skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another legitimate use is when you're in the middle of designing something (drawing app, for example) that you might have spent a long time on and hitting the back button will lose your progress.
What is ProtonMail? The story of a secure mail service demystified
Got it. Added an email
User acquisition for mobile is just as important as developing an application. There are companies with larger development teams AND many folks working on user acquisition AND marketing budgets reaching a millions of dollars per month, cross promotions, international reach, etc. As an indie developer, you wear all hats, from development to marketing. It's simply not reliable to launch a title and hope it takes off by itself or hope that sending emails to journalists will be enough on acquisition. If you'd spent hundreds of hours on development - figure out to spend just as much on acquisition. Doing paid acquisition might not work as the CPI (cost per install( for installs is most likely going to be much higher than an untuned app's LTV (lifetime Value).

I'd hacked together a 'mobile marketing' checklist before, it might help: https://sensortower.com/iphone-app-marketing
Build Zappos like faceted navigation with ElasticSearch
Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup
My father worked for a cable company, so I was familiar with the Sega Channel. Blew my mind that you could deliver Sonic over a cable line. We didn't have dial-up at home, let alone broadband (did cable internet exist then?). I didn't know how it worked and I didn't care. I didn't get a new console until the Sega Channel shut down.
They probably assume you have to pay for 24/7 DC tech / sysadmin types to do the racking, setup, etc. that AWS automates and are factoring it into the price.

To be fair, that is part of the cost. However, unless you are really big, you will just pay remote hands which is like $100-200/hr. The number of incidents are probably way too few, even at 200k a month, for 24/7 on-site sysadmins/techs.
It was hard to reach a while ago when they had a huge spike in visitors, but they already increased the capacity.
Playstation Plus is a great value, particularly if you own two or more consoles. (Say a PS3 or a Vita) You don't get the latest games but you get the last version of the new game that is out now.

I found being in Playstation Plus has gotten me into the downloadable habit, even though I almost always buy games when they are on sale, but again, that keeps me away from the used games from Amazon and Gamestop.
Later this summer, Signal for iPhone will be expanded to support text communication compatible with TextSecure for Android.

You'll have to wait to wait a little. I'd bet it will be worth.
Ah right, so just replacing room lights. Thanks.
I call bullshit on the support and the "knockoff" claim. I've always felt they are the best with support - they've even waived an accidental $120 instance for me. Yhe tools they provide me are exemplary and cannot be replaced IMO.
Kind of off topic, but that award wreath you put on the screenshot does wonders for sales from what I've seen. It's instant credibility almost regardless of what the award was.
Agreed. Very pleasing on the eye with clear navigation, puts Amazon slightly to shame.
"AWS is not the best product at anything – most of their features are mediocre knock offs of other products."

Does not list a single example.
I created my own MMO and lost 100 pounds
Would something like https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm help?
Like many words, secular has other senses. Per a representative definition like…

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secular

…Feld is using the sense (3), and especially (3)(c), a quite common usage in economics (as a contrast with transient/cyclical changes).

You might benefit from a more catholic appreciation of vocabulary. (And no, that has nothing to do with the Catholic church.)
I'm not 30 yet but I suspect I'll still be playing video games at 30 too. ;)

They are fun to relax and no worse than TV. :D

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm

2.8hrs of TV / day is the average for people 15+.
I'm a collector. I don't really buy any games unless I plan on holding onto it forever. Steam is really the only exception, and hopefully I can pass that on after I'm dead too.
I don't think 4 or 5 comments from HN readers "speaks volumes" about much of anything.

People seem to want to see EA suffer for their past transgressions, but wishing doesn't make it so. Online commenters (especially in an echo chamber like HN) aren't evidence of a grassroots uprising against DRM and DLC.

It does speak volumes about people's eagerness to use comment sections to push an agenda.
>'I am not sure how to break into the App Store today except by winning the lottery.'

I'm not sure I follow.

It's a trio of side-projects, none of which have been available for even a full year yet, entering into a 'total bloodbath' marketplace.

Is it typical to expect immediate success and profitability doing this?

Traditionally, 'breaking in' is something people might spend years if not decades on and likely without the benefit of employment at a successful start-up during the week.

Things take time and persevering for longer than a year while refining and/or generating a fully original title would seem to be a good start.
Hello, other Seattleite! Depending on where you live (and want to go) in Seattle, transit can be lovely or a nightmare!

It's very doable to not do cars in Seattle, however. Particularly if you have a car2go or zipcar account!
Ok, then don't believe me. I'm just going to move on now.
I hope every developer reads this.
The Russians figured this out a long time ago. Have a seperate city aparment and a summer/weekend house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha
I bet they have a killer PowerPoint deck!
If you are in reasonable walking distance of all those things, and it pleasant to walk to them, I would say almost by definition you don't live in a suburb, or rather, that is not the kind of place that people are complaining about. You must be just as horrified as anyone else at the prospect of living in a subdivision where you are miles away from anything apart from houses, or where you literally cannot walk to town, or from one shop to another across the road, because of a lack of pedestrian access.
The problem with nice suburbs (Arlington and Duxbury both qualify) is that they're inherently exclusive. They are racially homogeneous, have median incomes at least 25-50% higher than average, and have nothing to offer young adults.

I'm incredibly thankful for my privileged upbringing in a similar suburban community, but none of my peers could leave fast enough.
When the term "craft" doesn't have a strict definition, they can say whatever they want as long as they aren't outright lying.

If you're a consumer that doesn't realize that there are no restrictions on the "craft" denotation, (similar to the organic denotation), then I would argue you are a for taking it on faith that there's a difference.

Is it disingenuous? Sure. Is it illegal? No. Should it be? Not unless you have a legal definition for the terms.
Exactly. This is about incorrect management rather than inherent unsustainability of being spread out. Years ago people were spread out way more than now.
Secular also has a meaning of once in a long time or once in an age. One source I looked at says that the Latin root in also the root for "century" in Romance languages. I could argue it doesn't add much to that sentence (which I don't really agree with in any case) but it's not an incorrect use of the word.
You would never get your app approved by Apple.
Try this for on the fly transcoding even unsupported media: https://github.com/mustafaakin/cast-localvideo Disclaimer: I made this, but people seems happy using it.
I use DO because they have servers in Amsterdam, which happens to be very close to my country.

I never had problems with DO that weren't resolved promptly.

Just a note, Linode is very US-centric anyway... (and that one London location doesn't make it international very much)
Why is e.g. 'I need to combine commits' considered something that has gone wrong?
Or because the set of people who want to mount an SMB share on iOS to get to their music... ah, while "consists primarily of you" is overly snarky, I think it's safe to say that it's probably vanishingly small.

There are all sorts of annoyances about the iOS ecosystem and a good chunk of them are driven by Apple's policies, but the notion that Apple cripples their system with the explicit intent of making it difficult to compete with them is hard to make a strong case for. Apple has their own direct competitor to Pandora, but Pandora is still in the app store. As is Spotify, and SoundCloud, and Beats (which was there before they were an Apple product), and iHeartRadio, and and and. Oh, you say you meant non-streaming players? A lot of people love Ecoute, but there's also Lagu and TuneShell and Listen and I'm sure others I don't know of, which have all sorts of tricks up their sleeve.

tl;dr: kneejerking about Apple is easy and fun! But there's enough actual things to kvetch about without "Apple hates their users, man" conspiracy stuff.
> In this case EA is the content owner

For now. If their service gets enough uptake, though, it's not hard to imagine other publishers wanting to get in on it as well. And why build your own service (and go through all the hassle of getting it on all the devices in the world) if you can just piggyback on EA's work? (As long as the fees and contracts are reasonable, of course.)

When Steam started out it was only a delivery channel for Valve titles, remember...
As a Pittsburgher, I know some people who live here without cars but I wouldn't describe it as comfortably.

There are a few decent neighborhoods where one could make due without an automobile but they're pretty expensive (by Pittsburgh standards) to live in. Shadyside and Oakland are two such places. There are a few Hipster enclaves where a fair number of people do it but they're not very common. Outside of neighborhoods like these and especially outside of The City proper, it's a nightmare to try getting around without a car.
I like Bulleit Rye, but now that I know it's rebranded MGP, I'm now more interested in pricing of any other MGP rye.
NYC World Trade Center gets hacked
I somewhat agrees with the author. But I think GOF Design Patterns is only ONE step in the right direction and it is time to move beyond that.

It is because of the GOF Design Patterns that we started to talk about anti-patterns. In my opinion, learning about the anti-patterns maybe more important than learning about patterns.
It doesn't matter if it's games or not games. These numbers ring basically true to me.

I've done enough apps that the math doesn't work out to me anymore. Simply put, you're selling candy bars, but without the disposable aspect, so your customer LTV on a $1 app is $0.7. If you have a suite of 5 or 10 $1 apps, even if you had a huge cross sell of 5 of those 10 apps, your LTV is 70% of $5... $3.50.

In that scenario, to get paid $70,000, you need 20,000 customers to buy 50% of your products each year.

Honestly, if you can get 20,000 to buy your app you've either hit a top list or you are so good at marketing that it is nonsensical that you would be selling $1 apps.

So yeah, for most developers the app store business isn't much of a business at all. Maybe leveraging it to get interest in desktop or console apps where the per unit price is closer to $20-100 would help.

Even then, I don't think you will see or hear many stores about app store millionaires going forward. The money might be there, but it's too diluted to make much of a dent.

Might as well buy a lottery ticket, it costs you less time and money with basically the same outcome.
How facial features drive our first impressions
A short overview of using HMMs for speech recognition:

Speech is temporal, a speech sample can be represented as a sequence of data points. Thus, a simple way to compare two speech samples can be an algorithm to compare their corresponding sequences. One such algorithm is DTW, which is an equivalent of the Levenshtein distance algorithm for comparing strings.

So now we have a method of comparing two speech samples. Thus, a simple way to recognize an unknown speech sample can be to keep samples of all possible utterances (phonemes, words, sentences) and just return the best match. That’s not possible - so in speech recognition, they only keep samples of phonemes, and try to find the most likely concatenation of them relative to the unknown sample. The search space is huge, but luckily dynamic programming algorithms exist to make the search fast (they’re called Connected Word Recognition algorithms).

The problem with this approach is that it does not scale. There are tons of variations possible for the same spoken unit (different styles and durations). This is where the Hidden Markov Model comes in. A single HMM can be used to represent all variations of that unit. For example, it can be used to represent multiple speech samples of the word “apple”, or of the phoneme “æ” and so on. There are methods for evaluating the similarity of an HMM and a speech sample, and for training an HMM using multiple samples.

You can also connect phoneme HMMs together to get a big HMM representing words/sentences. The same CWR algorithms as before apply.
A lot of people (myself included) read the comments first, and then visit the article if our interest is piqued. That's why comments like the GP get upvotes.
My intent was that the results, albeit admittedly abstract, make you think about yourself. i believe who your friends are does say something about yourself (or at least provoke thoughts like: is it a coincidence that most of my friends are gemini?)
Growth is a Team Sport
"Is it illegal? No. Should it be? Not unless you have a legal definition for the terms."

These two points are going to need to be assessed on an individual basis. Something sufficiently disingenuous can cross into false advertising even without the words having a strict "legal definition".
No, I just misread the help page. Thanks.
It seems like the labeling restrictions are what matter here. I can buy a wine from France and see it was grown and bottled on the estate. Or I can see it was bottled by a negociant/middleman. I really have no strong preference either way, as long as they're labeled correctly. (Louis Jadot, anyone?)

This bourbon thing, though, I guess Americans don't care what's printed on the label. Hell, it was France that gave Andre flak for their "California Champagne". (Champagne comes from France, nowhere else) Anything goes here, I guess. Bourbon should be labeled similarly: either it's distilled, aged & bottled on the estate or it's bottled by a reseller. It's rather funny to think about champagne now, because I think "bourbon" is an American trademark like "champagne" is a French one. Naming things, harder than it seems.
My assumption was not that the site depends on contacting ad servers, but that the Adblock extension is interfering with normal browser functionality.
In Support of DevOps: Kanban vs. Scrum
I tried my hand at a simple game once - it was also a disaster. Although it wasn't nearly as polished as yours look.
Call me unconvinced. It follows entirely the flawed US gov interpretation of "collection", which means collect everything, and only call it "collect" when if you search through it.

How should this convince the global business that using US IT, telecom and cloud services is trustworthy and legally safe? There are still massive holes in a number of public laws and who knows in how many secret laws and interpretations, not talking about illegal practices. Without a 2nd Church Committee nothing will change.
However, the balance of power in our society has now shifted to the point where the NSA is trivially capable of securing the judges' cooperation. So the "help of the judge" will be granted anytime the NSA asks for it, and in a practical sense they can still do all sorts of unpleasant things to you at will.

Also, if a judge starts being uncooperative, the NSA has a lengthy dossier on his adultery, homosexuality, communist tendencies, suspected terrorist links, etc. It would be a real shame for that dossier to find its way to the public, wouldn't it...?
Okay, lawyer time.
Some of these concerns are overblown, some aren't.

First, the license grant is clearly ambiguous. Most license grants are written in terms of exclusive rights of copyright (ie reproduction, derivative work creation, public performance).
This one isn't.
"Do whatever the fuck you want' is unclear as to exactly what rights you can exercise and can't, because "whatever you want" can be found to not literally be "whatever" (and in fact, when most people say "you can do whatever you want", they often mean "whatever you want within reason")

Maybe a judge will agree with "it means all of them", maybe they won't. It depends on the situation. I wouldn't want to bet my life on it.
Damages would likely be minimal in such a case, except in places with high statutory damages awards.
You might get enjoined from using it.

Second, As for reassigning copyright, probably not. In most jurisdictions, this requires a specific signed instrument.

Third, you can't put it under a new license and sue the creator, they also have rights to it.

Fourth, "You have a good point that this is something many people would want. Do you know in which jurisdictions this is actually needed? I wasn't able to find any sources for this."

At the very least, in the US it's a very bad idea not to disclaim warranties. Particularly since people are making warranties on mailing lists as to fitness, etc, all the time.

I can't stress enough how dangerous it is to not disclaim warranties in the US.

> Has it been challenged before in a legal sense? Has a lawyer reviewed it?
Excellent points."

OSI declined to name it an open source license, considering it mostly duplicative of others.

I specifically try to push people to avoid it, and the company i work for won't distribute software that uses it.
Thanks! Will make a note of that: I was afraid the answer would have to be ffmpeg (as it so often is with video). Was hoping for something neater, but I guess I should just be grateful for ffmpeg.
And... Congress can change the law halfway through the project and then what? That's the ultimate requirements change, and no way to push back.
The "Vault" part sounds a lot like the Disney Vault:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault

... which is Disney's polite way of explaining why only a segment of their most popular animated titles are available to buy on home video at any given time. Each title has a window of time when it's available for purchase, and at the end of that time, it goes "into the Vault" -- meaning that Disney deliberately stops selling it for several years.

This strategy ensures a pop of sales from pent-up demand when the title rotates back "out of the Vault" into circulation again; and, since titles spend years in the Vault, it puts pressure on potential buyers to buy now or potentially lose the chance to do so for a long time.
Is there a better alternative you would suggest? While Linode has done better than DO, that fiasco left me feeling somewhat uneasy as well.
I think I'm too young to understand your references. What's the difference between those types of suburbs?
When I imagine this borrowing pattern repeated across every town in America, I start to wonder how this affects the economy. Does anyone know how large a share of the American financial sector all of this municipal borrowing accounts for?
I remember a number of years back the debate when Houston was trying to annex a nearby area. One of the arguments was that the city needed to add area to its tax base. So this is a big city thing as well. Many major cities have finances that are in the crapper.
I'm new here. what does R mean?
What does this have to do with "scorpion"?

From the title, I thought it would be about Amazon competing with its customers, like Netflix using AWS to compete with Amazon Prime, and how its inevitable that Amazon will eventually have to sting Netflix.
Open Whisper Systems is fund by the Shuttleworth Foundation.

https://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/about-us/team/
It definitely helps. The biggest source of income has been (surprisingly) Gittip, though.
Anyone who makes the blanket assertion that "AWS is not the best product at anything" is failing to grasp the fundamental advantage of AWS--it is the only (and therefore best and cheapest) "full line" IAAS provider. Obviously simple value added services like Dropbox that primarily leverage just one piece of the cloud (storage) will eventually move to wherever (and everywhere) that they can get their infrastructure cheapest. When complex services like Netflix begin moving off of AWS is when I'd start worrying.
the game space is VERY crowded for mobile

if I were to think about mobile apps I would aim for some specialty market segment, e.g. doctors, or lawyers, or construction, or weddings, etc. not games. too crowded. too many voices.
Fixed privacy policy.
Indeed it could: thanks!
TSA willing to pay $15,000 for best ideas to help shorten airport lines
"It means "do what you want". Unless you're claiming that lawyers don't have a strong-enough grasp of the English language to be able to properly interpret extraneous expletives (which wouldn't surprise me to be quite honest...)."

This is a very simplistic view of the phrasing.

For starters, when I ask someone "hey do you mind if i do x", and they say "do whatever you want", it doesn't usually mean "yes it is okay if i stab you with a knife", it means "yes
it is okay to do x".

This phrase does not have a single, simple definition that is clear and robust.
I live near Lake City - getting to Ballard is not under an hour by mass transit - it's something like 20 minutes by car. Very frustrating! I hope the new light rail will create more E-W bus routes.
Chinese military “hacked” Israel’s Iron Dome
"in Marohn’s estimation, property taxes at suburban densities bring in anywhere from 4 cents to 65 cents for every dollar of liability. Most suburban municipalities, he says, are therefore unable to pay the maintenance costs of their infrastructure, let alone replace things when they inevitably wear out after twenty to twenty-ﬁve years."
In my interview revenge fantasy I imagine turning the tables on the interviewer:

"Before I tell you what I know about design patterns, let me ask you a question. From speaking with you, I can tell that you are articulate and have a good command of the English language, in other words, you're a good communicator.

Now, if I asked you to give me a sentence containing a gerund in a preposition phrase could you? Probably not, even though you probably don't go a day without writing such a sentence. Could I assume that because you aren't familiar with the terms in the above question that you probably aren't a good communicator?"
The thing is I want to know about these fun new games. I feel like discovery is the actual problem.

If I had a random app installed on my home screen every day and I could say "more like this" or "this is horrible" I think it'd be cool. But it would have to be passive.
Facebook has built a platform that's much more accurate and comprehensive than anything experian has, because experian isn't in the business of selling your political beliefs and sexual orientation and a hundred other demographics to marketers.

You can file a FOIA request with Facebook to see what they have on you. Other people have, and have gotten their dossiers. Have you had a phone number or mailing address in the past 10 years? If so, they've gotcha covered.
Actually, the road design was made to minimize driving times. By having a system of cul-de-sacs and crescents minimize the number of intersections that require all way stop. It also minimizes the amount of pavement you need to use.

The solution (other than making things way more dense) is to make walking / biking paths at the end of cul-de-sacs to connect the suburbs for pedestrians, while still maintaining the advantages on non-grid street layout.