skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have several of the pay-for-use productivity apps mentioned, and my experience was like the parent comment said. Initially got the app to fix a problem (content creation/editing is difficult on an all-touch device). But just fooled around a little and never really got engaged. I still do that stuff on my laptop.

My take-away was that I wanted precise pointing and a keyboard and a big screen for those tasks, because I'm fussy about the results.

But like a lot of the HN audience, I'm not very typical, so my experience may mean little ;-).

Regarding payment model, payment wasn't the issue. It was functionality.
It won't shut down, it will just bill you at a rate of 10 cents for each additional minute used. I usually keep some extra money in my T-Mobile balance so this has never been an issue on the rare occasions I go over 100 minutes.
A lot of people do this.
Does a jellybean part just mean its very common?
Not with a modern browser with SNI. This transmits the host name in the initial unencrypted portion of the SSL connection.
Tea tree, Manuka, is so great. Grows fast, looks good, smells great, makes excellent fire wood and the honey is showing more and more interesting properties. I need to buy a few more!
That's not offensive to programmers.

"Compiler? I don't even know her!"

... that's offensive to programmers.
Currently I have 267 tabs loaded in Firefox and in any given day I might load 50-100 tabs which I devote around 2 hours in a day to reducing down to around the 250 mark. I had about 420 tabs but in the last couple of weeks I have actively reduced them to the essential 'must-read' one day. http://imgur.com/1K4s6MP (this was a couple of days into my drive to reduce my tabs). Oh and I use firefox on linux. Hands down the best browser I have ever used.
Yes, it means that you can buy them like jellybeans (and they're about the same size, and black, which is either the best or worst flavor.)
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The solution has to be practical and doable. It seems to me campaigning for boarding schools as a solution to the ills of society and getting them open is more doable than somehow getting people to take the initiative.
And? How does that make it any less useful to have the existing code as a guide?
> wait, what? There are some great comments around here.

lol
Many people were very successful in the 90s... It was way too easy, not necessarily an indication of talent or strong leadership.
This is unfortunate but hopefully their experience helps them as they get back into the working world.

In the past 3 months, I signed up and canceled an account. The issue I have with internet points is that whatever the algorithm is that powers the score is ultimately arbitrary. A few days ago I noticed my score dropped by ~10 points and I couldn't figure out why so I canceled. Similar situations have happened on StackOverflow in the past.

This used to upset me until I realized that there's no counter stocked full of silly putty and plastic frogs where I could redeem my points. In hiring instances, I definitely see value in SO and Github because they can expose you to how someone communicates (in both English and code). But I imagine it's a hard sell to market an aggregated score from unaccredited sources.
So basically "collateral damage" should only be illegal when we are talking about whistleblowers.
Sorry for the news.

Maybe I'm just not into competition, but I don't feel easy with a badge with a number that's supposed to tell much I've contributed to git repos, HN threads and StackOverflow questions, just like I'm uninterested and slightly annoyed by Klout.

>Work for Pie isn’t generating enough revenue to allow us to continue working on it full time.

>We failed to secure additional funding to support the company as we built the business.

I looked around and couldn't find anywhere to, well, put any money. You weren't charging any money. For instance, there was no way for a company to pay for privileged access to developers using Work for Pie.
Or buy a Macbook Air.
Enforced privacy is not as common as people think either, so you don't really even need to pull out the Smalltalk argument. In Java, C#, PHP etc it is not possible for the developer to actually enforce privacy like you can in JS because the privates are readily accessible through reflection if needed.

Another point is that the Javascript enforced privacy pattern only supports private, so 2 internal classes cannot get at each other even if they are maintained together as a package. That encourages creating god objects which is not surprisingly what I commonly see in projects that use enforced privacy in Javascript.
How so? Let's go part by part.

>Swedish man drugged into confessing declared innocent

Swedish man: yes

drugged: yes

into: arguable

confessing: yes

declared innocent: well technically he was declared not guilty

How will the 'entire article' make me dumb?
I am someone who has only the vaguest interest in my fellow human beings, and has a great, loving relationship with my girlfriend. Different people want different things. I enjoy my girlfriend's company and enjoy spending time with her and a few other friends but in general I detest the presence of other people in my physical vicinity.
Playerscale is the one off the top of my mind that was totally self-funded.

In addition, I could not find funding data on a few others when completing my research so not sure if self-funded or not: Alike, Loki Studios, GhostBird Software, Rondee, Ztelic
> Because Linux caches the shadow file (like all files recently accessed), I have to generate a lot of disk activity for the file to be 'pushed out' of the cache

http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches

$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

or as non-root

$ echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
None of those articles promote surreptitious recording. You tell them you will only speak while being recorded (with a lawyer, natch), then they go away.
After trying iOS7, and being an iPhone user since its inception, I finally had enough. I switched to Android and now I am in love with my new phone like I was with iPhone 1 back in the day. Shit like "no file system" and no ability to change the default apps for various actions are why I left. It's too stupid.
That doesn't get the same PR as all this M&A activity. And the PR helps them get more talent.
I'm using HostGator on 1 of my sites, and can confirm it's NOT down. Are you sure it's just you?
Lexity also had a business model and were solving a legitimate problem.
How to Make an App Successful by Doing Proper Pre-Launch Market Research
I would rather put it like this:

USA, where people already are afraid to heckle.

It is probably the alarming symptom of the advanced level of fear instilled in the people.
Not plentiful? Iceland does most of their district heating with geothermal. Their total energy production is over 80% renewables.

Of course it's a proper comparison. Even if heat pumps have drawbacks, so does burning trash. You compare the two.
Telecom giants give GCHQ unlimited access to networks, develop own spyware
Precisely. Bonds, dividends, and investment or collected loan interest are all passive income. Rents and royalties are characterized as such. Done correctly, these are the traditional low-risk rewards of accumulating capital.

Ironically here in the beacon-of-capitalism USA, these were the first areas squeezed as an extremely nasty side effect of "stimulus."

I've only ever seen "passive income" get a bad connotation in the past few weeks here on HN. People should keep in mind too that these stories are entirely survivorship-biased, so perhaps the average affiliate effort loses money, I don't know, but it's certainly more complicated than "it goes away."
Normally around 10, hardly ever over 20, never over 30.

Drives me crazy having loads open, I kind of treat them like a to-do list...
Then the fine line isn't between confession and evidence, it's between justice and vengeance. We're more "satisfied" when the guilty confess as that alleviates some of the need for vengeance. And we do have a need for it since the desire for revenge is often innate and hard to suppress. But that has (rather shouldn't) have any bearing whatsoever on the truth.

If such is true without evidence, it's a hollow truth and has no place in justice, which is punishment for guilt on the basis of truth.
Why do they know what castles are without knowing if there are rivers?
Can you elaborate on this? I don't understand what you mean by saying you paid people to "be researchers" and made money off it.
Out of curiosity, why do you feel that Randall did this out of pure altruism? Would his work have less meaning for you if he did it purely because he had an itch to scratch, or thought it might be fun?
FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software
$30. Pay online and there aren't any taxes (yet), and there aren't additional fees because it's prepaid. Additional minutes are 10c and last for 3 months+ depending on how many you buy.

It does not include tethering. I'm trying to find a way around it simply on principle, but you can add it for $15/month. (edit: others mention it seems to be based on user-agent sniffing, this backs up what I've seen so far)

I'm very happy with it so far. Much cheaper, and a bit better customer service overall than I had with Verizon.
Math Advances Raise the Prospect of an Internet Security Collapse
>"Specifically, why don't they invest some of their extra cash in educating and training more engineers?"

Well, some would say the whiners aren't interested in investing in solving the problem at home or spending any cash so much as promoting a preferred "solution" of importing cheap talent from overseas.

Personally, I don't have a strong position on this in any direction. I think it's a more complicated issue than any one piece I've seen seems to consider.
Pretty solid running pace for 2.5 miles.
> "Code" requires some notion of an execution platform/environment, which does not exist for arbitrary data.

Arbitrary data don't exist without some notion of an execution (or interpretation) platform.

We tend to use "code" as a word for "commands telling some execution process what to do" and "data" as a word for "information that is meant to be transformed" but in reality this distinction is meaningless; both are fundamentally the same thing, and even our "code" vs. "data" words have blurry borders. It's very apparent when you start reading configuration files. For example, aren't Ant "configuration files" essentially programs[0]?

We all know what we usually mean in context by saying what is "code" vs. what is "data", but one has to remember, that in fact they are the same - minding it leads to insights like metaprogramming. Forgetting about it leads to dumb languages and nasty problems, and is generally not wise.

[0] - the answer is: yes, they are, see http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html for more.

ETA:

Questions to ponder:

- are regular expressions code, or data?

- is source written in Prolog code, or data?

Also I recommend watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY to learn how what would be data, as defined by formal grammars of some real-world protocols, can - by means of sloppy grammars and bad parser implementation - cross the threshold of Turing-completeness and become code.
I've been working out of coffee shops lately. I always look at open screens (yes, it's wrong), and I can't believe how many people have Yahoo open, and some kind of flash game.
There certainly is kind of a weird jump from CGI to ASP.NET for sure. First that the prior was the early 'nix way, while the latter is a later entrant of the Microsoft way.

I feel like the LAMP stack kind of pushed out CGI more than anything else did in unix, while there were a lot of varied options on Microsoft - roll-your-own COM (ew), ColdFusion and a bunch of other various commercial offerings, ASP (not .NET, but the first one built on vbscript). And then all of the Java variations have their own distinct platform-independent(ish) lineage...

Hmm, maybe it'd be fun to write a well-researched history of modern web platforms. Wait, did I really just say I wanted to write about history? I am getting old...
UK: we have some limitations on confession evidence [1]. All formal questioning is recorded.

There is evidence to suggest that people make false confessions even without police 'pressure' [2]

[1] http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/confession_and_breaches_o...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/09/false-confessions-...
For a business critical web service I would look at a decent dedicated server provider, unless you really need the API and scalability features of AWS.

OVH are great, I use them my self, however they are cheap and that's for a reason, the hardware isn't server grade and the support is almost Nill.
> Passive in the sense that much of the tedium has been removed, not in the sense that you still don't have to do proper marketing.

That's not "passive". That's "marketing".
Thank goodness for VPNs.
Thank you. worked.
How many of these had reported valuations?
They clearly mention this goal in their blog post:

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-...
Being a little less "blunt" may help a bit. I generally don't start my criticism off with "So..." followed by a list of everything that is wrong with it and then a "THIS WON'T CONVERT" in caps.

I think more likely the reason is people with "north of $100M" in transactions are scared to try something new on their form. When there form clearly works fine as it is. But that doesn't mean exploring new methods is a bad idea. I know a lot of people who are still unsure of what a CVV is. And having a replication of their credit card so they know exactly what goes where would work very well.

Anyways just my 2c's
That doesn't seem totally fair. To say they were on their way down is pretty negative. Sure maybe some of their explosive growth was slowing down but I know more than a few still had some tricks up their sleeves. Outside of Tumblr and Lexity, Astrid and Summly were poised to continue to innovate since the founders/team have products that continue to surprise.

At the end of the day, some of the startups are by founders who are pretty early in their careers (e.g. Summly) and would like to have a win under their belt. Yahoo's shopping spree seems to validate a lot of successful products not just in terms of popularity but also talent and product innovation.
Very good reads, bookmarked! Thanks for pointing them out
I was about to say that, thankfully I searched for Turbo before posting.

I know many who use many years old DOS based Tally, accounting software.
one of the more appropriate links...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rotrain
SpaceX's rockets are already "man rated" by default, or is designed to be man-rated.
Hmm, Mine is a nexus 4 too. May be it happens because i'm on a plan with contract (even though the device wasn't bought on contract).
The metrics used to rank the coders seem a little odd. The top leaders, who have cumulative scores of 95, have decent github participation (however that's measured) scores in the 80-range, but have Hacker News scores of 97...which means HN karma was weighted considerably more than repo participation.

It's a nice looking site but I think ranking coders will require more granular metrics...and in the end, the coders likely to dominate such metrics will already have no problem finding suitors.
If I had any clue what their strategy actually was, I could give you a coherent answer.
Tell that to all the Zynga employees who made 83(b) elections and are now underwater! 83(b) entails being taxed on the value of stock/options when purchased/received (i.e., as compensation), rather than when vested or when exercised. It's great if the value of the stock increases, but you're substantially worse off economically (taking the time value of money into account) if the value of the stock decreases.
Link to actual announcement: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia...
Finding affiliate offers from merchants who want to advertise, putting content (ads/creative/filler) on the marketing site.
Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 4 is the only mobile OS I use. The interface takes getting used to and is beautiful. I also like the fact that it over heats so much that, when rested in my jacket pocket, it keeps my left nipple nice and warm.

Seriously though, each week it seems to get better, and there's nothing like having apt-get on your phone. Hopefully Touch will be a success and help introduce more people to Linux. (I know Android is Linux but it doesn't feel like Linux)
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Good for them admitting their mistake like that. Certainly better than a certain case in my state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fells_Acres_Day_Care_Center_pr...
It is a compiled language with some decent enough unix integration, so this isn't the first system-level program I've seen written in it. The rather popular unison file synchronizer is Ocaml, too, if I'm not mistaken. For a while the most popular Linux client for the edonkey peer-to-peer file sharing network was mldonkey. And just recently I stumbled across a minimal PDF viewer called llpp that turned out to be Ocaml, too.

You can easily distribute packages without huge dependencies, it's not any worse at concurrency than your usual Unix go-to language C, and the FFI ain't half bad, either. It's also relatively unopinionated about IO, which certainly helps writing servers and system utilities.

There's also parsers and some web stuff, but I'll let others talk about this. Just wanted to say a bit about this somewhat surprising niche where the language managed to eke out a bit of a marketing share.
Huh? I linked to Declan McCullagh's alternate (and more plausible) possibility. Nobody, including McCullagh, claimed to know for sure that that alternative was what happened. It's telling that you'd continue to make that argument --- noting that I was "quick to link to it" --- despite repeated clarifications from both me and McCullagh about the point of the link.
It appears to be a network issue that is affecting all of them, I would therefore assume that it's an issue on their upstream transit providers, or if they share a data centre then it could be a localised network/power issue.
Definitely down:
http://mashable.com/2013/08/02/bluehost-down/
Of course there is something wrong with it. It is a zero-sum activity (or negative-sum, since it takes work) that moves value around instead of creating it.
I talk about this a bit in another comment; the analogy is breaking down because we're equating active surveillance (guys in suits watching you) with passive data collection (cameras in the library that catch you carrying around a book on pressure cookers).

In a public library, it is not a reasonable person's expectation that the books that person is selecting are not going to be seen by others in the library. A reasonable person would not expect privacy in a public library, because it is, by definition, public.

Facebook isn't public, though. Expectations of privacy change here, and that's where we get into murky waters - we have no meatspace equivalent to Facebook or Google, so we don't really know what to expect.
I don't doubt you're wrong but I've been tethering my galaxy nexus with the exact same plan he mentions with no issues what so ever. I sometimes have 2-3 devices connected to my phone.
I'd think it would be more akin to getting an astrophysicist to testify that "F = ma" is something taught in an introductory physics class and isn't indicative of someone being an expert.
Ahh..true. My bad.
With Corrections Corporations of America, and now the US' most valuable export is manufacturing enemies of sufficient hatred to launch newsworthy sensational acts of terror requiring `Boundless Informant' and `Total Information Awareness', and now taxing the sun, we live in a dystopian grim back story more systemically upside down than any of Hollywood's SCI-FI screenplays.
I can use it, my wife hasn't a clue. For the first time in my married life I have text message and email privacy.
I am pretty sure it's just you.
You mean like these?

>over-fished, ... polluted the living hell out of them

Zebra mussels you might be able to claim damage the lake, but the complaints against them are certainly primarily based on nuisance, so I'll exclude them.
dyinglobster, it's called the Bayesian Base Rate Fallacy, and you just fell for it.
Well I can still generated leads but I haven't been able to break even on things lately. I really don't have any disposable income that I can keep testing offers and losing until I can find a campaign that I can optimize to profitability. I hear there is big money in mobile but I was never really able to generate mobile traffic. There is also bound to be a crack down on mobile because people are running the same type of scammy shit. Like opting into auto billing by clicking a link.
Apart from some complicated features of compilers that deal with copy-constructor optimizations, passing by-value or by-reference is usually a judgment call.

Some APIs like getting everything by value and others by reference. It's a kind of silly distinction that is reminiscent of a bygone era. It's still relevant if you work in embedded programming though (or if you're dealing with non-characteristically huge objects).
The web is improved to that point. But there is also a seedy underbelly of selling scams to idiots.

What needs to be improved is detection and prosecution of the affiliate scammers.
Most? Now I am worried.
The Haswell Macbook Air is more functional and a much better value at the moment. Another benefit is that you are already accustomed to working with OSX.

The Surface is allegedly more convenient because it's smaller than a laptop, but in reality it's not convenient at all because you have to find a table in order to be productive with it.

If I were going to purchase a Windows 8 tablet as a laptop replacement, I would definitely go with the Lenovo Helix. Unfortunately, it's overpriced and has crappy battery life, like all Windows 8 tablets.

IMO, you'd still be far better off getting the new Air.

EDIT: Another option for a Windows machine would be the recently released Sony Vaio Duo 13. It's got a Haswell processor, a really nice 1080p IPS panel and reviews state that the battery lasts for 10 hours. It's more expensive than the Surface Pro, but it's also a much better machine.
Power and impunity: The problem of our prosecutorial system
For me, it's not .NET that I want to avoid, but Windows and other Microsoft technologies. I feel much more productive hacking in an Unix shell. Simple things like grepping is a burden in Windows, but an ease in Unix.
This isn't talking about the same phone.

Although it would be funnier if it were. The Ubuntu Edge for the network with more EDGE (2G-only areas) than anyone else!

I like T-Mobile, but their network is sadly behind in many areas. It's also suffering from capacity problems in my area now.
7-Inch Android 4.0 Tablet PC 62% off #dealtrail