skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did make it clear and it is in the developer agreement the OP agreed to when signing up.

https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html

> Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior: Don't pretend to be someone else, and don't represent that your app is authorized by or produced by another company or organization if that is not the case. Products or the ads they contain also must not mimic functionality or warnings from the operating system or other apps. Products must not contain false or misleading information in any content, title, icon, description, or screenshots. Developers must not divert users or provide links to any other site that mimics or passes itself off as another app or service. Apps must not have names or icons that appear confusingly similar to existing products, or to apps supplied with the device (such as Camera, Gallery or Messaging).

The OP's apps clearly violate the "title, icon" provisions above. Google even sent him an email about it listing the exact reason in the email, but yet that too is still not enough?

What is it people in this thread want? Do Google personally need to go around OP's house, sit him down, and explain through the developer agreement line by line?
Weird, no pay wall for me. I had ad-block installed in Chrome, so I'm not sure if that is doing something.
As a long time user of Reddit, I have to say: put more ads on the right hand side margin! I don't care, make some money, and stay solid business-wise.

Please pardon an off-topic comment: I got to meet Alexis Ohanian when he spoke at Google last year and I really enjoyed his book "Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed." I am an old guy, in my 60s, and I worry a lot about the future our kids and grandkids will have, but then when I meet young people like Alexis who have such a strong attitude about helping society, I feel better :-) If you have a chance to hear him speak, don't pass up the opportunity.
The deadline is August 13th, and the winner (if any) will be announced on the 20th. (According to an Helsinki Times article, but the English translation[1] doesn't have the dates)

[1]: http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/11...
A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World
This is a dynamite title.
Morocco sure could use Uber. Most taxi drivers refused to use the meter with tourists, because the meter rates are so low (like $1-2) and tourists would gladly pay double or triple. The standard advice is not to take a cab that won't run the meter, but good luck finding one in the competitive areas like train stations. All the drivers know they are better off if they collaboratively rip off tourists.
In similar efforts, I also really enjoyed the slides from talk at DNS OARC 2014 about Anycast on a shoe string:

http://www.slideshare.net/natmorris/anycast-on-a-shoe-string
Or you are and you didn't invest time making an iOS or Android app before confirming that this game is popular. You did nothing stupid.
Show HN: 92K USGS Historical Maps in Dynamic Mosaic
What 3d effect?
Pragmatic Applications of Quantum Paradigms
First, this sounds like a problem the application store provider needs to solve with an improved interface, not nuking anything they don't personally find useful from orbit.

Second, what's "actual content"? Official content only? Undoubtedly some people who searched for "top gear" were looking for exactly what this guy put out.
3D printers, capable of creating anything you can imagine. Only phones supported for cases are iPhones. The future is now!

Edit: Lots of iPhone owners on HN, I see.
> he thinks he can no longer write apps for Android, whereas it is obvious to me that you can put a .apk file up for download anywhere you want, and get paid by means other than Google Wallet.

And how many people will find and buy such an app? You do know of the standard security advice to disallow app installations outside of the Play Store as this is the main attack vector for malware on Android, for example for banking trojans? Also I would have to be extremely motivated to get this app before I go through the hassle of paying via a non Play Store payment service.

> make a spammy app that only re-frames other people's content, and infringes on trademarks

What is Youtube if not a (not so spammy) service that reframes other people's content and for a long time infringed on copyrights?
> "We’re not monetizing to the full extent that we could," said Ms. Pao, who made headlines two years ago when she sued Kleiner Perkins in a sexual harassment case.

She certainly monetizes to the full extent that she can.
Having bought real estate, I can say that Zillow/Trulia are both a blessing and a curse. They are great in that you can see what's been listed for a while, scan a map, and generally put a pretty interface on house searches. This I imagine is their great advantage. I also found my mortgage company through Zillow's mortgage rate search.

Their big disadvantage is that their records are not updated as fast as the conventional MLS. The house I bought recently came on the market 7 days before I made an offer. It was not on Zillow even by the time we had the contract signed. The sellers, for whatever reason, put a very reasonable (possibly even low) price on the house, and I was at the end of the search, having seen enough locations in the area to know that this was a great value.

Another random personal experience: when I first saw Zillow I remember thinking "who needs real estate agents if you have all this?" Then I got an agent to buy my first house. All I have to say is "you do not know, what you do not know." While I do wish that agents simply took a set fee instead of it being a (very large) percentage of the purchase price, they provide a hugely invaluable service. I am not saying it's impossible to buy real estate if you don't have an agent; but if you can do it, you are probably a real estate agent.
I listened to Sami Inkinen talk about how proud he was that Trulia was the underdog to Zillow several months ago. I assume that the acquisition talks had probably already started, even as he was talking about this. I'm not incensed at this, I just think we need to be honest with ourselves. When your competition wants to buy you, then you've probably done something very right. But everybody has a price and Zillow obviously found theirs! Congrats to them, they've done a lot for dragging the real estate market kicking and screaming into the future.
It depends on how many articles you've read! Read X articles for free - then paywall
so our "steep" fee is makes sense at the moment
Oh really? Tell us more...
What is your definition of pirated? Accessing content, and helping others access content in ways that you have not been given permission to rather sounds like piracy to me. The method of access doesn't really matter weather it be boot leg DVDs or youtube.
There's nothing disorderly or actively harmful about that comment. It just adds little value compared to the search space of all possible comments. So it seems semantically more sound to simply withhold upvotes from it, rather than punishing it with downvotes.
I would have guessed the "Note" part. Gonna check it out!
Mercury News got ahold of my email and I spent years clicking unsubscribe links and delete their emails. Has nothing to do with the story, just saw the URL and had bad feelings. :)
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The first Swift conference worldwide (Feb 6th, Paris)
> They do, but I don't think Google is ethically obligated to let this guy post spammy apps that are closely named to companies he doesn't officially work with.

But Google is ethically obligated not to punish the guy by closing associated services (GWallet). It is also ethically bound to treat the customer as good-intentioned, and bound to explain the basis for suspension.

Google failed on both counts.
In terms of real usefulness, it is a horrid "form factor" that wastes fuel and space, electric or not.

In terms of market, it can be the most successful vehicle for the American market.

These are two separate things.
"Critic" is an open source web app for doing code reviews. It's written in Python and could use more contributors.

Code:
https://github.com/jensl/critic

See it running:
https://critic-review.org/dashboard
I've had trouble with Trulia's image serving for the past several months. It seems like their images just take forever to load, to the point that I switched back to Zillow.
Opencart is the last project anyone should contribute to. The developer has an absolutely horrible attitude. As an example, https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/1594
A resource for quickly accessing and testing Material Design colors
I don't even need to read the rest of the story and the article can only get worse if I find out what is actually going on.
I'm subscribed to three newspaper already, so I feel like I've hit my quota. :)
Presumably, realtor MLS isn't so much as a "competitor" to Zill/ulia so much as the dominating incumbent.

88% --- eighty eight percent --- of home sales (presumably: owner-occupied single-family residence sales) were done using licensed real estate agents in 2013. A staggering amount of money is funneled through that profession, which as I understand it exercises guild-like control over the MLS databases.
It was in the place of this

<script>
window.Uber = {
development: false,
jswLocale: 'en_US',
pingData: false,
version: '3.0.0'
};
</script>
That's a false equivalence. Apps are not people.
You can email Uber and ask for your rating. What I meant is that 4.8 without any context means nothing to 'me'.

If I knew why somebody rated me below 5 that would be a different story.
Did the trick. Thanks.
No mention of the condition of the lizards. I hope they're alright.
The apps contained icons taken from third parties and then utilised to advertise these apps. So copyright is very much in play here, as well as trademark infringement.

As to your jab at the person above, it might have come across better if it was even remotely constructive. For example, you could explain WHY you feel they misunderstand copyright rather than just waving your hands around and claiming that they're "completely ignorant."
>The question is, was the punishment proportional to the crime?

Yes.

>The 'whine' was about being banned for life because of novice mistakes made without bad faith. How is one supposed to learn the ropes?

The novice mistakes were made without bad faith, I agree. This is why his first app was suspended.

The reason he was banned however, was continuing to ignore warnings. He has no concept of what he did wrong—he's not someone I would want to do business with, either.
Show HN: GOM is a Chrome extension that uses SPDY SSL proxies as a Web-VPN
The thread from when this was just a rumor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081176
Previous thread about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079195
I know lots of people don't know how to setup an email server. But gmail, as an email account, is worth less than $10/month. And, in fact, your ISP probably includes several email accounts with your internet service. If your child needs an email account, just assign him one...

If you have Verizon, here's how... [8 extra]
http://www.verizon.com/Support/Residential/Internet/HighSpee...

If you have Comcast, here's how... [5 extra]
http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/adding...

If you have Cablevision, here's how... [4 extra]
http://optimum.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1673/~/c...

So, in point of fact, gmail - as a 'free' email service - is actually a huge additional COST, considering the payment in privacy. And this is why I do not use it myself...
Edit: wrong thread.

I would gladly pay for Google support, and I've stated as much in the past.

I have paid for Microsoft support, and it was a great experience. Microsoft is (or was) as big or bigger than Google, and used by a significant fraction of the population.

So, it can be done. Google doesn't want to do it.
Zillow-Trulia: Citron Exposes What the Press Has Ignored [pdf]
Trulia was so much better then Zillow -- reminds me of Flipboard buying Zite.
The MLS walked garden is the problem it seems to me many are trying to solve. If I see value in an agent, I'll hire them no matter what - but even with my current place, my agent sent me MLS listings and I crawled through Trulia and the like, and emailed him what I was interested in seeing. The place I ended up in I saw on Craigslist. That didn't negate the need for an agent, but his access to the magical MLS that we normals aren't allowed to have access to was inconsequential, and keeping it secluded seems silly at this point.
How top 10 programming languages work
This works only for Amazon. Our app is generic
Quite the contrary as repeatedly experienced in Java land.
Easy e-Filing of Tax Returns in India
I just want to point out that customer support will be happy to give you your rating.

Just ask.
Hey, that's great! ...and the first track is an hour-long Boiler Room set. May be you can implemented some kind of filtering feature?
python ggplot needs some help!

https://github.com/yhat/ggplot
https://github.com/yhat/ggplot/issues?state=open
Last paragraphs are very interesting:

"In its 2013 financial statements, the Tor Project - a group of developers that maintain tools used to access Tor - confirmed that the US Department of Defense remained one its biggest backers.
The DoD sent $830,000 (£489,000) to the group through SRI International, which describes itself as an independent non-profit research centre, last year.
Other parts of the US government contributed a further $1m.
Those amounts are roughly the same as in 2012."

I'm not familiar at all how those founding works, could someone, from US, explain how and why US government is giving money to TOR?
3D printing is not new, but once this become cheap and available to everyone, it will be a really unimaginable and unprecedented world.

What a great years to be living =]
Wouldn't it be better on Linode? Since they have wider selection of PoP. But i wonder if the port speed would be a problem.
This + twilio = user identification. Looks like I'm gonna have to be more careful with my phone number...
I'm getting a 500 error on Chrome 36 from api.soundcloud.com, are you sure you haven't hit a rate limit on this?
Oh-my-zsh is the Disease and Antigen is the Vaccine
There's Realtor.com, which is actually the better app vs. these two, since it is directly tied into the MLS database. There's also redfin.
you probably still need a model for all the other phones, I agree that a lot of other phone models could be supported but I don't expect anything to be instantly available.
Huh. I thought based on the title that this was 3D printing as a service, which would have been quite useful.

It actually seems like yet another uninteresting store for 3D printed tat. I don't see how it fills a niche that isn't already filled by, say, Etsy, or how it's really any different from the existing Amazon marketplace other than "Look! 3D printing: New! Trendy!"

What makes 3D printing interesting is the ability to create things that could not have been created before. If you are selling just those things (and not a design or custom production service), it's more appropriate to categorise them according to what they are, not how they were made.
Interesting. I have a client who has a booking engine for their very specific education tour company and have been wondering if I could port the software for resale. They sell direct to the traveler no agents or 3rd parties so it works well for them but I've been curious if this model is adopted widely..

I don't know enough about the larger industry and what barriers there are to entry however. What kinds of tour operators in Europe are blocking entry to the market? Is this just tour groups making certain hotels exclusive, or the booking sites?
I think he's referring to the parallax banner...which probably didn't take much time at all to implement, but is arguably distracting and unnecessary.
I think this is a really neat idea. I actually know one artist (diplo I think) has started a second SC account just for retweeting stuff he recommends. I have a couple of accounts and am quite particular about the music I favourite (has to be stuff that my followers would also like e.g. No rock music on my EDM account and vice versa). I'm not sure everyone is like this though so it might be difficult to find accounts of artists who favourite music their fans would also like. It leaves an opportunity for you to do some sort of curation of artists with a good history of favouriting.

Edit:

Is the site open source?
A good faith effort would be reading the terms & conditions. He obviously didn't, because they are quite clear about not being able to put other companies' names in your app name.

If the article was about someone that had this happen, and they read the conditions and didn't see anything that they had violated, and then asked Google - that would be a different story. This guy just can't be bothered to put the effort in himself.
they provide a hugely invaluable service

What is that service? I'm not being snarky; I'm genuinely curious, as the structure of the industry (and fee level) is significantly different than where I'm from. I don't get why you need a real estate agent to help you buy.
Also, may be it would be a good idea to pre-load next track? Right now skipping works reallllly slow
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Despite the "linkbait" title, it's not actually linkbait. Please read the short article.
Are you guys using Truecaller data?

How much out of 600M are Indian Contacts?

Can we have countries vise count of Data you own?
heavy so the big battery pack will not hurt so much in the weight budget.

Wrong! Very wrong!

More initial weight means more batteries needed in the first places, which means more weight and even more batteries because of that.

Reducing weight on electric cars is really beneficial:

Less weight => less batteries => less weight => less batteries...
I think he isn't saying it has had a limited life span. He is saying that it's future lifespan is being limited. Basically, he thinks it has potential to go on much longer than it will.
I don't know if it's "Silly" or not, but you are correct that Americans, in general, do not use SUVs for "Offroading."
The author didn't use other people's content. He simply used the YouTube APIs for exactly what they're there for -- remixing the YouTube experience to match a specific use case YouTube has not yet accommodated. What else are APIs supposed to be used for?

The original uploader of that content still retained all control over the content. If the original uploader didn't like his content being reskinned, he shouldn't upload it on a provider that gives users that ability through an API.

The potential problem is in the implication that the mark's owner endorsed the application. The post claims that the the author made significant effort to indicate he was unofficial. It's arguable whether this continued to constitute infringement, and for that reason I think the guy should've at least been given a polite human touch and a direct, non-automated opportunity to correct the specific issue, which was never directly elucidated ("Impersonating how? I'm just using the YouTube APIs that Google published for me to use...").

I'm not saying that the author has great judgment. I'm just saying that Google's actions aren't really proportional, that the author's actions are not at all as illegal as everyone is saying, and that Google should recognize that they have a social responsibility to at least follow-up on things like this with a human to clear up any potential miscommunication. An expectation of care in account deletion is one of the side effects of knowing and doing everything about and for everyone. It's a big deal to lose big chunks of your Google account.
Sad to say, but I'll probably go alone when I try to create another business. The first time I tried to start with best friends, they jumped off after a couple months and I hated them for it.
Is it multitouch? Could it be that there is no TouchEvent and the touch screen acts as mouse?
I love that they have integrated partner 3D printing community sites like the beautiful Pinshape:

http://pinshape.com/index (Right now http://pinshape.com isn't working)
A Critique of Anil Dash's Post on Publicness
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To continue your analogy, it would be more akin to selling Nike shoes in your store, and calling your store Nike Store Seller, and using Nike's logo prominently in your store.

I'm sure Nike wouldn't like that, even if you were actually selling Nike shoes.

I agree that Google wasn't exactly communicative (they never are).
I think the point is 'works like clockwork'. And as the other user said, I'm not prepared to test out your service if you require a registration and sign in before I can see anything about it.
A different article, which I'm having trouble tracing back now, mentioned that this acquisition is more like the same company owning match.com and tinder.

Does anyone know if the intention to leave both up?

article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-28/zillow-to-acquire-t...

"Rascoff said in an interview that the deal to buy Trulia signals that Zillow is creating a portfolio of online real estate brands, which lets the company appeal to the broadest audiences and attract the biggest set of real estate advertisers. The strategy is akin to how IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) has multiple online dating brands such as Match.com and Tinder, he said."

Seems odd to leave both up when they're so similar.
I like the idea of it. In fact, as an ex-musician myself i have a few ideas of building something using the Soundcloud API. More work definitely needs to be done in the 'music discovery' space and I am glad you've done something with it :)
Made a profile on the former.
Yeah, here in the D.C. area, nobody's using Zillow for much either since the "Zestimates" are pretty wildly off of actual market value and even in between homes in the same area.

For example, it puts my house at about $50k under my next-door neighbor's house, despite my home being larger, with more upgrades (about $100k worth), with one more bedroom and an additional full bathroom.

The identical house to mine, a block over, is $30k more than mine, but still $20k under the neighbor's home. A home another block away, similar to my neighbor's, but slightly smaller is actually on the market for $2k more than theirs.

Another house, identical to mine, half a block over in a different direction is Zestimated at almost $90k more than mine. And a similar house down the road is on the market for $75 more than mine.

My neighbors, directly behind me, have a model one size smaller than mine, and have done a tremendous amount of work on their home. Custom landscaping, high-end playground for their kids, fences, completely remodeled basement, and one more bedroom than my house, Zillow puts it at $10k under mine.

So within, basically 2.5 blocks, in a cookie cutter suburb, we have almost $100k variance, with Zestimates at least $50k under market prices in some cases, and $50k over in others, and smaller homes Zestimating to be worth more than larger homes next door.

Believe it or not this is an improvement from a couple years ago, but no reputable agent in my area uses Zillow for anything.

Trulia, by way of comparison, puts my house at $20k more than Zillow and flips the relationship of small/big houses so they make slightly more sense pricewise.

Redfin seems to be the closest.
This is actually a great little post about building an popular app. The bit about the accessible mail form being triggered is SO true. I did support for a top 100 app and we had tons and tons of blank emails. The difference between Send and Cancel, when you just want the email to go away seems to not matter to most :)
Understood, this route seems the easiest as it lets me get my feet wet slowly.
Doesn't have to be accidental. The criminal could intentionally leave someone else's DNA at the scene. Or less subtly, leave a DNA Bomb [1].

[1]http://almost-human.wikia.com/wiki/DNA_Bomb