skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhmmm...Do they really call that piece of crap "research"?
Agrhrrrr
Okay, how does that mind lamp thingy work?
I disagree with the last part. Apple desperately wants to be in the commodity payment processing business. They want a cut of every transaction that takes place on a cell phone, which someday soon may be almost every transaction in the consumer economy. Normally the transaction processing business is a small slice of a huge pie. Apple's plan is to take a huge slice of a huge pie. Obviously it's in no one else's interest to give them all this extra pie, so Apple figures it will abuse it's market position to force everyone to go along.

It's pure evil, but that really shouldn't surprise anyone at this point.
People used to say that about Windows and OS X. And indeed, many of the people who are allowed to choose for themselves have chosen to suck it up and replace Windows machines with OS X machines.

So yes, move to Android and stop being such miserable worms. Ditching an iPhone is not like ditching $5,000 worth of IBM PC-XT, especially because Apple have sync'd all your contacts, emails, and other personal data with your computer.
Unlike the other commenters here, who seem to believe Al Jazeera "just got trolled", I think the rise of 4chan - and reddit - as politically-aware entities is genuinely fascinating.

Of course, there's lots of trolling, grandstanding and silliness going on, but there's also a real, mostly well-intentioned attempt to change the world: redditors have given quite a lot of money and organized a political rally; 4chan has been fighting against Scientology and has (apparently?) been involved in Tunesia; etc. Wrong or right, it seems hard to explain this exclusively in terms of "lulz".

I will admit that my opinion of either group isn't/wasn't very high, and that I'm genuinely surprised by this behavior.
I would hope so. My decision to purchase an iPad was based, in part, on the availability of applications that would likely no longer be available if this policy were to go into effect. As a consumer, this feels completely deceptive. For me, the usefulness of the iPad is being arbitrarily reduced, quite drastically, only after I have purchased it. I may not have purchased it in the first place if not for the functionality I am on the verge of losing.

I understand Apple's position and desire to turn a profit, but these actions feel hostile towards me, as the consumer, and leave a pretty sour taste in my mouth. No matter how this shakes out I would be wary of committing to another Apple platform for fear that they will completely change the rules to make it an untenable situation.

I really hope they back down, but if they don't I would gladly join a class action lawsuit against them.
No, your English isn't failing you; you're correct! It doesn't explain that he has since left Last.fm.
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Possibly they could call the sub-company "Spotify Magic" (random example - but something that will show up in search results for "spotify"), or possibly they could just ensure that Spatify gets well enough known for people to search for its new name.

I suspect if any company did this they would put a lot more research and thought into it than I have for my two quick HN comments - I'm really just wondering what, if somebody took this approach, Apple's response would be.
How about if a customer buys an app. Can Apple take it away without reimbursing the customer?
I agree. In particular I found the tool on this page very useful: http://cspangled.blogspot.com/2010/05/staying-efficient.html
>The software is given away to sell the hardware.

I think you could equally argue that the hardware is given away to ensure that the software works in a consistent way - they are a full service company, they do both hardware and software, they offer [consumer] products that are ready to use.
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"That could be a thought, or goal, of theirs, to push content creators to their platform instead of through Amazon and Rhapsody middle men."

You don't push creators to a platform by scalping 30% from their income.
I bet they print them on cheap paper, and try to upsell you to better quality stuff. Still a good deed, though.
But I know when they arrived... I signed for them.

A more useful service would allow me to log in and see the current status and location of each package I've notified it about. I've had as many as 10-15 packages in transit at once before and it became tedious to make sure I got all of them. (In fact, one got lost, and I didn't notice for another month.)
Nolite has a good suggestion... doing evolutionary computation in parallel can be fun. Another suggestion would be to look into graph algorithms and find something there. Graph algorithms, in general, aren't known for parallelizing very easily and there should be a fair amount of active research going on in that area. I imagine you could find something there that would have some value, and that might be fun.
Does it sync last-read-position across all your devices. Or as many devices as the Kindle app supports?
Just activate the Multiple Inboxes gadget on Labs. Then you can create n priority inboxes with whatever you want showing up. If you then can't find a way to filter your super super super super priority emails from the rest of the junk, then you might have bigger problems :)
Can't you simply train Priority Inbox by flagging the messages from the people you want to always appear in PI as "important"? It seems to learn pretty quickly, at least for my small subset of email.
Not really, although you can make stable ants. Doing anything complex and stable, though, is really difficult. After I built that, I spent a couple weeks doing little but trying to create something simple (in terms of commands) and beautiful, that would run indefinitely; I was never really very successful. That said, I may well be the only person that's ever played with 45-degree ants, so there's a good potential for someone else to succeed where I failed.
why worry about karma if your comment is honest, useful and decent enough
Eventually, but many are locked in by 2 year contracts. Apple probably figures it can force them to switch from Kindle to iBooks and then once their cell phone contract is up they will have even more incentive to by an iPhone 6 because all of their content is inside Apple's walled garden.
Just to follow up on myself, I installed skipfish and ran it against my site in the easiest mode (./skipfish -W /dev/null -LV -o rpt http://example.com)

* I got the same two errors and they were completely benign. The directory traversal problem was just Wordpress returning some data. The "interesting file" was a blog post that had some SQL in it. I'm not sure if they're the same that you found. But if I would have paid for the scan and they turned out to be the same two errors, I would have been pretty angry.

* Skipfish came back with some actual interesting things like embedded scripts and forms without xsrf protection. The embedded scripts were ok (ad/tracking codes), but the forms would have been an interesting thing to note.
Reminds me of the time when I wanted to open a capital one bank account. They needed me to deposit 50$ in order to open the account and since they dont have any fees on the account, they said I could use my new ATM card to withdraw the 50$.

Maybe Palm uses the paypal account to make sure your "serious" about developing on the system but I think that mentality is backwards. I dont think a developer would scam the system just so they can be a developer to produce free, open-source applications.
I've certainly done that! RTs on twitter mobile web too.
I believe it's: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ though I don't really remember.

> the GPL is more restrictive than alternative licenses.

So, you don't like the GPL. That's fair. However, not everyone has the same goals as you.

Your main contention at the start, if I understood you correct, was that, we should be sharing and not repeating ourselves. I write something, publish it, share it, and you should be able to use it for your project without having to worry about licenses. And you see that as more free then with licenses that have arduous restrictions, like the GPL (Because, while the BSD does have restrictions, they are fairly easy to overcome). If I'm wrong with your overall view here, apologies.

Essentially, you want what people who use the GPL want: a community of sharing. You want it via choice, GPL users want it enforced. And that's where GPL users see the value in a license: they help push your agenda. So while BSD gives other people more freedom to do what they want with the code, it does nothing directly to push people toward that way of thinking.

My personal opinion is it's all fairly annoying. I just want to program. =)
I agree, but I also don't think it would be impossible for Apple to have their own hulu/netflix like service, after all, you can already buy some videos through itunes.

I think this will only be bad for users, but not bad enough to force masses of people to leave. There will always be a cost to leaving Apple behind (both psychological and monetary), and if Apple had to invent their own services to replace those that left, I think they would be more expensive and maybe not quite as good as other products, but they wouldn't be so bad as to force people to leave their iphone, which still has many fun/useful features that don't have subscriptions.

I think the only businesses that are in danger of leaving the apple system would be: Music streaming, video streaming, and books, and I think Apple would be able to provide their own in house replacements for those that left (for better or for worse).
I've said before and will say again:

The holdup here is not technical. It's great that we've got people like Alex willing to port code, but that's not the hard part. The hard part is people who are using and want to continue using Django on platforms where Python 2.5 or even 2.4 is still the standard.

More on this forthcoming, once I've had a proper weekend off.
I just browse with the Dolphin browser. Since it's via the browser, you get to see and do everything. Dolphin also lets you open links in separate tabs.

I imagine any browser is good enough, HN isn't that complicated a site.
sed 's/#!\///g' urls.txt | xargs curl

Yeah, not that hard dude.
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'High usage' slows down Internet in Bahrain during the mass protests
Aesthetics: :D

Performance: o_O
They have support for lots of countries now: http://goo.gl/I49QQ.
Selling subscriptions is too broad. There's been a lot of talk about music and magazine app requirements, but what about other business services? Chargify, a subscription billing service, offers an iphone app for its customers. Do they need to offer sign up in the app, and pay apple? What about TheLadders.com, or WeightWatchers?

A huge number of companies with an app and a subscription business model just got hosed.
Hi all

I use this address for gtalk IM only (don't mail it) .. so I dont mind if I get spam from sharing it here! Feel free to add me anybody, but remember I work a 9-5 and cant chat heaps during the day

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Cheers
Alain
These aren't quite the same thing. He (she) is removing all of the pages.. riveting elastic bands to the back cover and and just leaving you with the hardback portion.

The one described int he article is more akin to the dodo case..

http://www.dodocase.com/
The Internet will route around all obstructions. I wonder if any of these content providers would get in trouble for providing jailbroken apps with music subscriptions from their websites? They could then encourage people to jailbreak their phones to get 'the full experience'. I think that would be a nice way of flipping the bird to Apple.
Appreciate the feedback madhouse.
I'm sorry but whats a CV? Im assuming its a resume?

-update-

Guess I should have googled harder:
A curriculum vitae, commonly referred to as CV, is a longer (two or more pages), more detailed synopsis than a resume. (http://jobsearch.about.com/od/cvsamples/a/blsamplecv.htm)
Show HN: Stock Bubbles app, advices?
A few weeks ago I got an idea for a more interesting interface to check the
stock market. The huge list of symbols in a table view that are either green
or red (the same red and green whatever the gain is 0.1% or 10%) is not really
cool for fast scanning, nor fun to use.

Since I happen to be involved with an iPhone and iPad devleopment company here
in Sicily since a few years, as share holder and "advisor", I suggested the
idea to this friends of mine. As there was no really development bandwidth to
do things like this, as they mostly work for other companies creating
applications for the editorial market, I suggested to do this in the spare
time, and check how this could work as an alternative to just providing
services to other companies.

So one of the developers, and my girlfriend that is the graphic designer in
the company, started working at this, and after just a few days the app was
ready.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stock-bubbles/id417945202?mt=8&ls=1

This guys read hacker news every day (this was one of my first advices), but never participate with actual comments. I think it's a shame that they don'ttry to directly sell things on the app store most of the times, so please can you provide some suggestion to this guys? What's ok and what's wrong with Stock Bubbles, is it too much a small market to create a viable business model? Does it makes sense to create such side projects with just a few days of work of a few poeple, or it's better to invest months developing an application even if it could not be a success at all? (while doing work for customers will pay less but will pay for sure).

Thanks for any feedback, the developer of the app is 'artix' here and will reply to all your questions. The app is free, but with an optional in-app purcahse to unblock the configuration screen, but there is no need to buy it to check how it works and to provide useful suggestions of course.
>Thus you are saying public laws should exist to give private individuals the right to restrict other private individuals...

Did you stop to think about the repercussions of your last statement? Should you be allowed to stop me taking your things, parking on your land or living in your home?
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Totally agree, thanks Angelo.
low-res and 8-bit are not the same thing.
i did not read the paper but sigcomm is one of the premier networking conferences...so i do not expect the paper to be rubbish
It reminds me of the "lowest advertised price" policy, where a workaround is that you don't see the discount until you add something to the shopping cart.
> The fact that you don't know how to make your tools easy to use doesn't justify making them complex nightmares.

Does anyone know how to make their tools easy to use? Apple, for one, certainly doesn't.
"Loopholes are not going to work."

But the market is. No company is going to charge 30% extra on other platforms - competition would eat them there. So at worst there will be a split into Apple-only and No-Apple companies, at least for commodity repackaged content.
If I ignore it and my side project takes off they'd have claim to the copyright. Sounds like a huge legal mess.
Are you kidding me? B&N carries books on gardening, military history and diet fads. That's about it. B&N is illiterate compared to Borders.
Many of these are free apps (Pandora, Kindle, etc). No refund needed. And if they are the reason you bought your iOS device I'm sure Apple won't be accepting hardware returns past the regular 14 day limit.
That misses the point.

In this scenario, if you have the Kindle app installed on your iPad, and if you buy a subscription to something, you can do that from your kindle, your ipad, your computer, whatever. Kindle is cool that way.

Apple is saying, hey, if you do it through the ipad kindle app, we expect 30% of the subscription fee from the publisher. AND the publisher is not allowed to offer cheaper prices to off-ipad purchases.... so the only logical move for Kindle is "umm, okay, we'll stop providing a kindle ipad app and we'll take our customers elsewhere"

Leaving only the Apple-provided bookstore to handle subscriptions.

They don't want people using their platform to launch recurring-revenue models for content and then not get a piece of the subscription pie.
Hmmm, seems to be hit hard by Reddit (and maybe HN at the same time). Here are some cached pages:

Main Page

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Qwn4xO3... Page

Why Cyclone

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5awoEqk...

User Manual

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SGKUUJs...
Apple is already richly compensated for the additional value that their platform provides. The minute you understand that you will be a useful troll.
They got you in the door didnt they? If one out of ten people decide to upgrade I bet they would be happy with that.
It does work for a central 'master' repository that people push/pull rarely when new versions are done but otherwise it's only good for a single user.
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I haven't looked in to MasterCard's market place close enough, http://www.marketplace.mastercard.com/
First, I think you mean "skeuomorphic". But I don't agree that the absence of texture is the obvious and only future of UI.

Font, color, texture, shape... these are all tools that great designers--just like great painters--use well. Both the abundance and absence of those elements can be overdone. (Sometimes in all-type interfaces, it's really hard to know what to click on, for example.)
Thanks for the feedback! I have been considering alternate tactics, such as showing low/medium risk issues but not high risk, or just selling the free scan as a high level scan which doesn't complete any in depth testing.

Yes, I use skipfish for some tests, though I customized parts of it (it has an amazing web crawler). I also use proprietary scan technology, and plan to add a few more open source tools into the mix (such as port/service and virus scanning) in the not so distant future to create one combined risk/vulnerability report.

interesting file is typically a text file, unsecured htaccess file, or sometimes 500 error messages. If you tell me your site, I will check for you.

target market is small business, medium size business, or individual site owners - mostly those who don't maintain a full time IT security staff but want some visibility into their site risks. Eventually I may add PCI checks, but that is a huge compliance/paper cost which is tough for a one man shop to keep up with.
Not necessarily. For example, if you're having a parcel delivered to your home, but it arrives when you're at the office, you'd want to be notified when this happens. Maybe your significant other or roommate signed for it. Maybe no one signed for it and there will be another delivery attempt. This sort of thing happens to me all the time for packages I don't want delivered to my office.

On the other hand, notification of other tracking events would be useful too. I'd make it optional to have those.
> sed 's/#!\///g' urls.txt | xargs curl

So easy, you've actually got it wrong.

Certain special characters after the hash-bang need to be url-encoded, and then that value needs to be added to what's before the #! by including a query string parameter of _escaped_fragment_, checking first whether there is already a query string so as to append the information rather than incorrectly whacking on a '?'.

Plus, this isn't in the form of interpretive dance. So no content for you.
Would you still feel that way about a book a thrift store has several (possibly over a dozen) copies of, such as _Megatrends_, Lee Iaccoca's biography, or old (and terrible) microwave cookbooks?

I understand where you're coming from, and mostly agree with you, but there are many copies of old bestseller (or otherwise overproduced) books that are just taking up space.
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> As for end user, there is no loss there: just a convenient way to buy subscription with one tap.

What about the [potential] loss of apps like Netflix, Pandora and Kindle? Sounds like a pretty big loss for a possible future convenience.
Article could be summarized to one sentence "Put your git repo in your Dropbox". It does also go on to suggest that you share this folder with other Dropbox users but that's a bad idea. Even single users can end up with problems if they use multiple machines, git doesn't understand Dropbox's method of dealing with conflicts.
Feynman would get a cup of coffee, a spoon and a thermometer.
Yes, they can, but they have yet to use the app killswitch.
>And it could have been written straightforwardly as a roman-a-clef without incurring copyright hazards.

I'd not heard of a roman a clef before, a story with a key to translate the characters/figures/places to refer to something else.

I don't think this would help - if you provide me with the parts to make a copyrighted work and you know that is what they are to be used for or you designed them specifically for that use then you are committing contributory infringement (YMMV depending on specifics of copyright law in your country, save to say that legislatures aren't idiots).

In the same way you can't sell your cover of a pop song by encoding the song as an MP3 ("it's not a song it's just bits").
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Why "JAVA"? It's not an acronym, it doesn't stand for "Just Another Verbose Algol".
Financial Times talks about the Silicon Valley "Bubble"
And from the personal point of view, really, its how long you are without a job that counts. If you bridge, ok. If you lose your house and card, disaster. Matters more than what jobs exist and where.
Contrived examples like this have a problem, where the code example is too complex compared to the very simple task, in this case keeping a HTML list populated with items from a JS object.

I have used binding mechanisms in the Flex framework, which act in a similar way. The model object dispatches events which the view listens to and updates its own representation. In Flex the model object is often an "ArrayCollection," in this example, "Donuts." In Flex the view would often be some kind of "List" object, in this example, "DonutCollectionView."

The Donut aspect of this example is the contrived bit. It's just a generic list. Donut could just be any Object that maps to some kind of HTML representation. DonutCollectionView could just be a CollectionView, that passes along that representation to a HTML list.

The plumbing in this example is something I don't really want to write if I am using a framework. If I had to write it, I wouldn't write it like this. Am I misunderstanding something?
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It is not usually until you've built and used a version of the program...
I guess in the long run, most multi-platform content providers will simply have to offer two products: one with iOS support and a 30% surcharge, and a cheaper one that only supports open systems like the web and (plain) Android.

No one can afford not to support iOS. But on the other hand, no one will be able to charge 30% more than the competition on other platforms.
Aw wtf man?!?

I just got spammed with like 300 emails from your site.

Is that what its suppose to do?