skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the data handling choices in mobile and iOS in particular seem predicated on the hidden assumption that user data is not very valuable.

No, I think it's predicated on the assumption that user data is very valuable --- to the companies that inevitably try to mine and monetise it --- that freedom should be taken away from the users and the platform should provide developers with as much control over the users' data as possible. It's an ongoing movement to lock down devices against the user; to turn general-purpose computers into restricted environments for consumption and very little creation. No doubt the media companies' DRM interests are partially responsible for this.

Even the concept of a file as an application-neutral container for data is being slowly obfuscated away by this movement, as users are gradually conditioned to open apps first, and then open their data from them. I think one of my biggest surprises upon using an Android smartphone for the first time was discovering that it didn't even have a rudimentary text editor by default (something that I was accustomed to on every other OS), nor could the standard file manager view text files although it could view movies, pictures, and music. As I understand it, the iOS situation is even more restricted than that, with not even a file manager provided as part of the OS.

As another datapoint, I've encountered quite a few beginning computer science students who didn't really know what a file is, and were quite amazed that multiple applications could work with the same files.
"The accelerator boasts a portfolio that includes Mirror, snapCard and BitPagos"

why omit AuditFile and CommitChange?
Paying with Coin is all fun and games until someone thinks you’re a criminal
You're right, but that's not the reason here. That's with the default filter; you can adjust the date range, or show based on lines added/removed, and I'm still not showing up even in cases when it shows less than 100 people and/or with less total lines added/removed than my commits.
That's true, but it's also true of any savings scheme, and any scheme where retirees exist, public or private.
1. Setup an open access point in the middle of campus.

2. Give it a default name (e.g. 'linksys').

3. Capture packets.

4. Profit.
N is the smallest number without a wikipedia page. A page is created to document this fact. N+1 is now the smallest number without a wikipedia page.

But if you created the page for N, that was its only feature of notability. If you create a page for N+1, N is now no longer notable. But that means also means that N+1's page is both inaccurate and not notable, and so it must be deleted. N is now once again the smallest number without a wikipedia page.

So rather than creating an infinitely increasing set of pages, I think you end up toggling forever between N and N+1
I think this is interesting because companies from day one may look at making their processes operate entirely on bitcoin from day 0. (payroll,bills,etc...) - I wander how many of the companies will cash it out and how many will use it for day to day operations. (This is also referenced in a comment below the article)

But given this is months out, this may be a $300k bankroll for each company. (Of course could go the other way)
I liked Influx so much in my current project at work, I couldn't help it and even used it for a little html5 game to track some metrics of the game and server.
http://www.mashed-games.com/stats.html
Sooooo much better! Thank you!
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I don't much care to admit it, but I have an irrational fear of doctors. This would be a great help for me.

Even better, if you enable people all over the world tohave access to the best doctors.
1. I'll be optimizing the fulfillment process as time progresses (thus lowering prices).

2. That's a good point. Definitely something I thought about while building it. I decided to just move forward with how it currently is and optimize/iterate after feedback/testing.

3. No reason in particular :)

Appreciate the thoughts!
Am I the only person that really likes Xcode?

It's the first IDE that I've used that doesn't dedicate the entirety of its chrome to 100 different buttons. The developer workflow is nice (Open Files Quickly, Go to Line, Symbol navigation, pragma marks, breadcrumb bar, continuous build cycle, CI integration with OS X server, etc). I can get Vim bindings with Xvim, (this is not an Xcode feature by default but it's worth mentioning because it's the best Vim emulation plugin I've used apart from IntelliJ's). It has Interface Builder, Instruments, etc all integrated and super easy to work with. Most of all, Xcode's simplicity. I started iOS and Mac dev with 0 experience working with Xcode and I didn't need any, since it's so easy to use.

Yes, it's a good IDE. Is it a perfect one? Of course not, there are still hundreds of issues like Xcode complaining that a certificate already exists when I try to code-sign my app but Xcode doesn't use it, first few releases of new versions of Xcode are always crash happy, and Xcode's build settings are the ugliest part of Xcode.

Different people prefer different things I suppose. Maybe people became so used to Eclipse and Netbeans ugly UI and incomprehensible buttons everywhere that Xcode doesn't seem as feature full to them.
CSS is unnecessary
"No doubt the media companies' DRM interests are partially responsible for this."

I think there's some truth in this, but you're wrong here. The problem isn't DRM, but what DRM is (impotently) reacting against.

This is the fault of the culture of "free." If people are not willing to pay for stuff, then the model must be turned around and the user monetized exactly as you describe. That's because nothing is actually free. Everything costs money and someone has to pay. If it's not users it must be advertisers, governments, etc.

Free "as in beer" is a socially destructive idea and is the enemy of free "as in freedom."

Edit: bring on the downvotes! Doesn't change the facts. If you don't pay, you are not a customer.
Impressive amount of beautiful surprises here.

ps: I was just talking with someone last week about publicity, and what was the oldest form of non local, non hearsay publicity. This cannot come at a better time.
Deobfuscation: recovering an OLLVM-protected program
"CSV can be consumed by anything"

That's the thing. For 99.99% of users there is no anything. There is only Excel. And dealing with CSV files is headache for them.

It's as if you designed parking garages to accommodate both horses and cars - because someone out there might be coming on a horse.
Perhaps a basic income would be a more general solution than Snowdrift.
I agree! Good thoughts (both of you). I love the idea of a gallery of examples.
I switched to Android Studio just a couple months ago and the main deficiency I've found compared to Eclipse is that it doesn't auto-build the project on every change so you can immediately see all breakage. I'm constantly hitting "Rebuild Project" because someone decided it couldn't be done for me.

As for advantages over Eclipse, they've been minor. No real big improvements except the automatic dependency management of Gradle.

The reason for the giant effort to switch the entire ecosystem over is a bit mysterious to me.
It depends on the city. In Melbourne, Australia for example I find Google Maps to be less accurate than Apple Maps. I also found the same in parts of Tokyo.
sorry, the good link : http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-19/new-tinder-s...
The next obvious thing that will start to happen is higher crime. Lots of unemployed, lots of time on hands, and no future.
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I think the clearest sign that Patreon is doing something that's significant is this: I started a Patreon for my comics because my fans asked me if I had one.

It's grown slowly over the past year; I currently get $91 every time I draw a page of my comic, and made about $450 last month - with zero effort on my part beyond putting a few links to it here and there on my site, and talking about it on Twitter and my blog when I first set it up.

Sure, there are a million ways I could distribute my comics and get money for them. But every new channel I try to play with is time I'm not spending on the comic. Maintaining two channels (free on the website, publishing books via Kickstarter and selling them at various comic conventions) already takes up a lot of my energy that I'd rather be spending on drawing more pages.

(said comic is http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/, since I always get a few people asking where it is if I don't post a link to it when I mention it around here.)
FTA: "at certain times by monitoring it 24/7 with an app"

How can the app do this without a BP device constantly attached to one's arm, inflating/deflating all the time?
Or is it just a spreadsheet for entering the values? The article was skimpy on the details.
I just meant google has such a massive head start
It plays quite well actually, that's the thing.
I'm pretty sure being the smallest number without a Wikipedia page does not fit the Wikipedia notability criteria for an article, so the article for N would never be approved.
I think this is why exploring for life on some of Saturn's and Jupiter's moons will be exciting. If there is life on those, especially places like Titan, it will likely be quite different from what we have here on Earth.
I don't use eLance for the specific reason that its rates are so low. I find my leads other ways.

Here are some:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/

I have lots more that I'll post soon.
The above trick also works with Intellij proper. The only downside is you have to change it again after every update.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote, anywhere.

I'm bootstrapping an analytics Rails app and need someone to knock over the last ~100 hours or so. Budget is tight so open to anyone, anywhere :) You'll be implementing dashboards, widgets, billing etc.

It's a Rails 4/MongoDB app with jQuery on the frontend, so I'm after someone more backend focused (& with some devops skills ideally). I've done all the HTML/CSS & have plenty of docs to help you get up to speed quickly. If you're reliable, available, and affordable, please get in touch :D Email ldstevens at gmail dot com. Thanks!
Towards second world countries like China that have been quietly busting their asses after WWII.
from the global data trends it seems clear that an increasing proportion is being captured and kept in th capitalist/owner class, at the expense of labor. there's been a noticeable shift worldwide overall
1972 was a crazy year.
>You pay taxes that are not much higher than in the US and actually get things in return, like excellent health care, free tuition a social safety net, better infrastructure, and a much much higher standard of living across the board. Wellstone was right: We all do better when we all do better.

You mean "We all do better when we use oil money spend $3800 more per capita than we collect in taxes".
Sockpuppets and astroturfing are not ok on Hacker News. This looks like a cool project—please don't spoil its reception here with bad voting and commenting tactics.
Mesosphere Raises $36M for Data Center Operating System
Ask HN: How to Successfully Handle Fortune 500 Companies?
My team and I have been working on our start-up for about 20 months. Our strengths lie in tech and creativity and ATM we severely lack business acumen.

I wonder if others here have dealt with massive companies who were extremely eager to work with you and your technology, but the deal fell through. Specifically, because your contact( for us a VP of Tech) you were working with did not want to be bothered by any legal document that protected years of work. His company would greatly benefit from our non-public patent-pending technology at the event and overall their entire bottom line.

Though now this great opportunity is gone, I'm wondering maybe we should have rolled the dice and just RAN with it. Is business more important, then protecting your IP and not having any legal contract between you and a Fortune 500 company? We thought a short page & half legal document was fair, but overall it killed the deal.

This would have been our first real customer and a massive one at that. The VP was going to use our event technology an upcoming conference full of the CEOs of this massive company. Our technology is currently in private closed beta.

What has your experience been? All our advisers said they must sign the document.
Try LibGDX
Say what you want about Xcode but it is not in as bad a state of most of the Android IDEs. And Visual Studio is light years ahead of both.
After using Netflix, TV/cable in unbearable to me. After using an iPod, radio is just obnoxious and exhausting. "Deals deals DEALSS!!!" Hey, after driving a car, feeding a horse probably seems downright wasteful.

It will be very hard to convince people to give up Adblock when the alternative is so offensive to their sense of comfort and wellbeing. If a business is going to tank because of Adblock, then good riddance.
I like that, but how can you send tips as low as 50 cents (as one screenshot says) without losing it all to the payment processor (and not the musician)?
I read read horror stories in International Living, etc. about people paying huge penalties for minor mistakes in filings.

Also, with FACTA, foreign banks get screwed by the U.S. if they make a mistake on paperwork - really big fines.
I come here to say the same thing.

Do not use GitHub as your main website. Use it for some code, but maintain your content in your domain.

It is better for your SEO. This way, you have a product, not only a lot of LOC.
> Immediately, people started to express strong opinions in favor or against it. We had a full-company sitdown to talk about it, but it was really weird because it was all just hypotheticals. Ultimately, we burned a lot of time on it, and the deal was kind of dead in the water due to this approach.

This sounds like the sort of problem you solve with a policy, not by breaking the enabling technology. What about just telling your employees that nascent partnerships—like nascent microservices—start out "owned" by the people exploring them, and everyone can observe their development, but nobody has an implicit right to have input on them until they get to the "release-candidate" phase?
I only tried Android Studio a bit, but I had a similar impression. Eclipse for Android works very well. I'm already familiar with Eclipse.
To summarize more concisely, American citizens living abroad must pay taxes with their time and with their personal information rather than with their dollars or foreign currency.

The issue at hand that induces an increasing number of dual citizens to drop their American citizenship is that the U.S. government is supposedly forbidden from both prying into the private affairs of individuals and from compelling involuntary servitude, yet it does so on a massive scale with respect to its citizens living abroad.

These people are often paying more in tax to their local sovereign authority than they would if resident in one of the United States, and would thus owe no money to the U.S. even if they earned 100 times more. They are not trying to avoid the expense of taxes. They are trying to avoid the annual ordeal of stripping naked before their distant federal overlords in a humiliating ritual designed to show that they are guilty of no crime, absent any individualized suspicion of wrongdoing.

They should enjoy the presumption of innocence that the U.S. is compelled by its foundation law to extend, and be able to keep their private affairs private until there is enough specific evidence that a crime has been committed to issue specific warrants. The federal U.S. government has instead been acting as a bully and an ass, with no discernable goals other than to demand obedience and enforce compliance, for far too long.

They can tax foreign-domiciled citizens as much as they like, for now. Rather than question that here, I would very much like to remove their ability to levy their onerous information reporting requirements on those people and upon the foreign persons that would very much like to do business with them without some nosy busybody rudely inserting himself into the transaction to interfere.

When people who supposedly represent our interests act in such a fashion, it reflects extremely poorly upon the nation as a whole. While foreign entities currently tolerate the behavior, it is only because they lack more viable alternatives.

But beyond the behavior, those expatriates have firsthand knowledge of how other nations operate their taxation systems. And they know that the U.S. system is almost always worse when measured by the scale and complexity of the paperwork. There is no particular technical reason why it is that way. But every time a reform is proposed, the media narrative magically transforms it into an issue about money and fairness rather than transparency, privacy, simplicity, efficiency, or any of the other standards that show it to be a colossal failure when compared with any other modern economy on the planet.

It really is very embarrassing to think that my Big Brother not only watches me in my every waking moment, but he also preemptively beats up every single one of my friends in the schoolyard, just to ensure that I can't even have a moment's peace on a sleepover.
I'm not sure about your comparison. 315M is a lot closer to 500M than it is to 65M. And as far as land mass and GDP go, the US is bigger than the whole of Europe. The EU is newer and so it's hard to say if it will ever get the teeth the US federal government has, but it should be noted that State's Rights are enshrined in the US Constitution, so philosophically it's closer to the EU than to French régions. There no is question of delegating power to states, it's a question of states ceding power to the federal government.
Retard-niggers! I want one NOT visible for 5 miles.
It's not that they can't afford the wedding. I think it's more of a refusal to settle down and commit with someone who doesn't have a stable career/future, or the inflexibility of a spouse whom you'll have to convince to move when the only job options you can find are in a different state.
From the equivalent location in Boston (Beacon Hill) your a 15 minute or less Uber ride away from the gate at BOS. For flights that have dedicated security lines or if I get pre-check I'd leave downtown Boston 1 hour and 15 minutes before takeoff. I've only been bitten by this once in the last few years, in which case you can find an airline employee to get you through the security line ASAP.

However, even if you want to get to the airport early, it's not like that time is wasted. These days I would say relaxing in the airport is just as nice as relaxing in a train car: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/nyregion/improving-ground-.... The last time I was at LGA early I had a huge table to myself and the person I was with, and the table had an iPad I could use to order food and drinks.
Android Studio is customized very specifically for Android development, not a general purpose IDE. Even the New Project dialog will not let you continue without selecting the target Android form factor.

You're being downvoted because your comment reads as being off-topic and/or uninformed (especially with the Python mention). If by Visual Studio and C# you were referring to Xamarin or Mono for Android it would have been clearer if you mentioned that. It would be helpful if you also mentioned why you feel Android Studio targets developers who use those technology instead of the larger pool of Android developers in general. I don't think there's a bias against those technologies here, only against poor comments.
I don't see how this matters much. YikYak is anonymous, so if you stole my "account", all you'd get it my yakkarma. Potentially having a history of past yaks would reveal something about the user (not in my case).
It's also a Django project, I like what you have done. It's a nice lib and it's intuitive. How do you handle a ES document which is a composition of multiple Django Model?

It's just personal opinion but I try to avoid having my application responsible of the data integrity so I went into the way of ES River plugin to pull data. I used the JDBC one, https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-river-jdbc ... I met some problems but at the end, it works quite well and don't need logic in the application keep the data synced.

Two other reason that I used River was to not make the app slower by saving data in ES and also of being able to run the application during development without the need of ES and being installed able to substitute the search with a stub.
He was fired by his VCs. Then they fired his replacement and brought him back.
On *nix, there should be a tool that lets you execute a command whenever files in a certain directory are changed. I did this years ago but forget how I did it.
You're quite right to avoid learning Groovy, especially with its lack of documentation, but Gradle doesn't really use Groovy. It bundles Groovy, and the Gradle build scripts you write are parsed as Groovy code, but typical build scripts only use a small subset of the gigantic Groovy grammar. I've yet to see an open source project's build script, even Groovy's itself, that drops out of the Gradle DSL syntax to do something procedural using Groovy. The whole point of Ant, Maven, etc is to do build declaratively instead of procedurally. In the small number of instances where you do need to, you're better off using Java or any other JVM language you want to configure the build via the Gradle API.

Not only that, but I suspect Gradle won't use Groovy to parse the build scripts for much longer. Those scripts conform to a rough CSS-style syntax that Gradleware could easily replace with their own custom lightweight parser calling Java 8 lambdas. Given that they replaced virtually all the Groovy in their codebase with Java when they upgraded to Gradle 2.0, the next logical step is to eliminate dependence of the Groovy parser as soon as they can.
Gradle documentation is 66, but Android's gradle plugin is only a subset. Plus, gradle _is_ simple and easy to use in the standard scenario of a run-of-the-mill Android app.

It's when your app becomes more complicated (product flavor's for example), that you need to read and understand the gradle documentation. If this is the case, then you are not a novice and 66 chapters of docs is a blessing not a curse.

and Again _the Android gradle plug-in only supports a subset of gradle_!
CLA = Contributor License Agreement

No license agreement should be assigning copyright.

IE All CLA's should be licenses, not assignments.

Any project with a copyright assignment doesn't have a CLA, they have a copyright assignment.
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> YikYak is mostly used on university campuses and odds are if a student is on campus they would be connected to the university wifi

Based on some of the vague locations that Yik Yak gives with each post I'd say a little less than half are actually sent from on campus.
or like apple:

0, 3g, 3gs, 4, 4s, 5, 5C, 5s, 6

or like valve: 1, 2, ... ummm... 1?
That's unfortunate that the game developers did not get back to you. They should have at least given you a response. There is no excuse for that.

The proper response from a Unity game developer who wants to sell a Linux version but not support it is pretty simple- just offer refunds for anyone who has problems. 0 work and problem solved.

Also, good Unity developers know there are platform specific issues (and how to solve them). I'm not saying platform specific bugs don't exist. They're just rare. When they happen, post on the Unity forums or Unity Answers site. Unity employees will read it, and get back to you. The support is great. This is why you use Unity. Let Unity do this work for you!