skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same thing here. It's not ChromeOS-related? I note the same problem in Chromium.
"but now you just facebook friend them and take in the info dump"

True, but does this guy I'm sending a friend request to actually want me to see his profile? It seems that Facebook wants me to send him a friend request, and Facebook wants the guy to accept it, but the guy doesn't have much motivation to actually accept.

Facebook's quest for openness is interesting and I think they can do quite a bit with it, but I also think it has left users with a desire for deeper social interaction. I can make my status "girls suck," but I'll never make it "my girlfriend cheated on me and wants me to take her back and I love her but I feel like it's going to be a slippery slope"

I've always thought this is something Facebook would simply fix on their own. But now, as I consider the potential financial impact on the company, I think it might be worth contesting with a new product.
It's not charitable, it's realistic. I think sometimes they succeed and sometimes they fail, like any organization. I don't assume they're completely incompetent when they fail, nor that they are perfect when they succeed.

A project like Iran's would have its own setbacks even in ideal environment. When there are organizations working against it, it's likely to have even more setbacks.
Very cool! Can this thing search my Twitter Favorites? I used Twitter Favorites like a bookmarking system vs. ReadItLater. I often search for things I want to archive and stick in my database or then read later...
Wha about search for sites like posterous or Tumblr?
No kidding. I just got my first hoodie, but I have a habit of putting a hat on when I need to get down to business.
Or google groups!
One of my friends in college taught his dog to bring him random different objects like a lighter, backpack, pencil, tv remote, etc etc. He taught it to skateboard and when he'd make a gun with his hand and point it at the dog it would freeze, then if he "pulled the trigger" with his thumb the dog would fall over and play dead. There were a bunch of other tricks it could do like 'kickflip' were the dog would spin itself. I really do think dogs are smarter than people give them credit for.
The part I'm calling embarrassing is the lack of sophistication. If I were in the NSA and we had implemented this, I would be embarrassed.

What would make me proud is year upon year of subtle equipment failure that could not be attributed to any particular cause. When it was discovered years later, it would appear to be an innocent software bug. That's an overwhelming success.
I've been through Django's docs several times and also bought the book from Kaplan Moss (don't recall the name, for v. 0.96). I read most of the book a couple of times. It took me more than a year to actually do something that worked, most of the stuff was just experimenting. Now that I have something that works I find myself learning more stuff about Python and Django itself.

So what I'd say is try to do something very simple that you would actually use. Perhaps a to-do list or some sort of notepad? In my case it was just some sort of a video bookmarking app (actually I spent more time on the design/front-end than the backend).
I spent some time in Puerto Rico and found that the third person reflexive is commonly used this way as a sort of passive voice. For example, a "for sale" sign will read "se vende" (loosely, "it is sold" moreso than "it sells itself").

Having worked in the service industry (restaurants, specifically) for many years, I have an inclination to avoid "no problem" as it may be construed that whatever isn't a problem might have been. I generally opt for "my pleasure," "anytime," "sure thing," etc. when I am interfacing with someone for whom I provide a service.
Ask HN: Develop your own dashboard for metrics - yes or no?
I'm wondering whether its worthwhile to put time into developing your own dashboard for metrics. This would be for the kind of internal metrics you likely couldn't acquire from external APIs/services, things like hourly updates of total # of users, # of users with friends, # of users with a profile photo, etc. You could then also measure things like % increase over X amount of time, or % difference of growth rate between X and Y time periods.

For me, this would involve writing some SQL queries, running an hourly cron job, and designing/developing something that makes use of some jQuery charting plugin. I'd also probably like a way to export the data in CSV format. Total time involved is maybe a couple days at most.

Is this worth all the effort involved? Do you have experience with doing something like this?
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You could build a nicer WYSIWYG Wiki interface with one line: contenteditable="on" without any libraries.

Here's my take. WYSIWYG, AJAX, and no libraries in two lines:

<iframe src="javascript:unescape('%3Cbody%20contentEditable%3E')" style="width: 500px; height: 500px"></iframe>
<button onclick="var x=new XMLHttpRequest;x.open('POST','/update',1);x.setRequestHeader('Content-type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded');x.send(frames[0].innerHTML)">Save</button>

On JSBin: http://jsbin.com/ebiju3 (don't try saving, there's no server part here!)
Posterous is an interesting one. I'd build a whole-site search function if they had a firehose-like api call, but as far as I know it's only possible to access content for an individual blog.
I'm sorry you think it's arrogant. If I were to talk to the authors, I'm sure they'd say either: "yeah, it wasn't our cleanest work but we had a tight deadline" or "thanks for the tip, we never heard of secure triggers."

Any high-end agency would never say the latter, so either there were severe time pressures or this was Team B. The narrative that this is highly polished work of a high-end agency (4! I mean 3 0-days!) is not supported by evidence.
But does that actually matter? As far as I can see, it’s already easy to pirate any app you want. All you need is Google.

I’m suspicious that super secure DRM really stops people from pirating, especially when considering something non-essential with many (maybe worse but often free or more easily piratable) substitutes. Super secure DRM might be more effective with something really unique you really cannot get any other way like games (but those will be cracked anyway, won’t they?) but some app? I doubt it.
I don't think it's in dispute that Iran has nuclear aspirations, or that it's an enemy of Sunnis and Jews in the Middle East.

Whether they would actually manage to build a bomb and whether they'd actually use it are different questions - but given the Middle East's practices and history, not ones people would tend to ponder too long over.
It would be to me.

Leadership isn't just a procses...it's a vision. It may very well be that somewhere inside of Apple there is someone equal to Steve Jobs in terms of vision, determination, and smarts. That's not likely, however.

Companies like Apple fall off of their perch because you can't turn greatness into a process. It's much more innate than that. The grandparent is right. They'll be ok... for awhile. Soon they'll go the way of HP and IBM (and increasingly Microsoft). Not gone... just not what they once were.
"very engineering driven culture. 'product managers are essentially useless here.' is a quote from an engineer. engineers can modify specs mid-process, re-order work projects, and inject new feature ideas anytime.
during monthly cross-team meetings, the engineers are the ones who present progress reports. product marketing and product management attend these meetings, but if they are particularly outspoken, there is actually feedback to the leadership that 'product spoke too much at the last meeting.' they really want engineers to publicly own products and be the main point of contact for the things they built."

This sounds like Mark Zuckerberg living his 'revenge of the nerds' dream in his Facebook nirvana! It certainly doesn't sound like good management practice!
Personally I look at it like this. While I'm not physically 'stealing' their product, I am still profiting by not paying X amount for its use.

As an example, imagine if you are planning on purchasing a copy of Photoshop at $1000 but before you leave to go to the store you do a quick search on your favorite torrent site. Sure enough it's there and you download it, saving yourself $1000 while still benefiting from the use of the software and using the $1000 on something else.

So while software piracy might not harm the developer directly, it greatly benefits the person who downloads the software.
I would hope the takeaway from my post is not "hey, this guy is so smart" but instead "hey, this hype about this malware sample is definitely overblown because he is citing really old work here".
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In fact I'd even say some of the other Apple execs have a more natural presence on stage.

I have to disagree with you. I was at WWDC '09 and the keynote (http://movies.apple.com/datapub/us/podcasts/apple_keynotes/w...) was by far the worst part of the conference. I felt like a lot of the presenters of the individual sessions had a better stage presence than some of the execs.
What is awesome is that easy_install always seemed to work for me. Having access to pip is icing on the cake now.

I tried to install Ruby the other day and I swear the packaging is broken 9 times out of 10.
The technique I describe is actually less-risky in terms of false positives. If you don't get the right combination of inputs right, you literally can't decrypt the payload. Even 1 bit of error gives a completely invalid key. It also isn't a new technique. I've seen it in shipping products for at least 12 years.

The one valid criticism is that it is more work to implement. But it's not that hard.
Sure, that's the value of Facebook for users.

But the less the graph actually reflects a person's true identity, the less Facebook is a person's single home on the Internet. I mean, I think it's to a person's detriment to make Facebook their single home BUT Facebook's valuation reflects the assumption that it will remain most people's unique home on the Internet.
wonderful article. It does take intelligence to recognize another intelligence.
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This is a case where the original scientific phrasing, "ArkStorm" actually has more panache than the more mundane "Super Storm" that the AP used in their title. It's even clever, Ark, not as in Noah, but as in "Atmospheric River 1000"

The interesting question that gets asked (and it can be about all sorts of natural disasters like Earthquakes) - is that for rare events, that happen only once every 500 years, what steps should we take, if any, to mitigate the damage beyond what we do for the once-every-100 year events that we are so familiar with.

Total recovery costs for the ArkStorm will be on the order of $725 Billion, if another storm like the 1861-1862 one hits California. This type of event strikes every 600 years on average or so based on archaeological records - do you take any steps to prepare for it? If so, how on earth can you sell it to a populace that has trouble getting concerned about something like Global Warming, which if it continues existing trends, will have readily apparent effects within as little as 200 years?
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People crack and hack our apps. We don't think it's worth fighting.

And moreover, we have a link on our home page that says if you email us, we will give you our apps for free. Some people take advantage of this offer, but the vast majority of users do not.
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Yeah. I visited the museum in May 2010 and it was open then. I recall that one portion was closed for renovation or something but there was still plenty to see. The Babbage engine was the star of the show.
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Is there value in doing this? Absolutely. Figure out the core metrics for your business, measure them, pay attention to those metrics, and figure out how to improve them. Going one step further, I recommend creating an A/B test platform for yourself where you can easily measure how A/B tests impact the metrics you care about. There is a lot of value to be derived here, and in the end it is going to be an open-ended commitment.

Is it worthwhile for you to do this right now? Only you can answer that. These things are certainly not part of a minimum viable product. But if you find yourself looking at certain figures over an over again, then by all means build a dashboard.

Pro tip. If you're still small, you can probably query your whole database interactively without any noticeable impact on your site. Throw together a prototype based on doing that that before you start to get fancy with things like regular cron jobs. It is faster to put together, and it is easier to make tweaks. Only after you know you've got the right stuff should you migrate the queries to cron jobs and refactor your dashboard to hit cached data.
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You know, I'm sort of a hippie-tree-hugger, make-love-not-war kind of personality and I find that when I say things like "my pleasure" or "anytime", it makes some of my social problems worse. Those are the types of phrases I am inclined to use, but for some reason it just makes people feel like I owe them, they can impose, I am never allowed to make a mistake or have a bad day or not be able to give 1000% or...something. I have never been able to quite put my finger on the cause of these strong emotional reactions I get from quite a lot of people where total strangers seem to think I am supposed to love them, to the ends of the earth. But I have found I need to actively tone down my tendency to be warm, effusive, emotionally generous and the like. It just causes me too many problems.

At the moment, much of the time when I am being thanked, it is for disseminating information at work -- tips and tricks that make my job easier. This is supposed to be part of the culture and something we are all encouraged to do. But I get these gushy responses that I think are just not work appropriate. I have found that a low key "no problem" seems to be the lesser evil of my available options. (Not replying seems to make people feel incredibly, phenomenally rejected by me.)
I wouldn't even consider keeping Twitter or Facebook open in a tab. That's a sure way to get less done.
I personally like the idea of an application "unlocking" itself every time based on a hash of its binary. You would have to find all the places these hashes are computed -- if you missed even one place, you wouldn't be able to unlock the app.

Of course, such an app could still be cracked -- as could any app... because all you have to do is

1) purchase a legitimate copy and enter a fake name
2) take a snapshot of a working, unlocked app
3) remove all the code that cripples that state

The only way to really prevent cracking of apps that run locally is either challenge-response dongles or requiring people to provide a strongly verified identity in order to unlock the app (that way the cracker can't distribute the app without compromising the identity of the original buyer). And that is just too inconvenient for the actual buyers. Once again, security at the price of convenience.
One of the major problems I have is that I talk to my friends across all kinds of different media: Facebook, Twitter, AIM, MSN, e-mail, forums... sometimes one of us says or links something and I'd like to be able to search everything, but I have to search each medium separately.

Privacy concerns probably make this kind of convenience impossible though.
I'm not completely sure why this happens. But in our experience over the past 3 Christmas's, it appears that there's a huge number of new users and new app purchasers. My guess is iPod Touches and iPhones as Christmas gifts, and also tons of iTunes gift cards that people use in Jan-March. But after the iTunes gift cards and the iPod Touch users wane a bit, the user base grows still because of iPhone and thus somehow the market is stable throughout the year.
How long before apps overtake physical video game content sales?
Counterfeiting is the wrong word, too, because the illegally copied good is (usually) just as good as a real one. Counterfeit physical goods are usually lower quality than the genuine article, and can damage its reputation.
Something just isn't there, but only because you haven't added it yet...Your idea works as a concept, it just needs to be tweaked.

If you don't get a price you like, keep the site, add advertisements and collect data. As people's profiles fill up with qualities, you may be able to determine what kind of ads people are likely to click on.

I also like the idea of selling companies a spot where people can comment on their brand or different ideas. The site could evolve into a kind of instant survey for concepts and ideas (from brands). I.E. They post an image of a new design and the users can describe in 3 words what they think. It would allow a company to get instant feedback and know if they have a homerun or not before something is produced or fully developed.
Nope. I avoided FB for a long time because of this, before family and career roped me into signing up for dummy accounts about a month ago.
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All the current interpretations of events commit the fallacy of "if A then B, B therefore A". Just because centrifuges have purportedly been taken offline recently doesn't mean Stuxnet necessarily caused it. There are other potential causes that are more mundane.
I've been thinking about that a lot. Greplin is supposedly working on that problem but it's impossible to sign up these days.
Yes, that is the exact point of this article.
Why do you feel that "you're welcome" implies an obligation? It means just the opposite. If someone thanks you for giving them something, you are telling them "oh, you are welcome to take it", which means that they don't owe you anything for it.
I believe he is not confirming or denying the allegations. Make of that what you will.
No, a counterfeit Louis Vuitton bag that's made with better materials and craftsmanship is still counterfeit.
Yeah, I'm almost done with what I'd call our MVP (and that's after spending a long time working on a very full-featured site that just wasn't as compelling as the MVP itself), so these metrics are going to help me figure out where to head next.

I'm not sure yet how I'd go about building an A/B platform, but its on the docket of things I want to do.

Also, the reason I'd be running a cron job is to have hourly data for all of these metrics (to look for those changes over time).
Failing that, Forth or J ;P
The problem with asking “Who would Steve hire?” is that the last time Steve picked a CEO, he brought in John Sculley to Apple, with his famous “sell soft drinks or change the world” pitch. And look at how that turned out…

True, Jobs has wizened up since then, but he also hasn’t been tested with a true replacement assignment since. (There is no obvious “heir apparent” in Apple at this time, AFAIK.)
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Well, you can compare the Symantec analysis for Stuxnet to other malware (say, Conficker, the previous media darling).

http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/secur...

http://www.malwareinfo.org/files/W32.DownadupThreat.pdf

You'll notice that most of the gushing has devolved to focusing on the payload and not the infection mechanism. That's because the worm itself is surprisingly average.
Twitter isn't a silly concept, it's a global SMS.
It certainly doesn't sound like good management practice!

Why not? I worked for silicon valley startups for 15 years and not once did I meet a "product manager" who did anything worthwhile.
I don't think it is a matter of where it came from, it is a matter of who it came from.
I think the sticking point for many people is the definition of intelligence. You'll get people who protest "but it's just doing those things for treats!" or whatnot, but it's the ability to memorize all of those gestures/words that makes it impressive. I think it's kind of similar to the "do submarines swim?" question.
yes, thinking about it even if the ignition system is impossible to adapt to, you can still easily disable it by interrupting the power supply to the immobiliser. It's easy to further disable the ignition but not easy to circumvent the ignition. My guess is that their RFID system probably closes a relay in the power supply for the existing OEM ignition system. That way you couldn't start the car without the correct RFID card, but you still need the key.
Why do you feel that "you're welcome" implies an obligation

Because my observation/experience is that in American culture, most people operate from a default assumption of one up/one down and are constantly jockeying for their position in pecking order. I get this type of thing a lot less from other cultures. But quite a lot of Americans seem unable to interact as equals and are constantly trying to force the other person into a one down position in order to avoid being in the one down position themselves. I am painfully aware of this because, frequently, if I refuse to take the one down position and try to interact as equals, they react like I am trying to insult and oppress them and force them into the one down position -- many people seem unable to conceive of some other paradigm. Saying "You are welcome" suggests "I provided you with something of value, thus I am one up on you." -- at least to most people I interact with. I do a lot of things to try to disengage from this process of jockeying for position. I dislike it intensely.
cool :) great to hear some of your thoughts man!
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It does make me wonder about current audio language translators. I wonder how much progress people have made with those.
The problem with that approach is the game is over once your infection route is revealed. You don't get to play your stronger plays. No one will attach a USB flash drive to any Iranian or North Korean industrial computer now.

Why burn a perfectly good vector when you don't have to?
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Read this title as a Mario Kart reference. Oops.
The author mentioned Shockwave. I don't think he's too technical a user.