skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a similar experience with Comcast, which took tons of frustration and hours on the phone escalating through Customer Service to get it resolved.
Mistakes happen and the little guy is at a disadvantage, but in this case I think your problems were compounded by your strong bias against Microsoft. If your beef would've been with, say, Apple, then I think you would've pushed harder into having it solved.
It does, it just has a very ghetto installer.
Webkit has to be run in the open; it's originally based on KHTML and inherits its LGPL.
If it's not mandatory, it's at least a strong push, and if you don't comply, your profile could be made empty.
Maybe the point of asking "THEY BROKE THE DOOR!" is to raise the question: why is anyone breaking doors for a phone?
What would happen if Pearl Izumi put a chamois on Uranus?
In this article, self justifications for fat folks. Think about it... 10 extra pounds, right? We burn on average B calories per day and we consume E calories per day. There is a delta of D = E - B calories. If S=Sum(D, time1, time2)<-3500 we lose a pound of fat in time2-time1 and conversely if S>3500 we gain a pound of fat. That's how human beings work. So, if you're 10 pounds overweight and you want to stay ten pounds overweight? You must adjust your lifestyle so D=0. There's no magic that happens to make some people gain more or less weight, though base metabolic rates differ. So, you're 10 lbs overweight... If you cut 500 calories per day (have a salad instead of lunch... D=-500) you'll lose that 10 lbs in 10 weeks, the you can lose the weight then readjust to D=0 later. So, why not just spend those 10 weeks and look good?
My personal favorite rebuttal is this one: http://www.simon-cozens.org/content/those-darned-layers
For the full text, see http://www.google.com/search?q=%22bidding+for+government+pur...
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Great explanation and reading, sent it to my teacher and we read it in my computer class.
I'm really excited about this project. I hope it succeeds.
Yeah, if you have a cooler that consistent and adjust your temp for the measured thermal mass of the cooler it would work fine. Mine loses about ten degrees per hour at mash temp, however, so I need to adjust the temp pretty continuously during mash.

Of course, another part of it is just my desire to hack together nifty gadgets. :-)
I think Gruber remains independent from Apple.
It would be too conspiracy theory for Gruber/Daring Fireball to be a secret PR mouthpiece for Apple.
More likely Apple reaches out to him because he is by far the most influential Apple website outside of Apple (MacRumors is a distant 2nd in my opinion).
They don't have to pay Gruber anything; the increased ad revenue from being a member of the elite The Deck should more than compensate.
For the full text see http://www.google.com/search?q=%22minimum+interference+from+...

A good official house editorial, it discusses the more likely worse regulatory aspects before getting into the mandated new worth threshold increase.
None, because the source code to Internet Explorer isn't based on an LGPL library and so can be kept proprietary.

Now, how many Microsoft OSes refuse to run in a virtualization environment on non-approved hardware? How many treat such execution as a license violation?
1. Your flag images are blurry

2. Since people select a country first, put that at the top

3. The brown is ugly. Get rid of it. A shiny black glass look is pretty without being intrusive.

4. Use a larger font - like what you're already using for versus (your app title should be larger than this, not smaller). You have the space, use it.

5. Ditch the big brown area where your logo is and use a action shot of a footballer to occupy this whole area. You want to convey EXCITEMENT, not look like a spreadsheet.

6. The word 'Quarter' has a typo in it.

7. The schedule should look like a calendar - so a Friday looks like a Friday.

I'm happy to best test your APK if interested.
Gruber is really Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs is really Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve Jobs is actually Bill Gates.
So your argument appears to be that Apple, having chosen to build the most popular (by vendor support) browser library on the market on a GPL codebase, is less open than Microsoft.
I did, and I think it can only help (it certainly can't hurt to). The main scenario I can see this being of importance is if you recently started redirecting to a single domain and Google has previously crawled your site, setting a preferred domain may help to regain your page ranking.
On the order of a year. We'd need to wait for them to source a VP8 chip from somewhere, write drivers for it, integrate, and test--same as everybody else.
Unity works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX as well as iPhone. What isn't cross-platform about it? Do you mean doesn't work on android?
How great would it be if I could "Save As> HTML5" from adobe's products? Bummer authorinng for the iPhone will no longer be an option, but why build native apps when you will be able to do most of it on the web?
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"A guy with a fast car, excessive spending, and flashy clothes will go home from the bar with a girl before the geek with meek clothes and spending way below his means -- even if he is 1000x smarter than the flashy guy.

It simply takes too long to evaluate intelligence and that increased time to analyze the male by the female means the males could die."

This presupposes that women are selecting specifically for intelligence - or, said slightly differently, that maximizing (rather than merely satisficing) for intelligence is a better evolutionary strategy. Is that true in practice?
He had me until #6 ("the most important reason"). Really, he could have just said "battery life" and I would have said "okay, that's a good point." But going on and on about cross-platform? Let the app store sort that out. I can guarantee you that the best flash is better than the worst native app, so the argument doesn't hold much water.
I think the arguments are ones we've all heard before.

As a Flash developer myself, it only makes me second guess myself more. Not because it presents a new point of view, but that non-technical people will now harp in on the issue, and I'll have to once more explain why I'm developing on a 'dying' platform.

The thing that scares me though, is that if I want to move on in my programming career, should I be learning <i>another</i> proprietary platform to develop iPhone apps? Seems like Android is the alternative to that, but I just can't get rid of my iPhone.
http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...
The web without Flash would be a better place, but the fact is that there isn't any viable open replacement. Yes, HTML5 can replace Flash for video. That's great and all, but it's probably the least interesting thing that Flash does.

Want to use Google Analytics? Sorry. Need Flash.

Want to see StreetView? Need Flash.

Hulu? Need Flash.

Aviary? Need Flash.

Games? Need Flash.

Apple's answer to everything but video is to buy it from the App Store. Really? Buying shit from the App Store is not the Internet I signed up for.
From the Glossary of a Programming Textbook
For Canadians, that link won't work, but this one will:
http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Displayblog.aspx?bpid=a346dad...
Strange that the response comes a day after the daily show refers to Apple (and Steve) as evil.
"I'm willing to bet that there are many, many more games and entertainment apps written in Flash alone than there are on the app store."

Is that a position for or against keeping flash off the iPhone, iPod and iPad?
Iron Mountain is a great business.

They are a really defensive company and generate a pretty good return on invested capital (~15%). Their revenues mostly come from recurring monthly payments for storage fees based on volume, marketing, etc.

They actually got their start back in 1951 with an underground facility in Hudson, NY and are now in 39 different countries with 1,000+ facilities. They control something like 5% of the global market for information protection/storage and actually led consolidation in the industry.

The other neat thing is that they have some good tailwinds in place. While there is a lot of talk about moving to paperless offices, electronic communications are actually promoting more printing - especially by old school groups like lawyers, doctors. On top of that, because of regulatory issues and the costs associated with reviewing and destroying physical documents, the volume actually increases. As a result, you actually see their customers' physical volumes growing faster than their rate of removal/destruction.
Thanks. Farming is quite an interesting but underrated subject.

E.g. the improvements in farming that eventually lead to the industrial revolution in England are rarely looked at.
That's what PhoneGap is. It also provides the webkit js engine with access to the camera, accelerometer etc.
Mitsubishi = Client ||
Snap-on = Original Contractor ||
O'Neil = New Contractor ||

A database was made by Snap-on for Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi moved the work to O'Neil. Snap-on did not want to give up their work [data]. A log in was required to access the data. Mitsubishi and O'Neil discussed ways to get the data. O'Neil tried to covertly get the data and hide what they were doing, according to 'testimony'. O'Neil caused damage. Snap-on sued O'Neil.

I think this is a better summary than the linked site. Plus I did not have 500 paragraphs with 2 sentences per section. No information was given on the contract terms. It is not mentioned how accounts are created to access the data. It is also not mentioned who should or should not have access. The method of gathering the data was not discussed at all; no mentioned of an automated process, no mention of a script, no mention of using interns with a Firefox plugin.
Yes; for video-only uses, Flash is no longer needed. No doubt the avalanche is because a popular smartphone/tablet does not allow Flash, but Steve's point is that Flash is no longer needed because similar functionality can be performed in the more open HTML5.
Ask HN: How to stop a hacker from deleting your off-site backups?
I'm trying to come up with a half-decent backup strategy for a web server.

The strategy so far is to store backups locally on the server and have a cron job copy the latest backups over to an Amazon S3 bucket daily.

To do this, Amazon S3 user credentials would be stored on the web server.

If the web server gets hacked, the hacker would have access to the web server and the Amazon S3 credentials. With this they could delete all local and off-site backups.

Anyone got a good way of keeping backups on S3 and protecting themselves from this scenario?
Adobe could buy PhoneGap and integrate their developer tools in the way that you can create HTML5 apps and "package" them to run as native ones on any smartphone (iPhone OS, Andorid, WebOS etc.).
javascript cdn tracks you huh?
Are you on LSD or something.
what is next google seceret agreement with firefox to track ssl certificate usage??
ppl like you arent worth to be on this forum.
or Appcelerator.
Are there any relative merits to standardizing on a www sub-domain versus standardizing on non-www sub-domain?
Please look into the security guarantees offered by PGP and Off-the-record messaging. In most cases you probably want what OTR offers, namely plausible deniability instead of proof of authorship.
A while ago I was bored on a car trip and coded up a Set game in Haskell. Later, I converted it to a really simple CGI game. I had grand plans for a scoreboard and head-to-head play that fell by the wayside when I moved on to another project, but the original version is still playable:

http://web.jfet.org/~kwantam/cgi-bin/HSetHTML.cgi

If anyone wants the code for all this I can post it...
Keep in mind, he lives in Philadelphia, where it was 12:42am.
What he describes as the "most important reason" is also the big mistake here. If using certain libraries or cross-platform development tools truly did result in worse apps, then the market would take care of that.

He also doesn't seem to understand that such tools do not all totally hide the underlying APIs. They fall along a continuum in that respect. And in trying to ban extreme cases like Flash, Apple has also basically banned compilers.

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.

Surely there must be people fairly high up in Apple who realize what a crazy move it is to try to dictate to hackers what programming language they should use. It worries me that those people aren't being heard.
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They have a nifty feature which tracks your bandwidth: http://www.youtube.com/my_speed
Applying for more than one position does not generally improve your chances. It actually usually has the opposite effect. Find someone you know at Google, even tangentially, and get them to submit your application for you.
So, to recap, legally being a person and being a person aren't, legally, the same.
Wow just checked out phonegap http://www.phonegap.com/ looks pretty cool. Apps/Frameworks like this will help mobile web apps explode. Also, an easy solution to port existing web apps and make them optimized for mobile.
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That little menu bar thing hanging out in the middle of my text as I scroll down is really annoying. I lose too much real estate to menu bars / title bars / tabs already. Don't add a floating menu bar 20 pixels below that.
The sad thing: CS5 Flash could also export to native iPhone apps. A native exported app would run faster, consume less power, and potentially have better integration with the underlying platform, all with exactly the same interface as an HTML5 web app... In other words, a native app exported from Flash would be better than an exported HTML5 web app in all the same ways Steve describes HTML5 video as being better than Flash video.
I have all my privacy settings set to friends only and NO sharing enabled, and I see my posts on some of these pages.

Did I miss the opt out somewhere? I searched the privacy pages pretty thoroughly
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I did both. When I was digging through the google webmaster help docs, it said that they recommend doing both (setting preferred and 301 redirecting).
Interesting, I wonder if this is a new development (can't find that in my 2005 NEC codebook). I did run across something else, though, 200.21B2 states that the total load on a single 15-amp receptacle cannot exceed 12 amps, which might also apply.

I guess I'm going to have to go back and re-read the whole section. This concludes the thread-jack. We now return you to the regular discussion.
Try this one; http://youlik.es/l/4f (this site lets you create a like button things on the web)
Some women are selecting for intelligence, but they are rarer and more difficult to find and the increased acquisition costs also reduce the probability of creating offspring.

When the law of large numbers takes over, it's all probabilities. Consider life itself, which are more numerous: Intelligent species or unintelligent species?

The same math applies to the human species itself.
Well then, the iPad must be impenetrably difficult.
Very interesting. Nothing that would make me want to buy into his vision, but then I've never been drawn to Apple's platform. It's nice to see his reasoning and product philosophy laid out so clearly. I think Apple could have saved themselves a lot of grief with mobile developers if this had come out earlier; but better late than never.

I hope that if Adobe responds, they'll do so in a similarly direct and civil manner.
No, my argument is that your argument is misleading because it ignores the fact that Apple doesn't have a choice in keeping Webkit open. It's possible that they would want to and possible they would not want to, if they had a choice. When they originally chose KHTML to base Webkit on, in 2002, years before the first iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone OS, etc., their attitute towards being open may have been different than it is now. No one is saying Apple were less open than Microsoft in 2002; people are saying it's less open than Microsoft now, and you counteract with ignorant, invalid arguments while ignoring the evidence you're presented with. You're behaving like a troll.
Still doesn't compute. It's in the responsibility of the developer to create quality software, no matter what tool he chooses. So far Apple hasn't denied apps that are low quality in general, or have they? So how does this make sense.

I know for certain there are bad native apps in the app store.

All of this has been discussed before, though. It's not news, even though it's straight from Steve Jobs.
Requiring cookies is exactly the same as requiring specific request headers (like oauth) or even requiring parameters in a GET/POST. Sending updated cookies with an unrelated request isn't that great of thing to be doing, but cookies aren't inherently terrible.
"Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot" -- we are such easily predictable, says Albert-László Barabási the author of Linked in his new book.

Since Linked Barabási founded the science of objectively understanding and measuring people, humanity.

According to his research and new book our whereabouts can be predicted with a ... 93% accuracy from the digital path we leave in modern networks.

No wonder he states "It is tempting to see life as a crusade against randomness".

The last century, of the self, was driven by Freud’s theories and ended up with the lifestyle business — the full control of our desires, of the collective unconscious.

This century starts with the control of behavior, the control of the collective conscious represented by the Internet and all afferent networks.

This way, today hackers become responsible with creating and sustaining, spreading a Healthy Internet and Network Culture teaching humanity how to stay transparent on the net and in the same time use its advantages.
On Twitter, It's Just Five Degrees of Separation
Maybe look here: http://www.tarsnap.com/security.html it looks like you can create keys to only write and maybe keep decrypting keys offsite for just this situation.
[...] the unglamourous quest to get the data to a point where [...]

That, and once there are results, carting them back into the 'production line' and plugging them where they'll do any good.

Logistics.
It isn't an issue if all you have is a webapp, but if you plan on interfacing with the database from any other context you're gonna have trouble. Here's an example that should illustrate the point, being unfamiliar with the django code base try to use user input to specify the database credentials.
Performance is more easily measurable (a) for hackers and (b) in small organizations. And economically both hackers and small organizations have been increasing in importance.
I use vim in a minimalistic fashion; I've never talked to you about it. My guess is that you haven't talked to other than a minuscule portion of vim-using developers around the globe, and are presenting your prejudice as fact.
Http://www.topshareware.com/Password-Assistant-download-37523.htm
Apple has been a (or, THE) driving force behind Webkit for some time now. They weren't forced to start with LGPL code. They did because they were comfortable working under the GPL.

I object to the subtext here, of "Apple only does open source when they're dragged into it". No, in fact, Apple has been a vocal and active open source contributor for many years now, to a far far greater extent than Microsoft.

I started with WebKit because I think it's especially relevant to this conversation. WebKit is an important gift to all of Apple's mobile competitors. But move on from WebKit and there's still:

* LLVM/Clang

* OpenCL

* Grand Central Dispatch

* Darwin

* Quicktime Streaming

etc etc etc.

Name one bona fide open source project that Microsoft runs that any of its competitors in any market have been able to use. I'm sure there's at least one. Maybe if we go project-vs.-project, Microsoft will even come out ahead. I really doubt it, though. So for now, just one.
Yeah I've really NEVER seen this kind of floating toolbar actually be useful. The number of times I'm annoyed by the floating bar greatly outweigh the number of times I'm annoyed by having to scroll back up to the top...
That's incorrect on both fields. First, in addition to the degree you need to pass the professional engineering examinations administered by your provincial association. Second, at least in Ontario you can indeed get licensed as a professional engineer without having an engineering degree if your background and skills are deemed sufficient. Since licenses are portable between provinces, I would imagine this is the case in other provinces as well.

"If you do not have an undergraduate degree in engineering from a program accredited by the CEAB, your academic background will be assessed by PEO to determine whether it is equivalent to the established standards. PEO will assign technical exams to give you an opportunity to confirm (Confirmatory Examination Program) that your academic preparation is equivalent or to remedy any identified deficiencies (Specific Examination Program).

If you have been assigned a Confirmatory Examination Program and have more than five years of engineering experience, PEO may grant you an interview with its Experience Requirements Committee (ERC) to determine if your experience provides any basis to warrant exam relief."

http://www.peo.on.ca/registration/education.html
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But, in practice, what percentage of Flash content expects rollover capability and what percentage of HTML content expects it?
Thoughts on "Thoughts on Flash"
It does for me solely because he's the official Android blog editor. The official and Android parts of that are perhaps somewhat interesting to the extent you find the Android project interesting.

Maybe not very interesting, and as news it's indeed fairly mundane; perhaps only the ending where it talks about the first upcoming article is news of a sort.
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I haven't taken it as H.264 zealotry so much as an opposition to using Theora for reasons that practically boil down to idealism. A free, open standard that is also technically superior, well... that's a big win all around.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/

I don't use Flash because Adobe forced me or insisted that I use it. Flash was the only solution to create highly interactive applications on the web for a long time and gained huge popularity because of this. The Flash plug-in was a failure on iPhone so they went out of their way to use the Flash environment to create native iPhone apps (i.e., no longer Flash).
I know. We need to change the blog look+feel. It seemed like a cool look/feel at first, but it's actually pretty annoying.
My SE K790 had a "Sent using a Sony Ericsson Phone" message as early as Sep 2006!
Urgh. What a weird paradigm.
New Dork & the Granite State of Mind
Replace your cash and cards with a cell phone
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Wrong; Flash is still needed for DRM video (Hulu, Netflix, etc.)
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I don't think that proves maliciousness. There's no reason to believe M. intended to crash the web server.
Michael Gartenberg: on Flash and Apple
Steve Jobs: Adobe Flash Is Closed, Unstable, Antiquated
if you don't comply, your profile could be made empty.

I just did it. It makes the profile mostly empty. If you don't comply, it will delete your hometown, current city, employer, schools, and interests, It leaves family connections, quotes and contact info.

However, fB keeps that stuff behind the scenes so you can re add it later...
I think the timing on this post is perfect, re-directs attention from the gizmodo thing and prevents another john stewart from happening.
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