skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hold the view that Apple also had no clue what they were doing

But Apple altered their path and made something that customers wanted.

RIM stayed their course for too long, until they made what not enough users wanted, then tried to mimic everyone else (Apple, Samsung, et al).
If you have spent months learning Rails then do you have some projects/webapps to show? I believe initially you should look for small projects.
There are few ways
1. Register in elance, odesk or guru and look for projects.
2. Talk to your friends and people in circle looking to implement their ideas to a minimum viable product.
3. Post your new resume along with your github profile on HN.

Getting a full time rails developer will be hard initially if not impossible.
It would be more helpful to show examples where IAP/subscriptions were well executed by your standard and still made it to / stayed in the top grossing list.
A quick search for "fail2ban access.log wp-admin" turns up a few results that look promising.
Why not use the trace keyboard? I know Sense 5 on the HTC One comes with a trace keyboard option. It might take a bit of learning to get used to, but using trace keyboards seems to be a lot faster and more efficient than clicking on small physical keyboard buttons. Then again, they don't provide the tactile feedback that a physical keyboard does, so you can't really type with muscle memory and have to look at the screen when trace-typing.
Why? Because money is evil? Because True Hackers don't "sell out"?

And so what if the 'wrong kind of people' start submitting designs. I bet the contest runners would be happier with an arsehole submitting a fantastic logo, than a lovely person submitting a crap one.
OmniGraffle 6: A Huge Leap for the Mac Diagraming App
Thanks for your correction. Oh wait, you didn't correct anything!

Do you really think that if I had called it AArch64 throughout instead of ARM64, I wouldn't have written... whatever it is you're offended by in terms of conflating various parts? You're nuts!
> I can imagine, for example, that “made (or served) by humans” could be the “organic” or “fair trade” of the future.

... or the "handmade" of the future?
I find it weird that you don't blame the employers for dumping an employee, to avoid paying 2000$ penalty.
>>>“The problem wasn’t that we stopped listening to customers,” said one former RIM insider.

The pattern of failure is predictable. When "executives" want to subsist on momentum, and view R&D as a pure expense (at a cost to their bonuses), the end is near.
old tab page:

go to: chrome://flags/#enable-instant-extended-api

change it to disabled.. relaunch chrome
I'm pretty sure it's a concept / hoax / Tacocopter-esque sort of thing. It looks pretty cool though.

Some background on the person behind the project: http://www.sosaythewaiters.com/
> The only way that automation works is through creating a highly controlled environment where production can proceed in a predictable fashion.

That's true today, but don't you think artificial intelligence will change that?
To clarify 2 points:

- The annual out-of-pocket maximum for any Exchange plan can be no higher than $5,950 for individuals and $11,900 for families (2010 dollars, so will be higher now). [1]

- The out-of-pocket maximums are lower for people with incomes less than 400% of the federal poverty level, specifically:

-– 100-200% FPL: one-third of the HSA limits ($1,983/individual and $3,967/family);

-– 200-300% FPL: one-half of the HSA limits ($2,975/individual and $5,950/family);

-– 300-400% FPL: two-thirds of the HSA limits ($3,987/individual and $7,973/family). [2]

- All preventive services are covered at no cost, and are not subject to the deductible. [3]

[1] http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/80... (page 5, search "out-of-pocket")

[2] Ibid.

[2] Ibid, page 10 ("Coverage of preventive services" section)

EDIT 12:31 PM PT: Added note on income-indexed annual maximums.
Right. It's not so easy to pull off for someone bootstrapping (but then again, rich players / people with audiences / people with social capital will always have an advantage, this is no different)
This is a confusing article to read because the author never makes clear why he is the guy getting screwed; what his particular circumstances are, how they are different from other groups of people who might be benefiting from ACA, and what other groups of people similar to him might be getting screwed as well. Without this context, I don't know what to take away from this article.
This sums it up well for me: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index-mobile.php?date=062...
There is a provision in Obamacare that went into effect a couple of years ago that forces smaller insurance companies to spend at least 80% of their costs on actual healthcare costs and for larger insurance companies that number is 85%. That means that for insurance companies only 15-20% of revenue can go to employee salaries, building rent, other administrative costs, advertising, CEO pay, profits, etc. So I'm not sure if this is actually going to make more billionaire CEOs. While more people will be buying health insurance, at the same time, CEOs are now limited in what they can pay themselves. The only way they can pay themselves more is to reduce administrative costs or cover more customers, which means making their own health insurance company more lucrative than their competitors to consumers, which is a good thing.
The 386 had both protected mode and a large enough address space to make that protected mode useful. The 286 had protected mode as well, but a 16-bit protected mode doesn't let you write programs large enough for it to be worthwhile.
London police use super recognizers to fight crime
I'm a bit of a phone nerd and was working at AT&T/Cingular when the iPhone dropped.

There were a combination of social and political forces that made the phone a success beyond its obvious technical prowess. Many people don't know this, but Apple had originally negotiated for a monthly residual fee from AT&T for each iPhone and Apple negotiated their own custom activation scheme.

For those of you not familiar with carrier land, this was the first time in the history of wireless networks something like this happened. Seriously, it was unheard of; Apple dictating terms to AT&T. Think of the ridiculousness of the situation; at the time AT&T is roughly 2x the size of Apple and gave the keys to the kingdom away. It's akin to IBM with Windows and DOS, which was again political and not technical.

The iPhone was a Trojan horse. The App Store opened up the carrier markets to apps. Do you know how apps got on phones before the App Store? Pre-loading: the ultra political game of getting manufacturers and power brokers within operators to load your application in the factory. That was basically the only way you'd hit a significant number of users, and even then you were probably buried under 4 levels of menus.

Apple blew that world apart, which was, again, political and not technical. Tons of other companies launched App stores before Apple but Apple executed.

These kinds of massive upheavals in the world don't happen with just technology. There's a tremendous amount of social and political capital required to make something like this work (and frankly some cajones and some luck).

What we saw from Apple was a perfect orchestration of technology, art and the body politic. It's the kind of thing you're lucky to see once in a generation, IMHO.

Edit: Before the iPhone we never had a single person camp out for a phone. On iPhone launch, we closed the store at 3pm to reopen for launch at 4, but people had already been lining up the day before O_O. It's hard to overstate what a shock this was to us. It had never happened before.

It would blow your mind if you knew what people were willing to do to get iPhones. The things I've seen; it's more like an intoxicant than a phone, but it is a great phone, isn't it? It's so hard to categorize the iPhone.

Edit 2: I knew that Blackberry was dead the day my friend walked into my office and demoed an SSH client on his iPhone for managing his servers remotely. Of course, his phone was jailbroken to do this, but nobody even wanted to jailbreak a blackberry. The iPhone is a computer and blackberry was a killer email experience with a phone stapled on.
Careful what you read about ripple. A yearish ago some business people bought the ripple name from the academic who was working on it, and built something almost but not quite completely different under the same name. Anything written about the old system probably doesn't apply to the new one.
It's a bit rude to suppose that I want to commit murder, drink and drive, steal, rob banks, and set fire to things.

Calling paying legally authorized taxes coercion is abusing language to make a stupid political point.

Sorry, could you point out in what way the situation I described is not coercion? Are we to suppose that it is not coercion because it has been happening for a while, to a variety of people, despite the definition of the word not mentioning this?

Calling tax-paying "generational theft" is the same thing.

Social Security will not exist in its current form when I am 65. A variety of solutions could cause it to continue to exist in some form, like killing people when they reach the age of 80 (this probably would not be legal), paying out less, setting the cutoff age to be later, or just arbitrarily denying payouts to people completely at random (this would be legal - see Flemming v. Nestor), but most of the likely solutions to the problem result in people my age paying in a great deal more than we will ever receive.
I wonder if Apple knew, or did not care, that AT&T would have to adapt to carry the traffic?
That's why I use QR codes. And offline QR code generation.
How many poor people are going to use the preventive services? What do you think a Physical and an annual check up prevents?

You have generations of thinking that the Doctor was where you went when you are about to die, and suddenly expect them to get check ups.

The response is "but they might find something" and that would cost money.
I hate to be a negative nancy, but for most of these diseases I'm not convinced the answers are in the biophysical properties of amyloids. I still hold out that biophysics might hold answers for the PrP diseases - mad cow; kuru; FFI, the subject of the OP - but for most of these other conditions (alzheimer's, diabetes, Gelsolin Amyloidosis - not parkinsons, which is, contrary to common grantwriting trends, is not an amyloid), I'm increasingly convinced that amyloid is not, in the general case, causal, because amyloid is a general protein fold. There's amyloids that are not cell-malfunction-related and probably functional (in melanosomes[0], secretory granules[1], and which bacteria use to grow their extracellular matrices[2]), there's amyloids that aren't toxic except for causing physical disruption (beta-2 microglobulin blocks kidney nephrofunction), and there's amyloids which are just garbage binned proteins (bacterial inclusion bodies[3]). Probably in the ur-times, early proteins, which were likely overwhelmingly hydrophobic[4] aggregated as amyloids as an easy, thermodynamically favorable, self-assembling superstructure, that is regulateable merely by producing to concentrations above the critical concentration.

[0] Fowler, et al, PLOSBio 2005, the data are terrible - long story, but I basically redid the experiments and got cleaner, sensical results - but the conclusion is probably true.
[1] Maji, et al, Science 2009
[2] Cherny, et al, JMB 2005
[3] Wang, et al, PLOSBio 2008
[4] Mannige, et al, PLOSCompBio 2012

I have more detailed reasons to believe the things that I do, if you'd like to hear more, feel free to contact me. I especially have some interesting tips on where to look with PrP (I did a short, unpublished project on it that was inconclusive, but the ideas are intriguing). Long story short, if you are dead set on being a biophysicist, and you want to really make a difference, focus on the PrP diseases, the other ones are, in my highly opinionated opinion, red herrings. Otherwise, focus on the biology. Also, learn your chemistry well, in either case. Good luck with your PhD. It's a minefield out there.
The quality apps will always stand out. I'd tried a bunch of note taking apps before vesper came along - and it put them all to shame. I think I've tried every podcast app out there - and they are all really, really cruddy. I spend 10-15 hours a week with iCatcher, and it reminds me of my Palm Treo 650 - It's the best of the bunch (for me), but it still manages to seriously annoy me every time I use it.

If marco gets good traction with his design team (Pacific Helm again?), I'm sure he's going to blow away the "quality" podcast-player market. Only problem is, the market for people who are looking for quality podcast players is probably in the tenths (or even hundredths) of a percent of the iOS users.

But, if he makes Overcast free....

I'm very interested in seeing how he manages to In-App charge for a free podcast player.
At this point the fine is still imaginary. Nobody has a $1000 fine in their mailbox yet. People are used to getting money back from the IRS. Most people don't understand what a bill from the IRS means. How many people even know there will be a fine? Has Obama talked about the fine yet?

Also, even if you apply for the subsidy, you'll be paying full price for an expensive plan in the meantime. A family that's just getting by (that's why they are uninsured) it's going to be much more affordable to get a high-deductible plan and forget Obamacare altogether. If you're just getting by, you're not planning your finances a year in advance for when the subsidy check might come in the mail. The uninsured are thinking about next month, not a year from now. What percentage of people are sure they will get that government subsidy check? You're assuming uninsured people have extra money saved to pay for a full-price insurance plan right now.
Your browser is doing the downloading. The URLs are available from the API (I changed random characters):

$ curl -I https://graph.facebook.com/100000624321700/picture
HTTP/1.1 302 Found

(...)

Location: https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/573867_100000621711234_930571234_q.jpg

Then it is just a matter of incrementing the number. This might be a fun research project.
Also: https://www.facebook.com/window.location.href
As we all know, employers are the "job creators" and whatever they do is for the good of the economy. If they are dumping employees to maintain their current profit levels, it's the government's fault for making them do that.

/s
It's time that the term "hacker" is considered harmful (yes, I know). "Hacker" and related words with the morpheme "hack" have acquired so many definitions throughout the ages, much of which is the fault of mass media and public ignorance, that plenty of these definitions refer to contradictory concepts, making the word meaningless (or at least to be used with caution).

A hacker can be a security hacker or breacher who discoveries and exploits vulnerabilities in systems, usually computers (the mainstream definition). A hacker can be a programmer with a mindset that is supportive of freedom of information, free culture and is constantly looking to refine himself and apply creative solutions to his problems. A hacker can be a guy who hacks off limbs. A hacker can be a creative and playful guy with a knack for finding unorthodox solutions. A hacker can be someone who tinkers with practically anything, including stuff that is unrelated to computers.

In addition, a "hack" can mean: an unskilled or untalented person, a charlatan; an inelegant but efficient solution to a problem; an inelegant and inefficient solution to a problem (more accurately a kludge); an elegant and efficient solution to a problem that is unconventional; a particular security breach or exploit; a general subversion of authority or some type of system ("reality hacking" or more accurately culture jamming), a video game cheat and so on.

In conclusion, unless someone reclaims the word, it is good to define it specifically beforehand or avoid it altogether. Personally, I'm fine with both hackers as in information security and hackers as in tinkering (a la Hack a Day and so forth).
I think it is worthy noting that one of founders is Jed McCaleb, the original developer of ed2k and MtGox.
George Carlin Talks War And American Politics
Yeah, it's pretty much bullshit.

But this is the price you pay to have the best health care in the world!
Yes, the brand value approach I understand. Thing is, I don't really want to upsell to events and I agree regards consulting not being scalable, but i have a dilemma regards pricing for my course.

I guess I need to give it more thought.
Introducing MimeKit: A robust open source MIME and mbox parser
Yes, that's not allowed.
I find this quote ironic. One of the main purposes of fairtrade is to avoid poor working conditions (for humans). If a particular brand of coffee was produced without any human labor, that could probably be considered fairtrade.
Well, there is a tiny detail: "I have a wonderful secretary." Not all of us can afford that...
From: "http://www.makayama.com/checklist.html"

Time trials are not allowed, if they completely disable the app's use. Also restrictions such as limiting the number of runs are not allowed. Apps should have core functionality that does not expire. However, you can use In App purchase to let certain features expire and then charge to unlock these again.
What 3-D Printing Could Mean for the World's Factory -- China
It's almost like maybe that will be a theme of the novel!
What legally counts as "tobacco usage"?

Sure, if you smoke a pack a day. What if you just have a couple of cigarettes when you go out, a couple nights a week? What about once a month? If you smoke a cigar when your baby's born?

Unlike the other categories, "tobacco use" doesn't make a lot of sense... and out of all the dangerous, life-threatening activities you can partake in, why is only this one singled out? Why not change premiums based on BMI too? It's kind of bizarre.
Feel the need to point to the now 9 years old dhtml lemmings [1] which shouldn't have a browser preference.

[1]http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
Well, considering their patent litigations, I wouldn't say that Apple try to do that.

As for Google, I'm less worried because there is much less lock-in, both in search and with an OS that is mostly open sourced.
One of the larger grocery chains in the Chicago area is starting to phase out the self-checkout lanes. The store nearest to me has already removed them.

The reason given is to be more "customer friendly", which seems to correspond to the upscale neighborhoods where the lanes are being removed and, not surprisingly, more upscale grocers are starting to move in (Roundy's/Mariano's, Whole Foods, Fresh Market).

Turns out it takes a lot of staff intervention to keep the self-checkout lines moving.
What engineering problems is Stripe solving?
>What Marco is reporting here is that the old-fashioned "make something and get people to pay for it" business is much harder to pull off and likely to always be left in the dust by someone making the same thing for free, getting 100x the user base, and getting 1% of them to pay for some value added feature.

Joel, do you see bootstrapping as viable in your ideal market or does it become a VC only game?
I quite like it.

Note that the font is not free. From the fine print:
Use by more than 25 Users, or equivalent Website Visitors, is a breach of this Free Licence Agreement, and instead requires a commercial licence.
demo account with some royalty-free pictures would be good
There are some accusations that the plot of this adaptation are very similar to a real memoir published by Kate Losse:

https://medium.com/p/bf1a7c77873b
It's one thing to motivate people with a challenge and another is to prey on their need for the money. For me, personally, it's border-line unethical.
The only test that matters for this controller is, can it be used to play StarCraft 2 competively? There is no gamepad out there that can play RTS well right now. This the problem that needs solved to bring PC gaming to the living room in my opinion.
Who gives a flying fuck?

If someone was going to make a free Tarsnap logo, they're unlikely to be deterred by the possibility of a small reward for it.

The only downside to the "wrong kind of people" entering is more entries to look through. Who cares what kind of person they are if the logo's good?
If you're very poor, in the sense of no assets and very little income, you do still get the regular, pre-expansion, single-payer Medicaid.

I agree it leaves some problematic gaps. People between 100% and 138% of the poverty line aren't eligible for either pre-expansion Medicare or the exchange subsidies. Perhaps even worse off are people below 100% of the poverty line but with very modest savings (in many states the limit is $2000). These people are probably best served by burning their savings so they can qualify for Medicaid. The expanded Medicaid does away with the asset test because of the perverse incentives it creates: someone who spends all their paycheck on entertainment qualifies for Medicaid, but someone who saves even $3000 to have a small cushion (e.g. to make sure they can cover rent between jobs) loses eligibility.
Love the bg color change with each pic
"Data science is powerful because it maximizes leverage in the presence of finite resources."

Regular old "science" does that too.
> a restaurant would still needs counter-help and clean-up help so further

Why do you assume that those tasks won't be automated? To some extent they already are in some places (kiosk ordering at some fast food places, cleaning devices à la Roomba).
Are there really people who will decide "I want to read the Guardian now," and then when they find they have to type four or five letters into their browser bar instead of just one, will decide not to bother? It's now too much effort to type four or five keys? (It's possible, I suppose; I am way out of touch and I still don't understand much of what the kids do now - that thing where "Dave is the mayor of some street corner" was a total mystery to me)
This is almost painful to read - rushed, still late, yet, broken. Quick and dirty is not always quick, but its often dirty:

"The product was the BlackBerry Storm. It was the most complex and ambitious project the company had ever done, but “the technology was cobbled together quickly and wasn’t quite ready,” said one former senior company insider who was involved in the project."

"The product was months late, hitting the market just before U.S. Thanksgiving in 2008. Many customers hated it. The touchscreen, RIM’s first, was awkward to manipulate. The product ran on a single processor and was slow and buggy."
No, it implies some of them will become entrepreneurs and hire some of the others. And that some costs will go down from this newfound efficiency.

You'll never convince me that Luddism is a progressive policy.
In Europe, 2010 is when people lost their jobs because of the 2008 crash. I bet people like EA switched to IAP because they felt it was a way to bypass the newly-developed austerity mindset.
+1

There's so many possibilities for this controller. Between software 'buttons' on the touchpads, swipe gestures, the pointing ability, and also the touchscreen, alot of innovation in control schemes is possible.