skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kinda concerned about the security angle on all of this.

You have people phoning up UPS finding out the addresses of where packages are going, and potentially writing down the address if it turns out not to be theirs.

You can see from the tracking results on UPS that UPS are leaving a lot of these on the steps of residences and thus if you setup the correct monitoring you now have the possibility of people running around to the houses of freshly delivered laptops to take them from the door step.

Additionally, where people have signed for them, their last name is listed and with the addition of the zip code from the original source this creates further concern. I've already been able to find out the identity of someone who received one who lives in my zipcode because he has an unusual last name. I just searched for their last name + zipcode on Google and could confirm he is a developer at Engine Yard.

The weak points in the chain are that UPS assumes you must be one of the authorized parties if you have a valid tracking number in hand, and so when you call up to enquire they take that as validation.

What this really comes down to is how these tracking numbers + zipcodes became public in the first place (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996623)
heh, interesting analogy.

My top-level comment here has the line of discussion which led me to make this, which does make some sense. If pg were to comment here, regardless of what he said, would you be more likely to vote him up over someone else who said the same thing? Names / numbers have pretty strong subconscious effects on our behavior - the purpose here is to eliminate that effect, so non-prejudicial voting by those details isn't just attempted, it's achieved.

However minor of a gain that may be. To each their own :)
For years, we've been aware that innovations in alternative energy have been bought up by oil companies and quietly, quickly disappeared. Who DID kill the Electric Car and all that? That Peak Oil is even a concern to us now is partly due to the oil companies having invested in keeping us dependant. As a STARTING point, I'm all for getting back off them (by whatever legal means . . . or other are available) all non-oil related technology patents they've bought and hidden away.

In the next 10 - 50 years, we may see the oil companies start to go down . . . but damned if they're taking us with them !!
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If i remember correctly Tim Ferris became successful by selling supplements before he wrote his book.
it should be open for the developer just like price.

I would feel more inclined to but an app with oneweek trial instead of the 15 min. Specially if its a keyboard one.
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It's not that hard to keep social identities separate. Don't add your Great Aunt Mildred as a friend on Facebook. If you really must, it's not like it's difficult to make separate accounts (annoying maybe, but not difficult).

Or, don't use Facebook at all.
Try using a camera for photography?! I might need a better example to see the value proposition :o)
Yes, I like margarine too.
Definitely further down the line if I do, but I'll keep it in mind.

What I'm doing right now is really simple - I'm just tagging the names / points with CSS classes, and then hiding. Up-voting changes the comment's class. Clicking the page-action removes / re-makes the CSS rules. Re-writing and being able to restore means storing the data somewhere, quite a bit more complex than just labeling the DOM.
According to Amazon (https://kdk.amazon.com/gp/vendor/sign-in?ie=UTF8&origina...), if you are offering active contents that have access to their Whispernet mobile network, unless you are selling your app on a monthly subscription basis, you are limited to use at most 100KB / month for a single user.
I was wondering the same thing. Unfortunately, the first day there was no email and it was sitting in an unmarked brown box all day. I hope that changes. I've had packages taken before, and I have to wonder if Google is keeping tabs on them, just in case.
Hi David. The decision to go with SMS is because it was faster to develop (than a native iphone / android app) as well as supporting all phones.

Soon we'll be coming up with a mobile version of the site that lets you do the same thing without using SMS. We'll post again on HN when it's done.
Yep, it is a bit of a PITA to setup but once done is well worth it in avoiding social faux pas.
Seems like they are all being shipped from LOUISVILLE, KY, US, according to some tracking numbers I looked up coming to Menlo Park.
Hopefully not the same university as me
ironically, there are also plenty of people on HN that also need to learn what a "hacker" is
I don't think they say the address right away when you ask for it. Fairly certain they ask you to confirm your name and the address that's meant to be on the package and mention if it is the same or not. Regardless, this certainly raises a concern.
One interesting thing to note, the numbers on pastie.org seem to be mostly shipped via ground, whereas the numbers on addicted-gamer are shipped mostly by next day. According to the pastie.org info, there is only one coming to Menlo Park (where I live), but according to addicted gamer, there's two in transit (one next day, one ground, which is common with the pastie.org data) and more than 20 already delivered.
About Apple killing classic MacOS, it was really kill or be killed. They did it years too late, IMHO.
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Yeah, I guess you're right, since I run Ubuntu and still can't turn the damn thing off...
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No, I meant the Chrome netbooks.
By "built another reddit" I meant one that got even remotely comparable traffic. The difficulty in making another reddit isn't writing the code, let's put it that way.
However, for those who still use the original iPhone, jailbreaking is the /only/ way to avoid a remote, browser-initiated, publicly available vulnerability. :(
It's down- mirror?
I think the bill should specifically define the levels of security needed for various types of infrastructure, and avoid allowing a government department to be able to change it.
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How about PCI-DSS (as a counterpoint)?
Maintaining Facebook's privacy settings seems like a lot of work just so your Mom can maintain a view that you're asexual.
Ironic, given my perception of Linux as doing good things in a mediocre way...
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(Some of) the comments are quite insightful as well.
I've always been a weirdly private person. It mostly stems from my family, mostly because my mom has a motormouth, her parents who were the equivalent of the high school bully that could expose your every flaw, and I also learned some hard lessons about kids when I moved around a bit in middle/high school, developing an (un)healthy level of paranoia and social anxiety.

I have best friends/groups that I've managed to keep completely separate for more than five years. Maybe because of this, even on facebook I've managed to keep up the segregation after nearly 6 years through self-censorship and facebook features like friend lists. I think Facebook was also the first site I used (not counting ones requiring a verified identity) where I actually used my full real name to sign up (although I created several fake accounts first to test the waters)

My point is, if it's really, really important to a person to keep their lives separate, it is possible. It's not easy, but it's possible. Whether or not it's healthy and worth the time that it takes are the questions you have to ask.
They haven't, but they are currently in the process of trying to reinvent their OS - with QNX.
Except, they are launching this OS, but leaving all their Java devs behind. The OS launches on the Playbook with only C++ and Flash support if you can believe it.
I don't expect them to have significant market share in two years from now.
I didn't see an obvious way of looking at the source code for those not using chrome, so maybe you have this already, but you should not hide points for negative comments.

I hate seeing negative non-spam comments that simply don't match common opinions, and I always mod those back up. That's one time where you do want to know how many points before deciding if to vote.
There have been ways to manipulate facebook to do this for at least 3 years, but maybe longer.

It used to be that only "Really good friends" could see nearly anything on my profile, but I ended up relaxing things and creating a list of "Sensitive People" who are blocked from almost everything on my profile.
once i saw who were among recent RIM's hires, it immediately gave me the understanding what the environment inside RIM is like.

>it seems to have lost the ability to create great products.

yep, that's natural in such an environment.
Pundits can discuss various small details of marketing, product, leadership ... It all just noise. Once the rot has spread through the company ... Everybody who worked in similarly failed companies can recognize the symptoms.
Thanks for the great suggestion, and unbiased answer. I think that is the path I'm going to take.
Weird. There were 10 packages delivered to my zip code, and one of them actually lists my name on the delivery -- but it says it was delivered Friday, and signed for by me. But I wasn't even at home on Friday. So where did it go?

It would be super-sad if my Cr-48 has been delivered without signature to my door and then stolen already :-(
Looks like it's back up. Worked for me * shrug *

If not:

>I was just making a small pot of coffee, just two cups. So I measured out two full cups of water, and guessed how much coffee to put in the basket. The coffee came out great, but could just have easily come out awful.

>So if Wikipedia is the web's encyclopedia, where is the web's user's manual? It would be infinitely expandable, aspire to cover everything, and take a practical 1-2-3 approach to doing things we humans do on this planet in the times we live in.

and try googling for "cache:url" in the future :)
Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?
I have just decided to give twitter another try.

Obviously posting that on Hacker News I would like to read your preferences about tech and start up people. But as the guidelines suggest any people/companies/organizations that are deeply interesting and relevant would work. At the moment I follow only linus_trovalds, peter seibel and pg.
"if America added five more broadband connections for every 100 people, the productivity benefit would exceed $50 billion, contributing at least 0.5 percent to GDP."

WOW. 0.5% to GDP. Wouldn't this probably cost $100 billion to implement?

Isn't a $50B improvement in productivity a bit rosy? I don't have broadband (at home, I have it at work). Where would that productivity gain come from? Being able to watch youporn better? Or Facebook? Or forwarding lolcats 10 times faster?
also fertilizers don't come from oil per se, but from energy (mostly the haber process, but also transportation of phosphates, etc), so that's definitely fungible.
Doesn't peak oil mean that the effects of global warming (as caused by carbon dioxide) are effectively capped?
I'll add that to my todo-options list. I watch out for comments like that too.

Currently, you can click the icon in the address bar to reveal everything (v0.9. If you've got an earlier one, force an extension update: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996581). And for negative-voted comments in particular, there's always the grey-ness of the text - that matches how far below 1 they are.

edit: can't figure out how to get source from .crx either... if you want, I could email you the raw zip, or gist it, or something. Only jquery is minified, and the rest is small & simple.
Best of luck! My suggestion besides the audio quality:
1. Please make sure that that the interviewers do not bang the table so often
2. The format with the interviewee between 2 people is very very awkward. Both interviewers often talk at the same time so Jessica has to keep looking from one to the other just back and forth. Distracting
3. Framing is too tight.

Again. Love the idea and hope you guys knock it out of the park!
They affect where the comment shows/ranks on the page.
Check out wistia... it is analytics for video. You can actually see how many people stayed to the end. Or if people leave do they leave at the same moment etc. Can be very useful
Awesome, thanks for the tip! I searched for the url but the results didn't have "Cached" links below them, this is so much faster (and clearly more effective).
You've got to understand that when you create a massively interlocked system whose collapse would seem likely to bring the entire economy down with it, you've institutionalized that system's bailout without any laws being passed.

And yes, that lets the risks pile up too.

And no, I don't think the bailout left us better off but the fix was in long before October 2008.
VCS and bug tracking are not difficult. You can get it all by just installing fossil. If that's not your thing, you can install tortise hg (on Windows) or some other dvcs and get started in next to no time.

Deployment is definetly ugly. There's stuff like pip, fabric, and virtual-env (all on python) which are meant to ease the pain ... but the fact that agile geeks reccomend 3 different frameworks just to make things simpler show how ugly it is. I don't know what the cool kids use for PhP though.
The cached-links seem intermittent at best, cache: finds a lot that aren't linked. Searching also takes you straight to it, which is nice.

I only found out about that trick ~ a month ago, from here. It has quickly become my favorite / most-useful Google trick ever.
Yes, just tried it.. and the operator was nicely tight lipped (so kudos to UPS) * but it did confirm that Im not getting one either :(
Haha. Sorry. Pretty much all your activities can be broken down into a recipe of the things you do them with, the place you do them, and a description of what it is you do.

It will help you find something to do with your possessions in the place you live. E.g., if you have a bike, it might suggest you right critical mass on the last Friday of the month. If you have a dog attend the people with dogs party at your local park this weekend. I can't really come up with a great example myself, but once it's in action, I can see some pretty interesting "recipes" of place, items, people and activities arising.

Value insofar as monetization, is obviously affiliate income from retailers. We're planning to establish an API for any retailer that wants to sign up to add their link to an item's page, which is also helpful to users so they can sort by price and compare retailers.
It's part of a set of tools for management of iOS devices for enterprises. There was a session on MDM at WWDC, and a bit of information about the system in this PDF: http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iPhone_MDM.pdf
Why do we each have a name? On a website, it is so readers can associate what a commenter is saying to what that person has said before. Any community where people are going to encounter each other more than once has a use for names.

Here, look, patio11 just said the following: "Trust me on this: no. I used to have ABingo [yadda yadda]" [1]. Because it's patio11, I do trust him more, at least on this topic. And when he mentions ABingo, yeah, that's right, he has an A/B testing package he made for himself, that he opened sourced to people.

When someone I know is a maker talks about the domain in which they make things, they have more credibility to me. This is not celebrity worship (I have my own gig, thanks), it's just paying more attention to the people I find interesting.

Hiding names and points with a Chrome extension is a cool hack, but there's no way I'd ever want to use it myself.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996587
I don't get this facebook thing just like I didn't get AOL and myspace before it.
It's a pretty amazing thing to see a NYT reporter write a five page story about 'derivatives' and not realize that the people she's talking to are referring very specifically to CDS derivatives and heating oil derivatives only.

This was my favorite quote:

To get a transparent exchange going, Citadel offered the use of its technological prowess for a joint venture with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which is best-known as a trading outpost for contracts on commodities like coffee and cotton.

Right.... First of all, get the name right. It's significantly been called the CME Group for years now -- and refers to the fact that this is a collection of all sorts of markets, the vast majority of which are financial derivatives. Ken Griffin proposed a very specific trading platform for CDS derivatives a couple of years back. The CBOT and CME (merged as the CME Group) meanwhile have been trading other financial derivatives, as the majority of their business, for three decades now.

The key point that is missed in all this imprecision -- is that CDS derivatives markets are not like other derivatives markets -- which are regulated. They are contracts that occur between large financial institutions only. That is the 'secret'. The rest is just the equivalent of a high school tourist at the visitor's desk.

That said, she's in the general right direction (I won't say ballpark). But yeah, it's almost like complex businesses require three levels of understanding that people go through:

(1) it's a conspiracy
(2) it's actually not so bad
(3) there are targeted ways to improve it

Fields shrouded in first-semester textbooks, though mired in specific cases of catastrophic misuse (financial crisis), I suppose take a little more effort to get to step 3....
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How did you find the name on the delivery? Is all possible information listed on the linked UPS tracking pages, or is there a way to find more?
Don't email it to me - post a link in the description of the extension.
My girlfriend is worried about how google is going to own her soul (with all the tracking) if she ends up getting one. Lol.
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Yep, working from home is great. Or within an office with an actual door.
I fail to understand why game development is constantly discussed when talking about Android or iOS. I use my phone mostly to increase productivity (email, news, yelp, fandango etc.) and not to play games.

The insane amount of money being made by game devs on these platforms continues to amaze me.
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My name (lastname only) was in the "signed by" field of the shipping info -- all the stranger, since I didn't sign for it. I suppose it's possible the package was delivered to somebody else with my last name in the same zip code, but my last name isn't very common, so I think that's really unlikely.
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RWW pretty much just repackaged the original post with a small amount of commentary.
Well it is quite interesting.

Is the distinction between "late-adopter" and "mainstream" specific to the author or well known?

If "late-adopters" are a less-than-desirable target audience, what about aiming at the "mainstream"?
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I can't tell if you're joking or not, but smartphone antivirus software does exist: http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kaspersky_mobile_security
The key phrase is "would seem likely". And it seems even more likely with people like Hank Paulson claiming that if he doesn't get a slush fund, the world will end. Even though its really just profits at Goldman Sachs that would end.

That doesn't mean we can start unwinding things by rolling back the individual policies that are causing the risky behaviors.

The government could, for example, ensuring only 80% of their bank deposits. We could start phasing out subsidies for housing by 2% per year. We could let the market set interest rates.

Of course, the people in charge (regardless of which party) seem to think only more government interference in the economy could possibly help. They seem incapable of examining anything they've done or admitting any errors.
How does Wall St, collectively and en masse decide and go about doing this? I'm not saying that they don't - I think that it has been fairly well reported that the sums of money coming from Wall St. as campaign contributions are large - I would just like to know if there is any coordinated mechanism or is it a kind of wisdom of the financial crowds ...
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It appears OP doesn't trust lobbyists to ensure security.
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I consider the fact that we want our Great Aunt Mildreds to have a false idea of who we really are to be a flaw in our culture.
The guy who made this says that's coming. He's hanging out over at slickdeals, where they figured this all out.

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IANAEconomist, but I believe the impacts of Peak Oil will ultimately be overshadowed by "Peak (American) Capitalism" in a similar same manner that the Real Estate bubble was overshadowed by the global financial bubble that created it. By any measure, we are not out of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has only bought time by printing money. In general, I think capitalism, as we know it, is coming to an end and there's no easy way to get through it. The conversion from an oil-based economy to a hydrogen/solar economy is going to have to happen during a period of prolonged depression for America, and prolonged economic rise in Asia.
I've always figured that Apple is lazy about fixing holes with jailbreaking their devices because it's the best way to unofficially support devs and development.

For example, if you want to do any sort of real automated app black box testing for QA purposes, you really have jailbreak your phone.