skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. A significant reason that p2p networks like freenet tend to be slow is because of low adoption - the more users there are, the faster it can be. I submit that making p2p applications easy to use will in turn make them faster than we have seen before, because adoption rates promise to be much higher.
Startup Boost's 2/11 mixer / looking for instructors
I am new to Hacker News - I read the guidelines and didn't see anything that said that startup events that welcome hackers aren't permitted or anything, so I just wanted to share this event with the HN community: We're hosting a Startup Boost Mixer in NYC on 2/11, check it out here http://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-boost-mixer-1-tickets-10005234927 Also, we're looking for instructors to teach classes in NYC (we need developers, marketers, etc.), so please shoot us an email at StarupBoost@gmail.com if you want to discuss. Thanks!
What I really should have said was that whenever I use myself as an example of the "typical consumer", I'm inevitably making a wrong decision based on some idiosyncrasy.
Apple loses a teensy bit of revenue from the (perhaps) couple hundred people who'd do this. It's a rounding error for them.

If it makes the BTC folks feel better to pitch a fit, fine, but let's not pretend it's anything more significant than that.
I imagine that public ridicule and scrutiny can cause public figures to misbehave [1], but Hoffman seemed to have little of that. Sure he could have got his start before he became famous, but that contradicts that fame/fortune is an enabler.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/23/265243793/rat...
Plus, I'm sure Apple would prefer not to have videos of people smashing their iPhones doing the rounds - it doesn't quite present the image they're after.
> Well, what do the stars actually mean? Is it a measure of whether or not the app is useful? Or some subjective measure of how "good" it is?

Right now, they're pretty meaningless, because often, the majority those that take time to review them are counterfeit. 90% of the people that use an app never take time to review it. So I never know what most people think.

> I shudder when I think of the ways you could game a system like this.

As it stands, I can't think of how there would be more gameability to a system like this vs. ratings. Ratings are so easy to game, anybody can do it, and it doesn't cost them anything.

To game something like this, I would have to "game" it over long periods of time. Not to mention, I would have to purchase a separate device, or sacrifice my own time with my device.

It's a much more painful process to game something like this.

> If longer time-in-app is a positive signal, I could easily make my app slower.

If you make your app slower, you are sacrificing user experience, which will eventually hurt your usage. How could you game your own app without it hurting the usability of it?
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Yes it is, but as you said, a 3 year old isn't trying to get work done. What we need to see is how the kids first using phones from 7 years ago are doing with tablets and their ilk now in school. That's your earliest cohort of 10 year olds first exposed to the iPhone.
Why is this silly or immature? I mean, sure it's a ploy for attention on the issue, but a protest is not immature or silly. Can it be funny, amusing? Sure. Childish? I think that's a stretch. This is an important point that has long been criticized of Apple, a closed garden is not a benefit to consumers. Sure, the quality issue will always be there, but the outcry & reparation of that should come from the consumers, not the other way around. I'm not saying Apple shouldn't have the ability to remove certain apps, but it certainly shouldn't have the ability to pick & choose. Plain and simple Apple is becoming increasingly anti-competitive.
>... and boilerplate to satisfy the interfaces.

Go actually provides facilities for embedding types which helps remove some of the unnecessary boilerplate from satisfying an interface.[1]

Through embedding you can leverage the implementation of an existing type to satisfy an interface w/o writing methods to dispatch to that underlying type.

[1]: http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#embedding
How many people make a point of saying "yes, I am indeed your average consumer"?
Why does Paypal not support PFC and use SHA1 for cert sig?
> First off: that's not what the statute says. And again you've failed to provide any documentation for your claims (as adventured has also failed to do).

As I've already stated, it doesn't matter what the statute says. It matters what the courts have interpreted. See other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7188995

As for sources, see any textbook in antitrust law. Or just Google for the words "market power" and "restraint of trade.
" These are not controversial concepts in antitrust law. You don't need a citation to say that the sky is blue.

There are such things are per se violations, but the courts have chipped away at this concept. For example, vertical segmentation used to be a per se violation, but today it is subject to the rule of reason.

> As for Wharton's making statements elsewhere: it's my recollection that he had. I haven't looked for them ... and no, don't see anything that's a specific match, though you can certainly place Wharton at Intel and having met with Gates while there.

It's certainly ironic that you don't provide a citation for this, when you're so aggressive about demanding citations from other people.
I like tablets, but for very limited uses. They excel, especially for casual puzzle type games that respond very well to touch. For light reading they work fine as well.

Browsing the internet? Well not so great. Mobile versions of websites seem to be always wanting and a lot of web pages are too target rich making it way too easy to accidentally click on something like an advertisement or side bar thingy. And I spend too much time zooming pages and waiting for reflows as well. Overall a pretty irritating experience.

Data input? hehe, yeah right.
People don't seem to understand that political actors simply don't have time to acquire domain knowledge. If they took that time, it would inevitably come at the expense of political efficiency.
The column store addition to the product is very interesting, but it would be nice if some level of pricing information was available.

I really dislike the need to involve phonecalls and salespeople to answer the simple question "what does this cost?" Knowing if its within an order of magnitude of my _potential_ budget saves time on both sides.
Provoking title but the article was a put down.
>I doubt they would even if they were exposed to it. I takes a lot of dedication to reach the point where you're comfortable with the terminal and see it's potential. I don't think students would reach that point in school.

Linux is perfectly capable for use as a general purpose computing appliance. It is not ideal for every task, but no OS is. The terminal isn't necessary for everyone.

>It is from a technical point of view but for the average person who will never need to do anything more complex it isn't.

If you're talking about the most casual users, then I disagree, those people don't care or need to know much about their facebook appliance.

>And even if they do need something more complex they're already invested into windows so it's unlikely they'll switch.

Because someone made that arbitrary choice for them.

> Since windows made it easier in the beginning they'll assume that the pattern continues.

Which is an argument against reinforcing those patterns.
Ultimately the "true" origin or purpose of Bitcoin will never be known unless someone leaks it. There's nothing we can do to divine it and speculation is pointless IMO. I think it's more productive to treat parties' motivations as unknown and arbitrary and try to understand/build the Bitcoin ecosystem under that constraint. (Granted, this is a bit of a worst-case assumption.)

Putting that aside, a trickle of these kind of discussions has been happening at BitcoinTalk, /r/bitcoin, and various blogs. I've observed that some early adopters hoped that mainstream people would "turn libertarian" after being exposed to Bitcoin, but in reality the opposite is happening: people are trying to apply their mainstream values to Bitcoin by building tools to do anti-fraud, refunds, insurance, etc. It's easier for people to change their payment system than to change their values. The original vision of Bitcoin with irrevocable pseudonymous transactions will still exist, but it will make up a smaller and smaller fraction of the blockchain over time.
All nations existences are completely arbitrary -besides the ability to kill or exile previous residents-. Therefore one of the few common goals of the people inside the most rich of those arbitrary separations is to have the most advanced and numerous weaponry; everything else is open to discussion and that sadly includes science that is not clearly towards that goal.
Rackspace opens the door wide for open-source development
Woo! It is sort of a slashdot/reddit, since it focuses (almost) only on tech and startups.
Digital Restrictions Management will take care of that.

Not only mandatory flashing, but also tracking.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted so much, i agree about the Epistein Barr virus, not so mich about HSV-1.
Graphene Conducts Electricity Ten Times Better Than Expected
My love affair with the tablet isn't over: I love how it lets me browse the web, read books and magazines, and watch videos in bed after a long day. That's probably how most people use their tablets — secondary devices, mainly for entertainment. After a working day, I don't want to use a PC, and the tablet lets me use the web and other media comfortably, but I wouldn't try to actually use it for work beyond initially planning projects.

It's much more human, for lack of a better word — more intimate, more ergonomic — than a PC for (browsing the web|reading ebooks or PDFs|watching videos|making video calls).
I have to agree with that. We pretty much all grew up before touchscreens were widely available as they are now, and as such I think the allure of them was in their novelty. The more I use touchscreens, the more I realize how inefficient and inconsistent they tend to be (at least, the ones I've used).
Who Is SCHAFT, the Robot Company Bought by Google and Winner of the DRC
Stack allocated objects are cleaned up automatically in C, too...
Their benevolent intentions as somehow more than just a self-interested corporation are still strongly defended around here.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7184912
Netflix is unwatchable during prime time where I live.

However, I have also noted that on two separate occasions when I began examining the Frontier FIOS site, I received a personal knock on my door from my local Comcast representative. Wondering if there was a connection to my search for another provider and the person at my door, I asked her if she was talking to everyone in the neighborhood or just me. It was just me--they sent a person out to personally ask me about my Comcast service.

All they have to do is fix the evening streaming.
This may blow up in your face.

You'll end up paying higher prices for their stuff now due to decreased supply, have some new technology come about that makes fossil fuels worthless, then get stuck with a bunch of useless fossil fuel in the ground.

Not likely within the next few decades, but very possible over the span of hundreds of years. Remember, we've only been using fossil fuels for only about 150 years. Before that, it was considered an absolute disaster to hit oil when digging a well.
Many people don't realize much of the bit torrent debate ended because bit torrent switched from TCP to µTP. The problem was bit torrent clients caused massive congestion by making hundreds of TCP connections. µTP is extremely congestion/network friendly. It backs off based on latency, so it doesn't fill every buffer on the network.
Idea is nice in principle, but as you increase number of pivots it boils down to hashtable.

In my humble opinion main difference between quicksort and binary search is that one sorts numbers quickly, second is efficient in chasing down pointers. Ideally you want to avoid chasing pointers down at all, thus hashtable.
Show HN: appcasts.io – Screencasts on developing complete apps (Rails)
>Given that Freenode hosts channels for many open source projects, these attacks aren't just annoying bystanders, they're potentially affecting the progress of our technology.

As if governments could care less...
Aha! Run this with weeks == 2: http://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/76694/top-question...
Is there a difference between morality and the law?

If our "duly elected representatives" made laws that made rape legal, would that be moral?

If there are 100 people in a room and 51 people vote for the other 49 to become their lunch, is that ok?

What if they made laws that made killing certain ethic groups legal, would that be moral?

What if both of the candidates in a race are for the drug war and I don't have a choice?

Does voting really imply consent? If it does, what if the candidate was lying during the campaign? What if he/she changed their mind about an issue? Do I still imply consent?
Some of the numbers I have seen for NASA's economic benefits are pretty spectacularly good. But you would have to then believe that the same holds true for SDI ("Star Wars") because it's pretty much the same thing without the science/exploration fig leaf.
Perhaps my memory is wrong, or the emphasis less that I recall, but I remember fundamental change in NASA's direction in the late 90s or early 2000s that explicitly focused NASA's work on Earth.

Some of this was a result of remote sensing tech coming into it's golden age, some as a result of climate change needs, and a lot was a result of NASA needing to find a source of funding.

But I can't find anything extensive about that on the web at this moment.
This is like watching an old movie late at night on some VHF station (remember those?) We like the story, but the ending doesn't change.
This. I have a friend who changes jobs about every 6-12 months chasing happiness. And every 6-12 months, I can count on him starting to bitch and moan about everything at the job. He refuses to listen to the idea that maybe happiness should be externally obtained and instead should start from within somehow. In a lot of ways, this seems to be an Eastern-Western dichotomy.

We can decide to wake up and be happy or we can decide to wake up and let something dictate our happiness. Whether we do it consciously or not, it's still a choice.
Please provide some (any) information about your game that isn't contained in a video.
Looking forward to read it to master fundraising tactics! Thx guys!
> But goto is considered harmful,

Dijkstra never considered the kind of goto you describe as harmful. This is a distinction that's lost on most programmers now that the kind of languages that did have harmful gotos are dead and forgotten.

What he argued against was gotos that jump across procedure or scope boundaries.
Hey all - author here. I've built out a little site for my screencasts.

I'd love to hear any suggestions or feedback! Also if you have any issues with the site please let me know (it's very much a side project).
I am not surprised at all: a crippled, jailed, feudalized device that is too large to be carried in your pocket like a phone but far too limited to replace a laptop.

I don't think they'll go away. They're an acceptable "portable dumb terminal" for certain kinds of work or for people who only want web and e-mail and a few apps. They also really kick butt for point of sale terminals and similar kiosk applications.
Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralize the Web
I use my iPad all the time. From writing documentation to taking notes on projects I'm working on. I also use it for wire framing designs and for editing and passing on documents when I get an email and am away from my computer. I also do these things with my iPhone, but the iPad makes it a little easier with the larger screen.

So, some folks use them for one thing, and some folks use them for another thing (or not at all).

That's the story for basically every product that exists....so....

In other words, re/code is trying to build up their content by using fluff stuff like this - polarizing and gets page views by inciting flame wars.
yes, Saylor's mission is to create and/or locate OCW equivalencies for an entire degree. You can see what's currently available at Saylor.org
As a general rule across the web, I'd agree with you. Although, I feel like on StackExcahge (or at least SO) those with the highest scores typically gave good answers in their domain as judged by their community and would not commonly give any answers outside their domain that could be voted up simply based on user rep alone.

I don't really have any hard data on this, it's opinion based on seeing extremely good answers from high rep people regularly, and not being able to recall seeing poor answers from high rep users voted highly when they aren't actually useful.
Sure HTTP does. You can cache things, sign things, &c.

It's the current philosophy of "web apps" and not "hypertext" that isn't decentralization.
There are many ways usage stats can be used to provide more value than ratings. Provide a ton of metrics to those that like them and know how to interpret them, or aggregate them somehow for those that want an "X out of 10" ranking.

Or anywhere in between.
Awesome tool to get your competitors' most active Facebook fans 
I am already a big fan of this tool as it increased my conversion by at least 30%.

The tool gives you a list of all of your competition's recently active fans. You could then take this list and do whatever analysis you want to do on it. It tells you their locale, gender, email address and friend count.

The best way is to promote your offers to these users via fb ads so that you can bring them to see your product. What I did was, I entered facebook names of 4 of my competitors in one go and the tool gave me a list of users who were active across all 4 of my competitors. That was awesome, I took the top ones and targeted my ads towards them as these are the people who go where the deal is. It gave me the best results.

The tool is at http://textfreeapp.org/targets (registration needed but the tool is free to use, you pay to export the data to CSV.) I have heard that the email address can be used to message users on facebook by simply sending a normal email. However, I am not sure if you could simply spam somebody like that. I would like to know how else can this information be used? I am sure creative marketers will have better ideas than I do.
Layer 7 DDOS – Blocking HTTP Flood Attacks
Nowhere did I make any claims as to the representation of women in the engineering / SV population other than that it is a non-zero quantity. Is it really that unreasonable not to ignore their participation?
I think the library is great, and don't have a whole lot to say about it, but wanted to mention one tangentially related thing:

The README on this repo is awesome. Opening up with advantages and disadvantages? Awesome. Plenty of code examples covering all of the major use cases? Awesome. Quick overview of the internals? AWESOME! Quick two line note about how to use the library in your project? Awesome.

I'm tempted to rant about how I wish documentation was taken more seriously, and that programmers seem to make it a point of pride that spending the first half hour with a library figuring out how to actually use it is just something we have to deal with as programmers, but I won't do so aside from this single sentence.
It's shady no matter who does it, IMO, and I'm surprised that nobody working on that issue had a problem with it. I hope it was at least discussed on a mailing list or something.
Makefiles instead of grunt or gulp
I think applying a newton-raphson approach instead of just choosing a fixed pivot could result in fewer comparisons.

On the other hand, a comparison is a dirty cheap operation, even using bit masks and shifts I doubt it will have a big performance impact, unless we're dealing with very very big arrays.
The Frequency of Humanity
Still it's standard practice. I've done it often for a few news sites I've managed content for. A word doesn't even have to be in TFA, just needs to sum it well enough.
“Fool of a TOOC!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party."
I bet in about 10 years Microsoft will release XP as a free product, without support, kinda like what adobe did with cs2
> And this is the reason why I prefer C++ over C. You don't end up writing another string library for the 300th time.

Ironically, in almost all of my uses of C++, I did end up writing or using a custom string library there too. (I was doing mostly console games or language interpreters.)
Pricing products and finding your niche: startup lessons learned
This wasn't a witty comment. Just an often repeated meme.
Agreed. I'll even go as far as saying that away from work, my Nexus 7 quickly became my primary device. I dread sitting down at the laptop if I'm away form the office.

The existence of the tablet has (indirectly) made me more productive at work, too: Rather than reading articles that come through my RSS feed when I'm working (which is a vice of mine), I just add any interesting items to my Pocket queue, and read it that night (or later in the week) when relaxing at home. Not because I don't want to read the article right away (I usually want to)—but because I actually prefer to read on the tablet.
> Of course some people leave their apps installed even if they don't use them, but my guess would be it's not that many (any data on this?).

True, but this should still average out in the end. That is, those that leave bad apps installed are also leaving good apps installed. But those that like to keep their devices tidy will give real meaning behind the numbers.

In other words, don't look at the numbers absolutely, but relatively.
According to wikipedia[1], in 1965, NASA accounted for about 4.5% of the US federal budget. During most of the Apollo years, it was 2-3%. During the shuttle program, it was approximately 1%. In 2012, it was about 0.5%.

If you wanted to fling people all over the solar system, even if you didn't care that you killed a bunch of them, you would need to spend much more than anyone is willing to do, for some unspecified and unlikely gain.

On the other hand, I generally agree with you. The article's statement, "Factor in the danger, and human spaceflight becomes almost impossible to justify," is part of the problem. If you believe that you must never kill anyone, for national pride or simply "justifiably", you will never fly anything.
How about just putting a notice that the first package will be sent instantly/soon after subscription and the rest are to follow regular subscription schedule?

That way you only send 2 but you send the first one earlier.
My product does a similar, but not identical thing. We ask the user for feedback (not modally), and if they decide to, we ask whether they like it, neutral, or negative. This is tracked with analytics, so we have an idea what people answer. When first built, the next step was to ask everyone to send us an email with any feedback they had. After about a year and a lot of positive emails, we decided we'd ask the positive users to rate us instead. It doesn't feel black hat to me, but maybe just because we evolved to this point. I certainly do feel uncomfortable with the cynical interpretation: that we're purposefully segmenting our users to avoid bad ratings.

I think what EA is doing is different from us because they're using stars, which are linked to App Store ratings for users, because it's 5 stars or nothing, and it looks more likely that they truly are trying to avoid sending detractors to rate the app.

But if you squint a little, they are basically the same thing. And it isn't a pattern I want to see takeoff. So, I'm conflicted.