skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this an application we want to work on?

That's a big factor to me. It breaks down into: Is it interesting work? Is it going to be challenging without being impossible or overwhelming? Is it something I can say I was proud to be a part of? And am I even the right person to work on this or would someone else be able to do a much better job? Does it use technologies I really like, or ones that I am not too fond of?
It could be interesting for deploying small presentation websites for clients. I think editing a file on your computer, using a Markdown editor for example, to change the text for a page, would be more intuitive and practical than editing the text in a web form.
The iPhone was built on this concept in 2007, that applications on a phone should be accessible through a web browser alone. Apple re-thought that idea, but I wonder if mobile HTML5 would in a better place if they had not.
Flamebait title. Where is the torture in this "torture manual"? Maybe a better title would be: Submitter editorializes title for more clicks, makes it to the front page.
"We examined the Courts’ budget documents from the past few years, and we discovered that the Courts claim PACER expenses of roughly $25 million per year. But in 2010, PACER users paid about $90 million in fees to access the system [5]."

https://www.recapthelaw.org/2012/01/10/recap-featured-in-xrd...

I operate PlainSite on a budget of far less than $5,000 per year. It's far more advanced than PACER in a number of ways. Even multiplying PlainSite's budget by a factor of 100 to account for features that PACER has but PlainSite does not, you still get pretty close to zero on a cost-per-page basis.
With regard to the Australian experiment, what of violent crime in general?
I am very pleased to see that people are still invested in this project!

I'd really like love products like lastpass and the like, but a local only, self administered solution is, at least to me, the obvious way to go.

Also, they have a "donate" button on their site, just donated a tad, and I encourage others to do the same!
GCHQ and NSA targeted charities, Germans, Israeli PM and EU chief
Yooo waddup!

That will be my preferred business salutation going forward.
Laser Demonstration Reveals Bright Future for Space Communication
I don't know if this form of dubious back-linking is considered as "growth hacking".
This is the real reason.

CM works pretty well right out of the box (and by default, so if you don't care that's what you get) for mathematics, very few fonts do and most of those are expensive.

What people seem to forget is what a terrible, terrible state of affairs it was that drove Knuth to spend 10 years or whatever on this stuff. Prior to that the options universally sucked.

Even now there really aren't many viable alternatives for typesetting mathematics, and TeX/LaTeX is by far the best of them. But it only comes with one (or two if you count Euler) with full symbol support.
My understanding was that you could change them yourself using either the iPhone Configuration Utility or http://www.unlockit.co.nz. Has something changed in that regard?
On one hand: it's cool to read something so "unfiltered".

On the other, If I was a potential client of Dockyard's and saw this, I would run for the hills. This is not the kind of stuff that belongs on a company blog. Or any blog, for that matter.
I don't even write JS much and I know 'this' is a trap question.
Asking people to manually put links in their blog post doesn't seem scalable. In order to rank high for those keywords, you'll need many more backlinks than just a few blog posts.
> GNU has a concept of freedom that it tries to protect via the GPL. Licenses like the BSD or MIT do not.

BSD and MIT are trying to protect their own concept of freedom.
Looks very neat. I'm not sure about the green color for the quick-find popup. I'm used to more contrast there. Otherwise, great work.
Child line is not blocked in the default o2 filter. Its blocked in the opt-in filter, as is most of the net (it's a whitelist). This is clear if you use the o2 URL checker yourself.

While not agreeing with the filters, it seems that there's a large and vocal contingent who are being hysterical and getting the facts wrong. They are not helping.
I didn't mean that it can be proof to CSS independently of HTML of course. And I suppose this requirement is obvious at least because CSS is not executable without HTML at all.

Anyway it seems you are quite familiar with the topic, and I believe you heard all the recent buzz around rule110 etc. But a lot of people don't know about this interesting fact yet.
New ebook on Ember.js published [50% off till Jan]
2nd amendment groups like the NRA use the direct method, not petitions. They send out pre-written postcards for the member to fill out and send in. They also send out contact information for all the member gov't representatives, phone numbers included, and tell them to call.

The grandparent is right. Give people the number to Feinstein's office and tell them to call and say:

1. I live in Feinstein's district

2. I oppose X

3. If Feinstein votes for X, I will vote against her next election.

The call can take less than 1 minute, but her staff will record the comments and present them to Diane.
Not sure I'd call Maiden death metal; that's more like, say, Cannibal Corpse. Maiden is pretty much straight up heavy metal.
Basically, "vanilla" keypass didn't have cross platform compatibility; "KeePassX to the rescue".

I think maybe this is them catching up, but I think it's really good for the entire project that there are several alternatives.
You shouldn't want controllers of the same type, no? That increases chances of data loss due to design flaw.
Hey byuu, thanks for the feedback.

> On your screenshot, http://openemu.org/img/controls-prefs.png , you appear to be missing an option for the B button

That whole field scrolls down, just doesn't appear so from the screenshot. Seems we can polish up a few things on the website still.

I have to drag the slider for that horizontal scrollbar but I'm using Firefox 26.

We're using a database called OpenVGDB that I've co-created. I'll hop on your forums later as I'd like to talk to you about it more. It handles multi-region and "world" roms of all types and depending on your location (operating system supplied), can deliver you the correct cover and metadata.

For input, we're still sorting out cases especially with odd adapters and hubs. We generally go by the port and vendor/product ID.
That's fair, but then again perhaps this is a good filter for those types of clients we want to work with.
A shame that HN changed the title. This is the best intro to programming I ever read and the style of the prolog is entertaining too.
Haskell.

Having learned perl, ruby and python (these are all incredibly similar), and then Clojure, I've found that I really like the functional paradigm. It helped drag my attention back to thinking about data structures and functions to act on that data a lot more than a ton of bad OOP examples ever have. I'm actually excited to program now instead of feeling like, "Okay, this mess of classes I'm making is going to pay off some day..."

One negative/positive is that I now kind of recoil in distaste when I find OOP-y code that's seemingly done for the sake of jamming code into a class instead of using generic functions and data types. It's funny that there's a large swath of not so useful monad tutorials, because there's an absolute mountain of examples of classes/objects that don't make any sense at all. I didn't mean to make a tiny rant on OOP. Sorry about that.

As someone who has been using a lot of dynamic languages, I'm really interested to find out how a static type system can help me program better software.
US government and cable providers agree to improve set-top box energy efficiency
Yeah, there's just that little price gouging problem during times of scarcity. I think they took a big PR hit when the cost of rides skyrocketed during recent storms. Old style regulated cab companies can't do that.
Use Google's
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
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The Biggest Dick Moves of Silicon Valley 2013
How about the Alcatel OneTouch Fire? Has anyone got his/her hands on it?
FTA:

"After all, fans can't download a concert…”

What about live bootleg recordings?

But they cannot download the concert experience.
Sure sales are down just like you mention. Piracy and the ability to spend $1 on the song you want vs. $10 to for the whole cd.

Also I seem to remember in the early 90s rummaging thru second hand $1 bins of music. There is always excess crap or discs that are obscure and are hard to move.
I believe there is always a niche for well-crafted apps. They might not always be the most popular, but often they have higher margins and more passionate users.

Also, companies like Evernote specifically do native apps because they offer a better experience and that leads to happier users, better conversion rates, and ultimately more money.
my experience is a combination of the two : consumers want (and have) cheap, disposable, well crafted quality apps.
It's the dream of the 1890s as if caching and CDNs were never invented.
I do not agree. The SOPA petition worked. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sopa-petition...)
+1. Security is a big issue too, and much minimized when you're serving static pages. It's not just "for a blog, fine", it's more like, "for a blog, optimal".
Pretty interesting read.
Didn't know about use of gift cards, pretty cleaver.

Any idea if the "mules" (from the article, the guys who get items shipped to them) would be in legal trouble?
I'm pretty sure KeepassX supports the new database format -- I think their FAQ is wrong. Its relationship with KeePass is just that it's another program that can open that file format; they aren't really "related." I use it on my Mac because it works better than using regular KeePass through Mono.
Building Puppet-based applications inside Docker
Oculus Rift - Web Bridge
Yes, it was 600k.
I find it extremely disturbing that I haven't been able to find a single major news outlet covering this. Hopefully I'm just failing at searching.
The main problem isn't supporting other text fonts (including TTF), but the fact that those fonts don't properly support the symbols.

So all in all it's a bit of a nasty aesthetic trade-off. There are several packages that attempt to create symbol sets to match things like palatino, with varying success. Some are just terrible. And there are a few commercially available ones that do support most if not all symbols, so if it's worth a few hundred dollars to you there is that route.

Nothing has great solution for web, really. We're slowing moving from execrable to ugly but at least it is progress.
Why not just write everything in Continuation Passing Style? (joke)
An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA
I use Pelican for my personal site as well, and to me the big advantage is not performance, but security and easy of hosting. A static site has basically no attack surface, and can be hosted on free or cheap hosts like Github Pages or http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net.

Of course, your concern is valid: I don't think anyone recommends using a static content generator except for sites that consist primarily of static content. Obviously if you want richly dynamic content, a static site generator is not for you. On the other hand, if your site is primarily static, why use a dynamic system that introduces additional overhead?
It has always amazed me that set-top boxes consume 15-45W (http://standby.lbl.gov/summary-table.html), even when idle, while Apple TV consumes just 2W when streaming HD content (http://images.apple.com/br/environment/reports/docs/AppleTV_...). And then we're not even talking about user experience -- most set-top boxes are dirt slow as well.
The 2.0 series of KeePassX does support the newer (2.0) KeePass database format. I've been using the Alpha 3 for a while now and it works well on OS X. The biggest thing I miss from the Windows version is the password generator.
BlackHatSeoGenius.
I've used this at two previous jobs as it was the only one that could open the same file from Windows and OS X. Nice to see it's still going!
Can you downvote me more than once? If so, please feel free.

A gun is a tool, not a concept. You seem no less inclined to argue semantics than I; the difference is that I don't consider a semantic argument, and a meaningful argument, mutually exclusive. Perhaps I'm wrong in that.
Curious what the revenue vs expense looked like in years #1 and #2. How many employees generated that $750k and then $1.5M revenue?
Justine Sacco Internet Justice and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob
It would be an irony if it said:

”record companies are suffering from ouright theft"
No offense taken, but I'm curious as to why you hate that phrase.

"Getting work done" is essentially what we're hiring people for right? As long as you can get done what you were hired to do, it shouldn't matter whether you suck at algorithms, are not a "ninja", don't fit "culturally", and whatever other weird things companies look for in candidates. It's as prosaic as it gets, and IMO it's the absolute correct metric to use.

It's as different as it gets from "changing the world", which honestly very few companies are actually doing, and is hence a source of irritation for me as well.
So 'growth hacking' has grown to encompass the run of the mill SEO strategy.
I suspect the SOPA petition alone was less effective than Google asking users to phone their Congressperson on every single search result page.
> the "war" on native, especially in the mobile space.

I actually think its the complete opposite. eg, Facebook, Linkedin

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/17/linkedin-mobile-web-breaku...

They tried web-based apps. They said the experience isn't what people expect as with native.
That screenshot says it's blocked on the opt in under12 filter, that's been running for years. It's a whitelist, those sites have probably always been blocked on it.
i dont see how they can beat azlyrics and metrolyrics in SEO. I've been using them for over a decade
Doesn't google penalize what they view as attempts to manipulate their algorithm through spamming and link trading. Couldn't this potentially backfire?
> I haven't used Firefox OS, but I've wrote PhoneGap apps for iOS and Android, and the biggest problem is just that it puts the developer experience before the end user experience and that seems backwards to what makes a great product.

I strongly disagree with your definition of "user experience". I believe that changing phones and having to install different apps, with different UIs, or possibly doing without one because the new phone doesn't have an equivalent, is a bad user experience.

This is my opinion as a user, not as a developer.
Good question. We've maintained around a 20% profit margin. I'll add that to the article as it is important.
So a logistics question then. How many staffers are there for a typical Senator's office?
While FF OS does sound pretty bad from the descriptions in article, I'm willing to cut it some slack.

Sounds like it should not have been released at this point, to me, but the biggest benefit (IMO) of open-source software is that things can get patched. And if you look at the activity on the FF browser, it can happen very fast.

This article encouraged me to clone the source code and play with it -- but after nearly 20 years of software development I'm starting to learn that my eyes are bigger than my stomach. Still, for anyone interested: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building_and_...

Now, I would like to start hacking on the browser at some point... http://codefirefox.com/

In conclusion, I feel that their release process (like don't release until it works properly) is broken, but hopefully will be fixed, and I am almost glad that the product sucks, because it shows such room for improvement. I think the mobile industry, and the software industry more generally, is still young.
tldr: user expected 3y old phone hardware and from-scratch OS to beat Android/iOS on quad core devices, got disappointed.
Enjoyed this a great deal. It's interesting to get insight into a different part of the industry (for me) and I'm struck by how high costs must be in consultancy if even at $1.5m revenue, a founder can only pay themselves 50% of their set salary? (Assuming said salary isn't unrealistic.) (Update: Profit margin specified as 20% in another comment below.)
Kudos to him.

I'm not bitter or upset but I'm thinking: Why can't I think of stuff people want? Maybe I don't know how to listen? He's a human, just like me, but I can't do anything. Maybe asking this question is a first signal of failure, or at least that I'm of a wrong mindset, that separates a good entrepreneur, whom wouldn't ask that question and just go do it, from people like me.

If his WP page is accurate, it's not like he didn't have startups that didn't work out but he still made it.
I like that a good chunk of the article was about service in DC. When I lived there I still ran in to the occasional Uber driver that would not want to take me to my home in Alexandria from the heart of downtown.

I'll also echo the author's comments that Uber opened up parts of DC that I would have otherwise avoided including Georgetown, Adams Morgan, and the Eastern end of H street / Northeast DC.

At the time Adams Morgan was getting more parking but I really didn't enjoy driving up there and getting a taxi was still spotty at certain times.

I don't live there any more so I don't know if the H street light rail is operational yet but I can say that I never would have frequented Dangerously Delicious Pies without Uber.

As a previous working Washingtonian I wish Uber the best and if nothing else am happy for the change they are driving. (Pun intended ;)
The PDF says it was made by someone on Fiverr. :))
I can only assume this would hurt them since the Panda update by Google a while back.

But more importantly:

Every instance of one-on-one communication I've seen by Rap Genius (this and the aphyr emails) include over-the-top frat boy style phrases. Are they being sarcastic, is it an affectation, or do they really speak like a parody of every "bro" ever?
What this shows, in the most charitable if feeble light possible, is that RSA will implement something important to one paying customer that affects all paying customers, and will not disclose that without rocks having been turned over.
Such Weird: The Founders of Dogecoin See the Meme Currency's Tipping Point
Mikhail Kalashnikov - Dead at 94
I just go to facebook.com with firefox on the nexus 7 and it just works waaaaaaaaay better than this website you refer.

So.. I don't think it's an HTML problem. Turns out, facebook.com also works great on my desktop browser.
Today, an honorably executed duel would be considered murder, no matter who won. Two hundred years ago, such would not be the case. I can't say which style of jurisprudence on the matter is better; I can't even define a standard of 'better' against which to evaluate them. But a duel certainly seems like a decisive method of settling an otherwise irreconcilable point.
Interesting. I didn't know they had those limitations. Better off with regular SD card backups then.
Great war stories from the trenches, and some useful snippets in there for someone building a company too. Thanks Brian!
Two is still an incredibly handy feature. I would guess that the most common case for returning multiple values is data and size, like all the functions that return a string and the length of the string.
Metadata Material Shouldn’t be Held by the Government
"As a bonus, all the other algorithms are apparently faster and that’s generally a desirable property."

I apologize for discussing a technical topic in whats likely to be a political crypto-rage flamewar, but I've been digesting some thoughts about this and the figure of merit of processing required per bit of randomness is probably interesting, in that for a given set of professional grade RNGs (not algorithms implemented by idiots) the more processing required to generate a bit of randomness, the more likely it is someone's sticking a nasty backdoor in.

Or rephrased the more time you spend sticking magic "nothing up my sleeves" constants into a bit, the more likely something unpleasant is getting stuck in there.

(edited to add I'm talking about "real" RNGs not implying the worlds simplest shortest LFSR is magically better than a real RNG just because its really fast... I'm talking about more "in class" performance comparisons than joke vs real.)
Was it because the author isn't a founder?
Obviously, had Rwanda's government banned machetes, those massacres would never have happened, or would at least have been much more limited in scope.

(I always know better than to engage in snark. I hope you'll forgive me for not having been able to restrain myself this once.)
Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple
Even if you use a Computer Modern webfont, your page won't look even remotely as good as if it was produced using TeX. Browsers are lacking proper justification (Knuth-Plass line breaking), hyphenation (which kind of exists in CSS3), microtype optimizations (e.g. hanging punctuation) and automatic ligatures. There are some hacks [1] to solve these issues, but easy immaculate typography on the web is currently a no-go.

[1] http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/
You can have a client side key BTW. It's a complete dick to setup and each UA is different so it's really not viable for a product for the unwashed masses. But for something like Lavabit I don't think would be unreasonable.
What I understand from a friend who works for Mozilla, their interest is in "the next two billion people to come online." That is to say, people who are outside the smartphone saturated bubble of the first world and who are unlikely to jump to iPhones on LTE in the foreseeable future.

This really is about a designing a system that works in the incredibly constrained and frequently unstable conditions of the developing world. If you've ever been there, you know it's a really different universe - politically, socially, culturally, economically, and technologically. And yes, all these factors influence the definition of solution correctly optimized for its environment.

Without an understanding of that environment, it's hard to judge whether or not Mozilla is hitting its marks.
I can't believe they're not trying to secure this already.
Very nice, the examples are very clear and terse.

I started on a similar project in C which is unique in that the game logic is written more-or-less procedurally and the library takes care of backtracking the game state to iterate through the tree nodes:

https://github.com/sehugg/Starthinker
Still too complicated for non-geeks.
> Recently we have been able to build enough of a name for ourselves in the development community where we have started to attract some good senior development talent.

I really like this. Not branding, not marketing - but building a name. Building something of value and being an active member of/giving back to the community.
Please, oh please, let me get a copy of one of the larger movie publishers email server. How easy it would be to find a few incriminating sounding emails. I could take things out of context, and say "look, conspiracy to commit crime right there!". Or a police stations email server. Or any larger organization what so ever.

I don't need six written lines from the most honest man. Just a few hundred thousands emails. Maybe ten millions to be sure. Surely, no content provider has anything wrong doing hinted in theirs?

So for a short promotion, I would recommend anyone who runs a email server to have disk encryption ON. It doesn't matter if you are running a puppy hospital for orphans.
Do you by chance know the source?
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