skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Apple let Verizon take control of this announcement? Many believers feel that a CDMA iPhone isn't "enough" of a reason for Apple to host its own event and that the company will instead let Verizon have all the glory.

Does this sound completely unlike Apple to anyone else?
So what is the difference between copying and stealing according to Picasso and Steve Jobs? How do people interpret this?

I can think of a possible answer but I'm not sure this is what other people think.
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I wonder why my pessimistic 3 points post is in the bottom, there are five or so one point post above it.

Well, time for supper. Down vote this one to put the other up.
Verizon to finally get iPhone
Velociraptor Safari is well-known enough to merit its own Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-Road_Velociraptor_Safari
I've never met anyone on Facebook, they're all people I knew somehow previous to our friending.
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I just ran across the following, today:

Vim offers strong file encryption with Blowfish

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4870

Haven't looked into it much, yet. On a Windows machine, today, where I did notice that it seems to bork tab-based autocompletion when specifying a filename while saving (^I doesn't trigger autocompletion).

EDIT: Credit due to:

http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/ey0ma/vim_offers_strong...
It's humorous, and I think it's pretty likely the author intended it to be that way. Things don't have to literally make you laugh to be considered humorous you know...

Perhaps you should lighten up a bit. I was just offering a constructive suggestion for the future. (I heard this story already quite a while ago, so it's not like the joke was personally spoiled for me).
Maybe I sound pent-up? I'm really not. I just answered your question truthfully. Let's agree to be on different pages.
For most people not in Las Vegas, the Mac App Store was the news of the week

I think you are using an exceedingly uncommon definition of the term "most people".
Newstweek.com is obviously a parody site. Reddit material. Just ignore this, or better yet, flag it.
Agree,
Just wonder if all these people were incredibly good at cashing in at the top or the overwhelming tidal wave of news stories about them cashing in is what caused their decline
The "Simple" in SOAP is seriously overtrumped by the "Simple" in SNMP.
Here's the problem (picture supplied by first result after googling for ps3 nand motherboard):

http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa138/ejsid/infectus%20ps...

The keys are hard-coded in hardware and the content in question lives on a TSOP NAND device on the motherboard. No matter what Sony does, they can't prevent you from flashing your own code, signed with the old keys, to that onboard NAND. Whether you de-solder it and socket it, or use some other sort of hardware device, Sony is screwed for old hardware.
The hardware to do this exists. http://www.tonidoplug.com/

Edit: This example may lack wireless, but it's close. Anyone know of better examples?
The story implies that the more accessible information is, the less you "wonder". I've found it to be the opposite. As a child, my appetite for information led me to read encyclopedias for leisure activity, but as the internet came in to my life, my imagination was set ablaze. Words are paper are great for recording history and conveying it back serially, but when you want to make lateral jumps from bridges, to caissons, to the bends, to oxygen, to chalcogens, to ...

You get the idea. The more accessible information is, the more you wonder.
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This is unrelated, but something that always struck me as odd about people who fear the singularity due to an impending machine attack: What's so bad about that? Maybe machines are a natural evolution of our culture. They are created by us, and therefore are imbued with some aspect of our nature, perhaps humanity's destiny is to cultivate a species of sentient machines, then die off?
Maybe one way to do this, would be to make a "startup coupon" system. Where people would actually donate real money, which become coupons for whichever startups you want to support. And once the startup is running, the actual money would be deposited to the company, and users can redeem their coupons.
SoftLayer is a superb dedicated hosting provider--maybe the best. They have a competent staff, several datacenters all over the US, a very good, low-latency network (public and private), high-quality management tools, super high uptime and QOS, and fair pricing.

So if you want to run on bare metal, but you don't want to rack servers yourself, they're a compelling option.

(I'm jamie@bu.mp, and as you can see from the spreadsheet, we use softlayer)
Couple handy ways. 1) Taskrabbit.com (I have an awesome runner check people in for me) 2) I just have a friend do it 3) I leave the key at a local cafe for them to pick it up.
That still sounds like a solution when you're restricted to only accessing one side of the door. They might be able to rig something up before they leave the room that is much easier to execute after they close the door and without looking.

A string with adhesive, attached to the end of the chain, run over to the open door and under the edge of the locking plate. Then under the door. Close the door, pull the string, door is locked and string comes off. No evidence, takes two seconds. It might need a little tweaking but sounds plausible.
It's a message about how technology increasingly disconnects us from the natural world, and from our own nature as humans.

The key message I take away from this is that the longer we allow ourselves to continue along a path this path of disconnection, the more jarring the (inevitable) reconnection will be when it arrives.

Food for thought.
Also "daemon." I can't remember which, but one of the "Linux distros for Christians" tried to remove references to daemons in the user interface and documentation.
I would imagine that dealing with Verizon sucks and that Apple would much rather make concessions that don’t matter all that much (like letting Verizon host the event) instead of letting Verizon put their logo on the iPhone or worse.

There is also at least one precedent. When the iPhone was introduced in Germany, Deutsche Telekom (the then exclusive provider) hosted the event and Steve Jobs was merely a guest.
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What makes you think it would make the PS3 ubiquitous? What evidence is there that more than a tiny set of people want to run non-built-in services on their PS3s? What would they do with them? I'm a geek and I certainly don't need another box running 24/7...
Neat. The doIt method is still quite central to Smalltalk systems.
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I wouldn't trust Softlayer with my clients' data. Look at what happened to SimpleCDN and others. In a matter of a couple of days Softlayer pulled the plug on all their servers. SimpleCDN was erased from the CDN map. They used to have over 100 servers with them.

Regards
Yeah.

I always do in such way.
And I will continue even if it's a bit slower =)
Now we need to find a meaning for |=| so it can be the Tie Fighter operator.
That was EveryDNS.net
Reputation Graph: One of the Web’s largest opportunities
Stupid title. Doesn't hype always fade, by definition?
Name it Pet-a-Kitty:
no more disgusting tone, plus a wider audience would actually like it.
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My 12 year old brother and all of his friends use Facebook already. Many of them use the mobile site on their iPod touches.

(incidentally, the iPod touch is a great way for Apple to build a userbase among the young)
Announcing CDMA iphone right after presenting its new 4G/LTE network and actual Android/LTE phones on CES feels a bit strange.
Not to be snarky, but I don't think this is what "begs the question" means:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/begs.html
I'm not familiar with the particular 'sorting' thing you're doing, but if the first things works, then the second should work in 1.9 if you use the correct syntax -- you have an extra colon. It should be: list.sorting = {name: 'ASC'}
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Although I am personally sympathetic with your position, I don't think the idea of us being replaced by machines is something most people are going to ever be comfortable with. They would probably disagree with the view that the machines would constitute any a tolerable continuation of our existence. Many people are already worried about how scientific advancements are "dehumanizing" us.
Thanks! I'm interested specifically in the day-to-day usage: the situations of signing up, finding/adding my friends, posting statuses, reading and commenting on other peoples', sharing media like photos, etc etc.

So to start with a simple one: how does one add somebody else? Can you just search by name? I'm just having a bit of difficulty imagining how that sort of thing would work well in a truly distributed, federated way. But I haven't done much thought on it so I'm interested to hear.
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I think there's probably a group that likes having physical copies for the enhanced accessibility and the ability to do whatever you want with the book afterward. I know I would prefer to purchase a physical copy, because I know that the physical copy is completely under my control, and I can resell it, give it away, borrow it to a friend, etc. without a vendor's permission. I expect many publishers are trying to promote eBooks because they can charge the same without any shipping or manufacturing costs and because they can track and control users much more tightly, preventing used sales and compiling profiles about users' tastes, etc.
"This week's news that Goldman Sachs has chosen to invest in Facebook while entreating others to do the same should inspire about as much confidence as their investment in mortgage securities did in 2008."

Well said.

Sounds like a bubble to me.
We've hosted our site at SoftLayer since 2006 and trust them with our customers' data. We have a significant investment in time and money in them (dozens of servers in 3 datacenters) and don't regret it.

The SimpleCDN issue involved three parties: SimpleCDN, 100TB (aka UK2), and SoftLayer. We've only heard from SimpleCDN and they threatened to sue the other two, so the silence is not surprising. In any case, my opinion of SoftLayer didn't change as a result.
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"In a rush to leave I reached under the chair to pull out my laptop plug and accidentally knocked this little box to the floor. I plugged it back in and apologised to the cafe owners. They said they'd never seen it before.."

Reads just like a bad movie script.
"We will move on, just as we did from the chat rooms of AOL, without even looking back. When the place is as ethereal as a website, our allegiance is much more abstract than it is to a local pub or gym."

I disagree with this, simply because grandma wasn't on any AOL chat rooms, but she _is_ on Facebook. The only reason I'm on FB is because Aunt Tilly and Uncle Bob and grandma are also on there, and I can connect with them that way, and know what's happening in their lives in real time, instead of seeing them once a year at Christmas.

Grandma isn't going to sign up for IM or get a blog. She's on Facebook.

That's the difference between FB and everything else that came before it. The thing creates its own gravity field that attracts everyone, and as long as everyone I care about is on Facebook, so will I. Even though I really hate the thing.

That's the genius of FB, I think. Hate it or love it.
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People who use the web are used to have some sort of confirmation that their data has been safely squirrelled away somewhere. When I use sites that behave like this, I often find myself going back to the settings page to make sure my new settings have actually been changed, even though I understand the technology behind it.
+1 I stop sharing my opinion with my network because of this same problem (I have clients, close relatives, extended family, etc.). What if I post something that a client finds offensive and leads to business problems that otherwise wouldn't have existed? What if I post something serious for my clients and some jackass high-school friend leaves an embarrassing comment on my status?

Initially, I had to block the ability for people to tag me in photos because I was being used to spam other people's walls, then I had to block other people from posting on my wall, because they would post "funny" stuff that wasn't good for my business-contacts to see.
Finally, I started using lists, but having different "personas" for each list was just too much. As a result, I'm slowly letting my profile fade away.
angel of the year: 6 guys, no women

VC of the year: 6 guys, no women

founder of the year: 5 1/2 guys, 1/2 woman (Julia Hartz, co-founder of Eventbrite with Kevin)

CEO of the year: 5 guys, no women
If you'd like, you can get an Appleseed invite. Send an email to invite@appleseedproject.org and I'll send you one back right away (this is open to anyone, by the way). You can sign up for the main beta test site (currently around 500 users).

Searching is being worked on, that's coming in the next update, but yes, you just search by name (or other attributes). Distributed search is difficult, but only on the backend, on the frontend, it's similar to what you're used to. Only caveat is that it is not exactly real-time, and is more like a P2P search than a google search.

Once you find someone you're looking for, you identify yourself to their site by remotely logging in. This is as simple as giving your ID, which looks like an email address (username@domain). Then you click "Add as friend", and they're sent a friend request. When they approve it, you are mutual friends.

You can post stuff to your "page" (what appleseed calls your wall), and an update will be sent to your friends list. You upload a photo, and an update shows up in your friends lists newsfeeds. They click on the thumbnail and it takes them to your photo album on your home node, etc.

Some other distributed social networking sites are breaking from convention in a lot of ways, but Appleseed's goal is to try and make it work as much like the current systems people are used to as possible. Certain growing pains are inevitable, but so far it's pretty similar after the first couple minutes.
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I'm glad to see that it's under the GNU license, are there invites?
I thought it was already routinely used by electric trains (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_brake)
I have the exact same feeling about Facebook. I was appalled when they originally let high school students into the gates. The exclusivity was what made it so cool to be a part of. However, I never felt that it has become less useful, it just took a second to adapt to the new environment that it periodically throws at you. Perhaps if you do the same (take advantage of group privacy settings) you can weed out the junk and use it as it used to be?
This isn't really unique to Facebook. It's called lock-in and it's the desire of every service provider and software maker; they want you to be held hostage to their network, so that even if you want to leave, you can't without potentially serious ramifications (like losing contact with your grandma, or losing access to your documents).

Facebook has reached a level that had never been reached by any social network before it. Did your grandma use MySpace or LiveJournal? Once something crosses the threshold of youth and tech-savvy and "regular people" or even old people start using it, you have a much less transient userbase. Look at Microsoft -- the young and tech-savvy are happy to use Apple products over MS, but MS is king and will remain king at least until anyone born before 1975 is well into retirement. Once these things reach a certain level, they become generational standards, and then only minimal effort is needed on the part of the vendor.

I know old people that still use AOL. Most old people never would have left AOL in the first place if they'd come up with something sensible for broadband. Perhaps Facebook will come upon a stumbling block that's similarly fatal, but I wouldn't necessarily expect that, at least not within a reasonable timeframe.
Technology also has the power to connect us with the natural world in ways never thought possible. I can gaze into the innards of a cell from my desk, or explore the deepest reaches of the night sky with the augmented view provided by a mobile phone.

Arguably, all of the developments in his post were allowed by a greater understanding of nature and our role in it.

We're becoming capable of connecting with nature on far deeper terms; as participants rather than spectators. The desirability of that is a personal issue; many of our fears of it probably stem from the idea that 'playing God' is bad.
Perfect, thanks! I wish you guys luck.
Send an email to invite@appleseedproject.org and I'll send you an invite.
Originally, but AOL never expanded on it. A profile was like a text box and that's it. As for AIM, everyone I know that used to use it still do. I don't think that's changed very much other than that people now use web based clients to chat on AIM.
I use ebooks for >80% of the books I read. During a very long, weather-delayed layover in an airport last week, I remembered an interesting book I had heard of, downloaded it for my Kindle on the spot, and read it through on the rest of my layover and the plane flight afterwards. It was around $5 instead of the $16 list price, I started reading it around thirty seconds after thinking that I wanted to read it, it didn't take up any space on my carry-on, and while I hate DRM about things I am worried I will want to refer back to years from now (my music collection, my favorite novels, references), it doesn't bother me for a book I read once and then maybe pop open once or twice in the future. The Kindle is phenomenal for this use case.

When I have the time I read a bunch of books - around 1-3 a week, depending on length. I like reading books I've heard about on talk shows or from friends, which are usually new releases that won't be in my local public library for years. I realize I'm an anomaly here as well, but when you look at just the space of people who actually buy books and weight them by number of books bought, I bet people like me make up a large part of the market, if not the majority.

The Kindle is a godsend for us, principally for the portability but also to save space. Several times in my life I had literally no physical space left in my house/apartment for more books and had to sell off a large number of them. Starting back in high school and through college I used to walk to a bookstore almost every week, though I couldn't always afford to buy more things. I still buy physical books off of Amazon from time to time, but I have not walked inside a bookstore in six months.
Fingers crossed that T-mobile won't be too far behind. I really love my T-mobile plan.
Do you really think LinkedIn is a chink in Facebook's armor? I question how many people regularly use LinkedIn as opposed to those who just update when their job title changes. All Facebook needs is for an intern of theirs to add a couple more features around the career section of people's profiles and LinkedIn is toast.
Hypes will fade. By definition.
Interesting. I would like to know if the majority of people use Facebook like you (with people they knew previously) or they use it to get new connections. How can I get this information? Any poll published somewhere?
This is an interesting error I find many older users making. I call it a "way out of context error". There is no reason whatsoever to assume that the software was calling you a dolt. This should cause the user to look for an alternative interpretation but somehow, they just don't.
This is offered:

"At 120: less than 3% of respondents under thirty do not have “at least some” of their emotions digitally regulated."

I live in 2011, where more than a third of the population has been exposed to chemical anti-depressants. I can think of arguments against chemical anti-depressants, but I can not think of arguments against the overall goal of helping people with depression. There is the larger goal, too, of helping people manage with their lives, and all of the emotions, some quite painful, they must face.
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I assure you that your T-Mobile plan will not be available for use with a T-Mobile iPhone.
If it doesn't actually happen on Tuesday, I will refuse to get my hopes up ever again.
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if we squint a little it looks almost like a synchronous call..

you can take a piece of code that was written using synchronous calls, and mechanically translate it into a tasklet: just decorate your functions with @tasklets.tasklet and change your synchronous calls from

result = some_function(args)

into

result = yield some_function_async(args)
"""

I feel like this style of coding (e.g twisted) is stretching python generators a bit far... are callbacks really that hard to work with? And this is clever and all, but what happens when you forget the yield call, or when there is an exception somewhere down the line, how hard will it be to figure out what is going wrong? I would prefer the work went into better function literals in python along with a node.js style approach.

That aside, glad to see better asynchronous support coming to app engine, using:

http://code.google.com/p/asynctools

has already been a big help for constructing complex pages that require a few different queries.
Yeah, good point. We already get hardware related calls and just deal with them. Getting more of those and actually being responsible for them, especially from around the country, I don't believe would be worth the cost if can be avoided.

Perhaps we could just provide consultation services for the client on what good and applicable hardware they could purchase. That is something most of them already need, since they have no IT department or IT knowledge, and at the same time it would be removed enough from us.
Well, interesting idea, and I admit I couldn't find a decent place on twitter itself to browse lists.

That said, your UI is well...non-existent. I know it's just a part-time project, but just a little bit of UI work could make this look a lot more fantastic.
If I were 14 years old or so, I would be very much interested in partbook, where part is some part of the body.

I think it would be a very visited site, but unfortunately this is not permited by my imaginary Dad, so this site is not real.

Edited: I discovered Bart Simpson thought about this.
Just FYI, here's another HN thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2074109
wait; let me guess... and I would pay 49% and Carl would pay 0%, right? So his ratio would be 0:1 and mine would be 1:0.09 (for roads and libraries, of course. Can't forget my welfare benefits now can I?). Thank you for finally answering that question.

And when I forked it over I should say, 'thank you for my welfare' and Carl will say, 'thank you for my wel-fairer'!

Got it!

.

Well, either way 90%!? My friend I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Softlayer also just bought The Planet, although I am not sure if that has anything to do with it...
Hopefully this time it is real - not because I am going to buy one but because the "analysts" can finally shut up and end their endless hype/crusade of Verizon iPhone.
I hate when services I really want (many hacker news types of businesses for instance) do not let me give a Credit Card up front. I mean sure: Credit me a free month of service. But damn, don't make me give you one 30 days later if I want to provide one now.