skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Acknowledged .. design sucks right now

2) No humans involved, other than yours truly alone. You, the user, set what you want it to respond TO and what it will respond WITH. Yes, it's automated ;)

3) Interesting feedback. I actually have no idea how I'm going to monetize, but it has never crossed my mind to use my users to spam their users (that's like the ultimate cardinal sin!) No, I have to earn trust, not the other way around. But you bringing up this concern is a good thing for me to know. Truth is, I don't know if this will ever make a penny. I know this is cliche, but before I can figure out how to extract value, I thought I'd first understand (1) if there is any value, and (2) how much value it's creating for users
which an information return to IRS will be required if the $600 aggregate payment threshold is met in a tax year for any one payee

What was the minimum amount to be exceeded where a 1099 was needed before this law passed? I've received 1099s for work done around $2000 in 1 year.
I've noticed that it is very hard to accuse others of being morally pontificating without sounding at least a little hypocritical about it. Even the previous sentence applies to itself.
Jason would probably defend his manner as east coast shoots from the hip, no bullshit. But that's a joke. He's just rude and coasts have nothing to do with.

Passion is a good thing, and Jason's passion here is warranted, but the guy needs a bit of a filter.
Every programmer I've talked to about this thought it was some combination of stupid and evil (there ought to be a word for that; stevil?) to insist that apps be written only in C, C++, and Objective-C.

Ya it's insane. I have no idea how they can be this out of touch with the development community.

Even the Microsoft developers that I know think it's evil and restrictive. Microsoft has failed in a lot of ways in the past but one thing they've gotten right is .NET. It's relatively open and they are beginning to actively support other languages. So instead of .NET and the CLR dieing off people can innovate on top of the runtime and continue to compete at some level with other dynamic languages. The same goes for java and the JVM.

My biggest fear now is Apple will decide to slowly but surely drop OS X support and begin the transition of moving the majority of users over to a new locked down stevil new Operating System.
Another reason: it needs less equipment and less infrastructure. Emailing images over an analogue phone line is painful, for example.
Seriously? This is not even remotely what adjusting Facebook privacy settings is like.

At the risk of being down-voted due to lack of agreement, Facebook is an opt-in service. They are making their priorities and privacy changes abundantly clear.

Concerned? Opt-out of using Facebook.
> just a CTO with better things to do in his day than write press releases

Like, make Flash work on a smartphone.
http://techguyinmidtown.com/2010/04/29/calculated-bets-by-st...
Let's keep in mind, however, that there is not really one monolithic "market". Just as McDonalds co-exists with Jean Georges, the legions of Android clones running Flash, etc. will peacefully coexist with iPhones, except without the responsive UX, battery life, or even a fundamental sense of taste. (edit: would the downvoters like to justify themselves? have they seen a Android device with a responsive UI? I haven't...)
> There are no requirements that the increase follow inflation numbers.

There's some discretion in the intial bump but, as I quoted, there's no discretion for subsequent and regular increases.

> It only says that the SEC should increase the rates as "the Commission determines is appropriate and in the public interest, in light of price inflation."

That's only for the initial bump.

> I guarantee you the SEC will not double the standards over night.

"Guarantee" implies that money will be changing hands if you're wrong....

Yes, they'll probably have hearings, but they've been told how they "shall" compute the new number. That's why I asked what you're "I was wrong" number is. I'm asking again.
I'm starting to suspect that Apple really requires proprietary APIs and decrepit languages for the same reasons Spolsky[1] once said Microsoft used proprietary and huge and ever-changing APIs.

Microsoft finally addressed this and stabilized their APIs but they were somewhere between 5 and 10 years too late. Circa .NET 2.0 + in my opinion as an ex-.NET programmer.

Apple could easily end up in the same situation if they continue down this road.

EDIT: Detail
Apple Didn’t Kill Flash, HTML5 Did
its the chicken mcnuggets of news
No.

Apple is not the only software solution for mobile devices.
The topic was Flash running in a mobile browser. Like Android, which Adobe originally said would ship Flash for over a year ago. I think Adobe's utter engineering incompetence is one of the obvious points everyone seems too polite to make.
For my understanding, what part of my comment made you more confused? I'm kinda wondering if I should remove the "power user" thing from the main page now.
There's a huge difference though.

With HTML/CSS/JavaScript, hover events (both the :hover and "onmouseover" event in JavaScript) are typically used for visual feedback (the :hover event being strictly presentation...)

There's a reason for this: Users can disable JavaScript.

A core fundamental of web development (graceful degradation or progressive enhancements) is the result of this. As a developer, you can't assume the "mouseover" event will be available.

Web developers write functional pages first. They then progressively enhance it with JavaScript. This is why the web does (or, theoretically) works (contrary to what you said...)

Flash, on the other hand, is different by nature. It doesn't permit users to disable mouse events (or any other events), from firing. As a Flash developer, you can write code that requires a hover event, with fair confidence that it won't hinder a visitors interaction with the site/project.

To be honest, it's what made Flash so tempting to develop for. You're given an equal playing field through the SWF player.

Unfortunately for Adobe, with Safari/Chrome/FireFox/Opera pushing web standards, HTML5/CSS3/JS are making things (quite) interesting for web developers.
I think it's even weirder that for so long I couldn't get a permanent phone number (thanks Google Voice!). I mean the phone network is pretty much the same as a computer network. They figured out how to automate the switching, but the phone companies never took the next step to automate the directory lookup and number resolution process. I've often wondered why there isn't something like dns for phone numbers. Probably because of myriad spam/trust/security issues. Those issues may be similar to the ones keeping physical addresses from making the leap too.
Interesting point, can we really substantiate that if he originally sent that through e-mail? I could see something in his head clicking that it was bullshit but I see more formal, orchestrated evilness would have constructed this in a formal blogpost.

Latent evilness may have realized that he could use this to generate "crusader" points, but he couldn't have thought this really would have built that much steam.
If Cato's interpretation is accurate, this will likely be repealed. The IRS doesn't have the capabilities to process that many 1099s.
> They covered issues that actually matter in the world as opposed to "Tiger Woods has been thinking about a public apology" type crap or "Be afraid of killer fungus from outer space that eats your children" type stuff.

Some one once said that the 24 hour news cycle was the worst thing that ever happened to reporting. I think Al Jazeera works partly because it's unabashedly about the world for the world. They don't need as much filler because there actually is news happening 24/7 if you have a wide enough scope, and they can't use as many country specific celebrity general interest stories because they're even more irrelevant outside the specific country.

Also Al Jazeera is just better, but I think some of that is inherent in their mission statement.
In W3C terms, a "Recommendation" is the final standard. HTML5 is currently a Working Draft, but that status isn't really important. W3C's patent policy basically says if you participate in the Working Group developing the standard, you agree to a royalty free license of any patents of yours that are required to implement it. If Canvas goes in HTML5, Apple has to freely license whatever patents on it that are required for it. And if I'm not mistaken, this is already binding at this point--Apple can't revoke this even if they were to leave the Working Group.

This was an issue years ago because WHAT-WG (which is not part of W3C) did not have such a policy. Today it seems to be a non-issue to everyone who would know.
Wow. I'm an engineer at Microsoft. I don't know what this particular site is about (from poking around, it seems to be targeted at education) but I can assure you that career paths and employee reviews at Microsoft have nothing to do with humor.

It's a weird day when you have to write such a comment :)
Never really. I can't remember when was the last time I wrote an actual website address into the location bar. To go to python.org, I'd probably just write python and let google take care of it. It's only a problem if your search personalisation puts python.com before python.org ;)
I appreciate the beauty of perfect quality manufacturing of goods by hand, when there is a real jump in quality that results from that human touch.

But hand-crafted and mass-produced are not the labels on the opposite ends of some quality spectrum.

I could care less if something is mass-produced or not. The product you have in your hands is either high quality or not, pleasing (to your eye and touch) design or not.

The story behind how products are made is a fetish for the bored.
That happened when? Three weeks ago? The iPhone has been out for years. And we're still just talking about one phone. I'm not necessarily condoning Apple's action, but arguing that the lack of mobile Flash is due to the new SDK agreement rings a little hollow. Adobe has had years to deliver Flash mobile and a variety of smart phones to target, yet it runs on none.
I have Flash on my Nokia N900... Runs smoothly and nicely, too! Directly via the default Firefox browser!

This may come as a surprise to some, but there's a whole mobile world outside of the Apple iPhone... you get far better hardware, no lock-in, and (now with Android/Maemo) a very solid UI.
Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project
...Arctan? Haha, what the hell is that?

This does well to illustrate what a fiendishly difficult thing it is for a typical Facebook user to maintain privacy settings, and how difficult it must be for Facebook to actually adhere to this rigamarole in every view, API, feed, et al. presented by their site. (And they do screw that up from time to time.)

Part of the reason I think they want to "simplify" privacy by making more stuff open is because it is such a royal pain to implement. Compared to Twitter, the logic that must go into every database query to determine viewability of friends or comments or pictures must be ridiculously complex. The current ability to group friends into lists is roughly equivalent to implementing ACLs on groups, which is just as much fun for the user to set up and maintain as it is for a programming team to get working (not fun at all).
It already has been put to the test, in countless other situations. For example, look at video game consoles -- crossplatform libraries ensure that really high quality games can be ported to every major platform. Do they lack some features of some consoles? Yes. Regardless, are they still hella fun to play? Of course!
ClickToFlash is an amazing piece of software. The web is a much friendlier place!
Every time I see a comment on hacker news that is sympathetic to Facebook's privacy policies it gets down voted.

I don't get it; do the monitors of HN not think the users of hacker news are intelligent enough to decide if Facebook's privacy policies are positive/negative on their own?

Or to put in another way... Why do pro-Facebook privacy policy comments continually get down voted?
IPhone loyalty is more than Android
There is no "global mail infrastructure" to support a symbolic address—the meaning of an address is legally defined by the city/state/country it is sent to. You could have an address that would stay constant as you moved around a city (and they have them: P.O. Boxes), but when you moved to a different country, you'd end up playing by someone else's rules. It's like asking every country to standardize on what they print/stamp on their currency.
I really like this, it seems like a good way to help with some of the "customer service" type of stuff I get at work on Twitter.

I'd be interested in seeing if you could answer non-directed messages against a search stream instead of a friends stream.
"It is all about who else is wearing them, who designed them and who is selling them."
<sarcasm>

Shame on Apple for promoting open web standards instead of healping Adobe keep the web hostage to their closed standard.

<sarcasm>

Apple is not telling Adobe, Microsoft or any other corporation to open up their platform. They are only stating that they believe web standards should be open and not controlled by a single party. And I as a user of a flash-less OS (OpenBSD) thank them and hope they win the battle for open web standards.
Not quite, as there's only one independent clause: "the media corporations [...] have found themselves with little immunity against the financial crisis."

But it is an exceedingly complex sentence, with an unusual number of dependent clauses and other things.
This is cool, but i don't see how this is relevant to HN. There are tons of social news websites for people who just wants fun websites to check out, and I tend to think of HN as something a bit more productive and technical/startup oriented.
Indian Holy man survives without food or water for the past 70 years
ok, the video says, this man is now being tracked in an hospital and according to the hospital folks, he has not eaten or drunk anything for the last 108 hours.
I found this disturbing:

"On Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, meanwhile, Sami al-Hajj, a rookie cameraman with the station, was captured in what he believes was a case of mistaken identity (another cameraman named Sami had filmed an interview with bin Laden); he spent six years in Guantánamo before being released in 2008. The forty-year-old Sudanese national, who now walks like an old man, told me he was interrogated more than 300 times -- almost exclusively about Al Jazeera, on whom he was asked to spy."
Neither of those claims is true.

The current Fair Tax legislation is tied, not merely to abolishing income taxes, but also to repealing the 16th amendment. Last I read about it, it would not go into effect, even if it passed, until Congress lost all ability to levy income tax at all.

And FairTax has a pretty narrow conception of what constitutes consumption. Certainly not stocks, as you suggest. Investments in general are excluded. And any used items--used homes in your example--are excluded.

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_basics...
This won't last. One truth of politics is that pissing off a few people is easy, pissing off everyone is hard. (That's how the rich and youth end up getting screwed all the time). If you force this on literally every single company and contractor in the country you will be losing a lot of campaign donations in the next cycle. If it comes into effect as described it will be modified/repealed within a year.
Good to know, because I kind of thought that it'd be useful for people who do exactly just that (customer service via Twitter), so this is some validation for me :)

To answer to your question:

* It will scan the tweets of people you are following too, as well as anyone @mention'ing you - respond if there's matches (so it doesn't have to be directed at you)

* Specifically, you said a search stream. I actually had that months ago, then much to my disappointment, after lots of sweat to get it working reliably, I found out if you're auto-responding based on a search, Twitter will not be happy: http://help.twitter.com/forums/26810/entries/76915 so I had to throw out that part ;(
Can Blockbuster be Saved?
The United States is completely unprepared to fight a cyberwar
A good strategy might be to go ahead and make flash work on the Apple devices. Being able to demonstrate that the limitation is purely political and not technological would be helpful for people that don't understand what's going on. Plus when Apple reverses this silly nonsense, they'll be ready to roll.
This is a terrible analogy. In the real situation, Apple has forced developers not to use third party technologies, ever. In your hypothetical, the owner chooses not to go to McDonalds on occasion.

An apt analogy: The owner of a four star restaurant says that McDonalds is shit food, and refuses to let patrons who eat at McDonalds into his restaurant. Then, when not at work, this owner goes and eats at McDonalds. That's what is happening here, and yes, its hypocritical.
Tons.

And the wikipedia text is very misleading, because it does not compare the data to other countries. For example nearly all woman during childbearing years are anemic, there is nothing unusual about gaza.

Infant mortality: (for comparison 49.4 is world average)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

It has one of the lowest death rates in the world:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

You can check the rest of the numbers for yourself:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
If you really want your FB profile to be private, you should remove it from Facebook. I don't know if you have noticed by now but Facebook is essentially an open platform. Get the clue, remove anything you want to be be private from Facebook and stop complaining.
Crickey... the financial press is getting in on this? Is someone's investment interests at stake, or did Apple seriously hit some kind of psychological trigger here?
Adobe software shamefully, frustratingly incompetent
I wonder - will this site get shut down like google^4.com did?
Do you have a citation for your inkjet assertion? I'm intrigued.
Just FYI: my N900 has flash and it works great. Hardware accelerated and everything.
Yes, you can easily do this. All you have to do is erase your Facebook profile. If you need help doing this, let me know.
1. You didn't show the same thing for Flash. SWF spec in a PDF is not the same as the open source code hub for the web rendering engine used by Google, RIM, etc.

2. You didn't show the same thing for open source. OS X is arguably the family jewels. The equivalent for Adobe would be CS 5, not Tamarin or a Flex SDK.

3. You didn't show the same thing for the open source goals. That press release blurb and list of "partners" like Atlantic Records, Paramount and Lionsgate does not correlate to the paragraph promising to give WebKit back with BSD and LGPL style licensing, and listing corporate "industry leaders" sponsors is not the same as running a public chatroom and IRC channel for webkit.
^ I wish I could delete this. I realize the comment sounds very tasteless out of context.

I was ripping on the sterility and general uselessness of corporate so-called "humor" by describing a behavior that would be offensive and bizarre in normal interaction, but hilarious and awesome within a corporate context (because of its offensiveness and, therefore, its departure from what is expected).
This is well and good for those zany jokesters at Microsoft, but what are we to do?
This whole thing implicitly assumes there's some acceptable "balance" you're making when you compare abstraction power and performance. Ignoring the fact that "choosing speed" or "choosing abstraction" is a bit of a false dichotomy, that's okay. But according to this page, C++ is the perfect harmony between these two areas. I'm calling bullshit on how arbitrary that is.
2 questions :

1- If 2 people are using your product, and one of them sends a twitter message to the other, is there an infinite loop because they automatically answer each other's messages?

2- The problem I see is how the engine parse the tweets. Is the user expected to hard-code messages, or is there a natural language processing algorithm that parses the messages in a smart way? It's extremly hard to think about each and every line someone might say - that's the main reason why expert systems fails in most cases. Examples like "hi" are extremly easy to program, and are not really usefull. It might help some people that got too many comments / tweets... but then again, some Twitter client that filter the messages received can do that to, and they can have SPAM filters too.
With Apple off their TODO list unceremoniously, you can bet Adobe's #1 priority now is Flash on every mobile platform.

Flash works on my blackberry just fine, btw.
Mozilla and Opera have promised everyone that they would be sued for royalties (and there's no reason not to believe them), but I've never seen evidence of this. Nobody is ever going to sue Perian/ffdshow/VLC for royalties.
Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop
1. Nope, no infinite loops; it will not re-respond to something already responded to.

2. True and yes, there's some NLP user-friendliness baked in. It's case-insensitive, not whitespace sensitive, and it knows that "it's" == "it is". Give it a try?

My question would then be, what would be realistically considered useful to you? Obviously I'm no AI Ph.D claiming that it will pass the Turing test; but I just thought maybe something "good enough" will be helpful to at least a small subset of people. Saying "hello" is kinda pointless, but say if you got a lot of repeat questions over Twitter (because you're a business or something), this will help you auto respond to them.
If they really wanted to simplify privacy, they would have simplified it. Making some "Privacy Level" presets then allowing tweaks for advanced users is not that difficult.
Thank you for clearing that up. I've always been confused by the terminology.
You're saying that there's not enough interesting stuff going on in the world to fill up 24 hours?
Perhaps 'cause there's no way an HP launcher tacked onto Windows 7 would make a convincing touch computer?
Up-vote = "I agree" OR "This is a valuable comment"

Down-vote = "I disagree" OR "This is not a valuable comment"

I would guess that most people disagree with pro-FB privacy policy statements.
This is just about the stupidest thing i have ever read.

From one of Sachin's comment 'Users would want to use your product and therefore they would switch to Chrome. Other browser would lose market share and either implement whatever makes Chrome better for you, or do even better.'

Rebuttal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

nuff said
To be fair, it's technologically nearly impossible. The incompetence is coming from whomever is promising it. The engineers are fucked...
Off topic, but I thought Dr. Dobb's Journal was dead. Or was that just the print edition.
I buy Apple's lines on this one. For long, I've been going "Grrrr...." over Flash heating up my macbook pro when run under MacOSX, but running much cooler (as in temperature) under windows on the exact same hardware. So much for cross-platform-ness.

... and though Apple's comments do mention Adobe taking its time to cocoa-ize its apps, this is clearly about the iPod Touches and iPhones and iPads.

Its sad, however, that in order to do this, Apple has forbidden the entire category of runtimes - including Scratch. Now Alan Kay might be the one going "Grrrrr..."!
JQuery and Cufon don't mix