skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remove barriers to creating something and the market tends to devolve towards, well, marketing.

Anyone can write a book now - and get it to market. It's never been easier technically to write anything including games. And app markets take away much, if not all, challenges of go to market.

Such markets are destined to get flooded and to (reliably) get noticed in such a market, you need a marketing budget.
As the author, so am I! I thought I'd repost it and miraculously it got to at least position 30...
"But their advice is clear: if you are asked your opinion, you must agree with the decision, maybe stoically, but you must agree, not just concede. You must speak for the company, not for yourself."

And this is why middle management is next to useless and why there have been so many cuts over the last 20 years. If you aren't honest with your direct reports then you will be seen as untrustworthy and/or clueless. Either way I'm certainly not going to feel inclined to be honest and straightforward with you.
AWS Innovation at Scale [video]
Is 2015 the Year for Reasonably Priced International Data Roaming?
Funny, I had just switched over my last GoDaddy domain yesterday to start using a different nameserver and finally move it off their system entirely. Might have to give this a try.
On Building Systems That Will Fail – 1991 Turing Award [pdf]
As far as I can tell, the link doesn't contradict what the post said. The article is US centric, and the link you gave supports their claim that Ford was the company which popularized the 40 hour work week.

"By 1905, the eight-hour day was widely installed in the printing trades – see International Typographical Union (section) – but the vast majority of Americans worked 12-14 hour days.

On January 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company took the radical step of doubling pay to $5 a day and cut shifts from nine hours to eight, moves that were not popular with rival companies, although seeing the increase in Ford's productivity, and a significant increase in profit margin (from $30 million to $60 million in two years), most soon followed suit."
Another one - "prefect" should be "perfect".
Google also scans gmail attachments for it as well. This has been known for a while and the subject of quite a few public court cases. I wouldn't be surprised if Dropbox did it as well. Along with things of national security interest.

When local police get a warrant to do a forensic search of computers the judge often requires that they search harddrives using known image/file hashes - as opposed to looking through each file by hand - in order to protect that persons constitutional right to privacy.

This right primarily applies to personal computers and doesn't exist (as clearly) as defined by law when the files are stored on a remote cloud service. Although whether cloud services have a similar high threshold of assumed privacy is a recurring debate in criminal law, as storing your whole life in cloud services is a relatively new phenomenon.
Treat Depression with the Fisher Wallace Stimulator?
Dumb question. When you're making ice-cream / drinks are you actually mixing liquid nitrogen as an ingredient into these drinks / foods? I thought it was solely an agent to quickly cool things I wasn't aware you were actually ingesting liquid nitrogen. Does it modify the taste at all? Is it safe?
>As people have free will

When did this become a fact?
and if i recall correct, the first few seasons opening sequence song has mohammad and super best friends - so the image is in every episode of those seasons.
>> the team was comprised of about 6 people

Did you count in the failures and almost-failures for the rest of the company on their way to discovering this ?
U.S. Best Jobs of 2015
> They're not going to acquire you for $2M plus give you an additional $200k vesting RSUs per year.

If that is the case the hypothetical offer (that never was) starts approaching insultingly deceptive given the way they went about it.

If I started talking to someone about an acqui-hire and they expect to get a "discount" on salary and options/RSUs based on the acquisition price, then the acquisition price is artificially inflated to get my interest unless the hinted at acquisition amount makes the salary and RSUs a rounding error (in which case they'd be idiots to potentially antagonise a desirable hire over it). And I'd be tempted to tell them to fuck off just on principle.

Of course Google is not obliged to make him a good offer. But they ought to realise the damage these kind of approaches are doing to their brand amongst potential hires. For my part, while I've never experienced anything like in this article from Google, my experiences with (half a dozen plus) Google recruiters have been entirely negative whenever they've approached me, to the point where I recount my history with past Google recruiters every time a new one calls to make it clear to them why I am going to be short with them until/unless they prove they're worth my time. No other company's has been as disrespectful of my time.

> Point being, there's nothing scammy about a deal being negotiated down

But there is plenty scammy about not making it clear that they are trying to hire him but instead giving the impression they are after his product.
GoPro Plunges After Apple Gains Remote Camera Patent
Why does this have to be solved at the legislative level? Can't we rally around the idea that we are worth more than we're being compensated, and change our behavior accordingly, or is that relegated only to legalizing pot?
A less popular takeaway from this article, albeit anecdotal, is that Twitter ads work really well when targeted appropriately.
I've heard mentioned in books on psychology before about this effect, and it seems at least from a clinical perspective, that people do tend to choose their professions based on their names.

I'm sorry I can't provide sources.
I started moving all of my domains back to NameCheap from Badger after they raised their prices to what Hover charges.

The domain renewal with whois privacy/guard at NameCheap ends up being a little more than Google Domains.

I keep hoping NameCheap will overhaul their control panel design like they did with their main site.

I will probably end up moving to AWS Route53 or Google Domains or to use their DNS and a clean/modern interface and simpler pricing (include whois privacy).
More like, the iOS app store gold rush ended. The indie dev scene is thriving on PC. Stop throwing your time and money away developing for a platform overwhelmingly used by people that don't really care about your games, that are looking for brief distractions while they wait in the checkout line, and by and large refuse to pay even a dollar for the privilege. Don't blame the industry because you avoided the platform used by people that actually buy games, play them for hours a day, tirelessly promote the good ones on message boards and amongst their friends, and will actually appreciate the effort you put into your work.

Also, Donkey Kong was not created by a "lone game developer." Miyamoto may have designed Donkey Kong by himself, but he had entire team of contract developers at his disposal.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134790/the_secret_hist...

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Company:Ikegami_Tsus...
It never did. It's always been an optional update.
Gear VR: Today’s best virtual reality
$2M as part of a signing bonus seems like an "acqui" to me. It just wasn't enough for the author. Which is fine, but not exactly as much of a scam as he implied.

This article just seems to be a real world example of PG's essay this month about "don't talk to corp dev." [1]

[1] http://paulgraham.com/corpdev.html
Kanbanote – Evernote as a Trello
Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
The Designer Developer
Can't wait to ditch enom. This looks like a good suitor.

No Canadian support yet.

Soon, eh!
How to Get Local Services on Demand in 3 Clicks
Fair point. With their non-existent review process it's much easier to deploy spam/malware (or plain crap) to the store.

That said however, look at the categories that have been getting most of those new apps. Games in particular, wasn't a category that was as busy in years before. That to me is where the shift is happening, and I'd attribute it to the success of freemium apps (which is most likely the result of putting Android devices in the use of mainstream users).
Why is Google ignoring over 400,000 backlinks to DockYard?
Much Ado About Cord Cutting
It's cluttered and dated, sadly. We have a new design about ready as part of our Drupal 8 upgrade but had some issues upgrading to it. I'll be making another attempt soon.
It looks very Dr. Seuss.
Is Google doing it as well supposed to make me feel better or worse? That kind of logic always bothers me, because it bypasses the arguments about whether it's good or wrong, and just says "well others are doing it, too - so it must be okay". It's like saying "well UK tortured as well, so why does it matter that US tortured?" I think you get my point.

I also doubt that if they get a warrant, they'll only scan the drives for the hashes. That seems highly unlikely unless the FBI/prosecutors themselves specify in their request to the judge that they only want to do the hash scanning - but I don't see why they would want to limit themselves to that, when they know the judge is likely to give them full access to it, if they already have some evidence of "criminal activity", without which I assume they wouldn't even bother getting a warrant.
It doesn't even leave a trace or a byproduct?
Tool for setup HTML email signatures in Google Apps
Ufficient is currently in Beta
Well, investing in weapons is not necessarily at odds with that, given the frequency with which weapons are employed to coerce transactions. So you could be a libertarian and still decline to invest in such things without being intellectually dishonest.
Mmmh some jurists disagree. This is a very real and surprising example of the inherent difficulties of your position: dwarf-tossing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf-tossing
Use Rust from Ruby
And Cortana on my Windows notebook.
I think you're misunderstanding what's being discussed. Two people trading money for guns is a net gain specifically for those two people, but is not necessarily a societal gain.
Show HN: Sparknotes for your GitHub account (prototype)
I do a lot of freelancing, and I’ve found myself pasting links to code into emails/proposals over and over:

"Check out http://{github repo}/{folder}/{file}#L134 for a good example of using ui-router.” Etc.

I built a prototype of what I’d rather use, and I’m curious to see if it resonates with anyone else. I’m happy to hack together a way for you to build your own, if it would be useful.

Here’s mine: http://skills.alonso.io

You can also link to specific sections/projects like so: http://skills.alonso.io/nodejs

PS - sorry, no mobile nav yet.
No, they really didn't. I've fixed quite a few friends' computers and asked 'why do you have Safari and Quicktime installed?' and the answer is always 'I have no idea, maybe iTunes did it'.
Knowing first hand google support I will stick to namecheap ...
Sales Guy Looking for Technical Co-Founder
Just an idea I had for a sentiment value analytics program.

How do I go about finding a Technical Co-Founder for my idea?
I know this is a very genreal question but I hope to get some valuable insight.

Thank you!
> More developers joined Google in 2014 than Apple and Google combined

Maybe that should read "Apple and Amazon?"
This is fantastic! Any ETA on Spotify support?
> That seems highly unlikely unless the FBI/prosecutors themselves specify in their request to the judge that they only want to do the hash scanning

It depends on the case I guess. I heard this from a lawyer I know who has worked on CP cases. Judges always try to limit the privacy exposure in every warrant. By doing so the police can get access to warrants easier since it requires a lower threshold of probable cause than say searching an entire house.

Especially if the police found the person because they used a P2P site to download a particular file or had a hash in their email account. A minimal warrant to search for that hash is much easier to defend in court against arguments by the defense of constitutional privacy violations of a full data search.

The police have to do this minimization process in phone wiretaps as well. They aren't supposed to listen nor store the phone call unless the information is relevant to the case.

These limitations are clearly defined in warrants. It is up to the police and forensic experts to follow it of course. But I'd imagine in high profile cases the Judge/FBI wouldn't think twice about finding it appropriate to look at every file.
You can use "label:xyz" in the search field.
We're making hackable, open-source sex toys (NSFW)
This looks great for a key-value online storage, but I'm afraid of using it anything other than testing purposes. I don't know how long it will last :(
Blizzard's Overwatch hits trademark problem
Django 1.7.3 Security Fix
How Bitcoin’s Blockchain Could Power an Alternate Internet
The Secret History of Donkey Kong
For anybody thinking of doing this, finding someone who has (serious, lab-setting) experience handling LN2 and can personally supervise would be a really good idea.
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The Designer's Guide to Web Development
I'm interested in this as well. Are there any legal issues with sending people money on a large scale?
> So is cannabis socially responsible or ethically objectionable?

> The nation’s biggest banks — JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America — thus far refuse to allow marijuana companies to set up accounts. Even smaller local banks refuse to provide services to the industry.

The author seems to have made up his mind already. The reason banks don't allow marijuana companies to setup accounts is regulatory and risk management related, not ethical.

This whole article reads very much like a press release.

> The investment, in a firm called Privateer Holdings .... was heralded as a watershed moment for the fledgling cannabis industry, accompanied by positive headlines like the one in The Los Angeles Times: “Venture capital firm gives marijuana industry a shot of credibility.”

> In Silicon Valley, the deal was greeted as the latest disruptive change-the-world investment.

It isn't until well into the article that the authors notes:

> Legal marijuana businesses raised $104 million in 59 deals last year, according to CB Insights, a research firm that monitors deal-making.

It seems like the industry has had credibility for a while now.

I think its sad that the NYTime's Dealbook would put out a piece like this.
>>meaning that if you measure society by how much people believe they have, all free transactions produce a net gain.

Let me stop you right here. Ever heard of notion of social dilemma ? Your assertion is just incorrect. 2 people may believe they have gained, others around will believe they have lost. Often overall that will be a net loss.
Thanks. There is an issue with the upload that I'm fixing right now.
If the LN2 is still liquid, then it is boiling. If you had a pocket of LN2 trapped inside the ice cream, it would boil and you would notice your ice cream venting. If the LN2 was still liquid and dispersed throughout the ice cream, then the ice cream would be -196C and you would not be able to eat it.

As long as your food or drink are not spewing off large amounts of gaseous nitrogen, there should be no liquid nitrogen in them.
This is a voting platform, not A/B testing.
>So it's all a game, don't hate the players, hate the rules.

There are no rules. Trying to paint this turd with catchy slogans isn't helpful either.
It is hard to be effective if your reports don't trust you.
The dealbreaker for us with NameCheap/eNom is simple: still no DNSSEC.

It's been how many years now? And all they say is "we're working on it" and have no ETA. So we moved most things to Gandi.

Feels good having no GoDaddy, however.
This has been my experience too -- everything works reasonably well, I'm pleased with it. It's not always pretty (and I'm frustrated that some keyboard shortcuts don't work like they ought to) but it's always run properly.

Microsoft Outlook for Mac (the newer "blue" one, v15.3) is actually my favorite mail client on the mac. It's basically exactly what I wanted -- I wish there was a Windows version of the Mac Outlook :)
It was the last generation of "pro-consumer" types that got us into the current mess to begin with. Because at the end of the day, Verizon and AT&T may not like Title II, but they have the legal horsepower to deal with it. It's the smaller potential competitors who can't deal with the extra taxes to fund rural deployment, or having to build out to neighborhoods too poor to subscribe to fiber service, or having to petition rate authorities to set their prices.
Hi HN. I made this over the last few months.

The idea is to have an activity feed which is randomly generated, and only refreshes once every 24 hours.

The auth system incorporates some ideas discussed in this thread (The God Login): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8861800

I'm happy to answer any questions!
Quote from the article:

"Ironically, it was only when Henry Ford took the wildly controversial step of shuttering his automobile manufacturing factories on Saturday and cutting daily work hours from the then-standard 12 to 8 that workers began not only enjoying leisure time at home, but became more efficient and productive at work."

Now if we re-read the Wikipedia article we see that, in fact, Ford was not the decisive factor but that there were a series of labor struggles before and after Ford's decision mostly outside the automotive industry that eventually won legislative support that truly universalized the 40-hour workweek. Thus Ford's role is minor, but perhaps decisive for the automotive industry only. Very different from the strong and historically warped claim made above.
Btw, you may find this interesting:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-metaxas-science-increasingl...

It's behind a partial paywall. You may need to Google the title and link to it from there.
I have a question that I fear may be taken the wrong way:

How does this affect people who only do business in the US?
But isn't that just a pirate 'tube site? Same idea. I think the previous poster just meant that you won't find it on any of the DVDs, digital sales, or official streams.
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Summing up a bunch of comments, rather than littering the thread:

* There is no LN present in the final product. LN is literally nitrogen in liquid state, and nitrogen is gaseous at sane temperatures. You add it in relatively small amounts, and it evaporates away. It is absolutely not safe to consume LN.

* Yes: you need to ask your LN supplier if the LN is food-safe. This is an easier thing to verify than that a dewar is food-safe (because who knows where it's been). Our LN source also sourced other culinary applications.

* As I said in the post: guests didn't get to handle LN, which is good, because guests were intoxicated.

* The nitro-muddling technique in L.I. is designed in multiple stages to prevent that from ever happening; for instance, if you shake a drink with LN still in it, you'll hurt yourself before you manage to serve a guest LN. The final product has to be pourable. In fact, LN isn't a component of the drink itself, which is chilled with plain 'ol ice (for the dilutive effect).

* The ice cream recipe is freezing cream and egg and sugar, which are all eminently freezable substances (ie: they start freezing at a relatively high temperature). You drizzle LN into the bowl slowly while slowly running the mixer, and you stop when the mixer starts straining against the ice cream. You're never dumping so much LN into the container that it could settle without fogging the whole bowl up (if you do that, you end up with ice cubes instead of ice cream), so it's obvious when it's evaporated off. We remove the ice cream from the bowl with a silicone spatula, to give you an idea of how frozen (or in this case not frozen) the final product is.

(If it helps you understand, without having had the experience of actually doing it yourself: the first couple doses of LN into the mixing bowl are "eaten" by the custard base, which is still liquid. The bowl starts looking like a smoke machine. You wait for it to clear, so you can actually see what's going on in the bowl. You repeat until the mixer paddle starts leaving trails on the bottom of the bowl. Your intuition is that there could be actual liquid LN in the bowl, but that's not really how it works.)

* An example of an idea that freaked me out and I refused to let happen in my house: people freezing garnishes in LN and adding them to drinks. One of the clearest safety indicators you get with this stuff is "the product you're chilling isn't completely solid" (or, in the case of a drink, "at all solidified or slushy").
Are you sure it's solely the amount of traffic leading to higher CPCs? Perhaps your higher traffic articles from December are on topics with a higher CPC? Time of year might have something to do with it as well. It makes sense to me that CPCs for a lot of topics would increase leading up to Christmas.
> but the dream people had was that their games would generate enough profit that they could make a living making them.

Yep. And anyone who likes a game enough to think they'd enjoy something else the developer might make should hope the dev could make a living off it too.

Otherwise, the dev will have to go back to the corporate IT salt mines, and you'll get whatever relative crumbs get produced in what we call "spare time," if that... and certainly not whatever their greatest work might have been.

(Hope we're all paying for what we like!)
Yeah I'll never forget the shock I had when I first got into their control panel after experiencing the well-designed half of the site. Youch.
I find using a simple excel sheet, with the following columns helps me:
Objective (what action trying to drive like "increase traffic to site")
Lever (overall bucket like email or SEO or PR)
Tactic (specific initiative like "write 5 blog posts re: X" or "get 2-3 quality press coverage articles")
Metric (how you'll be measuring success like "2x traffic in 4 weeks" or "increase conversion by 4%)
Lead (team member responsible)
Learnings (summary of findings)

Though it doesn't cover everything, I find it helpful to review with team on Mondays to make sure everyone is on same page about week's priorities and any recent findings.

The trick I find is in sticking to it, whatever the system is.
I have tried this as well - it was definitely not as simple as taking the double integral.

Right. RoomScan requires you to stop and touch the device to the wall frequently. This allows them to re-zero the velocity. Small IC accelerometers and gyros aren't good enough for dead-reckoning over any substantial distance.

What you really want is 3D SLAM, using the cameras. That's been done on Apple devices, for a rather lame "Ball Invasion" game. That team was acquired by Facebook for their VR effort.

There's source code for SLAM. See "slam6d.sourceforge.net". This is the right way to do indoor localization. The better robot vacuums (Neato and Dyson) use it.
Apply the DDD rule to reach inbox zero
No news here. This kind of thing happens all the time already. Catholic teachers pension doesn't want to invest in Budweiser, a Seventh Day Adventist run hospital fund won't want to invest in Tyson etc. etc. etc.

Is it really that surprising that people are choosy about what they invest in, and that translates into professional investors also being choosy (whether on behalf of their clients or themselves)?
http://www.quora.com/Which-credit-card-processors-will-enabl...