skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They are typically distinguished by their simple rules and lack of commitment required in contrast to more complex hardcore games. They require no long-term time commitment or special skills to play, and there are comparatively low production and distribution costs for the producer."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual_game
Im really surprised that doesn't exist yet. YC applications still open? :)
If the pre-Elop executives had been left in charge, Nokia would most likely be in bankruptcy today. The imminent collapse in smartphones was exactly the reason why he was hired.

Under Elop, the loss-making phone business was streamlined to the point that Nokia's stockholders got $7 billion for it, rather than losing the whole company.

For a comparison point, look at BlackBerry. They're basically what Nokia would have become if they had continued on the Symbian+Meego path. Nobody's going to pay 7 billion for BlackBerry at this point.
Eventually, you would expect that a Bitcoin-based crowdsourcing platform should come into being.
As a Canadian, where I think beer has a more logical percentage ;) I agree.

I've been to Utah and see what kind of nonsense they do with beer.
What is anxiety?
I understand the ideology, but I fail to see how this can work in practice. I do think the US perspective is very different to my own due to the size of the nation, and that state level programs probably would be fairer and less wasteful than a federal taxation and implementation of welfare - it's still government though, it's merely done at state level. I think this is often the source of crossed wires when discussing politics over the Atlantic.

>The suffering classes, although having the greatest claim, will not always have the greatest success.

Certainly, but the same lament is surely magnified when the invisible, broken section of society is reliant on charitable acts...I'm not saying we are all terrible, greedy people but as you quote, we often assume the role of victim and feel hard done by whilst forgetting people who are far worse off than us:

>"Let me have the benefits, and let others pay the costs"

Being cynical about - particularly current - government is not an unfair judgement to make, but the problem is in the machine's details - tearing the whole thing down is like (to use an old cliche) throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Just to make it clear: on raid 5/6 parity isn't checked on reads, so to get your "right thing when repairing/checking/scrubbing data" you'd have to do a full parity rebuild. This isn't anything like what ZFS does.
Ask HN: a quick and easy SEO service for startups?
I am looking for a service to monitor both the search engine rankings of our site, and articles written about us.

I basically want a BrandYourself.com for startups.

Is there such a thing? what do you use?
One of my favorite bathroom books.
But a little too much OO-centric, and imho, a little out of date.
Though this has the same problem as "cheap". People always equate "fast" or "quick" with "quick right now" and "cheap" as "cheap right now". There are enough examples in long-term projects that this is not true (though the converse is true, as well. And those problems which transist from short-term to long-term are just nasty)
Often those jobs require a physical address.
In Defense of Intelligent Testing
Pretty much definitely not true. Tablets are mostly used for consumption, and putting together anything with extensive formatting like a slideshow is difficult, but just typing text really isn't difficult.
Google updates BigQuery with real-time streaming inserts and much more
Comments on general news sites tend to be cesspools in general. Oddly, the same people posting weird vitriol about how America is being ruined by freeloading parasites seem to be: 1) not highly educated; and 2) able to spend hours and hours a day posting angry comments on news websites. I wonder where they're getting their own income from. Are they all retirees and students? People on SS disability? Stay-at-home parents whose spouse works? Survivalists in an internet-equipped cabin in Montana?
Presumably like the google drive app, it doesn't show the cut and paste action bar but keeps the formatting bar, it does pop-up a cut and paste dialog.

Evernote does show the cut and paste action bar but also has the text formatting bar at the bottom of the app, which will work on the selection.
And if we don't, we all die (at best), but that's nothing new. Nor is it avoidable by other means than FAI.

The route to unfriendly AI is revenue-positive right up until it kills us.
That's actually a good point, if a confusing one. I'd like to know the answer as well, though I believe there's a chance the answer will be "mu".
If you think the only purpose of knowing the names of world cities is finding them in maps to travel there, you will be utterly incompetent at basic comprehension of 1) history, 2) real (not theoretical) economics, 3) sociology, 4) reading the International section of a newspaper.

Forming an understanding of those topics requires connecting the dots between various stories you read about them at different places, and for that it's essential to know at least the vague relative positions of regions where their major cities reside.
Damn, I thought there was some daylight between Korea and Japan in terms of messed up zero sum games cram schools. AIUI the pressure lets up rather a lot once one gets to university, yes? As in there is actual freedom to slack off and many do. Or is there no point between primary school and becoming a salaryman to chill out?
I don't know, it just sounds a sensational story to draw readership. Yeah, maybe he did it for couple of days/weeks, but doing this in a disciplined manner for a long time to earn measly couple of dollars does not make sense all.
If you are interested in the Pi also check out the BeagleBone. I love how easy everything with the Pi was. I'm hoping to do more home automation with either another Pi or a BeagleBone. As for now my Pi is controlling our detached garage, and has done a nice job surviving a Louisiana summer.

Shameless plug: http://itsbrent.net/2013/03/hacking-my-garage-with-a-raspber...
He could have an online wallet or have his wallet.dat file synchronized to SpiderOak, DropBox, et al.
Kiosked raises nearly $7m in funding
14. Fun challenge, try and complete each one using a different sorting algo.
Unfortunately, this may say as much about your computer monitor as it says about your eyes.

Edit: After finishing the test, the demographic information is clearly screwed up now, since the score range for males in the 20-29 range is -160 to 444445389, which is definitely wrong on the low end (which is supposed to be zero), and probably wrong on the high end (which is probably not supposed to be more than 400 million).
But for the tons of unskilled craigslist jobs, in these depressed areas, they will get hundreds of resumes. In most places around the US, the reality is multipointed:

* Nobody who would want to hire someone has the capital to do so, or the resources to handle the absurd regulation surrounding hiring an employee.

* The economic cycles in a lot of these areas are not producer ones, so they don't see job growth even when people need basic necessities. The kinds of work in most areas of the US is dwindling, and often specialized and requiring either a degree, or no need to be self sustaining (ie, walmart clerks or mcdonalds staff, because you don't earn a living wage on minimum wage).

* Anyone with money has better, less risky options (usually created through law and false economics) that investing in small town startups that would hire the millions of unemployed as service workers. Because we already know they will never be hired as producers, because we already optimized production into factory farms and automated warehouses. The capital holders get plenty of returns on their investments by operating in an economic cycle outside most of the US, and they do so not for missed opportunity - everyone understands not utilizing the human capital of some 60 million people is wasteful - but because it is much safer to keep playing wal-street with federal bailouts than to try entrepreneurship.
When I hear about "wasted capital" I imagine some central planner in a uniform from 1950s. Or North Korea.

These guys do have jobs: they are doing work for money. Even if the work is to sit on a street panhandling. Those who donate buy themselves some good feelings. If you don't like that trade, don't do it or pay for it. Simple.

Why don't you get up at 5 AM and work till midnight like Tim Cook? What a waste of resources.
You're right, my bad. Although I would argue that Singapore and Monaco are in a class of their own in terms of the shape of the track and the subsequent load on the driver and car. Montreal, Melbourne and Valencia don't have the same tight, constricted feel of the other two, because of their wider tracks, longer straights and faster corners. They're also not in areas as densely populated as Monaco and Singapore. Off the top of my head I recall Montreal and Melbourne are both around large parks? Anyway, my original point was that these circuits (in dense urban areas) result in exciting and popular spectator experiences.
HN Effect. Checking back when the crowds have died down.
Go forces you to either assign the return value to a variable and then use that variable, or pretend it doesn't exist at all. I think they were trying to get rid of the middle "assign it to a variable, deal with it later" case, to encourage people to write error-handling code there and then, but I've found that instead it pushes me towards completely ignoring error codes, then because there's no "unused variable 'errorCode'" warning, I forget to go back and robustify the code :(

I probably /should/ get into the habit of writing error-handling code at the same time as writing the main-path code, but for someone who's just started learning the language and just wants to see what works, I find it really frustrating >_<
Whenever that issues does become "tremendous" (seriously?), give me a call...
Weekend Best Buys for Hackers and Designers :)
Except for Samsung, all the companies that were in the phone business before the iPhone and then went with Android are doing poorly today: HTC, Motorola, LG...
All I mean is that fixing non-essential bugs, making your code pretty, worrying about small performance regressions, writing thorough documentation, polishing the user interface, porting your code to N platforms, dealing with copyrights and patents and trademarks, ensuring good distribution of your code either by selling it or making packages for major distros, and taking care of your users generally doesn't help you to get papers published.

Academia wants new ideas. Production (industry) generally revolves around making a new idea useful to a broad range of people, by which point it's an old idea. You can take something written in academia and put it into production, but if you do that in your Ph.D. it almost certainly isn't helping you to finish.
Nokia was worth much more before Elop announced they would partner with Microsoft.
You cannot be suspended for not saying the Pledge. You cannot be compelled to say the Pledge. Your rights were violated. The Supreme Court of the United State has ruled that it is well within your right to not say it. See West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_State_Board_of_Ed...

Writing for the majority, Justice Jackson stated: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."

"Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest," wrote Black and Douglas in a concurring opinion. "Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds, inspired by a fair administration of wise laws enacted by the people's elected representatives within the bounds of express constitutional prohibitions."
The mode of homework time appears to be 3 hours a night during weekdays, this is considered unbearable/a lot? Growing up this was the norm for me. The school in question runs from 8:00 AM to 2:20 PM with a 45 minute lunch break, recesses and homeroom included. With 3 hours of studying that brings you to a total of 9 hours - breaks (I couldn't find a schedule). Assuming 8 hours of sleep, 1 hour for dinner, 2 hours of miscellaneous daily activities and 1 hour to get ready and eat breakfast in the morning you're left with 3 hours of your day left.

How about an example with more homework and my experience with times? Let's say 5 hours of homework on a particular night.

School runs from 7:30 to 2:15 with a 45 minute lunch break (no recess (you still get recess in 8th grade? I didn't) or homeroom as the bell rings at 7:30). Then football goes to 5:30. 15 minutes to drive home, so it's now 5:45. Decompress and eat dinner with the family and it's now 7. If I want to get up by 7 then I need to be asleep by midnight at the latest. If I had a 5 hour homework night then that's pretty much all the rest of my day gone, where a 3 hour homework night I have 2 hours remaining in the day.

My solution? I never did homework aside from the occasional last minute essay or project. By 7 I was mentally and physically exhausted and had no desire to put in anymore time for school.

I can't even imagine having nights where I had 5 hours of homework to do.
People perhaps fatigued by constant spying mini-revelations
Took about 5 minutes - got a 14 - and now I see spots.

I wouldn't mind seeing a gaussian distribution on the overall results - I also wouldnt mind having access to all the data :)
Nope, I said stupid password restrictions. A good password restriction would be one that only measures the entropy. The idea that we should use no more than 8 letters, alphanumeric with symbols is stupid and demonstrates ignorance with how hashing works.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33470/what-techn...
WTF is am reading on the demo site for this project?

https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor/blob/master/de...

http://daviferreira.github.io/medium-editor/
A Supreme Court decision from during World War II[1] requires schools to allow pupils to opt out of the pledge of allegiance. Most states in the United States still make the pledge a default school activity every day of the school year except for pupils who individually opt out.

[1] West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1942/1942_591
Lao Tzu
Show HN: (Yet Another) Flask-Boilerplate
I've seen multiple flask-boilerplates out there and most of them try to use blueprints and the app_factory pattern etc, I use this when I want to boot a quick project (pretty much with 'cp -r flask-boilerplate newproject').
What an excellent article. As a father I would never have been able to write something so reasoned. The final paragraph is great advice:

"Remember, just because those images on Facebook are free it doesn’t mean they won’t be costly, especially if you lift images of minors. That’s probably a good corporate rule to live by."
There is one more thing bothering me: The touch areas are not visually distinguishable. I was really surprised that touching just a little left of the minutes will scroll the hours, even though there is no line between them and there is a huge whitespace inbetween.

I'm thinking that whole roll picker doesn't fit into flat design at all, since it's depicting a 3D object, which is the very opposite of what flat design is about - whether you like it or not. I do think that flat design done right can look great whilr offering the same usability, but it's much harder to get right.
Funny. Photo on the second page has a subtitle "Angle mines bitcoins on a park bench." http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads/2013...
Friday Feeling? Just Go Home.
I think the idea is that his laptop could be stolen/robbed.

They are often worth a bit of money. But I bet there is a performance/age/fencing/cost point where it isn't worth it to rob someone for it.
I think he was saying that the laptop is what would be stolen... Not the .0004 bitcoins.
Really? Not a single comment supporting this? Talk about a mono-culture.

Reasons this is a good idea:

1. Dispensing charity on the local level, rather than the federal, reduces fraud and gets the funds directly in the hands that need it most. And there is a lot of fraud in the food stamp program.

2. One of the biggest problems the US is facing currently is the inability to pay for entitlement programs. The federal government is borrowing furiously to cover these programs. Unless they get a handle on things, after enough borrowing, the dollar will simply collapse. The poor will be hardest hit by this.

3. Food stamps are essentially cash. Even when spent properly, they're usually spent on processed poor quality food because that's the cheapest stuff around. Take the funds and spend them at soup kitchens that can leverage their purchasing power and buy high quality fresh food at a discount.

4. Any entitlement programs reduces the incentive to work and become self-sufficient. As much as this makes you cringe, it is true nevertheless.

5. Having been on food stamps myself, I can tell you right off the bat, it's absolutely degrading. At the time, they didn't use any kind of cards, you had actual food stamps. There you are, paying with stamps, while everybody else pays with cash. It's like wearing a sign saying "look at me, I'm poor!" and it's humiliating. A more discrete way of distributing help would be far more humane.

How about a discussion, rather than this echo chamber?
Did the white borders seem to go bendy at times while you were taking the test? I found that illusion highly unsettling.
Outlook.
Gave up on gmail after getting more email accounts.
Generally speaking Outlook and OneNote are my two favorite Microsoft programs that I have no viable replacement for.
"...absolutely amazing HTML5 / WebGL things out there..."

In the end of the day it's just a script running on top of Open GL.
Less is exponentially more (2012)
I was asked a few weeks ago, "What was the biggest surprise you encountered rolling out Go?" I knew the answer instantly: Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++.
A quote from Jackie Brown.
Wonderful!

I may actually consider dumping Debian for FreeBSD 10.

I've never been totally happy with Linux after moving off "proper" UNIX machines. I had a FreeBSD 4.4 machine floating around for years which I was rather happy with but drifted off to Linux-land primarily due to convenience when it came to Flash and audio.

So many compelling reasons to switch back to FreeBSD now.
Tried to enter as "guest"

exception 'Q\Exception' with message 'Invalid auth provider' in /data/quolony/1.1.beta.1785/code/lib/Quolony/q.core.php:2444
Stack trace:
#0 [internal function]: Q\{closure}(Object(Q\Exception))
#1 {main}
No, you're not misunderstanding something. The data is clearly messed up.
Include me out
Plus "60 cents a day" of income is going to be eaten up by transaction fees when they need actual cents to buy lunch (I don't think online delivery services or trendy cafes accepting bitcoin payments cater for the homeless end of the market; there's only so many gyft-funded $10 Papa John's pizzas one can afford)

The whole thing reeks of a PR stunt to the point where I can easily see the people involved's actual "job" - whether genuinely homeless or not - was to sit outside a library waiting for the tipped-off journalist to turn up and interview them.
Wow, Noowit is amazing. Thanks for the link.

Edit: I think it is a little early for wider use. But that's ok, looks like it will turn out to be good.
There is a gag order on the media against any reporting of GCHQ. Ministry of Truth is in full effect in the UK right now.
What valuable insight does this comment add to the conversation?
I'm not an iOS user - has the date roll picker always been there? In WP7 (the exemplar of flat design on a phone) it uses the roll-like UI but without the 3D object metaphor. The behavior is the same, but flat.

I'd rather just have a numpad, especially for time.
My second score is 4. I took my time and re-adjusted the screen brightness now and then. When I felt fatigue I would look away for a while. Also, and I feel most importantly, I would frequently jump from solving one band to do another one, because I felt looking too long into similar hues would desensitise my mind.
Surely it would be better to learn history, economics, sociology and to read the international section of a newspaper than to memorise cities? Knowledge of capitals and so forth is incidentally acquired by doing those other things.
Restaurant website traffic now 40% mobile
I actually got a perfect score, but I nearly killed my eyes doing it :)
Then just skip it! The lying is the issue. If you judge the homework as not being worthwhile, then don't do it, say you didn't do it, and move on.
Yeah, scripting an OpenGL game engine. First time ever.
You can see a house being raided for owning a Pineapple...?
0. Interesting.
That's Elmore Leonard, recently deceased, and author of some of the best crime noir and westerns ever written.

Specifically, this looks like it's from "Rum Punch", which was later co-opted into the movie "Jackie Brown" by Quentin Tarantino, who is a huge fan of Leonard's.

Leonard is most famous for his movie adaptations of "3:10 to Yuma", "Get Shorty", "Out of Sight", etc.
If you're doing athletics, you're spending five days a week for three hours after school every day during the sports season.

And when I played sports in high school, there really wasn't an 'offseason'. Wrestling started the Monday following the Thanksgiving game for football, and if you did well in wrestling, your season butted up pretty close to baseball season as well.
How far back do you want this to go? I'm sure there are tons of crimes like witchcraft that people were sentenced for that are no longer illegal.

Should we go back through all the laws that have now been repealed and retrospectively pardon anyone that may have been affected?

Turing was clearly a genius and was treated very, very badly by the laws of the time but pardoning him changes none of that.
I used bogosort. I've been at it for hours.
Maybe I'm missing something, but if I were Microsoft, I think (at least my first pass thinking anyway) I'd just say "Nope. No MS Word on iOS. Ever."

I can't see what's in it for them. A tiny slice of cash compared to selling it for desktop computers, and if they don't sell it for iOS-based-desktop-replacements then the iOS-based-desktop-replacements won't have the ability to write files for the rest of the business world to use.
> Until then I reserve the right to consider the current Haskell/FP craze the biggest amount of bullshit since the Java/OOP craze.

You make it sound as if the consensus following the 'Java/OOP craze' was that the naysayers had it right all along, and we should all go back to C/ASM. Well, it wasn't. Even though it was overhyped, I bet most developers (myself included) would still choose Java over C. Of course this means we would take a performance hit, but for the vast majority of jobs it wouldn't matter one bit.

At the tail end of most of these 'crazes' (Java, Python, Ruby, etc.), once the dust settled we ended up with something that is in many ways far superior to what came before it (certainly when compared with C).
I think it would have been cheaper for Microsoft to just build their own devices than go through all of this to buy Nokia.
Well it's not comparable. I'm sitting on a new 9-cell that cost me $129 equivalent and has 8.5 hours left :)

When that runs out, I can take it out and stick the other one in out of my bag.
The details on NGINX Inc’s plans
On valuing people