skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly my issue with the At Bat app. I already pay for MLB.tv which plays video in Flash and I have a flash capable Android phone. I don't understand why I should have to pay extra for the app just to watch video. However, last time I checked I was blocked from watching content on my phone.
great another annoying thing to look forward to in the future of web ads.
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Just about, yes.
I had no idea about IGBTs. Thanks!

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Then stop posting links to print versions. They need to make money somehow.
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No, but it's very similar. The silicon film, didn't replace the back of the camera. Instead, it looked like a canister of film with the leader pulled out a little. You wouldn't have to change the camera back, just pop in the silicon film thing and start shooting.
I've always felt it strange how Amazon has concentrated its resource on penalizing their own customers by locking down the portability/sharability of books - thus preventing customers from their full rights under copyright (such as full right to loan or sell on a book). They'll even enforce that by removing the API keys to sites like Lendle.

Yet they totally leave the door open for scammers to upload content they don't own the copyright to and have no interest in really enforcing that side of the business.

It's the main reason I won't buy a Kindle, as much as the thought of owning a beautiful ebook device reader attracts me so much.
Do you think the Nortel patents are flaky? I'm no expert but they seem fairly legit as far as patents go (better than the Google Doodle one for starters), but again I'm not expecting them to be used offensively to extract rents or stifle competitors who haven't initiated patent lawsuits.
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I used SlipKnot for that -- it converted a shell-dialup at University of Oregon into a SLIP connection that I could use with Netscape 1.0
I don't see how your one-line response is addressing the original article's criticisms, especially in the final paragraph.

I'm also disappointed that you respond to a rebuttal by switching your argument, without acknowledging whether the rebuttal is correct or not. I'm going to stop responding to this thread.
While perhaps limitation is a strong word, it is clear that the development environments/tools/api's for the two platforms are very different. Is it not possible that one is simply better suited to producing high quality apps than the other?
Anyone else feel like RIM is grasping at straws here? As an ex-blackberry user I feel like the more that RIM tries to fit in with the "cool kids" the worse their products get quality-wise. That, coupled with the fact that using corporate email on one of their devices is so much more difficult than using an iPhone or Android with activesync, is going to be what kills RIM. Unfortunately it seems like they're either oblivious, or that they're too arrogant to care.
i hate it, but i've gone with paypal and spreedly, as suggested by patio11.

i hate the fact that i need to use it, but its wasted time, resources and effort for me to wring my hands at the situation and wish that i had an invite to stripe (http://stripe.com), to hunt down a processor that will accept my low volume (i was rejected from several due to volume), or to buy into a more expensive situation that costs more than my estimated revenue.
The company I work for uses a Tomcat/Struts/Oracle stack, and I'd love to find something less painful to use, but which is still java based (moving to a different language here would probably meet too much institutional resistance.)

The article mentioned the Play framework. Anyone have any experience with it?
Very useful information. Thanks!
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Certificates valid for one bitcoin are not bitcoins though. There is no reason to keep your money with a bank for safekeeping as their is for physical gold which is how the whole fractional reserve system got started. The goldsmith would give you receipts valid for your gold so you could safekeep it with him. Also, there is no government to print up fiat to bail out the banking system, so when loans default investors lose their money permanently.
You could say that for any currency you might care to invent. Limited-edition Franklin Mint velvet Elvis collector plates? They'd be a great currency, if only you could persuade anyone to use 'em.

True, but Franklin Mint collector plates are not supremely divisible, easily transferable, or free to store.

Alternatively, if you don't like that, then I could invent Bitcoin Prime. It's exactly like Bitcoins, except... well, it's called Bitcoin Prime. Every string of bits that is a bitcoin is also a Bitcoin Prime... except that regardless of who "owns" that bitcoin, I own the Bitcoin Prime. Who wants to buy some?

Go ahead and try, nobody will get on your bandwagon because the market will expect that a fragmented market for crypto-currency is in nobody's interests.

Oh, and if such a thing ever does become popular, I guarantee that despotic governments, nanny states and corrupt bankers will find a way to get in on the action.

Short of large scale quantum computing (which is my largest semi-fear), bitcoins mathematically cannot be controlled. Your statement is the equivalent of "if ssh tunneling every truly took hold you can guarantee that despotic governments will will find a way to listen in on them." While some governments may try to take measures stop traffic that looks as if it could be bitcoin, they cannot stop the wallet-on-a-usb-stick and in practice they would have an extraordinarily hard time doing so anyways.

There is a real market need for non-reversible, hidden transactions, driven mostly by the Governments that erect inane laws in the first place. Also, governments move slowly, they won't turn their focus onto bit coins until the first kidnapping and ransom is facilitated via bitcoins (a very real possibility).
Yes, how do you deal with the (hundreds, thousands, millions) of annoyed customers per day who were promised one thing but wound up paying for another?

This can't be a minor problem, either. At any given time the percentage of your users who are being ripped off by some nasty scam will be between 10% and 90%. You'll have to be very careful about policing things, otherwise the first mention of your business in the media will be "gumroad enables porn bait-and-switch scammers".
I'd put my money on paypal sticking around, but I'd also expect the volume on the Bitcoin/USD markets to increase as the value climbs (presumably from rate of new bitcoins from mining declining). I think we could see services using fractional bitcoins behind the scenes and USD (or euros) end to end.

I bet you could make some money facilitating lower fee transactions backed by bitcoins.
Built in content protection for streaming video? I don't know, that's why I asked. I have no experience with the MLB app and limited experience with both iOS and Android.
Web applications vulnerable to shell-code injection... this sounds like a security nightmare.
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I personally don't use it for security reasons, but to be able to listen to last.fm easily through a vps in a country, where that is for free. (just one example)

Security is never just a software you install, it also depends on you, knowing, what you do.
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Ftfy: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ceiling+of+log2+%28+%28...
The commit log seems to imply DNS has been added: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle/commit/0bf0351d9becae3d... (along with a few subsequent patches)

But I have not tried it.
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Your argument is that the ability to submit, upvote/downvote and deep-thread comments affects the community?

Actually, yes, I am. I firmly believe, for better or worse, that the more popular a site becomes, the more interests it has to cater to. Somebody else posted in the thread that the three options for a community to stay true to its roots is to either exclude newcomers, aggressively moderate newcomers, or succumb to newcomers.

Allowing everybody an equal share participation on the moderation capabilities panders to the latter. If everybody can moderate out, and the site continues to grow, then I think it's only a matter of time before the harder-to-understand articles are filtered out in favor of more easily digestible pieces that appeal to a broader majority.

I think the main difference between here and the notion of subredditing is that effectively, HN IS a subreddit, targeted at Hackers. I'm obviously not the say-all authority, but I suspect that splintering it further is not only unnecessary, but runs contrary to the concept of a focused community.

In fact, that there are subreddits that work so well (again in my opinion) speaks primarily to the fact that subreddits aren't very easy to find or discover.

As for the people who are just learning? I honestly don't know how to handle that. Though HN has worked really well with a diverse group of experts. There are lawyers, doctors and professionals of all sorts that are able to contribute to the areas they are knowledgeable in -- the trick is in somehow enforcing the restraint for them to not comment on things they know little about, or at least to not comment unintelligibly. The more aware of the community ideal everybody is, the more easy that becomes; but the more diluted the population grows to be, the harder that becomes to enforce.

Like I said, I don't know all the answers, and I certainly don't mean to impugn anywhere else in favor of HN - Reddit has plenty of perks, I'm sure, but it is the rare community that is able to subsist through popularity. The closest that I can think of to have lasted is kuro5hin, and they certainly had their own communal warts as well.
"Programmer productivity is not impacted by number of hours; it’s impacted by the quality of those hours"

Truer words have not been spoken. Some companies really don't understand this and are always watching the clock, or making sure you are pushing out a certain amount of code.

Sometimes I need to just sit there and think instead of typing.
Forcing a person who is past the age of legal responsibility to take massive doses of sex/gender hormones against their will is not the same as giving kids ritalin, and it is mildly offensive to say so.

We do not put ADD kids in "insane asylums." Have you ever seen the inside of a mental hospital? Most modern ones are nicer places than the average school.

Psychiatry before the 60s/70s was basically a different thing altogether to modern psychiatry. One flew over the cuckoos nest has a lot to answer for. It wasn't even an accurate portrayal of practices at the time the book was written, let alone when the film was made.

I broadly agree with the ADHD thing though. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

(The US healthcare system and the incentives around drug proscriptions don't help a lot.)
In a pyramid scheme, the people at the top of the pyramid want to stay in the game for as long as they can, not cash out as soon as the opportunity arises. What you've described sounds closer to "pump'n'dump".
Quantifying risk is an important aspect of information security; things such as the Trustwave Global Security Report and compliance numbers that are released each year helps deal with providing an overarching picture of the infosec landscape.

Transparent security, or at least your description of 'what security controls could be implemented that provide the maximum risk reduction for the minimum cost' is perhaps the very basis of the whole industry. Certainly not a solved problem, but many best practices may be implemented that aim to achieve this goal. For example, follow secure coding guidelines for developers, DMZ important services, airgap networks for confidential data, patch solution, firewalls/ACL's, etc.

Information centric security is an interesting category that I think probably has the most room for growth out of the areas that you mentioned. Some things are simple -- store password hashes instead of plaintext, encrypt sensitive data whenever possible, implement rule of least privilege, etc.

The great thing about information security, to me, is that the landscape is constantly shifting. Problems that the industry is facing today (APT, anyone?) are nothing like they were even a few years ago. I can't say that I have a definitive answer to your question (if I did, I'd be coding it myself ;), but my advice would be to pick one very specific area and focus on it. Look at Dan Kaminsky and DNS problems, for example.

Good luck, and kudos for trying to improve things :)

Oh -- one last thought before I go. Compliance (PCI, HIPAA, NERC) drives a lot of information security need. Creating a simple way to get compliance checks in order not only provides business to the infosec industry, but could relieve a major headache for organizations that need to be compliant.
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Click the little "fork" button and let us know, what you came up with :-)
Outsourcing is done for efficiency from a startup sense. Is it cost-cutting? Yes, because to begin with you are probably running tight margins and an expensive contractor can be done at the end of his contract, but an expensive in house designer (who might not be a developer) is benched after the work is completed. The cost of acquiring an inhouse designer solely for UX/UI does not make sense when you need all hands to develop your functional features. (In the case of a startup - this probably does not apply as much to Skype)

Comparing ANYSITE.com to facebook.com can be generally assumed to be hand-waving given the degree to which facebook stands as a massive outlier to any set of startups regardless of how similar the ideas may be.
How come people are saying that comments at HN are getting worse, negative and unhelpful... every comment at this thread was awesome!
I drive a 2001 Ford F350. I get dirty looks from Prius drivers every day. Little do they know (and the econ article mentions this) that their little buzzbombs contain 2.2 pounds of neodymium which is both radioactive and massively damages the environment in its production and disposal.

I bought my truck used. I bought it with 150k miles on it and I plan to put on another 400k miles before it goes to the big diesel garage in the sky. These f'ing Prius yuppies buy a car every 2 years thinking that saving a few gallons of gas is going to save the planet. Try saving the environmental cost of producing that horrible pile of radioactive and chemical garbage by buying a 10 year old used car and driving it for the next decade.

Edit: And buy American darnit!
Sure there are other uses. I'm just making sure people know, because it's being advertised as a VPN alternative, and this problem wasn't obvious to me when I first looked at it.
The quality of bundled apps. Application developers will be influenced by them because they see them before they write the first line of code, use them most likely everyday and are inclined to mimic the user experience. iOS bundled apps are all very decent and are the source of inspiration for most apps in the App Store and the emphasis on user experience across the whole ecosystem. I cannot remember anybody praising stock Andriod apps beyond the GMail client. The (other) built-in email client basically ruins any belief in that Google plays the UX game as half well as Apple.
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You can have Python running on the DD-WRT box of course, which will probably drastically slow down your router. You can also generate a public key for the router and append it to a remote host's .ssh/authorized_keys file, but for reason number 1 above, it's probably not a good idea. Now if you have a PC box running Vyatta or pfSense, then you might be able to pull this off with minimum impact.
If you don't want the pain of setting up ejabberd, Prodosy has http://code.google.com/p/prosody-modules/wiki/mod_websocket module already... And is much nicer to setup.
The person whom you outsource to is usually not involved in core discussion of development of idea, app or such. And these are actual defining moments of UI and UX, as a designer - that's where I find my inspiration (read: soultion to problems).

Outsourcing how your app interacts with user is not going to work at all, all that is gonna happen is one will keep telling designer to move half a pixel he will swear under breath, and in name of complete the project and get paid he will move it. That is not at all how UX and UI work.

These are core elements, need to be done by someone deeply involved in team. Hire a designer - get them into all the discussions. Design doesn't happen sitting in corner - design happens in football ground.
Author said that you can outsource your website, and if web is not your domain - you don't even need to think about UX.
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Here's a resource that offers a nice overview: http://weusecoins.com
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And people who first got into computers benefited greatly by convincing others that to get into computers as well.

I mean, the more widespread the use of bitcoins the more negligible the initial advantage of early adopters will become.
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Great point.

Let's ask PG to disable commenting on stories. :)
More likely usage scenario: pornography. Niche pornography.

(Hmmm, you may need to give some thought to legal questions raised when you're suddenly making money by selling every possible type of pornography into every jurisdiction of the world.)
284,636,373 pageviews

33,371,947 uniques

per month according to http://www.guardian.co.uk/advertising/jobs-audience-network
CDs & DVDs might be a more obvious next step...
Windows sells several million copies.

Try 150 million as of 2010: http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/W...
I'm sure this would be do-able at a lower resolution... You'd have to be careful with cameras trying to auto-wind your "film" though.
Sure. But 1. do we see any actual Android marketing on TV or media? We see marketing from the individuals handset makers, but very rarely, or at least I haven't from Google, for the OS, which makes sense in some light.

Contrast that with a lot of the advertising that Apple does, it's not about the phone, it's about the software, experience, and the apps. In print ads, tv ads, etc there is an explicit focus on the content you can buy to create a better experience.

I think that makes a difference.
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> There is a real market need for non-reversible, hidden transactions

BitCoin's transactions are all publicly available, even if only coins can be tracked, not users.
Something else for us to look into then!
For sure, I think we all know that, but this is something your client or boss may not be aware of.
There was some issues with the code. Mostly memleaks. I think I've fixed most of them, although it was tough to do so elegantly. You may want to rethink using the START_HANDLER macro (or at least restructure it) as it makes it difficult to correctly handle errors with writing a response. I've addressed this issue in RAPHT and offered a fix. However I think I complete rework is of that subsystem is probably better.

I'm at work so I can't setup a server to test, however after summoning my inner compiler my changes seem sane. But you should look them over (check the pull on github https://github.com/DanielWaterworth/Raphters/pull/2).

I'll be around if you want to discuss a proper fix for some of the issues. Albeit it will take a pretty major rewrite.
Handy conversion factors: one league per hour is 4.82 kph, 1.34m/s, or if you're stuck in a backward country that uses obsolete units like hogsheads, 3mph.

One rod per hogshead is 4.7 million liters per 100km, 0.021 m/ℓ, or 49μmiles per gallon.
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Wow, that's a pretty insulting statement. What is your source for this belief?
That's a diversion from the original point that iOS users are more willing to pay for apps. Whether it's easier to develop high quality apps for whichever platform, the fact that the iOS app is higher quality is an important factor when that makes the comparison invalid.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_process

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
> ...reference counting was pointed out to me and I realized it would be pointless -- the act of merely looking at an object changes the object, so copy-on-write means copy-everything.

Hmm...might it be worthwhile to work around this by storing reference counts in a separate set of pages, and having each object instead hold a constant pointer to its refcount? Presumably the extra level of indirection would have some degree of performance impact, but if it allows CoW to actually work in a meaningful way...

Though I guess that would probably break every C extension in existence, no? (Note: I know absolutely nothing about Python's C extension API, just guessing.)
Didn't they get the memo that jailbreakers don't buy things?
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To follow up, I wasn't expecting the backlash; this was a sincere comment. To believe that two teens could be servicing government defense contracts and shipping arms to Afghanistan seemed far-fetched, and given the timing of the HN submission, I thought at first that the story was a joke.
Am I missing something or could you just employ a download method rather than link? Maybe something like how istockphoto does it. Although the link leads to a purchase terminal, if they make the purchase it would prompt a download rather than a link they could share.

Also link shorteners + asking for credit card information immediately can get iffy in terms of trust and fraud. I understand that it is an mvp though. Later you might be able to employ a buy credits system like istockphoto does.
That's not inappropriate to ask at all. It's a fun hobby. Look through my site and you'll see I've done this a long time and have some big wins that launched first with me.

(TweetDeck, Beluga two examples)