skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm struggling to come up with a way in which the lives system could possibly be defended as a copyright protection mechanism (it's a mechanism to funnel users into it's in app purchases, not to prevent use of unauthorized copies... and in fact copies of the software are given away freely). This is basically Gamesharking your game, which has been upheld in courts IIRC.
iPad 2 had a 25Wh battery, 3rd gen has a 43 Wh battery (11500 mAh * 3.7V). An iPhone has a ~5Wh battery.
This French Fry Vending Machine Is Poised for Global Domination
Wheeeee.....!!
The zeromq guide (http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#The-Zen-of-Zero) explains it thusly:

"The Ø in ØMQ is all about tradeoffs. On the one hand this strange name lowers ØMQ's visibility on Google and Twitter. On the other hand it annoys the heck out of some Danish folk who write us things like "ØMG røtfl", and "Ø is not a funny looking zero!" and "Rødgrød med Fløde!", which is apparently an insult that means "may your neighbours be the direct descendants of Grendel!" Seems like a fair trade.

Originally the zero in ØMQ was meant as "zero broker" and (as close to) "zero latency" (as possible). Since then, it has come to encompass different goals: zero administration, zero cost, zero waste. More generally, "zero" refers to the culture of minimalism that permeates the project. We add power by removing complexity rather than by exposing new functionality."
Can Your Android Phone Do This?
Then you're either out in public, and they can retroactively fix the bug, or you're trying to sell them privately, in which case you're not gonna have much impact anyway.

It's the same as with hacking in mmo games. No one cares until you start publicizing your hacks, in which case they can just install your hack, see what bug it's abusing, and fix that.
I use Symfony at work. I would love to contribute some of the patches and helpers I have written to Symfony, or release them as an independent bundle, but (a) I'm the only programmer on the project so I don't really have time, and (b) my company doesn't really do OSS, so I would need to explain all this to our legal department before I could get authorization to release it.
In the app store they collect around $850,000 per day.
Have you considered A/B testing showing vs. hiding the warranty to measure any diff -- positive or negative -- in conversions to both click-throughs to the signup page, and also paying customers?
I got my current job precisely because of what I have on Github. I was never asked for a CV. The people in that company were already using some of my OSS libraries before I arrived.

Today someone told me to review someone else's CV. My last comment was: "This CV does not mention a github account. This either means that this person does not have it or that he doesn't think of it as relevant enough to be on his CV". It was not a deciding factor, but it was listed on the "cons".
The Next Harry Potter? Wendell the World's Worst Wizard...
I do know that orbits gradually decay - maybe that is the 'energy reserve' we would be drawing down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave#Orbital_deca...
For safety, they can be burried, can't they?
I guess if you buy the game and then don't have to pay to play, it's ok, but in this case you can buy playtime so it's a bit different.
How is providing evidence to your claims "[belaboring] the point"? I know it's easier to vomit a seven-word sound bite, but don't patronize me with a bunch of dismissive hand waving and "find it for yourself on google." You said it, now back it up.

When you make a statement like that on a place like this I expect you to do your homework before you click the comment button. You do us all a disservice by making a ludicrous claim and then backing away from it, because it encourages others to pander anecdote as fact.
Great feedback!

Of course it wouldn't be totally friction-less. But as we see it it would be very easy in contrast of writing the user management all by your own. And regarding updates etc. - that is something they would have had to to with their own systems as well (considered they had written their own user management).

As I mentioned in a couple of other replies, IF this were to happen we would of course make it very easy for our customers to continue on by giving them instructions, documentation and nicely packaged as an AWS instance (or other formats).

This might not suit all SaaS's and would mostly be useful for SaaS that are developer focused (as we are).

However, appreceate your feedback :)
integrated gpus should benefit from additional bandwidth.
Two different kinds of open source projects are relevant to a resume. Group projects, and individual projects. A hiring manager will want to see both. If you only have an individual project, it's still better than nothing, and there is no color/gender/economic barrier to just writing code for yourself and uploading it to GitHub.

I had joined several group projects, and started one of my own, back when I was first getting into the job market. It helped a lot to tell any employer that you had been fiddling with this new-fangled "Linux" and "Apache" and "MySQL" stuff for years, versus the older Unix guys who had been using the same industry tech for 10 years. Really, open source was just like a new fad to older hiring types, and knowing something about it meant you had a different mindset.

But now everybody uses GitHub and it means jack shit.
We initially wanted it to be anonymous but ended up going with login for two main reasons:

- Social login means sharing is only a click away, encouraging conversation and possibly more thoughtful contributions.

- We wanted to give people equal chance of contributing and avoid the scenario where a handful of users (vandals?) find the site before everyone else and take over it all. That meant limiting the number of marks a person can make in a given time period - and that's easiest to do when you have users.

Would love to hear your thoughts on these points. This is still a work in progress after all...
I think he was talking about how it works from a programming perspective. He possibly can't view source on his phone.

Edit: For the record it works and looks fine on my android phone, better than Chrome on my desktop in my opinion.
You should have read more carefully.

>starting with no real background at all, totally blowing away some of the brightest people in computing.

That's pretty much an acknowledgement of your existence as an exception to the general rule.

Did you know there are -despite this (I assume) man's statements- men who are not the least bit interested in technology and "things"? I hardly see them being offended on behalf of their whole gender like yourself.
Fastest time from play to pause seems to be 00:00:00:16. I think the fade animation prevents the DOM from responding any faster.

(What, doesn't everyone do the 'see how fast you can stop it' test to every stopwatch ever put into their hands?
I would think this has more to do with the quality of the camera and its output. If I find a crappy film point and shoot that doesn't allow me to claim all film cameras suck.
Time to change!
If you mean it's faster than the same card using GDDR3, that's because GDDR3 is based on DDR2.

Fantastic naming scheme, isn't it?
This is a terrible idea. It would cost a fortune to build a "battery" that stores no more energy than a simple lead-acid deep cycle battery.

About the only advantage is that with simple maintenance, this system should last indefinitely, while lead-acid batteries have a limited lifespan.

(Oh, and didn't web-sites that are nothing but one giant image go out of fashion around the turn of the century?)
If 1K seems like overkill, then take a look at the releases by P01: http://www.p01.org/releases/ He's a maniac. His 252 byte voxel fly-y thing is nuts: http://www.p01.org/releases/minicraft/
Cool site design. Nice easter egg, too.

Achievement unlocked: Dat Paralax
Hahaha my first thought exactly...
How We Increased Our iOS App Conversion Rate By 500%
Can we expect an automatic integration with Trello?
>There is a reason to think that virtual images of child sexual abuse cause real world child sexual abuse. People need more images, and there aren't enough virtual images and so the collection is 'topped up' with real images. And there's a possibility that people viewing images, even virtual, of child sexual abuse will go on to abuse real world children.

Or you could just as well argue that people use the imagery to fulfill their needs, and if they didn't have that they'd turn to actual child abuse.

'credible' should not be good enough. (Of course in the current political systems, it doesn't even have to be credible if you can spin it scarily enough: see war on terror, war on drugs, sex offender registrations for urinating in public etc.) You need evidence that actually supports your theory.
> The vast majority of people need to not code to regenerate.

Citation needed. It seems to me that the majority of people don't.
i don't think any justification is going to change your mind. My opinions are shared by many other people. I know that many people view this issue as black and white, that a corporation should have rights to scan books and use that data to freely help the public and share those books freely to millions of people so they can help authors out by buying tons more of their books.

i think it's more complex than that. authors aren't patent trolls. many spend years upon years creating their work and the fact that they own the work they create puts them at ease and allows them to focus solely on their work. To know that they have control of their work is really necessary support for creating the best environment for authors.

i'm not talking about publishing companies either. An individual author should be able to opt out of being scanned by corporations, whether it benefits him or not, whether it increases his sales or not. That really is his choice. The individual author has a choice to DECREASE sales of his work if he chooses. After all, that is his product that he personally created.
Will look into it. We haven't had time to test with ghostery/disconnect but the site definitely doesn't _need_ any of those things to work (except maybe it wouldn't look very nice without the fonts from typekit). It's a bug, not a feature :)
Well, DoPDF does look nice. Honestly, it has more features than PDF Everything. I'm not sure how to distinguish mine from theirs yet, or how to make mine worth $20 when theirs is free. Most of those features of DoPDF can be added to PDF Everything quite easily. I just have not added them, yet. Getting those in should help me make a case for PDF Everything.
I was looking at the source and found your rick astley. It looked really weird in chrome's dev tools :P. Your CSS/HTML is way better than mine, time to polish my skills..
Did a user ask for your policy in this area?

It's true, a lot of startups go out of business and it's a good, honorable intent you have.

But sometimes sales is the correct solution, especially when there is time and effort involved in offering a remedy to a problem that does not currently exist. My answer would be to focus on the positive as opposed to negative outcome, i.e., UserApp is the best solution to x problem on the market.

But if this is a recurring question in the sales/customer feedback loop, then going beyond a sales solution may be a good idea, but you may benefit from going even further than the proposal in your post and offering open source now (noncommercial). 99% of your customers will not know about the open source version esp. if you don't sell it. Create noise around positive outcomes as opposed to negative ones by offering a solution that quickly resolves any hesitation on the part of your customers.

For example, one of the few things I know about UserApp is that it may go out of business.
Thanks! That's what I meant to imply, but I didn't know how to phrase it.
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Is Miley Cyrus dating female artist, Evon Latrail? Evon Latrail is a gospel artist who was recently reported posing nude! This can't be true!
Nice one! This is a great repurposing of your existing product.
My wife would kill to have this nearby our home.
I agree with this, but it's better than the alternative of signing up for a brand new username / password combo!

What would you have in mind instead?
It seems like this would be much more useful if the front and back of the card were OLED screens, or something similar, so that you could toggle the appearance of the card. I feel like that would solve most of the problems people are suggesting here - i.e., it could replace driver's license, photo id's, wouldn't be a problem at bars that hold on to your CC, etc. Personally, I'm going to hold off on getting this until there's some functionality similar to what I outlined above, because currently this could only replace 2 out of the 5 cards in my wallet.
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Why do the build process (preprocessing) on the server?
This is a good technique. I also find entering the situation with a set of personal challenges/goals helps diffuse the situation. By reframing the situation from "holy crap I can't do this" to "ok, I've found out what two people do for a living, one to go" lets you de-emphasize the aspects that make you nervous and end up having more natural conversations.

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I didn't mean "it hasn't launched" as a knock. Just pointing out that, like Coin, it's announced but not yet available.
Besides that, what difference does it make what gender is used in such a sentence? If one doesn't like "her" in that context then mentally switch to "him" while reading it. Why is it necessary to insist that the structure of a perfectly fine sentence be changed to suit someone's gender sensitivity?
All the merchants have excited reactions but there is a camera in the room and I'm sure they've been told what's going on. I think if I were to pay like this somewhere, the reaction would be more like "wait, did you just hack my payment system? Please stay here while I call my manager."
TCP/IP does multiple endpoints as well (multicast, multipath, broadcast, server to many, iptables/pfw rules) etc.

Various queue control methods are available in TCP/IP also.

UDP is the only way to get decent performance if your application is designed around it. Why bother resending data if it is too old now to be useful, or if the data arrived via another route? TCP often has more variable latency than UDP, which is the main performance killer for certain types of apps. zeromq isn't multipath aware either.
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not every author wants to increase sales. I would rather opt out even if that led to a decrease in sales. I can't make someone else increase sales by making them use my new sales platform for free.
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Yeah, I'm sure there are loads of technical details... but I can't help feeling there are parallels with the over zealous use of 'patterns' in OOP.

When I started out with 0MQ I felt sucked in to a world of combinatorial explosion where I always have to think about what type of socket is at the other end of of a connect()... it just doesn't feel right to me.
I believe the best tool Github could provide to encourage this would be to make forks subsidiary to the project they're forked from.
Well, I have a debit card - which I use for pretty much everything that isn't a business expense. I also have a personal credit card which I use very occasionally in situations where a debit card won't work (e.g. getting Euros from a ATM in Schipol airport) and an "emergency" personal card that I use in situations where neither my debit or main personal credit cards work (about once a year so far).

I also have a company credit card.
Absolutely, I recently looked at Ali Express and nowadays you can even get tablets for < $50. So something like a factor of 10 in 3 years. If this continuous, then tablets will probably become simple impulse buys in another five years. Just as magazines are today. ( I have no idea what that means...)

Amazing times indeed.
Elsewhere in the thread people are talking about the Pages feature for creating a business-related page, which is something I was unaware of.

It seems like this could be expanded to be a general-purpose pseudonym system without too much trouble. Everybody who has a YouTube account who wanted to keep their YouTube name already has a pseudonymous Page, so the groundwork has been laid. Pages work a lot like normal Google Plus users, and seem to have a pretty thick layer of separation.

Also, Google has added a "nickname" spot in the Google Plus account, so John Smith could have his nickname of "Johnny B" and his pseudonymous pages WeirdSecretKink66 and RantingPoliticalIdentity23.

The biggest problem I see with using Pages for this is

(1) the UI sucks. The name even sucks for this context. Users don't realize this feature exists and even if they have it it's tricky to switch to a Page identity for leaving G+ comments.

(2) it's not supported across the whole Google ecosystem - you can't leave Play Store comments with a pseudonym.

(3) There's no way to ban Pages from your Plus threads. I should be able to say Real Names Only if I choose.

(4) There's no full-out "Anonymous Coward" zero-login approach. Obviously there's good reasons to avoid that feature, but if they want Plus comment-threads to be a truly general-purpose social layer for things like Blogger and YouTube and the Plus circles, then the people running the thread need to have the option to enable fully-anonymous comments in their own space.
Much more useful!

Show some of the details sooner if possible (hover?) and you've pretty much solved the problem.
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Yeah, github enterprise definitely makes sense, and it is something that we will look into.

Chrome's notifications since v28 kinda suck. Browser notifications have always been difficult, and in fact our www.trou.pe native app was originally just a toolbar app to solve this problem.
I cannot wait! Yoga for the world!!
Wow. very cool. love the demos!
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There was a Kickstarter to do a flywheel system like this at a household level:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1340066560/velkess-energ...
The entire page color change hurts.
Cryptome founder John Young: FOIA has become a confidence game
how much money is that worth to you?
Comparing the ZX-80 kit to the most popular product (a toy) at the thread's source, the latter has: 170x clock speed, 4000x memory, and 13x resolution (170x pixels), plus sound, screen, camera (video!), networking (wireless!). If we consider those three dimensions, that comes out to some 487x more computer for a third the cost.
Inspired by twitter and snapchat:

You call a friend over the phone but, here's the twist, it will hang up automatically after 15 secs. Better make it quick.

Value proposition:
- Nobody has time for calls that last more than 15 secs nowadays
- You're more likely to pickup the line if you know it's 15 secs instead of letting go on the voicemail.
- If it's someone you don't like, it will only be 15 secs

Pricing Model:
- Waiting to receive a $3B offer, turning it out, accepting a $12B one for Christmas.

Audience:
- Everyone who used a phone and is ready for the phone experience 2.0.

Yes, I'm kidding!
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But can't you just have one emergency thing on your bank account like we have in Europe? it's an overdraft authorization, it's linked to the bank account, you have only one, your card is linked to it, and it doesn't enter into the picture as long as you don't need it. But for emergencies, it's mostly the whole point of saving accounts, an umbrella for rainy days (and a downpayment for when debt will be right tool).

Moreover, I think the grace period it still a debt even if it carries no interest, it's the bank tempting people. You can still accrue it more than your account size, it's still borrowing without thinking about what the revenu the spent money will bring.

Debt is a financial tool like others (like selling capital for example), but I really think its use should be restricted to productive investments, and its overuse is a big problem. It's a useful dangerous tool, like a chainsaw, if you're not a lumberjack there is not reason to use it everyday, but it's practical if you make your own wood.
Actually, GitHub is just a supplemental CV. A potentially positive indicator, that among many others (including a CV itself) will be part of the body of work to determine a candidate's qualifications.

Those in hiring positions need to use various indicators of what would make someone a good hire. For most of history in the tech world, this simply meant a standard resume/CV, followed by a phone screen and then an interview where the candidate may be asked whatever questions are deemed relevant by the interviewer. Could be tests, exercises, etc - depends on who you were talking to.

Fast forward to today, where we have more ways that a candidate may show 'indicators' of talent. What about participation in user groups and meetups? Anyone can go to these things, but people who choose to go to them may have a bit more curiosity or interest (and admittedly free time) than those that don't, and that curiosity often goes hand in hand with talent. Not always, but again it is one indicator.

A healthy Stack Overflow reputation score might be another indicator. People who know nothing about programming probably won't be able to rake up major points there.

What if someone wrote a book about a technology? Another indicator probably, and if the book became a best-seller that would be even a stronger indicator since others are judging the material as worthy of their money.

As the author points out, all of these things take time, and many in the industry don't have that kind of free time. Understood.

Experience working at a known entity with a high barrier to entry is another indicator. We know that if someone passed the grueling interview process at certain firms, chances are they will get past our process as well. Another positive indicator.

There will also be some false positives. Candidates that belong to several meetups and have very active GitHubs may not be able to code.

Someone who has never heard of GitHub (or say Node.js or Mongo or whatever may be current and newsworthy at the time) will probably be given a negative indicator Would you consider hiring someone who had never heard of these things? Perhaps not.

Candidates without families that we might expect to have more free time may not choose to spend it at meetups and building GitHub repos either. I don't think we should immediately assume that they are less qualified than the ones that do, but I don't think any will assume they are more qualified.

The author says "you can't judge code without talking to its author". Perhaps you can, but I don't think anybody is necessarily suggesting that you should. No one is hiring candidates based on their GitHub activity alone without interviews, just like no one is hiring anyone based on their CV alone without interviews.

Can we just agree that all of these positive indicators are just indicators? As long as we don't use the absence of them as a negative indicator (as a measure of fairness to those who lack the time or desire), we are not doing anyone a disservice.