skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Really well thought product, I can attest that this responds to the basic needs of a typical web design shop. A couple questions:

1-Does billing work internationally? I imagine you probably accept CC but is there any associated fee?

2-I see you have a blog an a team of 4, but, is there any other guarantee you can give related to your stability as a service before I start switching clients?

3-Can I bill a custom amount(more than 5 USD) every month (to account for support, etc)
What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter
Comcast and TiVo Working On Non-CableCARD Solution
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Will the website itself be released under an open license? I could see this website format being useful for a ton of open source projects.
"Enjoy unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks"

@Audiobooks, does this mean they're replacing Audible?
The lack of streaming is a bummer. I subscribe to quite a few podcasts and pick-and-choose which episodes to listen to by streaming them on-demand instead of downloading everything.
I'm surprised any large media companies are distributing any video content for free these days. Everything seems to be locked up onto proprietary video platforms, or sold piecemeal in stores like iTunes.
Microsoft went that way in Windows Phone; everyone else grudgingly felt it was more pleasant.
Economic growth does not necessarily imply destruction of the environment. The growth rate refers to the rate at which value of products and services in an economy grows. The aggregate environmental footprint may in fact shrink or grow slower than the GDP. I can think of three reasons why there could be a gap between GDP growth and environmental footprint growth:

Services. Most of the value in a modern economy lies in services whose footprint is a lot lower than manufacturing.

Software. Even in manufacturing increasing part of the value comes from non-material components like software and network services.

Recycling. Recycling and downcycling lower environmental footprint by reducing our need for raw materials.
I really hate Twitter's TFA approach and have it disabled for security reasons. Primarily, if someone gets access to your cellphone network account (Sprint, ATT, etc.) they can receive texts on your behalf. So if your Twitter password happens to be the same as your ATT password, you're out of luck. I only use two factor authentication if I can add it to my Authenticator app and save the code/QR code somewhere offline. Everything else is just too complex to be secure.
That's a great question. We're at an interesting spot where we have to decide whether we want to stick with our basic service and become a company that provides really good hosting and services for small-business websites, or if we want to take on the giant behemoth that is WordPress, while still trying to hold on the the simplicity of the concept. If we go the second route then we'll be building out a plugin system that would definitely make it possible to build something like you described.

In the mean time, our blogging system has the ability to create unpublished posts that are only visible to content editors (individuals that you invite to manage the website). It's kind of a hacky solution but it might work for you.
Aren't "apologies" fairly common? A genuine apology for the reasons people think you should apologize is much rarer, corporate communications or not.

Frankly this Google apology doesn't seem that genuine to me. What are they actually apologizing for:

> We know you've been calling for this change for a while.

should've done what people wanted, okay ...

> We know that our names policy has been unclear, and this has led to some unnecessarily difficult experiences for some of our users

No, their names policy was pretty clear actually. Legal names only.

> unnecessarily difficult experiences for some of our users

Is there a way to understate this any more? Any way we can make it vaguer too?

Some real bullshit pr speak right there.

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They apologize for not listening and "being unclear" about their names policy. Seems pretty worthless and insincere to me. Though i do still applaud their decision to not continue a horrible policy, like i would applaud a company deciding to revise hiring policy to be less discriminatory: would have been nice from the start, before a lot of damage was already done.
Well it's a trend, and these don't always have rules, other than people follow them.

Here are a few theories: is it's a refinement of the icon concept, taking it to a higher level of abstraction.

Possibly the reduced visual noise has a greater aesthetic appeal.

Lastly I think the simplification makes it easier to see at a glance what the icon represents.
I was completely shocked when I read this yesterday morning while drinking my morning coffee. The best outcome that could arise from the author disclosing his password is him receiving hundreds of texts that day. I understand the point he is making, but still a very risky move.
I like these more because they aren't square. Thanks
As a satisfied JRuby user for over 3 years in production environments, I can say this has translated into real life for me, as far as the variants I've used (Ruby 2.1, JRuby / Torquebox, Torqbox, Puma, Trinidad / Rails, Sinatra, Cuba, Straight Rack)
I happily paid $2.99 for my favorite Podcast app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snoggdoggl...

Edit: Missed a decimal there...
This idea is dumb on a lot of levels.

Asphalt is a really great road surface. It's hard, cheap, and durable. Paint is great for road markings. You can see it during the day and it consumes no electricity. Let's take a look at "Solar Roadways".

Glass as a road surface. Not just glass, but glass that must be optically clear in order for the cells to work. The two most important things for a road surface, traction and durability, just went straight out the window.

LEDs as road markings. Sorry, but this is one of the dumbest things I have ever read. There's no way you could see LEDs under thick glass at the angles you would be looking at them while driving in broad daylight. Not to mention, the cost to power these LEDs on a major highway would be enormous.

Their site includes a video of them driving a light tractor on a short stretch of tiles, in order to prove durability. I'm sure the tiles would hold up just as well with a year's worth of fully loaded tractor-trailers unevenly weighting and unweighting each tile as they travel across this multi-trillion-dollar slippy slidey glass road.

How exactly do they propose to transport the feeble amount of electricity generated which isn't used by the LEDs that no one can see?

There's many other things wrong with this. I'm pretty distressed to see this on the top of Hacker News, and even more distressed to see that they've raised over 1M in funding.
Thanks for pointing that out. I will go back and add that in.
A) Repeat after me. There is no front running in these scenarios. Front running happens between a client and his intermediary that has a fiduciary duty to him. Other market participants do not have that duty.

B) Yes, market making HFT are routinely fighting against other HFT that are designed to predict their behavior and make money from them.

The case for allowing it is simple. How do you disallow it without having even worse outcomes. There is quite a bit of evidence that suggests that for the average market participant HFT market makers are a positive not a negative.
I would pay something similar just to browse selected sites all month long without encountering a hundred different pay walls.

for a voracious reader like myself this might be a great money saver depending on what is excluded. However it is quite possible to have more than you read for free just by surfing Amazon for all the free ebooks
Why Women in Tech Can and Should Write a Better Resume
Growth and more growth is only needed, because of our interest based money system.

Any gardener can tell you, that unlimited (and exponential) growth is not possible. But economists still believe in it.

Some (very soon) day, all the resources of this planet will be wasted -- and humanity will have destroyed itself -- just because of economic theories and to make billionaires from millionaires.
Answering my own question a bit, it appears to be "no" (at least short term) -- there's a new Kindle Books with Narration in Kindle Unlimited category with only a couple thousand titles http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=9630682011
Tuning 1.7 Terabyte Firebird SQL database
As jqueryin has said, the feature list is really good on what I can do. I don't even have to check on docs for my purpose.
He got that completely wrong. Enterprise apps won't go thru the regular Apple AppStore. They will be provisioned directly onto iOS devices via https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/

It's conceivable that, as part of the deal, Apple allows IBM to build their own 'IBM iOS Appstore' to provision these apps to all iOS devices sold by IBM via special provisioning certificates.
Thanks for the questions.

1-Yes we're using Stripe and a good chunk of our current customer base is international.

2-This is a tough one for a start-up, and it's certainly a question we've gotten before. If we were to promise to open source the software if we ever shut down the service would that be sufficient? It's not a promise we have made yet, but I think it's something we could commit to.

3-Great idea! No, but this is something we should build out. I'm adding it to our dev backlog.
Do you guys think it would be too cheesy/unoriginal to "steal" this Q&A format for other products? I have a free software library to publish pretty soon, and I absolutely love your way of explaining how it all works in a cool, conversational style.
Awesome. This is a nail in the coffin for Oyster or whatever that other app was. You can't beat Amazon's selection or prices, and this just makes the Netflix comparison even better. Oof. Sucks for competition, good for my Kindle and my wallet.
I've found myself re-blogging/sharing some of PH's tweets simply because they are funny. Even female friends (not the typical demographic for this site IMO) really enjoy them as well. This marketing strategy is smart and does help remove the stigma surround the industry.
You aren't paying a tax to HFTs. You are receiving a substantial discount to trade due to them being there. Fees are lower than they've ever been, spreads are tighter and technology is cheaper. You are in fact reaping the "peace" dividend of the HFT wars.
Interesting. I wonder what this implies for authors. Amazon might take a cut currently, but the lion's share ends up with the author -- a royalty based scheme significantly changes the playing field, and I worry that it could be for the worse (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25217353).

EDIT -- and what it implies for publishers.
Then what standards these apps will be held to is in question.
Amazon is testing “Kindle Unlimited,” an ebook subscription service
Seems like you can't change the calendar icon. The calendar ICNS is used for the first time after cache reset, but once calendar opens, it uses its own embedded empty calendar icon and fills in the date. Any way for liteicon to change that blank calendar? I noticed you provided the blank calendar icns. I suppose I could open up Calendar and replace it to try it out.
So they must be testing various parts of the Amazon Prime value proposition as piecework services. Lets see 'Unlimited {video | kindle | music}' for 9.95 each or get all three for $24.95. Seems Kindle is a safer way to start since neither Spotify or Netflix is going to respond competitively to book reader services.
https://www.ruby-lang.org has used Noto for a while and it looks great.
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The preview looks fuzzy, because they look like they have a slightly lighter outline, which is some way to do anti-aliasing. The PNGs in the download archive don't have these outlines.
Some of it is with the actual "left: 20px" or whatever, using the position rule.
Another way to put this is that we've already built time machines.
(Block)Busters: watch trailers and get reminded when they are out
you may give longaccess.com a try for such usage
Not really. Your question is reasonable, but the real point here is that Comcast is not remotely competitive with Google Fiber. If Google Fiber were a loss leader or otherwise levitated by Google, then this would be a disingenuous comparison. But we know that Fiber is not operated at a loss [http://gigaom.com/2012/07/26/the-economics-of-google-fiber-a...].

So it may be the most profitable part of Google's business, or it may earn as little as $0 profit, which is roughly what you'd expect in a perfectly competitive commodity market. In any case, we can clearly see that Comcast is not serving consumers as well as possible.
Cringley doesn't seem to assign any value Apple gains, ever. As far back as I can remember he's always been down (and wrong) about Apple.
MindRDR – Google glass with neurofeedback
Seems like you could use a similar process for adwords type campaigns.
As others have said, really smart way of explaining features. But, I get the following console error on the demo:

Can't find variable: performance
I think 'flat design' is really just an example of minimalist design (which has been around for ages) applied to graphical elements. With many things, especially apps/websites, minimalist design often ends up being a good experience for users because it's not distracting, but that's not to say that you can't have great UX without a minimalist design.

For me, I like flat design (to an extent) because it gives the product a more uniform look and feel, but sometimes it can be overdone and I find myself wishing there were an illusion of depth to guide me.
I don't know... by partnering with IBM, they deflect a little of the weight from those customers to big blue. Apple is still a consumer focused company. Apple tried (and failed) to move Mac OS and Macs into the enterprise. I doubt they'll let iOS become beholden to it.

One example of this is how long the iPad 2 was available. That was the first form factor that was adopted by enterprise for particular vertical applications (kiosks, custom apps, etc). Even though Apple kept coming out with new models, they still kept selling the old version, and made the new iOS versions as compatible with the iPad 2 as much as possible. But it didn't limit what they did with their new models. I see this going in much the same way, but with IBM acting as an intermediary between enterprise customers and the consumer-focused Apple.
Once you get past the big name books where Amazon is probably subsidizing the costs, a lot of the content is Amazon-published. I wonder what that compensation looks like.
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I've been thinking the same thing, i guess he left belgian politics on the right time for the EU.

(He was being investigated after he went in the EU)
I've always hated that Sequel Pro logo, old one was much better.
That is just a theory. What do we have in practice:

- Some years ago, you could (yourself) exchange the battery of your mobile phone -- today, many mobile phones will be thrown away, when the battery is finished or any other part does not work any more. Todays "highest tech" industries are environmental nightmares. And now they even build tablet PCs that way, that should replace normal computers (see MS Surface).

- A lot more products are just build for fast consumption and recycling is still not in focus of most manufacturers. Instead, the waste from Europe is exported to Africa.

What I say: I am sure, that it would be possible, but with our todays ideology of growth for the sake of more and more profits and less and less regulation, that is just not "compatible".
Gradients and juicy-fruit graphics are like candy -- they provide an instant and strong positive feeling, but they don't age well. If you had to eat nothing but candy, you'd hate the sugar-coated morass your mouth had become. In general, a flat icon tends to age better and reduce "eye exhaustion" (not a physiological thing, but a psychological one). Note that this applies mostly just to icons; the entire UI is not so tightly bound by these rules.

However, design is also trend-oriented, and flat is a rising trend.
Amazing project! Everything seems really well put together. I really like the humor and the Q&A format. Do you mind if I borrow it for v2 of a project I'm releasing soon?

Also, there is not a single negative comment here. That's a HN record. Congratulations!
Ah; your browser doesn't support the performance API. (To measure how long it takes.) I'll fix that.
Although they are non-prescriptive, the Unicode Osmanya table:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10480.pdf

already contains reference glyphs. If you want to preserve scripts, preserve Unicode tables instead of making fonts.
This was a great article actually. Most game devs are men, so we don't understand this point of view so well. I may be inspired to write a "girl" game with such insights. Thank you for sharing it :)
Suddenly the disgruntled publishers makes sense.
OK, the key newsy takeaway:

> But a glaring flaw in Twitter’s account-security system lets anyone who obtains your password learn whatever mobile-phone number you’ve associated with your Twitter account if you turned on a simple but highly effective security measure

So...I don't know what the "flaw" is...but it doesn't seem to me that the OP learned the biggest lesson of all about security: that pretty much everything is a tradeoff.

Granted, I'm having a hard time thinking why Twitter would feel the need to expose the phone-number at all to a user outside of his/her own account page, so I'm guessing that is some unintended bug. However, consider the situation: The OP gives away his password...Two-factor authentication never, ever meant "hey, it's just as strong as if you give away one of the factors"...I've never designed a security system before, but I'm guessing things would become very convoluted if security designers had to treat giving away your password -- as a public announcement and media figure -- as anything but an edge case. The inconvenience of 2-factor-authentication is meant to offset the problem of total compromise given the relatively frequent chance of getting phished. Twitter's flaw, as described, is likely not a main attack vector for phishers who are sending out thousands and thousands of emails and hoping to get turnkey access to someone's account...even if Twitter gives away the phone-number through some sort of exerted effort...that's unlikely to be the exerted effort used by mass phishers. It's a totally different security game when you're the target of thousands rather than one target among thousands.

(that said, Twitter should fix the flaw, unless there's some other dependency on having the phone number be accessible)
Most of the major news outlet in the US (NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, FOX) offer many of their programs for free. It's nice to get morning news when I wake up or drive to/from work.
You mean $2,99. Kinda scared me for a second there.
I hope you missed a decimal place there.
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Some feedback. I'm a heavy Downcast user.

1) Didn't import all of my subscriptions. Specifically The Patch from Roosterteeth. Considering the opml file contains the URL, I don't see why this happened.

2) At least one or two podcasts I deleted a long time ago got imported. I haven't examined the opml file but Downcast doesn't show them anymore. So either Downcast is doing something wrong or the import is.

3) I read the Skeptics FAQ. That's really helpful.

4) Despite the FAQ I still don't see why the account is needed. I very nearly didn't create an account. If not for knowing who Marco is I never would have. I feel very strongly about this with apps. Unless there is a clear and compelling reason to need to signup for a service then I don't.

The design is nice. But there's nothing compellingly different about this app compared to Downcast. It also has voice speed. It has lots of fiddly bits if you want to tinker with individual settings. Pay a couple dollars and get Downcast and you don't need an account.
Also maybe this was a %20 time thing and the programmer who started it just wanted to do those languages (probably because they couldn't be found elsewhere).
Unclear what subset of all Kindle books would be included.

http://gigaom.com/2014/07/16/amazon-is-testing-kindle-unlimi...

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No big-5 publisher appears to be participating yet, based on my preliminary glance through the test pages. Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins have both made their ebooks available to Scribd and Oyster, but I haven’t yet seen books from those publishers on the Kindle Unlimited page, though I’m not done poking through all 600,000+ titles yet.

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The article mentions using Google Authenticator but I'd recommend Duo (Duo Mobile on Android) as it lets you reorganize your accounts, assign icons to various accounts, and only shows the token you care about via expanding with a much larger font. Once I passed around 6 two-factor accounts Google Authenticator became too hard to use.
For me the background is grey on that spot and the bg image is only behind the main hero at the top so I definitely think it's a browser issue. Looks great here.
A creature too awesome to have had any right to exist.

I was like "Didn't I have to fight that thing in Shadow of the Colossus?"
It was OysterBooks: https://www.oysterbooks.com/

It does suck -- in the spirit of competition, I hope they keep on going!
A year or so ago I would have agreed to you, but I'm on the fence now. Some criticism or requests are not necessarily wrong but take the product in a direction you don't want it to go.

Keep in mind that this is not the same thing as ignoring or disdaining criticism, it's just deciding to put it to use selectively.

No product can be, neither should it be, everything for everyone. Quite a few people thing google docs is fine, but some think it's lacking in features. They are both correct, in their own way.

Whether you choose to cater to everyone, which is a fool's errand in my opinion, is ultimately a business decision. If you think the product as you envision it will have buyers, then why not?

So the dichotomy of correct / incorrect is not as clear as you say.
That is partly because, many information was leaked by people that where stirred up by the process.
Most of these books are available through your local library for free.