skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left a comment on your thread.

You need to focus on the backup part and do it for multiple platforms, not just Wordpress. Six Apart has a lot of enterprise users who pay big fees to the licence. Go to each platforms website and most of them list the clients they're most proud of (I.E. Obama's campaign website was based on Movable Type and they showcase it every chance they get).

Reach those people, corporate clients pay. Everyone has a need for a backup. your product is a no-brainer (luckily).

So to differentiate; a) expand to multiple platforms b) beat automattic in customer service.

Surprise your customers and they will spread the good will for you.
Zed is right about the fundamentals. Wall Street, as a provider of financial products, is cheating. Their returns are artificially higher because of excessive risk-taking, weak regulations and the guarantee of a bailout if anything goes wrong.

If all hidden costs were taken into account, Wall Street would be less competitive which would leave more space for healthier financial products.
I like the idea of mandatory comment to downvote. I dont see any reason why someone should give an offtopic explanation for downvotes.
Strawman argument. If I break the law, charge me. Otherwise you have no business second-guessing what I transfer over the line I pay for.

If they don't want people to use the bandwith they pay to get, they should say so by advertising their monthly cap or whatever.

The idea that I can only transfer the particular types of bits across the wire that my ISP thinks I should is exactly the point of net neutrality rules. If that's not an infringement of free speech, I don't know what is.
I can not duplicate.. I even "Liked" break and it doesn't show up for me.

These are under the "Authorized" applications or just "recently used" ?
Unfortunate, but true. I don't understand why people use services like that so willingly, because companies have to make their money somewhere. For some I guess the amount of personal data provided isn't a big deal.
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It turns out what I needed was a screencast, and this http://www.screencast-o-matic.com allowed me to create one very quickly without any tools. Any better options to recommend?
I've been pretty anal-retentive about blocking apps, setting app access, etc. for some time now and educating my "friends" on how to do this. I'm very aware of when I authorize an application and have used FB Connect twice a long time ago on sites that did not show up as unsolicited apps. Sites I visited this morning, however, are showing up. I never logged in to those sites (or have any kind of account, made a comment etc). This unauthorized "installation" is very much happening.
I wonder why it isn't more brilliantly executed. The idea is good, but execution is limited. E.g. I can't tell who has a file open - resulting in dozens of conflicted files in my dropbox-using-club, with no good way to reconcile them, and no help from Dropbox. And why am I charged for storage that belongs to me? and we largely reconcile files P2P so the bandwidth I also already pay for? In fact we will be leaving Dropbox because one of our members exceeded 2Gb, and we ALL have to pay and "upgrade" fee to continue - which comes to more that $1000.00 per year for our club.
This, very much looks like what i need. I will contact their reseller in our area on Monday.

Thank you for helping me with my query
Do people impulse-buy stocks? (I wouldn't wonder.. maybe they think reading a magazine article counts as "research"?)
"recently used" for me. I didn't take the time to check "authorized" before logging out.
Until the cracked version appears, that is.
I came on HN just to see what Facebook might have done in these whole 24 hours of my absense from internet. And boy, am I totally freaked out.

Edit: Yep, I can see apps showing up in recently used. One of the sites was vBulletin.org. I seriously do not want anyone to know that I have a forum.. at this point I am seriously considering retirement from facebook.

Dear Facebook, Screw Yourself. Thanks.

Edit 2: I'll be honest here - I was never much concerned about my online privacy, why? because I had faith that no comapny could get away doing something such as this. Lost my faith. Disappointed..
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I just signed up to an eventbrite event and the eventbrite application is now installed, I declined the facebook connect notification
Also, you can long-press on a text field, which brings up a select/copy/paste menu. This seems to work across all Android apps, and presumably works on non-keyboard phones.
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If they win, I say we investigate (en masse) as to whether or not their datacenters are compatible with both pitchforks and fire.
I'm surprised they cut so little. I could never understand, for the life of me, why they had such a big staff. It seems to me Kevin Rose could have made himself a very nice living off the site with a staff of around 5 people maintaining the site, but instead they had to get all "future of news" and overstretch themselves.
timmaah, are you sure you're not doing something "unusual" here? A browser that this doesn't work on, no-script, browser security settings maybe? Just wondering how you avoided it.
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As icey said in a comment on the blog post, you could probably fix that with "Read more on Vince's A..."
Lawsuit-defense tip for developers: Clearly label demos and mock-ups as such
Ask HN: what is the cheapest way to collect instrument logged data remotely?
I need to collect data from instruments periodically (once every 15 minutes) remotely.
Is there a Wireless plan that is suitable for this kind of low/data-only traffic?

I live in in the US.
I think that is the rub here.. Somehow they are showing as "recently used" which is completely different from "Authorized". The app does not get a session key from you and has no additional permissions or access to your account.

The friends thing mentioned in the article has always been that way. Every connect site is an app, go to an app you can see friends who have installed it, as it always has
In many cases, you are breaking your contract with the ISP. Read almost any residential contract and it says the subscriber agrees not to run servers for example. My ISP in california even blocked port 80 upstream.

Limiting the ability to share movies online is not an infringement of free speech.
Your EPA example is misleading since a) new regulations like that always have a public comment period and there certainly was a debate about that decision, and b) the supreme court has agreed that regulating CO2 falls under the EPA's charter. (And CO2 "the air we breathe" in the same way that nitrous oxides are, they'll kill you in concentrations high enough and is not useful to humans in any way.)

What you are painting as a demon I think of as giving regulators flexibility to adapt to a changing world. It couldn't work otherwise, if everything had to be spelled out exactly by Congress do you really think it would work better?
>It's by far the most accurate prediction of the result.

Do you have any evidence for this? E.g. comparisons of polling vs betting predictions from previous elections.
Henry Ford is reputed to have said, "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."

Looking at this forum is fine, but you still have to go through the effort to integrate all of these disparate and narrow desires into something larger that you can build a business on. That's hard! Staying motivated while working on a problem that you don't have yourself is even harder.
"Authorized" or just under "recently used"?

It is disconcerting that they show under recently used, but in no way is facebook adding "Authorized" apps at random to peoples profiles.
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FYI, the gothamist network of sites (LAist, Bostonist, DCist, Phillyist, Chicagoist, SFist, Austinist, Houstonist, and Seattlest ) is doing this as well.
This is really bad. I administer a site that uses IntenseDebate. That site has not integrated any of the Facebook Graph API at all. However, we do allow Facebook logins through Intense Debate. To my surprise, I see that this site has been added to my Facebook applications.

So, if you use third party sites that in turn use Facebook's API, you effectively add Facebook Graph API to your app.
Dropbox has pretty much nailed "personal storage" (for one person or maybe a 2-4 person family), but it sounds like there's still a market for whoever can bring true large-group version control to non-programmers.
Nope.. I think it is just people are hyper sensitive (as they should be) to fb privacy this week and have noticed something that has always been there. There (for whatever reason) is a difference between "Recently used" and "Authorized"

(But still I don't see them under "recently used".. no idea why)
Depends on what you define as gambling. E.g. playing crap or betting on fair coin-flips is decidedly different from prediction markets or investment; because everyone agrees on the probabilities already, so there's no information aggregation and discovery.
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"Underwater kite" project for capturing tidal energy
Probably the latter: "As humans began fanning out from Africa, between 50 and 100,000 years ago, these markers changed. A team ... found evidence that some of the markers looked far too old to have come from humans."
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It's contempt for the product then, and if they're not careful all of their products will get up and leave.
I guess Ghostery's blocking of Facebook Connect is stopping this "feature" working for me.
Plenty of time for an eBay auction!

Seriously though, this probably complicates organ allocation tremendously. Right now they only have to consider the relatively small pool of recipients that are compatible and close enough to hit the window. There may be scaling issues.
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As a quick fix, check out Psyco. I've had success running algorithms in Python up to 6-8x faster.
This is not a new feature.
Just shows what a shitty platform HTML is: one step forward, three steps back
With an iPhone or iPad, you can have it activated when you purchase it, buy music or apps wirelessly, add contacts, sync to MobileMe/Google/exchange, and do pretty much whatever you like.

I only connect my phone to my computer to do backups (because I don't want to lose my text messages), or to update apps >20MB (because I'm never on WiFi). You don't have to have a computer at all to use an iPhone. In fact, I have a friend who'd never sync'ed or backed up her iPhone once (and didn't know how to do it), and she used it without issues for well over a year before needing to do a backup.

I've never used Android, so I'm not sure what music store is available on the phone by default. Is it any good?
I'm from Brazil. A friend worked on a company that tracked trucks (to know if they are on route, where they are if stolen, etc).

They simple used a cellphone with GPS, requesting via HTTP the company's server, with its position/id.

They probably had some kind of agreement with telcos to pay a little cheaper rates, but honestly a few kb per day is cheap enough, and the tech is not complicated.

I don't know your scaling plans, but I think you can do your instruments talk to some server using standard cellphones.
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Facebook seems hellbent on getting me to delete my profile.

They just succeeded.
Other events were already known, like the "Lapedo child" in Portugal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapedo_child
Tip for others cleaning their profiles:

When you go to the Application Settings page make sure to change the drop-down from "Recently Used" to "Authorized." Otherwise you will not see all the apps/websites that are associated with your profile.
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The Paralysis of Unlimited Opportunity. ~ Seth Godin
IF that is the case aren't they in violation of the same statute via the contact importer which accesses contacts from a user's email account?
I think you picked a poor target, since tokenadult was clearly implying that (s)he is seriously considering abandoning Facebook, implying the acceptance of the "take it or leave it" action set.

(For myself: Take it or leave it, and I've never liked Facebook's options so I never took it. It hasn't gotten any better. But if they want to monetize their user base right out of existence, they have my blessing; I don't see why someone should point guns at them and make them stop.)
It’s not about homeruns. It’s about more at-bats.
Regardless, climbers have a noble history of not paying for things.

Gyms are a good example of this. They make the lion's share of their money off of Birthday Parties. Monthly dues won't even keep the lights on.

Other lifestyle sports have the same issues. There's a reason why most Surf Shops don't sell surfboards. They sell boardshorts to people who want to look like surfers. The actual participants don't spend much on their sports.
Yeah, they could see apps you authorized before. Not sites that add themselves, essentially showing your web browsing habits to all your friends.
Intelligent rant about newspapers and social media
The numbers that have been floating around for inclusion into the iAds are in the millions. You don't get to be part of iAds unless you have serious money, so I think we can assume Apple's going to at least cover their costs.

As for seeing iAds elsewhere - perhaps, but it seems unlikely. Still, Apple's take on ads is that they want to make ads people like. The example he demonstrated, the Toy Story 3 ad, is something I can honestly see myself playing around with for a while. It's entertaining, it's involving. It's not going to be boring, garish text ads like Google ads, uglying up the page.

There's something to be said for the idea of adding taste and style back into online advertising.
They have 72 staff? Doing what??
There could be problems with truncation with "..." as well.

For instance, I can imagine the following trunactions:

"Anal...", "Ass...", etc.

I guess the problem really is the truncation. Hard to know what you're going to get.
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See my other comments. Apps are not randomly being "Authorized" and you can only see your friends who have "Authorized" an app.

Nothing has changed..
Seriously freaking out guys. Getting too complex
I thought the Xobni deck was incredibly insightful. it's definitely worth the download http://www.slideshare.net/brezina/5-stages-of-xobnis-growth-...
If you truly believe this, why don't you take their money by betting against them?
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Only if the user's email account is hosted on a service with a similar TOS.
Probably because it answers a common, long-standing complaint.
You can just get rid of it by editing your theme.
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So does this mean all Facebook plugins introduce this flaw as well? Terrible news if so because we just integrated the "Like" button on our service.
I agree with your sentiment, but I think it could be helpful for me to have a "coding buddy" to share things with, someone who is not involved in my project. It would be kind of nice to have someone to share particularly clever code snippets with, or to help motivate each other by being able to proudly relate the process you're making in development. At first I thought that's what Jeff was going to talk about.

As far as the actual programming, yes, I'd prefer to do it alone. I love being able to make major decisions (think: changing an internal API) without having to consult with someone.
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Or you could simply turn off accept 3rd party cookies and never ever use facebook connect.
I see it. I didn't authorize
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I deactivated my facebook account this morning. I clicked the "concerns about privacy" radio button when I gave a reason.
Today the Dow dropped 1000 points in about ten minutes.
An OSS scalable distributed message queue with automatic failover. It kicks ass
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That doesn't really solve the problem: "Bob's Assault on Stupidity" becomes "Read more on Bob's Ass..."

Arbitrary truncation of English text is guaranteed to result in amusing edge cases. Besides, how often does a blog title fit into 25 - len("Read more on ") - len("...") = 9 characters? I couldn't even find a posterous that wouldn't truncate under that rule. Truncation is ugly- it should be a worst-case exception, not something applied to every single post.
Thank you for the advice. There were a lot of applications I didn't know had sneaked in there.
Ask HN: Do you agree with the current banning policy?
Yesterday, I tried to submit a URL and got a "you are posting too fast" error. I logged out and checked my threads (this http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bseo) page and I noticed my last comment was missing. At least I found out about the silent ban before posting more invisible comments.

This is the second time this has happened (other account http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bhseo). The previous time was a few months ago, however I only noticed after an HN member emailed me to tell me I had been banned. I made a few dozen invisible comments in the time between.

I like HN and the high quality discussions that take place here. I don't agree with the silent banning, at least for obviously human users. Why let them waste time making comments nobody is going to see? If I received a notice that I was banned or no longer welcome here, I would gladly leave by myself. It pains me to think that there are human users on HN posting comments into a black hole.

If I remember correctly, last time this subject was discussed the thread was deleted. I am not posting this in order to get my ban reversed, so this is probably my last post to HN. I would just like to see what other HN members think of this.
Indeed, brains filled with relevant prior knowledge and experiences are better at making connections and reaching logical end points.

Clickable link to another interesting article on spontaneous activity in "experienced brains" reflecting "memory traces" for the newly learned things:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200398-Scans-Show-Learning...
As someone who used to look favorably on Tumblr, I will never recommend or use them again after seeing their response to the Pitchfork domain situation (ref url, you'll have to dig through the comments for the original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129450)
Anything is compatible with sufficiently accelerated pitchforks.
Assuming your travel blogging site is the one listed in your profile. If that's the case, you should be making way more than a $1.35 a day (~2K uniques per Compete and nearly sub 100K Alexa). I'm sure you don't want to plaster your site with ads, but if you reached out to smaller brand advertisers, I'm sure you could get some decent non-obtrusive, CPM deals. You could also use something like Skimlinks/Viglink to affiliatize traffic (although I think CPM is the way to go).
Is there any way to block this without logging out of facebook?

The article says how you can get rid of an application, but not how you can stop new apps from being added (or is that just it, you can't).

Would a greasemonkey script be possible which blocks facebook scripts from running when visiting a non-facebook domain?
next you'll say it takes no labour to goto reddit everyday and filter out things and then post on Digg for sake humanity.
Here's Apple losing more than 20% of its value

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=AAPL

Nobody knows why it's happening. They're talking about a "fat finger mistake" on CNBC.

Some of these people look pretty scared.
Numbers on the iPad (or on the Mac for that matter) will never be as powerful as Excel, if for no other reason than 99% of users don't use 99% of features.

The parent poster mentioned users that just 'browse the net or read/write documents and spreadsheets', and those types of people generally don't use most of what Excel offers. What they do use (formulas, charts, sheets, styles, etc.) Numbers does offer, and it does quite well.
Is there any discussion anywhere about what happened?
I don't really think what Posterous is doing is a big deal to begin with, but I think people know that the elipses means the content has been truncated. There are enough sites out there that automatically truncate words that I don't think many people would be up in arms if they saw something that truncated down to "Anal..." or "Ass..." or whatever.
Worries of Greek sovereign default.
Because emailing SJ is the "hot new thing". When you receive a reply, you're obligated to post about it on the internet, including full mail headers as "proof".
>If humans bred only with other humans, all these markers would create a neat phylogenetic tree, showing that human genetic diversity can be traced to a single population that existed in Africa in the last 100,000 years.

I'm not a statistician, but from what I've studied of genetics, that seems like an unwarranted leap. Phylogenetic trees, at the end of the day, are guesswork (though they probably reflect reality pretty closely.) If you have a neat phylogenetic tree, you've probably been massaging your data.
http://ee380.stanford.edu gives the schedule of the talks in the series. Click on the video camera icon to see the video. Needs Windows Media Player.

IMHO it's a great talk.
Misleading title. The drop occurred over about 10 minutes, and has partially reversed. As of 3:06 it's -400 for the day. The VIX is also up into the high-30s.

Not to say this isn't August 6, 2007 or September 12, 2008. It may well be.
I'm sorry, I ment 'comments'.

But my question is about the 'learn to live with this'. Wouldn't it be good to learn why you were downvoted?
How bad is that? From the graph it's back to levels of early February, but is this a curiosity, a drama, a panic or a catastrophe?
...and then recovers 700 points less than 20 minutes later. Just a little volatility out there...
Luckily it seems to be rebounding. As the Dow approaches 11,000 wasn't it not long ago we were saying it might never get back to 10,000. Funny how that works. Just wish I had more money to invest!
I'm not sure I understand where my mistake is. My question is not whether you are "take it or leave it". My question is whether or not there are expectations set up when you upload something, anything, to a free site.

I don't think anybody is advocating some sort of half-measure, like bringing a lawsuit or something. My question is about expectations. HackerNews voting doesn't work as I like. So I complain. I'm told it's a free site so stfu (just making this up and using HN as an example). Is it reasonable for me to expect something from HN since I put stuff on there? If I leave my car keys at the front desk at a hotel, I reasonably expect them to take care of them and put them in the safe. This is a reasonable expectation of people who visit a hotel. If I upload naked pictures of me and a chicken to Facebook and make them private, regardless of TOS, should I have that same type of expectation?

More to the point in this case, for a million years mankind has always thought that the list of who his friends were and his memories of interacting with them were an innate part of his being. Nobody could take this from him. Now Facebook is saying that this is property that they can trade in. Which side makes the most sense? And because it is free, does that change the equation?

Make no mistake, I've long thought Facebook was the devil.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974281
So, basically, you have a main css class with "transition-duration: 1.5s;", another class with left: -275px; and after you change to a class with left: 0px; and it animates itself without javascript (it is used only to change classes).

That's cool, exited about new CSS features, wish they did added these earlier..

And it reminds me a bit about Adobe Flash IDE, you can do animations without actionscript just by using their IDE.