skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardly. Most people just have completely no understanding of the concept of consumer surplus and the difference between per unit revenue and total revenue. People will still pay a lot of money for games for the foreseeable future, but they'll also sometimes pay less money for games, and the result will be more total revenue than if there were just one fixed price.
Its probably a tangent point type. Change the point type :)
Dell charges £16 TO INSTALL FIREFOX on PCs
"- things that are inconvenient should morons know about them (like religious/sexual orientation, etc.)"

These can be flat out dangerous for many people. It isn't your place to make that call for other people.
$1,000 for a font? The average price is $20 and selling 50 copies is possible. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
In addition to the problem you point to (size of a sample is irrelevant if it isn't random), statistical relevance of a sample is based on the size of the sample alone, not the size of the population, so their claim that it is "double what's considered statistically relevant for the total population of Java developers worldwide" is nonsense.
need to be gpl for that ;)
My company made a very similar tool (using photoresistors instead of reed switches to determine whether that bathroom was occupied) a couple of years ago, it was a major lifesaver with single occupancy bathrooms: http://www.sanbornmediafactory.com/portfolio_pieces/bum/
Great questions, Antonio. I've just deployed an update to the front page at http://www.softcover.io/ answering some of them, but for convenience I'll answer them below as well.

1. Am I allowed to sell the files elsewhere? For example, sell the .mobi file on Amazon Kindle and publish a printed version via CreateSpace.

Yes, you retain copyright on everything you make and can do anything you want with the files. They get built on your system by Softcover's open-source toolchain, so you have complete control.

2. Are the files watermarked at all with Softcover's branding?

No, the books have no Softcover branding. The online version has an inconspicuous Softcover-branded footer by default, but even that can be removed with a simple config setting, as described in the manual (http://manual.softcover.io/book/marketing#additional_informa...).

3. Is this open to authors everywhere or are there restrictions?

Softcover is open to anyone, and there are no restrictions.

4. Will this handle sale taxes for authors? I'm a Canadian author with a PST/GST account, will I able to collect that from Canadian customers?

I don't know about this one. If you join the [Softcover Google Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/softcover-publishing), I'll introduce you to my cofounder Nick Merwin, who is in charge of stuff like this. If we don't currently support collecting Canadian sales tax, we might be able to add it.
>The software watches changes to the data and propagates these changes to each process that uses said data.

Reminds me of self-tracking ORM entities...
I found this while trying to figure out what TETRASIL/IMUSIL was:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tetrasil

I'm suspect it's just pseudo-science, if it wasn't other countries would be manufacturing the product illegally.
Indeed! PEBCAK. :) Thanks for the correction.
You Can Now Embed Getty Images' Gorgeous Photos On Your Blog for Free
Actually it's damn fine for SEO.

Google, the only SE that matters, handles Javascript only websites just fine (actually uses a full browser as the google crawler bot). I'd make a bet that Bing does too.

And most accessibility software works with Javascript sites too, as they use the full DOM and can even handle events. It needs a little care to show changes to content and such, but they definitely don't need static fallback to read a site.

The rest is old wives tales.
As for "all new WebAPI's" you'd be surprised how many of them were first implemented in WebKit.

Enlighten us: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI

WebRTC? Chrome—fall 2012. Firefox—summer 2013

I don't think so:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/11/progress-update-on-webrtc-...

Note that at this point Firefox had DataChannel, and it would take Chrome months to catch up there. Firefox also introduced the used audio codec.

That said it's a bad example, because WebRTC standardization is currently a strong effort between both companies and it'd be great for the web if more standards went this way rather than ending up with having to try to standardize half-assed implementations from one rendering engine. (cough WebSQL cough)
Games are already priced much higher than hollywood blockbusters. To see a blockbuster in the theaters costs about $10 per person, to buy a AAA game on release date costs $60 or more. And it's not as though the market is rejecting these prices, GTA V made around a billion dollars in revenue within its first week of release, games are already some of the biggest entertainment launches in history.
I agree, I could have been clearer by repeating the exclusion for weather delays on one or more line items. I'm sure there are even borderline cases where a denial by the airline might be questionable and your only course of action would be to repeatedly and/or strongly state your case, escalate the matter up the chain-of-command, call/file your case with the government (e.g., DOT ACPD), file a request for arbitration (i.e., if your ticket requires), file a small claims suit, etc.
Isn't the most important part of any algorithm whether it will fit the purpose? For the situation they describe (purely as an example) their algorithm seems it will probably work quite well. You're not going to build a humanoid robot using that algorithm, but it is addressing the problem they specified so directly that anything more would be over-engineering the solution. Most real-life problems are going to be addressable using similar techniques.
Yes, this could be the right approach -- we should perhaps have something like HEAD and STABLE.
And indeed state guaranteed deposits are not covered against every risk. FDIC and the UK equivalent for private deposits in banks only covers up to GBP 100K or USD 250K (or at that level) anyway - good luck getting your millions of dollars back from the government when a bank collapses.
Yes. So no airplanes, helicopters, air-baloons, spacecrafts, lifts or anything similar.

And of course, one is a physical law, the other is a theoritical notion about how economies WOULD work in ideal conditions that don't correspond to any objective histrorical reality and that the feasibility of which has even been disputed in theory.
I was disappointed to find my new Lenovo Ideapad similarly loaded down with crap. Spent a few hours just installing nonsense.
Firefox has too many bugs and when you file them they don‘t get fixed very quickly at all. That’s why it isn’t my primary browser. Maybe something about that should be in this document.
I don't think there is a blog that can be described as both "lightweight" and support all of the features you've listed.

I use a PHP framework (li3) in my day job, but the framework that seemed to fit my blogging needs the most was Django, and even that is "heavy" compared to Wordpress, which is already configured and installed for a lot of ISPs.

I get what you're saying about Wordpress. I moved away from it because I wanted the ability to fine tune the look of the blog and not be stuck with their database structure.

However, the best approach, if you're not wanting to learn a whole new framework, would be to find an ISP you're comfortable with that ticks most of those boxes as far as analytics goes. Then use some kind of static blog system to take your text and turn it into HTML. Unless it's super obscure, the language does matter as much if you're using a static system. Just configure it the way you want and post the HTML that it creates from your files. And as long as you've structured the documents well, moving back to a dynamic blogging system later on isn't going to be that tough.
A game - I haven't worked on it in exactly ten months now :'(. My willpower is drained.

Here's the pathfind & boid/flocking - I am going to rewrite it, it's incredibly buggy and ugly as of now :(
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1367825/coop_pathfinding... - sorry for the dirty screen, I couldn't record the screen because of performance.

Here's the menus - saw a presentation by Martin Johansson on "Make it jucy" (or something along those lines) it somehow stuck with me. I'm experimenting with jucyness here
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1367825/wip.mov
I'd like to see the subset of the answers from people who have actually maintained a successful and widely used API. I'm skeptical that most clients are sophisticated enough to deal with the pure REST dream.

Specifically, changing the JSON representation of, say, a list of account activity, is perfectly compatible with REST. "Oh, you want /account-activity, here it is, why yes, it does happen to be a list of links to /account-activity/messages and /account-activity/transactions instead of the flat list of things with a 'type' field like it was last week, but I'm directing you to the resource, so it's all good"
This has the potential to become the definitive way to publish and buy books online. Amazingly well done.
Well, for one we could disallow large monopolies or oligopolies controlling the game market.
Congrats, looks good. Will it remain free? What will be the restrictions in the future.
GTA V is also a game that easily costs a dollar an hour for play. That's much less than $10 for 2 hours.

When looking at the price of games, you have to remember you're normally going to be spending much more time playing that game than you are watching a single ticket's worth of a movie.

A similar argument could be made for physical movie media vs movie tickets. You pay $30 for a dvd, sure; but, you and 5 of your friends can all sit down and watch that DVD in the comfort of your home. 3 years later, you can watch it again, and again. The cost per hour of that DVD can easily, if you're an avid, repeat movie watcher, drop down to the same price per hour that you're paying for a game.

On the other hand, if you're buying a modern FPS for the story only and hate multiplayer, then you're getting about 6 hours of play for $60; and that's about the cost of a movie.
Take a look at the device management capabilities in Android. Pick a good MDM system that uses the standard Android APIs if you can make that work for you. If that's not sufficient, look at what Samsung has done in extending Andrdoid MDM, but beware of lock-in, and I'm not a fan of Samsung bloatware.

I would avoid hackish MDM. While an app can do things like block the use of blacklisted apps, I would prefer to rely on auditing of devices to detect undesirable apps and then to lock the device. That you can do with normal use of standard APIs. Hackish MDM can claim all kinds of capabilities, but if the standard device management APIs don't directly support those features, the risk of undesirable side effects, features that invite complacency but are easy to circumvent, and other problems become much more likely. I have not evaluated AppLock personally, do I can't say if it's sound or not.

I have pushed the boundaries on these kinds of features myself. For example, developing a device-based packet filter that, while it doesn't require rooting the device, and does not rely on undefined behavior, it makes creative use of an API that is designed for a different purpose. So if a vendor makes claims of having capabilities that go way beyond what the Device Administration documentation says is possible, get a good explanation of how they do it.

An example of a bad hack is that I have seen a "lockdown" app that "blocks" the app switcher button by creating several instances of an app with a blank name and blank screen image. That's just challenging users to break your system (by scrolling the list of recent apps) and sneer at it. A gateway drug to more malevolent cracking.

But if you really really need behavior that meets a hard set of specs and Android just can't do it using standard MDM APIs, consider rolling your own variant of Cyanogen Mod or other aftermarket Android distribution. That way you know exactly what you are getting, and you can implement your desired features in ways that actually work.
That's clearly the wrong way to try it, but I doubt even lowering the sides to the low plane would help.
RT Anchor Quits Over Ukraine Coverage, Says Credibility Destroyed
This is the exact problem Hypermedia APIs set to solve. The second answer even chimes in with that.
Upvoted. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
At the hospital I work at we correlate 'sales'in a similar way. Just we found a cheaper way. We noticed that at night less people come in. So we reduced staffing at night.
Interesting question (I don't know the answer). Does appreciation through currency exchange count as a short term capital gain?
What Your Country's "Internet" Looks Like. Hello Autonomous Systems.
> 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.

That's the expected behavior with Steam's shitty EULA, which is "no refunds, ever".

Bought a game and didn't liked it? Your loss. Bought a game that crashes all the time? Your loss. Bought a game that runs at 10 FPS because it uses some shitty engine? Your loss. Bought a game and there are no servers with an acceptable ping to play on? I'm repeating myself...

It's only logical that people are then averse to sink money on unknown titles unless it's cheap enough to be an non-issue.
"New publishing model"? You could have just used a photocopier.
Netflix disables use of the Chrome developer console
Definitely this. Cut back to 40 hrs/week MAXIMUM. Start actively looking for a new job.

The important question is: "Do you have an emergency fund of 6-12 months living expenses?" If you risk being homeless if you miss a paycheck, you're an idiot and you have to suck it out. If you have cash reserves, push back and be prepared to walk and refuse to work more than 40 hours a week.

At my current project, the owner did the EXACT SAME THING (asked me to work more hours for the same salary). I refused. I'm still there for the same hourly rate. I've been actively looking since. I haven't found my next project yet, though.
Good articles to read on this topic:

http://stratechery.com/2013/open-source-apps/

http://www.marco.org/2013/09/28/underscore-price-dynamics

http://tapity.com/yep-paid-apps-are-dead/
Because you're too busy reading TechCrunch...
Oh right, I guess meant "not trendy". I know it's pretty widely-used, but it unfortunately and unfairly tends to elicit the same response as when someone tells you they use AOL for their internet.
> I know multiple people to refuse to buy games unless they are hugely (80%+) discounted.

I'm probably in that camp. Some might even dismiss it as entitlement, but really I just have a lot of sources of free entertainment (including all the games I bought over the last five years that still work just fine).

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've got to imagine it's tough to compete in a market where customers can use the product forever and there's no obsolescence.
In-Browser Excel File Parser
> "Intriguingly, the concept of digital money was predicted as far back as the late '90s"

Learn some history. I remember people using digital money - DigiCash - in the early 1990s. One of the Big Thoughts in the late '90s micropayments, supported by digital currency, and with the backing of the w3c and various companies.

It's really easy to predict the future when it was already there.
IPhone M7 chip counts your steps even after the battery dies
This does happen. Take Dota 2 for example. Valve makes money from people watching games live, as well as from selling in-game merchandise, such as hats, and armor.
I think this is an excellent, well thought-out reply.

It still doesn't matter if Remember Me is better for merchants or not. What matters is whether the merchant wants to be able to hide that feature or not. If they choose to shoot themselves in the foot, it should be their choice.

There are only a few actually plausible reasons why a service would prevent turning this feature off. A nanny mentality (we know what's best for you), which is insulting to the merchant/s. Or because Stripe is pushing something primarily for their benefit, and all the 'explanations' are nothing but rationalizations to make that smell better, the merchant's wishes be damned. Both scenarios are bad.
> The only people who would need such a service are people who are completely technologically illiterate and only know of the Firefox brand, and those people may not be informed enough to know that it's free.

Not really, I can think of a use case where an office has a policy that requires everyone to be using Firefox. Now, say they need to buy a hundred new PCs from Dell. Wouldn't it be time consuming and costly to install Firefox on each PC one by one? In this case, paying for this service could make sense.
Also, why on earth is the U.S. missing ?

Background: I'm from Algiers, Algeria. I lookup what my IP address is from time to time and was interested in the thing.

I stumbled on ALGTEL-AS. So I looked it up. I learned about Autonomous Systems, and ASN's, IPv4 diagrams and all that stuff (it's fascinating).

What I wanted to know is: Can I, not knowing an IP address of a computer, be able to at least limit the range its IP address eventually belongs to. Maybe at the town level, block, etc, so that I would do a big chunk down, and then use some attributes of the machine I would have to know about to find it.

Kind of needle in haystack, where I'd remove the parts of the hay I have a fair degree of confidence the needle isn't in.

The answer is: Maybe, why not.
Thanks! The Softcover production system is available for free as open-source software under the permissive MIT License. Softcover just takes a cut of sales, so we only make money when you make money.
Actually, I don't think that's generally true if you're talking about the libs. A cursory glance at the output of `apt-cache rdepends libgnutls26` suggests that wget is the only relatively "popular" package depending on it.

However, some other distros such as Arch do not have wget depending on it, so you do have a point about Debian.
Stripe is awesome. We use stripe on VidFall.com... our alpha launch is on 3/10, would love to see you there.
Obviously not, but there are plenty of success stories out there on the internet. It's far much more of a walk in the park than making it with a venture-backed startup first time around. If you don't have what it takes to make it with a "lifestyle business", then there's no way you have what it takes to make it as a startup founder.

Also, sorry don't mean to sound cocky. I'm still a failed entrepreneur, just speaking from lessons I've learned from scars of failure. I'm not giving up on the startup game, just thinking long-term about it and my development as an entrepreneur.
I experimented with adding exactly that recently: https://matt.sh/advanced-redis-pubsub-scripts (code in the branch at https://github.com/mattsta/redis/tree/pubsub-scripting).

It hasn't been extensively tested, but it works for my isolated test cases.
I truly want to see a time within the next few years where I can barely tell the difference between a desktop app and a web app, and unfortunately for noscript users, such an experience will probably require javascript.

That's fine; believe it or not, most NoScript users are enabling a good chunk of JS (usually for your exact example of web app). What's annoying is when one opens up a link that gives the user no clues whatsoever as to it's purpose, and all that happens is a blank page pops up. No indication, like on some sites, that hey, this site is interactive and requires JS. Just a blank page. It makes one wonder why the URL was even shared.
> "In English the male pronoun is the generic"

Indeed.. and that's the problem.

The times, they are a changin!
> While perhaps impossible, I'd also love an app that would overall just help me get back ontrack for flights and rebooked somehow.

I forse a day when Google Now or Siri detects your flight delay and presents you with rebooking options via a push alert.
It's already been addressed that individual teams at Mozilla have more specific goals with more actionable metrics, but in Mozilla's case I disagree that engineers cannot sign up users. Firefox didn't have a sales team to get its current marketshare.

We do it in person for friends and family, we do it through discussion and diagnosing problems on hackernews and twitter etc.

Source: I work in Mozilla engineering and I help people out online and offline with Firefox all the time, clear up misconceptions people have etc.
For everyone interested in computer vision / image processing in Python, http://scikit-image.org/ in combination with http://scikit-learn.org/ are also worth a look.
The zooming issue may be an OSX problem, but it works fine here on linux. I've also never noticed any rendering problems, websites look like they should. Do you have any examples?

The stuttering during scrolling is probably because firefox is one process, so if lots of javascript is running on the page, it interrupts the process. In general, scrolling is smooth for me though.
I suppose your site still needs to have SSL in order to use Checkout?
This sounds like am advertisement for the lawyer. This is just a paid PR page, and they don't go into any of the meat of what that patent claimed or how they defended it...
It seems like more people are making music than ever before. Why is that the case, if the conventional wisdom is that it is a terrible industry in which it is impossible for musicians to make a living? Same question for free apps.
Obviously you would expect Yale to raise SAT medians in addition to other criteria as the number of applicants goes up, in order to maintain the class size (which it has done for the relevant time). What's interesting is how much the bars are raised relative to each other. Remember, the criteria aren't perfectly correlated. If you go from top 4% SAT to top 2%, and top 10% GPA to top 5%, you should expect the number of people passing the filter to shrink by much more than 50%. It could be as much as a 75% reduction if SAT and GPA aren't correlated at all.

Apparently, the number of applications at Yale have gone up by 2.6x since 1976, and the admissions rate has gone down by 3.5x. So Yale needs to raise its various bars to let through 1/3 or 1/4 as much of the applicant pool, in totol. The fact that it has raised its SAT bar from top 4℅ to top 1% suggests that all the increased stringency in the admission standard comes from the SAT criterion. Indeed, to achieve that increase in SAT median with only a 2.6x increase in apps, Yale probably had to make some criteria less stringent.

That's the crazy part. Not that SAT went up, but that it seems to have been the primary tool to filter the additional applicants, to the exclusion of other criteria.
Ask HN: Is their a website that documents the tech stacks at YC startups
I'm interested to see the the trends and choices made by YC startups. Do they favour NoSQL over Relational? Are they embracing Javascript on the server? Is Ruby still the most popular choice etc etc.
Java has several runtimes. The most popular one is Hotspot and written in C++.
Wow, this made me feel really naive. I know game developers want to make cool games and make good money doing it, but I didn't know about the devs who didn't care about the former. Again, I guess I'm just naive/unaware about this scene.
Not if they are selling the service as a "Mozilla Firefox Web Browser Installation Service"
http://frinlet.com/alpha_1.0

An HTML5 video game. Going into this I would have never thought making a game could be so much work. Still very much a prototype and only really works well in Chrome.

Here's a screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/1x3X1X1I0s0Y
Thanks Patrick, I will try again.