skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are right that the apps that "win big" are going to be the volume free apps. That being said, people are still spending a lot of money those games, it's just not up front.

Also, as an indie, I'm honestly not aiming for Candy Crush success. It might be possible to get in that vicinity like Tiny Wings, but it seems absurdly unlikely. I'm perfectly content to make a good living selling niche apps, and there is a big market available for it. Candy Crush and Clash of Clans aren't making all 5 billion Apple paid out last year.
> Are angry goat farmers with rifles de-facto Al Quaeda?

Yes. It's like "Kleenex" for tissues. As with Kleenex, the fact that it's overused doesn't mean there isn't a genuine brand.
Distributing it across should work well. Throwing out not so much because you're losing a varying big chunk of data.
It would be interesting to know if the devs there are long time haskell developers, or if new hires could easily be trained in haskell.
Hi,
Currently we do only support editing document created in GWD, but we are outputting HTML, CSS and JS. We only add some author time data in order to enhance the authoring experience but otherwise everything else is just plain HTML and CSS. Our minified JS is only added for the Ads use case and to support the rendering of Canvas shapes.

Also we are still in Beta and we are working on adding many more features for our 1.0 release. Feel free to submit any features request through our public forums.

Thanks, Google Web Designer team.
So is your contention that no one identifies as a member of Al Qaida or that no groups of people identify themselves as belonging to an Al Qaida affiliated cell?

If that is your contention then I may assume that you dismiss the plethora of government and media reports which state that this is the case on the basis that such reports are untrustworthy.

Ok.

But then why do you trust the government issued ID that indicates that someone is from North Dakota? And how do you know that these people that claim to be from North Dakota are not in fact government stooges that are meant to deceive you?
I'm using Firefox 23 at the moment if it matters.
This kind of double standard makes me sick: Driver-related problem on Windows? It's the fault of the driver, of course. Driver-related problem on GNU/Linux? I don't care whose fault it is, I'm just going to blame "Linux".

Basically, manufacturers are supposed to write NT device drivers, but for Linux, the onus is on Linux contributors (which sometimes happen to be the manufacturer). While ridiculous by itself, it also points to a deeper problem:

Why do we need a driver per device per OS? Come to think of it, why do we need drivers at all? Aren't such things supposed to live mainly in the firmware?
Me too, first basic then assembly.

One of my favourite games was R-Type, and this book is a great read. I'm rationing myself so I have some left for tomorrow evening!
The SVG spec has been around for so long, but the fact that it competed directly with SWF held it back. Adobe was a major proponent of SVG until they bought Flash and focused their efforts accordingly.

Although SVG is "readable" in a text editor, all but the simplest shapes are extremely complex and require the use of graphics editors such as Inkscape. Vector formats are definitely the future for source images as they can generate any size bitmap you need for any device. However, as a delivery format, SVG will likely be relegated to niche and specialized sites (e.g. data visualizations and animations) for quite a while.
Retina displays are removing the need to worry about this. When pixels are invisible, hinting problems are invisible too.
How to Design and Create Engaging Email Newsletters: Quartz UX Teardown
There are probably some people with a legitimate claim to the brand, but I suspect that at this point most of them are dead and that "Al Quaeda" is more like "Aspirin" than "Kleenex".

Yeah, anything called "aspirin" is still going to be acetylsalicylic acid, and anything called "Al Quaeda" is still shooting at us and needs to be shot, but do these names really signal any deeper sort of affiliation anymore?
Wow. This almost makes me want to reactivate my facebook. Powerful post, bravo!
> But I remember well downloading stuff from gatekeeper.dec.com.

Wow, you just gave my flashbacks... metalab, sunsite, ftp.cdrom.com, ...

And not sure why this one just popped into my mind as it's totally unrelated to any of those: the Internet Oracle http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi
Smells like FrontPage spirit.
Jobot, a JS demo of Full-Text Search using Cloudant
True, Millennials are perhaps less enamored with big corporate structure and traditional career trajectories ... The reality is that Millennials aren’t married to the corporations they work for

So how is it "busted"? You just admitted it was all true.
For 1px lines the only thing you have to remember is to put the points on half-pixels (annoying, but you can just wrap a <g transform='translate(0.5 0.5)> around your drawing if needed. The other thing would be shape-rendering='crispEdges' which also helps, but not everywhere.
My reading of it was that "Senior intelligence officials" could mean anyone that actually agreed with Snowden but didn't have the balls or opportunity to go through with what he did. Now they're taking the opportunity to twist the knife so maybe real change will come about. In other words, it's possible that not everyone in the NSA/government thinks what the NSA is doing is good, and will take the opportunity to point out its ineptness. I doubt Snowden was the only person in the NSA who didn't like what he was seeing.
Maybe the problem is that people get educated as computer scientists, and get hired as software programmers. While the area of expertise has a large overlap, they value very different qualities in the way you work.
Too true and common. A friend of mine in sales taught me to make sure you reach out to everyone who matters to you in some fashion on a regular schedule. To put it on your calendar. I never gave it much thought outside business, but it's something I'm going to start doing.
There is.. But the lunch is most likely shitty, leftover ikea meatballs from the 90s.
Strange, it makes me feel glad I actually phone my friends.
Not in the long-term sense, the same way that colonizing another planet is not irrational in the long-term sense. We'll need to be a multi-planetary species if we expect to survive longer than most of the other species on Earth. Putting all your eggs in one basket (especially one that we seem keen on destroying ourselves) is an inherently risky proposition.

When the first explorers were sailing around the Earth, it was for the sake of exploration, and the possibility of riches/gold/spices. But it certainly wasn't entirely rational, as a lot of them didn't know where they were going, and had no idea of what they'd find when they got there.
I come from a fishing town in Alaska and a year or so ago all of the people from my hometown started to show up on Facebook. I had been away for a very long time, lived all over the world, and only just started to get back in touch with my roots.

Fishing is dangerous work. Over the last year I slowly learned how many people had died. I learned about more when I finally went back up to visit. The fisherman's memorial was a tough thing to walk by. It was even tougher to hear that people I had loved had died one, two, five years earlier and I had no idea.

Life is short. Maintain those friendships.
So, after reading the article and seeing that smart devices are often targets... I have to ask, is there an app that would help in these kinds of cases?

I'm picturing an app with a button on the main screen. Press the button, device location is uploaded periodically to a server. For bonus points, make the device look like it is powered off (although I suppose there really isn't much you can do if they pull the battery).

After the fact, you might get lucky and the data reveals where the device went, which police might be able to use to track down who did it. Not sure if anything like this exists (don't have a smartphone), but it seems like something that might be useful if you live in an area where this happens a lot.
Google Web Designer beta now available
Can you explain the reasons behind this behavior?
You may not be able to make it look good at all resolutions, but it's often adequate to make it look good at some minimum and anything above. You can do that without hinting.
Bitlock replaces your bike key with your phone
I tried to make a better console for Node too![1]

[1]https://npmjs.org/package/better-console
I haven't had this happen, but something similar. One of my friend's dad passed away while I was away for college. This was before Facebook and since we went to different schools I didn't end up finding out for 6 months or a year.
The math still holds if you assume buying back after the drop.

Think of it this way - in both cases you're selling today, and buying later. The only difference is the "hold the whole market first" strategy requires more capital. (There are market technical differences too, but for short time periods these aren't as significant)
after reading sandi metz POODR[1], I tend to prefer the approach on the post too. However, I also must say that the time it takes to execute unit tests, even with factories, db access etc is still an order of magnitude faster than running things like feature tests with capybara. This is by far the biggest drain on test time (and resources), and these are also the tests most difficult to write and maintain. Way too often, when we decide to change some functionality, there's a whole battle with tweaking capybara tests to work again.

Perhaps I'm showing my lack of knowledge or experience with capybara, or integration testing, but that's one aspect I wish there were some better tools / approaches. Having to dig through css/xpath elements to click on or perform interaction is still a major PITA. If anybody has some suggestions to share, I'd love to learn more!

[1]http://www.poodr.com/
I was super impressed with app.io when I used it. TestFlight works awesome for on device demos, but is still a bit of work to get it going. Appio let me quickly show my designer how his design was looking without having to actually set up his device, I was happy. I wish (and I told them this via email) there was a price point between free and $1200/yr.
NoScript blocks all javascript except for a whitelist you have to construct. That's way too disruptive as a general solution. We need something easy and automatic.
True but not always true.
Our application (http://syncpadapp.com) is free to download and to use up to 3 simultaneous users. If you need more we offer a "pro" plan at $5 for up to 30 simultaneous people. You'd be surprised by how many people are asking me for a discount rate on a $5/mo plan for an app that they use daily...
I'm curious, why not...

<div id="rectangle"></div>

#rectangle { width: 200px; height: 150px; background #FF0000; }

...by default?
[Not trolling, genuinely interested in the answer]

> * SVG can creat sub-Flash-like performance if used carelessly

Could you elaborate on that? What should I be aware of if exporting vector art from, say, Illustrator or Inkscape?
As one of the older folks on HN, I can tell you that death in the age of facebook is strange in that even when they are gone there's still a "there-ness" to them thanks to left over accounts. Its almost like at any moment, a tweet will pop up or an update to a wall... Perhaps that's the 21st century version of seeing ghosts.
I would work on refining your pitch about why someone should sign up for Cove.

Look at this clip from Mad Men about Don Draper pitching "The Wheel". I feel like your product falls into a similar category. This might help you refine your message or spark a new way to sell people on Cove. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bLNkCqpuY
I think the point is: Either you do it because you love it or you do it because it pays well.

What must be noted is that there are other jobs that pay just as well, and do not entail as much complexity and pain.

Just ask all the hustlers who make us build their pyramids.
My point, in this case, is that your analogy is shit.

My point in other places in this discussion is that I suspect "Al Queada" is more like "Anonymous". There are people who self-identify as "Anonymous", and there are other people who identify others as "Anonymous". Are any of them actually members? If my barber claims to be apart of "Anonymous", is he actually? Is "actual membership" even a concept that makes sense? I think that these are entities or affiliations that does not exist in the ways that we have traditionally thought of them. Both have become something new entirely; a concept that we don't yet have effective language for.
FleetOS is out of stealth mode. So much more than an MDM
Why in holy hell is this on hackernews?
It's pretty common. Apple builds this functionality into all of theirs, for example:

http://www.apple.com/icloud/find-my-iphone.html

There are Android apps that will do the same thing.

The problem is getting the police to care about a relatively minor crime, and getting to the phone before the thief (or his fence) wipes it, or ships it to Vietnam or wherever.
Facebook and HTTPS
When I search using Facebook search box the navigator lose https protocol if i press intro quickly (without selected instant search). Is this the usual behavior of facebook?
The US implies they are all organized together, taking central commands, sharing information, coordinating activities, with a common purpose

No it doesn't. The decentralized nature of Al-Qaeda and the potential threat of 'self-recruiting' actors like the Tsarnaevs is one of the justifications for the NSA's all-pervasive surveillance.

First discard any reports originating with US officials (do they ever tell the truth about anything?)

Why? You can't set up a framework for Occam's Razor on the premise that American officials are incapable of telling the truth, which is logically absurd (as is the premise by extension that sources other than American ones are by definition more trustworthy.)

The simplest and more plausible hypothesis is that there are many independent parties resisting or retaliating for foreign (US, UK, euro) aggressions, and that the rest (building them up like 'super villains' in silly movies) is just elaborated as propaganda.

I'm not aware that anyone in the media or the government has ever 'built them up like super villains in silly movies'.
I believe the simpler and more plausible hypothesis is that, in fact, Al-Qaeda once existed as an organized group, but now mostly exists as a 'franchise', or even an 'ideal' which yes some groups may identify with and others might be identified with. I don't think that necessarily proves that Al Qaeda is a fabrication, however, much less a fiction invented to justify American aggression.
We will be using it in production for a current project.
Indeed. When my 10 year high school reunion came, we were surprised by several "Who knew?" instances of people passing away. It was always people 2 removed. With social media the amount of people 1 removed is closer, and it's easier to contact folks, but it's still a surprise to hear about young folks in that "see every year or so category" go. It's a shame when it's cancer.
It's built into Android as well: https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
IAmA co-founder of reddit, Alexis Ohanian
"You don’t know what sort of rollercoaster rides the economy will take your retirement savings on, and you also don’t know what rate of inflation will persist through your lifetime. Will a box of eggs cost $6.00 a dozen when you’re 65, or will it be closer to $60? How can we possibly know how much money we will need to live on in retirement?... Inflation eats 3% on average, leaving you with 4% to spend reliably, forever."

And then MMM goes on to mathematically justify that 4% number: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-need...
For the raw coding part you are describing that is true, but the bar for what people consider a worthwhile app has also risen substantially in the same amount of time. I can build a native iOS app in a day, but I wouldn't consider it releasable to the app store without a good bit more work.
You can use SVGWeb as fallback solution for IE6-8 user: http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/
> As for the couple hundred guys making multiple millions a year who you hear about all the time? Well, there’s even more engineers who have struck it rich with a startup, and no baseball player will ever come close to Zuckerberg-level wealth.

You are comparing employees to a CEO and business owner (which doesn't have anything to do with technology, other than for the initial lines of code). Of course he has more wealth.
thanks for replying but doesn't interest me
One of my favorite games I played on my Spectrum and on a friend's Amiga.
Those were the cases I knew where a manufacturer goes and says "here's an electronic recipe to fix some of the issues we couldn't on the lens", you're still getting the uncorrected photo from the camera and then choosing to fix something in post, but the lens is supposed to work to a high standard without any fixing.

The example ErsatzVerkehr mentioned in m43 and is done in some compacts is more "we have a lens+sensor+software combo that spits out a correct photo and you never see uncorrected results". The difference is that you can design lenses that without correction produce unacceptable results.
You're describing "Find My iPhone". I was mugged for my iPhone twice in NYC. The thieves turned the phone off relatively quickly and reset it, which rendered Find My iPhone useless at the time. It was tied to the Apple ID rather than the device (not sure if that's since changed).

As of iOS 7, you can actually remotely render the phone unusable. I've heard NYPD is now handing out flyers advising people to update their iOS devices to iOS 7[1] so they can take advantage of this feature.

While most crime in NYC has declined, smartphone robberies are -- as in Oakland -- majorly up y/y.

[1]https://twitter.com/Hoffm/status/381564392602480640/photo/1
I guess you mean "brand recognition" ?
I'm no expert in this but I suppose just like how they check for plagiarism in essays.

They usually compare submissions with other submissions, past submissions and also against similar references on the internet in case a match is found on some website.
This looks like a great read. It must have been challenging to do a decent arcade conversion for the 8 bit home computers. The spectrum was probably slower than the z80 sound cpu in the arcade board.
Previous discussion on app.io

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6184270
Not being familiar with core.typed: does it support parametric polymorphism? Can you dispatch based on types (e.g. typeclasses)?
That's great to hear!

However my point still stands. Windows is really behind Mac in regards to development software (or any type of software in general). Maybe I'm underestimating the Windows ecosystem, but that's been my observation over the years. I'd like to be proven wrong.
I thought that Intel made a nodejs logging tool, little did I know that the tool is just called Intel.

I feel slightly disappointed (no offence op)...
This one is generally highly recommended. Didn't work for my laptop, but I think it was stolen by professionals that wiped it without ever powering it on.

http://preyproject.com/
Surprisingly, even though the original version was built in ruby, people are taking the structure and using it in .NET, Java, etc. A lot of things we had to build in ruby already exist as things like interfaces in other statically typed languages.

In a language like Scala Obvious is literally just a way you would organize your program, not so much a library. It already has everything else you need, even things like immutability (if you're into that kind of thing). I just wish it compiled faster.

Obviouscasts is built on Obvious. I built a cool pluggable newsletter tool that you could trivially plug in Mailchimp, Mailgun, Sendgrid, or just your boring SMTP stuff to it. It was a heroku deployable newsletter so that you didn't have to pay monthly fees to a company like AWeber, Mailchimp, etc. just to collect emails for a list that won't be used very often.

I'm working on building out some new things in go with Obvious architecture behind them.

At my old job, some of the Obvious structure ended up powering the ruby services behind StBaldricks.org, which does $30+ million in donations and millions of page views a year.

I honestly don't know of many more examples beyond that, but it's a very small project and it was open sourced in January.
PG please put a RFS for a crowd sourced security system for neighborhoods. Police forces are not scalable.
This is what's missing from the app store (not sure if there are similar products out there). Screen shots can only show you so much about an apps interface prior to purchase. Demo's like this are how you get me to buy a $5 app when I'd probably balk at the $1 version with no demo.
By providing valuable, interesting content, maybe?
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/facebook_likes
Can you describe better why they see it as such? The key risk I see in Haskell is the lack of enterprise-y libraries.
gmail/google calendar/google contacts. I've been a desktop Linux user for 14 years, and while Evolution worked well enough for a while, it really stagnated about 8 years ago as all the users switched to webmail. I tell chrome to pretend it's on Windows and use Outlook Web Access when I need to interact with Exchange, and I actually like that better than outlook on windows anyway, but nothing beats gmail.
Congrats to Matei and Prof Stoica on the new company.
In my experience, virtually every coding task takes longer to do "the best way" than the quickest or easiest way. Many times it takes much longer. Either you are a savant-like exception to this rule, or your velocity is (significantly) lower than it could be.

Don't get me wrong, I push for doing things the right way whenever I can, but acting like you can have it all with no compromises seems silly.
Umm, no. A cup of coffee is worth about $0.1
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Fairly certain he's basing this article on the top /r/gaming post the other day about trading. He only mentions hours passing between trades.

Also, I know writers at NY Mag and others that have literally said to me "I don't know why you go on Reddit, I get paid to find stories on there and I still hate using it." HuffPo and everyone else literally just sits on the site waiting to take content.
> Governments should use as much open source software as possible, both because of cost reasons, but also in principle

IIRC the latter is a major reason why France's PM released a circular strongly recommending the increased use of OSS in administrations last year.

The first activity in that direction turns out to be almost 15 years old: back in 1999, a french senator had proposed mandating OSS use across the board[0]

[0] http://slashdot.org/story/99/10/28/0820202/french-senator-pr...