skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the author but I thought I should chime in here. The app store is a difficult beast these days... being free means you get a lot more downloads, but you need 100's of thousands (if not millions) of users to make any decent amount of money. And you have to be very careful with your freemium plan. You don't want to end up like http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/going-broke-with-...

If you're a paid game, you're going to have a very hard time getting sales, because you can't acquire users. The 99 cent 'race to the bottom' also means you need a lot of sales, but it's tough to achieve that today without a brand or big-name. Even Apple featuring you doesn't add up to as much as it used to.

So, you might have noticed a pattern amongst the more successful freemium titles. Lots of wait timers, short gameplay bursts, unlimited purchasables, etc... what hardcore gamers deem as evil, is actually what these companies have determined is the most optimal way to make money. I'm not trying to be depressing here lol, but before you make the decision to go free, make sure you understand what you're up against. I personally hope we can head to a more League of Legends type model where you make $5 on a lot of people rather than the Farmville route of making $5000 on a few 'whales'. I personally much prefer a great game that lets me pay when I'm ready to invest, than a game that is trying to milk me the whole time.

Just an FYI, me and a friend built Stratosphere: Multiplayer Defense for iPad and have gone through much of this dilemma lol. Good luck!
so I don't imagine you would have any problem giving me a nuclear weapon. after all it's only a problem after I use it right?
Please note that I didn't express any opinion on the specific situation in the US today. I was just commenting that the checks and balances you implied in your previous post, where a senior individual in the government can choose to fire more junior individuals, don't seem to be very reliable if the senior person themselves has limited motivation to act in the interests of the people they are supposed to represent.

This lack of direct motivation is a systemic weakness in almost any electoral system that involves fixed terms of significant length, and it applies more generally than just the need to choose appropriate subordinates. What you described just happens to be one ineffective case that is relevant to the current discussion.
I don't find that to be the case. As with anything used judiciously, OO approaches are just a tool, not a way of life. The same could be said of any approach where one applies the same patterns over and over without regard to the problem being solved.
Doom 3's problem wasn't it's engine. It was just crap. No matter how careful you were to cover yourself and check each corner, you'd always cross a 'tripwire' of some kind and a section of wall would open up - something you could never check - and it would always been behind you. It was the laziest attempt at horror I've seen. Once that became apparent, sneaking around was pointless. Just barrel forward, because it doesn't matter what you do, there will always be an undetectable secret wall opening behind you.

Compare to Dead Space, where the things that came through walls did so at reasonable points - ventilation ducts or similar. You'd be on your guard around those spots, but a solid wall was never something with a 'gotcha!' compartment. Being wary was useful in that game.

Doom 3 could have had the sexiest engine in history, but it wouldn't have changed the poor gameplay design.
Yeah but nobody insists

last trade price multiplied by number of units in circulation = total value of ecosystem

Bitcoiners do this CONSTANTLY
The problem with thinking of internet as a utility is that it doesn't behave the same way as any of the other utilities.

Water, natural gas, and electricity are essentially fungible, with simple to express standards. An internet connection is much more complex to specify: you may have a gigabit fiber connection to the provider's local network node, but what connections do they have to everywhere else? Medium, location, bandwidth, etc. If all of my traffic is routed through [some other city on the other side of the country], that's not going to be a great experience regardless of the bandwidth.
reminds me of the Feynman Algorithm [1]:

1. Write down the problem.
2. Think real hard.
3. Write down the solution.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FeynmanAlgorithm
Can lightning be used to solve NP complete problems?
Sure it does. It suggests the person who penned it had a sense of humor rather than suggesting they are as much of a macaroni art critic as you imagine.
I know of allegations that Palestinians frequently make stuff up about their war zone (which does not take away from the real harm that they endure at the hands of the Israelis, but does make it hard to evaluate the extent of that harm). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awYMPzSrh5o Maybe that is simply common to all war zones? People want to draw arms and money to their side of the war, so it makes sense to do whatever you can to engender empathy in the viewer. It's just another form of propaganda. But props for doing this breakdown and helping us recognize it for what it is.
Paying $500 for a 0% chance to win; that doesn't sound like the best deal to me. You can get a lot more value from a regular hackathon that you can actually get some attention and feedback from and that isn't going to charge you a crazy amount of money. I don't understand how you can justify the competition when your app wasn't even viewed.

Edit: Apparently the ticket price was $100 and then reimbursed. That makes it better, but I would still argue you get more benefit from a standard hackathon.
MA Court Rules that Wind Turbines Induce Illness
BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — The town of Falmouth was ordered by a judge on Friday to limit the hours two town-owned wind turbines operate after neighbors blamed them for a series of health problems.
Question: without regard to viability/ usefulness of the alternative coin in the long run (which the judgement for bitcoin hasn't even been reached yet), assuming that bitcoin is here to stay, will the alternative coin have any value as a tool for arbitrage? Considering that it's alot more difficult to move regular currency between exchanges, more so when they're of different currencies.
I wasn't arguing that mathematics is a universal language, only that it approaches the ideal more closely than the present generation of computer programming languages.

> There is a fairly common core of mathematical syntax, but beyond that different branches will use their own syntax.

The fact that mathematics has many divisions isn't a counterargument unless mathematicians use different notations to refer to the same things. Apart from notoriously overused Greek letters, notations are unique and independent.

Spoken languages have many distinct vocabularies to serve the needs of specialists, but this doesn't undermine the usefulness of the language as a general tool. Same with mathematics.
Oh the cameras are public too! Well not just the cameras but the default passwords that secure them.

Vid of the Defcon talk titled "Drinking from the firehose known as Shodan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhNWwFu1Qjs&list=PLCDA5DF85AD...
History and legality are not relevant morally.

It's morally wrong to try and stop me from automatically recording the license plates of the people who drive by my house.
Meet the Spies Doing the NSA's Dirty Work
British Airways Digital Billboards Know When A Plane Is Flying Overhead
I work at salesforce but I am not a spokesperson for salesforce nor do I have any authority to speak for the company. What I write here, I write as a member of HNN only.

I did not have any part in the hackathon process, but I had and still do have quite a bit of visibility on how the process was run. I can assure you that an enormous amount of effort went into the judging and that it was entirely unbiased. There were literally dozens of the most senior executives and engineers within the company that worked on the earlier judging rounds behind the scenes. I actually declined to be part of that process because it was too much of a commitment for me to make. I know, for example, that the next-to-final round judges were up until the early AM reviewing the submissions and that each judge looked at on the order of 20 different submissions per rounds.

Sadly, whenever something like $1M is on the line, there is always going to be someone that is unhappy with the outcome. People will speculate and make claims that are outright false. But please keep an open mind as you read more about this event. There will soon be some official communication on this topic from salesforce. I suspect that the more actual facts you learn about the process, the more reasonable it will seem.
This site is becoming more and more painful to visit...
Perhaps not yet, but it should be illegal to collect and record license plate data en masse. Traffic monitoring for DOT optimization purposes can be done without uniquely identifying vehicles. Individual license plates can be compared against a wanted and stolen list without storing them. Witnesses of a crime can write down individual license plate numbers. But wide-scale recording of innocent individuals' historical movements via license plate numbers (and, for that matter, cell phone towers) ought to be illegal the same way wiretapping is illegal.
Read a story, man's dog ate several hundred dollars, man fished remains out of dog poop, US government printed man new hundred dollar bills.
What does a Glowing Plant look like?
Xbox One: More Than One Million Consoles Sold in 24 hours
I like your idea of what matter is what the program must do, and thus we must think firstly what will be the functions.
I may be wrong, but once we have a 12 parameters function, it may be interesting to factor out to more than one class. If I do this factorisation as a no-brain, I will create a "FooParameter" class with 12 getter and setter. It will be better to stop and think of what will be the easier to read. Ie do some abstraction work:

double getDistanceTravelled(Point[] relevedPositions)

instead of

double getDistanceTravelled(double[] x, double[] y)
My main slowness/bug with Firefox for Android is the sluggish scrolling. When I move my finger, there's a small but noticeable delay before the page starts moving. I don't have this problem with Chrome on my Nexus 4.

Like I said, I prefer Firefox for its desktop-like features. But in my experience, Chrome has a faster response in the UI.
There is a difference in how the two scale, because one is physical.

Adding a BTC to a transaction doesn't really require any additional infrastructure. But once you've packed your first tanker with gold, you kind of have to hire a second boat.

Given the way each scales, it seems that BTC transfers are easier, at least at some values.
Tickets for the Hackathon were $99 a head but they quickly started giving them out for free. I also heard stories that people got reimbursed fro the ticket price if they had payed.
Upshot is not the Healthcare app. They're separate.
"can i buy airplane tickets with it?, well we'll see when the government recognizes it"

Yes, you can! An air travel agency announced today they started accepting bitcoin (cheapair.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6784265
Switzerland hasn't adopted basic income. There will be a referendum on it next year, but there are referendums on all kinds of things. Some of of them are unpopular enough to fail 25% to 75%, so even getting the referendum initiative passed says little.
Agreed. I did grasp it... but I gave it more mental processor time since it came from HN than I ordinarily would have. If I had just stumbled across it, I may not have bothered to work out what was going on in the vid.
http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?fid=0E80F80D42F634... - seems that Apple put some heuristics on and there is a group of people facing the same problems
Are you saying that the dozens of people claiming that no one tested their apps are all lying?

Like others have said previously, Salesforce must have forgotten about analytics.
That is a pretty awesome. I wonder if you could sell one with the design "I am the man in the middle." for NSA agents.
Our team (2 people), paid $99 each for Hackerpass tickets, which Salesforce then reimbursed after they started giving them out for free.
I suspect the current fluctuation is only a result of newness of bitcoin and that over the years as it becomes more familiar, the fluctuation will mirror more common currencies. I suspect that in order for that to happen, it will need to become more liquid, with more places accepting bitcoin for purchases, and more people using bitcoin to purchase goods rather than as an investment tool.
The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon
I like chess but i suck at it.I would like to have sparing partner(tutorial,book recommendation will do it too), someone who can teach me how to think like a chess player precisely explaining why at any given moment you would move a piece instead of another. To me there are so many options that it would take hours to make a sure move.
That's really helpful (and a little depressing, reading the 0.67% conv rating for Gasketball), thanks. I was thinking of going freemium and wanted to offer IAP just for skipping ahead, or unlocking bonus features, nothing that's needed for the actual 'normal' gameplay, but seems like not the way to go to stand a chance of making decent sales. Will try and balance it I suppose.

And I'm downloading Stratosphere now! Always looking for good on screen two player games
You are seriously claiming bits are less fungible than electric power, with the variety of ways power is generated?
Show HN: willie-lumberjack, A logging module for Willie IRC bot.
A logging module for Willie IRC bot with real-time log viewer. https://github.com/marlboromoo/willie-lumberjack ;D
I think the problem can be that many times there aren't difficult decisions to be made to solve most coding challenges. Getting grilled over trivialities or obvious decisions makes the interviewer seem either incompetent or like a micro-manager, neither of which would make me seem happy to work with them.
Don't confuse "market" with "investor-owned." Cooperatives also operate in the market. But they are owned by their customers or suppliers.
For what it's worth, we don't keep IPs in the http log.
It beats JavaScript projects, right? ;)
Did u look into Tonido or owncloud before deciding on this? Curious to know your take on them.
KrakenJS from PayPal
Possibly, it's not a matter of withdrawals, it's a matter of how much you have/had in the account. If at any point during the year, your bitcoin account held in a foreign exchange would have been worth more than $10,000 when converted to USD, you're supposed to file the FBAR form (TD-F 90-22.1) by June 30th of the following year.
The majority of commuters in what location? The majority of commuters in my metro area are most definitely motorists, with no safe bicycle paths to a lot of destinations.
Don't forget the cost of managing multiple platforms and not having to have multiple dev teams. On the teams I've worked with that has been the reason for going with html5 apps.

How many businesses want to build the same product 3 times (at least) for different customers and will they be able to get it all implemented at the same time, or try to manage the differences when they are all communicating with the same backend service?

It's just a non-starter for most start-ups or non-technology focused businesses.
> Point being, it isn't the sole implementation of this concept. .com addresses are by nature unique.

There are alt DNS systems as well.

IMO, the best analogy for Bitcoin is gold. Gold is valued way beyond its intrinsic value and yet, few people claim that gold is a pyramid scheme.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6766097
No, this is what everyone does for all equities. It is called the market capitalization, you probably hear it called market cap usually though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization
I bet it comes close when you limit it to regions where license place logging is common.
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Designer News Python API
You run into problems, though, if you randomly select one of the same prime factors as someone else: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=gcd+public+key
Interestingly, a few apps seem to download code and run it.

GamePress, a drag-and-drop game editor does this. Featuring an "Arcade" where you can download others' games.

And Editorial, a Python-based writing tool allows one to download and execute "workflows," which include Python scripts.

We were asked by Apple to remove code sharing features from our own app. I am hoping that they are no longer enforcing this policy.
What it means is that, although on the whole consecutive prime numbers tend to have larger separations as the magnitude increases, you will still be able to find consecutive primes with smaller separation sizes. The current proof puts that limit at 600.

The twin prime conjecture posits that the limit is 2, i.e you can never exhaust pairs of consecutive primes with the smallest possible separation size.
I loved the visualization plugins for Winamp. I remember throwing parties using Winamp to play the tunes and projecting the visualizations on a huge screen. So good!
I would invest 33% of it building affiliate websites online.
I would invest 33% of it in Ashford Hospitality Trust Series E preferred stock.
I would invest 33% of it in the highest yield savings account.

By years end I imagined you'd be up atleast 3% on the savings account, 9% on the stocks, and a 10k investment into a few solid affiliate websites could easily reap up 20k. You wouldn't quite double your money but you might do even better.
Maybe someone could write an app for this. :-) And better yet, put the transcript in plain English.
You keep saying "should" and "should not" but you're not explaining why.
The linked article is almost exclusively about a non-BTC-only-world, though. The two main issues it tackles: 1) tax consequences of selling bitcoins for USD; and 2) reporting requirements for holding bitcoins in a foreign exchange.
Equivalent of a bitcoin lottery?
Yes, because recording license plates is even remotely comparable to a genocide machine.
Where are the winners? I am sure they are on HN. Why are they so silent on this matter?
Just as people say, "the market can act crazy, longer than you can remain solvent" about trading stocks on Wall Street, so I would point out that gold's value "as money" has been around a lot longer than even the lifetime of Methuselah.

People have been using gold in some form for thousands of years - I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Please google: teacher underpaid myth
The Syntax Question
Actually they often do not really abandon the currency, they just issue a new dollar that removes a bunch of orders of magnitude from the dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_inflation#Currency
Leidenfrost Maze
Yes, but mirrors crash a lot less often than software.
The single most important point is that the process is candidate unfriendly. You can get away with being candidate unfriendly during college hiring. Maybe. If you're not hiring at a top CS school. You can't get away with it when you are trying to reel in a 10x superstar. Those types of candidates need to be wooed. If you make someone do too much work in the process, you'll only wind up with candidates who hate their jobs, not love their jobs.

That's not to say don't make sure people are smart. And the idea of proving coding skills is good too. But the manner has to be consistent with respecting the time and skills of an expert.
Actually, you could--you could irradiate the gold to the point where decontamination would cost on the order of the worth of the gold itself.
I did this buying and flipping websites a few years back. Turned 30k into 100k. Stressful as fuck. Not hard work. Just takes intelligence, balls, and knowing when to sell.
Going broke with success: how an app with 200k downloads led to homelessness
I know what you mean, and I sympathize, but there's simply no way to predict the future. However, this is the best chance in a long time in a rigged system for some accountability, possibly at a criminal and constitutional level.
Pretty Much Everyone Hates the New Target.com Redesign
> I can say I have $147M in Microsoft stock, but that doesn't mean I can sell the stock suddenly in one minute without making the price tank.

Actually you can. Bill Gates sold off over $700M of stock over the course of a week at the end of Oct/beginning of Nov[1] and took a price that deviated by only $0.16 (~0.5%).

[1] http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=MSFT

But you're actually agreeing with me anyway. Absurd valuations for quantities not readily absorbable by the market can't be priced until someone actually tries to sell/buy that quantity. There's no doubt however that if someone want to cash this volume out today their not looking at the market price. Who's going to buy at $700 when someone is trying to rid themselves of 2% of the entire currency base? To put that in perspective, Bill Gates currently owns only 0.4% of MSFT and wouldn't be able to (publicly) sell that much in a day without crashing the market.
I think the "25 to get 5" is aggressive. My experience is close to "25 to get 1".

Standard processes are important, but they need to respect everyone's time.
You mean you didn't actually intend to make that clever and subtle joke? :-(
It would be an impressive feat of syncing for each license plate monitoring node to receive a constantly updated list of license plates of interest.
Courting content, not controversy
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It would be helpful to get your hacker opinion/feedback/question. Thanks and have a good weekend.
I am saying that there is a misunderstanding. The earliest rounds of judging looked at the videos of the apps that contestants produced as well as a code review as a sanity check. This was done most likely so that each app could be viewed in the best possible light as well as to help the judges scale to the number of entries.

So, no, the people complaining are not lying but they and anyone else would be incorrect to conclude that their app was not evaluated. Every app was evaluated. All by videos. Some by code review. And a few through every reasonable means.
There are a number of ways to combat this.

- Have a theme, a dataset, or some other component that is not announced until the day it starts (and to be eligible an entry must demonstrate meaningful incorporation of that component).

- Have a manageable organizer-to-participant ratio so they can do a decent job of verifying that teams aren't using a developed concept.

- Don't allow premade teams, have individuals pitch concepts and form teams.

Each of those can be gamed to some degree, but they can go a long way, and to game them requires serious intent to deceive.

They didn't even try, at all. The winner was openly a fully formed startup that demoed their app at a Salesforce meetup weeks before the hackathon. That's just, mind-blowing.
They're off to a pretty slow start. $300 from the sponsor, and one $25 addition. This is despite being front page on HN. Thoughts on why this is going so slow? Or is this par for the course for most projects? They have 2 more months to go.

I'm still willing to upvote for answers and support.
Coinbase will let you sell up to 50 BTC per day, so if you don't mind waiting 2 or 3 days you can certainly buy a car with bitcoin.
Here's non-trial one from just a couple months ago:

http://abovethelaw.com/2013/09/who-wants-to-watch-a-prosecut...