skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what, they just say, oh well, nothing to do with me? Great, how noble.
The Voice Chat API Is Great Example Of An Simple, Open, API Driven Resource
So what is this? A text only service? A web app? Native phone app?

I am on a tablet, so maybe the site isn't showing me all there is to see but I can't figure out what this this is without signing up. All there is to read is three sentences in the hero.
A Simple, Honest Approach to Getting Started With The Marvel Comics API
Go's := (short variable declaration) is closer to Erlang's => (introduce a new key) then it is to Erlang's := (update an existing key).
That's a cute easter egg.
Compulsive looks nice, but it has ads.
This scam is particarily annoying on the iPhone. They call and hang up so it shows as a missed call on the lock screen. If you are not careful when you unlock the phone and you swipe where the phone number is, it immediately dials back. I absolutely hate that functionality of iOS 7.
And also, Andrew Harper LLC. (Travel reviews)

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ivyirwin
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I've done some dreadful things in PHP. And Java. And Python. And C. And more..

The problem has never been the language, but rather the software's organization and architecture (or the lack thereof). You can make mistakes in any language, some just make it a little easier for you. Such as PHP's notorious ability to mix code and HTML in the same file... the horror!

Before contemplating a language change, you might want to think about ways you could improve your architecture, development practices, and code hygiene.
My question is: why is it unsavory when a game developer tries to get a customer to pay more, but not for any other startup? If Amazon improves its recommendation service, or another etailer a/b tests checkout flows, they're a genius. When a game developer does it, they're evil.
I think what they're saying is that for something as simple as analytics (just an example), apps need some sort of unique identifier for the user, but that the only unique identifier iOS provides is the advertising ID of the user. Of course the correct answer is to stop doing any sort of analytics, or anything else that requires a unique identifier. But the point I think the author is making is that that is a bad solution.

Of course this all ignores the possibility of creating user accounts or generating a unique identifier whenever the use installs the app, so maybe there is something more to it that I'm not understanding. Because I tend to agree with you, that developers shouldn't be doing something with user data that is prohibited.
This is a really important site -- it's like http://darkpatterns.org/ for the Android gaming world. Many thanks to the authors.
It's sad that a service like this exists. Taking a walk isn't a horribly dangerous activity and it's sad that our society has conditioned us to believe it might be.

Live a little.

EDIT: Sorry for the overly negative comment. I'd never personally want this, but Afforess makes a great comment about alternative demographics.
It's not a mistake. This rating goes to 11. It's one more.
"obj c libraries"

Any library in the image can be accessed via messaging without wrappers, that's the "peer" idea. C functions currently have to be wrapped, one of the reasons I did an Objective-C wrapper for CoreGraphics: https://github.com/mpw/MPWDrawingContext

The REPL / command-line script interpreter also has a convenience method for loading frameworks, so `context loadFramework:'AppKit' will load the AppKit and also parse the scripting-bridge definitions so you have access to constants.

Combined with the ability to drop back into the REPL, this has made it possible for me to trivially create custom shell, for example pdfsh <filename> loads a PDF into memory and then drops me at the command prompt with an object representing the PDF bound to the variable `pdf`.

"iteration"

Most normal Smalltalk collection/block iteration protocol is supported, so #to:do: is just shorthand for first #to: , creating an Interval, and then #do: iterating that interval. In addition to the ones taking a block argument, you also get the equivalent ones taking a message.
Yes, we all read the article. The question is not how does Microsoft's free giveaway compare to that of AWS' -- it's, how much will that cost you in three years, once you've committed yourself to using those resources. What are you going to do after that, sign up again with a different email address?
I wish there was a bit more depth to describing this service before I just hand over a name and number to it.
Mistake?

No, this one goes all the way to 11 - or at least it should've (well, if you don't understand why ... watch the movie).
XSS Vulnerability in Security Magazine Website
The issue is that many libraries still used this function to uniquely identify devices for analytics (e.g. content-based advertising?) or for legitimate functionality (TestFlight, cross app communication). Many people might drag-and-drop a library into their app, it all works, and then suddenly their next update is now rejected and it wasn't "their fault". Some, as on stackoverflow, don't even know where to begin to address the issue.
Mistake? That it is ONLY an 8? Yeah, that seems a bit low to me.
no one is there now...
You seem to have some axe to grind.

Is there a story to it - like somebody asking this exact question, passing on such girl, and then regretting the decision?
UK Based Ebay and Paypal Websites are Compromised
This is not a mistake. It is based on a joke in the movie
"These go to eleven...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
Oh wait, I think I know why.

About 5 years ago, when Mac OS X 10.4 was the latest, I started considering switching from Windows (Vista at the time) to Mac. But all my friends and colleagues were telling me about how awful Macs were.

They were remembering the Macs from the 90s, and that image stuck with them long after those Macs died. They had no idea what innovation and improvements Apple had done with Mac OS X and the iMac. They were just blindly biased and either okay with it or unaware of it.

I wonder if that's the same thing happening today with Windows 8. I bet people here are so biased against it because previous versions of Windows or previous Microsoft products or practices left a bad taste.

To be fair, I don't know any modern news about Microsoft. So maybe they still are shady business people. But I don't expect to be able to find any unbiased sources who can confirm or deny this credibly.
Regarding

> " 1) Microsoft wants to create a coherent store experience and ecosystem for Windows with the Windows Store.

[...] when Apple showed the world how awesome a central managed application store is, everyone had to do it. [...] it’s just an obvious thing that nobody got before. [...] It doesn’t make sense anymore to scout the web through bad website and installers that want to fill your computer with crap by default when you can have a one button purchase/install/update/manage for your apps. "

Actually, Linux, especially Debian and Ubuntu have had that for years. Configuring a Windows machine with the software you need used to mean going to 10 different websites, downloading zip and exe files each with their own installer, etc and it would take forever vs. Debian or Ubuntu where you can install most anything from apt, quickly and easily just like an App Store... since 1999.
Live collaborative development of pacman on JSFiddle
How about Google App Engine for startups? They give a free tier, which I presume is free for life as long as the web application stays within quota.

Ofcourse there is lock-in, there is no free lunch anywhere! But it should be ok for startups with no capital, who just want to figure out their business model. Once the idea is validated, they can always learn from the experience, and rewrite the application if platform absolutely needs to be changed.

Disclaimer: I don't get paid by Google for writing this, though I am trying to do something with google app engine (python) and that may lead to some bias on my side :-)
I couldn't have said it better. I think Win 8.1 is quite nice actually, I know it's cool to hate on it, but frankly speaking it's pretty good (IMHO of course).

I really don't get all the fuzz on the start menu, honestly, I'm never in it even on Windows 7, I press "win key"-> search -> run, and guess what I do exactly the same in Windows 8, except now the start menu is a bit more useful, I mean sure I don't use all the metro app (some I do for example news), but the rest acts a very nice shortcut "wall", and it helps keep my desktop is pristine. Even if Microsoft decides to ditch the whole Metro concept I hope they keep the "Start" the same as it is. I know I'm perhaps in the minority here but, the previous start menu was completely useless to me, honestly.
I presume you're all developing on NetBooks?
I have read that having a company daycare makes attaining insurance difficult. You are bringing on a large liability by having children on the property, and insurance rates will reflect that. The concept sounds nice but there are significant financial risks.
right because the state never makes any appeal to emotion, ever. what they say is always rational
Aww you can't actually rate this movie as 11
The article is from 2011 and the author apparently (see top comment) apologized and took it from his blog. Also look at Google Code, trac, ... there's nothing "obvious" about the layout, there are plenty alternatives.
it has category in tags.

also has paid and free tags... i don't really thing that sorting between 0.99 and 2.50 would impact much my chance of buying a game.

it mostly boils down to: 1. will i install this in a device I am comfortable inputing my credit card? if so, 0.99 or 9.99 makes no difference if it is a good game. Is this device from work/family/etc? than it must be free.
It is everyone's individual right to have and maintain whatever addictions they choose.
That's only my logic if there were companies that provided wireless power or power over the phone line that you could use instead.
There are alternatives. If it's as poorly managed as the poster said, you could use DSL/Microwave/Cell instead.
> Of course this all ignores the possibility of creating user accounts or generating a unique identifier whenever the use installs the app

Which is exactly what Apple recommended when they stopped letting apps get a hold of the UDID.

I can't think of a really good legit reason for wanting a cross-app unique ID.
The entire reason why WP is lacking traction is because of IOS and Android's ecosystems, not because of any special merits in their OS code. Indeed, that is also why Windows proper is still dominant on desktop. Throwing away compatibility with the ecosystem would be the height of folly. (Also, there are office clients for all these platforms: they don't work as well as they do in Windows, but they do exist)
Amazon wins, hands down. You get great Linux support and aren't locked into Microsoft's shady tactics of giving away free stuff to only screw you later.

BizSpark giving away three years of $150/mo Azure credit is shady, but Amazon giving away one year of the free tier is not shady?

That's what Bizspark effectively does, gives you free Visual Studio, other MS software, so when you are profitable, you pay them through the nose, because you are locked into proprietary anti-open-source bait.

You don't have to use the software licenses to make use of the Azure credits in BizSpark, and Azure will run any Linux distro containing a kernel with Hyper-V support.

Instead you went with a shitty competitor and we're supposed to applaud that?

What's so shitty about Azure again?

Sorry, Azure is still garbage

Why?

and AWS is one of the most advanced and performant cloud platforms available.

Unfortunately, staying in AWS's free tier means never seeing any of that performance.
An easter egg! :)
This title needs to be changed, it's unclear whether you know this wasn't actually a mistake or not but this is intentionally done by IMDB because of the famous "this one goes up to 11" line in the movie.
Google video quality report
#haskell on Freenode is one of the best IRC channels I've ever used. Great people and very helpful.
" Lack of built-in call screening. I'd like to be able to 1) classify contacts by group, and 2) specify what group(s) can ring through, at what time(s) and/or locations."

This is possible with Google Voice just fyi.
Go tell someone from the Dominican Republic that they're American and see how that works out.
I think the submitter knew this.
Would you mind detailing what that everything else actually is?
Yeah, subset wasn't the right term. The sets intersect. Exaggeration (a form of satire) is a strawman.
i mean teams of 20-25 people, working with millions of lines of code over all the modules, that has to be regressed the whole time. Big for the tech stack it is. This is not counting our bucketloads of java and scala code as well.
How Chipotle is going to serve burritos faster, and faster, and faster
But apparently your rating cannot go up to 11 :(
I mentioned this in another thread, but I'll repeat it here as a valuable data point.

In early January my Surface Pro keyboard died so I went in to buy the new Type Cover. They were sold out in all Microsoft and Best Buy stores in South Florida except for one in deep south Dade. So the accessory demand seems to be there, which suggest the Surface may actually finally getting the attention it deserves.

What I'm confused about is why Microsoft doesn't release the data.. are they confident enough that they don't need the PR spin?
I agree with everything you say, except I miss the 'scorch the earth' part. There is infinite demand for "games" type entertainment. So this technique ends up making a lot of companies short term wealthy until they shrivel up and die. Then they go away and it is hard to get investment to build another one. But the demand for games is still out there, and someone will fill it with some other plan.

I completely get that if you're trying to sell a game on one of these platforms for $20 and getting no traction at all because all your money is being sucked out by Candy Crush it feels like the end of the world but look at World of Warcraft, that sucked a lot of the oxygen out of the PC space and now its off dying. Opening up once again opportunities.
Hmm. My Jewish friends have a tradition of goings ug for Chinese food on Christmas Day. I wonder if there is a related tradition for people that don't worship^wcare about football.
You may be interested in http://www.intidyn.com/Newsroom/article-0009.html - the probable cause of fibro has been identified - which will be a huge boon to the sufferers - including my girlfriend.
Government should really lose it's practical power on many matters.

Examples: government officials actually should be very transparent, as in "they can't refuse they are constantly monitored by public". Legal opportunities for various kinds of "closed doors negotiations" should be sharply reduced, as in "closed door negotiations are only allowed in cases 1), 2) and 3)", for example, military, international talks. Many decisions involving specific actions are required to have the name of the decider, who is both required to be questioned by public and, if public decides, removed from the position (mechanism of decision is another matter).
It's sad that arguments like this exist. Believing that your own personal experiences are indicative of all other human beings' is foolish and it's sad that our society has conditioned people to believe this is the case.

Walk in someone else's shoes a little.
Forcing a tie is an interesting approach, but daily double hunting is not new to the game at all. If you observe the way the contestants play, it becomes obvious who is playing with a strategy and who is just running down the categories. As for the ties, there's nothing wrong with it (honestly it's a good play), I only feel bad for those contestants who end up waiting longer as the queue becomes staggered.
I live nearby a older grandparent right now. I was over at her house a week ago. While I was there, she asked if I could help her change the light-bulbs in her garage. Actually, she could change them herself, she just didn't want to use a 3ft step ladder alone, because she fell, it could have been hours before someone discovered her.

After that, I suggested she could text me before she does a similar task again, and if I didn't get a "all clear" text within a few minutes, to call and/or investigate. She is pretty savvy with her iPhone and agreed this was a good idea.

This seems to be exactly what this service offers, without having another person needed.
I noticed the same off-by-one bug on the BBC iPlayer: the volume setting can go up to 11.
That's not a fair comparison. If all you want is private version control hosting, Github and Bitbucket offer pretty much the same amount of functionality, whereas a NetBook differs greatly from a full-sized laptop or desktop.
Thanks! We try.
A bunch of you guys complaining about how BizSpark sucks...have any of you actually USED BizSpark and their free Azure offering?

I've used it for a Windows server just to get stuff up and running that may not run on Linux.

I've downloaded and used some of the free MS software.

Give Microsoft some credit.
Infinite demand is absolutely false and the example I cited is really blatant: Eventually there is a backlash against destructive practices and they either get banned or die out. Nobody can leverage the acquisition/retention techniques Zynga used to get big because they don't work anymore.

The idea of infinite demand for entertainment is trivial to disprove anyway: Gamers only have so much time in the day that they can devote to games, and only so much money they can afford to spend on games every month. If someone already plays multiple games, you're competing to either grab an increasingly tiny slice of their time or convince them to replace one of the games they're playing with yours.

Note that this is compensated for by the traditional model because the up-front payment provides an incentive for the player to finish the games they've already bought; for F2P/subscription games there's no incentive to stick with a single title unless they find ways to keep you there.

Also, the claim that either WoW or the PC space are dying is blatantly false. PC games are doing fine and WoW still brings in tons of money (even if its subscription numbers are way down). It is true that the nature of the MMO and PC industries has changed but it's not as if WoW killed anything.
I don't think it's the same. BizSpark is the equivalent of Google given you free access to their entire Cloud Platform, e.g. Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud SQL, free upgrades of OS X and free copies of of IntelliJ IDEA... for three years.
As long as we're on the subject: anyone here use their managed tier of hosting (VPS or dedicated)? I'm on their standard Cloud Servers (VPS) after having been force-migrated when they bought Slicehost. My experience with their support at that level has been... uneven. If managed means I get their best guys touching my nginx config files, I'd buy that today. If it gets me someone drawn from the pool at random, I'd run screaming.
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Obviously, if you use proprietary software, you do not control it, it controls you. The FSF message rings true as usual (not as always, I don't think the world is black and white).

Many people have these stories. How you got screwed over by some proprietary company in some way. The only solution is for the company to guarantee their trustworthiness by respecting software freedom i.e. being FLOSS.
You're right. I didn't think of alternative demographics where taking a walk has a statistically higher chance of being dangerous.

Sorry for forgetting that not everyone is healthy and young. Though I fear it's likely going to be an uphill battle for a little app like this to reach the people who aren't.
I thought one is not supposed to use a cell phone in the elevator because it doesn't work because elevators are made out of ferrous metals and hence are effectively Faraday cages.
What would be the problem with Starcraft? I can't think of a lot of things that you can't do using touch/twofinger touch/long touch.
Stay around some carpet. The carpet absorbs the radiation from electronics that you're all concerned about... I think so. Does carpet only absorb sound?
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Justified or not, Microsoft's history makes it hard for me to trust them.

AWS have wiped over $2000 in excess charges incurred by one of our instances' data transfer - we set up an alert after that - they've been awesome to us and we trust them and are now spending more and more every month.
You don't give credit. You earn it.
Yes, it does. And it allows for shady "install this app to continue"-campaigns to artificially boost downloads of apps so they appear in top sellers - even if nobody is actually using them.
If you use "Search Term" vs. "Website" you get different results, but for what it's worth: http://www.google.com.au/trends/explore#q=GitHub%2C%20BitBuc...
I get the exploitive accusation, but don't quite understand the emotional argument yet.

Las Vegas is the town of exploitation and yet people go there all the time and have a good time. My sister plays Candy Crush and thinks it is lots of fun. My neighbor goes to movies in 3D. All various ways to be exploited and get more cash out of you. I choose not to be exploited in those ways but I am not mad or sad that some people enjoy it. That is where I'm struggling to understand.