skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't. The point being made was that W3Schools browser usage closely correlates to HN browser usage, which I think isn't accurate. W3Schools isn't that great of a resource, and I presume that the average HN reader's expertise is such that they wouldn't rely on a resource like W3Schools.
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Yes but you have to remember that those numbers are for Africa where infection control is light years behind developed nations.
If I'm not mistaken, you can get your "refund" only in the next two hours after purchasing an app ("refund" is it quotes because it's not actually a refund but they haven't simply charged you yet.) Two hours are woefully inadequate to evaluate a desktop app and I'm willing to bet that there are laws/rules/guidelines prohibiting something like this with a time period of two weeks or more.
After spending a good chunk of my time in sales before I became a developer, this is one of those skills which can set you apart from everybody else.It's such a valuable tool and one of the reasons I've been hired multiple times out of large pools of candidates.

The other great thing is it doesn't take a lot of time to master. Oh sure, if you want to close multi-million dollar deals it takes some time, but if you just want to learn the basics of closing and how to read people, it's pretty easy.

Also, a lot of these techniques never get old, they're still the same methods people have been using for decades, so it's not like tech where tools and techniques are quickly outdated.

If anybody's interested, I can post some resources.
Why did StealthGenie get busted by the Feds?
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1008706
Great read.

"A telephone isn't private anymore. You can't say anything you really want to say on a telephone or you have to go through that paranoid bull----. 'Is it cool to talk on the phone?' I mean, even if it is cool, if you have to ask 'Is it cool,' then it isn't cool. You know."
The are actively responding to a possible intrusion and are therefore not motivated to give away specific details of the attacker's techniques to either the attacker or other hostile parties.

The MD5's you want are specific to the kit used to attack their client and would disclose the effectiveness of their response and investigation to an attacker,and are also not much good to anyone else. In the Disqus comments the author offers to provide them on request from legitimate researchers.

This is a standard precaution, not at all bogus, and it is great that they were able to share as much as they did for general use.
As much as I support Apple and have been since 1979, including being an early Mac developer in 1985 and even working there in the horrible mid-90's, the major problem is that Tim and Jony don't care (and Steve didn't either for that matter) about developers enough to do anything more than what works for Apple. Whether the people in charge have no budget or don't care or are hamstrung by politics, nothing will change until and if the top people start to care. Apple makes so much money even with all the crap we have to put up with as developers they clearly have no reason to change and sadly I don't expect them to. You don't tell the world's most valuable company how to run their business. It didn't work for people telling Microsoft in the 90's or Apple today.

Sorry for the brutal truth but it is what it is.
One quick point for the young among the readership: an American can accumulate a hell of a lot without being a hoarder. I married into an extremely tidy family--no dust on the tabletops, let alone piles of stuff on the floor. But when I helped clean out a couple of houses, it was still a big task.
15 minutes, now.
What we’ve learned along the way:

— A stream of cards is a very flexible, powerful model. With time you can add many types of cards and many dynamic rules how cards are sequenced. Cards examples: dual-choice questions, action checklists, score yourself, ask a question, get notes, theory cards, promotions.

— There is a big joy to start a new learning track with just a few cards and publish it in minutes. Then see the learners data and add / update / remove cards in real time. The velocity of teacher-learner feedback loop is 100x faster than on other education platforms.

— Collaborative authoring is the future. One author can start and curate a new track, but it is contributors who make it really effective and deep.
Great article, but I think starting with Sinatra instead of rails would get you a lot skinnier a lot quicker
Fifty years ago there would be a quarantine, no travellers from Africa, and no response necessary.
I thought this service already existed? Isn't Show HN kinda meant to show new products?
Yeah, for a simple plural that can be a bit longer. In other languages, though, the pluralization rules get rather complicated[1]. (For example, Arabic has both complicated pluralization rules -and- a lot of people who speak it.)

The strength of the ICU message format, in my mind, is that the messages can be "nested" so that the translation can be customized for multiple concerns (plural, gender, whatever).

Also, with the integrations (dust, handlebars, react) the details of translation and display of data lives in the message format and/or template. This is the "view layer", and means that your controller/code isn't littered with a bunch of calls to a translation library.

[1] http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/la...
If the US simplified the tax system, congressmen would no longer be able to dole out industry and company-specific tax breaks as 'favors' to donors and supporters. These targeted tax breaks also serve to show that the elected representatives are 'taking action' to do things like 'create jobs' and 'reduce unemployment'.
> and started by trying a "gallbladder cleansing."

Can you elaborate on what this is?
I have had good luck with https://github.com/mozilla/localForage as an API abstraction
can't upvote enough. not every monitoring check has to page. this is the key insight -- more visibility is always better, more alerting is not.
We were in beta for a year (and never did a Show HN). We just relaunched as a pretty different service.
> text alone is not nice either. Good luck describing a complex design, I much prefer a diagram.

If you look at a detailed diagram of a complex design, it is even worse than text. I consider myself pretty good at spacial intelligence (Before discovering computers, I was leaning towards mechanical engineering and took 4 years of technical drawing at middle school level, not to mention my lifelong hobby: drawing/sketching), yet give me a call-graph with more than a hundred elements in it and my head will start aching in no time.

If there are high quality diagrams that represent any complex entity in a relatively accurate way is only a consequence of the fact that some (probably)human intelligence has devoted a significant amount of time to synthesize the essence of the problem at hand, abstract the irrelevant details away, and use a highly symbolic representation to communicate the results to others.

You can do that with text (it is called summarizing), but it requires more training for both the producer and the consumers to do it effectively, which takes us to the next point.

> Text can also be ambiguous and it requires more attention than a video

Video and other graphical media helps to lower the threshold to communicate this summarized bits of information, which has both advantages and disadvantages. If there are social advantages to communicate some information to the general population, then significant amounts of effort should be devoted to making the message as digestible as possible (without losing to much accuracy).

However, if you rely on this methods to train the professionals, you will end up with a bunch of marginally competent fools that are not capable of grasping just how much more learning they are missing. Then, they will take over the training of the next generations and knowledge loss is practically inevitable.

There are cases where precision is required, and anything that lowers the attention threshold is more a bug than a feature.
Pi-Top, a Raspberry Pi laptop you build yourself, (38% funding in one day)
Again, nope. If you're ~50 lbs overweight, and then cut out starches and sugars, replacing them with protein and fat, but increase your overall calorie intake slightly, there's still a good chance you will lose weight.

So, not an obvious truism, but actually incorrect.
I had a similar experience recently.

I recently had an ingrown toenail. The last time I had one (in high school) I let it get so bad that after gym class my white sock would be entirely red with blood. I had to go to a pediatrist who ended up using some kind of special scissors to cut a large chunk of my toenail off to fix it and wrapped it up for a while.

Presuming I would have to go through this again, and would need a referral, I went to my local physician. Not surprisingly, said it was indeed an ingrown toenail. But, surprisingly, her first suggestion was to prescribe me some antibiotics!

That was the first time in my life I had wondered about the suggested treatment, and I actually asked her "how would that help?" And I can't remember her answer, but it seemed really dumb, so I just said "no thanks" and asked what the alternatives were, and she said "to just let it grow out" after which I would be all fine.

Now, recalling this story, I remember someone telling me about "BRAIN" or something like it, an acronym that includes "risk" and "alternatives" and "intrusive" and something else.
If they have functioning brain they should - decouple the browser from the OS and then sue apple for anti competitiveness if the browser engine is not allowed on the ios store (MS is one of the few companies that could reasonably well pull this off)
I wouldn't say Dart hasn't gone anywhere. Its gone from 81st place to 17th on tiobe in just 1 year. To me, that is going somewhere.
See http://blog.sidstamm.com/2012/02/malware-and-phishing-protec... and http://bugzil.la/368255

Google's Safe Browsing API (malware and phishing protection) requires a cookie. But Firefox puts that cookie in a separate bucket than the one used for regular requests. If you have cookies enabled, you'll actually end up with two separate google.com "PREF" cookies - one for regular HTTP requests, and one just for for updating the Safe Browsing lists. Disabling Safe Browsing will prevent that cookie from every being sent, and should allow you to delete it (EDIT: modulo the cookie manager bug below).

UPDATE: It looks like http://bugzil.la/1026538 is why the cookie keeps reappearing.
> GOTRACE: emits Chrome trace viewer and will allow for us to visualize scheduler actions and more in Chrome

I'm very excited about this, but I wonder if it will scale to visualize hundreds to thousands of goroutines in a useful way. That's where existing inspection tooling like logging and snapshotting goroutine dumps fall apart.
Well, one of the complaints of the article was that the app store does not support paid upgrades, so by "a lump sum single payment" grandparent probably meant that the lump sum would entitle the user to all future upgrades, which is not how the traditional model worked.
If Apple could persuade Adobe to sell Photoshop for $0.99 it would be good for Mac adoption. Then once Adobe goes out of business, Apple could buy the Photoshop IP at a knock-down price, make it Mac-only, and give it away with the OS.
What I am saying is there is no way to pry them apart. There is no lens through which you can look at any aspect of human history and disambiguate the "good civilization" from the "bad civilization" without that lens having been created by the same civilization itself, which is -- a priori based on the assumption in the question -- doomed.

*I suppose you could make a case by looking at various extinct civilizations other than ours.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/30476eda-53a6-11e4-8285-00144feab7...
Ask HN: Where to find startup culture? 
My current (and favorite so far) read is Zero To One by Peter Thiel.

To say that I've enjoyed this book so far would be a vast understatement. Chapter 8 on Secrets is fantastic, and Chapters 3&4 on Competition V. Monopoly was mind blowing.

Though chapter 10 prompts a question about culture that I can't seem to find an answer to.

The idea fascinates me, but I question: Where do I find such a culture?

As a mid twenties developer who loves to build things, I find it near impossible to find passionate people about software near me.

I don't know if it's my location in the bible belt, that near everyone I graduated with has 2 or 3 kids already, or if this kind of culture only exists on the coasts.

But where in the world do I go to find such a culture?
I'm trying to use IE11, but the #1 issue I find are document modes.

I often find sites which set the wrong document mode (ex. IE9), and the site behaves broken in comparison with the IE11 document mode. (Basically people taking for granted that every IE is a faulty browser, and giving up completely).

Plus, having zero ability to tell IE: "Fuck the Internet, I want to use the newest document mode for everything!!!" is a really negative misfeature.

If anyone from the IE team reads this: Please, add a system policy to force a document mode unless compatibility mode is enabled.
Jeez FF really stepping up the game. Seems like 32 was released just yesterday.

I'm not sure if there are any performance issues since I switched to FF about a year ago when bought new laptop with SSD and 16 gigs of ram it's as fast as Chrome. As for webdev tools, they are not worse, you are just too used to webkit ones. I might even say that FF has better dev tools because you can modify request and re-send it.

I switched because Google is trying to integrate Google too much into Chrome. That's definitely not something I look in a browser since I would like it to be independent and not spy on what I type/do.

Anyway, if anyone who is contributing to FF reading this I just want to thank you for best browser ever.
You misread parent; they asked if not reporting it would be illegal, not the painting itself.
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Please do. Thank you.
I use Firefox as my main browser but that is, sadly, not true. Chrome remains faster, especially with js heavy webapplications. Some don't work in fx at all.
The big thing with text is the ease of changing which piece of information you're consuming. Anything that's on the same page is an eye-movement away, which is the cheapest action a human can take. For a video, you have to interact with the controls and hope you get to the right place.
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Show HN: iGrowl – growl notifications with an emphasis on icons
> I bet Safari Canvas performance is also high, since they can directly bind to OSX.

On my machine (old MBP, 10.9.5)

Firefox 33: 35.2s

Safari 7.1: 18.57s

Chrome 34[0]: 28.6s

[0] yes I know it's not up to date
I'm sure they get plenty of money from entities interested in monitoring communications.
I personally set all my Venmo payments to private - but it does offer a very slight form of entertainment giving the news feed a quick scroll whenever I make a payment. It's certainly not something I check unless I'm already using the app though. Funny to see "John paid Christy for 'Moldy cheeseburgers'" or whatever your friends come up with.

The actual use of it is absolutely amazing though. When I needed to pay my sister for my share of our parents anniversary gift I was out backpacking in Europe, it took all of 5 seconds to send her the money across seas from my bank account and for her to receive it.
Of course there's such a thing as a fair share - what society thinks you and others in y9ur situation should pay to take part.

It's not a hard number but perceptions of fairness are certainly important in how democratic countries formulate tax law.
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The thing I'm most curious about is how to get this working within more "natural" constraints: i.e., ants in real life can't emit pheromones on their entire path history, only their current location. Is there a way to still successfully run this simulation taking that constraint into consideration?
"Sign up with Facebook"

No thanks. I'll stick with OKCupid.

edit: since this is a YC company, I'll add some content to my criticism (even though most of this should be obvious).

1. This is a new service, and people don't know you yet. Asking them to sign up with their Facebook account is asking for too much, because there is no trust element established. Consider having a stand-alone sign-up mechanism that enables some bare-bone features with the option to hook up to Facebook for additional benefits (i.e. 5 matches per week vs. 2 matches, promise for more accurate matching, etc.). Users need to see some value out of the service before they volunteer their Facebook info.

2. Lots of people don't use Facebook, and even more of them are leaving Facebook. There are also lots of people who are cynical towards it and use it as little as possible. You are certainly alienating them by requiring a Facebook account.
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It's pathetic that a government agency is beholden to charity from billionaires instead of being fully funded from tax receipts. What a debacle.

That said, hat's off to Zuckerberg. His reaction sharply contrasts with so much of the shameful, cynical fearmongering from some quarters.
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Not having to create a separate login for the store ('appleID' or whatever it's called), for one. Not having to manually switch back and forth between regions for reasons I still don't understand.

I'm on a mac but basically never use the app store anymore, because it's such a pain.
The original service was group dating. You signed up for the service, pay $20, and get put on a group date customized by the service. (I attended a group consultation for the service, but wasn't impressed enough to pay and continue with the date)

The startup pivoted because, unsurprisingly, single dates are more popular.
You can use it now in the Firefox Aurora test channel:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/webide-storage-inspector-j...

(It'll be in Firefox Beta later this week, too.)
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Completely true.

Kind of makes me want to look more seriously into making apps for Microsoft platforms.

That said, Mac owners are generally far more likely to go out and look for new apps to buy. Whereas Windows users will find an app that does the job, and keep using that app forever (and recommend it to friends/family).

So even though there are way more Windows users, it seems more likely to make a living as an indie Mac dev than an indie Windows dev.
I used to have a large amount of bookmarks on the bookmark bar, which did cause sluggish tab switching. I've recently removed all of those which did improve the tab switching speed, but not the tab creation speed. I should probably do some more hunting through that issue tracker at some point...
Fifty years ago, not many people would have cared if travel was cut off. The world is a different place now and countries (continents?) are not as isolated as they are now. You can't get away with blank travel bans any more because it would cause a huge disruption for a lot of people.
I'd argue that games are the best use case for the Mac App Store, Steam as others have pointed out has the cost of the Steam application.

For casual gamers, the Mac App Store is more than vibrant and has the same update management that Steam has, and its decoupled from a parent application.

Games rarely have upgrade pricing, almost never need extensive permissions, and while quick updates can be necessary, the necessity of upgrades aren't as crucial as a productivity/professional application where one's livelihood may be tied to the updates.
There was a flu pandemic in 1957, for which I can't find any evidence that the United States initiated a quarantine or blocked travelers from Asia. So, I'd love to know why you think there would've been a quarantine 50 years ago. Would it have been in response to the flu pandemic 7 years before?
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I believe Steam is dabbling with desktop software as well.
Thanks to Nick Sivo for turning these around so fast. I think it takes YouTube awhile to add automated closed captions to the videos (couple of days if I remember last time). Because they're not great, we're also in the process of having them transcribed, which takes a bit longer, but will be more accurate. That'll probably be done in a week or so. Thanks everyone for watching!
One of the few things I like about the Amazon app store is their feature called "Test Drive" which allows a user to test an app before purchasing it. One can not only test it on their device but also test it inside a web browser.
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I have come to realize that these more extended elements (things beyond <select>, and input types such as password, text, or email) are actually pretty evil. Let me make a small argument in favor of this view:

1. They will provide different UI across different desktop browsers/OS's, etc. The theory was that the browser can decide what the datepicker should look like. The practice is that half of them are ugly or lack the UI you want and you can't do much to fix that.

2. What the UI looks like is still in flux and will likely remain in flux. This means that not only do you have to test/support all the currently provided UI, but you also have to be ready for unexpected changes in the future.

3. Specifically because you cannot change what the (fairly complex) UI looks like, you cannot make it match your theme. This can be a huge pain.

4. There are better JS-based datepickers out there for the desktop.

The only reason to use <input type="date"> IMO would be for a mobile-only site. iOS/Safari uses a stable native date implementation which is awesome. However, on the desktop, there is no standard datepicker widget to use the same way, so it just ends up looking weird.

What I would actually love is an <input> type that lets me just type in a date (think a date of birth field) where the input is perfectly validated. That's right, in 2014 with out state of the art browsers, this is still nearly impossible. Sure you can use a regex, but have you tried putting together a regex that validates 2/29/2012 vs 2/29/2014 vs 2/29/1900? On top of that, the patter= attribute doesn't prevent you from typing/pasting, it only provides a place to put validation that's optional. A callback mechanism for as-you-type validation would be so much better.
Don't blame on Mac App Store, blame on the market instead.

In case of survival, change your business model as well as monetization approaches.
Mobile Safari and mobile Firefox support type="date" inputs.

Desktop Safari and desktop Firefox do not.
There's an opportunity to do something about it coming up in just a couple weeks. First Tuesday in November, to be precise.
Checkr (YC S14) raises $9M to provide an API for background checks
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(Disclaimer: that last part was told to me as advice by a lone indie dev who makes about $189,000 per year off his lone Mac app and puts nearly all of the revenue in savings. So I have a bit of trust in that advice.)
Spot on. It really does help in all aspects of company-building, and like you say - it's not an extremely steep learning curve, the basics will take you a fair way.
This... looks amazing. I totally want one of these for myself, and it looks like an absolutely amazing educational experience for younger folks. Love that quote about how "the days of DIY computing are back".

But... we have to stay vigilant, as too much computing these days involves closed systems, proprietary firmware and driver binary blobs, DRM'd crap, etc. Remember the "war on general purpose computing".[1]

[1]: http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html