skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the GP is arguing is that web apps pinned to the home screen are no different from those same web apps viewed in a browser and therefore, there doesn't seem like there should be any security issue involved in it.

Someone (who I think works on Cydia - the Jailbreak App Store) commented about this further down:

Of course, this means that there is no real good reason why Apple has disabled Nitro for full-screen web applications (that I at least yet understand), and so I'd expect that this was frankly just a silly oversight
Ask HN: How do you guys deal with burnout?
How did you deal with Tyler's under-18-ness, legally? I remember there was some mention of this being a small issue in terms of entering contracts in a pg essay.
An interesting, related idea: the 10 point hiring system.

I've had this related to me a few times and generally found it to be true.

A person who is an 8,9 or 10 will try to hire 8s, 9s or 10s, because they recognize that you need to best people on your team and can overcome their egos to hire people that could potentially replace them.

7s will hire a 7, because, while they don't want anybody under them who are better than them, they recognize you don't want people who are worse than them.

6s will hire 5s or less, 5s will hire 4s or less, etc...anything to make them feel they are better than those that work for them.
Does apologising before criticising someone's creation make you feel less guilty about doing it?
Because they are in unknown territory. Modern robots work in fixed plants with fixed programming, not in a warzone. Having said that, I would imagine future plants being purpose built for ease of access by robots. e.g. less stair cases, more special grips etc.
Given then, how would you map a search that returns multiple types?

As far as deleting songs "safely", what Ian means is that for any given playlist (of which a user has an unlimited number) any given song can be in it any number of times. So when you delete a song, we generally ask for song_id and index to make sure that a) the playlist hasn't mutated (much), and b) we are dropping the right song. The DELETE on /{trashbin uri}/{song id} doesn't provide 2 of the 3 required bits of information, and DELETE /playlist/{playlist id}/{song id}/{index} isn't very RESTful (imo).
I've found the Lynda.com video tuts great for a quick overview.

Also:

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ and
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
really? It seems to me that there are clear technical differences.

Im interested in your thoughts though, how would you allow one arbitarily large set of applications with arbitary names to use the Nitro Javascript engine via UIWebView, and still ensure that no third party developer could enable the ability on their own applications?

The way I would do it for a single application is enable a special case for it in the underlying OS....
Yeah, and EDICT is pretty weak Japanese dictionary, IMHO. One-word translations lead to misunderstandings. Having gone to school in Japan, I found EDICT useless whereas a random paper dictionary or denshi-jisho would actually help me find the right word.

So anyway, I would not use EDICT as my sole source for "there is no word" or "the correct word is..." If I cared, I would probably read through the Japanese newspaper coverage until I found a word that seemed relevant in both dictionary definition and actual context. If there is no word for the phenomenon or it never happened, then you wouldn't be able to prove anything... but if there is a word and it did occur, then you would have something a little more solid than "I googled for Japanese dictionary and found some words in them."
Completely agree, just wanted to point it out.
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meditate and workout regularly to fight stress :)
My site is a wiki similar to what you describe, http://inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Courses. I would like to allow comments but afraid of spam. Maybe one day.
Er, yes, but I'm not sure if this will be a satisfying answer:

If you contact IBM Global Services, they have a group that can put together a hosted database proposal with very stringent uptime guarantees. Most likely they'll push for you to be hosted on z10 (mainframe) architectures and DB2. They can run it across a multi-site SYSPLEX in multiple tightly controlled data centers. They've got a handful of customers who have been continuously up since at least the late 1980s in a config like this.

This topic came up at OpsU in SF a couple weeks ago. I think the consensus from all was that looking for "five-9s" is a very bad proxy for asking the question, "What is the cost-benefit of downtime mitigation strategies?" I've worked on systems that required (either because of regulation or health and safety) appreciably 100% uptime. The cost for near-perfect uptime almost never balances against the cost of downtime including lost revenue, lost customer confidence and the like.

Now, one of those applications did happen to be a telecom application (a switch), and there was, before deregulation, a universally accepted requirement that billing records must continuously capture 99.999% of the time. No clue if that still exists, but if that's you, there are about a kajillion preexisting solutions to this problem, and many of them are hosted.

The Magic 8-Ball says: Concentrate harder and ask again. :-)
That's not ad-hominem; ad-hominem is "this guy is paid to attack Free software, therefore his argument is invalid". Merely pointing out an obvious conflict of interest is not ad-hominem.

The second statement is not a strawman -- that is his actual (implied) argument. Otherwise, the whole thing about Bionic is completely irrelevant. Bionic's license status only matters to client software if licenses are assumed to propagate across the library boundary. If running proprietary software with a Free libc is OK, then a GPL'd Bionic is no risk to proprietary software linked against it.
time to cue the cliched "isn't google just a clone of altavista" or "isn't facebook just a clone of myspace" rebuttals.
The money quote is:

While at this time we are confident that the information extracted does not enable a successful direct attack on any of our RSA SecurID customers, this information could potentially be used to reduce the effectiveness of a current two-factor authentication implementation as part of a broader attack.

To me that sounds a lot stronger than "the thieves took the SecureID implementation plans and could theoretically build a 'soft' SecureID. Your long, random, hard-to-guess seed still protects you."

To me, what Coviello is saying is don't worry the thieves haven't stolen some secret 0-day that would provide them immediate access through your RSA kit. But they did get something that will make the RSA part of your 2-Factor authentication scheme null and void.
For a language based on C, it has dreadful C integration.
I'm not sure the Olympics are a good metaphor for Facebook's success. The reason a person like me will never be in the Olympics is a lack of physical talent. People who have that talent, if they work very hard, have a realistic shot, but it's less (probably much, much less) than 1/10 of 1 percent of people for whom being an Olympic athlete is even an option.

By contrast, I think at least 1 or 2 percent of people have enough talent to do what Mark Zuckerberg did. He's a talented businessman who has done a lot of things really well, but I haven't seen him do anything I couldn't have done in his position. The odds are enormously against that kind of success no matter how smart you are, but the minimal level of talent to do that is not that rare.
Int[ 1/Sqrt[3+5x^2], {x}] can't be copyrighted but a problem set that consists only of exercises as routine as this would be almost worthless. A cross referencer is a neat idea though.
There's at least two. One is called Monster Galaxy by Gaia Online which launched in December (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=129748227041...). There's another, the name of which I don't remember, that did a ton of Facebook advertising in the last 12 months.
Internet4.org: the Next Generation Internet?
How We Killed The Internet And Nobody Noticed. This website is about its resurrection.

http://www.internet4.org/

Anonymization and authentication built-in, non-commercial overlay, offline mode, distributed storage, etc.
harsh. i thought i was giving wise advice.
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Apple's UIWebViews are the new IE.

This whole issue can only get worse, since Apple has committed to a long bet against the web, because native apps can be controlled and they can snatch a 30% cut of the revenue. People don't pay for web apps.

As the web converges on native apps, and as javascript libraries and performance nears that of native apps, what is Apple going to do? Of course they'll protect their app store cash-cow the same way Microsoft protected the Office suite by intentionally keeping IE several years behind other browsers.

And this is only going to get worse. What happens when Apple doesn't enable WebGL in mobile Safari nor UIWebViews withing two or so years from now? After Chrome and even IE support it by default? After everyone is used to using WebGL apps in their browsers?
Nope, you can't have that on a iDevice.
A way around this is to move the JIT to the kernel or to a different process. I would guess that that would hinder performance so much that, in typical usage, JIT-ting becomes too expensive to speed up things

Having the hosted browser in a different process shouldn't be too expensive. That's what Chrome and IE do. When you open up a UIWebView and process gets spun up that hosts the JIT (amongst the other plubming for the browser) and the host just has a window where the rendering takes place. This also fixes a whole host of other security problems hosting a browser in process.
Free electricity may be a pipe dream, which is understandably dismissed, even IMO (how could you get free energy from nowhere?). But a gizmo which pulls electrical or magnetic energy from the sun or surrounding space by some heretofore unimplemented and unaccepted method is not as much of a pipe dream. However it's just as quickly dismissed by academic physicists as a pipedream even though they don't know what specifically they are dismissing.

So I agree! Keep your confidence if you think you've got an idea that may work, especially when there's a bunch of people who have a vested interest in your device not succeeding, telling you that it won't work.
But there is looting in Japan.

Andrew Sullivan on The Atlantic has articles linking to cases of looting, fraud, child molestation and hoarding.

The Japanese government itself just isn't very forthright with regards to collecting and releasing information about victims and events.
It seems he's starting to learn the hard lessons of building inside a walled garden. Facebook has already shut down newsfeed stories for his app (a major user acquisition channel) due to ToS violations. Welcome to Hell.
Does it matter? Hasbro didn't think so when Scrabulous became one of the top games on Facebook.

Nintendo protects the Pokemon brand very aggressively.
Yes: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/aol-acquires-personal-profi...
It's obvious these guys are smart and savvy. Couldn't they have come up with a new, brilliant idea instead of a Pokemon clone?

His first and only other "company" was a Gaia online type website.
You seem to confusing facts with claims on a blog written by a third party. It's not hard to believe Web.app (the process which runs home screen apps) uses UIWebView or a close cousin, but neither you nor Gruber (or anyone on this site) has offered any evidence of that fact.
There's an RSA encryption cabinet in our datacenter at work, it has red rope around it like a nightclub line and a sign that says no non RSA certified personnel.

Almost as effective as the ssh banner that says "Unauthorized use is prohibited."

Security through hoping people won't step over a rope is no security at all.
There is an argument to be made that the shift to hybrid cars opens the door for a lot of engine design variations that did not work in the past. In a normal car, the engine drives the wheels directly which puts a lot of constraints on engine performance parameters (e.g. needs to be able to generate a lot of torque at slow speed, needs to operate over a wide RPM range, etc). Today's engines are a compromise to meet those requirements. If you decouple the engine from the wheels (as in some newer hybrids) and just use the engine as a generator, it can be run at its optimum RPM all the time, and does not need to be able to generate high torque.

So, I think it is feasible that we'll see some movement away from the 4 stroke otto cycle that is standard today, and some ideas that didnt work out in the past might work out better now.
The statement that "the risk of recriticality is not zero" in the fuel pond of reactor 4 means that a Chernobyl-like event is still on the table with very small but nonzero probability.
Another very interesting engine design is the Superball motor which was much hyped a few years ago, but nothing seems to have materialized:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmGJucRDBk
This just smells like a bubble: "But this isn’t only about valuation, it’s about ego. At $25 billion, a Groupon IPO would nudge Google to become the largest venture-backed IPO ever. Yup, the same Google which offered to buy Groupon for only $6 billion last December as well. And that sounded crazy. An IPO at $25 billion would be as much about taking Google’s mantle as anything else."
Wow, this is exactly what I was saying with a recent comment of mine (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2330900). There's a wide continuum of successes in the startup world. VC's are interested in the funding the top end, but many devs would probably be satisfied by a much wider swath, that could include wholly bootstrapped operations.
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"Google can now use the “clean” Bionic headers to
create a non-GPL’d fork of the Linux kernel,
one that can be extended under proprietary license terms."

No, Google can only write non-GPL'd programs on top of the existing kernel. The kernel itself is GPL'd, regardless of whether the "clean" headers count or not.
A search with multiple return types is a good question when the results are JSON, but if the result is something like Atom, it's not really an issue at all because each entity in the resulting feed can contain its own type descriptors. Unfortunately it's since been replaced by a new CMS after I left several years ago, but the search for newsweek.com used to work like this.
The problem with business models like readyforzero's 'sell our users information for money' is that it relies on users not realising that this will happen.

Users let sites like readyforzero access their personal information; if they, say, put on their front page 'It's free because we sell information on your credit card transactions so businesses can decide not to offer you credit if they look too bad', most users probably wouldn't sign up - they want to make their credit rating better, not risk making it worse.

Relying on consumers not knowing about business practices is not a sustainable business plan for a model that needs high numbers of users to be profitable.
I wish Sony would use these legal costs to hire some decent designers.
And here's the rather useless security advisory:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/790070/00011931251107...

With helpful tips like (paraphrasing) "don't use facebook on your critical systems" and "only give people the rights they need."
Unfortunately, "food" is a poor example for explaining how Levenshtein Automata work in general because it has a double letter. This means that in one state, you have the "o" transition to more states than usual because it is both the next letter and the next letter after that. If you want to generalize his automaton, do the powerset construction for some other word like "news".
The point is that implementations are copyrightable and because Google did not strip out macros and inline functions, it has not simply reimplemented an interface but instead created a derived work.
Chrysler experimented with gas turbine cars, to the point of consumer trials: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Turbine_Car
The US constitution was based on the idea of balancing factions. What Madison could not have known when designing his version of a Republic was how modern mass high speed communication would turn his plan into the exact opposite of what he intended: tyranny of a majority. His intention was to prevent factionalism from destroying the Republic as it had all previous Republics. The options for preventing factionalism had been either a tyranny to suppress the factions or creating homogeneous/fraternal society in which factions were less likely to develop. Madison took a third route, he instead encouraged factions and counted on factions to keep each other in balance. The constant struggle between factions would prevent any one faction from winning and instituting a tyranny of the majority over the minority. The minority that mattered seemed to be the rich people and their property. The majority was the poor people, who if they had power would want to take it all away. By having a representative democracy then the states would act as a buffer keeping any faction from gaining a majority. It would be difficult for any faction in one state to gain enough support in other states to create a majority capable of exploiting the minority. A fascinating and interesting plan. Completely different from Montesquieu's idea of a republic at the time in which loose confederations of small groups participated directly in their own government. The US government is purposefully architected to prevent direct public involvement in the government. Madison views the likely representatives to be lawyers who he thought would be less swayed by the masses. He wanted an aristocratic form of representation. The anti-federalists wanted citizen farmers as representatives because they were more virtuous and independent. We still see this same split today. Madison's strategy to control factions in order to prevent employing the the power of the centralized government for they tyranny of the majority may have worked in his time, but it's clearly broken for our time. State boundaries mean very little today as far as creating factions. Movements quickly and easily form on a nationwide basis in a way that Madison could never have imagined. This allows for majority factions to arise and take power, completely gutting the system that was supposed to protect the American Republic from succumbing to the same factionalism the doomed every other Republic. Clearly that has failed. So in this way the republican form of democracy embodied in the US constitution is incompatible with modern technology. It's interesting to think what factionalism preventing design strategy would be appropriate for a modern era?
Maybe you need a metaphor for him, based in finance

"At the moment, we're a credit union who only does banking in Japan. We'll expand to loans in English one day. You send us an English speaking loan dilligence expert. He's VERY talented, but at the moment we can't use his skills AND he'd have to learn a whole new language to be able to interact with the rest of our business, none of which he's familiar with."
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You can only do this once you've got enough people with sufficient of both. Having a company full of people with "Can-Do" attitude who can't do will lead to one of two things:

A: They all get frustrated and leave
B: Your technical company becomes a strange monster of convoluted processes achieving the same goal in a much worse way.

For instance, if you do scheduling for classrooms, you'll end up with a group of people who take orders for bookings on line, then manually try to fit them into a diary for an organization, and occasionally make mistakes.

Attitude is a luxury.
In my case, this is why: http://lesswrong.com/lw/xl/eutopia_is_scary/3f8u
Yes. Quite a few of us.
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Poll: How often do you scan QR Codes?
At SXSW, QR codes were everywhere. On buses, backpacks, business cards, t-shirts, you name it. But I've never once scanned one, or seen someone scanning one. Maybe it's because I have an iPhone? It seems Droid people are a little more comfortable with them but I wanted to pool the HN community to see if I should start using them in my marketing.
Every time I see one
Not very often
I find the fact that Web.app behaves exactly like every other application that uses a UIWebView to be very compelling evidence that Web.app is an application uses UIWebView.

The alternative appears to be that to create Web.app they went to all the trouble of reusing the Mobile Safari code, and then methodically went through and broke things such that it behaves exactly like every other application that uses UIWebView.

This would seem like an unreasonable way to get an application that behaves exactly like an application that uses UIWebView.
A lot of sites are doing that, I seem them all of the time while browsing around.
The algorithm necessary to build a software SecurID was leaked long ago.

This sounds like they could well have stolen copies of some customers seeds, which would reduce the RSA authentication from two-factor to one-factor.
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Sometimes when I start feeling burned out I just take a couple of days off from startup work (I still work a dayjob though) and when I get home from my dayjob I go watch a movie (living across the street from a theater helps), or read a novel or something, instead of working. And now that my knee is almost healthy again, I'll be getting back into working out regularly... I'll start lifting weights and doing some trail running and mountain biking soon.

Other than that, hitting up the occasional concert and jumping in the mosh pit is always a good stress reliever.
Unfortunately many people DO care. They care to push you back down. No-one likes the deep guilt of watching someone make something better of themselves, and some people reconcile that by trying to make you fail.
I'm disappointed that this has gotten so many upvotes and positive comments.

There's a middle ground between web application "lifestyle businesses" (like duping credulous customers into overpaying for a time-tracking tool styled with this month's CSS trends) and trying to start the next Facebook.

There's nothing wrong with being a small software company. People have been doing it for decades now. It's boring, but there's nothing wrong with it. Don't expect anyone to celebrate you for doing it, though.

Our time on this earth is limited, and people's attention is even more limited. No wonder that more time and attention is put towards trying to execute on big ideas. Sometimes those ideas end up not working out, but we're all better, I think, for someone having tried.

As pg points out, the ideas that led to the businesses that have formed the infrastructure that enables web lifestyle businesses could not have, themselves, been lifestyle businesses. Someone has to think big, take risks, and deploy significant capital in the interest of a dramatically better world. If you don't want to be that person, great, but don't tell the risk-takers that they're "wasting their lives". Would you say the same to scientists who take big risks? Artists?

The media packaging of technology entrepreneurship is undeniably offputting. But that's no excuse for dim commentary like this.
Anything can be anything, as long as it is purely conjecture.

To all of you voting up articles like this: you suck.