skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mashable.com uses your Facebook friends' pictures in their "Mashable on Facebook" advertisement (main page, right-hand side). It definitely draws my attention like a lightning bolt to see people I recognize out of the blue on random websites. I'd wager that there's a lot of primate-brain potential in this.
GNUStep was working on a free coredata implementation
I hope we can avoid incorporating friction for a while.
I'm still astounded at how little Facebook has done with such a powerful targeted advertising platform.

There are some affiliate marketers making bank through Facebook ads, and there are some job seekers who have landed jobs through Facebook ads, but what other success stories are there?
That looks absolutely fantastic. forScore doesn't really seem to get the job right, so I'm stoked about Etude.

Is it a universal app, or will I have to buy an iPad version separately?

EDIT: I just downloaded it, and it doesn't have In The Hall of the Mountain King. I am disappoint.
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This guy from the headline forward doesn't get it. Adobe may not have had a hand in starting the DOJ or FTC investigations of Apple's new developer contract but they are determined to get in front of the parade to see them prosecuted.

This campaign is all about shaping public opinion and if they succeed Apple will pull down their artifical wall.

IMHO that's what this whole campaign is all about. Back fifteen years ago when Microsoft was playing a variation of this game by not giving equal access for outsiders to all their api you guys sided against Microsoft.

Now that it's Apple doing it why are you using Microsoft's old argument that the complainer needs to just go back and innovate? In case you haven't noticed Adobe is doing plenty of amazing things.
good luck, and let us know of the progress of your project. I did the samething as you and so far so good.
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Wow dude. It's great how you connected an economic system with its own merits and demerits with political beliefs, shady wall street practices, weapons, and unjustified war. Have you looked into working for fox news?
I sent an e-mail to the guys at Etacts thanking them for building what I wanted (their main product). It's amazing to me that Gmail hasn't built something like this yet.

Now, what'd I really like to see is Etacts on top of Apple Mail. That probably wouldn't make sense for them, but it's what I want.
It's called OnStar: remote disable, and more, all at the click of a command key. I've been waiting to see news of a car-theft ring using OnStar to steal cars.
Out of curiosity - did facebook have a similar policy and then go about changing it? They also note they post changes on their website, but it does not need to be on the front page, or other high traffic area.

I have seen this service before and really like it, however I just can't trust them with my bank info.
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"Less Choice" is Apple's model, but it's not the only one. After playing around with the Nexus One from Google I/O, I'm convinced that a fully-functional platform is just as good as the locked-down Apple one.

I'd probably recommend Apple's mobile and tablet platform to less tech-savvy people because it's definitely a more streamlined experience for people who only do the things that it can do.

I'm torn right now because I really want an Android-capable, Google-branded tablet. It's not necessarily the curated computing experience, it's the form factor that's less frustrating than surfing on a phone keyboard, but more convenient than lugging my 15" laptop around.
While arguably jump starting the market for tablets, I don't really believe the iPad defines what tablets will or will not do in the immediate future. I suspect we'll see far more flexibility in future devices, especially from Apple's competitors, who can use a more open approach as a selling point against the iPad.
It's hardly a fact. A few months ago it was a "fact" that you could publish using CS5.

http://blogs.nitobi.com/jesse/2010/04/14/phonegap-and-the-ap...

Tomorrow it could also be a "fact" that PhoneGap violates the same 3.3.1 clause.

Truth is, the "facts" are flexible for Apple, and not so for the developers who dedicate several hours learning a specific approach/workflow.
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This is how Apple rolls (Gruber)
I'd love this for Apple Mail too.
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The right answer here is to ask another question:

"Well, what would happen if you were hit by a bus?" or "what would happen if an asteroid collided with our building?"

I.e. illustrate the silliness of designing your solution around statistical outliers.
Actually, I'll reduce that further:

Programming is, despite appearances, a deeply social profession.
" nor has it been desired enough to motivate other phone manufacturers to put Flash on their phones"

... except for all the ones using Android. RIM's supposedly also working on Flash for the Blackberry.
Thank you for the guide - the dos/don'ts, from someone who knows, are exactly what's first needed in this minefield.

(And Muphry struck me too - it's in page 6. I double checked the number and then typed the wrong one ...)
Yeah, if someone has physical access to your car and wants to kill you or make you miserable, there are still easier ways.
I do agree that Ruby has passed this test since there are quite a few Ruby projects out there, a ton of startups and even some big names showing interest in it. There are webhosts out there which specialize in Ruby deployments which is a big win if you see Ruby as a web language.

However, I would disagree on the comparison with Python which has a much larger community base than Ruby. Rails may be more popular than Django but Python has even penetrated desktop apps like Hg, Bazaar, Meld etc. which is one area Ruby is still to affect significantly. But having said that, Scala, Clojure and especially Go are not nearly as popular as Ruby or Python.
I'm not a ruby fan, but anyone who says it hasn't attracted a large number of programmers is either insane or delusional. I don't think it's passed python yet but it's still REALLY popular.
When I sit in my car I can also apply the brakes, turn the heater on / off, switch to maximum volume, open the windows, heck I can even drive it into a tree !!
I would tend to agree, and I would also add that I'm pretty sure there's significantly more PHP programmers and jobs than either of Ruby or Python. Singling out Python as the article does seems a little bizarre to me.
Not to nitpick, but I think you meant Hindi (the language) as opposed to Hindu (the religion). :)
brick -> windshield works pretty good too
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I would pay for it if it also tagged feed items in Google Reader as well.
That's entirely possible. What sort of tags do you use? Is it just 'interesting/boring' or do you have a more complex set of tags?
apparently, george soros is a native esperantista :)
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All new cars have diagnostic ports using open protocols. http://www.obdii.com/ has some of the details. They use the CAN bus so it would be fairly easy to attach a small microcontroller with CAN support and an 802.11 or GSM module to give you remote access.

I'm not sure how well documented the control protocols are (stopping car, turning off brakes, etc.) but it is apparent from this article that they can be discovered.
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I'd be fine with it being open. I'm just very happy to see a vendor push website operators to not completely rely on Flash, a proprietary plugin controlled by Adobe. If Adobe were to open up the Flash runtime, I would have zero issue with it, and I'd even wager that Apple would turn themselves around on the issue. To have the entire web at the mercy of Adobe is a bit much for me to swallow. Flash is great at a few things, but websites completely reliant on it needed a swift kick in the pants.
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It looks like there was (ample?) opportunity for people to give feedback on "THE PROPOSED PRIVACY POLICY" and "THE PROPOSED STATEMENT OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES". Users users were even allowed to cast a vote for alternate drafts of these documents. I am not sure how much stock fb places into user feedback in this forum but I am surprised that this page has not been mentioned before. It might be an underutilized communications channel.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=718903095373
I completely realize the inane repetition of these themes, and I wish it weren't the case that such repetition seems necessary. Sadly, it does, because even after repeating myself for six years, and watching other people issue similar warnings, we are still at this point.

When I write one of these columns, it's not because I'm filled with hatred. It's because I don't see anyone making a point I think is obvious or important about the whole affair, and each time I write I'm put in a position of having to explain why I think I'm qualified to comment. You have to keep in mind that I'm not writing primarily for the Hacker News audience, even though I'll post some things on here. To people here it sounds like I'm stuck in a cave full of hatred writing about Facebook. I'm not. I just want to make sure I'm reaching the first-time reader who doesn't realize that there's more to this story.

It's much less about "the Facebook angle" serving my goals as you say, and more about sticking to what's right.
UA shows you how to work with the Eclipse tools but overall it's fairly general, no reliance on Eclipse.
It's important to note that no one can 'stalk' you using this feature if they aren't your friend - you can't search by name, only content. Unless there is personally identifiable information about the person in the post itself (e.g. "I'm John Doe and I hate my boss Bob Smith") the odds are you'll never be able to find information about the person you are looking for. If you search for "rectal exam" (http://willmoffat.github.com/FacebookSearch/?q=rectal%20exam) and you happen to know Groten Nils, well, that's pretty embarrassing.
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Given a one hour overview though there has to be some of this. No time for the history of cryptography and the pros and cons of all the methods employed. It seems he wanted the audience to take away some key points that if without any other knowledge should prevent the majority of attacks.
No, I wouldn't. And I wouldn't use it, even if it were free.

The current system of labelling via filters gives me fine-grained control from the very first e-mail. Machine learning will require a (possibly long) training period, and may still then be prone to false positives and negatives.
In 90 days, you can certainly memorize X number of useful words and phrases. If you are actually living in an immersive environment (and you have a reasonably outgoing personality) you'd probably become pretty fluent within the small domain of that X number of words and phrases. But as for mastering a language, there's no situation, tool or technique that will do more than get you started on your journey within three months.

Having foreign words and phrases available in your memory is very different than having those words on your tongue as part of your ingrained language. It's a bit like the difference between off-line tape backup and RAM. Yes the data is there somewhere and you can get to it eventually but you probably can't pull it up fast enough to be useful.
A really good curated model has a definite market. It's also a large and lucrative market, since it represents the mainstream. Lastly, it's been an underserved market. (Come to think of it, isn't Facebook also "curated" networking?)
This has been reported before; I seem to recall that it was due to aggressive caching by proxies.
Someone reported the same thing happening with gmail, as well (before they switched to all-https).
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Me neither, same thing, current filtering seems like a better way than some fuzzy automated labeling thing.
People don't buy the iPad because of its features or its less choice experience - they buy it because it's from Apple. It's a status/fashion symbol.

Mercedes Benz cars have a single wiper blade with an interesting (from an engineers POV) mechanism. But people don't buy Merc because it has a single wiper blade.
Hyundai wont convert a MB buyer by simply changing to one wiper blade and Microsoft /Google aren't going to lure iPad/iPhone buyers simply by having multi-touch.
I love the first comment on the post. OP: brief explanation of idea First comment: skepticism indicating complete lack of comprehension of post

That's how it always seems to go with these things.
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But what I would use (might pay for) is a service that makes my attachments easily findable. An attachment browser, basically. The UI would have to be within Gmail, no external page. Don't put the emails central, put the attachments central. Order by date received. Group by received from same people/same filename. Optional grouping by type (ie: All | Images | Office docs | ...) Add a left-hand link "Attachments".

Something like this:
http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2010/05/14/4728/can-so...
One could argue the timing simply wasn't right. Beacon failed in 2007, but Instant Personalization and the "Open Graph" are really the same thing, and they're already everywhere.
And why is the original way of not completing the for cycle for some keys wrong? Is the difference between checking the whole array and checking only lets say first byte measurable? Especially when considering that this would probably be done over a network?
Tell me about it. I have 6.5 more hours of people here slowly becoming more and more terrified as they begin to realize they have no idea how to maintain the software they asked me to build.

I can't wait to be free.

(In case anyone didn't notice, I'm OP's co-founder)
Good luck! I'll be especially interested to see what BoomStartup is like as you go through their program.
>the Web, games, email, everything. Facebook is only trying to dominate one space: communicating with your friends.

WHAT?

Have you noticed how many corporations these days advertise not their web site, but their facebook (or twitter) page? Of course games are a huge reason Facebook is big today. Email: I cannot stop people from "emailing" me via Facebook's internal messaging. I tell them again and again to just email me directly, but they've been stupidified into thinking that they are emailing me. It's very annoying.

Facebook -- like all sites of the sort -- absolutely wants to be your AOL.
Google's search is powerful enough and fast enough that I find I really don't need to do much labeling.
You could also argue that email and NNTP are failed social platforms, mainly due to spam issues. Newsgroups have been almost entirely replaced by one-off forums like this one, and email requires massive continuing efforts to block spammers.
Congrats on taking the plunge.

Monday eh? 9am sharp? Does your startup already have a defined work week and business hours? :)
Hopefully, the wireless and Internet-enabled systems will be completely isolated from the CAN-bus.

At first I hoped it would be air-gap isolated, but after I thought about it for a bit I realized that's not possible. In particular, one obvious application for the Internet is playing network MP3s to your car radio, which is also pretty intimately tied into the CAN-bus in modern designs. So while there may not be an "official" path from Internet->CAN-bus, it's one buffer overflow in the car radio away from working, probably. And what are the flerking odds that the car radio is implemented in anything other than (spit) C, which in the hands of embedded engineers who haven't had to think about security for decades pretty much guarantees buffer overflows will abound?

And of course if we're going to implement remote condition monitoring in the style of OnStar, there may very well be direct Internet<->CAN-bus interconnects built right in.

I'm sort of regretting having taken the time out to think about this. Now I'm scared.
Here's a great infographic (http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/) highlighting Facebook's changes to their default policies regarding the stuff the general public can view on your profile.

The trick they are pulling is to default "yes" for you when they update the policies. You are then forced to go through the labyrinth of settings to change everything back. Clever, no?
Curated computing is exactly what a whole section of the market needs: No Viruses; No Malware; No Porn; Automatic backups as you charge; One finger Facebook.
OBDII has been around for a while. Also, bolt cutters are a far more efficient way to do this.
I wonder if some early aviators were outraged when commercial pilots first started piloting people around in closed bodies:

"Why do you need a pilot when you can fly these babies yourself?",

"The wind in your face is half the joy!",

"Flying is supposed to be dangerous!".
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From the article:

But as they look at all of the wireless and Internet-enabled systems the auto industry is dreaming up for tomorrow's cars, they see some serious areas for concern.

Yes, it is a bit absurd to be concerned about somebody planting a laptop in your car then gaining control. They could just cut the brake lines without even having to get into the car. The point is that cars in the future will have wireless connections and be able to send diagnostic reports over this connection. That will create some level of connection between the vehicle's sensors and a network outside of the car. In fact, it's almost certain that some vehicle systems will be controlled by inputs from an external connection. Can you imagine every airbag in southern California simultaneously deploying?

The auto industry has never really had to consider this type of network security in their software. I think it's in everyone's best interest if they start thinking about it.
Recent real life example : To go from montpellier (a south of france city ) to corsa (a south a france island ) it cost less to fly by London first...
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> Has this ever happened anywhere?

Probably whenever significant technological/social change occurs.

> We've already seen absence of privacy in tribal societies, and those are exceptionally bad places to fail to conform. Only cities are large and anonymous enough to allow eccentrics to go unnoticed and thrive, which is what makes cities the wellsprings of prosperous liberal societies.

I think you could argue this in many ways. Are you arguing that increased privacy played a role in the development of civilisation? It's in interesting idea but I don't see much supporting evidence.

> Some of whom were murdered for it. There are still only a few areas (large cities, of course) where they are relatively safe. And it took them two generations just to achieve that!

Should we go back and stop it?
All the time, and not just one user. We're all on the same network though, which may account for the issue.
I am thinking more of auto categorization. "programming languages," "art/design", "lulz," "gaming," etc. But certainly with "interesting to me" as a component of each category.
I'm pretty sure the application I'm working on right now has also been hijacked by aliens, as it is behaving in ways I did not entirely expect.
Beacon in and of itself is fine. Springing it on people as opt-out, and relying on some Javascript to warn them as they make purchases, is the problem.
Great stuff - thanks for sharing! You should post this as a top-level article.
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Actually, the concept isn't really new, people are just slapping a new name on it. Look at video game consoles: that's also "curated computing". That's one of the nicer examples of "more relevance through less choice".

The real question is just how far you can take it in one direction. I don't think that general-purpose computers can be taken too far in that direction, but that's just my personal opinion.
"Baseball is ultimately broken down into a series of 1-on-1 match-ups. A pitcher vs. a hitter, with a defense behind them. It's a team sport but the largest functions of the game are 1-on-1. No other major professional sport is like that."

Cricket is a lot like that, actually. Its dynamics are different, though: whereas in baseball in a given matchup between a pitcher and a batter, the pitcher usually "wins", in cricket, between a bowler and a batsman, the batsman will usually "win" (or, at least, not "lose"). It's this difference that explains why cricket matches that aren't limited in overs or time last so much longer.
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You started the discussion by responding to me, not the other way around. And I was talking specifically about the example of television. I don't think every new media has the same effect on society. If you think otherwise, you need to actually argue that point instead of just handwave it away as an assumption.

You've taken my point ("television failed to fulfill its promise as a source of education and culture for the masses"), ignored it, and instead responded to a straw man ("the aggregate of changes in mass media since the Elizabethan era have not improved the level of education and culture in the general population"). And then when I call you out on it, you tell me "the discussion is clearly about more than television". My point was about television, you can respond to whatever straw men you like but don't pretend it's a response to my point.
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1. Find a new platform that will be a huge success in a few years.
2. Make your language the default way to program on that platform.
3. Wait.

Isn't that a bit like saying that you can start a startup by:

1. Find a new market that's untapped.
2. Make your product the best product in that field.
3. Wait.

Strictly speaking that is probably correct advice. It's just not very useful. It just begs too many other questions: How do I find an untapped market? How do I make it the best product in that field?
You could also argue that the solutions to that are known but not currently widely used. If you were to create an iteration of email where there only people aloud to email you were the people in your address-book, would that not be a bit like Facebook is now. Identifying people can be done via signing messages with GPG so no one could forge the sender.

Having everyone sign messages on NNTP would work too since you could whitelist a set of people or alternatively a black list of known bad people.

Forums like this are good, but lack the convenience that a NNTP news reader used to have of having all your conversations in one place.
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I found the setting you're talking about, and if doesn't fix this bug. The portals still render as big black holes no matter the setting (well, if you set it to 0, the portals are obscured by blue/orange flame energy)
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Who would use Blippy, let alone ever pay for it?