skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somebody needs to build a plug-in that keeps track of which articles are linkbait. When a user clicks the link and arrives at the misleading article, he/she can downvote the page. Enough downvotes will flag the link as being untrustworthy, saving unsuspecting users from clicking through and generating revenue for the evil association of linkbaiters.

I know that someone recently created a similar extension - Downworthy - to combat the hyperbolic, asinine titles of articles that are designed to go viral, but I disabled it after having portions of useful, informative articles unintentionally disfigured.
Woha that looks pretty good. I didn't know about the Oppo N1.
This is exactly why I'm such a bastard when it comes to git history. A clean history isn't something that just gets filed and disappears forever. Unfortunately, lots of people think it's ok to use a message like "fixed stuff". Don't even try that in my codebase though.
I started re-building an old project of mine, correcting the mistakes/overcoming the difficulties I had, that led me to give it up back then.
http://www.greeceandroid.gr/dev/766-smart-home-android-ardui...
Its about an Android controlled home.
I believe that's called "moving the goalposts". Android is free. that's what the original discussion was. No, most of the time products based on android as delivered to customers are not free software. But that doesn't mean android isn't free.
Lattice Quadrilaterals on Project Euler
i still don't understand why in 2014 it's not possible to have an entire website with all it's files zipped and shipped as it is on the first request. how wasteful is it to have 50 requests for a server just for images and resources? have your root domain be a zip file of everything you need to view it, and then include some additional popular pages along with it. it can't get any faster than that
Dry your tears with the money, dude! Rake it in while you can!
I don't get it.

Why did he get harassed?

Because he made money?
Quantitative Hiring: How to Make Hiring Decisions that Make Objective Sense
Rave Party In Nuclear Reactor
I think you are not wrong for saying you need to convince the public for giant expenditures, but if all of those things are not doing as they pretend to be, people die and all credibility is lost anyway.
API is returning improper content type ;) https://www.runscope.com/public/99a232e3-348e-493d-8a6a-dde3...
Lot's of people describing HTTP here, but that's not REST. REST is transport agnostic and has a lot of other things going on it like resource discovery.

I still hold to my belief that nobody actually knows how to do "real" REST, but most everybody implements some subset of it - which is fine.
Amazon solved the lack of Google Play problem but their circumstances were very different.. Microsoft could technically do the same and they might have better app situation. Developer's problem with WP is that it is yet another platform to port their app to without any guarantee of returns given the platform's numbers. If MSFT went with their own Android store developers would just need minor changes to their Play Store version to gain yet another entry point. If it doesn't work out no big deal.

Problem is just going Android without great differentiation is almost a guaranteed failure for Microsoft. And at this stage in the game coming up with great differentiation is going to be very hard. But if they do something like put out great Nokia handset with great camera, guaranteed OS updates, a tiles based launcher an thriving alternate app store, more focus on privacy of the user and great Microsoft services and apps - that could work well. I am not sure about the practicaility of all that and if it will mean significantly more revenue for Microsoft. Besides, by all accounts Microsoft is still badly bullyish on the Windows everywhere strategy so to change course with Ballmer being the biggest share holder and Gates doing product advisor role it's just not easy. On top of that the market is just too irrational and hyper competitive for them to feel confident about doing something this drastic.
The site seems to have crashed, maybe it's Game over ?
There have been a few Bitcoin sites like this, I think the original one was Bitcoin Gem. Most of them turned out to be scams (and I don't just mean that they were Ponzis).
http://bitcoinpyramid.com/r/230 is 3 years old (and still paying :))
Nietzsche: Click bait pioneer.
I've started writing a book on Haskell web development to make it easier for beginners to get started.

Another project I've started is for the tracking and analysis of athletic training and performance (aimed at D1 to professional athletes).
I feel for the guy. He made something a while ago, put on the market without much fanfare and then out of the blue his game suddenly shot to the top and raked in 50 million downloads. If you're not expecting it and you don't have the right people around you, all this publicity (a lot of which is quite negative, despite the game's popularity) can be pretty hard to take for some people. Remember Susan Boyle's breakdown post her win on Britain's Got Talent?

Having said that, I've spent a couple of hours playing it since the first posts on HN showed up (yesterday) and got myself a top score of 50. I feel the appeal is in its simplicity.

I hope the creator takes some time out and gets the support he needs.
You do realize that the site is a joke, don't you?
The "change the open source client code without anyone noticing" attack vector is important too: https://brendaneich.com/2014/01/trust-but-verify/
> 1) The ability to run on lower-powered and thus cheaper hardware and still provide a polished experience, and 2) Nokia's build quality.

The Moto G has put a price floor on things. Even if Microsoft/Nokia could limbo under it, why would anybody buy a basically-the-same Nokia for $150 instead of $179 Real Android? Its too late, these are commodities.
I think management's big problem is that they are often confused by the difference between what they need and what they have. Of course I've spent a lot of my career working for venture capital-based startups where this problem might naturally be more prevalent.
cool man ! i wish you all the success
If this is a marketing trick, that's some next level shit. But I'm not suggesting that it is.
This very recent tweet from Dong seems to explain his motivation: https://twitter.com/dongatory/statuses/432096186313355264

other guy: "No problem, but you hate the success of Flappy Bird?"

Dong: "Not because of them but because how people use my game. They are overusing it."
MVNRepository Contains Malware?
Free software assumes that all end users might want to modify it, regardless of those users' current skill set. I may not be capable of modifying kernel source code today, but who knows what the future might bring.
Every creator gets harassed these days, to varying degrees. You can create the most sublime and enthralling game in history and people will still complain about it. It's even worse if you create a simple game that is frustratingly difficult. The culture of entitlement and harassment is one of the worst aspects of the internet today.
A bit OT but how do you build automatic Bitcoin services like this?
Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup
My favorite: "making tests pass", while it was very clear that completely new functionality was added - drives me up a wall!
RSMN (http://osom.so/rsmn) is a social media analysis tool as a subscription.
More importantly, given the repercussions (which will extend well beyond Mt.Gox itself) maybe this is why anything you'd like to use as a currency should be at least somewhat regulated by a stable and relatively trustworthy government.

Of course, that'll be a harder reality for the crypto-anarchist/libertarians to swallow.
He got harassed because the game looks like it didn't take much work, and it's more popular than people think it deserves to be.
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The blockchain doesn't lie:
https://blockchain.info/address/1ponziUjuCVdB167ZmTWH48AURW1...
http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...

This says that "suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days", but also " third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message". Have there been cases where new submissions to it have contained malicious code?
Chimpanzees too. They love to hunt monkeys and eat them alive. They often gang up to attack individuals of their own species, eating their genitals and faces after beating them to a pulp. Knowing this, I don't feel sorry for endangered chimps in the same way that I'd feel sorry for Gorillas or Elephants for example, or even predators like lions.
I've reread my comment and am trying to see where I was critical of Android.

AOSP is open source, and it has parity with commercial distributions of Android in a number of areas.

I have been working with Android and Linux on Qualcomm MSM-based devices for a few years, navigating their portal at codeaurora.org, tearing into Android kernel commits and following the upstreaming process. The changes that Android makes to Linux are minor, and most of the them have been merged into the upstream kernel in some form.

The Linux framebuffer started out as a device wrapping the memory-mapped display memory of the Amiga and similar RISC devices, then it was ported to the Netwinder, which was an early embedded ARM computer in a screen. It has a minimal set of operations for accelerated graphics, it can do fast fills or clear the screen for instance. It does not support 3D graphics, it does not support most of the 2D primitives that X and the Android rendering libraries (such as surfaceflinger) require. Android had an extended protocol for using some of the features to enhance fast blits of of data from an offscreen buffer to the main display buffer. This was implemented using IOCTLs on top of the framebuffer, and by reusing some of the features in a different way.

This is sufficient to get you a basic Android launch screen, you won't get the 3D launcher screen, you won't get the enhanced gallery plugin, you won't get fast Google Maps/Earth rendering, and you won't be able to play 3D games. For that you need a 3D graphics driver. Most of these drivers are tightly controlled by the company that makes the chip, are closed source, and are not readily reverse engineered. Some projects have made progress, but it's been a slow process. LIMA is an implementation of the ARM Mali driver for instance. Recently, Nvidia submitted a patch to Nouveau for their Tegra device. This breaks with years of not cooporating with development of 3D drivers for their devices on Linux, and has the potential for a bright future of AOSP 3D graphics support on Tegra devices.
I don't think you understood my point at all. I'm not saying that any nuclear incident is minor, or that there will never be one again.

A Chernobyl-style incident will never happen with a LWR reactor. That much is known, and the experts - nuclear engineers - are unanimous on this point. Feynman's point was, "when judging risk, ask the engineers that actually design and build the technology, not the management." The article I linked to (http://users.owt.com/smsrpm/Chernobyl/RBMKvsLWR.html) was written by nuclear engineers (who were students at the time, but have been in their field for many years now). The article you linked to was written by ... a journalist that writes about the computer industry? Now I'm left with the idea that you have missed Feynman's point.
What do you mean a joke? Looking at the blockchain, it seems to be a full fledged, serious, Ponzi scheme. They're taking in BTC and paying it out again to the early investors.

EDIT: +1 to ryanjshaw for showing the blockchain:
https://blockchain.info/address/1ponziUjuCVdB167ZmTWH48AURW1...
Of course nobody speaks of oppression. Except the ones who do and spend time in jail for it.

And, no, the majority does not get to dictate the public behavior of the minority, so far as it does not harm others, except in a society that has internalized the intrinsic subhumanity of that minority. Which you have. You've washed your brain and I am done with you.

It's amazing that there are people who still think that letting gay people be publicly gay makes more gay people. Regressive parts of the U.S. have that problem, too, but at least they're dying off.
In 2014 I started http://www.lessmilk.com, a website where I build one new HTML5 game per week. I was on the front page of HN a few days ago.

I'm doing this mainly to learn how to actually make games. So far I have 7 games available. Let me know if you have any questions about it!
How does that work exactly? I pay in X BTC and two other people pay in say 0.5 X and 0.7 X then I get these BTC back? How exactly will my X BTC be distributed among other gamblers?
Sounds like a personal problem that you decided to post to HN for some reason.
That's the fun part. Watching to see how big it will grow. It's almost like putting an exact dollar value on the amount of greed present.
This is a loose HTML5 clone http://uralozden.com/flappy/
This is a sad reality, different from the "reality" in the sentence. So I have to say: this is a sad fact. But I love that sentence. The nature cannot be fooled eventually.
Refresh the page to see some "live" action.
Using RPC API of the official client? Unless you do something smarter like bitcoin lottery (I forgot how it is called).
Hi,
This is interesting,here are a few questions.

Are you doing this full time? and if not, how do you find time to work on a game?

How many hours do you put into a single game?
Procedural content/story generation software.

Something for VR (Oculus Rift) that I hope to Kickstart soon.
This never works out the way the vanishers expect it to. The media won't let it.
Well, (1) they weren't so hilariously open about their scam nature, (2) they weren't so nicely done and so transparent.

On the other hand, this is going for just a few days, it might go south quickly.
You don't get the original money back at the end, you just get the 1.2x BTC that other people gave you.
Intro to REST (aka. What Is REST Anyway?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llpr5924N7E
Calling it right now.
No one just takes down an app that is generating $50k+ day in ad revenue. This might just be a brilliant PR stunt, should drive several million downloads today. No way is the app coming down tomorrow.
I like Fowler's explanation.

http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...
Writing an iOS childrens book app for my son to teach counting.
Getting AIDS was the best thing that could have happened to me.
Ponzi scheme is ok if you are in at the beginning of the scheme. That's what makes this interesting - it's basically a bet that other people will also believe this will go on.
My thinking is that it takes a LOT of text to equal one good size pic. When using CouchDB as a backend, you want to optimize your queries so that you retrieve as much as possible in the fewest number of requests. With my current list of articles, I have this much data being requested in a single request to my map-reduce view: http://pokstad.com/db/_design/blog/_view/posts_chrono?includ...

That's about 33KB for 9 blog posts (not including attachments). So about 4KB per post. I could have a hundred articles and it would still be under half a MB. To put things into perspective, the cover photo of my pup is about 818KB. There are also numerous resource files, like JS, HTML, CSS that needs to be downloaded before the site will even be ready.
How much does creator make?
If you have just a few transactions then yes, but the official client has a few caveats that can show up as problematic.

I would write it myself, but there is far better explanation here on reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x93tf/some_irc_cha...

basically:

- the difficulty of finding available addresses is quadratic to the number of unspent transactions

- someone can slightly change the transaction so it's still valid, but have a different transaction ID - that can mess up clients and break chains of unconfirmed transactions
Flappy Bird App Developer Pulling Game From App Store
Hmm. What if MS made a .NET to dex converter???

I'm in the MS hating camp, BUT, I suppose they could actually devote enough resources to make a quite usable mode in Visual Studio that supports a .NET subset that maps to the Android/base API and then translates .NET bytecode to dex/dalvik format.

Oh, the horror...
Oh jesus fucking christ. People have sent over 200 BTC to that. :/
Dogecoin's already innovating faster then bitcoin!
If you like Java (or other JVM langs), check out BitcoinJ. By far the most solid Bitcoin library.
I expect they will pay up, but at the moment what MtGox does is a whole lot more interesting than anything they can say.
This is exactly the same case.
Moreover it was the first profitable pyramid.

Income: 751.63949374 btc
Deposits: 692.04538439 btc
Donations (ads): 59.59410935 btc
Expenditure: 748.05864780 btc
Withdrawals: 739.21264780 btc
Title aside, I found the article itself to be a very interesting and in-depth analysis, so I'm glad I clicked.
It's about using the existing infrastructure of the web (HTTP, hyperlinks), leveraging it as much as you can (caching, content negotiation, etc.) and putting as little shit on top of it as you can (please no SOAP!)

If you actually mean HATEOAS then it gets a bit more complex, but in practice most people just interpret that as 'it should be discoverable just like a website is.'
The Next Phase of the Internet: Licensing Content Makers
If HN wants higher quality content all they have to do is be proactive about it. There's a flag button that works very well for removing bad journalism, bad link bait, and viral spam from the front page.
Footnotes are bits of text tagged on at the end, like Wikipedia for instance. UBook semantically tags them so they are available where the note exists in the book. Presumably a popup or panel when you touch or click the note marker in the text. It was a bad use of words. It was meant to convey the idea you didn't jump to the end of the chapter or book to read a note. HTML-based formats just use anchors.

Yes, compiler is ambiguous. The idea behind it is a clean interim language a writing tool could export to, and software could then adapt to other formats like Kindle etc.
This was tried out about a year ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=138749.0. The rules were originally very similar to the website above; then the owner modified them so that the gem randomly "reset".
That really doesn't have much if anything to do with it. The company changed hands since it's founding and there has been plenty of time to hire appropriate talent. The problem is incompetent management by it's current owner who was not the founder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt.Gox
Just to ride on this, the "named according to a certain URL convention" isn't a set thing. You can have any convention as long as it's the same everywhere.
As the developer of a couple of small Android apps, I know that I would rather post them to a Microsoft or Nokia Android app store than port them to Windows Phone. Of course, it helps that I specifically avoided using the Google Play Services APIs, but even if I had used those APIs, it would be easier to make my apps Google-independent than to port them to a whole other platform with miniscule market share.
It really astounded me when I learned no shuttle was inspected for damage while in orbit until after the loss of the Columbia.

The shuttle was an experimental vehicle. It was their job to gather as much data as possible on it. With that, the foam problem would have become evident long before the deaths of the Columbia crew.
Why should changing the site a webview points at, be breaking any rules? The whole point of a web page is that it can change and is outside the client. (See below; if there is a rule, I'd be curious to know what it is.) Maybe if Apple didn't want that to change, they shouldn't allow web views.

I'd guess the app was basically a Blockchain.info-only browser with some glue to scan QR codes and other system-integration stuff. If anything, people are even more justified in being pissed with Apple for what amounts to, "OMG, you changed a webpage that our customers use on their devices, without our consent! BAN!"

Again, I acknowledge I don't have all the facts, and that BCI did this with intent to deceive. But it doesn't seem to be actually against any rules; or if it is, they're draconian or nonsensical rules that people are right to be angry with Apple about. One can still be angry with Apple that deception was the only way to get an app a lot of people want, that has no legal reason it can't be in the App Store.

Many Bitcoiners are mad at Apple; a few here think BCI is at fault. I see blame on both sides, but am more upset with Apple. (I do understand Apple can legally do whatever they want with their own store.)

I would be interested to know if there is actually a rule about changes to a backend server after review, and how it is worded. Or any rule that describes exactly what Blockchain.info did wrong. I think such a rule would be written here[0], but I can't read it without an Apple Developer ID.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/appstore/guidelines.html
I have the same feeling
This is really great - thanks for sharing! I'll definitely check it out more when I have some time.
Wow ... Nice to meet you Steve! I'm going to bow out of the discussion since there's an expert here.
Apple's Repurchase Lowers Its Domestic Cash Holdings To September 2010 Levels
It's technically how high it goes (the current balance should be quite a bit less than the total paid in).
Updated with MIT.
Governments are made of people. Crypto-anarchist communities are made of people. I don't see any reason why one is inherently more or less capable or trustworthy than the other. Details matter more than ideology.
Markdown is ultimately a pre-HTML format and inherits its weaknesses. It is a display language.

Books have their own foibles; table of contents, notes, indexes etc. These really need a semantic approach.

Finally, I'm not suggesting anyone handcode it. I use a writing tool on my iPad that uses markdown as its file format. I never see the markdown, I just bold text, add headings etc. That was the idea, to keep it in the background. Hence the reason I'm aiming for simplicity.

Incidentally, most books need only ten tags, five of which are used exactly once on the title page.
Maybe that's what he wants to happen?
Having seen this work many times, I'm not surprised OP decided to post here. Although it's unclear if anyone from the site in question reads HN
Thanks for checking out the repo! I'm hoping to have tests up in the next couple of days. This started out as a fool-around project and I wasn't actually anticipating it getting any attention. Tests are the top priority at the moment.
Well, why not? You can inline everything (including images with data:// URIs) and zip it up. Apache can serve the static zip file to browsers that support it http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75482/how-can-i-pre-compr...
I think this may be the case, but wouldn't be surprised if he did take it down. He has plenty of money from this, the name recognition now that any releases he makes will get a decent amount of players, and he can just work on something with less pressure behind it.
Something like this should be expanded into an RFC!

It would be great to not have to start from scratch of every web project (even if you you are using a library as you should you often are coming up with the urls for each action.)

Can you expand this with support for password recovery, oauth-like flows, JWT, etc?
scammed: ponzi is a SCAM

I copy-pasted from the site.

BTW, any pyramid scheme is bad and should be prohibited, right?

But the site is cool though.
Awesome! I'll check it out.
Interactive Hadoop with Parkour