skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only customer involved is Sparkfun, they were purchasing the meters for their own stock. Nobody had pre-ordered them. Not sure what SparkFun campaign you're talking about.
This seems like a straw man, the issue isn't that opinion journalism should be abolished, the issue is that it is overprevalent. News has become too much a mixture of pack-like reporting of one exciting incident after another (often stories with little value beyond entertainment), and opinion. In order to form a judgement about something, you have to have experience of it, and data journalism is, or should be, about allowing people to understand the reality of what is actually occurring beyond their immediate bubble. i.e. at its best, it should be 'empty', and as close as possible to an observation. Once you have at least some factual basis, then you can start forming opinions, or forming judgements about the validity of other people's opinions, and it is at that stage that opinion journalism ceases to be about providing superficially plausible rationalizations for your ideological preconceptions, and begins to be about finding some structure to make sense of the nature of the problems, and the nature of the possible solutions.
True. This is different to how Appcelerator Titanium does it - which does build native apps with native components, despite the code to build the apps being written in JavaScript.
I wish we could hold some of our politicians accountable in this fashion. A phone conversations wiki leaks type website would be a killer.

Does anyone know of websites that dedicate themselves to find corruption in US politicians?
It's also a problem if you're an artist that makes something 'close enough' to Mickey Mouse, and you don't have the resources to both fight the legal battle, and support yourself while your income stream is shut off due to the legal battle.
Hey Jonas: interesting app. I can't use a white desktop background, though.

As probably most of the people here at HN, I often spend 12+ hours per day around screens, so anything that contributes to my eyes getting more tired is a bad idea. White really isn't the way to go.

Perhaps adding the possibility to choose a hex color for the background, or making the app add the quotes to the user's existing background is where you should go next. Best of luck with sales.
Whether cooperation is voluntary, or not, is not the issue. Nor is tapping the carriers, with or without their cooperation. The article says that cooperation can be compelled.

The issue is that some of the participants in PRISM denied providing "direct access" to their data. Some people here are saying those denials are meaningful when we do not have a complete picture of how cooperation is compelled.
I would say best used as a web app that one can use along side a native app IE Gmail, which has an ok mobile web app and a good native app.
Why's it called B612? I couldn't find any mention on the site.
The effectiveness of various hiring methods has been demonstrated pretty rigorously now. But how many companies now take them into account, neverminding 1924?

I'd probably be more expecting a Belbin or Myers-Briggs questionnaire to be required, than a work-sample test, to have my suitability tested for certain roles, despite the established effectiveness of various methods.

Great post btw, in the link.
Tried React?
So you didn't notice the big Fluke logo in the top right? (perhaps it's not present on mobile?)
The advantage of using a single language is that, for each single app in all the three store, you have to change a single codebase and not to make 3 different changes in 3 different codebases just because each of them require its own language (and then its own specific libraries).
So you have surely to spend the time to sort the libraries, but it is a one-time problem. After it, you can just use them without problem in all your projects and you really can focus on your idea

Put all the code in a good ui/codebehind separation framework like mvvm, and you are happier than ever.
Exactly. Few nations lack these problems, but many are able to achieve stability and wealth through providing comprehensive and unbiased education, and supporting a democratic political process.

Erdogan has not been shy about his feeling that democracy is a means to an end, that it is a tool to be used for his convenience, and that such tools can be cast disposed of when their usefulness expires. This will be his downfall.
tl;dr

Mistake 1. They have collected beta invitation email addresses but did not send any emails until the launch. Some users forgot about the product when they received the invitation 3-6 months later.

Mistake 2. They used spreadsheets to track user cohorts and that was too time consuming.

Mistake 3. They focused too much on features instead of benefits.

Mistake 4. They weren't able to find ways to get exposure from blogs.
This is where the beauty of popcorn time just shines because it's the same amount of data but it's coming from everywhere.

If Netflix could implement something like this and charge for it ISP's asking for a kick back would be lost.

Unfortunately the MPAA and RIAA would never go for that since they don't get to put their DRM everywhere.

Atually the MPAA and RIAA should be backing Netflix on this one since if Netflix fails the most likely replacement for it will be popcorn time and then the won't be making any money at all.

Then again Netflix will probably destroy net neutrality by complying with their demands before it fails.
"breaks into"? Errm, they have the keys to the door. They own the house. No one broke in. Hotmail users give MS permission to look in their email when they agree to the T&Cs. So using an account hosted by them to conspire against them was pretty boneheaded to say the least.
My understanding is that only Safari gets access to Nitro (Nitro : Apple :: V8 : Google). Web Views inside native apps don't get access to Nitro. Even web apps that you save to your home screen don't get access to the faster rendering engine. This is apparently for security reasons. I think it's one of the biggest barriers to web apps being competitive on iOS. (The other is that there really isn't a good installation story.)
I'm just paraphrasing Musk's vision. It's not a dream; he's actively working on getting to Mars within the next decade or so. People seem to forget their history. It wasn't that long ago America was (re-)discovered. I'm puzzled why people - especially HNers - don't understand the significance of working on this.

No one has said there aren't other things worth working on. And maybe they are more important short-term (even Musk has admitted this much). So: by all means, go forth and work on them!
Interesting concept aside, if your wife gets that angry because you forget to respond to a non-critical text message, she really needs to relax.
Correction, "Native look & feel". But well made!
I know I'll get downvoted, but that comment was probably much more hilarious than you intended.
Nice work.

Suggestion: Add the new iOS7.1 "minimal-ui" key to the viewport tag.

It makes the top bar a lot smaller and makes it fullscreen in landscape mode. Much nicer for an 'app-like' experience.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width initial-scale=1.0 maximum-scale=1.0 user-scalable=yes, minimal-ui" />
I think the short story is that the engineers at Facebook feel pretty productive with their stack today. Making a new language that basically fixes up PHP is ideal for them because it gives them good confidence they can get the benefits of static analysis without sacrificing much productivity. That level of productivity + the sheer numbers they have make Hack a more attractive option.
Actually, Australis has been at work for years. I seem to remember that the first mockups of Australis are actually older than Chrome 1.0. It just took us lots (and lots, and lots) of iterations to build something that users actually enjoy.
I tried replacing dog by cat, and it doesn't work. Why?

Also, for the inverse gamma function of complex numbers:
gamma^-1(1+10i) works.
gamma^-1(1-10i) confuses its parser (doesn't know how to interpret input, even though the previous and next one work).
gamma^-1(1-10.0i) works again.
Why?
And this is better than photovoltaic solar panels because?

Everything in the article indicates that the power generated by both proposed methods is both negligible and difficult to achieve.

I'd rather they focus on improving something that's known to work rather than trying to resurrect technology that's been failing for 50 years.
What you mention definitely occurs, but the 90% hyperbole is totally unnecessary. It's nowhere near that percentage of philanthropic efforts.
I am shocked how misinformed and technically misleaded a pro team like the guardian is. Saving your stories in HTML in a CMS? This is like using Joomla for hobbiest sites or something like that, it will kill your archive and it will be a pain reusing content.
A good Content Management Strategy is: use libreoffice for wirting, create a plugin that publish to archive and put articles in the pipeline for redaction, save content to docbook and be prepared for any kind of reuse of that content.
Another way to think about it:

He had the numbers 100, 3, 6, 25, 50, 75. 25, 50 and 75 are big and difficult to work with, but 50/25=2 and 75/25=3 are far easier. He could either do it right away, but that gives him either (2 and 75) or (3 and 25) and there's still a large number. (75x ± 50y)/25 on the other hand equals (3x ± 2y) and he's down to nice small numbers.
> First, you have the absolute most control you will ever have over your application.

You have 0 control over distribution though, which is pretty important to me.

> There are some amazing libraries for both platforms that you definitely don't want to miss.

I don't doubt that the platforms have good 3rd party support, but it's absolutely dwarfed by that of the web community, and that will only grow larger over time.
Is 2048 a clone of Threes, or vice versa?
> To get started you had to understand things like headers

since when is this a problem? really.
Very impressive. As someone who uses Appcelerator a lot, this makes me rethink the ability to prototype and app quick and wrap it with Phonegap, or a similar strategy.

Colors, spacing, swipe translations are all very solid. While a majority of everyone else here complains about pixels and the right words to use, I'd like to congratulate you on this.
I've never before seen someone try and monetise a MOTD feature.
We have important work to do.
It's a nice dream. Pity reality is so very harsh on nice dreams.
Seems like a lot of work. They had to port, at least partially, some core engine's capabilities (graphics, physics etc.). They could just enchance some existing PC game or demo. Maybe Forza will be something like launch title for DX12?
Unfortunately, according to our research, an enormous majority of people (read 95%+) hated it. So we had to switch to something less surprising, but that most users [believe that they] understand. Sad but necessary.
That's only inconsistent if those with power are the politicians. Are they really?
Well, it's Leon Wieseltier and TNR. My expectations are set correspondingly low. However, he actually stumbles not far from an important point -- Silver is fetishizing "the side of no side," and using the cult of pretended objectivity as a blunt instrument to bash his critics with.

Silver isn't doing LHC observations here: he's doing political journalism, and data in politics and economics are neither neutral nor objective. The data we select, the models we use, create toy realities that we can use to justify certain policies and philosophies.

What makes Silver particularly pernicious -- and I count myself a fan of his approach to weighting election polls -- is that he pretends that data and modeling means 538's articles are endowed with an Olympian objectivity. Yet his hires suggest that his articles are going to be animated more by ideology than rigor.

For example, he chose for his science writer Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist whose climate-change denialism (usually published as popular books, op-eds, and blog posts, not peer-reviewed papers) has been thoroughly debunked by practicing scientists. Not a promising beginning to his site; if I wanted to read worthless contrarianism written by unqualified hacks, I'd just renew my New Republic subscription.
I wanted to enjoy this but I opened it on my phone and was immediately cursed with problems.

- When I scrolled the list items where my thumb was scrolling started lighting up

- When I clicked a button nothing happened, I had to click a few times repeatedly before it changed screens and even then it didn't feel like I clicked

- When I clicked back nothing happened, and after a couple more tries I saw it was working and then changed the page. That might could be solved with something like fastclick.

I would love a tool like this but it has to be damn near perfect for me to be able to consider it with my team.

EDIT: After playing with it a little more I found it gets a little better. The big issue is lag and fluidness for me. It's got to be very responsive to touch and movements and not have any lag or choppiness.
Magnetic behavior discovery could advance nuclear fusion
I left my job to start my first company. Tell me what you think.
Danish Defense has 24,000 active personnel. Of course it depends on the level of conflict, but I would argue that Denmark couldn't defend itself against much more than some internal unrest.
They made poor initial design decisions which effectively put a speed limit on JavaScript apps. Currently they are not motivated to do the probably very difficult work it would take to fix the problem, that's why it's so important that the Chrome team gets its shit together and makes the speed of Chrome Android awesome (which, to their credit, is a goal for this year).

Unfortunately the lack of competition on mobile makes innovation very slow, there's no motivation to make rapid improvements.
#5: Writing large blocks of text using a tiny gray sans serif font and expecting people to read it.

Sorry, my eyes just won't hack that this early in the morning.
Perhaps you are not aware that actually settling credit card payments, i.e. the time it takes for the money to actually end up in the merchant's bank account may take several days, even weeks.

As for bitcoin, to my knowledge this is pretty much analoguous to "transaction confirmation", which typically happens in 10 minutes. So it's actually much much faster than credit card payments.
"It's just my opinion" strikes me as the larger evasion of responsibility here. There's nothing irresponsible about reporting the facts of a story so that people can make informed decisions.

> More data can also mean more noise.

Nate Silver wrote a book titled "The Signal and the Noise." I'm sure he's aware of the danger. Data Analysis (Data Science, whatever you want to call it) is all about turning data into information. Reducing noise.
The irony with your statement is that your position is to make the choice for everyone in the market in a one-size-fits-all fashion.

His choice is to allow variety, competition, and customization so that more people get a chance to find the service that satisfies their needs.

I don't think anyone is saying to completely do away with all regulation in every instance - but have you seen the competitive barrier taxi regulation in most metro areas? It's specifically designed to prevent competition from those without massive resources. It's the stereotypical big guy keeping the little guy down with their million dollar medallions and special connections to lawmakers.
"security reasons" (= http://bit.ly/1d7p5Tq)

it would be interesting if they elaborate on those...
for the uninitiated, is there a decent blog/post somewhere that goes into some details comparing the two?
Your English is a bit stilted in places - "Just check that the distance from A-B and B-A are not equal because it is the distance related to road.".

And I'm getting Application Errors too.
Horizontal space isn't.
this is the first time I have heard of coreOS - seems to be custom built for containers like docker. are there downsides to doing system updates this way and not having a package manager, just relying on containers for everything? Seems great in concept.
Show HN: How i put Nasty Icons to use
It's really easy to "fix the problem". There have been fixes on Jailbroken devices for years.
it could be a little nice free app. Doesn't look like something I can pay $2.99 for. (don't tell me that I already pay $5 for coffee)
bike routes are so over rated, other than strict diehards they are fair weather routes only. Otherwise its too hot, too cold, to wet, I don't feel like it, got to carry something, going to the store, etc/etc/etc

taxis arose because public transportation doesn't always go where people want and is not as timely. Regulation is required for safety, it should not be used to curtail competition against entrenched interests
The New Rules of Developer Sales
Modern Sales Principles for Developer-First Platforms
Looks interesting, but can't you do the same sort of filtering on Facebook itself? And since you left your job for this, how will you make money from it?
Yes, I would buy if you could change background colors.
There should be a law preventing this not some random team employed by Microsoft.
Very astute on local vs global optimisation.

>copyleft itself only needs to exist in order to "undo" the effects of copyright. Public domain would be a trivial solution to the global problem if copyright didn't exist

This I must disagree with. In this world of no copyright, how do I prevent people from taking my code, making interesting changes to it, and distributing the binary without sharing what they did?

Copyleft uses copyright to make it against the rules to violate the user's "four freedoms". I don't know whether we'd be better off overall in a world without copyright or copyleft, but there would be no way to guarantee the freedom of your software's future users.

Note that it's perfectly possible to explicitly cede copyright protection by putting your work in the public domain even today. Note that copyleft is nevertheless much more popular for software than "raw" public domain.
The state is an organization of the wealthy to protect their wealth from the poor.
"To my knowledge, it was only publically proven that the Russians use these tactics, but the US?"

I've always found it more likely that if any country has been proven to be using these tactics, then Occam's razor states that they all are (if they can afford to).

Intelligence agencies may be answerable to governments in theory, but human nature (as well as game theory) show that lack of independent oversight leads to manipulation of the rules. Doesn't matter what country you come from, if you can get away with something with little risk of detection, let alone retribution, you do.

This is why laws exist, and why it's inexcusable that any sector of any government should be immune to them.
I agree, you definitely need to be able to change colors. Even better if you could overlay an image.
Measuring Web Performance: Synthetic vs Real User Measurement
Saas Runner: Easily track retention and growth for your SaaS application
>Many of the issues that we debate are not issues of fact but issues of value. There is no numerical answer to the question of whether men should be allowed to marry men, and the question of whether the government should help the weak, and the question of whether we should intervene against genocide. And so the intimidation by quantification practiced by Silver and the other data mullahs must be resisted.

This writer makes some good points, but I don't think Silver is attempting to use statistical analysis to answer these questions. Silver's point about opinion journalism is one about bad incentives-- those people are rewarded for attracting attention, not for being accurate or even thoughtful. He's attacking the George Wills of the world for saying things like "Romney will win because Americans have realized that blah blah blah" when all the available polling data indicated a landslide win for Obama.

Of course there is room for opinions and certainly an appetite for it, but the problem for the New Republic is that the authority bestowed upon "publications" is rapidly eroding. This obviously hasn't been helped by their decisions to compete with the Buzzfeeds of the world in the race to the bottom for pageviews. Now that anyone can say anything in public, the fact that the New Republic has decided to employ you no longer makes your opinion automatically worthy of consideration.
"3 PM's in row without elections whatsoever" WTF are you talking about? In Italy we voted in February 2013. This is a blatant lie.
Larry Page says "Fuck Off Poor People"
This is just a partial look of the problem, which is inherent to a republic, and goes kind of like this: If a law would be a big economic boost to 50 people, but a minor loss to 50K, chances are those 50K will put less pressure on the legislature to stop the law than the 50 people to at making sure it passes. So established players with money can make sure we get laws that help them, hurting the majority of the electorate.

Lobbying is pretty much unavoidable. For more on the concept, and on why some groups can form a lobby, while others just can't get anything effective passed, there's 'The Logic of Collective Action' from Olsen, 1965. It talks a lot about unions, but the argument is the same for groups that represent companies.
That worked out pretty well for Snowden...
I'm not going to make an assumptions about how hard it is for apple to solve the problem, but I'm sure people writing solutions for jailbroken devices have a much greater degree of flexibility when it comes to making changes to the OS.
I regret investing in MonoTouch and wish I had instead just learned native iOS dev from the getgo. You need to at least be comfortable with native iOS dev to be effective with MonoTouch anyway. I have a MonoTouch written app that I can't do anything with unless I pay for a new version of MonoTouch as it's no longer compatible with current iOS releases. The constant song and dance between releases of MonoTouch and iOS updates gets frustrating after a while.
the ISP has effectively double-charged

This is the crux. Remember when ATT started charging for receiving text messages as well as sending them?
Veure – The Game That Isn't
Just tried to post the same link (and got redirected here) and I am wondering why nobody is interested in this!?

I think this could be an interesting starting point for a prospective startup to research and for a market/startup scene overview.
Ask HN: We are looking to “adopt” Android apps
Hi HN Community!

We are currently working on a mobile analytics project focused on the Android platform.

In the spirit of the lean startup philosophy, we want to be able to run live tests of our assumptions with real users, and iterate really fast.

Given that a lot of applications that were developed are now abandoned for a lot of reasons (did not grow big enough, developers moved on to other projects), we thought this might be a good opportunity for us to "adopt" one or more of these apps for us to play with.

The applications that would be the most relevant for us are apps that are already developed and have a considerable, organically attracted, number of daily active users (over 1000). These apps are general purpose and keep the user engaged for a longer than average period of time (for instance a news reader app is better for us than a one time use BMI Calculator).

If anyone is interested in receiving a small financial compensation for a project that would otherwise be abandoned please let us know by sending an email at: kiberstranier@gmail.com

Thanks!
Fresszeit: Rock-paper-scissors in single play?
hi -- thank you for posting this! I may take you up on the offer if our final push doesn't prove successful, sounds like a great place to work.