skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"App Store standards" don't really work for valuable niche software. They can work for games that end up selling 10 million copies, but there's a reason why professional software with few users is usually priced between $500 and $100 000.

$5 is worth 3 minutes of developer time at common hourly contracting prices. If a developer receives and reads an email from a customer, they will probably end up with no profit. If they respond to it, let alone are adding new custom features, they are certainly losing money compared to working for someone else.
Show HN: Awesome theme for your Pelican blog
After spinning up an instance-store m3.medium, the 4GB volume is in addition to the root volume.
We can use TeamViewer for personal support.
Microsoft Remotely Removed Tor Browser Bundle from more than 2 Million Systems
Google's definition of 'good' and 'bad' is the criterion...
Will your service be expanding to provide reverse geocoding? we would be interested if it did both (we need both).
To me, the main reason for this wealth inequality is currency devaluation and economic inflation. The middle class and the poor use much more of their money for everyday things, and the price of these everyday things has increased tremendously over the last 75 years. Take a look at this US inflation chart (and that is if you believe the US Gov inflation data, which I don't):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Historical_Inflation_An...

Notice that prior to the 50's, there were balanced periods of inflation and deflation. Since the 50's, there has only been inflation. When the price of housing and food goes up, the middle class and poor people take it up the ass, while rich people who are making money via loans to the MC and poor and raking in much more in interest (for example).

When the top 15 US banks are about to go under, the government and Fed buy all their bad assets (loans) with currency the create by pushing a button. Nothing useful or productive is done to create this "value". That new currency is used by the banks to further increase their wealth by manipulating the stock and commodities markets. And yeah, sure - the upper middle class people who have money left over from their paycheck can invest in these markets and increase their wealth. Well, they can until the rug gets yanked out. And when that happens, you can bet the large pension funds, banks, government officials, and those 85 rich bastards will be given plenty of notification before the big crash. But the average Joe invested in the market won't: he will take it up the ass. It's just another way the rich and influential profit from the masses.

Think about the cost increases in food, higher education and the medical system for example. Way, way higher than general inflation. These higher costs force middle class people into lower class, and force lower class people onto government assistance.

ANd please don't say Bitcoin is going to fix this. Digital currency is the ultimate wet dream for the rich, because they will be able to track AND TAX every single transaction, including those to your babysitter or yard guy. Eliminating all untaxed financial transactions and monitoring every transaction is the overloards' ultimate goal.

I'm not saying technology is not a factor - clearly it is. One accountant can do much more with a computer than several accountants could do before computers, robots in factories obviously displace workers, and outsourcing jobs to countries with extremely low wages is a problem. But I think these pale in comparison to currency devaluation over the long term.
Anyone have suggestions for an alternative? I haven't ever found a product that works as consistently and seamlessly (without having to fight firewall issues).

Edit: I should add that I'm willing to pay for a service, but most of the options I've seen are for enterprise customers, not individuals with a few clients.
I believe the distinction here is between "contractor" or "staff augmentation" and "consultant." A contractor gets hired to practice his craft, while a consultant (theoretically) leaves a company better than when they first arrived.

This involves things like leading meetings to get buy in across groups, developing plans for what needs to be built, etc. It's very far from sitting behind your screen in Photoshop all day.

One of the best books I've read to understand what a consultant truly does is [Getting Naked](http://j.mp/1mAnhnn).
Wanted to say the same thing. Except that I totally don't use it anymore. Wanted to try it again last month but couldn't find the free remote controlling anywhere. Figured they stopped offering it.
mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4R3hODnTGo
Unfortunately the English names don't really work as they haven't taken account of name clustering in Ethnic minorities.

"Mohammed Bennett" is possible but highly unlikely.
I'm a huge fan of Elon Musk, but I must say I don't like the designs very much. I you can't make better designs, you should think of having shirts with quotes like “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”or "I'll put a man on Mars in 10 years. Maybe 20 years worst case. Otherwise I won't be able to go there." (can't find the exact quote!)
Security Pattern Assurance Through Round Trip Engineering
The reference to the Stripe JS must come from the same origin of the merchant. Look at Stripe's own example, the form is hosted in the same origin of the merchant, therefore if there are any security flaws which would allow a bad guy to publish their own JS or markup within the merchant domain the security of the collection form is done. It doesn't matter that the JS is loaded from stripe.com because that reference can be stopped or replaced.
Shit. I use it often to fix my Mom's computer. Gonna have to find a decent alternative.
Here's my advance. Patience is key. Pick a suitable starting language. Webapps - JS/Python. more CS-oriented - Java/C++
I prefer Python personally, but JS looks pretty ubiquitous nowadays.

Know your basics (syntax/MVC/OOP..etc)
Once you're done with the cookie cutter stuff, hack hack hack.
This includes the learning, Coursera, Udacity, and Codeacademy all provide some top level content - you don't have to finish it. Just learn the necessary concepts and run with it.

In my opinion, it is better and easier to learn programming by building something you're passionate about, rather than something that someone else is passionate about.
It's fallaious to not consider the market value of your assets as well as any income streams. In fact, this example is even worse because it also doesn't consider the cost of capital and fluctiations in the income.

For the specific example of buying apartments in Oslo to rent out, sensible analysis will show that this gives a worse risk-adjusted return than other options (e.g. the stock market). But hey, go right ahead. It's not my money ;)
Should Politicians Be More Like Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs?
If there's enough interest, we'll definitely be working on this next. It would just require a slight restructuring of our data to make the lookups as efficient as possible.
For me, Windows 8.1 'made sense' after I installed a third-party utility called ModernMix (https://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/). It allows you to run all or some metro apps on the desktop in normal windows.

This was the turning point, as I could use apps from the Windows Store (mostly media consuming apps) when I wanted to, as I wanted to. I didn't have to leave my desktop or have a SoundCloud app take up all 27" of my monitor, and the Store apps are much nicer to use and look at when you're in the mood for consuming media. On the opposite sense, I still had Putty/Office/etc right next to them.

This really fixed Windows 8.1 for me, and I think Microsoft should consider having it as an option in 9.

(disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Stardock, just a huge fan of ModernMix)
The Fourth Dimension generated $17,600 during 2012, the year I launched it. The majority of that was driven by reviews the app got.

In 2013 it made $3900, or $325/month, and seems to be holding at that rate of income. The only work I did on the app in 2013 was about two days making it work correctly on iOS 7.

It's not huge money, but it's far more than my expectations, which were on the order of $500 total over the lifetime of the app.

I posted a breakdown of the first three months of reviews here: http://www.fourthdimensionapp.com/first_three_months/

My next app is a two-player Tetris/Scrabble mashup: http://fiascoapp.com/b

My expectations for the word puzzle game are either $300,000, or zero. The wave function has yet to collapse.
How does any of that change the fact that Greenwald lives in Brazil?
Teamviewer's been great for mac & windows for me for a long time.
I have to say I agree (since you are now being downvoted). The downvote is a quick way of indicating sentiment, if people have something to say they probably will.
>According to your suggested phrasing above, if your lawyer does not investigate and then prosecute any apparent law-breaking, then you have just lied to a police officer. That can be an expensive phrase to follow up on.

Where's the lie? In my case - it would be true. I'd investigate every single one of these rent-a-cops, and any laws they broke - they'd be prosecuted for it.

Look - I agree, don't talk to cops. But these are rent-a-cops we're talking about (private cops on the private property of the movie theatre). I see no reason why civil society should just bend over and take it, just because 'the law will get you because it is harder than you'. Such conditions bely the fact that you are living in a tyrannical state, yo ..
Emergency care nurse for Champion Auto. Priceless.
Computer Associates promo video from 1992
We mainly use it personally for putting locations on a map. It can also be used to calculate distances and many other things.
Nice, thanks for the advice I'll look into it.
Creating Semantic, Reusable Directives in AngularJS
"No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them."

-Frédéric Bastiat
Curious what you find this useful for? Filling out online forms instead making stuff up off the top of your head?
I've visited that site quite a few times and I'm very interested in how you're keeping running costs low.
That's a Firebird, not a Sunbird. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C258400
Barrett Brown was implicated in helping publish a dump of credit card numbers on behalf of the people who stole them. Barrett Brown is not Barton Gellman, and of the two, it's Gellman that poses a real problem for the USG, not the crazy heroin addict.
This looks to me more like an app designer/developer company's showcase than a music service (sorry for being negative, i might still have the monday feeling)

What are the advantages I will gain if I switch from Spotify?

- The answer seems to be the nice layout!

What are the disadvantages?

- Spotify gives me limitless account (with ads) for free, this one not.

- Spotify is even available as a web app,and desktop client which i use most. This one???

- "The item you've requested is not currently available in the Swedish Store, but it is available in the U.S. Store."

I am not trying to be disrespectful to what these guys had done. It looks beautiful.

Music industry is really really tricking area when it comes to application development. Even Spotify had hard times to make its service up and running for years.

I might be totally wrong. That's why if you believe in something, just don't mind negative people. keep going!
I love hearing stories like that, thanks. I never thought it would resonate with so many people.
Uhm, I see the problem here:

m = random.uniform(0, pot)

Once somebody wins a few games, he will fish "wealth" from a bigger and bigger pot, even if he plays against the poor. According to this, you just have to be rich to be even richer. However, your wealth per se doesn't affect your future wealth, this is clear, right?

Maybe this could be a poker game simulation. Certainly not an economics simulation.
Seconding Teamviewer.
The redistribution rules strike me as being closer to a simulation of games of chance, perhaps blackjack when played with good strategy. If you have a big bankroll to start with, you can afford to ride out the bumps in the road so you'll probably win eventually. If you have a small bankroll, you'll probably get wiped out by random chance pretty quickly.

But it doesn't seem to have much bearing on actual economics.
Why would it need to generate more light? Suppose you told your lightfield display to simply display all white - wouldn't its light distribution be the same as a white LCD, hence taking the same amount of power?
> http://www.wellingtonstravel.com

You made that? Beautiful map! You should do those for more cities.
Heh...I, too, love 3TB WD REDs. At last count I have 40 of these racked up in servers or NASes and they've worked quite well for me
I just got a BeagleBone Black and am playing with it. I was comparing with RPi and it won given its processor (later ARM version), onboard storage, and most of all the number of buses and connections supported. Not sure what I'll do with it yet though.

I have been fascinated by its two PRU units. There are 200MHz 32bit realtime micrcontrollers that execute a simple set of assembly instructions. They can run mostly independent of the main CPU and kernel.
Buying the product.
I guess the articles take some time too. I find blogs and websites aren't that bad. It's physical products that are the worst!!! But also really inherently rewarding :)
I'm really looking forward to your next iOS app, Fiasco -- it looks awesome. I hope you don't get sued for Scrabble kicking Tetris in the face, or by Stanslaw Lem's estate!
Where the pricing says $.001/ea for 2501+ geocodes, are the first 2500/day prior to that still free? Or am I paying $2.50 for the day as soon as I make that 1 extra request above the free limit?
I once wrote a pretty cool batch script that would use a minimal vmc executable which then tunneled a reverse vnc session using putty's plink . I used to package it and sent it to people that needed tech support, they would click on the icon and it would then route their session over ssh to my computer at the office. Then we moved to free logmein but i guess now i have to search for that script again.
Actually I was thinking about ARM NEON, I thought the broadcom SoC in the pi supported it but I was mistaken.

So yeah, you can scratch the SIMD part of my original comment.
There are no hobbits in Iceland, duuuh!

Elves, on the other hand...
NoMachine[1] works well for me. Although it won't help with firewall issues. I'm lucky enough that the desktop machine in my office has a public IP. x11vnc[2] is a nice lightweight alternative that basically allows you to use any standard VNC client to connect to an existing X session.

[1] https://www.nomachine.com/
[2] http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/
I use also tumblr platform (very underrated IMHO). If you can adapt your website/blog to it you get a decent free hosting. However if your blog depends on SEO I would not recommend it (unless you develop a custom theme and really know what you are doing).
Cryosat detects hidden Antarctic pattern (click images for closeup)
If the screen were retroreflective, wouldn't all projected light end up back in the projector by definition?
Windows 8.1 vs Windows 7 is not so interesting to me. But Microsoft 2014 vs Microsoft 1994 is very interesting to me.

There was a time when they had enough weight that they could force their vendors to toe the party line on OS versions. Enterprises might drag their feet on upgrading, but consumers were force-fed the new release even if they hated it.

They had failures, but even so their vendors were reluctant to push back like this. Or at least, that's how I remember it. Not any more.
TeamViewer is great for support like that. It's pretty easy to get even non-technical people to start it up and then they just read you a simple code and you can connect.
Windows Vista, 7 and 8 come with "Remote assistance" which I find to be quite useful, get your mum to run it and (the gods willing) you will be able to access her desktop via it, without the need for extra software. I use it to fix my dads computer often.
"I'm at work and feel like saving the world with your ex to old school dance" gives me some pretty funky jams. I am happy. Thanks Reznor!
Sounds like something worth sharing ... ?
Backblaze's data shows that the number of errors is largely related to the age of the drive. Because the older drives are from before Hitachi was acquired by WD, it is going to take a few more years for the brands to equalize if they do combine the manufacturing of both lines.
So is this just basically MOG with a new name? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOG_%28online_music%29
Too bad you still don't have linux client. Do you think supporting linux users anytime soon?
Technical Dept: CASE statement in Business Intelligence (BI)
Here's an account by one of the team members who has been waiting 10 years for this: http://theconversation.com/relief-as-rosetta-wakes-up-but-st...
The most probable place of attack is at the merchant where a bad guy would simply remove the Stripe JS code or modify the DOM in a way to replace the credit-card collection form within the merchant same origin. Please reference the PCI DSS. It states that the controls outlined in that document apply to all processing components. A merchant website calling the Stripe JS within the same origin of their domain eg., http://my.ecommercesite.com/payment is a payment component, period. The only way to remove PCI responsibility would be to load the payment page at stripe.com so that the browser URL shows https://stripe.com/...

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3.pd...
34k tweets per second * follower fanout. Trading platforms don't deliver curated individual timelines of single trades you are interested in.
UI suggestion: 'street addresses' currently has a box around it, so I thought it was an <input type="text"> field, thought "how cute", tried to click on it to enter an address to geocode, and was disappointed to find out it was just some bolded text. Might be a fun little feature to have that actually be an entry point into trying out a demo of the API (I thought I was supposed to enter an address to have geocoded).
I've used Teamviewer a few times, but I found it cumbersome compared to LogMeIn. I'll have to check it out further.

I'm also looking for something that can be used commercially, that doesn't cost a ton. I've looked at both Teamviewer's and LogMeIn's licenses in the past and found them unmanageable for some of my situations.
Twitter's Future Can Be Seen in China
Backtesting a Moving Average Crossover in Python with pandas
First, wow, I didn't expect any HN readers to actually know about, much less have bought, my work! Thanks.

Second, I understand your frustration. I love building things, and sometimes I wish I could do that full time, but grad school is a 70 hr/wk commitment for me.

If the app is not useful for you without the missing feature, Apple does allow returns. I'm not quite sure how it works, but I see a few returns a year on my reports.

Also, I've open-sourced the hardest part of the app, the audio managing aspect, as Novocaine (GitHub.com/alexbw/novocaine), and along with the great package NVDSP, anybody could replicate the basic functionality of my apps with a few weeks of learning and effort. It'd be great for the audio app ecosystem, too!

I'm also interested in hiring a part-time developer to help flesh out the top-requested features, if anybody has ObjC coding experience. That'd make many more updates possible.
I oversaw a project like this elsewhere (where we had reams and reams of geo coordinates, but we needed text searchable tags (like "Canada", "Toronto", etc).

We had millions of them though, so maybe an API isn't really the way to go.
If you have interest to try out a self hosted alternative, you might want to check out our product Tonido FileCloud.

It has the ubiquity (Windows, Mac and Linux Sync Clients) you are asking for and have better admin controls than Dropbox for Business.
What about join.me?
Yep, the first 2500/day will always be free. So if you geocoded 2510 addresses in one day, you would pay $0.01
Thanks! I had a business partner who is an architect and she did most of the artwork but we designed it together. It took us 3 years and was kind of a hobby.

Now it's quite time consuming to do VAT tax every 3 months and keep records. BTW physical products are so much more work than anything I did on the web.

I'm hoping to do a world map next though.
I tend to agree, but you could argue that as US taxpayers are paying for the research it would be stupid/unethical/incorrect not to maximise any potential profit from its results.

(Note: I'm not a US citizen, I'm British. s/US/UK/ and the basic result is the same...)
Ask HN: Best survey tool you've used?
I'm looking to do some research before my company launch and want to run a free quick survey.

What are the best tools that you've come across?
Stewart Skewers Obama’s NSA Speech
I find 8 awkward to work with. 7 felt like a breath of fresh air after Vista. It cleaned up the interface, it improved (incrementally) the same user experience and flows that MS originally deployed with Win 95 and NT 4.

Win 8 felt like they looked at how I use a computer and decided to try to hide everything I use. Everything. And when I can find it I get weird fullscreen fisher-price versions.

I'm sure you can relearn the interface just fine. That's not really how I want to spend my time though. Even after two months of using it in parallels, all the windows features I want to use are pinned to my MacOS dock.

I'm mostly a linux guy these days anyway, but after 20 years of PC use Win 8 is the release that drove my dad to Apple as well.
> 2. From a usability point of view, the promise of a seamless way to integrate both your personal and work accounts from the same device. [emphasis mine]

It wasn't clear from the announcement that Dropbox for Business will support multiple work accounts on the same device. The marketing content appeared to be written to appeal for enterprise IT managers, who obviously wouldn't be worried about this.

For IT-managed devices that's fine, but there sure are a lot of people nowadays with side businesses or who consult with multiple organizations that all want to share files. And currently it's easier to use Box (or Google Docs) than sharing folders via Dropbox and worrying about busting each sharee's Personal storage quotas.[1]

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/59/en
Woman Caught on Camera Posing as a Disabled Beggar and Taking Everyone’s Money
FBI arrests innocent man wearing Google glass in movie theater
Unfortunately the pricing plans for LogMeIn and TeamViewer are setup for enterprise customers. I understand it might not be worthwhile for them to deal with smaller customers, but I'd love to find a product for less than $50 per month (preferably $5-25 a month). But I am not an expert on the costs of running the services that LogMeIn or TeamViewer offer, so maybe that's not possible.
Your map is quite cool, were you the one to hand draw it all? It is 100% drawn, no?

I'm just in my 30s and traveled/partied a lot in my 20s so I never put much thought to the long-term or generating income but I have a sweet job now and have been increasing my web/graphic work after hours. Will probably start writing a blog specific to what I do at work to start generating passive income. Most of what I'm reading about being passive isn't actually passive like dumping money into a bank and waiting but requires active work, like you said 5-7 hours a week. Obviously that amount of time is trivial especially considering you're passionate about it.