skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of strange that in a discussion that is ostensibly related to the disastrous Healthcare.gov, that you'd invite the CEO of a gaming company that thrives off of manipulating users through gamification. I know Zynga has been successful in many ways that most could only hope to emulate...but really, there weren't more relevant CEOs to bring to the table?

But good for Pincus for asking the question. How embarrassing it is for Obama to equivocate on morality and principles with a CEO whose gaming company is often criticized for having neither.
https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/413669330216185856

No such thing as bad publicity?
Not just his mother. It was his father who instilled in Bill the need to do something good for the world. Bill Gates Sr. was also in charge of the charitable giving when Bill Gates Jr. (fun little piece of trivia: nicknamed "Trey" in his family to avoid confusion) was still very much involved in the day to day running of Microsoft.
Actually you didn't bother to check the proper statistics. The Android numbers come from devices accessing the Play Store.

Useful for most Western markets. Less so for many other countries.
Unlike PHP, C++ is far more consistence and doesn't have same kind of wierd issues like PHP has.
I think my luck is that I was here at the beginning of the /marketiPad. I was not thinking the market would grow so much. Using the Montessori name was not a big marketing plan actually (I was really dumb about marketing 3 years ago - just check the name of my company, it is really not good - especially for the US Market!). It was just because the concept was coming from a Montessori activites my homeschooled daughter was doing...
Some people told me that it was a very good marketing to have used the Montessori name, and now I agree but at this time I didn't know that.
My second app and 3rd app has no "Montessori" in the title because I don't want to use this name too much (perhaps I should because my work is always inspired by Montessori methods we use at home...)
Anyway, picking a niche and sticking to it is definitively something important and that worked well for me. All my apps are in this niche.
As a final note: when I release my first, there was almost no competition. The market was empty.
Vert.x - a high performance application platform
1) + has a higher precedence than ==

2) even if == had a higher precedence, then 1 == 2 would still be false :D
This may be the case now but it is pretty clear that Google is moving towards Apple's curation model.
Ha ha, good point. Probably not. But take Lisp's homoiconicity as an example. Some people regard it as less desirable syntax, and yet even a subset of people who feel that way still find that the macro system makes it worth it.

So, would you accept certain trade-offs in your programming language if it greatly magnified the programmatic refactorability of your code?
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> Really I don't understand all the fuss around PHP functions names.

You could add aliases to all functions in php in your company, but then you would need to teach these aliases to all new developers. Also every company would have different aliases and people changing jobs would need to relearn everything.

So aliases are theorethical solution that nobody use in practice. Changing the standard makes a new common language that you can actually use.
Are those revenue numbers before or after Apple takes their cut? Either way, it's very impressive, but at one point the $1M is listed as "sales" and another it is labelled "profit".
> You really prefer Python threading to anything?!

The Python 'process' and 'queue' modules rock (yes, multiple single threaded processes still counts as multithreading). I've had apps on the front page of HN / Smashing Mag using them, happily taking advantage of a multicore server.

I swear half the people who bitch about the GIL have never used either of these modules (not you, people in general).
I was wrong, my bad.
Higher dev/maint costs? Come on... are you kidding? Far less buying power? Fair, I guess.

Altogether... this is the way iOS dies. "We got the rich kids in America! Stay the course!"

When does iPhone 6 drop because the 5s bump will be gone after the holidays. This will be a fun discussion to review 12 months from now.
Exactly.

The same is probably true for this one here:

public bool ShowOptional()
{
bool bolReturn = false;

return bolReturn;

}

There should be descriptions why the code snippets are supposed to be interesting, your and my example just look like legacy code to me.
Until that exec is willing to state their support for a pardon in public, this is all just a bunch of PR for Obama and the big tech companies.
> he would receive protection under due process laws

Reminds me when DOJ sent an entirely redacted document in response to a FOIA request.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/justice-departm...
2. Shill or not, I've gotten results via them on multiple occasions.

4. I don't believe this. You're basically telling me if I pay for a car from a dealership, and they fail to deliver, that I or a lawyer can't sic law enforcement on them.
Pedro offers you his protection
Just wanted to say that it's unfortunate how people are treating you over all of this. You should feel proud of what you've earned. I think everyone's got their pitchforks out because they think you're creating sockpuppets to fuck with CoinBase. Obviously if that's the case, you are a douchebag, but otherwise, your instagram looks fine for someone in their early 20s.
You are right, sorry about that.
This is a self-serving opportunity for Mark Pincus to look like the good guy, after years of acting like a tyrant when he was in charge of Zynga. I'm not just talking about pushing games designed to exploit users in various ways. Remember the incident where Pincus "demanded certain employees surrender some shares or be fired"? (1) He also laid off more than 500 people earlier this year,(2) managed problems by "address(ing) the symptoms rather than the root causes"(3) and padded his own nest while loyal investors who stuck with Zynga stock got roasted.(4)

Appearing in a photo opp with Obama and saying "free Snowden" is a low risk way for him to improve his image among his peers (rich Silicon Valley people) and the public.

1. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405297020462190...

2. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2013/06/03/zynga-l...

3. http://www.fastcompany.com/3007544/where-are-they-now/mark-p...

4. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/07/01/the-fall-of-m...
Decentralisation is indeed one of the main points of bitcoin. It's not a necessary feature of all crypto-currencies and it's not a feature that I care about.

I have no idea if it's possible to design a decentralised crypto-currency without all this pointless thrashing, it may well be, but the currency designs I know of from the crypto-establishment (rather than the cipherpunk/crypto-anarchist community) tend to be far more featureful and elegant, and their security is based on mathematical constructs rather than brute force. They just don't cater to internet-libertarian talking points.
all my apps were promoted on the app store (thanks Apple to help some indie!) but apps doesn't stay for long featured (competition!)
You are completely right. I hope I haven't mislead anybody with my comment.
yes but simply put, no one gives a shit what you want, other than the ones that already share your feelings.

You're not going to convince good php developers to stop using php, but you will convince the bad ones... actually go on with your bad self, ruby/python needs more bad devs
CGI::Application too supports PSGI via CGI::Application::PSGI. I prefer CGI::Application as it is minimalist and very customizable.
"Creating an app for Android means taking in stride the inconsistency in hardware calibration, as there is a huge diversity in the Android market in terms of the brands that sell Android phones."

Please not this. The fragmentation argument sounded very clever in 2010, but it's just not true. The OS takes care of most device diversity just like OSs have for decades. It's true that users are on different OS versions, more so than iOS, meaning that you can't just assume everyone has the latest version, but that's standard for most software. It's not like everything breaks just because the user has a Sony phone.

Progressive enhancement, graceful degradation, and responsive design are well-understood, time-honored, practices for dealing with different platforms and devices. Also, Google's trick of updating Play services means older OSs now get a bunch of upgrades anyway.
How is this possible without a jailbreak? Must be an Android app.
Proof-of-x seems inelegant to me, it's unnecessary for a currency. It may be necessary for a decentralised currency like BTC, but it's not part of all schemes. I don't tend to prefer a currency that requires vast waste of resources to bootstrap and protect.

As a method of slowing things down (like the various spam-email limiting proposals) they're great, though.
With only tabs you can't align code like this:

name_of_func_here(foobar_arg1,
foobar_arg2,
foobar_arg3);

You can if you mix tabs and spaces but then you run into other awful issues because different editors convert tabs to different number of spaces.
I suspect the reason Appke's business practices weren't as bas as Microsoft's, was that they didn't have the marketshare.

Had Apple had the marketshare of Microsoft, I'm sure they were just as Evil, if not more.
You essentially move the pointing device (finger or selection box) over the tile you want to activate

So a game controller is a (rather terrible) mouse? Do you understand that Metro was made for touch because such a move the cursor interface is entirely unlike a touch interface? There is a discord here that I don't think you are understanding.

The Windows Phone, Windows 8 Metro (on touch screens and tablets) and Xbox One UI are all great and very information dense compared to what you see on competing devices.

This information density thing comes up a lot, with absolutely nothing to demonstrate or prove it. Personally I find the Metro interface to be very information poor, and I cannot comprehend how such a claim could even be considered. That dearth of information (form far before function) has been one of the primary complaints about Metro.

only DNA from your list

Are you talking from a marketing perspective or something? Because no, my list is precise for its intended purpose: Those are cases where Microsoft thought that "unifying" was going to save the day, and the end result was anything but. Where divisions were essentially forced into a vision that didn't match the actual needs of their products because synergy or something.

As to .NET, it was the primary reason SQL Server went five years between versions of 2000 and 2005, coming out with little changed but for added .NET integration, to find that close to no one actually uses, and a "built in .NET" management studio that had far less features than the version before it, while using dramatically more resources. All so they could talk about unifying.

XNA Studio is yet another example of unifying technologies in poorly considered ways, and that alone close to killed independent game creation on the Xbox.

Are you going to argue that being able to reuse all of the code behind an app's user interface across all of Microsoft's products isn't a good direction to move?

If it's for dogma, or if it's trying to mash together highly dissimilar products, yes, it's a demonstrably terrible direction to move. The single and only group that cares at all about this overlap are lazy amateur Microsoft-world developers, and the result of their ill considered efforts does absolutely nothing to advance Windows Mobile, Windows Desktop, or the Xbox. I mean seriously, Windows Phone remains a death pile of largely terrible apps, and the few decent apps Microsoft had to essentially pay the developers to make. Where is this great advantage yielded? As for the Xbox, 0% of professional game developers care one iota that there is anything in common between platforms. They really don't. Hell, they care more about abstractions that make it easier to port between the Xbox One and PS4, and eventually to iOS and Android.
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I'm way over 30 and I've always had a positive view of Gates. That's largely because I don't view business competition as a gentlemen's duel. It really is cutthroat as hell. In my early 20s I found the strategy docs for my mega-tech corp on an insecure network drive. Spent the weekend learning about how companies really compete: backroom deals, legal maneuvers, strange contracts, and even political pressure. Very few companies can be the Ghandi of the Fortune 500.

Everytime Gates is mentioned on HN we get the exact same 200 comments detailing his alleged crimes. Gates bought a cow? Sure, but he killed Netscape. Gates built an AIDS research center? Sure, but he added the Office ribbon. Can't we all calm the fuck down and just appreciate 1 rich dude trying to do some good his own way?
yes it is after Apple cut. Sorry for my bad english - I should use profit I believe.
I've got a little bit of expense but not much since I work alone and from home. I just have some royalties to give back to a text to speech engine for one of my app (I think it is around 30/40K for all my expense for 2013)
I've built a number of iOS, Android and Blackberry apps on my own and countless more for agencies around the world and not once had this problem. Apple's overall policy is really quite simple. Don't use private APIs, anything that could be considered to be anti-user or anything that is likely to embarrass Apple publicly.

It is frustrating that you can't do all the things you would like as a developer but infinitely less so then getting something working on 5 Android devices only for it not to work on the other 2.
Best exchange is IRC #bitcoin-otc with the gnupg web of trust. It's p2p, hard to shutdown, hard to fraud since logins don't rely on flimsy passwords so you know you are not trading with an impersonator, escrow can be used and market decides what the price people are willing to exchange bitcoins for.
Thanks - it's just because I'm still a kid somehow, so I like it to be fun for kids like me ;-) For the UX, I worked in this field so I've got some experience/feeling/theoric knowledge in this field. Pedagogy knowledge comes from having homeschooled kids - you need to learn (and also you experience) how kids learn the best way.
Customer Acquisition and Networking in 2014 for Startups
Yes! Many thanks to Larry Wall for having invented a tool that stands the test of time; I am wishing him well, I read he had health related problems in recent years;
The result of "foo == null" (or better "foo === null") is boolean, I don't know what is the "equivalence" problem here.
That one makes a bit of sense in Javascript as it'd return null if foo was null OR undefined.
I don't think the tool to automagically convert C code to Go will work. At the very least it will take much longer than expected to get it right. And when it's finally ready, he resulting Go code will be very slow, so they won't be able to use it without serious manual modification. Meanwhile, the C compiler will continue to add new features, and each one will have to be converted to Go and then refactored for performance. It won't work.
I guess I would need to know who "the rest of us" and the "interesting things" are.
Very impressive. Thank you for your response and overall transparency!
I know charities have to use modern marketing, but that left a sour taste when I found out about it.

Amusingly, this exact issue, of Heifer International putting money into a common fund vs. buying a water buffalo as expected, led Philip Greenspun to make a blog post on Dec. 26, 2006 (which I just stumbled on yesterday) wherein he wrote, "We are trying to decide if this is the crummiest possible Christmas present."

Then he went on to he ask what it would mean to actually buy water buffaloes for poor families. It turns out, a guy named Robert Thompson, an American living with his Chinese wife in China, left an informed answer in the comments and, long story short, Greenspun and his business partner put up the money and Thompson, with the help of his wife and her family, bought a deserving family a real live water buffalo.

You can read about it (be sure to read comment #1, which is from Thompson) and/or watch the short film Thompson made of the buying and presenting of the animal to a Chinese family, which shows the impact such a gift can have:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2006/12/26/water-buffalo-...
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I was a technical reviewer for their recent Laravel book. I've only just received a copy so haven't had a chance to properly review what went into publication.

All was OK (although the level of English was bad, but I was told not to focus on this) until I got to the REST API section which was atrocious. The author clearly didn't understand REST principals.

I essentially suggested a full rewrite or at least a change of title to something like "simple web api" but I can't comment as to whether that happened yet. I expect not.
Yes, I had a similar experience. I was asked to review a book that was terribly written. The language problems were so bad that I had a hard time reviewing the content. That said, even the content didn't deserve to be put in writing. Definitely not worth even $1.
> 1. Write a blog post about how horrible PHP is.

For extra bonus, do it on Tumblr, a PHP-powered website.
What makes you think that?
Developers can upload apps to the Play Store without Google's approval
I'm not disputing that these options are probably more effective the OP in terms of getting his situation made right (although I'm not sure what the BBB / FTC could do), but the point of "whining" on an internet forum is to give others a heads up about things like this happening. It's remarkable how quickly companies tend to move when their customer issues are aired out in public, and others are talking about them.

I'm closing my Coinbase account today and advising others I know to do the same or stay away.
After reading through your statements and responses, what pops out is that the metric being applied in valuing a CS degree is vocational. For some people that might be the right choice. But having waded into the world of CS MOOC's already, it appears that metric might be the wrong one for you.

If you're interested in studying CS, then it's o.k. to indulge yourself when you're in a position to do so. It is not as if it will hurt your career prospects. I'll go further and suggest that at our age, we're going to make the rest of our careers ourselves, and because you seem to have a passion for learning and teaching, that may be where you wind up.

Or not. Why not a degree in mathematics and a Master's in education?
Ouch. Sorry you read it that way. I don't mean it as "look how smart I am." I mean it as "wow, this idea excites me."

I think C# has more refactorability than most languages I've been exposed to. But I'm intrigued by the question of how much further could we go if we made that a primary goal.

Granted, it's just the merest kernel of an idea, and it's an extremely ambitious one at that. Not something I'm likely to tackle on my own -- more like a thought experiment at this point. Even if it failed, the attempt would be illuminating perhaps.

Anyway, thanks for leaving a comment.
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This further proves the lack of decent apps in the educational market. I am glad this worked out well for your PierreA, congratulations.
The link seems to be a dead end.
EU Parliament adopts resolution to set standards for cloud interoperability
Sounds like you just volunteered.
There are a lot of woman developers. Whenever I hear people asking this question, I automatically think, What you mean is "Why am I ignoring all the woman developers?". Where developers can be replaced by authors/bloggers/ceo's etc.
There isn't 50/50 but there is a lot of them out there.
Also liked on facebook. Finding quality (educational)(french) apps is a pain in the derche on the app store. I have already installed/uninstalled dozen of crappy apps. I think there is also room in the web or traditional french medias for success stories like yours. Did you get some exposition?
Colorado judge rules in favor of holding drone-hunting vote after legal fight
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Get ready for some Folk On The Street!!!
Learn to control the Clockwork Rooster and experience the genuine Podlachian folklore (you are probably wondering what the heck is "Podlachian" ? Podlasie is a beautiful region in Eastern Poland)
But more about the game:
- Dash through the Polish neighbourhoods!
- Jump or fly to forge obstacles!
- Unlock yummy achievements!
- Don't forget to collect oil drops to keep your machine going!
- Beware of psychedelic bosses! Defeat them to level up!
- Exchange oil drops and cold herrings to get some folky power- ups!

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This great, fast arcade game was made for you!
I agree the fragmentation issue isn't anywhere near as bad as it's made out to be in general, but..

> It's not like everything breaks just because the user has a Sony phone.

Even with Android 4+, there are still gotchas. For instance, I was recently bitten by this compass bug: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-developers/U3N...

It'd be nice if Google put more stuff in the support library, or even put notes about it in the docs, as they're clearly working around it in their own Android apps..
If you like Django/Rails I'd suggest you check out Perl's Mojolicious - very modern Perl web framework. There's also Dancer - both seem much easier to use & set up than Catalyst
There will most likely never be an integrated web framework [0] or a standard way of event-driven programming. There's more than one way.

I think Perlbrew [1] is closest to virtualenv.

[0] But there is Mojolicious, Dancer, Catalyst, etc
[1] http://perlbrew.pl/
Stevan Little, the author of Moose, is working on updating the Perl5 core to have a Moose-inspired Meta Object Protocol, called p5-mop.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YZNwO-uCVg
Github: https://github.com/stevan/p5-mop-redux/

I'm personally interested to see how this develops.

As to my own Perl story, I used it exclusively in my first (non-student) programming job, back in the summer of 2000. I built an e-commerce website, CGI, with a cookie-based shopping cart. All from scratch, no frameworks, etc. I don't even know if there were any back then.

Fast forward to the year 2011. I started using Perl again, and loving it. Still use Perl every day. A fluid mixture of procedural, functional and object-oriented code. I really enjoy the language.
Reinvent Slashdot's meta-moderation. http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml

Don't treat users like their contributions are equal. Some users make better decisions than others. Reward them.

I think the Slashdot FAQ should be required reading before developing a comment system. There are a lot of lessons they learned ahead of the rest of the internet, problems others still have not solved. Something history, doomed to repeat.

http://slashdot.org/faq/
Jolla shop open; ships to EU, Norway and Switzerland
IPhone users still earn more than Android users. Financial app census for 2013.
so how does one go about proposing additions or changes to CUDA?

ironically, i've been able to get more performance from OpenCL than CUDA (mostly due in part to OpenCL's dual-source model, it allows me to compile runtime constants into kernels).

CUDA is no more "optimised" than OpenCL. it's the same compiler that generates kernels. enqueueRead/Write calls end up being cudaMemcpy, etc.
There are actually production compressed air cars built by Tata Motors, MDI, and others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car