skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how I feel about this one. Design contests suck, and don't even work that well generally, but open source contributions obviously aren't the same as free spec work. Why not put out a redesign call and get a few designers working as a team from the ones who respond?
Data plans were the disruption that made the iPhone more than "a faster horse." They allowed the iPhone's architecture to be feasible and the idea of the app store to be viable. Yes, touch screens are an improvement over pens, but the change that sunk RIM was logistical.
I am a programmer who can't get a job at Facebook. Do I take a job at X Corp paying $5/hr, or do I spend 100 hr writing an app that will only gross $500?

Sure the app COULD gross more, but in my low talent niche, it is well known how much revenue MotoX Flashlight can generated. Should Google be allowed to publish my app, knowing it will never clear more than $500 revenue?
If so, why shouldn't they pay me $600 (still below min wage) to write the app for them?
Flying through a light that just turned green for you is a good way to hit a pedestrian or someone coming in from the left or right trying to catch the tail-end of their yellow.

Please don't do this.
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I had it in my whishlist, so now it's bought :D

Thank you for "forcing" me to buy it! ;) Enjoy a nice cup of coffee
I'm referring to my college friends. I work for Google, and my Googler friends are understandably biased; I don't include them in this sample. But I also went to a liberal arts college, and my friends there are fairly representative of educated young people in non-technical fields, and the same 2:1 ratio in favor of Google seemed to show up.
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Just because I'm not a fan of the new commenting system, doesn't mean I like the old one. I certainly don't. But I definitely prefer the old system to the new one.
More like you get a nickel, and next time, you think, "what a cheapskate", and don't bother mentioning it. After you walk by, a car thief steals it.
Disagree completely. I can easily read papers well outside of my area (biophysics), such as climate research, and follow most if not all of the analysis. my field along includes hundreds of subspecialities, and I must frequently read and follow papers in another specialty.

Statistics itself is indepedent of the study details; it's just the application of probability to hypothesis testing and I know of no science which cannot express its models in the form of probabilistic analysis. That's why people who are physicists can move to medicine and produce useful criticisms of study design (cf Stan Glantz).

The one big issue with studies outside of my domain is that it takes more time and attention to read because I have to refer to citations or online resources to understand the technical details of their domain.
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I agree. Chrome has NEVER been lightweight in terms of memory. Each tab is in its own sandbox environment. It will need to load resources separately for each sandbox and that chews up memory.

Chrome may be inefficient with memory but I could manage this by closing the tab. Firefox would retain the memory even after the tab has been closed for some time.

Firefox is a lot better these days.
I hear ya. My first experience with freemium was TF2 and I was a fan. I thought Valve made it work. The game was great. You can choose to pay for hats and upgrades but if you didn't, it's still super fun. It doesn't take that long to find some cool weapons and gear, and it doesn't take that long to craft or trade for anything you need. I've actually put in around $20-30 because I just wanted Valve to have some money, given the amount of enjoyment I got out of the game.

The problem is that freemium no longer works like this. Instead of it being a business model ("this is how we sell our game"), it's a core aspect of the game. Instead of designing a game to maximize fun, the gameplay is designed to suck out as much money from the customer as possible. I loved the original PvZ. It was a fun game, with fun challenges and I got tons of hours of enjoyment. I downloaded the freemium update (not even PvZ 2, but an update to the original), and now it's all repetitive grind in order to get you to the point where you'll use your credit card to skip over the purposely tedious parts. Who designs a game to be purposely tedious!! Freemium devs do, that's who. It's insane! Shit. What a terrible genre. It should die in a fire.

>So there is a psychological difference between raising up-front prices and upgrade pricing

I know. That sucks. The reality may be that freemium is the only way you can make money from the app store. The typical app store price-points (99c - 4.99$) are not enough to make any sort of money and to build companies around. And for some reason, no game studio feels like they can charge a proper $10-$50 price for a high-quality AAA title. And now, apparently charging $1 for an app upgrade is a big no-no as well (prior to this appstore business, that's how all software was sold. You buy version 2 and you then you pay for version 3). And that sucks.
The difference is that noticing it is much harder than "walking outside one day," and he's not just some homeowner.

Rather, it's a bank, and through your advanced knowledge of structural engineering, and at least several days of work, you find a weak point in the wall that would allow for easy, noiseless drilling, allowing their vault to be emptied in ten minutes.

I agree completely that Yahoo doesn't owe them a penny, and it would be reprehensible to find a "different market," as the grandparent alludes to. But it's not quite the same.
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I actually wrote an AngularJS directive to assist in integrating D3.js with automatic scope updates: https://github.com/beefsack/angular-d3

A little demo is in the repo too: http://rawgithub.com/beefsack/angular-d3/master/example/inde...
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In thinking about the t_stack allocator, I think I can see some cases for which you might want to use this instead of the alloca function, but there is not enough information to be sure if I am going down the correct mental path. Can you please explain when/why I should use t_stack instead of alloca?
I don't see any advocating; it's more a statement of fact.
I meant by design. Your example is a "bug in the implementation"
I can only speak anecdotally here, but in my experience as an IOS contractor if blackberry had doubled down on enterprise buyers, it wouldn't have mattered. Top executives were buying iphones despite the enterprise features, and they were forcing their internal IT departments to make room for them. It's also the reason that so many enterprise apps are made for iphone while android is ignored, the top brass want to see their companies app on their smartphone.
Toothbrushes are not a 'solved problem' because a toothbrush is not a problem.

Clean teeth is the problem (or cleaning teeth or not clean teeth or !clean_teeth). Toothbrush is a solution to the problem, this is another solution.

Just like you say 'solve flossing instead'. Flossing is not a problem, stuff stuck between your teeth causing decay is the problem.
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I do lump it in as sort of the bottom tip, in my mind.

But thanks for the clarification regarding the attention paid.
It's really a pretty specific idea initially coined in Clayton Christensen's book "The Innovator's Dilemma."

From the book, via Wikipedia:

"Generally, disruptive innovations were technologically straightforward, consisting of off-the-shelf components put together in a product architecture that was often simpler than prior approaches. They offered less of what customers in established markets wanted and so could rarely be initially employed there. They offered a different package of attributes valued only in emerging markets remote from, and unimportant to, the mainstream."

So the canonical example would be PCs disrupting the market for mainframes or minicomputers. Or as described in the book, less powerful hydraulic excavators disrupting steam-powered excavators. It's a good book, anyone who is interested in the business of technology should read it.

The contradiction is that disruptive products are usually much worse products than the ones they eventually replace. No one who owned a VAX or a mainframe looked at the first IBM PCs and thought that the PC was a "better" product. But the PC started cheaper, stayed cheaper and got better fast enough to displace minicomputers while at the same time opening up an entirely new market for computers that didn't exist before.

So much of this hinges on how you define what "disruptive" means. There's an argument to be made that the iPhone started the trend of phones & tablets disrupting the entire desktop PC industry, starting as "worse" products that eventually replaced the "better" product. I personally don't think you could really say the iPhone "disrupted" Blackberry per se - their relationship is more like early Compaq to IBM where Compaq/Apple put out a much better product that broke down barriers holding the original product back (e.g. Compaq decoupling bus speed from processor speed allowing them to ship a faster computer with an ISA-compatible bus for expansion cards).
"The final work shall not compete directly with Wizard War, in any mobile app store or on the web." - This line is too restrictive and keeps your custom license from being an open source license. The point of free and open source software is it protects your freedom to modify and distribute the software for any purpose.

Imagine if Microsoft Word distributed itself as "open source", with the exception that one can't use that source to compete with Word. You wouldn't really be able to do much with it, would you? Even simply distributing it to your friends would technically be "competing" with Word.
Yep it says I'm a cheap fuck. It was better for them not to pay and offer some other form of recognition if they weren't going to shell out some real money.
Hard to argue with this post. It really breaks out the "everyone can start a company" myth into something I've been trying to explain for a while.

The analogy I've been working with is comparing startups to the mid 2000s Poker boom - once the internet made it easier for anyone to play competitive poker, more and more people started doing it. Once one "regular guy" - Chris Moneymaker - won the WSOP and ESPN televised the hell out of it, poker rooms were flooded.

But who did you see still sitting back there taking in this new money? The same old guys who had been grinding out livings on the card table for years. The same guys you see regularly placing in the top 20 at WSOP events around the occasional flash in the pan newbies who get a hot streak.
It's a lot easier to relocate to Palo Alto from e.g. Davis than to anywhere in California from, say, St. Louis.
It's true that 99.99% percent of reports are either hoaxes or misinterpretation of venus or human aircrafts and that here is a lot of misinformation.

The only argument that I see is that there is no real explanation for the fact that most abductees describe the same experiences down to extreme details and even if the grey alien figure can be traced to subconcious influenced by media I don't see what could influence abductees to imagine sexual experiments, until a real explanation for this is found I don't think we can dismiss the probability.

Maybe there are no other proofs because they are really good at leaving no traces and probably don't want to provide them yet to avoid panicking the masses, in a world that 88,5% of the population is religious
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations I don't think this will be received too well and they probably understand this.
If you stick to a very literal reading of Christensen, the iPhone was disruptive to the PC market, but was simply a much better smartphone that its competitors. A product can be both better and worse depending on what you compare it to.
Sure, but it isn't clear or even very suggestive that the proposal above would help.
My startup is at the same stage as yours... I need seed capital to take it to the next step. (I'm building an HTML5 competitor to GoAnimate.com/PowToons and need to pay for artwork)

My plan is to do contract work to pay for artists. Since you don't live in the Valley and you don't have a team of ex-Googlers working with you... you either need to show off paying customers, or get ridiculous amounts of traction to have any chance of getting funding. Otherwise people might not take you seriously.

But maybe that's just my opinion, and other people have different experiences.
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I think that BB should have done two things... First, double-down on enterprise customers. Second, offer BB branded applications for iOS and Android phones. They could have been best-in-breed applications, and still kept devices with physical keyboards for their enterprise/die-hard customers.

They had a feature set that was early on, unmatched, and enough developer insight/knowledge and codebase that they could have beat other competitors at the application level for integrated contact/calendar/mail solutions for exchange integration.
Unless you had a full time job looking for your neighbors keys.
I've been contemplating seeing how well OCR can handle my handwriting. Fill a notebook, cut the spine off, feed it through a scanner and start a new notebook. That way I get diagrams, and the feel of writing on paper, but I can also grep.
Are those window controls (close, etc) drawn by kwin or firefox/extension?
Not quite. The main problem with GPL in the AppStore is that the GPL forbid additional terms and conditions to be added to the license, but Apple require that apps are distributed under their standard EULA or at least one that follows at minimum these terms and conditions, http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore...
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I think he or she wants you to be able to add features and improve the game but not use it to make their own game.
I'll be checking out the book now, but I'm wondering how many people are intrigued by the name rather than turned off by it.

As a Canadian, I should have had some exposure to Allonge, but sadly I do not, so I didn't know if this is a framework, methodology, etc. etc. Javascript Allonge is free, but that doesn't tell me what Allonge is. Javascript Allonge book is free. Ok, what is it going to teach me.

I'm happy to give it a read, and the reviews here are great, just wondering if you might have more success as an author with less cryptic titles.

Hope I don't come off sounding like an ass.
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The California fast-vs-passing lane pattern also emerges due to two
things that California requires that other US states tend not to require:
semi-trucks must go slower and keep right.

From the handbook cited above, or see also signage on many CA highways:
The maximum speed limit on most California highways is 65 mph. You may
drive 70 mph where posted. Unless otherwise posted, the maximum
speed limit is 55 mph on two-lane undivided highways and for vehicles
towing trailers.

...
When you tow a vehicle or trailer, or drive a bus or three or more axle
truck, you must drive in the right hand lane or in a lane specially
marked for slower vehicles. [emphases added]

On divided highways of 2 or 3 lanes in each direction, such as I-5 in
the Central Valley, these requirements strongly separate traffic into 2 sets -
semi-trucks doing 55-ish in the right lane, and non-trucks doing 65-70-ish
in the "fast" lane. (okay, yes, 85-ish, except in Kern County).

The results are that 1) over-the-road truckers dislike driving in CA,
and 2) CA non-truck drivers quickly learn to avoid the right lane.

The other 49 US states tend to have more of a "keep right except to
pass" pattern, depending of course on other local variations,
especially population density, traffic volume, and similar.

Source: someone who drives (and tows) in 18+ states per year.
The one feature I would like is the ability to stat over when drawing a spell. I would probably play for an extended single player
I suggest making the landing page a bit more clear... I sat there looking at the single sentence thinking, "What?" It's not so much a missing link between anything, as it is a way to create visualizations from your spreadsheet data, if you feel comfortable enough to paste it on a random website.
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This is essentially what you're advocating.

You have constructed an analogy so inapt that it threatens to suck all other dumb, unenlightening analogies on HN over its event horizon until it forms a sort of inapt hole from which dumb analogies could never escape.

Which would be a good thing, so good job!
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That's just cool: http://cl.ly/image/2a1q381Z3M09/Image%202013-10-01%20at%204....
I was pleased to see he figured it out by the final iteration.

>Fewer words
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"Before cell phones, I knew where every pay phone in Epcot was located, because I rarely got very far from one during the week I spent there with my family."

I found this interesting given that I started in business well before cell phones "back in the day" so to speak.

The fact that that the OP knew the pay phones seems to indicate to me that he carried around a beeper. One wonders though if what he was doing was consulting or rather something that required him to be in constant contact for another reason. And to be able to return calls almost immediately.
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Lame, poorly executed, and missing the point entirely.
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In the future, you should avoid committing your Parse application id and client key publicly... You don't want other dev's piggybacking on your account quota, though it's not really a security risk by itself. Considering it's already there, make sure you've implemented Class-level security to protect your data. https://www.parse.com/docs/data#security-classes
Well, I envisioned this as a way of sharing emails without email. Specifically into social networks (e.g. twitter).

Imagine you want to leak something. You'd use this tool. I actually bought http://www.email2leak.com/
This. Not to mention anecdotally the ego contests involved (e.g. my friend is on the board of Big Name Cultural Institution and they have a really nice iOS app). Of course, Big Name Cultural Institution has a budget 10x yours. But really having an iPhone app was a status symbol. It has since become a critical business need but back in 2010 it was mostly about board member's egos.
On days when the government isn't shut down, they post his full schedule to http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule =P.
Too much white space. Plus it looks more like a blog rather than a news site. Why go with only two columns and not taking advantage of the rest of the screen real estate. Sure it looks tidy, clean and it’s responsive but I can’t say I’m impressed.

By the way, what happened to the tags? I don’t see them in any article.
This is a great rundown. Two things for consideration:

-Part of the benefit of a burr grinder is that you get consistent results. For espresso, where the grind affects how much time the water spends in contact with the grounds, it's essential. This might be why burr grinders are generally held in higher esteem. For coffee, this doesn't matter as much.

-Another benefit to a burr grinder is that you don't have to hold the darn thing down while you're grinding coffee, or turn it upside down and risk dumping grounds all over the place.
Since the article itself only linked to it:

"Each of the discovered vulnerabilities allowed any @yahoo.com email account to be compromised simply by sending a specially crafted link to a logged-in Yahoo user and making him/her clicking on it."[1]

[1] https://www.htbridge.com/news/what_s_your_email_security_wor...
I wonder how quick this would run afoul of the Secret Service, let alone there are probably laws they can twist to intimidate if not detail people, shut down sites, and do random searches of associated computers.

I seriously doubt based on his history he is going to give a damn. Considering how insular DC is he would most likely have support on both sides of the aisle if this ever took off.
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