skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, no need for any apologies.

My view is that the Metro app store will eventually take off. IMO Microsoft usually rushes to ship not-yet-finished products and which are then refined across successive versions/updates till people eventually accept them.

But as far as native apps go, I have not seen many SMEs pop up to ship commercial software on that. In contrast small businesses pop up all the time to ship iOS/Android apps.
It doesn't explain a thing on why.
He just measured the performance of memory access and different caching strategies. From my point of view the "benchmarks" say nothing at all about actual I/O disk performance in virtual and native environments.
Yup - a whois on the domain indicates Ryan Mickle of Yardsale Inc is part of this.
Business, as a whole, seems fixated on eliminating every facet of introversion:

"Individual analysis is bad! Collaboration is good!"

"Thinking hard takes too much time! Instead, keep shipping!"

It seems to reflect a culture that prefers ambient noise to quiet reflection, focus, and productivity. It's almost as if people would prefer to see me typing over having the results of what I make. It is this notion that makes open offices a bit worrisome. I've been productive in both private and open office environments, but I'm very much an introvert. I need a certain amount of physical space that feels private; this manifests itself mentally as breathing space to explore whatever problem domain I'm working in.

Aside: it's amusing that SV prides itself on being progressive while not trusting their workers with a modicum of privacy. Guess it fits the whole 'privacy is not for plebes' notion that powers it, eh?
Well, typically accelerators take a percentage of the company in return for the money they offer. Post the terms that they gave you here and we'll help review it. Of course, make sure that you are not bound by some NDA or confidentiality agreement first :)
And as long as you're not using bashisms inside of your Makefiles, which many people do.
I find this quite ridiculous, people are not these fragile creatures that can't see, hear or smell anything other than the usual office sights, sounds and aromas. I think you're over thinking this. Unless you're eating weird stuff like boiled lungfish or whatever then I suspect nobody is paying the slightest attention to you eating chips or an apple.
That's a good point and I'd definitely like to see some quantitative studies on that.
I use the title Growth Hacker in the sense that it is a hacker (programmer) focused on growth (marketing). In this sense, it is simply a term for a marketer that writes code. So then "growth hacking" should simply mean writing code to do marketing for you. This is indeed different than marketing alone.
>U.S. surveillance problem

As long as people are willing to pretend that the problem is only the US and not the entire West colluding then the easier it is for these governments to continue.
It's not as drastic a change as the FUD peddlers would like you to believe: http://marketingland.com/gmail-messages-google-plus-70094
This project was originally suggested by David Segal, Aaron's co-founder at Demand Progress, back in November. We'd been waiting for the right date to actually build and launch it, and David suggested that using Aaron's passing was likely the best marker, particularly since he and Brian Knappenberger had just uncovered some footage of Aaron talking about the need for a "moment of activism" around state surveillance (which'll be released soon). I can definitely understand the skepticism, but from my understanding it was definitely an issue he cared about.
I love it when the naive ignorant people who didn't even know about mass spying until those NSA news think they can do anything about it.

To those people, including the writer of the above letter:

If you're too naive to even notice unless you're told through official media channels, don't bother.

You ain't smart enough to outsmart them, quit fighting and accept whatever it is you voted for, it's not like the bullshit victory you may yet achieve is going to change reality one tiny bit.
Websocket library on Android
Novice here. Trying to setup websocket communications between an Android app and node.js on the server side.

The problem I have is the lack of consensus on the Internets on which packages to use.

On node.js

- socket.io, often said to be stuck in the v0.9 version

- engine.io

- Autobahn

.. and more

On Android there are

- https://github.com/koush/android-websockets

- https://github.com/Gottox/socket.io-java-client

- Autobahn

Does HN have a favorite? What's HN's experience on mobile app use of websocket?
I bike for 75-90 minutes in the middle of the day, so I don't have much time for lunch. I eat while working after my bike ride.

That said, I agree with a lot of what the author has said.
>Why does it need to be an all or nothing proposition?

This can depend on personality, circumstances, etc. IMO if someone is stuck in a rut and decides the only way out is a complete polar switch, good for them. At least they are making a change for what they feel is the better. They might already know that they don't do well with half-switches and tend to fall back into the same orbit. Or they might just be really overwhelmed in general and find the feel of small yet firm changes appealing.

It can be annoying to have to put up with others' all-or-nothing viewpoints, but it can still be useful to appreciate that their perspective might be informed by experiences that differ from our own.
WM's members don't suffer harms because they are a member of WM. They suffer harms because they are members of W.

Women are a significant population in the uk. It has been shown that this population suffer some harms only because of their being women. This is wrong.
I've seen this happen over over to the point where work prototypes are not terribly removed from production code.

I prototype slower, but nobody cares.
I'm just the opposite. I have eaten my lunch at my desk almost every day for years and can't imagine anything else.

- I crave LONG periods of time for coding...
- By noon, I'm really getting rolling. I hate to stop.
- I always plan & pack my lunch exactly like I want.
- I love how everyone else is gone & I'm alone.
- No one I know eats like me...
- I'm tired of explaining/debating food choices.
- I hate standing in line or waiting for my waiter.
- I hate "small talk" over lunch.
- I leave early, before traffic.
- I still exercise more than anyone I know.
- If I want a break, then I surf or email.
- My favorite hour of the day.
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Also, not everyone likes wearing headphones all day long either. It's like saying "oh, you don't like the smell of cigaretes? wear a gas mask!"
>Has no one ever heard of headphones.

To some, headphones are just another form of noise and distraction and not a solution to the problem.
> I wonder how many of the bugs led to code execution?

Quite a few. We're often affected with VLC, and code execution is easy to get to. But with VLC, you're "only" in userland.
Who would disagree that more pixels is better? I DO disagree that a 39" glossy monitor from a garbage brand and that only runs @30hz in full res is a good option right now. Too big, glossy and every Seiki monitor that I have come across has had problems within the first two years (everything from displaying all green to catching on fire)
I tried outsourcing my financials to my wife (who works in accounting) and it did not work out. Relationship wise it wasn't good but also found out after switching back that was happier and more productive doing it myself.
Low Tech Magazine suggests these aren't viable if you generate electricity rather than use the power directly:

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electric...

Though they avoid the many extra issues that you run into if you built it round an actual bike.
I'm not surprised that the "get more likes" campaigns fail to generate positive ROI. If you goal is to get people to sign up on your site why not create ads that at least drive people to your site?

This is maybe the third or fourth post I've read along the same lines: a lot of people aren't seeing ROI and engagement. FB isn't right for everyone, but there ARE people making money on it. Aside from having the right product and service offerings that do work on FB, you need to make sure you have the right campaign with clear goals and smart targeting. Without auditing their targeting options I can't say whether they got any of this right, but their Facebook content and profile aren't really set up for a liking campaign's ROI either.
What exactly does git’s "rebase --preserve-merges" do (and why?)
PHP 5.5.8 Released
If you use something like SourceTree, it has buttons for exactly those things, after you hit the 'Git Flow' button in the toolbar.

So as long as you want to use the Git Flow model, which is probably the most widely understood/used, you wish has already been granted!
If this company is acting as an escrow service, don't they have to register themselves as an escrow agent in order to do that?
Well, if the point is to get likes, any form of advertising is probably worthless, right ?

I don't see how advertising on facebook is less interesting because of that, it's just that you've got to do it right, and facebook as a fresher market, may still have much better returns than more established advertising systems like adwords.
>The governing body for college athletics generally prohibits significant payments to the athletes themselves, so all that income goes to coaches and other staff, as well as supporting businesses.

Most of the money goes to the university itself.
ISS Retools Corporate Governance Ratings: Check Your Data Now
Does this also work if the user has signed out of Foursquare? (on Android?)
I wonder whether they obtained proper license to use a frame from "The Big Lebowski" for their internet meme
If you allow people to eat at their desk inevitably someone will bring in stinky tuna salad every day.
What about the Five Eyes countries? This is less of an adversarial "you are spying on us, so we should be able to spy on you," and more of a "the NSA has invited our country to spy on US citizens so that they can get data from us." At the very least, some of that responsibility comes from the NSA.
everything has to start somewhere, so why not SF, makes sense to me. And iPhone is a sort of screening process i suspect. Android being the cheap option offers less screening. Besides in SF the iPhone is the dominant mobile platform. It all makes sense.

However, I'm sticking with CL because I mostly buy/sell long tail items (vintage cameras) and CL works just fine for me.
CCP Games brings Sentry to the PlayStation
Ironically, at the moment the link to their own Privacy Policy page is broken. (I notified them by email.)

https://thedaywefightback.org/privacy.html
I use my lunch periods to get away from the forced socialization of our open-office plan. In fact, that one hour when everyone is down at the cafeteria is usually my most productive hour in the day: I can get stuff done without disruptions or interruptions.
So noted. However, in the numbers I saw for the University of Illinois budget, the total endowments and gifts was about 1/7th of that of grant funding.

I have not done any extensive analysis of this. My comment was mostly to highlight that the previous poster was making statements that I could not easily accept as being true.
I have been saying this forever as well. As a marketer this is what I want, not the current ad units Facebook is selling. I think they could honestly destroy Google Adsense and dominate the display ad business. With their data and a Google like distribution of their ads they would be unstoppable.
Well, if you're politically opposed to the NSA's surveillance they probably already know, so it won't make much difference whether you've revealed support for this campaign. The bigger problem is that the campaign seems entirely vacuous. What exactly are we doing to fight back? Complaining a little bit online? The NSA must be running scared.
Pirate Bay founder to remain in custody until February
In my experience, as part of my family is from ex communist societies, when you distribute money, there is concentration of power.

A government powerful enough to distribute all assets is super powerful, and those that control this government(the party) have all the power.

Having all the power, they have all the material resources for them, their families and friends, even when they don't have "money". They want a car, they ask for a car with any excuse and the day after they have the car, they want to travel and so on.

The rest of the society live in conditions of near slavery. They could ask for a car, as they are "equal", but it takes years to come, and when it comes, it is a horrible car you could not choose anything about.

Also corruption is levels of magnitude bigger than anything in something near capitalistic(even paying more than 40% to the state) societies. If your wife is beautiful and the people of the party wants to fuck with her, they will blackmail her with the working conditions of her family. The same party that controls the media and justice and the only company that hires people.

That was the reason my family emigrated, all at once.
Askew. Typed that on my iPad, so there are a couple of typos. Corrected 'eschew' and 'straight':

"It is, at first, disorientating to have the two monitors askew but once you get used to it, the reduction in strain from looking far left or right out weighs the strange look.
Is the 20K convertible debt or as equity?
They did with SOPA. Because there were millions of them. But how do millions of phones calls get sent? By having each and everyone of us calling.
Aaron's gripe was not having access to publicly funded research, which should be a slam dunk. Trying to tack him on to another cause, however well intentioned, is a disservice. There was an argument during the suffrage debates that they should include blacks as well, and justifiably, but if they had progress would likely have been delayed.
Nice post Dave, keep the posts coming!
I agree with you. If you simply turn your keyboard upside down and give it a few slaps you will see a lot of grubbiness comming out!
London, Moscow and St. Petersburg taxi accepts Bitcoin (and ~15 usd off)
Case in point, the Canadian government is currently building "the most expensive government building ever constructed in Canada" for CSEC (our version of the NSA) and vastly expanding their headcount:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-canada-s-top-secret-b...

And GCHQ has less significantly legal restrictions than most other SIGINT agencies.
That's how I interpreted it too. Although personally I think all that should be done in the development stage. I prefer to only approve pull requests once they're ready to be merged. It helps avoid the possibility that some of your "cleanup" accidentally introduced changes in behaviour. Also, a clean pull request is easier to review.
If you login on the website (www.wheely.com and click "Book online"), there is now a "Pay with Bitcoin" button in the account section to top up your balance.
I don't want to spend my precious lunch hour being social. Desk lunches are one of the best perks of being a programmer.
This may be the most helpful thing I've seen for npm ever. Thank you
It would have been interesting to see a comparison with Xen etc. too.
But... when would I read Hacker News?
Make sure to disable Vimium on vimgenius.com if you have it installed.
Let's try to be positive about this.

Presumably the NSA's capacities are limited by its budget. Presumably its budget is limited by political considerations. Presumably a popular social networking campaign, however lame, will be impact on politicians' willingness to lavish funds upon it.

I'd rather everybody involved set up and promoted GPG instead, but that probably isn't going to happen.
I used to work in Santa Barbara a block from the ocean so I'd go swimming at lunch. Other times I'd get Tacos Rajas from La Super Rica.

At my current job my desk is pretty attractive compared to the surroundings so I prefer that. Also, I can pack a pretty good lunch for myself.
The reason Aaron gets so much sympathy (EDIT: for what he did as well as for how he was treated) is that 1) a substantial portion of the JSTOR data is public domain, 2) a substantial portion of the rest is work funded with public money where it is controversial that it is only available under copyright.

But even disregarding that, I don't get why you are baffled: The GPL is a hack intended to spread freedoms. Many who support the GPL do not support it out of some desire to respect IP laws, but as a means of reducing the use of more restrictive licenses. E.g. to maximise access to knowledge or maximise the ability to modify and use data.

Wanting the data in JSTOR freed up, possibly regardless of copyright status, is entirely consistent with supporting the GPL in those cases.

For some this is a moral or ethical issue - it is perfectly possible to consider the current state of copyright an immoral restriction of personal freedoms.
I'm not speaking to specific actions, or existing agreements, I'm speaking to reciprocity. The most effective way to get from others is to give the same.

Edit: actually, 5 eyes is a perfect example of a negative (in this context) reciprocal agreement. We should work to create the opposite sort of reciprocal agreement.
Google launches ferry service between Redwood City and San Francisco
For me its because I want my lunch to be as short as possible. I want to jam my food down my throat and finish what I'm doing. If I am going to relax it won't be at the office. I have much more fun things to do at home. For me work happens at work, and play happens at home. I keep as strict of a line between the two as I can.

That's just how my mind is set up though and I get why others like to relax and unwind throughout out the day.
Same, spent most of my twenties enjoying the world, and focusing on business. I wouldn't do it any other way, while a lot of my friends are tied down with houses and families in their twenties.

I'm jealous of one thing though. They got to spend their twenties with the partner they'll spend the rest of their life with. I've had a lot of great times in my 20s, but those memories are mostly with people that have come and gone. If you're meeting someone and starting a family in your thirties, it needs to move quickly, and women always want to have children before 35. So, if you meet someone early thirties, you're spending a quick year or two together, and starting a family. If you meet early twenties, you could spend at least a decade growing and experiencing a lot together before starting a family.

So, that's my one regret, I'll never be a 40 or 50 year old, being able to reminisce with my partner about the fun adventures we had together in our 20s.

However, you can't have it both ways, and I imagine people that settle down or start a long term relationship early feel like they missed out on a few years of independent freedom.
The author has described, which is pretty obvious for any enterprise that have used facebook advertising to gain followers. They do not convert, and even worse, they don't help spread the word. Unless you post a photo of lolCatz. But how exactly a serious profession like I am in (logistics) can keep posting lolz cats photos. ;)

As for Facebook for advertising your products i.e links to your product pages or website, the ROI is worse. But I keep using it however, because in my market, using Adwords is no more affordable, I roughly pay $0.03 for a Facebook ad click, while the same costs me $0.25 on adwords. That's why I had to give up on Adwords.
Google Maps Mistakenly Labels Berlin Square After Hitler
>>Accenture, which is one of the world’s largest consulting firms, has extensive experience with computer systems on the state level, and it built California’s new health insurance exchange.

Hasn't California's exchange had big problems too?
I guess that's a fair point. I am definitely operating under the assumption that those who worked closely with him would not be using his name for a campaign he would not have supported. Having worked with these organizations and folks in the past, I find that highly unlikely, but I understand why that might not be a convincing argument to everyone.
Well, I never fly Ryanair if a similar Easyjet flight is available, even if it's more expensive. There are limits.
what were the issues specifically with this if you don't mind sharing. My wife (who is an accountant) has been pestering me to hire as a contractor to do my one man business bookkeeping and for some reason, I keep avoiding that discussion. May be your story can give me some more insight.
Excellent. What are the keyboards like? Bendy chiclets or something decent?
A Group Of Miners Has Exposed One Of Bitcoin's Fatal Flaws
Nope, sorry, it's wrong. Here are the possibilities for someone with 2 children were at least one of them is a boy borne on tuesday:

01) 1BT 2BM
02) 1BT 2BT
03) 1BT 2BW
04) 1BT 2BR
05) 1BT 2BF
06) 1BT 2BS
07) 1BT 2BY

08) 1BT 2GM
09) 1BT 2GT
10) 1BT 2GW
11) 1BT 2GR
12) 1BT 2GF
13) 1BT 2GS
14) 1BT 2GY

15) 1BM 2BT
16) 1BT 2BT
17) 1BW 2BT
18) 1BR 2BT
19) 1BF 2BT
20) 1BS 2BT
21) 1BY 2BT

22) 1GM 2BT
23) 1GT 2BT
24) 1GW 2BT
25) 1GR 2BT
26) 1GF 2BT
27) 1GS 2BT
28) 1GY 2BT

Your program counts possibility # 2 and 16 only once, because at first glance they are identical. But they are not, because each child has independent probability. This is why models that graph this information on a grid also fail to get the right answer. The above probability table gives you the proper result of 14/28, or 1/2.
I wouldn't say I'm surprised, but it definitely is not necessarily usual.

Companies usually win contracts of this magnitude because they "have people who know people". Consequently, "CGI Federal" is, or at least was, well connected with the people in government necessary to shovel boondoggles their way. It is what it is.

I guess in this case the poor optics overcame the connections.
>Why are the mostly highly paid "public servants" in most states athletic coaches? Because the public universities make huge amounts of money from sports: the TV licensing deals, the ticket sales, the merchandising.

That's not why.

The coaches are paid a ton because were they to quit, they could be paid a ton somewhere else.

Why would they be paid a ton somewhere else?

Because other colleges want to win!

Why do they want to win?

Because without their football team, schools like Alabama and Texas and USC and and and would have ZERO credibility.
The Web Setup: Runscope
Oh, so much. We've completely rebuilt how we do starting prices, we've tried flash sales (everything would queue up until a certain time of day), we didn't think we needed Paypal support, we didn't have granular notification settings so you couldn't initially "follow" a specific product, guaranteed offers have been completely reimplemented 2 or 3 times, etc.

The bottom line, something we really learned from Yardsale, is no matter what you build, the perfect product, you'll end up discovering you built the wrong thing. The longer you spend on your beta, the more costly deep iterations become -- design assets, polish, etc. all are very expensive.

We started out with I think a 2 wk spec, which actually took 3 wks to build, and followed up by restricting every new feature to a 2 day spec, including big things like user-to-user payments. This changes how you think about these features. Suddenly you realize you don't need ACH integration, you can mail checks until you hit some scale where an intern can't handle it any more, etc.

PS - Shout out to Scribd, and the Parse founders, who've made an art of this kind of development.
Slightly surprised, but only because I would have thought that the company had kept up their payments to the necessary campaign funds.