skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I can't even modify my post. Which unfair HN mod locked my post? How on earth could anyone connect this to NSA?
What would you suggest? Imperfect sure, but the SAT and ACT are a standard measure of student's abilities. Not a popular opinion but I believe the SAT and ACT are invaluable and I'm fine with tests that measure reasoning ability, text comprehension, and writing skills as a basis for who can attend different calibres of universities.
Gross cost is basically irrelevant when you are talking about pricing in a perfect competition. The point is that producers cannot set their price because if they set it any higher, somebody else will undercut them.

I think the correct mainstream economic interpretation is that games are highly differentiated, meaning that no game can completely undercut another game because they are never the same. This means that the perfect competition model and argument do not apply and thus MC != MR in the game industry.
Mozilla has been iterating tirelessly on speed and lower memory consumption etc etc.

And all credit to them for that. Firefox still has a significant lag when loading on this computer, where neither Chrome nor IE do.

I can't remember when the last major ui redesign was.

I can only assume you don't use the developer tools, then.
Automation is inevitable. We have now more tools that can automate different (basic) IT tasks: App Deployment, Data migration between apps, Testing, etc. I think next step is learning from data and doing more complex automations. This would also allow systems to be more proactive in a way to recognize what is important to users, discover a pattern and automate some kind of operation. Considering that, I would recommend everyone, interested in this area, to pursue data science path (data mining/machine learning). Today, seems everybody is looking for that kind of workforce. I personally know companies which listed ads for this position and haven't been filled since year ago.
9 to 5: Millennial Edition
Millennial take on dolly parton's classic 9 to 5
For the first time ever Stanford Takes Away An MBA Degree
SWF has a very cleverly designed binary vector graphics format, which naturally lends itself to small filesizes. Much better than SVG or (E)PS, I think.
"If Only I Had This Thing, I Would Be Happy"
I hate to see a monetization/sustainability plan based on ads. AdBlock will kill Tiles, and if it doesn't, that'll kill adoption amongst occasional users.

A better idea IMO: get on the user-is-the-customer-not-the-product train and build the open web at the same time, by blessing a distributed social networking technology and selling installs of that technology, Automattic-style.
I think I'll certainly give this a try in places where I remember.

Such a shame I can't see it working for pdfs, I could save hours reading research papers.
Ask HN: Question about commision on ideas bought to the business.
I work for a dev company and i spend most of my time doing dev for other clients, I came up with the idea of a new service/web application and i offered it to the business, I just want a cut from the profit generated by the service. The development time will probably be split 30% in between jobs 70% personnal time. My boss doesn't want to give me a percentage or anything at this stage, he wants to discuss reward once the service is up and running if at all. Am I unreasonnable to expect this to be sorted out before hand? and how much will you expect your percentage to be in this situation?
first time i've experienced both disgusting and awesome at the same time
The Snickers Trick
I buy a lot of shoes and games and it is NOT the same thing. I go crazy when shoes go on sale because as a woman I can never have enough shoes but I have learnt not to spend money on games that I will never end up playing or play for a few hours and get bored - just because they were on sale.

Games have been experimenting with pricing models for a while and subscription based models are tricky, unless you are WOW/EVE. As a developer your cost does not diminish once the game has been published, specially if you are doing this as a longterm business. Pricing integrity and a model that generates revenue through virtual and in-game economies would be a good mix, in my opinion.
I am, and I'm also sad - just waiting for Vizify to have massive security flaws now.
ODesk Team shared library exploit POC
People post on snapchat because of quirky face pics and time limit feature. It keeps people updated with others moods and well- yeah mainly weird face pics. You can send the same pics through iMessage, but not with the time limit feature. Just think about in real life. If you and your friends are being goofy and hanging around, one of you might make a quirky face or pose for a second, but they wouldn't hold that pose forever.

Your app has a great design- really simple and easy to pick up. But when people find links they want to share with their friends, they can send a text message, share it on Facebook, or even on Twitter. I don't think people are as interested in having an app just to share links, but I think you have a solid foundation to do something cool. Rather than targeting it for friends to share links together, try and make it into a idea sharing bulletin board sort of thing. I see you have groups as a feature already. If this was an app where I could add a bunch of people to join a group and then we could all post links, notes, pictures, messages, etc. in the group feed, that would be great! However, this is just my feedback. You saw the vision for the app, so it's your choice to try and take it where you want to go.
It will most definitely be a limited power of attorney for this event only. They should have called it "Representative Appointment Form" like other industries do.

The latter is technically a limited power of attorney too.

Edit:
The following is from their EU POA form:

This power of attorney shall become effective on the day of signature and shall expire if revoked by me/us in writing. This document shall be construed and interpreted as a general power of attorney and my/our Agent shall have full authority to act on my/our behalf in relation to my/our claims resulting from disruptions of flights pursuant to EU Regulation 261/04. I/we furthermore grant my/our Agent the authority to:

*(1) undertake all appropriate legal – judicial and extrajudicial – measures appropriate to collect my/our claim(s) from the airline until the claim is fully settled;*

*(2) collect and receive payments on my/our behalf.*
I would pay 20 bucks for an awesome game any day over 2 dozen f2p pieces of garbage.
Nicely put. I can't imagine this making a statistically discernible difference. There's already a surprising amount of free test material available online, not to mention how much is contained in just a $20 test prep book.
It used to be a fairly good measure of 'g', and I note the tables I found on the net that equate the scores of the 1979 exam I took are very close to my results on formal IQ tests, like within 2-3 points.

Reversing the watering down of the exam ... that's pretty hard to imagine for the foreseeable future.
Good luck making a profit off the needs of people who don't want to be served.
How about taking a photo of the credit card and using OCR to fill up the form?
Why put the version in the URI at all? Can you not just use headers to request and return particular version? Is there a downside to this approach?
According to Wikipedia they squeeze 36 bits/pixel down to 4.71 bits/pixel for a 2K 24FPS movie. That's over 7x - gzip would be hard pressed to get up to 2x. I'm sure part of the reason they need compression is to send the data over the wire rather than shipping physical media all the time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Initiatives#Imag...
Watsi is looking for engineer #3
Watsi (YC W13) is looking for a senior full-stack engineer to help us provide access to healthcare to more people around the world. If you're interested in the position, please email chase at watsi.org, and we'd love to tell you more!
>>The majority of people never have those problems.

Citation needed.
For more background on this campaign, check out this TIME piece from the morning: http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/03/05/the-new-barbie-meet-the-...
>> Minecraft is a similar example (~$27) but people tend to blow that off as not relevant to the conversation because any other game isn't Minecraft.

so true
Or try ImageOptim, which bundles these and other tools with a nice GUI: http://imageoptim.com/
This really is an expected outcome, since people do fall for this effect.

It'll be interesting how Steam will handle that, since that practice is explicitly illegal in many places as misleading advertising - i.e, you can advertise something as x% off only if it really was offered at that higher price for some fixed period; and those laws can interpret Steam as the store responsible for it.
Securing API Keys in a client side JavaScript app
Looking back at my sales, too many customers use Paypal to simply go to Stripe only.

I wish someone would make something that is as easy to use as Stripe but also offers Paypal. The few I've seen are still everything and the kitchen sink, not just a simple stripe + paypal combo.
I bought a game last week on sale from Steam that used UPlay DRM and the CD key was found to be "already used." Opened a ticket with Ubisoft Support after Steam said they could do nothing for me and it took a week for Ubisoft to say "sorry we can't get you a new key" and yet Steam is still selling it.
Funny or Die responsible for HUVrTech
Mine has phrase-length, plus some highlighting to help keep your place in the text.

http://qwerjk.com/force-feed
Did they have such a pair of functions?
Example: http://www.livescience.com/12725-maple-copter-robotic-craft-...
I really hope that anyone buying hundreds of PCs has their own Windows images ready made and is using deployment services.
> most people would probably not benefit much from having that additional content added into the high school course

It would be great if we could switch from content to teaching actual mathematical reasoning. You can read a famous essay called "Lockhart's Lament" for more about this subject. But that's not something that's happening right now either in classrooms or on the standardized tests.

My point is that you have to teach something in high school, and it doesn't feel like the new SAT tests anywhere near four years' worth of content.

> linear equations; complex equations or functions; and ratios, percentages and proportional reasoning

"Linear equations" are a topic that can easily be taught in a month or less. "Complex equations or functions" is unclear, but I assume this means quadratic equations or maybe basic trigonometry -- probably a semester's worth or less. "Ratios, percentages and proportional reasoning" is really middle school level math -- or even elementary school level. It doesn't belong in a high school curriculum, except as review or remedial material.

So all of this content consumes less than a year of high school. I agree that maybe four years of intensive math coursework may be the wrong bar to set for the SAT, but is it setting the bar too high to expect college-bound seniors to know more than a single year worth of math content?

For that matter, only the best students should be expected to get a high score on the SAT; otherwise, the SAT score becomes meaningless. So I should re-phrase the question:

Is it setting the bar too high to expect the best math students among college-bound seniors to know more than a single year worth of math content?
Getty Images makes 35M images free in fight against copyright infringement
Man. I had to re-read the title of this article five times, before I understood the intended meaning. What a terrible wording.
I used a picture viewer named LXPIC in DOS on a 486 to look at JPEGs - and it was incredibly fast and small. Apparently it works even on the original IBM PC with an 8088, but I've never tried that.
If they want to shoot themselves in the foot, can't they just make their own payment form while still using Stripe as the processor? That would allow practically any customization of the form that they want.
As others have alluded to, it's all fine & dandy to try to adhere to the guidelines of "pure REST" but in reality, you have customers/users who know enough to construct a web request, but don't really understand what HTTP verbs are, what HTTP headers are etc. In my experience, your average developer (of course, not anyone who'd frequent HN!) really doesn't have a good grasp of how HTTP works. So the way you combat this problem is either

1) You provide client libraries in the popular languages so your users can download those and not have to make requests directly. This way you can put versioning and accepted response types in the headers instead of the URL

OR

2) You put everything in the URL and you're done with.

In my company, we initially went with 1) but then realized that just putting a version & format (.json, .xml etc.) in the URL lead to much fewer "Your API isn't working" emails.
No. Dell is selecting an image with Firefox installed.

And likely has PCs with this image ready to go.
> I also don't believe that just because some technology exists, people should adapt to it.

It doesn't matter what you believe. History has shown us that technology wins every time. Fighting against it is a losing battle. Better to embrace and find new markets than hang onto dying ones, I say.
Congrats on the launch. Looks great and is tempting me to take a real stab at writing I've always flirted with. Q: is there planned integration with print? Could you send out text to a printer and get an actual book made? DO you have relationships with any printers?
@mhartl FTW! Great work.

Kind of reminds me of a LaTeX for the web. Source code files -> properly formatted documents. I may use this in a future project. Looks awesome!
Probably want the business's prior permission first before testing their revenue funnel - and not just sitting comfortable with a "things will be evolving and changes might happen" as acceptable.
I love Steam sales but I feel pain for the developers.

The number of AAA titles in my steam library that I've barely played is pretty high. I could go without buying any games for at least a year before I would consider buying another one.

My time for playing games has become so small that I'm well behind the release curve, so games that I do want to play are frequently < $15.
Facebook at least allows an easy opt-out.
A guide around Spring 4’s buggy Websocket support
Banking without banks
As others have pointed, if you try to POST a HTML5 form to any API, you can't specify the header, it will always be x-www-formurlencoded.
> -foo would just as definitively indicate that it returns an object. The return type defaults to id, not void.

How would it definitely indicate that it returns an object? It has the same signature whether it's an accessor or a behavior, so you don't know if the implementation is returning an object.
Start looking for another job. Nothing good can possibly happen in this situation from now on. Once you've made arrangements for another position, feel free to quit at the most inopportune moment without notice. I'm assuming at-will employment here, of course.
Spanish bank’s purchase of Bank Simple raises big questions
Export Org mode files to OPML: https://github.com/edavis/org-opml

I think OPML[1] is way more powerful and interesting than most people realize. It could be the lingua franca of transmitting structured information if more tools supported it.

My problem was I couldn't find an outliner I was happy with. Then I remembered using Org mode a few years back and decided to dust it off again. Turns out it has a very powerful export engine and I was able to whip something together pretty easily.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML
>>Their new expectation of price is "cheap". This seems to be regardless of what the regular retail price is. $60? Wait until it is $10. Oh it is normally $10? Wait until it is $3.

I do this, but it depends on the game.

There are three categories of games for me: those that are first-day buys, those that I become curious about (via review sites and friends) but am not dying to play, and those I am just not interested in. I almost always pay full price for games in the first category. I wait for the games in the second category to go on sale. And the games in the third category I don't play even if they are deeply discounted.
The only thing I'd consider to be close to a "best" practice is to maintain backwards compatibility. This means a little more effort initially put into the design, but it pays off if it's to stay around for a long time.
Coincidentally, there are many story-based single player games that in practice (and IMHO deliberately) are just that - consumed like movies; where the pacing, player input, difficulty and choice-options are tweaked so that for the things that most players will do, they in fact get a reasonable action movie on their screen for those 6-10 hours.
> If you want to read the latest Game of Thrones, you aren't going to say, "That's 30 bucks! I'll just buy Harry Potter."

But if you want both of them, you might end up picking the one that goes on sale first.

There are some books I buy no matter what, but I also have a list of "books to read someday" that is so long, and growing, that I'll likely never reach the end of it. And a large number of those books are fairly interchangeable in my mind, and so it comes down to which offers are shoved in my face at the right moments.
No need for installation media when you're on Windows 8. It has a built-in reinstall/refresh function. Just go to the Start screen and type reinstall.
The Gold Standard Was an Accident of History
Show HN: I like Python so much I named a song after it
That isn't really a refutation of what I said. I'm saying that most people don't have the problems GP described: buying a game that is unplayable and not being able to get a refund. Not only are most people able to play their entire game library (even if not permitted by time or interest,) I've been able to get refunds even in exceptional circumstances.

e to below: no I didn't?
I'd feel more comfortable pressing the "Back This Project" if the button said "Powered by Crowdtilt" underneath it.

The whole "looks like a kickstarter but isn't on kickstarter.com" thing scared me off.
The majority of people never have those problems.

Doesn't matter. The minority of people with issues are always the loudest on support and general game discussion forums. Couple this with the fact that the majority of people are risk averse by nature and you get a pretty good explanation for the observed behaviour.
Hey man thanks for sharing. The spice sounds terrible and I've heard nothing but horror stories. Sorry for your loss.
I think you already know that the parent poster is saying that, even if the TV news commentator was the first person to commit the crime, and the commoner was the second, the TV news commentator still wouldn't be punished but the other person would.

This clear inequality appears to bother the parent poster more than the given example of heavy handed punishment.
you're an ignorant hypocrite.

the same plea to stop is made over and over on deaf ears.

you put a form with a reply button on the internet... you just asked for SHIT. you're going to get SHIT. that is how the internet works. all input is SHIT.

PG IS A BUTT
i would have called that "for security reasons" :)
I never thought much about it until now, but accurately proportioned dolls are uncanny and creepy. I wonder if that's why Barbie wasn't accurately proportioned to begin with.
No matter how large, successful and technical your client is, they'll undoubtedly have their least HTTP-literate monkey developing against your API. It gets awkward having to explain basic things to someone you started out assuming was your peer.
Returning a game because you 'don't like it' isn't an option at retail either.
My anecdote isn't any more anecdotal than GP's assertion.
I can't use metacritic. My tastes lie way outside the norm. The majority of highly-rated AAA games are extremely boring to me. The ones I do like tend to be sequels to games I already know I like (Elder Scrolls, Total War, Civilization).
That's exactly the goal. Only the registered phone can be used for purchases using your saved CC data.
>> I remember paying $60 for a Genesis cartridge, back when graphics and immersion were improving every year. Seems crazy though, I don't feel like I live in that world anymore.

I wonder if the fact that we're talking digital downloads (vs shelf space at Walmart) has been the driving factor behind "race to the bottom". As a developer, I don't like the "race to the bottom" because it means I have to charge less to remain competitive.

As a consumer, I like it because I get quality games (sometimes) for free or like $5. Thinking about how I used to have to beg for mommy to buy me a $60 game when I was 10 yrs old. This would be a $5 effort now. Could I have gotten away with being a more disobedient kid? Nah, prolly not.

Thing is, now the race to the bottom has just (irreversibly?) skewed price expectations so I still hear consumers complaining "oh it costs $5? I'm not going to play that. SKIP"

And in my head I'm thinking — "wow...you spend how much on your coffee EVERY DAY, COMPULSIVELY, yet you scoff at a complete body of work someone is selling to you for $5?"
Make sure you're on the desktop site (link in the footer). That looks much more WB 3.9/4.0-ish.
There's nothing difficult about it. It's just a pedantic and pointless distinction most of the time. To be more specific about what I was referring to, some folks on the Objective-C mailing list didn't even want methods in a protocol to be called methods. Instead they are to be called "method signatures". I roll my eyes.
RT has been spreading what amounts to propaganda for a long, long time now. If that wasn't annoying enough, they vote gamed/spammed reddit enough to get banned from the site.

Perhaps the worst part of all of this is that people still lap that shit up. Maybe it's because they think they are making a stand by being contrarians. Or maybe they just can't see that they have a second-option bias.

---

I predict that people are going to reply to this post and start complaining about America. But this is not about the US; it is about RT.
Indeed, last time I bought a name brand computer (my Lenovo Laptop) I was really disappointed to find how much crap was installed on it. I ended up formatting and re-installing :/
Thanks! Glad it looks tempting.

We've definitely looked into print. It's a tough nut to crack, and the ecosystem might not be mature enough yet for automatic integration. Lulu, for example, built an API, but not enough people used it, so they closed it to new developers. I'd love to offer a print solution at some point, though, so we'll keep an eagle eye on it.

In any case, the Softcover production system uses LaTeX, which is designed to make print-quality PDFs. The default output is optimized for tablets, but adapting it to a print-ready version is fairly straightforward. I expect we'll incorporate that into the typesetting system at some point. But unfortunately right now you'll have to do a lot of work by hand no matter which production system you use.