skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posts like these really show the problems in the current free software development world; balkanization between different stakeholders and bizarre processes that alternate between bureaucracy and anarchy. Watching the tug-of-war between Red Hat and Canonical play itself out in the form of dysfunctional community development process is depressing. I'm aware that watching sausage being made never makes you very hungry, but as a user of free software, I don't feel my needs are served very well by the territorial and political battles being fought.

What makes it even more frustrating to me is that not only are KDE, Gnome 3, and Unity all failing to cooperate successfully on shared resources, but they are all marching resolutely in the wrong direction, regardless of the pleas of the user community. So far as I can tell, everyone hates Gnome Shell, everyone hates Ubuntu Unity, and everyone thinks that KDE 4 has been a big mess compared to KDE 3. I see all of these projects as engaging in a slappy fight as they march together off the cliff of unusability and misguided redesigns.
yeah the uprotect.it guys are very facebook-centric and they let the user decide on privacy...

SecretSocial is a standalone service letting you engage users on SMS, Email or Twitter. So people you know and people you don't can be engaged...

plus we are conversation-centric... the topic and need to communicate dictates the initiation.... very different from group-driven messaging.

Try out the Chrome extension as well to experience it fully!
The building codes are the objective criteria. Most government building codes I've seen will require compliance with certain engineering standards, and the engineering standards themselves will say things like "a building built in this part of the country must be able to withstand x ms-2 in vertical acceleration and y ms-2 in lateral acceleration". It doesn't get any more objective than that.
Practical Analysis For Refactoring Thesis(1999)
There is an extension to iptables that adds a TARPIT target

http://xtables-addons.sourceforge.net/
Consistency and ecosystem opportunities - Twitter updates API TOS
For one flagged answer you quit...that's good...it shows you how big your ego is and how perseverent you are. Good "qualities"...
I had answers collapsed there in the beginning...but I persevered and now I am a quite power user. You should try that sometime...
You mean the mob?
No - each user is assigned a token that you would also need to use in combination with the private key.
Are you sure? Don't stay with the same approach all the time and wonder why "the world" doesn't discover your brilliance. Learn, change, adapt, and adjust. You should be able to be independently wealthy within ten years of devotion and sacrifice.
1. A Web Base Resume that doubles with a link to download a clean PDF version.

2. A list of projects you've worked on in the past. Interactive and ones people can play around with are better.

3. Definitely link to Github.
What he probably means by that is that he doesn’t want any further fragmentation. A 7" tablet would need an optimized UI for the reduced screen size (you can’t just shrink down iPad apps or blow up iPhone apps), Apple doesn’t want that.

There won’t be a 7" tablet anytime soon (within the next twelve months) and that whole September business is based on pure speculation, not any sources or evidence.
Internship is synonymous with networking and this is probably a big success determining factor; at least the high level of success this article is talking about. With the competition that exists today, networking is a crucial factor.
What does having these keys allow?
Or explain the problem exactly and what changes would be required for you to join. If enough such letters came back to them, it might actually have an effect.
Yep, exactly. Take nvidia Tegra2, for example. It's fine on small screens like phones, but attach a large screen (or two) to it for a tablet, and your memory bandwidth is the main limiting factor for doing redraws. If you clear the entire screen on every frame, you max out under 25fps -- and that's just to clear the screen, and doesn't give you any time to spend to render anything. Try and do anything interesting and you quickly drop below 10fps. So you end up having to do a bunch of tricks to limit what you redraw. Forget full-screen video with a high-res screen, though.
You needed to use two sig figs. Fahrenheit just needs one.
I think Zack goes to great length to spread FUD by leaving out facts. First of all, you can join the iPhone developers program "FOR FREE" and download the Xcode tools for free (you just can't release iPhone apps on the app store with the free membership). And yes, a 4.5 GB download is quite large to be sure. However, as the previous poster points out, it's a few hours a year at most. Even if you download all the beta releases too. A large majority of mac users have a cable internet connections making it a non-issue. Really a small price to pay (download size) given the quality of the tool set Apple provides. And Price, have you checked the PRICE and download sizes of Microsoft's Visual Studio and SQL Server lately? And your argument about all this work to use one of your gems is ridiculous. Anyone who does rails or ruby development and Uses a mac for development already has the proper tools installed. and by the content of your article, knows substantially more than you about developing on OS X. Finally, Buying a new Mac gives you the latest tool set on DVD. I really think this post made for 1 or all of the following reasons. Some people just hate Apple because they have managed to succeed during the worst economic downfall since the depression. Not only succeed, but thrive despite the higher price of their Superior quality products and Software. The same way some hate Microsoft just because they are Microsoft. No rational, logical, or even factual reasons given, just Apple/Microsoft Bashing. More a demonstration of these peoples IQ than anything else. Bashing Apple is currently in Vogue. Those posters with a lack of knowledge, but trying build a following are jumping on the bash Apple train trying to establish credibility. Judging by Zack's article, you've achieved the opposite. You have demonstrated your LACK of ability and knowledge.
If you get the device tokens too, possibly. Unfortunately it looks like some of these are ALSO exposed. Argh.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Network...
It's so sad that such great ideas are just so dysfunctional.
Solving mazes using Python: Simple recursivity and A* search
Do you have any evidence for that?

Gruber speculated about that but he said that he has no sources whatsoever, it’s pure speculation. Did you hear it from someone else?

(Not that it matters. You should buy stuff when you need it.)
My first recommendation is to get into the BizSpark program. It will give you an MSDN account and a nice chunk of free Azure Hours every month and (I think) 3 1gb Sql Azure databases.

Our company deals with lots of data and real-time responses so we push many of the existing features to their limits. We haven't really had any blockers that didn't have some sort of reasonable work around. And most of the time the next release of features will eliminate a good chunk of those.

We're pretty lucky in that we're part of Microsoft' early adopter programs and get to peek at some features coming down the pipe soon. There is some awesome stuff coming, but of course we're under NDA.

There are some extra things to consider but they are more a result of using the Cloud in general. For example, it highly recommended that you add retry logic into your code which makes sql queries. This is because your data is triple replicated and fail overs or db moves can drop your pooled connections.

Also as I mentioned in my other comment. There are some limits to Table Storage which you need to account for or you'll find yourself stuck and frustrated. Things like Count,GroupBy,Joins,Distinct,etc are not available. For those familiar with NoSql db then this is no surprise. But if you're a hardcore relation guy like I was then this takes getting used to.

We're pretty happy with our decision to use Azure.
> Isn't that usually the case when people make comparisons like this?

Yes, and it sickens me.

People who aren't capable of reading the studies now ignore them as meaningless because, while they are unable to verify what's being said, they know that people will twist it to their own ends.

So something can have incontrovertible scientific support but, thanks to intentional misrepresentations by lobbyists, politicians and the like, a significant fraction of the populace will not accept it, because they've heard scientific studies trotted out to support both sides and they don't know who is lying.
Python’s list implementation
I heard on the radio earlier today that they were evacuating an area around one or more of the nuclear reactors in Japan. I sincerely hope that no lives are lost as a result of issue with their reactors - that would only add to the already tragic circumstances.

I did think to myself as I heard the news that it would be a shame if people who are against nuclear power co-opted this event to campaign against it. Couldn't they at least include some wording about thoughts & prayers for the people affected? I understand this furthers their agenda, but 1) not everyone agrees with their agenda and 2) this is hardly the time to push an agenda.
With these kinds of terms, it seems ACM are firmly on the Road to Irrelevance!
IPad: The Missing Link
You mean like the people who died to instigate those very building codes?
I remember the brouhaha when it happened.

http://www.gamedev.net/topic/504547-opengl30-i-mean-22/page_...

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/08/08/11/2135259/OpenGL...

One of the posts in the first link.

>So let me get this straight... In order to allow what, a small handful of old CAD apps to compile against 3.0, they're willing to practically kill off all new applications developed against the API?

That makes sense. One customer a year ago is better than ten next week... [grin]

>Or maybe they've just realized that a) they've lost everything on Windows to DirectX so it doesn't really matter what they do there, and b) since they don't have a single competing API on other platforms, they don't actually need to make an effort there either.

>End result, they can screw over developers as much as they like, and it won't actually hurt them. Windows developers wouldn't have used OGL in the first place, and everyone else will keep using them because there are no alternatives.
Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients
Anonymous Declares War on Louis Vuitton
OS-wide user scripts and bookmarklets? Sounds good to me.
Can anyone point me to a good architecture/dev overview of Gnome Shell and Unity ? I find it hard to sift out the marketing from the tech in what Ive seen.
Predicting Riots and the Fall of Dictators
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And "16 years ago" makes it news how? How does that reform invalidate that modern Japan has been doing far more in terms of earthquake-related preparedness for decades than other countries?
Some key grafs

The key to predicting regime shifts, says Marten Scheffer of the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, is to look beyond individual behaviour to seek simple laws that describe a population's collective behaviour.

"All complex systems exhibit certain symptoms before a regime shift," he says, including slower responses to small changes, and a tendency for all players to behave similarly.

In the past, Scheffer says, analysts focused on the trigger that sparks change, rather than the underlying system. "We cannot predict the spark," he says, "but we can say when a forest has accumulated dangerous levels of kindling." Repressing revolution is not the way to achieve stability, he adds. It would be like preventing small forest fires, allowing kindling to accumulate until a big fire breaks out. But uncovering the symptoms of instability may warn societies to reform themselves before revolution happens.
Its called humour. Lolz were had. Enjoy.
I really wish this was from a dystopian parody, and not the world we actually live in. Several decades ago, I thought that the critiques of the "consumer society" and marketing were overblown - but I have changed my mind. Now, when I read an article like that, I feel like I'm in Burrough's Naked Lunch and a giant insectoid creature has its proboscis inserted at the top of my spine, trying to suck up my brain. The idea that my personal relationships are becoming just more feed for the marketing mill is so oppressively alienating.
OT: I've noticed recently Americans more frequently interchange "then" and "than". Is this some sort of emerging dialectical shift?
Twitter wants "consistent user experience", changes ToS
Wow, this is written in a really weird tone, especially considering it's coming from an official Twitter representative. It doesn't feel clear at all what they want developers to do. Either way, it feels very hostile.
Tsunami observations in tide data, Santa Barbara CA
The only hn relevant thing to say here is that northern Somalia (somaliland) has some of the cheapest and best international telephony in Africa, thanks to some pirate gsm providers and satellite VoIP backhaul.
At times, a few hundred per minute is "normal."

I prefer port knocking or two factor auth as a solution to brute force attacks. http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
What an uninformative article. Couldn't it all be summarized by saying, "Scrupulous replacement of special string values by enums is no proof of completeness and correctness"? Who was making the counter argument in the first place?
On IEEE: http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html
Privacy: The Latest Tool Being Used For Censorship
That would only last one page load.

If you want links to work, you need a more-persistent way of being identified. That's where cookies some in.
Why should they be? Let's say you have a GMail address, and you use it as the verification email for your bank account. If Google takes your GMail address and arbitrarily assigns it to someone else, that creates a big security issue: now this other person can (for example) get a password reset link sent for your bank account to their new email address.

If Twitter reassigns your username to someone else, it sucks for all the reasons described in the blog post, but I find it hard to see potential security issues or the potential for identity theft. Confusion, yes, but hardly anything more serious.

So yes, I would hold Google to a higher standard than I would Twitter.

I suppose also an examination of their respective Terms of Use documents might shed some light on what you can expect and the standards you should hold, as well.
IPhone 5: Another Clue Surfaces
Yep. "Not Helpful" really sends a negative message.

Interestingly, one of the Quora moderators did an experiment about three different ways of getting people to give more information on partial answers.[1] None of them worked well. Collapsing was the worst, leading to no improvements and provoking one "aggressive response". Nonetheless the moderator decided that collapsing was the approach to use going forward. Umm ...

[1] http://www.quora.com/Does-asking-people-to-explain-their-ans...
Yep. We need a dose of reality. I also just found out yesterday that OKCupid started in 2003 whereas many thought they were an "overnight success" after writing a few blog posts last year!
The post specifically says that one flagged answer prompted me to think about why the answer was flagged, which led me to think about the difference between HN and Quora, which led me to deactivate my account.

I've said plenty of unpopular things here on HN, yet I persevered. And if you really want to see negative responses to things that I have written, you should look at the comments on my old blog. If you want to present a theory that my character can be determined from my response to downvotes or flagged comments, I suggest your theory be amended to explain why I persevere with HN and blogging, but not with Quora.

And congratulations on being a Quora Power User.
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Whoa... the final nail in the 3rd party Twitter client. The last paragraph says it all... use the API for something else.
Good question. As repetition sets in, more of the task is probably moved to the muscle memory part of the brain, but this does not necessitate a lower energy consumption.
Improved DoD Data Security Measures Slated for 2013
Who said it did?
Unless I'm mistaken, isn't this just adding a few more bits of randomness to your random number?

> When the cookie does not contain the username, you, the server, need to look up in your table to whom you gave the random number.

When the cookie does contain the username, I have to look up whether that random number is valid for the given username. How is that better?
Yep. Last paragraph says it all: Use the API for something besides clients.
No, you've just been noticing spelling mistakes and making generalizations.
I didn't take it as particularly negative. The person flagging it explained that it would be more helpful if I answered the question directly. I agree with them: This type of answer is an Internet Cliché: Person asks, "How do I X?" and the first twenty responses are "You are an idiot for trying to X, you ought to Y instead."
Yeah really. It's hard to see this working out well for Twitter.
I guess you mean the same as me: Fall 2010?
These names a tricky, Fall 2010 is really Fall-Winter 2010, and comes after winter 2010 which was winter-spring.
What Stanford calls "Winter 2010" was taught by Alan Cannistraro and Josh Shaffer, and what I reffered to as Fall 2010 was indeed by Paul Hegarty.
Google corporate lawyer opposes European's idea of rights. Film at 11.
OSSEC (open source) is very good at blocking those. It looks at all your logs and blocks brute forces via SSH, HTTP, etc...

Link: http://ossec.net
Nine Guys, Giant Mechs And 2011's Sexiest Indie Game
Testing this argument; I'm not sure I believe it (yet), so please tear it apart:

When we think of traditional marketing, we think of a company selling a service, marketing it to its customers.

When Twitter encourages you to build your brand on their service, is that really marketing to you? You are not Twitter's customer. They provide a free service. The advertisers are Twitter's customers.

Is it fraud to "market" something in a not-entirely-honest manner to someone who is not and will not be your customer? (Seriously, I'm asking.) I'd consider it morally wrong to lie to someone like that, but is it actually fraudulent in the legal sense?

EDIT: Also a related question: when Twitter says "build your brand on Twitter," are they even marketing to you, the Twitter user? Seems like maybe they're telling potential advertisers (remember, their real customers), "hey, we're getting people to build their brands here, that should be valuable to you!"
Awesome to hear about the clickthrough rate. I just wrote this post: http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/telepathy/how-to-help-japan-w...

I am also going to ask some of the speakers at SXSW to share the "helpjapan" invite key at their talks.

I updated the code to a Hello Bar we control in case there are scaling issues:

<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.hellobar.com/hellobar.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
new HelloBar(1,9126);
</script>
<noscript>Help The Victims of the 8.9 Earthquake in Japan by Spreading Awareness and Aid. Visit http://goo.gl/wjZQz to donate.
</noscript>
I remember reading somewhere (fairly recently) that they got some major traction only after publishing via Chillingo.

Apparently Chillingo had a good relationship with Apple, and were able to get the game onto the "Featured Apps" list.

Edit: found a link: http://eye-tea-em.blogspot.com/2011/03/talking-about-softwar...
What's staggering to me is that the 1989 earthquake in SF was only a 6.8 -- and that made our home in Marin feel like we were floating on a swimming pool. I can't even begin to imagine what an 8.9 is like. Tragic, but apparently expected: Japan's strict building codes will go a long way towards minimizing human loss. If only there were a way to protect against the biblical devastation of tsumanis.
Twitter API Consistency and Ecosystem Opportunities
Sure, but the neurobiology of whittling is the polar opposite what we see in gamers. I speak as a doctor, kid who bought his own nintendo (back in the early 90s) and still proud owner of my original cub scout pocket knife.
There is no reason to bother with a username if you have a suitably large random number.
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David Brooks:  The Modesty Manifesto
The article does not mention PowerPivot which is an incredibly powerful tool to do analysis and BI from Excel.
That seems a bit like begging the question. If you work hard/smart enough, you should be able to be independently wealthy within ten years. Therefore, if you're not independently wealthy within ten years, you didn't work hard/smart enough. In the end, you haven't proved anything.

It's a motivational message, sure, but completely void of any substance or practical advice.
Voxeo Unleashes PhonoSDK 0.2, a jQuery Module for Voice and Chat In the Browser
On the contrary this helps quite a bit. There was a cloud hanging over anyone doing anything with Twitter whether they would find their product in competition with the Mother ship itself.

It also explains apps suddenly losing access to the API and then regaining it. Twitter was asserting its control over standards.

I think if you aren't building a client, following the rules and adding value you don't have anything to worry about. To me that is great news.
very entertaining
"More specifically, developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no.".

How can a company who's user base has grown to such an amount because of third party clients say something like this? Talk about showing a little appreciation. As someone who develops a Twitter client, it is a huge kick in the teeth.
Not sure I get the idea, but why should I abandon ICQ, Skype, etc and use this instead?
So? Making personal and financial sacrifices entitles you to appropriate someone else's online persona based on an after-the-fact trademark filing?
What's funny is that I was around just after the quake was reported and thought.. "Ooh, no-one's posted it to HN! I should post it." Then I thought "Nah, it's just world news. HN won't care directly about a quake." Then minutes later, this got submitted anyway.
The map view helps to visualize the intense chain reaction after shocks (some north of 6.0) that have been set off.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/1...
Maybe "negative" isn't exactly the right word here. It devalued your contribution, and after you thought about it you decided it wasn't the kind of contribution Quora wanted, and that it wasn't the right site for you.

The way I look at it, your answer was helpful. Sure, it could have been more helpful to more people if it had been different; and there may well have been other better answers. Calling "not helpful" focuses on what it isn't, not what it is.
I suppose it's not unexpected but it shouldn't be dismissed, this whole 'right to be forgotten' concept makes very little sense yet this argument does make a lot of sense.
Cool. The crew can do some war driving as well as, uh, war fighting.