skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First they made music a subscription service. And because I like music but I'm a poor struggling author, I didn't listen to those greedy musicians who said this was unfair. Screw you musicians. This Fantasy novel isn't going to get finished unless I can listen to my power-ballad spotify playlist.

Then they made video a subscription service. And because I didn't make videos (video being a lesser form of entertainment), I didn't complain. In fact it's great. I get NetFlix for $6.00 a month.

And then they devalued the perceived cost of software with the App Store. $0.99 for a game that took tens of thousands of hours of work to complete. Those greedy lazy programmers.

And finally, they came for the books. And I spent nearly a full month writing this book. And oh, if it doesn't make me furious that Amazon has the gall, and the temerity to allow people to read it for a fixed monthly subscription.

- Signed, a.n. author.
> bullies don't leave you alone because you're awesome, they leave you alone because their bullying doesn't work on you (because you're resilient to personal attacks, or you pretend to not care until they exhaust the possibilities and leave you alone etc.) or backfires on them somehow.

I can tell from experience that this is not how it works. Real bullies never leave you alone until you stand up and fight back. It's the amount of energy it takes for them to bully, not the amount of damage they do.

They don't care how resilient you are or whether you care about the bullying or not, when their bullying doesn't have any bad consequences or the potential for bad consequences. Only if you make it hard for bullies to bully it stops.
I bet Amazon, Apple, and B&N's Nook have data on how much people read.

In fact, I know that Amazon tracks how much people read. They know how many copies are sold, what people bookmark, what page they are on, etc...

I bet they have analytics somewhere that could tell you all kinds of amazing things about each book. That would be incredibly useful to an author that cared to dig into how people interact with their work.
Rockets versus guided missiles?

This was sort of sad/pathetic from yesterday, ABC News says that the devastation caused by an Israeli guided missile is from a Hamas rocket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvKaeeFH03I
How to Get Engineers to Sort-of Respect You
Nope, you need to keep the game's context in mind. The task is to get the pizza from point A to point B as fast as possible. Thus Gemma isn't simply fleeing, she's ignoring the bullies and focusing on doing what she wants to do. Depression comes from letting the bullies control her and happiness comes from refusing to do so. This very concept is in fact expressly embodied in the game with a little sequence where letting them get to her makes her fall to the ground, and she has to force herself to get back up and keep going.
Swedish court upholds arrest warrant for Julian Assange
It’s a really nice app and I bought it instantly. The App Sore’s podcasting landscape is filling out nicely, with a diverse selection of high-quality apps for many different tastes. I wish there were as good a selection of apps for many other purposes.

There are Instacast, Downcast and Pocket Casts with tons of features, though all with slightly different approaches to UI and graphic design. A nice selection for anyone who wants every feature and everyone who has a very particular and personal way of listening and organising podcasts that doesn’t fit with the way simpler apps organise the podcasts. For me their design (both UI and graphic design which in many cases is just awful) is a bit too noisy and loud and while they do have customisability the developers don’t seem to have put as much effort into making the experience map well to typical listening scenarios right out of the box, making you do all the work. For me personally they are a bit to complex and confusing, but for people who need the features they are great.

On the other end of the scale is Castro with its simplicity (and excellent graphic design) that makes it very streamlined to use – if your approach to listening to podcasts fits with what they designers had in mind. For me it just fits perfectly. (I really need nothing besides a list of podcasts and a list of unplayed episodes. That’s perfect for me.) Plus, background downloads work very well, even if they do consume a bit more battery. I can understand going with a server component, but it wouldn’t have been an absolute necessity.

Overcast fits somewhere between the Instacast-Castro complexity spectrum (with some cool extra features no one else has), filling that gap.

Sadly, Marco Arment doesn’t have the graphic design prowess of the people who made Castro, and since my demands are very simple I will stick with Castro for the time being. But I’m always up to switching it up and I can imagine it being a great app for many people.

(Those boxes I put those apps into aren’t hermetically sealed. In some respects Overcast actually is simpler than Castro in very thoughtful way, for example. But in general those categories work well for me.)
I do not understand this trend of 'flat design'. It looks horrible. It started with Apple and the other copied it. Now microsoft has it, google started implementing it, samsung as well. It looks horrible.
This web site title is misleading: "Israel vs Gaza". It makes people think that each side is committed to kill as many people as they can. This is factually untrue. Israel has enough weaponry (even without using its nukes) to kill every single Gazan, so if their goal was to kill as many Gazan as possible, they'd be doing a terrible job. The goal of Israel is to kill terrorists hidden in the population that they use as human shield, Hamas even admits so themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs
Great idea, can use it. Would be helpful to have the text shown in a textarea or some div from where I can select & copy all with keyboard without having to use mouse & exclude the header as of now.
I've been thinking of the same. Trying to get my young daughter involved in the process seems the challenging part; weighed against the value of spending time with her on other projects unrelated to gaming.

I want to change the industry, and make a dent in the misogyny and cynicism, but I think the male bias shown here of creating a platformer with a girl hero (antihero?) is speculative. Boys play platformers. My daughter is fine with puzzle games. And dragons. Really cute dragons.

For what it's worth, the game design I worked on put the girl hero as the object of affection of boy enemies and monster boss characters, team up with other girls the thwart the advances of male characters. Misandristic, basically. Which doesn't seem like the best way to make a dent!
Do you see someone other than publishers providing risk capital for authors to live while writing?
Another thing is that Israel has Iron Dome which has prevented deaths quite effectively so I think that needs to be accounted for when analyzing the data since it makes one side appear more aggressive from simple death counts.
Did they change the artist's picture or something? The image I see in the article shows 4 limbs, all of them wings.
Deseret wasn't a language, it was simply a script to go along with a reformed version of English with simplified spelling.
> Most game devs are men, so we don't understand this point of view so well.

I don't know about that. The stuff described in the article don't seem to be things unique to the female gender. In fact, I'm sure many of us here struggled with the same issue Kari went through when we were young boys.
I've always wondered why they did the padding, negative margin, then padding system. Nice simple explanation. This is also a good resource if you want your own simple grid system without using bootstrap.
actually GC's aren't that bad. considerate apps on android will not hitch from the GC unless the device is quite old

my bigger problem is debugging these things. whenever i am forced into this environment i usually end up debugging someone elses memory problem and having a really hard time of solving it because of the sloppy practice GC encourages of not thinking about memory, so you end up with some weird distant or circular reference to an object preventing it from being deleted when you know better - that the problem is the coding style which allows that reference.

new and delete force you to think a tiny bit, just enough to not shoot yourself in the foot like that.

i'm always extra bitter because i have a track record of writing software where the only problematic leaks are from gc or ref counted stuff in opaque libraries... if i never had to touch this stuff there are 3 or 4 apps that i wrote which would have had zero leaks.
Wow, how incredibly simplistic and wrong-headed. You're discounting politics, which has been an all-male or male-dominated arena for millennia and which thrives on emotional manipulation.

The idea that women are mostly feelers and men are mostly doers writes off both men and women as useless stereotypes.
Didn't they just invent a new synonym for "second"?

i.e. Take the second left. Do you want to go out on the second weekend from now?
Where's the breakdown of Palestinians who volunteered to be human shields against buildings clearly marked for destruction?
BBC Radio 4:

In Our Time - Discussion of ideas

Frontier - Discussion of science topics

Farming Today - The name gives it away

Great Lives - Famous people nominate people from history as a great life

Last Word - Weekly obituaries of famous people

Gardeners Question Time - I like gardening.

Others:

Iron Radio - Powerlifting/bodybuilding info

Art Of Manliness - Being Manly info

Bulletproof Executive - Interesting items about how to be "bulletproof". Some are good, some sound like absolute horse shit.
Isn't the biggest player Epic Systems? At least for the expensive, profitable stuff?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems
I think the problem is not private-by-default, but the repetition of "pub". We tried public-by-default and it led to a situation where it was very hard to make a stable API for your modules (which we need to avoid breakage of existing code). It could be solved with a "pub { ... }" block (which I'm pretty sure you could write today with a macro if you wanted to). Personally, I prefer repetition of "pub", as it forces me to think about what API I want to present to consumers of my library, but I can see how it can be annoying, especially if your modules are purely for internal use and you aren't concerned about API stability as much.

Regarding safety annotations, there is a WIP effort to eliminate 80%-90% of the lifetime annotations used in practice. There are also a couple of proposals to change the syntax of lifetime annotations to be less noisy.
Udacity a full course on how to develop Android apps for free
In regard to being a father of daughters, I can share one thought, as a parent of one (now grown) daughter. Create a time or place where each daughter feels totally safe in sharing with you whatever is on their mind. This requires a serious dedication to honing the skills of listening. I find that total listening is no small feat.
Jibo Wants to Be the World’s First Family Robot
> but they don't age well...In general, a flat icon tends to age better and reduce "eye exhaustion"

Two thoughts on that:

1) Is that just an opinion? (If so, there's obviously nothing wrong with that.) Or is there some objective evidence?

2) How well do icons need to age? Realistically, how many icons in the wild will go 5+ years without a design refresh?
On the other hand, you will almost always want access to an enormous music library (few $ per month), but might not always need a new book. With used paperbacks only a few bucks each, you can collect (or cycle through) a lot of books for $120/year.
Having a profitability above zero doesn't mean much. Nobody is going to invest billions a year in a telecom network to not make any money on it. The fact that Google can do it in a handful of markets selected for their willingness to grant massive regulatory concessions,[1] doesn't meant that they could deliver that service at that price if they had to operate at the scale Comcast does, with the regulatory constraints Comcast is subject to, and with the need to please shareholders without leaning on cloud services synergy.

[1] This issue is important but underappreciated here on HN. Uptake rate is a key driver for the cost/benefit analysis of investing in telecom infrastructure. The cost of building out to a neighborhood dominates the cost term. So how many people in each neighborhood sign up has a huge impact on your per user cost. Google only builds out to fiberhoods with demonstrated interest. In most cities, Comcast is legally prevented from doing this.
Music used to be home decoration too. Walls filled with vinyl, CD and tape racks prominently displayed.
Ubuntu LTS is a joke, really. Any major issue found in any core package is usually forwarded "upstream" (which is Debian).

Very few people in Ubuntu have, apparently, the knowledge to debug issues which go beyond simple repackaging of an updated copy. Even issues related strictly to Ubuntu (such as mount dependencies with upstart with complicated setups with multipath) do not get fixed if the issue is not resolved in newer releases and/or got already debugged in Debian.

This is not what "support" in "long term support" is. Predictable release cycle in these terms is not worth much.

For desktop systems it might be different, but then again in our lab (~50 users) most of our Ubuntu's users shifted away to Mint over the course of 3 years. Only one is still using Ubuntu.

But of course I'm biased, I'm a Debian developer myself.
People are mostly focusing on the political effects of splitting CA, but I think this particular set of boundaries is not a good one from a practical perspective, even if CA were somehow to be split. They look drawn almost solely on the basis of voting patterns. On the basis of commute patterns, economic ties, etc., they make little sense. For example, the proposal splits the LA metro area between two states, which I don't think will improve things for LA residents. For one thing, Metrolink would become an interstate commuter-rail system, which will just add another layer of bureaucracy in the way of getting anything done. And as a former resident of the Inland Empire, I don't see why it should be attached to San Diego when it is clearly part of the LA metro area; putting a state line right through the middle of the 10/210 corridor is silly.
Israel buys Twitter advertisements to promote Gaza escalation
Agreed completely with your first paragraph. Your second point is key, and that's where I don't have enough information to really know how this plays out in the long run.

What we can reasonably predict, regardless of compensation structure, is that Amazon will gain more and more buyer power over the book market, especially vis-a-vis a fragmented ecosystem of thousands of self-published writers. This gives the company theoretical power to drive royalties lower. Whether Amazon exercises that power, and to what extent, depends on the royalty model. Whatever the model, I still think this incentivizes authors to produce a higher volume of shorter works, as opposed to a lower volume of longer works. Piketty, in this model, would be better served breaking Capital in the 21st Century into two or three smaller volumes. As a side benefit, his wider net would allow him to increase the statistical likelihood that he appears in any given reader's 3-4 choices a month. (Holding aside the ability of the reader to read more per month if books get shorter.)

And that may actually be a better thing for readers and writers. More digestible, approachable, less intimidating books might actually be consumed and read more. Sort of like breaking a bigger meal into several courses. I can almost guarantee you that the majority of people who bought Piketty's book have only skimmed a few parts here and there. Which is suboptimal from the perspective of Piketty's mission, which is to transmit the knowledge contained in his book. So shortening or serializing the form might help get the book actually read more often.
OK, I see that the flaw was that the phone number was revealed to a user when, after installing the Twitter for iPhone app, wanted to specify that the code be sent via text to a phone number...And the Twitter app reminds the user -- who again, has successfully entered the password -- what number the message goes to.

So, if you're thinking, what kind of dumbass would need to be reminded what phone the code was going to?...well, the OP for starters. In fact, he recommends readers to get Google Voice numbers (ooh, another attack vector/dependency, but let's ignore that for now)...so, if you're such a user, who has a phone and some burner numbers, and you tell the Twitter app to send a reminder to your phone number...and nothing comes...that's going to seem like a point of failure.

And IMO, that situation is going to be much more likely than the case of a user telling the world his password and username. Also, it seems more likely than phishers doing something more damaging than getting phone numbers after manually going through the phone app for each password stolen...My impression is that such phishers do not typically rely on manual methods, especially if by doing so, they don't get access to the target account...seems like a low return on investment of effort.
If you thought Bioshock or infinite were simply indictments on Ayn Rand or American Exceptionalism, then you must've also thought Grapes of Wrath was just about a family's migration from the dustbowl to California.

Bioshock frames its story with the ideas of Ayn Rand, but is actually a story about objective goodness, family and love.

Infinite is a story about stories and about the cyclical nature of everything.
Which one is your favorite? Googling turned up several.
The game aside ...as a father of two girls, 8 and 6 this scares this shit out of me. My 8 year old is just moving out of the fantasy/play world and hearing what is ahead for her is not comforting. I am still happy I read this, as it gives me a primer on what to expect, and some ideas on how to handle it.

The most striking take-away from this is how the game provided a platform for a Dad to learn more about his daughter. Simply knowing what is causing stress/sadness in your child's life is important, and many times we as parents are too involved with our lives and the practical running of the household to stop and ask how are kids are "feeling" and what scares them or gives them worry.

Didn't expect to get parenting advice from HN today (or ever considering how many 20 something hackers hang here), but happy I did.
The number 1 most valuable publicly traded company in the world is teaming up with number 24 (and number 4 in tech). Corporate decision makers will be hearing/talking about this for months.
You could start by posting his full name here.
That was my first thought when I saw this. I don't understand what data sample would have all the US tech schools on it but omit U of W.
Issues can't be opened on that project. Is this by choice or simply an oversight?
Rendering icons as SVGs is pretty horrible in terms of performance on mobile devices.
I'm the author of this blog post. If you want to talk more or ask specific questions on problems you have or how to do certain things with the Less or grid, post it here or on the disqus comments on the article and I'll answer every question I get.
As I understand it, Ada can't ensure that. The safe subset of Ada doesn't have allocation with multiple references. SPARK is mostly designed for things like avionics controllers, which tend not to allocate.
you've not really lived until that teenager is (one of) yours, and you're in the passenger seat, mentoring.
I'd like to learn some more about this position. Can I email you?
And oh, if it doesn't make me furious that my local library has the gall, and the temerity to allow people to read it for free.
And in all likelihood the software that powers your smartphone (to say nothing of heavy industry, biotech, higher education... ). If you wanted to mention something that sounds "dumb" you could have at least gone with agriculture and hydrocarbons or something more accurate.

I'd say this post is deliberately offensive. More importantly for HN it is simply inaccurate.
Simon,

We've been talking to both existing customer's and prospective SEO agencies around California. Many are asking for exactly what you're describing: 'to combine this with some sort of relative score of competitiveness of the current SERP for each keyword'.

I'll reach out to you personally!
- Mike
Ask HN: List of Spam Numbers
I'm developing an android app to detect spam phone numbers, does anyone know of a curated or crowd-sourced list of spam phone numbers that are available to the public?

(I cannot stand receiving spam calls)

Thanks
I'd like to but they don't really have the right people to contact on their site. I also figured I should break off contact in the case that I speak with a lawyer. From what I've learned in the past, the next person to contact them should be a lawyer.
Obama Administration Urges Immediate Action on 'Inversions'
It's a symbolism thing.

It gives Apple more credibility and a better ability to sell products into enterprise. Value increase right there. And their employees now have to take enterprise requests (customization, security) seriously, since IBM is a stakeholder).

It gives IBM an excuse to hire/fire people to meet the quality standards of Apple. They get to shift their culture and orientation with real business cause. The employees will look up to Apple now that Ginny's endorsed the friendship.

It's not just a deal. It's a symbolic partnership as well.
I'm disappointed to see so many people objecting to a free trade agreement that would benefit both the US and EU tremendously. When people oppose such things, I always ask whether they think the US would be better off as a patchwork of 50 countries, each with their own tariffs etc., or if they think the EU was better when you needed to go through passport control every time you crossed a border and products needed to go through separate sets of approvals in every country before they could be sold.

Free trade does a lot more for people than national sovereignty. I rather doubt anyone here thinks we'd be better off with 180 national networks instead of a global internet, but that's what most of you are arguing for where physical goods are concerned. If it were up to me I'd like to see unrestricted movement across borders of goods, capital and people.
The Other Side of Black Holes?
Lots of people in this thread are talking about this being scary for authors. When I was a kid, I got to read a ton of books any time I wanted. I got them at this place called a "library" where they let people come in and take books home with them to read for free.

People have always had the option to read books without buying them. In those days, going to the library was effectively the same effort as going to a book store. In fact, it was more convenient for my family. We happened to live a few blocks from the library and didn't need to drive across town to the mall to get books in dingy little B. Dalton bookstore.

I will grant that the economics in the eBook situation are dramatically different than with physical books, but I really wonder how different they really are. Local libraries already lend ebooks as well. I'm not sure why more people don't take advantage of that.
Thank you! Added it to the list. :)