skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an iPhone, so I'm not sure how they're generally used.

But I would assume that if you have a widget docked, then you are likely getting some use of it, and if not, you will undock it (and maybe also delete it).

So there is still a level of usage you could measure from widgets, though maybe not quite as meaningful as that you get from regular apps.
It depends on what your trying to achieve. The example given isn't a very useful one, more to highlight how it can be done. I use the Django framework a lot to serve API's for mobile apps. Curious, if you were to start from scratch, what would you use?
JavaScript quiz – awesome
I played the game momentarily this morning just to try to understand the craze, and on my Nexus 5 the ad at the top only glitched in every now and then. After I exited I discovered my browser on a link clearly opened by an ad: I've heard tales of the maker posting huge daily ad revenue, and congrats to them, but I wonder how much of that were errant clicks. Such revenue is extremely unsustainable.
Ask HN: Dealing with client squeezing in extra scopes?
So I'm dealing with a client who is now adding more things to do than was budgeted for under the original document. There's so many hidden "but this should work like this which I didn't mention in the original scope", that I cannot actually continue working on this job. I told them X amount of budgeted hours was spent on implementing the extra stuff on top of the original scope. I'm going to have to charge another X hours for me to complete.

Did I do the right thing? I got a little bit angry but this seems to be the case when you work with people who seem to treat software like hiring sweatshop labor workers.
Onward App – A simple and stunning task manager for people who get things done.
I don't think there's any way Ben could have known that she claimed on her personal tax return an exercise date for her options that was not the actual exercise date. I doubt the Feds knew that when they issued the Wells notice. Her ex-company probably didn't know. At the time of the Wells notice, she was probably the only person who knew she had lied on her tax return.

And, though it sounds silly after the whole stock option backdating brouhaha, many people did not seem to think that these practices were illegal at the time. Even Steve Jobs was accused of it (though never charged.) United Health Group, KB Home, Brocade, and Monster Worldwide all had executives who were found to have broken the law on backdating. It's possible these executives did not think the practice was illegal (maybe because their accountants had told them it wasn't) and likely they thought that it was a law not enforced (because it had not been enforced until the WSJ brought the practice to light in 2006.)
Habits of Highly Creative People
really excellent article. I'll be reading this again and again. Thanks!
How Mizzen and Main Raised Over $25k on Kickstarter in the First Few Hours
I always tell the same story about Sony.

The NetMD.

Back in the day flash memory was expensive, the RioDimond was for geeks who had far too much money and far too little music.

The NetMD was brilliant, Transfer music via USB from your PC, long battery life, cheap enough MDs, you could have days of music with you. I loved the device, I loved the concept.

The software. Oh my. The software. Ergh.

Apparently it had the code name symphony. A quick history lesson, it's the late 70s, moustaches were plentiful and Sony released BetaMax. They blamed the failure on a lack of content. So when they and phillips championed the audio CD, they knew that they should do something, they bought a bunch of companies and created (eventually) Sony Records. That worked well. Really well, the profits were huge and by the late 90s sony records eclipsed sony electronics.

We now jump forward to the NetMD project coming online, the records division apparently were un-happy. So a bunch of restrictions were brought in, you could only transfer a song to the NetMD 3 times. That was your limit. The software and interface where buggy, so this became a problem if it crashed during the transfer.

A brilliant device was nobbled by the internal politics. I still say it wasn't until 8gb+ capacities became cheap, that any mp3 player surpassed it.

I would love to be able to provide some sources for this, I was told it by someone who contacted me after I'd stopped work on my util NetMDCalls [1] which was for helping people provide a FOSS alternative to sonic stage. I had a nice person explain that I was breaking the licensing of their software and to stop development on it, but because I was a minor they wouldn't do anything to me, sadly, my parents did not share my libertarian views and development stopped as my NetMD was confiscated.

[1] - http://www.0bytes.net/netmd/
Millennials are conservative, cheap and could be the wisest generation
Elon Musk said accounting rules are the easy part of being a tech CEO. [1] Anyone smart enough to be a technical CEO is smart enough to get on top of the non-technological core functions of a company; and having the CEO on top of them will be better for the company.

1. From memory; it was on video and I can't find a text reference now; in reference to SpaceX already using strict enough accounting controls to be Sarbanes-Oxley compliant even though it's a private company, IIRC.
I assure you that this is not a joke.

The best 'self-contained' video conference machine I've used in the last year is:

1. $400 less up front than the Chromebox

2. Has an annual service fee $200 less than the Chromebox

3. Has a camera with awesome built in face detection (if one person is in the room it centers on their face, if three people are in it automatically expands to fit them all in, if you wander around the room it follows + refocuses on your face).

4. Is voice controlled.

5. Plays Lego Marvel Superheroes at 1080p.

The XBox One and their Skype integration is really well thought out and solves most of the annoyances surrounding video conferencing, focal length, bad speakerphone mics, etc. highly recommended.
i am not particularly qualified to answer your question, but good enough to understand and pass my view: here is my opinion

#1 every prod/service that you offer has/will have competition and way to break it.

#2 programming/building stuff is never going to be a problem to worry. For developers who want to start business there are many other things to worry about , the quick we realise it the better.

#3 Try to be friends with business partners but not the other way. look for partners/money when you need them;

#4 All failed entrepreneurs are very well respected and this black mark theory is nonsense (I am sure at least in India this is not the case and you should avoid companies with that mindset. there are lot other ...)

#5 If you want to get your MVP done with limited time you have without quitting job, try to outsource it (money can get you time).

I suggest you to (re)read 37 signals and complete something tangible quickly. Completed product with 1% features is far better than unfinished product with 99% features.
Both Firefox and Chrome supports webRTC. Chrome however has an implementation that isn't fully RFC compliant making FF and Chrome cross-talk more difficult
There's a big difference between going to your general counsel and asking "Is this legal?" and going to your accountants and saying "Find me a way to make this legal enough." I think the options-backdating was an example of the latter.
http://www.law360.com/articles/229277/ex-mercury-cfo-gets-4-...

"Noting that criminal tax evasion cases are relatively rare, prosecutors called Abrams' crime "a disturbingly familiar case of a wealthy defendant manipulating a system to gain more money."
Flappy Bird does have viral appeal. I haven't downloaded an iOS game in over 6-12 months probably, but I got this one. I initially saw 'Mario knock off' screens on tumblr, but didn't bother to seek out what it was. I then randomly viewed the iOS top charts and saw the same bird in the icon so I thought I'd give it a shot.

The game is tough. It does remind me of iCopter that was a jailbreak game back for the original iPhone before there was an App Store. It's not nearly as complex, but in some ways more enjoyable once you figure out the ridiculously difficult way in which you have to navigate since the pace is slower and maybe more soothing in motion? (prob not...)

I think this games appeal is all looks.
In what language(s) can you program? How many LOC has the biggest program you have written?
And added! Thanks for the feedback gregschlom! I love HN.
So, does Docker run their blog in its own docker container? If so, it crashed!
#0 Internet, after finding thanks to Snowden's revelations how compromised it is as a whole by the NSA and associates.
You're completely missing the point. Something has to be popular before you download it to "be cool and fit in with your friends."
That's why Flappy Bird is so interesting. A lot of people have played the helicopter game or a variant of it. But despite its cheery exterior and familiarity, Flappy Bird is brutally difficult. That juxtaposition makes it surprising. The challenge makes it delightful.
The premise that the author would've landed in jail for implementing the backdating scheme is flawed. His CFO went to jail, but because in the process of choosing favorable dates for backdating her stock options, she ended up deliberately misstating her income for certain years on her tax returns.

By and large, people do not go to jail for simply picking the wrong plausible interpretation of tax or accounting law. There's even a Supreme Court case about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheek_v._United_States ("The Court held that an actual good-faith belief that one is not violating the tax law, based on a misunderstanding caused by the complexity of the tax law, negates willfulness, even if that belief is irrational or unreasonable.")

With something like backdating, you're essentially going around saying that something happened on one date (the options grant), when it actually happened on some other date. While that may be kosher for the purposes of accounting, and PWC or E&Y will happily sign off on that, it doesn't mean that those assertions are thus okay in any other context. And that's not a subtle legal gotcha, it should be plainly obvious.
Sounds like cool technology. Thanks for the explanation.
EMP'ing the telephone exchange hopping to cut off the bad guys phone calls to each other.
Is the current education system failing students?
The value of an altcoin, the true market value, is in my mind determined by two things. First, how many different ways can I spend it reliably? For example, I can spend BTC on goods on Overstock.com. I can spend Dogecoin on a tip for a comment on Reddit. BTC is already more valuable to me than Dogecoin.

Second, is the size and composition of the specific altcoin network. For example, lots of new altcoins use central checksumming during the early stages to prevent early market manipulation. This is bad, since the coin is then for a period of time controlled by a central entity. BTC and LTC are mature enough to not have this problem anymore.

In other words, sure bring on more altcoins/blockchains. I don't care. Let's let the market decide that. In the end the total market cap of all these coins will converge and the more coins are created every day the more we approach the point of people starting to be able to tell the difference.
Nobody dares to speak to how bad this is for the traffic. The "infrastructure issues" were introduced a long time ago when it was decided that all data needs to go through egress points, and conform to arbitrary standards for metadata. Japan doesn't have this problem because their internet actually is decentralized, and their culture isn't at threat from users streaming their own video to as many people as they wish (and the network supports it).
Polished probably isn't the right word for it. I just meant that the graphics are cohesive(even though they are copied) and the animation is smooth. Most popular games fail to achieve even that much.
> I actually think it's a great idea for any developer.

> With that said, it's obviously not in the end user's best interest

I think you mean, "a great idea for developers who don't mind abusing their users"
my background is in EE, so HW coding, VHDL, Verilog, which is totally different area than web programming. But for the last few years, I have not done programming as I moved from engr to Product Management
Timeline of my last 30 seconds:
Elation that there was a new Dungeon Keeper, one of my favorite games from the 90s.
Vague remembrance that EA bought Bullfrog.
Thoughts of it probably being terrible in the same freemium/iap way that the Simpsons is.
Validation of fears and dissapointment.
Debian vote on init system ends with the outcome 'further discussion'
It sounds to me like this one is designed to work from conference room to conference room, rather than requiring a connection from one user to another user.

It's a fine point, but it might matter to some users.

Also, for collaborative document editing, I think Hangouts are going to win, hands-down.
I've heard this before. How can they "get away" not building it, legally speaking? Makes no sense to me in this context
Mario Thematic + Angry Birds + Ads = Flappy Birds.

Give the people what they want.

Anyone wanna team up for Angry Saga?
"You’re seeing a lot more cases where people can afford to use C, instead of using assembly language."
np, we do a lot of other cool things with it too and more to come. For example, when you're preparing emails for each reporter we provide recommendations for which pieces of the pitch you should send to them, based off the same machine learning system.
Definitely not.

I handle rote, monotonous work really well, as long as it lets my brain check out and think about other things. Alphabetizing by hand and transcription work drive some people mad, but I excelled at it.
Just explain that you and he have a contract, your price was based on what was agreed in the contract, and you should be allowed to fulfill the original, mutually agreed contract. Then, if the customer wants more, negotiate a new contract.

If you don't do this, you risk moving into the verbal contract domain, and, as Sam Goldwyn famously said, verbal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on.
Just replace the gaming genres mentioned with musical ones and Flappy Bird with "Macarena" or "Who Let the Dogs Out?".

It doesn't really need 1000 words.
irc.perl.org doesn't disclose its BOPM config either.

This is because when we're getting attacked we want to force the attackers to go to the trouble of trying to connect, rather than being able to filter their set of available client nodes to the ones not blacklisted before attempting to connect. Makes attacks more obvious and makes attackers work harder.

Free, volunteer run services sometimes have to make decisions that prioritise being able to deal with problems within the available resources over the well being of the occasional individual user who ends up being caught as a false positive.

After all, if the network just got taken down entirely, it can't transmit any speech at all.
Google Chrome will warn you when it's been hijacked
It's not a bot, it's a schizophrenic user. He's built quite the OS, though...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViG0Q4lTeA
I wouldn't mind $10/month for a single shipment per month.
The difference in your example is that you're trying to catch the same user in the best mood and not filter some users out.

People keep saying "this isn't preventing anyone from rating," but that's total nonsense. If one user can get to a rating in one click while the other has to exit your app and go hunt it down in the store, you are filtering the latter out even if your filter is not 100% effective.
Yes, I designed it. The image was generated using the game engine. Adam Robezzoli from attractmo.de produced it (his idea) in collaboration with LOOMLAB who are really good at making amazing scarves.

It's here if anyone is curious: http://shop.venuspatrol.com/products/eliss-scarf
He did a few days ago[0] but it didn't get very much attention unfortunately. I only saw it because I spent way too much time on HN that day.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7171978
> (Aaahhhhhh! Cognos! Aaahhhhhhh!)

Aha! Now we know where NASA's IT budget went -- to IBM.

IBM specializes in making sure that you spend your full IT budget each year, so that upper management isn't tempted to cut it next year.
Minor point, but note that video with >2 people on Skype requires a premium account ($10/month). I'm not sure if you also need a subscription to Xbox Live ($50/year/Xbox).
App-Flipping
It's called a hits based business.
35+ fresh inline typefaces 
It’s looking to be the hottest trend to hit web design since large text: inline typefaces are the perfect marriage of character and clarity.Perfect for flat design, inline typefaces create texture without using bevels or drop shadows. Typically they have hairline strokes inside the thicker bold strokes; this gives them a bold, chunky legibility, coupled with a delicate touch.This is one bandwagon you will want to jump on, so put down Proxima Nova for a minute, and take a look at some of the best inline fonts available
Traditional media lists (the ones agencies pay thousands of dollars a month for) only have basic categories like mobile, cloud and games. By scouring reporter archives we can identify reporters who are writing about sharing economy, wearables, quantified self and things like that.
The big mistake most startups make is approaching a reporter who JUST wrote about something very similar to your startup. This is the wrong approach because they are unlikely to write about something so similar again soon. By tracking reporter archives, we identify trends and put you in front of the right people at the right time.
Is this a Shakira? ... no it's 17 year old Phoebe Peek, and she's a hot talent
What a cover!
Fundamentally you as CEO are quite literally signing your name to a heck of a lot of policies and financial statements. You don't need to know the exact details of a situation to want to get a second opinion before signing your name on something official and legal that you're mailing into DC.
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I've said it before[1], you just don't know what the public wants or what will become popular. If you have an idea & the technical ability to execute, just do it. Doesn't matter if you think you're building a terrible app... just do it; especially if you have nothing else in particular to do.

Seriously, someone should just make this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is12anYx2Qs ...it's meaningless. Don't bother with a story, or points, or anything. Just a Title screen that says "Disks in Funnels!" with a big start button. Then the game goes forever, maybe it starts to speed up or something. Sell it for 99 cents; you'll be a millionaire.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7008449
Dad tried to teach me how pointers worked when I was 6. When that didn't really stick, he tried flow diagrams. That seemed more fun than Barbies but I didn't come back to computers until 7 years later when we finally got one at home. I loved playing around with pictures and Word Art in MS Word so dad got me a "for dummies" book of sorts. It went downhill from there. :P
Just have an ASIC do it. No need for a general purpose processor.
People themselves don't know what they want, how can developers know.
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No, it's not luck. Unless we're talking about growing up in Palo Alto at the dawn of computers, luck usually has very little to do with success. It's all about persistence and market understanding. In this case, it's mostly about creating games that people actually want. Good games are challenging and fun, so people buy them. Graphics, music, etc. are secondary. It doesn't take Bungie or John Carmack to make Tetris, but it's one of the best games ever made. Why? Because it's fun. I'd probably buy a knockoff Tetris app for $20 before I buy a beautiful but completely boring game like Infinity Blade for much less.
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You're confusing law and morality. I think the correlation is mild.
As pointed out by blibble, the blocking is almost certainly due to Mr. Angry having got himself onto a list of open proxies somewhere along the line; any effort directed at tor, whether masking, restricting, or outright blocking, is in my experience always aimed at exit nodes only - because there's simply nothing to be gained by blocking relays.

Note that I have no particular insight into this specific case, but have opered on irc.perl.org for some years now (and was freenode staff for a while) and am working based on a >95% correlation with previous similar cases that I've dealt with myself.
For my personal use, the Macbook Air line and Kindle have destroyed any non-game tablet utlity.
Just wanted to say I loved the original Eliss.

Can’t wait to give this a shot later tonight!
You should team up with the Ethereum project: http://ethereum.org
IMHO, "hotlinking" isn't the same as directing people from social media directly to an image url. You can still put <img src="http://imgur.com/..."> on your web page and it will still work. The context of doing that is different from pointing someone directly to an image with the intent of showing it to them.
This story is incredibly reductionist to the point of being false.

Flappy Bird tells you nothing about what the 'People' want. Today they want a single button physics game, tomorrow they want hardcore shooters. Some people want RPGs, others want micropayment sandboxes.

They problem is that everyone is trying to copy the dumb luck of developers who happen upon the right mix of categories at the right moment in time. Once flappy bird is copied 100x times and becomes an expected mechanic it will no longer be what the people want.
That determines your subjective value for the coin. Market value depends on it only to the degree that the subjective value others place on the coin mirrors yours.
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Everyone knows what the audience wants from a game: fun.

It's not easy to define fun nor to quantify and it plus it is extremely fragile in the face of money people and managers. Fun takes design, accidents and a lot of iteration.
A dead simple secondary whiteboard camera would be a killer feature in my opinion
This looks really good! Downloading the game in a bit as a token of my support. Just a couple of questions

How did you learn to do pixel art ? I guess thats what you would classify the art in this game.

And why did you mention 'sound' and 'music' separately ? Hmm.. Did you have to do different type of work for these two ?