skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
App stores should provide a graph showing expenditure marking the [expected] average and SD per fixed time division (month say), that would be one of the least deceptive and least customer hostile ways to present IAP apps.

Examples:

* Game costs average $1 per month, SD 20¢; OK cool.

* Game is "free" costs average of $20 per month, SD $5.

* Game is free. Average $0 per month.

* Game is 99¢ fixed. Average $0 additional per month.

Even better they could give a playing time [weighted average] too. Then you could compare:

* Game is "free" costs average of $20 per month, SD $5; $1 per hour of play.

* Game costs average $1 per month, SD 20¢; $2 per hour of play.

Seems about as likely as getting the supermarkets to clearly display the cost per kg of all food items.
Assuming there aren't any more "any user can steal from any other user" bugs in Namecoin, here's some info on how it's intended to work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
Iceland will soon have its own Bitcoin
Noticed this in the flood of topics related to the Crimean invasion on /r/worldnews. I do not think is has a lot to do with the incoming war though. The NYT does not suggest it either.
I'm confused how this is on the front page of HN. I also feel like I'm left hanging after reading that - you hired someone, he wasn't a good fit so you fired him and you're upset.

What was the resolution, what did you learn from that? That would have been a better way to end that post. I feel cheated of the time I read that in a way.
And ignoring compiler warnings less.
JavaScript debugging tips
I get the sentiment but honestly this kind of writing quality hardly ever makes it to the front page. Every paragraph was just one huge run-on sentence.
This is one of those annoying sites that will surprise you with a second auto-playing video after you've paused the first one.
>Half the country wants to be part of Russia's Economic market and the other half want to be part of the EU economic market.

Everything I have read indicates that its more of a 80/20 split. Where is this 50/50 number from?
And it's faster and easier to add new features because you can refactor without fear.
Save that IP transfer agreement (unsigned). It indicates that they think you own the IP. Useful if push comes to shove.
I am confused...

I think that is what I wrote on the last paragraph?
Can someone explain why the Net Applications numbers are so different from the StatCounter numbers? I would expect some variation in counting "users" versus "page views" but the difference here is stark
Thanks :) I will try to not do that next time.
"Baseless"? Crimea is populated by a majority of ethnic Russians, it's the most strategic base for the Russian Fleet to access the hugely-critical Mediterranean Sea, and it's a potentially key location to get gas from Russia to the European market without going through central Ukraine. In the last decade, when a Ukrainian government turned pro-US, they threatened to stop the all-important flow of gas; this is something Russia simply cannot allow to happen, it would destroy the country.

The (elected) government of Ukraine has just been deposed by street protests directed by right-wing extremists, half of the country is in shambles and the newly established government's first act was to attempt to abolish a language law aimed at favouring Russian-speaking minorities (not exactly a priority, when the economy is tanking and half your police force has been disbanded). It's reasonable to believe that gas pipelines are threatened and that a revolutionary government might choose not to respect previous agreements, since there is a fairly recent precedent (2009, iirc); also, it's fair to expect that such a ragtag of right-wing ideologues will likely make the life of Crimean-Russians very uncomfortable very quickly.

I personally don't see Putin's actions as "baseless" or irrational -- he's defending Russian interests that are clearly threatened. It's very simple and quite unsophisticated, but I don't see the moral scandal.
Request them from a few attorneys to get a better array of choices. As with anything, attorneys come in a wide variety of abilities and styles.

Recommendations are optimal. Also try to get at least one who is agressive in the mix. If they all corroborate one another, then that in itself is a statement.

The difference in suggested recourse and the outcome itself can be night and day depending on your counsel.
How is this legal? All the menus I checked have a no scraping, download only once for personal use clause in their user agreement. How could Google side step this?
The Crimea, presently, is threatening to secede from Kiev. That this appears to largely be the work of Russian special forces is a moot point.

Russia is interpreting its obligation to protecting Ukraine's territorial integrity as compelling it to prevent the Crimea from seceding. In its eyes, the regime in Kiev is illegal and antagonising ethnic Russians in the Crimea. The simplest solution, to Moscow, is fighting the illegal" regime.

This follows a similar script to Georgia - provoking the new regime into aggression and then intervening to keep the peace (with such an intervention not necessarily restricted to the initial separatist areas, e.g. South Ossetia or Crimea). In Russia's defence, it is a strategy the United States has used to great success as well.
Ghost is developed using TDD. It might not be the strictest example, but a very successful one:

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/

Choose any other random OSS, chances are it's using TDD/BDD in one form or another.
Who do you think wouldn't click? This sort of condescending underestimation of the HN crowd just amazes me! As expected, it's currently #1 on HN.
I think there was some humour intended there.
> "The Planet Isn't Warming"

Wow, and here I thought "so-called" was clinching evidence. That's the value of doing your homework!
Nanocatalysts for Fuel Cells Exceed Targets Set for 2017
Remember That Nuclear Dump Site That 'Was Never Supposed to Leak'?
Reagan's justification for invading Grenada was that he was protecting the hundreds of American medical students studying in Grenada.

The Crimea was part of Russia until 1954. It had, and still has, a massive Russian military base there. In 1992 Ukraine officially recognized the Crimea as largely autonomous. So in that light, Russia has much more standing to go into the Crimea then Reagan had to go into Grenada.
They probably already read YC so when they read this and see all the potential avenues you have against them they're going to come running with some kind of settlement I'd say.
Ah, you may not be acquainted with English punctuation.

The ? (question mark) and ! (exclamation point) when combined so ?! usually denotes (connotes?) baffled incredulity[0] or something similar.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark

From good ol' Wiki P, "The exclamation mark is sometimes used in conjunction with the question mark. This can be in protest or astonishment ("Out of all places, the squatter-camp?!"); a few writers replace this with a single, nonstandard punctuation mark, the interrobang, which is the combination of a question mark and an exclamation point." ps: when Wiki P says 'a few' here please read 'hardly any'.
This isn't always possible or desirable: "you should always try to hire someone better than you".

Building an organization is really challenging; I don't know how to draw a line between investing more in someone versus cutting them loose.
That sounds vaguely in line with the dynamic I'm recalling now with public university funding.
Either that, or a race condition.
To further support your point, I read somewhere that dental pain was the leading cause of suicide, pre-1900 or so, which I find very easy to believe. Dentistry (along with sewage systems) is responsible for more quality of life than almost anything else.
Do you run their compliance team and call the shots on how that's interpreted?

If so... would like to get in touch - maybe you can help my friend out by putting that sales drone in line.
You did. I can only conclude that the GP simply didn't read the last paragraph.
"Would count be modified by side-effect in the calling context also?"

Questions like this and others (eg., does the pointer deref operation applies to incremented or non-incremented value of p?) that you have to answer before you can make sense of the code. The cognitive overload on the reader's brain is at least part of the reason that a bug like that went past code-review in memset function on a major platform. MEMSET !! Was the needless cleverness and terseness of the code worth it?

P.S. The answer to your question is No. The variable count as used in the body of this function is local to this function (it's passed by value... so it's a copy of what the caller passed).
That was my immediate thought, the IE9 population reflects the non-upgraders that kept IE6 relevant long past the point it should have been.
Q the electric club music for the break!

Really good talk though.
Granted I haven't met very many male SWE members... in fact none...

... but I'm amazed and saddened that this headline has gotten this far due to popular demand. "Please dear lord see how I and my company aren't sexist by watching this live-stream of our going over specifically-female founders".
It is possible that your team orally established a partnership (see http://business.ca.gov/StartaBusiness/DefiningaBusiness/Gene... if you're in CA). State law will determine what interest each of the partners has in the event that no written agreement exists that lays this out. You should definitely talk to a friend who is a lawyer, or reach out through LinkedIn to find one you can trust. Good luck, and feel free to find me at gmail if you want to chat further.
And of course they forgot about existing sites, like PlainSite, Justia, etc.
Better compression with the 'sort --key' trick
Geofabrik has a really cool tool that lets you compare various OSM providers, Google, Bing, etc. side-by-side. Check it out[0] - it's pretty cool!

[0] http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/
Why couldn't you attract decent candidates? That was the root cause of your bad hire, not a weak filter.
Wait- how is it not relevant if you wrote the source code?
Take a look at the annexation of Crimea to Ukraine in 1950s , that was a ridiculous and at this point an illegal move. Time to bring it back. i definitely would not want to see a war of any kind and there is no reason to take what's not Russias.
There is zero chance of Apple buying Tesla. It's either (a) iOS in the car as you said or (b) co-investment, patent sharing or technology sharing between the two companies.
Getting that message is not a bad thing as it tells you there's a problem as opposed to just silently doing something you didn't want it to do.
I guess you haven't seen the normal shit that comes up whenever people try to encourage women to do stuff.
Do you think the US invasion of Panama was drawn on a napkin?

Of course the Russians would have plans, like the US military have plans to take over Mexico or Canada. It's their job to come up with such plans, even if war has not been declared or is unlikely to ever be declared.
Not true, I didn't click the link because I feared it was about getting more female founders in development.

After reading namenotrequired's comment I clicked.
The problem is that not all sites see the same kind of traffic. These figures are from NetMarketshare which gets most of their data from a modest number of large corporate sites[1] and uses their estimates to adjust traffic country by country. Their numbers skew heavily towards IE, so I'm assuming that their sites must see a lot of business users. If you run a site which was aimed at home users you'd see a much great representation for WebKit and I'm sure sites like HN, ArsTechnica, etc. have a higher percentage of the latest browsers.

I have never worked on a site where the breakdown is close to NetMarketshare's figures. The ones from Akamai have been much closer, particularly internationally:

http://www.akamai.com/html/io/io_dataset.html

1. http://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Methodology
Is the limitation in making faster/better/cheaper batteries a bigger battery factory? Or is it the raw materials to make LiIon batteries?

What is the world's capacity for lithium hexafluorophosphate? Japan currently makes the bulk of the supply.
Thanks for the clarification, but it sounds like the net effect is exactly the same: bad loans are made, money is lost, the taxpayer is forced to subsidise the indiscriminate purchase of education.

As always with such schemes, there is an ongoing push to implement them in as complicated and opaque a fashion as possible, to try and hide the naked fact of what is going on. So no one will admit "we take money from taxpayers and make loans no sane private investor would ever consider," they'll just talk about FDCRP-approved rates this and Fannie Mae-that and fiduciary-backed iron bond multiplexing high-yield 7.5% rederived blahblahblah.

Same bullshit that happens when bank deposits are federally insured.
So you hired an intern and were surprised they needed guidance and training instead of cheap/free labor ( which you were in no way looking for )
Net Applications apparently have a sample of 40,000 websites, whereas StatCounter have a sample of 3,000,000 [1]. StatCounter shows radically different numbers (e.g. Chrome by far the most used, whereas NA shows IE majority). IMO, StatCounter's numbers are more likely to be accurate.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms
I would suggest to invite UN troops to control the peace in this region until Crimea holds the referendum on March 30.
Not Russians nor Ukraine military should interrupt this process.
Rich Hickey is probably not the same as Timothy J. Hickey.
I usually don't bother with links to things that are phrased in such a way as to suggest support of segregationist policies. I don't care about women in tech. I care about people in tech.
This is completely irrelevant - a big mistake does not justify a different - and completely unrelated - "smaller" mistake in any way.
The project I work on (QEMU) uses -Werror in development but defaults it to off for releases. This means that warnings don't sneak into the codebase but end users don't have to deal with unnecessary build failures just because they're using a newer and pickier compiler or oddball host system.

Putting in the effort to get down to "emit no warnings" (and then enforcing that you stay there with -Werror) is worth doing exactly because you then do get new problems drawn forcibly to your attention, IMHO.
I see your point - but Panasonic's plant may still be constrained by current market demands. A new plant, and new Tesla car battery design can be driven by whatever constraints will bring down total price in the Gigafactory + Tesla consumption. I would think that getting to that goal could encompass a battery design with a structural enclosure with intra-cell and outer-wall protection for pouch batteries. Vs cylindrical cells with no outer wall protection it just doesn't seem like that large of an engineering jump - more of a repeat of the previous engineering design processes at a different design point.
>Yet, unlike the situation with languages, we have a really hazy idea of what browsers are used. //

I use FF27 on Ubuntu, no wait I use FF28 on XP, no IE9 on Win7, no it's Safari, no Opera on Wii, no Opera Mobile, no ... it's all of them. But then I'm a special case, however I imagine that a lot of people use various browsers - home, work, mobile, etc..

As with language just having general stats is no use - what's it matter that Chinese is so popular across the world if I'm selling canoes to Amazonians?

IE7 matters if your users use it and you want to make sure they have a good experience. It's not so relevant that most sites don't have high IE7 numbers, what does your site have; what will that support costs, what revenue will that support gain.
Springpad. It saves stuff automatically in categories. Like a book link on Amazon is saved as a book, not a Web page
Any lisper who needs to make a living will switch to anything. Usually, that doesn't remove any merit to lisp or the lisper.
Yeah, same. :/ Funny, isn't? All the Adria Richards of the world claiming to want to increase the exposure of women in tech are actively discouraging exactly that.
Access to the Black Sea and gas pipelines to Europe. Without those pipelines, the Russian economy would tank in a minute and the country would collapse back to the bad old '90s.
I get what you're saying. But, in a market-based system, where universities are highly profitable, we would expect that there would be an enormous influx of capital in to create more universities. But, we don't see that. There are very few new entrants into the university education space.
Agree that if you're a minority shareholder in a company and have a bad relationship, you can expect to get abused. You need to make sure that the share purchase agreement is sufficiently thorough to foreclose the possibility of disproportionate dilution or other tricks.

Unfortunately, the cost of hiring a lawyer to do this is probably several hundred dollars (at least), which may well not be worth it or feasible for you right now. If they're in an accelerator, they may have the cash to pay you. Sure, you'll kick yourself if they end up billionaires someday, but you can be certain that they'd have found a way to screw you if you'd taken equity instead.
This was an intern, not an employee. Isn't the whole point of an internship to find out if someone is good enough to be employed? This one wasn't, so the internship was terminated and no job offer was made. No need to feel bad about it.

The article says the reason an intern was taken on was that hiring an employee would be too expensive. I guess the author learnt his lesson that this is a very bad reason to take an intern. An intern should not be relied on to do any business critical work. If you want someone you can rely on to produce production quality code from day one, hire an appropriately experienced employee.
> Interesting (and slightly sad) that Firefox isn't gaining

I'm guessing this has more to do with Chrome being easier to integrate into enterprise/group-policy-based deployment than anything to do with the choices of individual users, though. The only place I see Firefox on a PC in a "computer lab" or "thin-client" setting any more is when those PCs are also running Linux.
I wonder if anyone kept a note of the speeches?
No, you are not understanding this all correctly. By the time our lawyers got involved, I had already tried at length to reach resolution amicably.

You're seeing a small piece of a conversation taken out of context. Also, they filed the trademark the day before that letter was sent, so it could not have been "in response"
Let them count ways that code can = poetry
Actually, with the Debian SSL "fix" that removed entropy, the dev who made the change did ask about it on IRC. Though a bad mistake, it's understandable how it happened.
Are you at all considering hiring interns for the upcoming summer?
This is probably a new HN record in mistakenly ascribing bad intentions, which is pretty impressive.

Perhaps people are interested in watching some awesome founders speak.
This sort of "protests" can be useful in granting political capital to this or that politician to come out in favour of (or refrain from adopting) this or that position, eventually snowballing into official government policy.
Sorry if that's condescending? It wasn't meant to be. I just know many men might understandably not be immediately interested in something that's clearly aimed at women.

Edit: Oh, and also because it didn't appear on the front page until ~30 minutes after it started (though it had appeared on new a few times).
One thing that I have found, is the limit of English language media to address Russian language events.

You really have to be careful to cross-check things as much as possible.

I chalk it up simply to there not being enough Eng/Rus bilingual speakers in the media to reach a critical mass.

I am not criticizing this particular article, just making a general observation.
Only if every single designer who happens to write some styles has paredit installed. Ditto for every non-technical user who would want to customize some template or something.

Sexps are cool, but you really, really need proper tools to edit them efficiently. Without them it's very easy to make a mistake, which of course will make it to runtime, because it won't be a syntax error in most cases. That's the downside of having so little syntax.

So I think that (for CSS) we'd either build very simple sexp based DSL using macros or we'd just create a compile-to-sexps human friendly syntax. On the plus side, with Lisps, that would be one evening to implement... :)
Ask HN: How does your product/service improve quality of life?
Just curious to see what people are working on.
I've been following these developments closely. One question that I was hoping someone here could comment on; what are the international law ramifications of the Russian soldiers not wearing insignia? I was under the impression that the lack of displayed insignia during a conflict strips them of many rights to protection if captured etc.
I've used Go for a personal project for a bit now and the compiler output is pretty good and consistent; beats Python and C++, I'd say.
> people are interested in watching some awesome founders speak

Agreed.
In my experience (which comes from developing compilers and bringing up operating systems on new architectures with untested compilers), compiler bugs are rarely 'heisenbugs' in the traditional sense, meaning bugs that go away when you attempt to debug them.

Compiler bugs tend to be more deterministic, where some code is being generated incorrectly and it will do the wrong thing every time you execute that code. Changing the optimization settings may cause the bug to go away, but it's still deterministic given the same compiled binary. One exception would be a bug where a compiler is reordering instructions across a memory barrier, but those are even rarer than normal compiler bugs, since compilers are generally paranoid about reordering anything with barrier intrinsics or inline assembly.
I am rading that book right now, is amazing. It makes Clojure so much easy, and the tutorials are well paced as explained.
Net Applications stats doesn't match at all my websites stats, not even close.
In Brazil interns are supposed to be sort of apprentices, not people you are testing to see if you will hire them.

For example unpaid internships are illegal, and although they don't get much benefits, their mininum wage per hour is higher (Brazillian law says mininum wage is monthly, but limits the number of hours a intern can work in a month, so interns hourly wage is higher).

Also it was not business critial work, it was work that we could let the intern do and fail and whatnot, the problem is that the intern was so bad it disrupted the work of people doing business critical work.
He's already started marketing Tesla battery stacks with SolarCity panel systems.[1] The Gigafactory could drive major growth in that program.

1. http://www.solarcity.com/pressreleases/218/SolarCity-Introdu...
To all the people kvetching in the comments... this is the live stream for "YC's Female Founders Conference" [1]. That's why "female" is in the post title.

I'm an ardent supporter of the effort, and I hope (much like startup school) that YC is able to make it into an annual event! Very inspiring! Also, my wife is in attendance. I look forward to hearing her reactions later tonight. If the live stream is any indicator, it looks like a really great event.

[1] http://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-female-founders-c...