skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They sacrificed a TON of usability in order to become this artsy. I am not sure why since art has nothing to do with email--especially not business email.

The worse example of this is their feature tour. It is actually very painful to read now with way too much space wasted on illustration that contribute nothing. I couldn't find a single screenshot of the app.

I sure hope they are split testing this.
You're finding the edges of my intelligence layer :). Should be fixed now.

Note that some of those servers don't get updated often.
I only officially have a 2kyuu, although that is mostly a function of never organizing myself to take the 1kyuu exam. Our company required only "advanced proficiency in written and oral Japanese", and due to process defects that I will not go into, that filter was not rigorously applied until frustratingly late in the pipeline in some cases.

I know of some engineers in Tokyo who I would guess have actual ability closer to "exactly sufficient to pass 2kyuu". Never met anyone below that working in a professional capacity.
“Modern browsers” now at 80% market share
Their sense of timing is impeccable too given the current storm brewing around Apple's latest AppStore policy decisions on apps with content bought outside the store...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/change-in-apple-po...
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/apple-responds-to-...
I don't mind the design but how about a sentence near the top to new visitors know what MailChimp is. (I see the video further down the page)
There's a slippery slope / definition problem here. This is essentially trying to disallow certain kinds of links from applications to the web: links that lead to a purchase decision, where the thing purchased is related to the app.

Couldn't this argument also be used against all sorts of advertising and up-sell / cross-sell in apps? No matter what way I look at it, it looks like a huge land grab attempt by Apple.
Maybe you mistyped, but cyan paint absorbs red light, it reflects everything but red, i.e. cyan.
Because if Bing has to rely on Google Search's solutions to problems it should itself be able to solve, that implies it's inferior technology.
You might need to enlighten yourself on exactly which browser first brought us ajax. And are you too young to remember just how bad Netscape Navigator was?

IE was brilliant when it came out. It was MS's strategy of making it free to kill off Netscape and then never updating it to eke a few more years out of the desktop app infrastructure that sucked.
Even if it's your Amazon or eBay account that you already have?

This stinks of Apple trying to tip the playing field in their favor. Despite the flashy, polished app, it appears that Kindle is trouncing Apple on its own platform in the eBooks realm. This reeks of Apple trying to cut out the competition.

There's IMHO no need to enforce this sort of thing. If Nameless iPhone Game wants me to buy downloadable content and expects me to sign up for a payments account, they're not getting my money, period. For the majority of things being sold in-app, Apple's payments platform makes sense, and generates customers. For the ones where the systems makes no sense, there's usually good reason.
The 'initial rep hurdle' is so low that any dimwit -- pardon my French -- can overcome it... As some others have pointed out, too easily actually, judging from the number of bad answers from people with a few K of rep.
Or possibility number 4: Amazon removes any mention of purchasing books from the app. The way I read the statement from Apple, they are not saying that if developers offer purchasing outside the app, then they must offer in-app purchasing. They are saying that if an app offers purchasing options, those have to go through the in-app purchasing model. It's still pretty crappy, but basically, all Amazon would have to do is remove the "buy more books" button if my read of this is correct.
needn't even be limited to "what user clicks after search" could simply be "what user clicks"

They're trying to link Content A and Content B, where "Content" includes page content, URL(including GET string terms), and various other factors. Could happen on every page.

Google-fans then tend to get a bit knicker-twisty about privacy implications, but first I dislike that line of argument as it confuses the issue (what are we mad at, the copying or the privacy? Oh I know, we'll say copying and when someone rebuts that we'll start whining about privacy), and secondly, as patio11 eloquently said: Google doesn't really want to get into a heated discussion about the evils of a search engine knowing everything you've ever searched for. Stones, glass houses, etc. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165682 )
Clarity from changing "Objective C" to "Objective-C", whatever. The rest of the changes didn't add clarity, they were totally stylistic.

People are not computers, and we're touchy about stuff we write. If you want to add a tag to my question to make it more searchable, fine. If you want to let me know I have a typo, or used the wrong word or something, whatever. Just editing someone's question, especially for subjective writing style, comes across as rude.

If it's not supposed to, or if the rest of that community doesn't mind, I'm happy for them. But it's not for me, and it's not for a lot of other people either. So, I agree with the OP.
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Fair enough. Sometimes I do feel like that guy.
since tuition is to pay for receiving an education, not starting a business

I think there is a gaping hole in this argument. When you go to a college/university, you are entering an environment of learning and exploration, both personal and intellectual. It's not just an "education" in the sense of "book knowledge." Some unis have policies dictating where you can live, whether or not you can drive a car, and have disciplinary policies for violating certain rules (read: drinking) that have to do with this environment, not with intellectual education.

And I completely agree with you that schools that try to get it both ways and deny the student the fruit of their complete growth, including entrepreneurship, are doing them a disservice.

Do athletes that turn pro based on the skills they develop in college have to tithe their salary back to the school?

EDIT: I obviously need to make it clear that I am continuing your point, not disagreeing.
Growing up, the only poster that ever caught my eye was "Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.":

http://it.pinellas.k12.fl.us/Teachers3/johnsond/images/8F209...

It's really quite humbling to look back on it, even today.
awesome idea - could see a ton of great applications built on top of it.
Bing Engineer Accuses Google Of Profiting Off Search Spam
It was there using those links when I posted, but not anymore.
There are other troubling inconsistencies as well. But I decided to stop there. I only want the author to go back and fix his numbers, I don't want to write the article for him.

Without a doubt, this whole thing is a poor abuse of statistics. It doesn't take a genius to figure out you can make $100,000 and keep a lot in the bank by living like someone who makes $30,000. Which, by the way, there are quite a few of those people in the United States.
Ah. They were loading the same results as Google and Bing when I posted that. They aren't now.
>not find that the statistician had been threatened with prosecution or similar

may be because he is in Canada. Do they have DMCA alike?
My understanding is that it is in fact Apple wanting their 30% (since kinle app already allows people to purchase books from the iPad through safari). I don't think it's a big deal as long as the additional cost is not spread to all kindle content purchasers. iPad users get the ease of use by being able to do in app purchase vs safari, it's only fair the pay the additional costs.
Apparently his justification was that he didn't consider what happened to have been "sexual relations," because he hadn't been what one might call an active participant.

The far extreme of evasion, certainly, but the narrowness of his definition of "sexual relationships" seems in the same ballpark as the narrowness of Microsoft's definition of "copy."
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In short, Bing Toolbar infers relationship between words on the page and the next page the user clicks on. Google's team purposefully confined Bing Toolbar behavior-tracking algorithm to their use of google.com search result page, and then cried fool about "bing stealing Google's search results".

This is disgraceful attention-whoring on Google's part. Quite surprising, too, as I don't remember them ever stooping that low.
Thanks for the response, I'm definitely widening my scope nowadays to see which direction I can shift my efforts to. I spoke w/my team about my issues and everyone's on board with us exploring different opportunities... they better be unless they want to pay my rent soon, lol
They should have A/B tested the new design v/s old design. It is so trivial to do that I am amazed why companies take huge risks going with an unproven new design.
I think this was on HN the other day actually:

http://www.defencetalk.com/zephyr-solar-powered-uav-soars-to...
The GVCS is a collection of 40 machines needed to create a small civilization.
Quotes provide you with exact match results. Putting quotes around an entire phrase isn't what I intend sometimes, and quoting each term in the query is just excessive. In that case, I'll just click the extra link...
New site does not appeal to me at ALL.. I like the old site a loooooot more.

Why did they lose the Chimp? I don't get that. They literally built their brand around the "Chimp". They've lost their identity (the chimp) ;P
> Clinton's statement was an outright lie

He employed a very narrow definition of "sexual relations" that was made possible by the ambiguity of what a sexual relationship actually is.
The attack surface mostly has to do with input validation. Good security presupposes that you validate all input and escape all output. That means that you have to be aware of the semantics of all server I/O, which is difficult to automate effectively.

Regarding SEO, the point is irrelevant to most SPA's. If your data is private, whether google can index it is not a relevant topic.

I suspect the validation probably should be developed twice. We build our server-side framework to be client-agnostic, published as web services. It is reused across multiple clients: a full desktop web front-end, a mobile web front-end, and a set of third-party interfaces. The use cases and needs of every front-end are very different, so I have a difficult time imagining a way that the validation logic could automatically be integrated into the different front-ends.
linkbait headlines anyone? Next, learn why some blogger is quitting javascript forever and switching to Erlang: bit.ly/hTNYCW
But the 3rd result (at the moment) is "Vanessa fox Nude"...
I couldn't vouch for its speed or coverage, but Basecamp has an API which several existing third party native apps use...
I don't think it's embarrassing to point out that Microsoft is playing dirty.

They played dirty with Netscape/IE in the 90s and look what happened.
Problems like returning meaningful results for "hiybbprqag"?
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Maybe I'm missing the point, but aren't there tons of 3rd party clients available as well as their own Highrise client?

http://basecamphq.com/extras

I'm not fan of Basecamp, but I think they've got a good ecosystem going.
It's a hypothetical problem that doesn't really exist in real-life. Separating people from their money is hard, quadruply so when you expect them to sign up for a new payments account.

This is also why PayPal is the de facto payments platform on the internet - consumers are wary of signing up for ever more payment options. You need to be well established to have enough customer confidence to pull it off - and even then, you're probably taking a large hit in conversion rate.

So sure, you can ship your app for free and try to make an end run around Apple - but it won't work. Even if you're a big, trusted name like EA the number of customers you lose forcing people through yet another payments process is likely not worth the extra sales you get from just giving Apple their cut.

The difference here is if the customer already has a payments solution set up - e.g., Amazon, eBay, etc. In this case the friction is minimal, and you'd want to keep your 30% margin. I don't see a problem with allowing this.
There seems to be multiple designs, try refreshing the site to see some of the other ones.

I don't like the new designs, when i first saw the "Designer templates" one I actually had to check the url just to verify that I was still at mailchimp.com and not some generic design tutorial site.
I'm getting a 503 error. Obligatory Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oS8AaG3...
With insanely great UX.
Django v Rails - "for larger projects my current framework of choice is Rails"
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"DESIGNER TEMPLATES"

When I looked at the old website, I knew what service they provided in a few seconds. Now, I'd think they are some kind of design shop.
There were a number of bugs around the first result that this whole thing uncovered, so it could have been intermittent. Our backfill in the case of no results can vary. It shouldn't have been showing anything ever beyond the first result though.
Sorry, but I don't understand how this works without a central server.

edit: Namely, how do you securely add a friend without prior knowledge of his public key?
A valid concern, its on a highly upvoted comment on reddit now in a thread about shipping hard drives, so I think I'm fairly safe there.
In the spirit of sensational, linkbait headlines, here's proof that Microsoft is copying Google's results: bit.ly/hTNYCW
It's possible you're an anomalous trichromat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Anomalous_trich...
"Show me a cute monkey"

/pushes a small grey triangle/
Mozy Raises prices, eliminates unlimited plan
Adding joins to a NoSQL-based codebase is no worse than de-normalizing data if you're using an RDBMS.

"Denormalization, or So You're Writing a NoSQL Store"
give it time ... that headline sells itself.
If Google pushes the issue, it should be on every night news report by tomorrow night.
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> Personally, I don't see anything wrong about that.

I, however, would call it spyware.
In the early 20th century Albert Munsell did a series of empirical studies to determine exactly how people see colors relative to one another. The results are expected, but fascinating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system
Elon Musk Looking to Get Into 'Black' Spy Sat Market
Thanks a lot for the kind words. :)

BTW, if you have any feature request for django-mediagenerator please let us know.
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They should just silently revert and pretend this never happened.
Here's an additional data point. My 2009 transportation costs in St. Louis, MO.

($220 car payment * 12) + (278.04 gallons of gas * $2.25 avg/gallon) + ~$175 property taxes + ($5 daily parking * 20 working days/month * 12) + (~$90 insurance/month * 12) = ~$5720

This excludes licensing costs and parking tickets, which probably add another ~$200. It also excludes maintenance. For example, new tires added another ~$400 this year. And you've got to change your oil.

I commute only 6 miles each way, drive a cheap, fuel efficient car, do some of my own maintenance, and live in an area with low tax and gas rates, so I don't think it would be hard to spend at least twice what I do.

Edit: added car insurance.
They are working to create a distinction between their service and a service like GetSatisfaction.
Ugh, I could have read something else but I read that instead.
They have their Highrise client that they hired a contractor to develop on iOS, and decided that it wasn't worth repeating for their other products.
> It's getting blurbed as "Bing's results are a copy of Google's"

Which is untrue. They are nowhere near as good.
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You could imagine something uPnP-like (or maybe just uPnP - I'm not too sure about how that protocol works) to dynamically create <remote_addr> -> <my_box> mappings; otherwise, just drop the packets. (Software already works behind bad NAT routers - dealing with this particular atrocity is nothing new.)
How long would your business last without the Internet?
Perhaps because they have spent a lot of money on the new design, and the people responsible don't want to invite the possibility of it being revealed as unsuitable?

This is not meant as any kind of judgement on anyone at mailchimp. Just thinking aloud.
This seems to be a not rare occurrence around the phase boundaries of functions. I had a similar problem with the atan2 function in the PL/I - Fortran library on the CDC 6600. One of my testers was stepping across the boundary between valid and invalid arguments and there was a single binary value that blew up. I was the compiler lead so it got fixed. Any of you remember the 486 floating point problem?
I've used a lot of those "extras" but they are all very limited and I think mostly because of their API.
This site's got a lot of potential. Very interested to see how the masses shape it.
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Checkout the how-to page and watch that video. It gives more detail.

But in short, you can make friends with your friend's friends or you can be friends with an indexer, which will list a bunch of people you may or may not know that you can request to be friends with as well.

When you send a request through a friend, your connection is done securely through that already established relationship. Then that friend passes the request to the friend you want to be friends with that they are already friends with. Once that request reaches that friend and they accept, they will have the public / private key pair you originally generated. They will also have your IP address information and begin making secure connections directly to you without the need for the friend or indexer which you sent the request through.
Publishers own the game because they own the content that most users are going to want. Of course, one can establish a good indie community, but you're not going to get mainstream acceptance until you have availability of mainstream publications, and as we know all too well from movies, music, and other media, big content owners are usually not very intelligent about digital formats.
I'm quite stunned that Google allowed this story to break.

It's such a bold claim, and with such an obvious explanation - Bing use all kinds of click data, whether from Google or not. Did they really not realise that was what was happening, or did they think "this is a certain PR win". Or do they just not have control of what their people say in public?

It's like if MS had discovered googlebombing and used it to 'show' that Google were 'copying' from webpages, or worse assumed that Google were manipulating search results.

I think Harry was exactly correct to describe this as a new kind of click fraud, and Google's handling of their discovery of it just amazes me.
Devlin from Instructure here. It's great when someone actually takes the time to dig into the application and give some real feedback. Thank you.

From the sound of things I think you are using one of our free-for-teachers accounts, which gives you complete control over a course and not to the administrative tools that an admin would have. This is why it feels self-service and adhoc for small installs, because it is :)

We can integrate with a variety of SIS systems in batch/real-time for auto-populating thousands of courses. You can integrate with auth systems like LDAP and SAML too. We have features for migrating content from other vendors and also from semester to semester.

I'm happy to chat on the phone, answer questions here or you can set something up by emailing me devlin@instructure.com .
Why do they need a non random code to generate these? If they want to guarantee the number of winners, they can just ensure that they only release so many winners. This would require them "solving" all the tickets they were to release and holding/deleting/regenerating the ticket if they have enough winners already.

This may not be the most efficient system but it guarantees it isn't crackable with a couple of caveats:

1. They weren't always releasing a winner at a fixed time - i.e. they had to have x win per week, and they released a winner at regular intervals to guarantee separation. You don't want all the winners for a month produced in the first hour. Although this would be random and should be a possibility.

2. The random number generator was actually random.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
The internal site was hit over the head with the pastel bat, too. They should revert their CSS changes -- the prior look was consistent and usable.
Not sure I have it correct either, but wouldn't charging 30% less on your website make it somewhat compelling?
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Anything that's either going to be taking in a large amount of relevant data (such as GPS applications) or has an installed userbase large enough to warrant inclusion in the "big names" that I specified above. It doesn't have to be major companies but there has to be enough data to make contributing to it worthwhile. It's kind of a catch-22 that is solved by either industry wide grassroots acceptance or a big name player coming in and providing the initial data.

To use my previous example, if Google dumps most or all of it's map data into this endeavor it gains a tonne of legitimacy. Otherwise your just a little fish in a big ocean of data that people are holding on to and refusing to share.
Good point - with a bit of re-parsing, I can see this ready. Still, it's a stupid decision:

"Dear Amazon, Sony, Spotify etc,

Please make your Applications less useful to our users. We're sure they'll still love our devices when your apps are crippled compared to the Android version!.

Thanks, Apple".

Unless there's back-door negotiations going on, they must know no big name will ever go for this (indeed, any size name at all that sells content and can process payments for less than 30% of the price). I'm a pretty strong Apple defender (see my comment history!), but this is just user hostile, through and through - in any reading.
Using the cache manifest, you can still run your web apps offline...
Status is a combination of desirable things - Money, power, sex.

Bartenders have somewhat more access to sex. But they have less money than a software developer, and less potential for power (there's no ceiling on being a developer - you can run your own business, and potentially become extremely influential. If a bartender gains that much influence/power and owns their own establishment, it becomes disingenuous to continue to call them "a bartender").

Furthermore, this aspect of status is irrelevant when a person is in a long-term relationship, which at some point in their lives most people are.
Yes it would imply that, if that were indeed what was going on.
I am agnostic on which will work better for the business, but I have an emotional connection with Chimpy. Chimpy is so instantly lovable that my mother can recall, two years later, that my B2B mail service provider is "the one with Chimpy." I have a Chimpy t-shirt that my girlfriend specifically requests I wear.

I am not a designer or a brand guy, and I'm willing to be convinced by an A/B test showing Faceless Corporate stomps all over Chimpy... but crkey, I would think long and hard about giving him up.