skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate how Opera never gets any love. It's been the most innovative browser for years now, it had tabs before other browsers even had an MDI and was fast even on my PC with 16 MB RAM.
IE6 and FF 3.6 aren't modern browsers :)
Everything I've ever read about Google's customer support infrastructure is that they don't "do" person-to-person transactions. Hardcopy? You must be joking.
Don't take this as legal advice, but there is such a thing as mitigating circumstances. Your suggested approach leaves a gaping security hole open for a fairly long time before anything happens. Also, simply logging in once and doing nothing to verify a new security breach is vary different then browsing info. It's like noticing a door was left slightly open yelling your doors open and if nobody answers and closing but not locking it. Technically you broke the law, but a prosecutor is unlikely to win a case so they will probably just drop it.

PS: Under the right circumstances you could still be sued though. Edit: You can also be sued for just about anything so IMO it's somewhat moot.
Firefox nightly builds are currently 6.0a1.
It blocks threats based on IP, threats which includes spammers. I wouldn't worry about how much servers or bandwidth they have... they seem to have more than enough.
Since the ConnectU case was settled out of court, isn't it incorrect to state this as a fact? No court ever ruled on this, unless I am missing something.
how am i not surprised the least by this. maybe we need some programmers to become politicians to fix this crap.
I'm not giving my username and password to my online accounts to random native or web apps when the service in online account in question provides oAuth.
You could use it for non-static content (like forums and such), people do it and it tends to work fairly well... or so I've heard.
Cry me a river of data mined tears.
IE9 also had this bug, but it has been fixed - see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36142#c53
Why is the total from the left column only %72.669, who owns the rest?
That sounds like an awful idea. If you update your Whois information all of a sudden all your Google Apps data gets deleted? I'd be furious.
Not all numbers are portable in all cases. When my fiance and I decided to both move cell carriers onto a third carrier to get a family plan, only one of us was allowed to transfer. No way around it.

Also, it's still basically impossible to transfer a land-line number to a cell number, as they are apples and oranges.
Go has an intrinsic beauty that some value more than chess. In Shibumi (great book btw), young Nicholai Hel declares (http://books.google.com/books?id=Li4EzEdaX1oC&pg=PA73...):

"What Go is to philosophers and warriors, chess is to accountants and merchants"

If so, why is it not as popular as chess (outside Asia)? This could be examined at length but the fact that chess was used as one of the weapons of Cold War and its long history (Go has become popular in the West only in late 20th century) all should be considered. Yet, there might be some truth to Nicholai's (aka Trevanian, aka Whitaker) observation. The antagonistic nature of chess is much easier to grasp than the cold, crystalline-like beauty of Go's patterns.

As to your comment " I don't actually think humans really were bested by computers in chess", which is shared by others on this thread: The observations that computers play "ugly chess", the "thought" process is different, etc. stem from an romantic idealization of how the grandmasters are raised and train nowadays. I would very much suggest that you read the NYer article I linked (an another commentor summarized). The basic idea there is not that computers have learned to play an ugly version of brute force chess but humans (with the aid of their computerized tools) learned how to mechanically optimize their play, getting closer to computers.
Facebook will be around, but where will the data be?
8 Former Facebook Employees Who Hold Sizeable Stakes In Facebook
Dude, 30 cents is a huge, HUGE deal. Dealbreaker even. And you don't have to be indigent to realize that. On wall street, IBs routinely send out managers who make seven figures to the exchanges to negotiate a 0.0001$ per share instead of 0.0002$. Entire trading platforms are swapped because some bean counter in the settlements desk thinks you can squeeze an extra penny out of the other platform. When your trading volume averages 100m$ per DAY, these point one-thousandth of a cent add up very quickly.
The philosophical nature of criminal law in common law countries is that offences against a person are offences against the Crown or People (depending on your jurisdiction).

The practical outcome is that the Crown or People can choose to independently charge you of a crime, regardless of what the actual 'victim' wants.

Be careful.

Of course, IANAL, TINLA.
He's telling the truth; it ACTUALLY does all this stuff (including the t-shirt, which is nice and soft :) )... and for free, too.
I'd be more than happy to hear your arguments. Perhaps I am missing some points you could show me clearly? Your original post lacked some explanation behind what you mean by word hacking itself and while at first kind of dismissed your post with ESR, I would like to know what do you think hacking is about? (As esr's text guided me somehow, your comment made me think i may actually be missing something)
Really? Not that this is a solid indicator, but I see only 4 tweets containing "CrowdBundle" and 0 followers, as well as only 2 facebook fans. Where are the viral indications?
> A large portion of our instincts are hard-wired.

Not accurate, or at least misleading. There's a lot of plasticity in the brain even at the very basic levels. Raising a kitten in an atypical environment (e.g., without edges or contrast), for instance, yields profound functional differences from retinal ganglion cells over V1/V2 up to the dorsal and ventral streams of the visual system.

We are what we are because our brains are hard-wired to adapt to typical environments. Full isolation would cause substantial aberrations -- that's exactly what you observe in real-world cases.
Did you even try to find it?

Google "helvetica monospaced".
It's clear that Twitter wants to move innovation in their ecosystem away from native clients that duplicate their exiting functionality. Instead they seem to be keen to support projects that offer innovative ways of displaying, sorting, or working with Twitter's firehose.

Instagram does something similar. Their API terms of use read:
"You cannot replicate the core user experience of Instagram.com"
(http://instagram.com/developer/)

I guess it is a matter of keeping potential future monetization options.
I worked at a very small disc service (Like Discmakers but not) for a few years in the early 2000's. I can assure you that it would be near impossible, even at our tiny scale to check all of the jobs that came through our shop to be sure that none of them violated some copyright or another. We simply had, as part of our contracts that the entity submitting the job was authorized to use the material.

Its part of a larger problem that copyright holders and law enforcement are pushing off their policing duties and costs onto businesses that shouldn't have this burden and often lack the ability to carry it out in any case. Come to think of it, its a lot like, ahem, stealing.
Although not nearly as fast-paced and cinematic, the kinda-badly-written Permutation City by Greg Egan does a much more thorough job of exploring uploading and simulation, imho.

Morgan is a wee bit oversimplifying certain aspects, in particular the tech is almost too nicely packaged and very "physical". Which is certainly a possibility, but Permutation City crosses the speculation with the distributed computing trends we are currently experiencing.
Senate has more questions for Apple, Google, and Facebook on privacy
San Fransisco has always been able to attract startups and businesses in the past without these exceptions, why change now?
Doesn't even need to be an iv. A spray will do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin#Drug_forms

(in fact, I'm guessing that oxytocin is what this guy is spraying around so that the lions he's playing with don't decide to eat him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kjWBgA81LM see minute 0:57)
We have got into minor issues with Honeycomb - the new selection/copy/paste in the text areas took our app by surprise. The other thing was TAB key events that don't get fired from the Honeycomb keyboard even if tab is inserted to the text correctly. However these are probably edge cases.

My biggest gripe is that Honeycomb emulator is dead slow, so testing anything on it without a real device is really painful.
The main reason for IANAL, TINLA is that lawyers have attorney's immunity, and joe shmoe does not. If somebody relies on my opinion as if it is legal advice and from the circumstances it looks like legal advice, I can be in deep poop if the advice was wrong.
I think the difference is that there is is an user interface item that looks like it may result in in-app purchase but actually has a message to the user about why the feature doesn't work. This is different from not using in-app purchasing at all.

I don't think Apple would approve an app with such a user interface item.
The 'Just Works' Mentality
<shameless_plug>
"Jülich Katrin Amunts has begun work on a detailed atlas of the brain which involved slicing one into 8,000 parts which were then digitalized with a scanner."

The lab I work for is working with them on this project. Basically those slices are taken at 10 microns and we are working on fixing some of the problems (when you cut a brain that thin you end up with a lot of tears and deformations) Then our lab is reassembling the slices (with algorithms) realigning the slices so you can cut through the slices in any directions and get the cross section of those slices and look at them.

Realignment of the 8000 slices can take weeks or more (depending on how many cores you can run the stuff on) and is a rather complex process.

Here a link for those wanting more info: https://cbrain.mcgill.ca/tools/visualization

Scroll to the bottom (well look at the whole page, brainbrowser is what I've been working on). You can see a image of the interface and some of the slices. I'll try to find a video of the project.

</shameless_plug>
I agree that incumbents don't like disruptive innovation (in general), but who says that a) Apple wouldn't mind as they've in general done a phenomenal job of interrupting themselves before others have had the chance over the last twenty years or b) that another new company won't unseed Apple as Apple (while not in market share, but in prominence and recently also income) has unseeded Microsoft.
Not sure if this would break some TOS or something but can't a native app just continue asking you for your username and password and just do this oath stuff in an offscreen webview, making it seem just like with xauth? It's almost disingenuous to show an in app browser with oath and confuse the user into thinking he has the same sort of "same origin" security as oath in the browser -- he doesn't, that webview is completely controlled by the app and thus offers no additional security over xauth whatsoever.
What about the ex-CEO of the London Stock Exchange with their whole TradElect debacle:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_aban...
Hi! I'm wondering if you're recruiting only for developers or for teams that might include developers but also folks in other specialties - for instance my team includes a front-end developer, a project manager, a graphic designer, a 3D object modeler, and a web writer (yes, before you ask, a team this diverse obviously rotates based on project needs and we each have substantial crosstraining).
Yes, it's going to be freemium like. We'll be announcing various stuff around the actual product really soon, but the idea is that Silk could become your website, in the same way that Tumblr works as a website for a lot of people.

I love the idea of a "semantic cloud", it's exactly what we're going for actually. I'm going to use that if you don't mind :-)
I hear what you're saying, but respectfully I disagree.

To me, it's like suggesting that the iPhone would be better if you added a physical slide out keyboard to make it more old-school; sure, you could do that, and would probably score popularity points with unconvinced customers.

But you would compromise tons of secondary aspects of the device to do so.

If TermKit would have a "traditional" mode of operation, and let you switch back to it, it would mean that TermKit has failed in being a comprehensive tool. I hope I can get around that.
Zing! There was an issue with pre PHP5.3 where circular references caused memory leaks. In code that could not be moved to 5.3, long running processes were written to auto-restart at a certain point.
I'm sorry but the title is misleading. There is no point developing on it for free if you have to deploy it with a commercial license. The only benefit is that existing commercial licensees no longer need to pay for a development license.
CloudFlare is actually a CDN proxy, so you could overcome this by hardwiring your web server firewall rules to the CloudFlare platform.
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Poundie: A Campfire bot for everyone
This link (http://www.swetake.com/qr/qr2_en.html) have a detailed explanation about how data are stored
I'm OK with requiring OAuth. It's hard to trust third parties with data they collect themselves: see Sony and Gawker. It's even harder to trust them with data that belongs to someone else: they might one-way-hash their own passwords, of course, but they can't do that to your Twitter password. It's probably sitting in a database, cleartext, for every rogue employee or cracker to see.

Even if you don't care about someone having your credentials, you can't trust them not to intentionally or accidentally misuse your account. The only way to trust a third party is to give them an account that can only perform the actions that you specify, and that's exactly what OAuth does. Of course you have to use Twitter's site for that: that's where the trust comes from.

Anyway, I've used Android apps that pop open a web browser for the authentication part and then return you to the native app. It's, by definition, not seamless... but it's not confusing or slow or difficult or annoying. I imagine the experience is similar on iOS and Blackberry. So I don't see a problem here: all I see is the ability for users to have better protection over their personal information. That means they will be more willing to try your product, because the damage it can cause is limited. Less risk, more opportunity for innovation.

Hardly a "shit sandwich".
I too wish I had invented Yellow Pages first.
As the legend says, the creator of Magic: The Gathering once created a card called Proposal to propose marriage to his fiancée. The history: http://howell.seattle.wa.us/games/mtg/Proposal.html

The Android App is a great idea also.
Or he was reported by one of the kid's enemies or by some busy body reading public status updates. I would wield Hanlon's Razor with gusto when it comes to government actions.
Twisted was right and I was wrong
You already trust the accuracy of your visualizers: your eyes. Is it space or a delimiter? Is that a quote or a backtick?
Twitter has shown quite a lack of taste in recent months (e.g. dickbar). I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply hadn’t thought about these issues, and that it’s not a sinister plan to further encourage use of the official Twitter apps.
I often hear about important UI changes when porting from iPhone to Android to make the app look more native. Could you (OP or anyone else with the experience) be more specific of what they are? Some examples?
The problem I had with QR codes is it doesn't say "QR Code" anywhere on it! I looked at the QR codes on my bathroom detergent bottles, and didn't know it was that until I read about QR codes in a newspaper.
It's framed in terms of a current theme of discussion here at HN ("Some companies are bought for their team!") and therefore, it's revolutionary.

Reinventing old institutions with cooler names is one of the primary outputs of Silicon Valley.

In fairness, sometimes really subtle changes can make a difference. Let's watch.
Google seems to do lots of things to keep track of potential hires. A year ago, I received an email from a Google recruiter that gave the impression of being written personally and directly to me, with wording like "we've reviewed your resume", "the engineering team think you'll fit in" and "they would like to talk to you". It was almost perfectly crafted to create the illusion that a team of people in my specific profession had spent time looking at my information, and really wanted to talk to me. The illusion was broken by looking at the email address they sent the email to - it was a tagged address that only had been used once in a Debian mailing list many years ago.

I asked the recruiter for an explanation about this practice, but they never got back to me.
A good example of this might be Haiti. I believe there was very little wood around, which contributed the the crisis to begin with.
First response to MS-SQL Worm (2003)
Ironically enough, this reminds me a lot of eshell, the shell implemented in Emacs lisp. Since it runs in a rich environment, it can augment a lot of standard unix functionality with really useful features, and you can extend it in a language that's not insane.

For example, grep/find results are hyperlinked, you can pipe commands directly to buffers (or even lisp functions) rather than just files, and such. In fact, now I'm tempted to add the ability to cat an image and have it display inline; should be pretty easy to implement in elisp.
Because applying the SF payroll tax to stock options is relatively new and prior to this year no one was in danger of actually IPOing so the point was moot.
No strict requirements, just technology focused.
Flying Car (and 0-60 in less than 4 seconds!)
The browser never takes you to a different app and there is a forward button as well if you don't like where it takes you. I'm not saying that iOS task switching is good, I'm just saying there is a reason that there is no global back button. I expect that Apple will make changes to task switching one way or another eventually but it's not going to be with a back button.
Alibaba?

Check out this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1750073
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I've never found major fault with Chomsky's analyses in any field. I'd be interested to know where you think he's been over-confident.
Currently we're aimed mostly at teams of developers but we support any team who can launch a software product (which usually requires a developer). Your team definitely sounds like it could be a good fit.
With so many patent trolls shooting out of the ground left and right, and having success with their business models, there is really nothing else companies can do than join the bandwagon and also aggressively start registering & acquiring software patents, however trivial and/or vapid those patents might seem. Because in the end it's not the actual stuff in the patent that counts, but the effective legal and financial leverage that can be had with it.

Doesn't the American justice system have some safeguards against being misused for financial gain? You'd say some judges should be aware now how the legal system is gamed.
The common OAuth flow inside a mobile app is to show a web browser dialog which loads Webkit/IE/etc and show you the Twitter log-in UI. Frankly, I have no idea how to verify this page is actually Twitter's UI - there is no browser chrome, no SSL lock icon or any other trust indicators. It could as easily be just a random dialog constructed by the app author. I just don't see the value-add of OAuth in mobile app scenarios. Note that xAuth doesn't mean the app stores the passwords - you store a token like in OAuth. Of course, whether the app developer can be trusted to not store the username/password is a different story.

Btw, I have a popular WP7 app which uses xauth, primarily because Twitter's login screen is broken on the Windows Phone browser.
That author, like everyone else I've ever heard argue against the basic connectionism/neurobiology first principles model, takes a bit of biology, a bit of physics, and then throws in philosophical crap that has nothing to do with science, engineering, or any reasonable way to analytically understand the brain. This mixing of science and navel-gazing is useless.
People keep saying that, and then fail to tell me any solid reason why I'm wrong.
MacGyver Recipes
Again, the difference is that of the nature of the structure.

In a disaster zone like in say, Haiti, modular tents would outperform these things in every conceivable way, including survivability.

You don't even begin to think of rebuilding until months later. At that point, I don't think you'd want to make one of these your permanent home.
Heres how I would do it: have a Bitcoin Plus (or whatever) widget box clearly visible on the website. Have it tell the user exactly what it is doing, including the current speed. Highlight the fact that it is an alternative to advertisement and that it only uses idle processing time (or if its used together with advertisement, state that its used to help pay for the site). Finally, provide a stop/pause button so that if it really annoys somebody or actually is causing cpu spikes, its easy to turn off.
A UPC-A barcode doesn't label itself as such either. They look bizarre until you see what happens with a barcode scanner and then they're easily identifiable and quite normal. It's no different with QR codes.
other employees, i imagine
It's true. In fact, some people still rent their phones. http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/3538

I still have the first phone I ever bought, in 1985 right after the rules changed. (And because it was made by Western Electric in the good old days, it still works!)
Wasn't this only in the developer betas? I thought they removed it in the final release.

The problem with this is some apps already use those gestures for other things.
You both completely missed my main point.

You're aging the fact that these things provide better temporary structures than wood buildings, but as temporary structures, the current standard is modular tenting.
But what does it do? Is it a caching reverse proxy in front of my site?
You are like so carrying the band, you really should do a solo album. :-)

Its an interesting take on what tends to happen 'naturally' a lot (which is folks find a manager they like and follow them from place to place). But as T_S_ here points out there is a whole new spin on negotiations.
Lots of MS employees have iPhones, or use Google in the course of work. Responses vary. Fellow enthusiasts may give you the high-five. Your peers, and even younger managers might give you a light-hearted ribbing. Old-timers might give you a ribbing that's jokey on the surface, but actually a bit disapproving. Higher-up executives may actually indicate to you that it's a career-limiting move.
These questions are important, but I doubt it's best to define the laws before developing the technology, if the risk is on the order of killing a person per upload.
> "So long as you remain within the app, there’s no security advantage for OAuth in an embedded web view over xAuth"

Yes there is. I don't trust the developer enough to give her/him my user ID and password so OAuth works for me.
If Twitter were simply to implement Oauth2 this would not be an issue.
You're aware that western military forces currently build entire trauma centres out of the tenting I described, correct?