skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a somewhat different perspective on this. Apps cost people something much more valuable than the small amounts of money in question: attention. Most people find learning new software to be a chore. So every app they download has a cost in attention, in learning how to use it, however simple that might be, and some of them have a cost in money as well. If the app is free, they know they can abandon it instantly if it doesn't give them value right away, and lose almost nothing. If it costs money, they will feel obliged to get more value out of it, but that means committing to spend even more attention. When you buy a cup of coffee, you're getting attention back because someone else is taking on the slightly fiddly business of making coffee, and once you have it, there is nothing to learn, you can just enjoy it.

Viewing software transactions as paying attention, rather than money, for value, makes a lot of these markets make more sense. Because if you offer something that will reduce the net amount of attention they have to pay, they'll often gladly give you money for it.
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I see no section 7.6. [EDIT: Section 6.6 looks potentially relevant to the conversation.]
Indeed, interesting to known why. The domain came online at May 2, 1991.
You know what? I wrote borrow but changed it to lend. I guess I will never learn (memorize) it. Something like the difference between schwul und schwül (gay vs. humid). My English girl friend could never tell which is which and some days, the weather was gay.
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What I want to know is the PC that they are using. I love to use Linux on my computers but always have a hard time making sure that the hardware is completely compatible. I hope such adoptions lead to better hardware compatibility with cheaper commodity hardware. I've had a few weird experiences:

1. Previous laptop: wifi under Linux didn't connect to certain networks, wile the same machine connected to all networks under windows.

2. Current desktop: Under Linux, it will sometimes freeze with no errors reported (usually under heavy and sustained CPU and graphics usage) but nothing of the sort happens under windows.

And these issues are really hard to figure out for non systems programmers like me.
A lot of people pay a lot less than $2 for coffee.
A fair point, thanks, but I still think the company would be better served by nailing down what they need in employees rather than nailing down whether or not there is beer.
What was registering a domain name like in 1986-87?
> It's called politics & lobbying.

That is a generic explanation that offers absolutely zero insight about this particular incident. From the article, the regulator waited for 3 months for Google to comply, after which it threatened to impose fines. Any other regulator around the world would have done the same when faced with a company refusing to abide by its laws.
Oh. I thought the discussion was not about what type to cast when using printf (I agree, only `%lld`/`long long` fits perfectly), but what type to use for `time_t` internally. Sorry if I misunderstood and missed the point.
>but to only disprove the author's sweeping claim that the lack of a pedigree is some unsurmountable obstacle to succeed in India.

I didn't get that from reading the OP's article at all. I heard him saying that the lack of a pedigree is perceived by people in India as an insurmountable obstacle. You may disagree with that. Personally, I have no idea. But there's a difference between what you're accusing him of saying and what he actually said.
So the whole point is to compile JS to LUA bytecode, the rest is pretty common in all those IOT-related kickstarter projects these days.
I would expect four PHDs from MIT to make JS to LUA compilers,even then, why not just use LUA directly, all language has its shiny spots in the real world, in this case, why do I need use JS at all? is LUA that hard to use or should we really use JS for everything?
Personally I would have

1: Added a users resource beneath the mailing list, ie

resources :users
resources :mailing_lists do
resources :users
end

add_foo is almost always a sign that a new nested controller should be made, and there is almost always a need for a delete as well - in this case users should be able to remove themselves from a mailing list.

2: Put the add method on the mailing list and not on the user, because that is where I'd expect the least logic to be.

because:

3: I'd put the actual mailing list mailer logic in a separate class for the configuration of it.
The general thrust of Wikipedia policy is that on religion, sexuality and other similar issues, self-identity trumps all.

We've had all sorts of problems with this: there was an actor a few years ago who gave an interview to a British gay magazine talking about how he was out as gay. But then the prospect of him becoming big in Hollywood came along and his agent wanted to erase this, or sort of have it fade away into ambiguity. What do you do in those kinds of circumstances?

The flip side of that is I've cleaned up horrible biographies written by people who absolutely loathe particular people without even a faint hint of neutrality.
The key draw of running Node.js code in the embedded environment for me is that it works out of the box with all the web libraries that I'm already familiar with. With Node.js I can easily leverage existing modules to do things like make a device that responds to social media by accessing my Twitter account and when it sees a new tweet mentioning my company make a light flash or something like that.

I would hate to try to code such a program in C for connecting to the web. Sure I could definitely do it if I took a couple weeks off, but from what it looks like I'll be able to code that program in under an hour using the Node.js I already know and the libraries that the open source community has already developed.

Anyway, that's why I ordered a Tessel and am looking forward to developing with it. If it turns out that I really fall in love with embedded programming then sure I'll bust out the C compiler and learn the low level coding. But in the meantime I welcome the chance to learn about Node.js in a familiar environment where I can get stuff built quickly using a toolset I already know.
>If you want to work in an environment full of rowanmannings, that is your prerogative

I have worked in an environment with one rowanmanning in it. It was awesome.

A more open-minded, funny, smart and generous guy you couldn't hope to meet. More to the point, he was one of the best coders any of us had ever worked with.

A company full of rowanmannings would therefore be a chilled out place where we'd learn from each other while having a laugh and turning out enough quality code to crush an army of pizza-fuelled dinosaur brogrammers waving their false-victimhood like a banner.
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What I want is to have each story that reaches 500 points to be emailed to me instantly, without waiting to be grouped in a digest.
Where domain names case sensitive then?
Names such as "Bell-ATL.com" are listed which use capitals as they please. Is this just so we can recognize the company name more easily or are they actually registered like that?
You mean a job is sometimes work? How weird.
Without needing to support sideloading, Apple could let users group apps on the store into their own collections, which other users could browse. They could even let the users theme them, somewhat like Apple's own decorated collections -- and give the "curator" a user ends up purchasing from a small cut (5-10%) of the sale price.

In other words, replicate the well-trodden player-vendor system from MMOs.
The OP himself reckons the hobby is fine. It's the job that sucks. Sure, you can take some quality programming time outside your job, and the OP does exactly that, but your day job is still taking a huge chunk off your life.

When a job sucks, the solution hardly lies in what you do in your spare time. First, I would try to improve the job, or enjoy it, or quit it, or annihilate it (we're programmers, annihilating jobs is what we do). And if all that fails or otherwise isn't worth my efforts, then I will give up and learn to love my spare time.

When someone is complaining their job sucks, my first reflex isn't to tell them to man up, cheer up, or give up. It's not helping. instead, I ask myself what could be done about it.
Cool! One feature suggestion: a .joblintrc file or configuration option. Some people are very proficient with Eclipse or Vim & would actually prefer to work with it for example. Nice tool- I hope recruiters & HR authors use it!
That's pretty cool. Are you looking for developers, or ?

What do you use to drive the tests? I'm most familiar with Behat.
The lawyers setup a non profit and applied for status as a 501c3. All the donations are going towards legal expenses and any related travel...the team is spread out between San Francisco, NYC, DC and of course myself in Dallas.
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I'd actually be interested in some statistics for this; maybe an automated tool that scans my phone and tabulates how much I've paid for apps? In any case, I definitely have dozens of $0.99 apps. You're correct that they're sometimes wildly different in value, but I'm also definitely glad I've paid for them and supported the developer in some sense: I couldn't have bought all those apps at $20 a pop.

If they were universally more expensive I'd just have a lot fewer apps; certainly fewer than I would ideally have paid for previously. That'd be better for a minority of developers but worse for the rest.

I find it interesting that I indirectly benefit a lot from VC money too, because of my free apps they can roughly be split into two groups: ill-designed, crappy apps with ads, and really well designed, useful apps which I assume are largely paid for by VC money because I don't see how they'd make money otherwise. There are very few which are free and very useful and just, apparently, made out of good will/for the fun of it. But perhaps I'm way off base here and/or being overly cynical.

(And I'm a fan of Dark Sky too, but I can get the same info off Forecast.io for free (same team, same data) after all.)
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So you're saying it should be designed more like http://www.piku.jp/ then? :-)
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Wait, every single name here is a .com. I thought the Internet was non-commercial at first -- where are the .edu, .org, etc.? Did those not come until later, or is this list restricted?
I am not a programmer any more but working in the industry (InfoSec).. I remember a really smart guy who worked with us said he would be happy with 8-10 weeks of really exciting work each year.
I agree with him.. if I have 8-12 weeks of really cool work that challenes me and the rest of the year is average, mundane work.. I will take it.
whatever job spec i pipe, it tells "No issues found with the job spec!"
Quite; Google's Paris office building alone cost €100 million.

http://www.vincentabry.com/en/new-google-french-headquarters...
I think you underestimate the power of narcissism. People will develop and distribute free apps of relatively good quality just to get recognition for it. Consequently there is, and will be for some time I think, less of the pressure you indicate, simply because there will be a higher ratio of (relative) quality free apps to paid.

On the other point, I'd argue there will be "freemium spammy junk" no matter what the market conditions were in the mobile app space. Compare it with, e.g. the e-publication market for books, "shareware" or even the desktop or web-app space. There is plenty of "freemium junk" there.
No, domain names have always been case-insensitive, just like e-mail addresses.
If you're going to be a pro athlete, you need to love to practice, drill, and train, not just play. If you're going to be a race car driver, you have to love to hear the sound of the engine and feel the vibration as you go down the road, not just the thrill of winning. If you're going to be a musician, you need to love the feel of the instrument in your hand. If you're going to be a writer, you need to love words, grammar, typing, and editing. If you're going to be a painter, you need to love working with paint, not just imagining great subjects.

If you're going to dedicate your life to programming, you have to love code: syntax, text editing, refactoring, commenting, testing, debugging, tuning. All of that low-level stuff. The problem-solving and learning-new-technology fun parts are just the icing on the cake.
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I'm getting a degree in computer science started at 31 graduating the end of this year. There's lots of people in my program in their mid thirties and several in their early 40's.

I think that in my opinion you can learn what you need to know to be employable in comp sci in a few years, so by the time your 34 or 35 you'll have the tools you need to function in the field.

Experience is very ephemeral in this field because things change so rapidly.

You have a major advantage in web dev if you're good at design. I can code to the stars but I can't design my way out of a cardboard box so I'm always reliant on artists and designers.
I just checked out the website. So it doesn't have any jobs in programming/development/engineering?
What is the best email/calendar/contact manager on Linux?
It's not unusual for a nation to have multiple police forces with overlapping jurisdictions. And I don't see it as a problem in and of itself. In Ottawa, Canada, for example, because it is the national capital there are three police forces with jurisdiction within the city: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the federal gendarmerie force), the Ontario Provincial Police, and the Ottawa Police Service. As far as I know, and I live in Ottawa, it works out well.

But back to France. I imagine that IT costs are a small portion of the gendarmerie or police's budget. Most of it would be taken up by wages for the officers and staff and maintenance of equipment and facilities. Merging France's two police forces would do little to reduce those costs, since the combined organization would have the union of the two organizations' duties.
What this article fails to mention is the most interesting aspect of the GTAV stock market.

You can buy stock in a company and then accept missions to assassinate a competitors keep employees!
You're right. My mistake.

I like automata and I think regexes are good for some things, but I definitely agree about the crappy syntax. When working in CL, I loved Edi Weitz' CLPPCRE package which allowed you to specify regexes using either the traditional broken string form or an s-exp syntax. Much cleaner.
Good arguments. We had silverlight, and Adobe Air / Flex that may or may not have been trying to displace JS - but they were ways to program in the Browser. Sure they were put forward as solutions by companies that had an agenda.

Such a language also is dependent on HTML-standards.

We should see interpreters for other languages written in JS - or is that far fetched?
Also of note: the unknown Keith Haring drawings in some kind of color version of MacPaint (I want to say it was probably PixelPaint as I'm pretty sure MacPaint was only monochrome...)

https://twitter.com/mennerich/status/380734234299621376/phot...
> Actually, the USA is founded upon the need for a strong central government following the failure of the Continental Congress (under the Articles of Confederation) to yield stable governance or economic growth, culminating in Shays' rebellion (although the Constitutional Convention had already been called by that time).

Never mind the part about a war a decade or so earlier caused by deep seated distrust towards the former government.
You're not required to use Facebook to donate. I just signed up and donated without using Facebook at all.
Official sidebar example: http://getbootstrap.com/examples/offcanvas/

Full disclosure: I started the work on it, then mdo and fat refined it to meet their standards.
It's looking like the district court appeal is going to cost between 70k and 100k. I'll need to raise allot more if the fight goes onto the supreme court. I'm told a typical supreme court case will cost 250k and up...
If you wanted to keep the same informality, "guys and gals" would be the appropriate way to do this. As stated above, girl is a female child.
Dividends are tax free (at least in the UK)

That's only true up to £32,010 and if you're earning £125k or so and extracting most of that through dividends, the majority of your dividend income should be attracting 22.5% and 27.5% tax after discounting, no?
As a user of Kippt, this is patently false.
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Before submitting this, I wanted the app I've been working on posted on the App Store. Notegraphy it's a simple tool that help you to produce beautiful texts for sharing as you want.

We've made it with rails, AWS and HTML5/CSS3 and JS, also Boostrap. You can use it with a browser or the native iPhone/iPad app.

I'm posting this just to get your valuable feedback. Everything is welcome and, remember this is aimed for all kind of people, not just hackers!

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I would happily donate bitcoins.
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The examples you point out only make this obsession sadder and more ironic, though. In other words, it can be the case that all of your examples are true and people in India still are obsessed with the MBA or engineering degree.
Don't force strict sign up on people. If I wasn't working in the WCMS space I would have left your sign up. First you tell me my last name is too short. I don't want to give it and who are you to ask for it just to try your product. Next you told me my password is to short. Are you a bank? Stock trader? anything personally important to people? Don't force people into a password model that does not fit with your product. Don't use captcha and activation email this early in your product life. You need sign ups. I am at work but I am using a Hotmail account which I can't access from work. Now I have to wait until tonight or tomorrow to try it. The first thing I should see when I go to your site is what is the product and why should I try it. When I got there I saw a message about beta ending and go to the "Store" to download. Well why do I want to download? What are you offering that is different from Joomla,Drupal, etc. As I said since I work in the WCMS space I am still going to take a look but I would have liked to have read 3-4 sentences on what I am getting first.
This is the first public announcement (I have seen) of a large government agency using open source desktop OSs. I've seen articles about tech companies using Linux for Desktops, and other articles that mention large organizations using Linux Desktops but the couldn't specify the company specifically (dont know if it was US based or not). I have doubts about a large US non-tech organization actually using Linux for their desktops. The user training would have to momentous and cant imagine the IT support personnel/time needed to successfully implement this kind of change. To be honest I cant even imagine my company or others even switching to Open Office.

I am glad that this is working out for the French, I wonder if their are any US government agencies that would consider a switch like this.
It is when you have enough years in and with BT's redundancy terms you can max out your pension (ie if you worked any longer you would not get any more pension) get a huge tax free bung plus £60k ss on top.
Here's the deal: this is a personal project I wrote for myself (and anyone else who wants to use it).

I decided some time ago that I wasn't going to worry about making stuff work in IE unless I was getting paid for it. In this case, I'm not. It's free (it doesn't even have ads). I don't use IE. I don't even know anyone who uses IE. Even my older non-technical family members use Chrome (or Safari, if they have Macs).

I've spent way too much time working around IE brokenness to want to do it for fun.

Microsoft has had 18 years to fix IE. They still haven't done it. At this stage, it's not my problem (again, unless I'm getting paid).

Sorry.
How many of these have been in continuous ownership since first being registered? I'm sure quite a few of them have, but I'd be curious. (For example, I'd have a hard time believing that "Marble.com" is the same entity today that it was 30 years ago, and WhoIs info goes back only so far).
Yes, Ask HN, Show HN, are also included. The only thing that's not are job postings.
How about this:

1. a die (D6, D20, etc) enclosed in a clear dome with a base that will pop and cause it to fly into the air and land. The base would ideally be made to pop electronically, maybe by a servo

2. a camera directly overhead the die which feeds into a computing device

3. OCR software that receives the camera input and outputs the number on the die
The "iOS customer" of five years ago (the wealthy early adopter) didn't mind paying for stuff. Those customers are still there, and still buying iPhones (probably gold 5Ses now), and apps for them. But now there are way more, more price-sensitive consumers (the people buying those 5Cs, the people who still have an iPhone 4, etc.) and they have much the same buying behavior as (commodity) Android consumers.

In other words, there's still money in the market -- but it's a fixed supply of money (there are a fixed number of wealthy early adopters) vs. an ever-growing number of developers grabbing at it. The only way to get back to where we were would be to make a new app store that required new apps to be designed from scratch for the wealthy users to early-adopt all over again. (...and that's fairly clearly what iOS7 is trying to do, isn't it?)
That's not bookmarks, that's a minimal quick-dial.

What do you do for pages where you say "this is really good, I'll save this"?
"Sometimes I also think if it would be different if I was born several decades earlier. Back then, software engineering was in its infancy."

I think a lot of people can relate to this. I've often wished I could have finished college right before the .com boom, because it would have been so obvious to me that the internet was going to be big. Or would it have been? Hindsight is 20/20. If you had been born decades earlier you likely wouldn't even be into programming.
The "We're hiring" posts are excluded by default. And yeah, a exclude filter in general would be pretty useful.

Thanks for the tip!
1. Fantastic use of current web technologies.

2. Localized for privacy-minded individuals.

3. Stupid simple to use.

Fantastic tool! Might not be everyone's cup of tea, but Rome wasn't built by the Internet Peanut Gallery. :)

Keep up the good work!
Poll: How often do you see ads for Treehouse?
Visited their site once (teamtreehouse.com), and now I see an ad every day. Are these guys pouring a ton of money into customer acquisition? Is there that much demand for the education services they offer?
once or twice a month
once or twice a week
multiple times a day
It is better to not have a test at all than to have a test that looks a lot like what it is testing. I never uderstood that crazy push for 100% unit test coverage that some are advocating. Unit tests are just one tool among many. Use with care and where appropriate.
How about a camera looking at the sky/weather. That's pretty random. (The attacker would have to float a blimp over your office ;))
That was exactly how I converted for my own personal use. I gradually replaced all my Windows applications with cross-platform FOSS applications and finally switched from Windows to Ubuntu.
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