skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discovered this many about a month or two ago, and have not been able to fix it since.

To see if you're affected go to "Account" (top left hand corner), "Edit Friends", and then "Phone book" ... (right hand menu)

I was shocked to find that it had taken every. single. number. off my iphone and published them to that page.

I had to disable Facebook/iphone sync then try to delete the phone numbers by clicking the link on the left that they recommend to you http://www.facebook.com/contact_importer/remove_uploads.php?..., but it has never worked, despite me clicking on that link at least 30 times over the last few months.

So yeah ... my entire iphone phonebook is on facebook right now, and yours may be too.
Works fine in newest Minefield.
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Credit to John Siracusa for the title of this post.
Interesting idea. Personally, I prefer to hear back feedback from the actual application process itself - it is more efficient in many ways.
That's a very western view. As far as they're concerned, both shutting down the "adult" shortener and their human rights record are both examples of their high moral purity. Their idea of moral behaviour and yours differ, is all.
You're both right.

"The real answer is the R&D costs are not worth it because Uranium is still extreamly cheap."

This answers why the market won't develop the technology on its own. But the government could still sponsor research as they did with uranium fission.

"The short answer is that there are many entrenched interests who are not keen on the idea..."

And this answers why the government would never fund it.
You’re right. My mistake.
tvtropes is NSFWorking. Tangent: I disagree with Jack Sparrow being Crazy Awesome. He succeeds by the Rule of Cool, but I can't think of an instance where his craziness made him succeed (though that may be just because I'm very tired right now.) eg. at the start of PotC, he looks completely freaked as he flies up to escape from the pier. Or is the fact that he even tried it Crazy Awesome? Great movie, anyway.
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Absolutely. If I were writing embedded software for a heart monitor my standards would be very different to if I were knocking up a department intranet site for a division of a large corporation.
It says it uses Euler integration, what do you expect? At least the really bad interactions are mostly handled by absorbing the planets into one another, even though not all of them are.
Maybe some day they will be able to get updates from any old photographs or video taken by anyone. Automatically figure out what part of the world is in view with overlaps, like Photosynth does today, then incrementally apply updates if something is new or different. For example if a restaurant owner snaps a picture of the specials board on the sidewalk, it will figure out what exactly is new and patch just that board in the virtual world.
several months? What kind of jobs do you typically apply for? And if you do this only a few times, how do you stagger the client work ?
Yeah, thanks. Dropbox kicks some serious ass.
When the feature debuted, the thrust of the announcement seemed to be that it would populate your local phonebook with contact info and photos from Facebook. Assuming it would quite likely also do the same in reverse, I held off.

And that is what I find most objectionable about Facebook's user experience in general.

Everything I do, every click, I have to weigh: What will this mean for my privacy? Will I accidentally share something I didn't want to? I have to think everything through from Facebook's perspective and try to predict what my actions will be interpreted as consent for the system to do. It's decidedly unpleasant.
Definitely toeing the "Permission based marketing" line there, but sometimes you gotta be a little scrappy :)
Why, were you thinking of investing in him?
Apparently Minefield is set up to require recent drivers. I was getting nothing on my laptop until I worked out that I had to go to intel's site, run the driver installer, ignore its error message telling me to go to the laptop manufacturer, and manually tell windows to use the driver now in my temp folder.
i suspect this is a case of an unexperienced entrepreneur/poster -- a rookie mistake. i can she why someone would sign-up to ask a question. Because I'm a believer of "innocent until proven guilty," here is some quick advice:

- specify where the job is located... the country at least.

- specify any technical constraints that might be present (programming language, database, hosting OS)

- specify years of experience required

- give everyone some idea of the project domain (subject, not domain name)
Is this at all representative of the way sharia exists in practice? Can you provide, say, 5 examples of Islamic countries practicing sharia according to this strict interpretation that aren't overwhelmed by the influence of religous and ethnic traditionalism? If not then aren't you just arguing semantics? If the way sharia is practiced conforms to a certain well delineated set of patterns and that differs from some ideal definition of sharia which is the correct definition?
I agree. Generally speaking, saying "I'm the developer, and I say this is wrong" is no better than "I'm the manager and I say do it now".

I think the best approach is usually to say "I can do that, but understand that you're putting the next project behind to do this one". Granted, that won't change their mind. But you will have an excuse for being behind next time.
I disagree. The title is against HN's posting guidelines. It's also not unanimous, as even in the comments here people have suggested other ways to learn JS that they feel are superior.

Noting in the title that this is Mozilla's JS reference is enough to give it credence and is still objective.
Redirecting your content through a third party like Amazon Web Services? Or Akamai CDN? Or Rackspace?

All small- to medium-size websites are the result of dozens of third party companies -- server farms, network backbones, DNS providers -- working together. Even the really gigantic sites like Google and Yahoo, who really do own their whole networks and all their hardware, use third party services extensively.

In the case of a third-party URL shortener, the other party's presence is more visible but no more intrinsically unreliable. And in fact, in this instance, the redirector itself didn't go down -- what "broke" was the DNS provider, namely NIC.ly.
I'm curious why PC makers don't seem to be trying to take them mainstream at all yet (as in: last I checked they're not even available as an option in HP/Dell's desktop configurators) They definitely seem like the low-hanging fruit for noticeable performance improvements at this point, what with CPU clock speed having hit a wall and more cores requiring fundamental programming model (and application domain?) changes to take advantage of (and both being good enough for existing applications anyway). Is it just that consumers have been trained to treat CPU clock speed/cores, RAM size and storage capacity as the only important metrics?
Except, of course, your idea of morality and their idea of morality is very different.

The assumption that your morality is the only one that matters pretty much reinforces the point I was trying to make with my original comment.

In any event, NIC.ly can take back any domains it wants to. You're playing under NIC.ly's rules, and if they change their rules that's their business.

Who do you think they fear a backlash from? If they change their rules to prohibit all non-Libyan registrants, they can reclaim any domains they like. I sincerely doubt that the Libyan government and NIC.ly really care what people moan about on Twitter and tech blogs.

What do you think they're planning to do with these 'valuable' domains? Nothing, because they actually have absolutely no value to anyone who hasn't already established their branding around it.

All these guys want to do is reclaim their country's TLD for their country and to exclude things that offend their local values.

And they're entirely entitled to do that.
If you can get a command prompt, you can just run:

netsh firewall set opmode disable

Tragedy averted.
Couldn't agree more. I found it awkward to type—I could never remember what part of the word 'delicious' was the domain. deli.cio.us? de.licio.us?

This is why people just go to Google and type in the domain they want. If you're off by a character or two you still get to the site without a 404.
My favorite example of something people are terrible at estimating is the number of leaves in a tree.

It's typically (rot13'd) bire n uhaqerq gubhfnaq.
Doesn't this also mean you can't do regular system updates, since the chip would replace it with the old system?
As I said in my reply to your deleted comment, this is plain wrong. Momentum is conserved. Unlike kinetic energy (which gets transformed into heat), it is even conserved in inelastic collisions.
Where's the option of "No, but plan to".
It might not be worth the effort but you might want to consider making this available to the public as a service for freelancers.
Everybody already considered Oracle a bloodthirsty opportunist that only cares about money. What changed is that now Oracle is a bloodthirsty opportunist that only cares about money and that has leverage over a huge industry.
Very cool, "Webmaster". Thanks.
True. But startups can turn into big corporations eventually.
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That was not an aggressive response. It was a routine response, almost a copy/paste of what you'd see from any patent defendant who has decided to not immediately cave.
> we'll do the quick hack, but only if we're then allowed, in the very short term, to make the fix properly.

What happens when you're not allowed to fix/improve/refactor the hack? Sometimes developers are assigned new tasks immediately.
I was hoping there would be observations here about this line.

The one thing that's given me hesitation with regard to it, is the reliability problems Seagate was running into a while back, e.g. the "click of death" (very) premature failures on some of their 1 GB drives.

If anyone has appropriate experience/observations, has their reliability trended back towards its old, high levels?
Unicorns, Triple Rainbows, Package Management and Lasers (.NET packaging)
Ask HN: Please, help my startup with product/market fit
I am building a company to help new startups acquire and retain customers through the effective and analyzable communication.

http://bit.ly/bDe4n7

Would you help me to research and define if there is a product/market fit for what I am building? Thanks!
I have an 80 gb intel x-25m in my 13 inch MBP but I also took out the superdrive and installed a 500gb live in an enclosure in the optical bay.
Old, rich rock stars are apparently more 'old, rich people' than they are 'rockstars.'
Here's the consent screen you get when you click "Sync" in the app:

"If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email, address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and your friends' profile photos and other info from Facebook will be added to your iPhone address book. Please make sure your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information. [I Don't Agree] [I Agree]"

Technically fair warning, but I personally feel this is too invasive no matter what the user clicks through.
No, it doesn't take special relativity or general relativity into account. It's purely Newtonian physics.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand. :-) Could you elaborate?
I'm still waiting for OS X to add support for TRIM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_(SSD_command)#Operating_sy...
Just to add some more amusement: Why the hell would that be not safe for work?

It's hard to state my question without ending up being dismissed as a troll, but I'm deeply amused by different viewpoints related to sex between western cultures. If I take a karma hit for that, so be it.

Anecdote: During the football (yeah, or soccer..) worldcup in Germany images were all over the internet that showed a brochure, which was rumored to be issued by the USA's department of foreign affairs for tourists joining the event. One interesting "fact" about the german culture mentioned in there was ,that violence (on tv, online, etc) might be far less accepted over here and might be felt offensive, while nudity/references to sex might offend the traveller.

I never found out if these things were real, but comments like these remind me of some interesting differences in cultures between states that otherwise often end up being regarded similar in morale and grouped as "western countries".
I can't agree with every point you've made more.

When I first started in the sector I was confronted with this 'IT is a utility' mindset from 'the business'. It was demoralising.

Luckily, a new CEO came in following an acquisition and the first thing he said in a company-wide conference was how the company needed to value and respect IT more (as we knew more about the company and the systems than anyone else, he said). Overnight, almost everyone in the department came to love their job.

Saying that, three years later and people are starting to worry about their prospects (and rightly so, it seems).

I'm similarly interested in pursuing things on the side (as a serious project rather than a means to 'get out'). If you fancy it, reach out (email in profile).

As for your blog -- the first post is great, keep it up.
Fiction
Enders game
Rendezvous with Rama
Hunger Games
The old man and the sea

Non Fiction
Rework
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And that gets us to the central problem of our energy policy.

Utilities are moving towards a short-term thinking model where they install natural gas turbine with a low capital cost and use electricity deregulation to offload the risk of volatile natural gas prices to the consumer. "Renewables" are also driven by short-term motives: making a quick buck by exploiting government subsidies.

Nuclear energy can give us a sustainable energy source the thousand-year timescale (energy-wise, breeders can certainly consume seawater U238 profitably,) but we need to be thinking on the timescale of decades, not the next quarter, to get there.
I don't know if this is common knowledge, but all bit.ly-powered domains are actually mirrors of each other, so http://bit.ly/bdMwyV and http://j.mp/bdMwyV automatically go to the same place. This would make such a switch technically simple, but obviously you'd still break all the old bit.ly-domain links.
Its likely someone will find a work around for this, probably reverse engineered from the OTA updates. Cyanogen and his team are pretty resourceful folks.
Mono is a patent minefield. Microsoft's covenant only covers what is under the ECMA standard and most of the interesting parts aren't.
Why would I (as a visitor) need to click the site if I see what I searched for right there, on Google screenshot?

Because that's not how people typically interact with websites. If it was, the World Wide Web would simply be made of small JPEG pic versions of what sites look like. If you have a site with quality content on it, which happens to be ranked high in search results I can pretty much guarantee you are still going to receive your high click-through traffic. You may even receive more. The only people who lose out with this are those with low quality or spam type sites where their traffic is "crap, not what I wanted" hit-the-back-button clicks, which don't provide much value to advertisers anyway.
Probably because he forgot to open that port in his EC2 security group.

Machines belong to security groups, and security groups define which ports have access to the outside world - which is why you don't need the Windows firewall at all when running an EC2 instance.
Fun fact 2: Gene wasn't the frontman, Paul Stanley was. :)

Fun fact 3: I'm submitting for dishonorable discharge from the KISS army because of this article :(
Counterpoint: I understand Javascript and the DOM all too well, and coding my own "poorly-optimized" library for things that could be handled in one line of jQuery strikes me as a huge waste of time.
I had mostly forgotten about it until I saw this post. I think it would be a good idea to give to freelances and may revisit it in the near future.
I know you mention that you want to break onto the iPad scene. But would you still be interested in doing some web-design work?
Daemon and Freedom TM by Daniel Suarez. Everyone on HN would love it I think.
You left out the <sarcasm> marker so someone will be confused...
I think you are right. Here's what I think the issue is:

1. Sun invents java.

2. Sun patents several aspects - including the security model, bytecode, etc.

3. Sun open sources java and has a patent grant agreement in place if (whatever flavor of ) java passes the TCK.

4. Sun does not release the TCK as opensource

5. Apache Harmony does not comply with TCK - some weird stuff that if Harmony uses the TCK, it ceases to be opensource (might be applicable to mobile domain only). This means that it does not enjoy patent grants.

6. Dalvik uses the Harmony class library, as well as having a similar security model as Java (Patents 6,125,447 and 6,192,476).

So the problem is that, indeed the Dalvik bytecode is different, but that was never part of Oracle's patent claims IMHO. The patent claims are allegedly due to Harmony AS WELL AS other stuff like security models, PACK200 Java compression scheme for DEX, etc.

Side note: there is a Android fork called Sundrop which claims to be a non-infringing Android because it uses the official jvm. I disagree because it does not take care of the other patents.
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Unfortunately, phone numbers have no pretense of being private. When you call someone, they get your number. Etiquette alone determines what they can do with it, and etiquette is lagging behind social technology.
"And to my family I bequeath my entire fortune, providing that they log into my twitter account, and tweet 'I DID IT FOR THE LULZ' upon my death."
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Should be able to disable it in robots.txt or meta tags, so shouldn't be a big deal for publishers.
I just read this snippet from Nilay Patel:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/05/google-responds-to-oracle...

IANAL and at least he is. I'm not really sure what to think from it. In particular these bullet quoted items:
"•Sun open-sourced Java Standard Edition under the GPL in 2006 and 2007, but didn't include a patent or copyright license with the code. In order to get that license, developers have to demonstrate compatibility with the Java specification.

•The only way to demonstrate compatibility with the Java specification is to use Sun's Technology Compatibility Kit, or TCK, and Sun / Oracle and Apache have been bickering about the license for the Java TCK, or JCK, for years. (That's putting it lightly, actually. It's been more like a war.)

•The only license Sun ever offered Apache for the JCK included significant "field of use" restrictions, including a restriction on mobile phones."

This actually makes me believe that Oracle and Google both know what they're doing and this ends up really ugly. Can anyone give a second opinion as to if those bullet points are true?
I gathered it was related to the Unclean Hands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean_hands) claim - but I am just a coder.

Edit: Because "The defendant has the burden of proof" that was included as (part of?) the proof they would need to provide
A particularly cruel one, too, if you die and they keep getting posthumous messages from you.

I kind of like it. Might have to adopt this, but I'm not entirely sure how I can set this up to live on after I'm gone. If I don't pay server bills, they tend to shut off service.
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Breakdown for http://www.jasondavies.com/ over the past month:

Safari: 4%

Internet Explorer: 5% (!)

Mozilla-compatible agent: 6%

Chrome: 20%

Firefox: 65%
You have to go to Friends and click Sync
Advertisers aren't going to pay more because surfers (might have) seen a small version in the sidebar of a search result, so saying that ads will receive more views is pointless imo.
Good idea. Nice design. Would you be interested in providing a stream API?
Oracle's corporate customers most definitely care.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/microsoft-issu...

FUD can come from both sides of the argument, I guess.
I don't know about OCZ Vertex, but I remember that Intel bragged that its MLC drives can last for about 5 years even if you write a couple of GBs every day.
I have tried, it isn't that google voice isn't delivering the text to my handset, it is that google voice no longer receives text messages at all as far as I can tell, in any form. They don't show up in my google voice inbox, they don't get forwarded to email, etc.
I disagree. If in fact, that's what the original text says, then I don't think it's just semantics to avoid slamming the original text.

I think it's important to distinguish between a religion or ideal - say, Christianity, or democracy - and what people do under that name. If church X doesn't follow the clear teachings of Jesus, that doesn't reflect poorly on Jesus, but on church X. If nation Y has rigged elections, that doesn't reflect poorly on democracy, but on nation Y.

It is important to be able to ask theoretical questions like "is capitalism inherently flawed?" and separate them from "how is it being practised in this situation?" If capitalism + government meddling = failure, it's unfair to say that capitalism failed. Rather, we should say that capitalism wasn't practiced.

I think the poster is just asking for the same kind of logical distinction.
Any chance you want to buy the Philadelphia Eagles and turn them into a Super Bowl-winning franchise?

But seriously, does that mean you are actively working towards that goal now? Do you think you can realistically achieve it?
++ Breakfast. I won't even try to do anything that requires thought without my breakfast...usually just some non-sugary cereal.
Distribution is no longer a task that requires an industry to carry out. Just because at some point in the past you were able to sell a service that people needed doesn't guarantee that service will always be a viable revenue stream. The record companies are still useful for promotion, but not too much else. Trying to keep an old business model around through litigation when there is no need for it, simply because it was profitable at one point, is a waste of time.
MEPs angered by reports that secret anti-counterfeiting deal has concluded without them

Looks like the people with any morals are the ones who don't have access to it.
Good pitch, I haven't personally found this to be true with the goals I've shared with other people. I get much more fired up to prove that I'm actually going to do it once it's out there. But obviously the science shows that might not be true for all.
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You have movies that you would never, ever guess have been banned, the only thing weirder is the reasons given for the gag order.
I guess he travels a lot (conferences etc.). Of course one could respond to emails while flying a plane, but, you know, it's rms.
I love the idea. The "secret phrase" method of creating an identity seems downright awful.
I see that your reply to davidw was about actor/object; but I was replying to crayz, who was talking about "borrowing some DNA"/"being infected" ie. whether the effect was good or bad. hmmm... at least that's how I read him, anyway; but maybe he was also focusing on actor/object... regardless, I still say I have a valid point! :-) Good day, sir!