skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of how it must be for the 4 people on the stand who answered yes. They were likely shown a few pictures along with the implication that they were "usual suspects", one of which was almost certainly the culprit. They'd probably seen all of about 5 real-life "people of color" in their lives and simply picked the closest looking one to what they remembered. The system then automatically worked to assure them that this was the guy. Over time their memories sloshed together with the picture and the guy on the bench and then they were sure of it.

But now they know that they were 100% wrong and their testimony cost this guy his life. That's a tough one to live with.
> Your reply sounds like you don't value him as a customer anymore because he's not giving you money anymore.

I think you mean: replies.
Poll: iOS developers how many apps have you published?
15+
Fair enough, Accept-Language sounds better. The idea is the same though -- don't require a region splash page first. I had assumed that the reason for the splash page was different product offerings in the country, not language, but if the real reason is language then by all means use that.

I would prefer a combination though. If I live in Italy but am browsing in English, use the Italian product page via GeoIP but the language according to the Accept-Language header.
I acknowledged in my first post, which you replied to and therefore presumably read, that the story reported in the link may not be true. What's with the bitter tone?
He's going to use to prevent a revolution from overthrowing him...
What he should do is file a DMCA counter-notification, which would require Zazzle to restore the product unless the Tolkien estate files suit within 10 days:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Terrorism/form-letter.html
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Have you considered offering to buy back the lifetime offers from people who won't migrate? It seems like that might be cheaper in the long run than having to support the old BSD servers forever.
I don't think it's really fair to dump on these guys because of this. I definitely agree that nobody should depend on a 'beta' anything in any serious capacity, but Djangy was pretty obviously a small operation trying something out. I was a beta user and absolutely LOVED it, even though I didn't have the best support experiences ever. Anything I hosted with Djangy could easily be moved elsewhere - I highly doubt there were any users with enough data to make migration difficult.
Sorry to be crass. Djangy was a serious competitor and I have a lot of respect for what they've accomplished. However, life goes on for the users who were on Djangy and some of them are going to need an alternative.
Beautiful Pictures of Libya
from photographer Thomas Cook's travels in Libya - stunning
Ask HN: Social media marketing recommendations?
I am an intern for a mid-sized startup in the hospitality sector. As an assignment, I need to find a few solid social media marketing firms that really 'get the times' and know how to reach our target audience. I have Googled many firms but feel like the best firms are probably known by the HN community. Any suggestions based on prior experiences?

Please and thanks. :)
I hope not — there was even talk of him being a future CEO of Apple. In any case it's great to see silicon valley getting the value of creative talent at long last...
It was just bad wording on my part. What I tried to say was that there's a difference between giving $150k to a charity outright and donating money on behalf of the users who refer more users.
I didn't know that. I presumed wrongly that Mail.app wouldn't allow me to re-export my stored mail. Now I have the dilemma of choosing to go back to Mail.app (which I really liked) and lose my Thunderbird customization, or stick to Thunderbird :-)
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Please learn to use your friendly neighborhood spider-Google next time. This subject has been beaten to death. Some here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615846

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175223

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1578380

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787241

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931832

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1758554

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840197

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756924

The search literally took maybe 3 seconds tops...
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"Need" why? You plan on being around then?
Depends on who's behind the keyboard.
I still care more about ZFS :/
Too bad for those few random people. Guess they get lumped in with the people who don't use their ISP's DNS server.
I suspect many people think they are right - all the time, about everything - very hard to get the to change their minds. Do you have a partner/wife/husband? Do you tend to think you are right in relation to discussion that you have with them, or are you constantly open to change of mind?
That works for my Gmail account. What about my HN posts? What if I don't have a reliable backup server of my own?

Web 2.0 needs to abstract backup the way web 1.0 abstracted get and put. Venti does exactly that, and git might work too.
I tend to be very objective rather than believe I'm right or wrong on any given subject. In areas where I have strong expertise, I tend to be more opinionated but I still retain the openness when discussing.
I think the term 'startup' is being thrown around too much these days. Don't get me wrong, I do see potential in your idea but it's probably a bit soon to be considered a startup.
If Djangy shuts down, their users have to go somewhere. I don't understand how this isn't relevant information to those users.
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Thoughtful piece, although it could have been delivered without calling out folks in the title. I assume the author, Le Corbusier and Neilsen all want the best for themselves and users.

Maybe I'm a sap.
I have 1. Working on a couple others.
"Fuck usability testing, all your software needs is love."

Pointless yammering about how humans are irrational and therefore, things that humans use and/or make should be irrational too.
And this is why we run our own mail server.
There seems to be some confusion in this thread about the difference between "free" and "paid for in advance".

Cutco will re-sharpen your knives for free, no matter how old they are, even if you bought them on eBay, because they made a 'lifetime resharpening' promise with the original purchase. And they're basically a multi-level marketing scam.
Ask HN: How to give a client a website?
I just started doing freelance web design and development.

My first client already had a domain and hosting. My question, though, is what do you do when a client doesn't have either? What's the easiest way to do it?

For instance, do you just setup a godaddy account for the client, and then buy the domain and hosting there?
Good point. I was hoping that somebody might be able to provide some information along those lines.

Googling "environmental impact of computers" turns up some data on quantity of resources and total energy cost, but such data is seldom presented in a useful context:

http://www.google.ca/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=e...
> I can't even conceive of something like that happening here in Phoenix, AZ.

Have you ever read Phoenix news as reported by out-of-state newspapers? I'm guessing that you haven't.
The DMCA doesn't apply to trademark infringement claims.
I guess we're still not Reddit as long as "fuck" is not all caps.
I don't see why it is disrespectful. Given the blog post itself enthusiastically recommended its competitors.
What it's like building a real website in Node.js
Ah, ok. Maybe it's possible to file a fair use counterclaim then?
I bought a $139 Kindle. Immediately de-linked it from my Amazon account and I manage it with Calibre. Fully loaded with tons of pirated MOBIs and PDFs.

To make matters worse, I bought one of the hard covers from a Best Buy which caused power shorts, then I called Amazon and got a replacement with a light from Amazon for free. Then I returned the lightless hardcover back w/receipt back to Best Buy. I wasn't trying to get a $60 cover for free, but this method works, no social engineering even required.

Loss leader indeed.
Just put out my first one two weeks ago: http://freshcomics.us

Got bored while waiting for Apple's approval, and started the Android version, which landed in the Android Market 3 days after Apple accepted the iOS version.

I have 3 iOS apps in the pipeline at the moment. I put development of one on pause while Apple figures out if it'll be taxing SaaS apps.
Could you please resubmit this, with the link done properly?
Ask HN: Why does HN need access to my Google contacts?
I use my google account as my openid, which I use to sign into HN. When I reach the authorization part, I see that clickpass.com(the intermediary) needs access to my google contacts.

This is a little more clear when compared to other sites where I use openid to login. for eg (taken via https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens):

www.clickpass.com — Google Contacts [ Revoke Access ]

stackoverflow.com — Sign in using your Google account [ Revoke Access ]

facebook.com — Sign in using your Google account [ Revoke Access ]

grooveshark.com — Sign in using your Google account [ Revoke Access ]
I have what's at http://chpwn.com/apps, but I don't consider most of them enough of an "app" in the traditional sense. I put up "four", but that's just a random guesstimate of how much the work I've put in would translate into actual apps.

Nobody said developing for jailbroken phones was easy! ;P
Wow, even I might actually "buy" a few bits under such a scheme.
Married, yes. My wife's changed my mind on some things, sometimes easily, sometimes not, and sometimes I don't budge. Again... if it's something I know a lot about, I tend to think I'm right (and usually am), but sometimes I'm wrong, and I adjust.
I have a few, but only 2 that I did as something serious. Unbroken Chain http://goo.gl/u4W93 and Epic Biking http://goo.gl/v0PVi
Narrative Essay Writing tips
Writing a narrative essay is one of the easiest essay types. It is simply written in the form of a story. If the student used sufficient descriptive words and vivid details writing the narrative essay will be an easy task. This article will help you.
If you don't want to go to the trouble of 3rd parties (all probably excellent) or running your own imap server and synchronizing to it with larch (probably excellent) or other synch solutions,

If you use Thunderbird then you have a low barrier to entry and low cognitive load solution.

[Tools|Edit]Account Settings, then click Synchronization and Storage for you gmail account (or any other account),

then check Keep messages and click on Advanced. Then check the folders that you want to synch. The most sensible one for gmail is [Gmail]/All Mail.

Now Tbird will make a copy of all your messages in All Mail.

Caveat: I have found that the copy isn't made until you click on the All Mail folder in your folder list. Tradeoff between getting something OK working in two minutes, and the time for whatever other solution.
I think the one watching court room tv is you rather than the jury. Just try and place yourself in the shoes of one of those 12 people who had to decide whether to let the man go free or go in prison for actual life, and make such decision not based on any incentive or interest whatever but your sense of consciousness and justice and see how lightly you will rely on some tv courtroom drama.
Why do people keep saying that Zynga doesn't spend money on marketing? They spent millions in advertising for the launch of Farmville (http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/07/28/social-game-deve...) and some estimates I've seen have said that they spend over $100mm per year on advertising on Facebook.

Fred Wilson talked in his blog post about Zynga not doing any advertising when there were only 3-4 founders, and that they built their user base in that way. But their eventual astronomical growth has been largely due to their ability to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on acquisition.
12 A steady, but not high, income comes in each month, the vast majority of the money fromsomething like 4 of them.

Unless I actually had a hit, I would have to publish something like 50-100 to have a livable income.
Apple’s Secrecy Doesn’t Serve Corporate Governance
I can appreciate the author's plea against data being used as prescriptive recommendations for interface design, but I feel like her analogy to Le Corbusier is strained.

I'll admit to having gone through a "Bauhaus" phase many years ago (a single Le Corbusier lounge is all that remains from it), but I don't think that her criticisms of Le Corbusier's architecture are particularly well-suited to her thesis. I can buy that there has been a growing consensus since his death that his ideas for "new urbanism" are cold and uncomfortable, but they are not the result of "prescriptive data"; they are the result of his worldview and what he believed the purpose of architecture was.

I don't necessarily agree with his view in that regard, but it doesn't strike me as any different than a user interface designer arbitrarily deciding where buttons go based on what they think is correct.
Yes, but this does:

US Code Title 15 Section 1125:

(3) Exclusions

The following shall not be actionable as dilution by blurring or dilution by tarnishment under this subsection:

(A) Any fair use, including a nominative or descriptive fair use, or facilitation of such fair use, of a famous mark by another person other than as a designation of source for the person’s own goods or services, including use in connection with—

(i) advertising or promotion that permits consumers to compare goods or services; or

(ii) identifying and parodying, criticizing, or commenting upon the famous mark owner or the goods or services of the famous mark owner.
One of my own (which is horribly out of date, so I won't post a link), and two for clients. Also one prototype for a client that was only for shopping around to investors, so not counted in the total.
Even people living in affluent societies may be steered from the path we imagine them to take. Bill Gates was very lucky to have access to a computer at an early age. If he'd lived in, say, San Antonio, would have have achieved what he did?
In OS X Lion, Apple to utilize Webkit2 for Safari
How about DNA evidence being present and found evidence enough, while the guy it belongs to is innocent?

For example, one person could have had sex with a murdered woman earlier --and left his DNA--, but someone else killed her.

The D.A. though, will have a field day on him...
Only someone of the software ilk could read Le Corbusier as a literal and relevant how-to guide. Le Corbusier is simply part of architecture culture. An architect who does not read Le Corbusier is illiterate. An engineer who does not read Thomas Edison just saved themselves a lot of time.

By read, I do not mean follow blindly.

Architecture is a cultural practice like music or poetry, or writing. Software design is different. Perhaps there is some mass of historically relevant cultural knowledge in interface design. In engineering, however, old ideas can be discarded.

All this cross disciplinary thinking will lead us to a new Dark Ages of spectacular confusion.
If all of your buttons are aligned to one line, that's better than having half aligned to one line and the other half aligned to a different line. If none of your buttons are aligned, then you don't have zero alignment lines, you have as many alignment lines as you have buttons.
Is the poll intended to include apps created for clients, who then published them under their own accounts? Or only apps published by the developer directly?

For me: 5+ I've written for clients. Written a few demos and POC's for myself and clients, not submitted to the store. Nothing self-published directly.
No arguments from me, or Mark Twain.
I've published 4 on my own so far, 3 of which are still on the store:

1. Dayta for iPhone: http://daytaapp.com/

2. Color Stream: http://colorstreamapp.com/

3. Taxi Lah!: http://taxilah.com/ (for Singapore only)
Google probing lost Gmail messages, contacts
What I don't understand is that if the servers are 6 years old, why not migrate the old bad hardware to exactly the same OS, as virtual machines running under the virtualization platform of your choice?

A 6 year old server would have a max RAM capacity of say 32GB, you can get a newish 64GB RAM system for what, $3k or so?

In such a case, migration is basically a few shell scripts plus rsync from old hardware to new VM. You rsync a couple of times until the rsync takes very little time, then turn off services; do a final rsync; turn on services on the new VM, swap IP addresses and test.

You can even run FreeBSD/Xen on top of Solaris XVM, right?
It sucks that your hosting is down, but this is a pretty malicious use of HN considering you paid $200 over 6 years ago for lifetime hosting. Less than $3 per month by now. What SLA were you guaranteed?

The lesson for service hosts, NEVER offer lifetime anything.
Really depends on how hands on you want to be. For my clients, I keep all of their domains under our company GoDaddy account. That allows me to make changes at 2AM if something comes up. It also means that we don't have to get a password from them. We bill them annually for the domain name and ssl, and we host them on our servers.

But, if you are only doing the design and development and then not handling their hosting, i recommend that you let them set up an account on Godaddy and send you the username and password to upload.
8 on my store, 1 for a group I'm in, 2 for a company, and a few in development.

Only one or two actually make me any money (besides the freelance checks).
I think he is referencing BingoDisk (perhaps I am mis-remembering the name of the service which was offered by Joyent).
I've been really torn on this one.

I don't like the direction Apple is taking for software development. I don't want our field to be one where every product and idea is at the mercy of some other company's approval. Even worse, I don't like how Apple is setting a precedent that all the other platforms are so eagerly following.

However, I can't seem to break away from buying Apple products. I tried going the Ubuntu route with a Lenovo x201, but had endless problems with both the software and hardware. The laptop would shutdown every time I closed the lid (even after multiple firmware updates and beta kernels). I missed my ability to print anything to Evernote as a PDF. I missed how the default Mac OS keybindings use Command over Ctrl. On Linux/Windows, any time I view a page with Flash it intercepts the Ctrl key preventing me from quickly opening and closing browser tabs. It's a very old netscape plugin bug, but Apple nicely sidesteps it by using the Command key instead.

So, while I can't break free of Apple products just yet (though I want to), I draw the line at developing applications that help fuel the environment they've setup.
I've published 4 in total, all developed using MonoTouch. Two are personal projects:

1 - Quicklytics - http://escoz.com/quicklytics - Google analytics app

2 - Githubby - http://escoz.com/githubby - free github client

A third is for a client (Clubtix.com), and the last for a large consulting corporation that I can't name.
Six that I can recall, all with Spark Plug Games (This doesn't count lite versions)--

1. iSlap

2. DQ Craze

3. Witch's Workshop

4. Aya Go

5. Lost in Time: The Clockwork Tower

6. Puzzle Quest 2
Anyone willing to post how much they're actually making from what they have out there?

I get about $180 a month, but it's from Android apps, not iOS.
Execution matters.
Ask HN: What do you think of mobile development tools?
Are you happy with the development tools for Android/iPhone? What would you change if you could?
The server versions of Windows allow that, it's called Remote Desktop Services (or Terminal Services pre-2008). Way better than using VNC, probably because it hooks all the window control drawing on the server and does it on the client instead, rather than sending over raw bitmaps for buttons/textboxes etc.
> For instance, do you just setup a godaddy account for the client, and then buy the domain and hosting there?

This how I usually see it done. Another option is to create a domain in your own personal account. In that case you have more control, but you also have more responsibility. Sometimes it's good to be done and done.

I recommend against using GoDaddy. Very confusing interface. Check out Dreamhost.
Two. I'm in a slump now, though... I need another good app idea.
I used to work on this, and I don't get the "recent" part of the title. I knew most things the article mentions a decade ago, and the rest wouldn't have surprised me much. What a pity.
Huh, that looks like it would've been cool. Sad that I didn't hear about it until it shuts down.
I'm sure I'll get down-modded for saying this, but on WHT people will tell you that you get what you pay for, which is in stark contrast with what most people here are saying (lack of gratitude for being a charter customer, etc).

Sure, you paid $200. But if you've been a customer since 2007 then you've basically paid the same price as any cheap shared hosting provider. Contrast this experience with Layered Technologies that ran three price hikes and then when I still didn't leave the server I had with them essentially told me to fuck off once their harddrive failed.

At least jasonhoffman had the courtesy to tell people their best option is to switch servers to avoid trouble.

But, like they say, you get what you pay for. If lifetime support and stability is what you'll come to expect, don't pay bottom dollar prices up front.

Disclaimer: I am not a Joyent customer in any way.
Since the App Store opened, between DS Media Labs and Apperian, I have published or helped publish 70+ apps. This of course includes applications for clients.

Apps (Products) for DS Media Labs - 11
Apps for clients through DS Media Labs - ~50
Apps for clients through Apperian - 10

I have published most apps as a team, but I would say its fair to say at least a quarter were 100% just me. But how many apps you done, does not say really a lot. It's how many of the apps have had depth and were designed well that really counts.
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I probably shouldn't have left off Wetwork http://goo.gl/765BF

But I won't consider that one serious until I finally get the update approved. Why is it so much harder to get an update approved than the original app?
Still working on my first one to be published. I have a rejected app as well but it was really borderline and I knew it had very little chances of being accepted, so I put as little work as I could into it. I liked that someone from Apple actually asked to talk to me on the phone to notify me of my rejection :)

There is a webapp version of my app that works nice on the iphone after you save to the home screen here: http://romulusetrem.us/randomhead/
That merely outlines the problem with Zazzle. They not only respond to DMCA notices by taking down the offended materials (just like an ISP), but they also preemptively police the environment by themselves and take down anything they suspect is copyright infringement.

I once made a t-shirt with an old Albert Einstein picture and they immediately took it down, asking me if I had the permission to reproduce this image. I had to send them a link to The Library of Congress page where I downloaded the image, pointing out that this picture belongs to the public domain. They can ignore a lot of stuff but they won't.
I have three paid apps ($1,$1,$5) and a couple more free ones. I average around $200/month.
10 so far. But I'm a consultant so it's not surprising.
Nope, they never suggested it and migrating never occurred to me (I assumed it would cost money).
That is an unfair caricature. I can't think of any designer who has ever said something so absurd.
"Amoral"?