skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember having McDonalds.com in a shopping cart, ready to buy it. It was 1993 and I wasn't sure if it was worth $35 per year - I expected I would get sued.

I chickened out, and didn't buy any dot com domain names, and went back to my business at the time that had nothing to do with tech. I also chickened out from buying any other domain name until 1999.

So one of my life regrets is that I didn't buy a whole lot of domain names in 1993 when I first looked at them. A few millions in income missed.....
I don't see anything.
(Chrom 36.0.1985.125, Linux)
thanks, I really needed this. I had similar feelings about computer hardware for years.
Requires Adobe Flash Player.
Six seconds of exercise 'can transform health'
Fantastic video by Vertiasium on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y

(side note: that video is about a sphere, but the current standard kilogram and its copies are actually shaped like little bells)
They analyze the data on a per app basis, which may not be the best way to do it. Let's take the Facebook developers on Android. The Android Facebook app has been downloaded over 500 million times. Facebook's Android Slingshot app has been downloaded less than half a million times. With the way Visionmobile/Techcrunch break down the data, on an average per app basis, the existence of the Slingshot app drags the achievements of the flagship Facebook app way down - it halves it, basically. This doesn't really bear any relation to how much success Facebook has had though.

HN often contemplates the power law, so it's natural a developer might have one app which is very successful (Rovio released 51 apps before releasing Angry Birds), then another app which is half as successful, then a third app half as successful as the second app, and so forth. This analysis doesn't think in those terms though, they are more of the idea that every app released by a company will be more or less as successful as the other ones it releases.

Also the report sets the bar fairly high. It calls people who make $9000 per app per month "strugglers". I'd be happy with one app making $9000 a month, and wouldn't be struggling making the resulting six-figure salary. Even if I had two or three apps making $9000 a month each I'd be considered a struggler. This isn't really struggling. Maybe for a firm with venture capital that was expected to grow quickly it would be considered a failure, but not for a bootstrapped developer, or partnership of developers.
Someone w/ legal chops enlighten me: Is it possible to reverse all past decisions in one fell swoop? I thought each defendant had to appeal individually.
It's notable that in the same situation perl will do basically the same thing as python ... unless it detects a dependency (i.e. same variable referenced on both sides), in which case it constructs a temporary list, fills that from the RHS, then evaluates the LHS to get a list of lvalues, then assigns (roughly, I've not been in that part of the VM code for a bit).

i.e. from perl's POV, python's behaviour is an optimisation, which if over-applied introduces a bug ... but, y'know, DWIM vs. regularity etc., I'm just surprised that python's behaviour is sloppier than perl's here :)
I remember playing this like 10 years ago. Nice game.
Does the current Windows version work using Wine?
My wife and I caught the show there a few years ago. The audience was mostly Japanese businessmen.
So I have to learn languages and compilers I don't know just to configure a tool I wish to use?
4 day visit with wife in 2010. Paris for me :

Groups of women with clipboards surrounding you trying to pick pocket when you hold the clipboard.

The horrible wedding ring women and the blokes that are always nearby.

The wrist bracelet creeps. Don't let them grab your wrist, they won't let go unless you pay (saw this happen).

Tricked by "helpful" man who gave us fake tickets in exchange for real money. I know. Naive.

These sets of cunts really pissed me off. I was glad to get back to to UK I felt safer, I didn't get the impression the police in Paris were tackling the issue.

Otherwise very nice and I should go again a bit wiser (just said that for a balanced post).
I built apps for android, iOS, windows incarnations, and even bb10. In aggregate maybe 25-30 branded apps on the iOS store could make 10k per month. The rest were garbage.

The most I ever made was 1m over a year on 7 BREW apps we made. That's right, those old dead handsets had only 20-30 apps in their store and we owned about 20% of the market.

What made that possible is that the ecosystem was so bad and it was so hard and expensive to get apps reviewed and built for multiple handsets, you could make money as long as you just got on the device.

The relative ease of launching has made a plethora of nice but unprofitable apps on the other ecosystems... And it points to what happens in any work economy when the barrier to entry becomes hobbiest-level easy. Happened to photography, writing/publishing, and others. There are too many people relatively skilled enough to do an average job and give it away for free for anyone but the best marketed and connected to make money.
I didn't realise that, thanks! Sounds like it might be a good idea to collect such cases and build substitution rules for font-config.
I also think we underestimate just how many apps are being created with the intention or desire of generating revenue that fail to do so.

It's a fairly arbitrary calculation anyways, the point is the expected value is on the same order of magnitude as that of a stable company man. The big question is what implications this new "career salary distribution" will have as it becomes more popular.
You were afraid to do it. The sale of the domain later for a large amount of money resolved that fear inside you, only leaving the desire to have bought it. This is regret defined. While it serves a purpose in our lives in teaching a lesson, it makes very little logical sense to wish for a future scenario where you are less afraid, or more intent without considering the reasons why you were to begin with.

To avoid regret, realize and accept you are going to make mistakes. To avoid regret, face your fears when they are presented to you. The choice to do what scares you the most is the single most important ability you have in controlling your fate in this universe.
well the center of Paris is pretty much like that, a big tourist attraction. Unfortunatly,for tourists, a lot of great places are not in the center of Paris. Paris has great parks,especially in the south east where there is a crazy place called "Parc Floral". It's unfortunate that it is not well known to tourists.

A few good places :

- le Parc Floral (in Vincennes , South East,you can spend the day there you wont regret it).

- le Parc de la Vilette

- see Paris from the sky with "les ballons de Paris"

- the garden of Versailles (dont bother visit the castle itself,it's crap,on the other hand the garden is HUGE )

- go to the Latin neighbourhood ,have a dinner there , then walk down the "quais" , a lot of people their partying. In my opinion if you want to meet new people you should go their.

There are thousands of stuffs to do in Paris in Summer,and a lot of them are free.Also each first Sunday of each month, museums are free,so you cant visit the Louvres or the Pompidou center for free,some other museums are free at night,...
Same experience here in Paris - everyone was super nice. We'd occasionally talk to Americans who said everyone was rude to them, and we couldn't figure out why.

We found London to be quite nice, too, fwiw. (Both the people and the city.)
I specifically liked the comments between levels, it was obvious what he did there after the second message :)
> Just because apartments are small doesn't mean you hear your neighbors, or live uncomfortably.

Having lived in three apartments in the densest city in America, this is patently false. I can hear my neighbors eat dinner, fart, kick their son out at 2am, etc. You can do sound insulation, but that doesn't mean cheapo developers do!
Some of the qualities you described are not there in PDF so I'll just name a reasonable alternative.

HTML.
Why would it be any worse to self-identify as a philosopher than as an engineer? Both are vocations; why would someone else be better able to assess whether "philosopher" is yours?
Apparently 95% of USA home locks use SC1 or KW1 keys... and OpenSCAD files can be downloaded to easily generate a 3D model of any key configuration using a statement like this for example: sc1([3,3,1,7,2]);
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8925/#files ... then send it to your 3D printer
Students: Your Startup School Europe experience
it gets tricky because in order to change the configuration you now have to change the source code and not every software is open source.
Any solution is on the form 12232322... where the number expresses what square to click. It's pretty easy to brute force the game from there. Sure, you can use tree search and prune the search a bit, but it's still brute force and may take exponential time for tough levels.

You can also look into some of the research that has been done on Sokoban AI's.
Lyft now allowed in NYC but as a fully-regulated livery service
Somehow ironic that Germany stopped their own nuclear plant to buy energy to France (mostly nuclear)
Cat Photos – A Potential Security Risk
I think a lot of cars have some kind of lockout for it. I have a VW, and there's a electric trunk lever in the driver side door, which has a keyhole above it to disable it. Both sides of the rear seat also fold down to allow trunk access, and both sides also have keyholes to lock them out. So I guess you could keep the valet out of your trunk, if you actually remember the valet key and go to the trouble of locking 3 different locks. Which gets to your second point, that I don't really have anything there worth caring about anyways. Maybe if they really want to steal my spare tire or something.

But then again, I don't really like valeting my car anyways.
Remote working is a point in the working conditions' favour (not least because you don't have to live on <£17k gross per annum in London, and might even be quite comfortably off on that income in other parts of the EU). But other things to be wary of are tight deadlines that require you to put lots of hours in, founders thinking you're "on call" to fix technical issues in the middle of the night, or should be ready to travel at short notice every time they think a meeting is necessary. That might be tolerable if they were treating you as a cofounder or paying big bucks, but not with the little you're being offered. (Indeed the fact they apparently don't consider it necessary to offer an above-market equity grant to compensate for the below-market salary is not a point in favour of their expectations from employees being reasonable in other respects.) On the flip side, if they're quite happy for you to balance your work for them with side projects, study or generous leisure time it starts to look a lot more attractive.

Similarly, the hypothetical post-funding £44k offer might end up being contingent upon being willing to relocate and work from an office, which may or may not be something you're happy to do.

And above all you should be very interested in solving the particular infrastructure problem to even consider this, because the alternative of spending 4-6 months earning £17k in a job paying a market rate and the rest of the year doing exactly what you want has it's potential upsides too...
> There are few app developers pulling that $100K or so salary.

The article and report (which admittedly are not very clear) says there are very few app developers pulling in over $100k per app. Someone with an app making $250k a year and two more apps making $10k a year each would not be in the $100k-per-app bin as this report lays out the data,
single mode splice is not so bad. multi mode takes a bit more work to get complex index of refraction in the fiber correct. http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/termination/fusion.html
These are all cool things that I would be happy to check out, play with and read about. It's either this or another Show HN filled with angry detractors (kinda like this one), something about the NSA reading my email, or the latest boycott because Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Google, Apple are doing something mean to someone.
List of googologisms (really, really big numbers)
Record-setting facial recognition software tests near perfect
That guy should get replaced by a woman. If you give the man money, he uses it for … drinking, some [form] of hedonism. Imagine what he'll do with $9 billion of revenue...
I like apvlv. Very vim like. you can even split with :s and do a lot of cool stuff.
I thoroughly enjoyed Startup School Europe! We'd love to compile experiences that other students had at the event as well. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
21: 'think outside of the box' :P
I volunteered for the service because I though it was 'cool'. Not just any cool, Marine Cool!. And I agree with everything that you just said. The majority of my fellow Marines/brothers were very uneducated (drop outs, barely passed their GEDs, their recruiters 'helped' them get in, etc). But as I got to know them they wanted to kill 'rag heads' and other bad guys. They just didn't care. They hoped they would get their orders and off they go. Some officers were younger than me. I'm not that smart of a guy (I question from time to time) but some of the orders these guys would give didn't make any sense, and I suspect it was for their own ego to prove something.

Anyways, my 4 year experience wasn't terrible but it did teach me a lot of what not to do and how not to behave. I just can't figure out why so many people want to kill. What in their lives happened that they one day wake up and want to kill. And by that I mean in every legal sense defined to be within the code of conduct. It's very easy to hide behind 'fighting for my country', 'fight for freedom' etc.
Pocket drones: U.S. Army developing tiny surveillance tools
Good article. Reminds me of the proverb that says that although the best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, th second best time is today. If only I could remember to keep that point-of-view more often...
Since you found that interesting, you may be interested in the link I posted earlier. Not only does it cover fragging, but also near mutinies, strikes, and sabotage. Nearly 1/4 of the crew of the USS Coral Sea signed a petition against going to Vietnam -- something not mentioned on the ship's WP page nor a tribute page -- and the commander of the USS Constellation had to return to port or risk losing control of his crew and ship.

Edit: it's on the WP talk page.
Civilization has gotten along fine for thousands of years without all-pervasive electronic surveillance.
See? Now imagine with something bitcoinesque. They will ask you hashes, etc. Then they will use software to measure votes on the fly :-)

ps. There's no software that can fix a rogue voter.
"... saturated, bloated, overstuffed with apps, platforms, devices, and more than enough content ..."

The article has a nice positive message, but it needs to be tempered with experience that railroads didn't go on being formed and expand forever in the 1890s, nor did car companies around 1910. Starting Tesla might be a good idea, but don't forget Delorean and Yugo, and 80s home computers, and early 80s video games.

I'm not claiming the opposite negative view is correct (unlike the article's claim about that the positive view is correct). The negative view is worth considering. Also among readers who know about the above argument, some acknowledgement that the opposition exists might make the article more persuasive.
Thanks for catching my typo. Updated grammar
it's not like when the government removes cash people will turn to trading in gold or any other portable thing.
If that is the crieria, then should we expect Google to drop Chrome for the Mac? That's still 32 bit.
It looks like it's a font [naming/substitution] problem.

This http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1363557 fixed the display of that file for me [Kubuntu 14.04]. I installed a close font "New CenturySchlbk-Normal" and then inserted:

<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family"><string>NewCenturySchlbk</string></test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same"><string>NewCenturySchlbk-Normal</string></edit>
</match>

in to my /home/username/.config/font-manager/local.conf file.

I didn't need to do anything further. Testing before with fc-match gave:

user@localhost$ fc-match "New CenturySchlbk"
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

Testing after gave:

user@localhost$ fc-match "NewCenturySchlbk"
NewCenturySchlbk_Normal.ttf: "NewCenturySchlbk-Normal" "Regular"

Everything I tested on Okular, xpdf, The GIMP, LibreOffice, .., all gave the same results (ie this fix worked on them) except for LibreOffice which failed a lot less after the fix. Perhaps the way the creating program embedded the font was incorrect and so none of the readers good use the embedded font to render the text correctly?

pdf.js did well before, better than Okular or xpdf, but better after the fix too.
TorrenTV – Stream Torrents to your Apple TV
Ace – HTML template engine for Go
Staples' Painful Lesson on the Price Demand Curve
How would you know if you had a utopian society yet?

Who gets to define what is a "thought of evil"? Is freeing slaves evil, or against the natural order of things? What about considering interracial marriage? Or living an openly homosexual lifestyle?

Would it be better if the police put a stop to it before such people started doing such horrible things? Locked up people before they had a chance to make their morally corrupting case to society? Suppressed discussion so that ideas could not be thrashed out, improved, built upon and weaponised in a memetic fashion to spread like some awful disease through the minds of right-thinking folks?

We may think we're incredibly moral, because we've got to the point where we now recognise these past beliefs as wrong, even if we're still a few steps from getting everyone to accept them. But for those growing up now who realise the importance of LGBT rights, the generation before you were convinced of their morality for recognising mixed-marriage rights over their predecessors, who were convinced of their morality for recognising the evil of slavery over their predecessors.

If history is any guide at all, it's likely there are things which you think are just the natural order, that will in the future be successfully argued to be morally reprehensible. Our descendants will wonder how we ever let ourselves do such things. I've no idea what those things will be; it might be environmental destruction, or carnivorism, laws/mores against public nudity. But I'm pretty sure we want those thinkers out there, as we're no where near utopia yet.
Give us an update, when you start shipping internationally. I'm definitelty interested enough to have bought a shirt to try - if available.
The frequency one would scare me a bit--it is 49.960 as I see this. So long as you can control the entire grid from a central point (not possible in North America, I think--much more complex) it is probably ok.

Otherwise, a generator that lags in phase becomes a motor.
I am a girl and I quit the software industry
Trimethyl – Like jQuery for Appcelerator Titanium
SP-480 Far Travelers: The Exploring Machines
Pickpocketers succed getting 20M rupiahs in a seconds
When I went there for the first time it was a kind of opposite Paris Syndrome. "Tokyo Syndrome". I expected more of a Cyberpunk city. It still was but it was the absolutely clean and working version of it. Everything I've heard of or seen was really there also. All the small streets, those weird shops, strange food, unbelievably different people. I had the feeling that the Japanese are what people thing of Germans. Everything is working so well. The view was stunning. I went to the hotel where they filmed Lost in Translation and it was even BETTER. OK now I really sound like a guy who dresses in furry costumes...but believe me, I don't. I just loved it :)
Check out radare2 (http://radare.org/), which is one of the best tools for binary reversing available on Linux.
Malaysia Flight MH17 Passenger “If It Disappears, This Is What It Looks Like”
Author here, feel free to ask questions or share your criticism :)
Your primary choices in renderers are the following:

- XPDF - the OG *nix PDF renderer.

- Poppler (fork of xpdf). Probably most featureful,
different features supported among different
implementations (e.g. Evince and Okular appear to
behave differently and have different feature sets).

- Mupdf, newer code base, made by Ghostscript team. Only
supports rendering PDFs and XPS. No fancy javascript
or form support.

- PDF.js via Mozilla browsers.

- PDFium via Chrome-based browsers.
This is truly refreshing style. Unlike the missives and pronouncements from Mount Olympus that consumers are used to getting from corporations, Brad Wardell's company apparently treats their customers more like... well, partners.

It's not unusual for PR flacks to wax lyrical about "partnerships" with their customers, but this report has an especial air of sincerity about it. It is confiding without giving away state secrets, conversational, straightforward, hopeful for the future. These are people I'd like to know better, or to emulate. Kudos to its author.
With the right attitude and motivation, you can do absolutely anything
Ask HN: Using eye-trackers with computers/smartphones?
1) I've always thought that it would be useful if you could design content to be responsive to what the user is looking at (you'd have to be careful not to overdo it, but I think it has the potential to add a lot of value).

2) The eye tracking data could be used to make recommendation engines more effective.

3) The eye tracking data could be used to make website analytics more effective.

Privacy: I think people might be reluctant to use it at first because of privacy concerns. However, I think the value it would add would lead to its adoption over time. Plus, you'd have control over it (could turn it on and off depending on the site for example).

Question: Is anyone working on integrating eye-trackers with computers and/or smartphones?
That's misleading.
> maybe a utopian civilization would consider thoughts of evil, thoughts of crime and intentions to harm others as a justifiably punishable event.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but you're certainly not describing my utopia. So there, the idea that an "objective" utopia exists is disproven. Taking that argument further, who now decides whose utopia becomes the utopia? I admire Snowden a great deal for both his courage and his intellect, and one of the strongest arguments he makes against your utopia (again, I just can't tell if you're being sarcastic) is to remind us of the ancient-seeming idea of a "security state". That is, close to 100% security can be had, at the cost of liberty. In other words, it's a tradeoff. We can quibble about whether that tradeoff could be improved (the equivalent of a free lunch or "Pareto improvement" in economics), but "thoughtcrime" and "crimethink" is so far beyond where I would draw the line, you can't even see the line anymore from there…
Okular[1] is the best PDF Reader on Linux. Enough said.

[1]http://okular.kde.org/
How conductors keep getting better at 90
This is how it looks in Evince @ CentOS7 http://i.imgur.com/SIq9v4r.png
(including font substitution issue)
Great motivational read for budding or aspiring entrepreneurs. The one point I'd add to the article is to start viewing the world as a solver because we have more tools to fix and build better solutions than we did 30 years ago.