skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I build products and I ship. Regardless of the language I've built beautiful things. Under the hood, in each of the ten languages I've used, there is always something I would improve. Knowing that is one way I get better at building products and shipping. Don't forget the goal.
It makes sense for Google, but I don't understand Apple's motives at all. The IAP model ruins gameplay for everyone but the whales. But Apple is making most of its profit through hardware, and now I (as a non-whale) have lost one of my main reasons for buying an iPad. It used to be a great casual gaming device.

I guess I'm just gonna play Carcassonne on iOS 6 forever :)
How many private repos do you need? I'm also in a very cost-conscious company, but compared to other infrastructure costs, GitHub is very very inexpensive.
God, someone can post 'Seriously?' and get a hellban and I cannot? Look in the mirror you sad fucks. I still have 312 "points" from you idiots. Try harder.
Ask HN: Does startups hire above 35 years old employees? 
Every time I take a peek at a startup profile page on their website you can only see 20 something in the frame. I know that many startups are created by people at this age, but as the company grow (25-50 employees) I wonder why I can't still see some older people there. I'm not talking at all about people who are 50 plus with some grey hair that are missing entirely from the pictures.
You can get lock in if you use some of Amazons service.
Eh, you know, if every opposing viewpoint were banned, we'd end up with (even more) groupthink.
Are you saying he made up the PowerPoint slides himself? That they are not really NSA slides and documents?
I think consumable IAPs are the real problem, and that's a pretty clear definition. If an IAP unlocks something forever, I don't see the issue.
I have really mixed feelings about this. On the other hand I dislike this method of selling games but I also understand that it is rather difficult to make money selling $1 games. And a $5 price tag in the market doesn't work for most games (the exceptions seem to be ones that are coming from PC/consoles: Grand Theft Auto games, Minecraft and Final Fantasy games sell for $5-$15). But this micro transaction trend has been getting out of hand, this is already the second article on the subject on HN this week.

I play a lot of simulator games, which have a lot of after market content. Flight simulators have a lot of 3rd party vendors who create additional aircraft and scenery (an aircraft may cost around $30 or more). The most popular train simulator has additional 1st party content, trains and routes which total up to $2000 even after discounts in Steam x-mas sales. The racing simulator I play has a subscription model and cars and tracks cost extra ($50 a year + $12 per car + $15 per track). But these pieces of extra content are very high quality and are accurate visually, historically and performance wise. I have no problem spending $10 to $30 every now and then on this.

But there's a stark difference between additional content in simulators (which obviously costs money to create) and a pay-to-win IAP gaming model. In p2w games, there's a hidden subscription fee because you essentially have to pay every now and then to stay in the game and not have to wait for ages (e.g. real racing android game requires you to buy new tires every few races, or wait for hours) and a price on additional content which is usually nothing but a piece of artwork (which is cheap to create in contrast to the accurate simulator content). The biggest problem with this is that these games are labelled as "free" while in reality you pay subscription + extra for additional content.

I would actually like to pay for games on my mobile, but I don't want to play games that where the whole game design is optimized for maximum IAP profit rather than maximum fun. But when browsing the Android market for games, you just can't find any interesting games that do not employ this IAP pricing model.
Bring some Wii U in your application
Romanov in the Philippines
A granddaughter searches for the identity of her Russian Grandmama Tasia, a "White Russian" whose physical traits, personality and habits, along with her stories of her life in Russia before she escaped, show possible links to the Romanov dynasty, including incredible similarities to the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov.

Caty Petersen's grandmother was Russian, but wasn’t someone she really knew that much about, and now she had pieced together a story that was clearly begging to be told.

https://www.facebook.com/GrandmamaTasia

Read more:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/192351/filipinos-grandmamma-could-be-russias-anastasia#ixzz2sA2l2200 Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
Oh I believe a monarchy is backwards. I'm not saying we should ignore it, in general. But when it comes to judging military strength, whether you swear an oath to a party, or a queen, doesn't make your army inherently weaker or stronger.
PBS Newshour mentioned the interview on ARD

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/what-were-watching-sunda...

but obviously cannot rebroadcast the interview unless ARD gave permission.

AP also mentions it http://bigstory.ap.org/article/german-tv-snowden-says-nsa-al...
I'm in a weird position (although I assume I'm not the only one) that's using both services and paying Github for their first level.

There's something to be said about having all my projects in one place, which is why everything is on GH and I'm starting to duplicate private repos to BB.

Competition is fierce in the space right now, but I'd feel better if BB was charging some tiny amount for a year of unlimited private repos (like $5 or $10). I think I'd feel much more comfortable they weren't going to retire it.
Startups are looking for people with as much free time and energy as possible. And the older one gets the more probable it is that they have a family, and cannot sustain a heavy schedule. So younger people are hired on average more often. Individuals that fit the "startup schedule" should not worry about their age.
I don't know about others, but I am surrounded by quite a few 'idea enthusiasts'. People who believe that an idea is everything, and they get emotionally attached to each of their ideas. It makes it very difficult to critique any of their idea as they will make every effort to defend their idea no matter how weak their argument is. In such cases, I could either tell them 'Interesting idea, talk about it later', when I don't mean to talk about it ever again, but still not hurt the person. Or tell them the truth, that I think the idea is 'stupid' (may be following it up by why I think so if asked, though increasingly difficult with so many ideas floating around).
Tin: What the world owes this dull grey metal
I'm curious about your productivity in PHP vs. Python. Is this for web apps? What aspects of the language do you like vs. PHP? I'm a Python person but thinking about getting into PHP to utilize symfony2 features. Will I be going backwards?
Snowden's last Arstechnia post (2010 - ussername: TheTrueHOOHA)
I remember on some HN thread about 6 months ago that pg acknowledged that hellbanning is not always ideal, but he said that he didn’t have time to spare to implement any alternative form of banning in the software. And HN is not open-source, so if pg doesn’t have time to write the feature, there’s nothing anyone else can do to help.
I love this idea! I wanted something like this for kiteboarding, actually, which an interesting coincidence given the name.

Some UX feedback: You should warn the user in advance that you are going to send an SMS to their phone number to confirm the number. After getting the first SMS to confirm my account, I started to add my emergency contact. I stopped, though, because I was worried that you might send an SMS to them asking to confirm their number, status as emergency contact, etc. The UI doesn't make it clear what will happen when I add them as a contact.
The difference is a matter of degree driven by differences in technical capability. It's not that there weren't ruthless and sociopathic people around in the days of the arcades, it's that arcade machines couldn't store persistent state. That sufficed to render them mostly harmless, because it put tight limits on the extent to which they could be tuned to exploit security vulnerabilities in the human motivation system. It's a bit like the way in principle a plain HTML webpage might be able to exploit a security vulnerability in your browser, but in practice it's much safer than a Java applet.
Ask HN: how to read HN on iPhone/iPad and save links on Pocket?
I use 'Hacker News (YC)' (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435) and 'news:yc' (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id434787119?mt=8) to read HN on my iOS devices. I used these apps to save the links I read & liked on Pocket (so I can share it later on Twitter with my own blurb from the desktop). However, the iOS 7 versions of the 'Hacker News (YC)' and 'news:yc' no longer have the 'Save to Pocket' functionality. Any ideas for the replacement?
I sadly realize that this is a bad place to complain. But honestly I've encountered a significant amount of works of dubious copyright status (or clearly blatant copyright infringement) in the past months (and years), and this case kinda broke the proverbial camels back.

I probably should pick up blogging so that I could discuss these kinds of issues in a more neutral context, but so far HN feels more natural outlet for me.
Better to just make them feel 'naturally' unwelcome in this sick ecosphere of over-socialized nerds? Systems of re-enforcement like this are akin to the worst kind of intellectual inter-breeding.
This is the strangest sounding story that I have ever heard. It is either fake, or there were other factors going on such the juveniles with true behavioral problems just never bothered showing up to school because they weren't required to.

A school with absolutely no rules? So you could cheat on tests openly? you could walk through the campus naked? you could sell or do drugs in class? You could vandalize the campus? Threaten to kill the teacher? You could break into the school's office or computer system and change your grades? Bribe the graders? ETC?

A bunch of 16-18 year old kids with no such requirement following all the rules once they aren't enforced? Nice story.

I call BS.
Source: Documented history of innate human nature and the 100% failures of all utopian ideas like the one you fabricated...

I would downvote you if I could. Your 6 day old account probably will be abandoned in a week anyway.
This can only be for the betterment of your country, do not resist.
If you click through the Newshour link provided... it's a re-tread (a three sentences long mention) of the same AP story provided.

The links provided thus far in this thread (of which there are very few): either a.) are reporting that Snowden was-to-have an interview (not discussing the content therein) or b.) reduced a substantial interview to an inconsequential soundbite.

The NYT Blog - a blog post 3 days late.

Major super-duper props to the AP for writing about something globally noteworthy [sarc., as it's their mission to write about everything] in an article that few mainstream sources even carried.

There has been little (if any) meaningful discourse of Snowden's interview in mainstream US media, and, despite the video copyright entanglements - the coverage has amounted to what I'd call a "black out." (The article linked to is shit - as 'rdl' and 'dogcatcher' brought to light - but the point remains clear.)

All of this, despite the fact that the topic matter of the interview concerns the future of the internet -- arguably the greatest invention in the history of man.
Free trials.
Get started with MonoGame in 5 easy steps
Flipboard doesn't work for me as it shows links from twitter.com/hnycombinator and doesn't keep the original order (sorted by <# of points/exp^time since submission>).
Too much focus on other people, and it goes both ways.

You shouldn't be randomly picking apart other people's companies just to make yourself feel better, that is not moving the needle for your own company at all. You also shouldn't be worried about what other random people are saying about your startup since there will always be haters.

Instead you should be heads down focused on your own problems or possibly helping other people who you personally know in private. Posting some criticism on the internet to appear smart or fulfill some other base psychological desire is just a waste of time.
Did you see: "A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725387

Also, I am working on a spreadsheet idea, a kind of app builder for spreadsheet users. It has a little more power than existing database style app builders. www.cellmaster.com.au
Ask HN: Did the NSA impact the cost of hard drives?
Due to Edward Snowden's leaks we know that the NSA has been collecting astronomical amounts of data. Presumably this is stored on hard drives somewhere. I imagine that the storage requirements must be enormous so my question is how could the NSA's purchasing of so much of the global HDD stock go unnoticed or unquestioned? Or am I overestimating their storage requirements?
Fun visualisation, but I don't see that one as being particularly useful (what does it really represent?)

As someone who has looked through many different types of files in doing quite a bit of RE, I've become able to separate out different types of data just by the "feel" of how it looks in a text editor; Z80 and 6502 code, x86, MIPS, ARM, bitmap images, and compressed data all have different "textures" to them.
Ideas are just starting points from which one eventually pivots to a compelling business model backed by evidence collected from talking to potential customers. If one does not talk to customers or pivot, and simply cranks away on their original idea, well, then that is the stupid part.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:da801929f47900e5d64d20601c5f00001f26bd57&dn=Snowden%5FInterview.mp4
The Economist’s Special Report On Tech Startups
If someone made a tool that extracted layers from PSD's they would get rich.

- SVG files from vector layers.
- PNG files form rastered layers.
Seriously --- all the detail is right there.
http://imgur.com/KXm8BHO

And if you click "Download usage details", you get a csv of daily per-service usage data.
A good article - thanks for the link. I think user testing is an essential part of making software more usable, but it's not the only aspect of the design process.

When it comes to UX, I don't believe you can design by committee, but everyone feels they should have a say in the process (and if you've contributed to the code of a project, you probably feel an even stronger sense of ownership which is perfectly natural and understandable). As soon as someone feels their UX suggestions are ignored, it causes so much resentment. The result is often a distrustful and even resentful relationship between design and development. This is such a familiar scenario in the Open Source community particularly for large Open Source projects.

Here's a small example from the Blender community that illustrates the difficulty in reconciling different views about UX. It's a Youtube video of a presentation at the 2013 Blender Conference (Oct 2013) on improving the Blender UI. In the Q&A after the presentation, one audience member (rightfully) says we shouldn't treat users as idiots, but then adds that making Blender easier to use might entail "dumbing down" the app - this elicits a round of applause from the audience. Dependending on your point of view, that's a perfectly legitimate concern or a depressing misunderstanding about ease-of-use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aIA2LaB2Iw&feature=share&t=3...

My impression is that there's a fractious relationship between design/UX and development in the open source community that hasn't changed much over the years (I'm not pinning the blame on any one camp). How to solve this, I just don't know. I'm glad that we're having a debate about it and it would be good to hear more from other developers and designers on this subject.
Accidental API Key Exposure is a Major Problem
I googled for a bit, but couldn't find an apology from this author. I do remember a different author writing a similar post, followed by an apology and removal though. I don't think it's the same author.

(edit: here's the apology we were thinking of http://schacon.github.io/bitbucket.html)
Nice. Also Osmos and Ridiculous Fishing were both powered by Apportable (YC 2011) to get them on Android.
It is as long as you say it upfront
That's a very interesting take on the situation. I forget that android is linux, when not browsing files. Come to think of it, my android phone has been more useful and friendly than any desktop distro. Regarding legacy problems, I recently read that even the directory system is a legacy issue.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
To elaborate: each submarine carries 48 warheads (they can carry much more, but don't). I can't find much info on the warheads with a cursory search, but Wikipedia suggests a yield of 100kt, which is entirely plausible. The missile is able to put the warhead into a circle with a radius of about 100 meters.

For a "last resort" use like this, counterforce (i.e. attacking the enemy's military) is probably pointless. I imagine you'd go for cities if you wanted to cause as much hurt as possible.

A single 100kt warhead detonated over, for example, Manhattan would devastate Manhattan and significantly damage surrounding areas. Deaths would probably be in the millions. Add in a few more scattered around intelligently and that's the entire metro region wrecked. If we figure four is enough to do NYC in decently, that means one of these submarines could wreck twelve cities that way. More (up to 48) if you just wanted to smash the core areas. Or you can mix and match.

If it was targeted at the US (don't ask me why), imagine DC, NYC, LA, Chicago, all completely flattened, along with a bunch more. Most of the population of the country as a whole would survive, but the country itself would be pretty thoroughly wrecked.
We (objective-cloud.com) are using Bitbucket for our private repos as well. But once our stuff has matured a bit we open source it as frameworks on github and manage issues/documentation there.

We love open source and want to contribute back. Since most people are on github and not on bitbucket we open source our stuff on github. Just to make it easier for the community.

The missing/invisible bitbucket community is certainly a big thing... :(
PHP is great if you want to quickly craft and sell your own product (such as wordpress plugin and theme) or service and sell it.

PHP is not great if you want to get hired by someone else.

Pay rates for PHP skills are the worst.
When No One Is Just a Face in the Crowd
Exploiting contracts is OK. Providing public with detailed info about contract exploiters is OK either.
Brennan here from the Mailpile Team. Thank you for your critique. The other team members and I would love to hear a more substantial justification of how we lack "depth and sophistication" to tackle this problem.
Quite up for scoping and seeing if we could set up one of these in London, if anyone else is interested....
"Clever pun though"

And that's all it was intended to be ...
Of course there are laws against some of those things, with (probably) exemptions if there are fewer than X employees. One place told me "we are not hiring employees now, but we can just give you $yyy/mo."
Thank you for your encouragement. Yes, you are right, I know JS and I think that time_invested/result coefficient will be highest with Angular and Node.
Brenann (Mailpile designer) here. Thanks for the note and feedback. Good eye- it is a reworking of Museo (due to their license being non compatible with GPL/Apache). Our font is still being developed, the x-width & kerning are far from done and on our radar. After the font is fully done, if the spacing still irks enough people (and ourselves) we'll revisit how and where we're using it! :)
An Idea Not Worth Spreading
Smári here, from the Mailpile team. There's no HSTS because Mailpile is generally supposed to be run on localhost. We don't bundle SSL certs because it simply wouldn't make sense. That said, we will be improving things w.r.t. use of SSL and Internet-facing installations before 1.0, including authentication mechanisms and such. We will also be doing some Content Security Policy work before 1.0.
Yes, of course "they" do.

It depends.(tm)
This raises a lot of questions about Ubuntu if a government that wants to tap everything has no problem and is "indirectly" recommending it for security.
Why Your Startup Will Never Succeed
That's what I thought it meant after trying to re-piece the words together in a way that made sense in English.
Gratulations on shipping the alpha.

Installing now and trying to get Offlineimap running with Yahoo/Outlook. Any pointers?
> proprietary anti-open-source bait.

Can you tell me which of the ~1000 VM images they provide as listed in the below site are proprietary? All? None? Some?

http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index

Also, Azure charges you less for Linux VMs compared Windows VMs with the same hardware specs. A medium instance costs 12cents/hour with Linux and 18c/hr with Windows Server. That's 50% higher! If anything, it looks like they're trying to lock you into Linux. I don't have any beef with Amazon, but it looks like you haven't really looked at Azure before making such sweeping assertions with zero details, except some handwaving which makes it sad that this is the top comment on this story.
Gotcha. I personally like having all emails (in a thread) fully expanded, but due to pushback from other ppl with "vertical space" and time to scroll I had to go this other route. We will most likely at an "Expand All" link to the top of the thread!
Will this get blacked out on hacker news as well?
Yah, this is precisely why currently there is more fading than we'd like. We want to evolve to something that behaves like a single page app yet gracefully degrades to non-JS users for read only browsing- thus takes a bit more time to think & iterate on it!
Understanding the Laplace Transform
The Power of Lua and Mixins
So you're asking for someone to essentially land you the perfect job, and at best you're offering 2.5% the first 40K. Good luck with that.
This happened just at December 2013. So nope, their criteria, at least in the last months, has not changed.
Yesterday a kaggler, today a Kaggle master: a wrap-up of the cats and dogs comp.
The Logical Effect
YES ABSOLUTELY

TBH Attitude is far more important than age (and skills)
HackLater. Pocket integration is its primary feature.
I wasn't 35 and I didn't have kids when I joined my current startup, but I am and I do now. I'd have to say a startup that is looking for my skillset would be very foolish to pass on me for a 25-year-old who worked 80 hours at half the price. That sort of focus on cost and hours rather than value delivered and mistakes avoided will drive a startup straight into the ground.
Systems under test were:

- Android 4.2

- iOS 6

- OSX 10.8

- Blackberry 10.1

- Google Chrome OS 26

- Ubuntu 12.04

- Windows 7 and 8

- Windows 8 RT

- Windows Phone

So pretty much a statement that a modern open linux can be made the most secure.
Cool. I always ask this question. Sometimes I even tell candidates 'and now, my favourite question.' It's not for a pure developer role though, it might not work well for that. It a chance for people to show how they've actually used the skills they claim to have, and whether they'll bring some invention and creativity to their role.
British secret service police wanted an informer on every street and certainly tried to send infiltrators to every minority political meeting they could.
It's funny to see times when someone who is refusing to use Microsoft products is actually closed-minded!
a startup with age limit is a dead startup!
Scala: What’s not to like?