL automatically.
As someone who has a defibrillator with remote-access capabilities, I'm thankful that Jack was trying to bring this vulnerability to light.
I was curious about the super lopsided iOS and Android numbers, as we were discussing these stats earlier in the office, and it seems like Android wouldn't be worth investing in based on these stats alone.

However, the iOS version was released over two years ago (March 24, 2011 on iPad and April 27, 2011 on iPhone) while the Android version was released in November 2012.

I was wondering if these numbers are standard, or is availability the main issue here? Or something else that I haven't thought of?
Are you from Yo Dawg Industries?
> I don't think that's necessary nor ethically justified

Let's say there was a fictional country that was the exact opposite of your country : Some kind of dictatorship, with censorship everywhere, people enslaved , etc.

Of course you would not buy a laptop from them, you don't want to give more money/power to this awful country.

Now, if you consider 1 country to be the best, with a score of 100, and that worst country to have a score of 0.

Every other country would have a score between 0 and 100.

Depending on people views about where this country fits , some will be more supporting than other : They would be OK to pay 20% more for the same laptop to a country with a score of 95 instead of 80.

The analogy with the coffee shop of JonFish85 would be : you know your brother is kind with his employees and give them good salaries, whereas the other coffee shop's owner harass his employees and pay them badly. But in both coffee shops , the product is the same, with the same price.

>Ironically, the only way those poor countries will have labour/environment standards, human rights and civil liberties is throug economic growth. If you're poor, you can't afford workplace safety.

Not really, if some company has twice more money, they would just hire more low-cost employees.
To have a better workplace safety, either the employees must act, or citizens of that country ( including the employees ) assuming the country is a good democracy. If none of them can, other country can help solve the problem by boycotting products or enforcing regulations.
Is my domain registrar storing my password in cleartext?
> I feel like if we legalized heroin, we'd have junkies all over the place running around stealing whatever isn't bolted down just to get the next high.

Diacetylmorphine, brand name Heroin, costs about $0.25 a day, or $1 per day for the pharmacy grade injectable version.

Junkies are called that because the original Heroin addicts wandered around trading junk, bits of scrap and garbage that could be sold to junk traders to get the pennies it took to support their habit.

The present high price of Heroin is a deliberate policy decision. It's a transfer payment from your stolen TV to the drug cartels, in much the same way that Social Security is a transfer payment from your employer to your grandma.
Avoid the Series A Crunch by customerstrapping your company
I'm going to come up with a free password validation API for web forms. Just call my API with your username and password and the service it's used for and i'll return 200 OK status if it's a secure password.
> The Android numbers don't seem that different compared to other lopsided iOS vs Android sales statistics.

Interesting how 77% of Android purchases were made when the app went on sale, versus 14% for iOS. Other articles mention how Android users favor ad-supported free apps above the ad-free $0.99 model.

Personally, the last thing I want to see when playing a game is a disruptive banner ad flashing at the top of screen. Not just games - it's ugly and tacky in just about any app.
That plus the fact that Android tablets aren't really used and the game is much better on a tablet than a phone.
There are people in the USA who have no idea who the president is.
Actually I think you've got the name spot on, I had the wrong term. What I was looking for was confirmation email, not validation.

And yes, your service is a pretty big step up from regular validation regexps. I didn't see the value in that before, but that's my own fault. I now see there's a lot of potential for a service like this, and I hope it's put to good use.
Why Are Some People So Smart? Answer Could Spawn a Generation of Superbabies
But no validation in the world will catch that. Only a round-trip email would.

EDIT: I was wrong. Interesting.
The two ways visitors register for a product
Startups Shouldn't Be Afraid of Marketing
Coursera is the only one of these bigger MOOC sites (edX, Udacity, even Udemy) I have yet to try a course from but that is going to change soon because they are offering Constitutional Law with Akhil Reed Amar from Yale and even though I already graduated from law school, I'm interested to see what an online con law class looks like (and of that supposed caliber).
And why exactly can't that be made part of an existing library?
It's my understanding that LSD production is far more complex and resource intensive than growing marijuana.
Why are you having multiple threads share 'total' at all?
Frankly the two aren't equivalent in behavior. So of course the python version is simpler, it does less. The Haskell code equivalent to your python version is almost as trivial.

repl :: Int -> IO()
repl state = do
val <- readLn
print ("Total: " ++ (show (val + state)))
repl (val + state)

main = repl 0
Actually without knowing the autopsy results it is the opposite - very suspicious. 35 years old people don't just die at home. Let's hope the results will not be that he died of some kind of drug "overdose".
Not sure about web applications, but Pandoc [1], git-annex [2], and xmonad [3] are a few examples of successful, reasonably-sized applications written in Haskell. It's definitely worth browsing through their code if you want some examples of idiomatic Haskell in a practical context.

[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

[2] http://git-annex.branchable.com/

[3] http://xmonad.org/
This is why I buy.
AnyPerk (YC W12) Taking the Employee Perks Space by Storm
If your argument is that it's better to be explicit with sharing, then why would you want to use threads that implicitly share 'total'?
Permissions is the reason why I do not have Facebook installed (specifically the GPS).
too long... ?
okay, fair point. i missed that about the parent.
Yeah I've often wondered if this would be an effective way of stealing domains.

On a side note, does anyone know if Kirsty and Robert still work at ycombinator? No reason.

edit: Ooh, it looks like YC's address info is incorrect on one of their whois entries. Are they at 32 or 320 Pioneer Way? And those phone numbers are completely wrong too.
These slides are practically unreadable in an iPhone. They are split in half and it's impossible to get a full page on the screen (I can only see the right half of the previous slide and the left half of the next slide).

Anybody has an alternative to read these slides? The content itself seems quite interesting
I was talking about my audio only version. ChromeCast is made for TVs
Yandex co-founder Llya Segalovich dies suddenly at 48
I should have said "Excel can only talk OLAP to SQL Server". It can talk ODBC/OLEDB to many databases.
Challenges to DVDs Outnumber Those to Books in Canadian Libraries
We're a bootstrapped indy app shop with a few iOS apps that are making over the $1k/month threshold. We focus on making great apps for kids of all ages, and we've worked hard over 4 years to build a base of loyal parents and kids. I wish there were some secret sauce we had to share, but it's a lot of the basics that have worked for us:

- build great products

- find ways to effectively cross-sell to your users

- go above and beyond in responding to support inquiries

- track, test and optimize your marketing spend

- enhance and refine the apps that get traction in the market

In our experience, it's also not quite as simple as IAP vs No IAP or Ads vs No Ads. We've had paid apps hit the $1k/month threshold, and we've had paid apps fail to do so. Same with IAP. Same with ads. The overall market seems to be moving full speed ahead towards a freemium model, but there's still the opportunity to get traction with a niche audience and have a paid app pull in over $1k/month.

Happy to answer any follow-up/detailed questions, email is in my profile.
Computer Vision for Wound and Skin Lesion Measurement
I came looking for a Linux/Windows/OSX breakdown. I was disappointed.
> If they've an assistant who does this for them then that assistant shouldn't have to divulge personal reasons on his or her employer's behalf.

Well in my experience, you're not forced to divulge anything. You're just asked a couple of questions, and they do try to change their service (within reason) so that you won't leave. But if your heart is set on leaving, and you don't really want to interact... you can just say so, and they'll let you go albeit with a sad sound to their voice.
Essentially all distributed dense linear algebra libraries are built on top of sequential dense linear algebra libraries (mine as well, but on the interface rather than the implementation). Distributed libraries are at least an order of magnitude more complex than their sequential counterparts.
The source code is here:
https://github.com/lnanek/WoundRuler

Ideas and suggestions welcome!
Before prohibition, dextroamphetamine was vastly more popular than methamphetamine. I'd love to see a return to the good old days of dextroamphetamine in every corner store. It would save so many people from meth and coke.
I contacted them directly.