skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's closing the stable door after the horse has bolted somewhat.

Presumably the recent announcements from large media brands (Playboy, FT) of their intention to deliver through webapps has caused this, so we should be thankful to them for this result!

I don't understand why they didn't position subscriptions more sensibly from the start - if it had been a 5-10% cut this situation probably wouldn't have happened in the first place.
can someone please explain for me how is microcontrollers market? I mean does anyone of you make money out of it? how much? How does it help your job? thanks!
It wasn't making any sound for me, then I realized it needed Flash. Very nifty.
Hi Dan, I remember listening to you on Mixergy many months ago. One day you should go back and discuss why you pivoted (when you get through this patch).

Small businesses are difficult customers. They are difficult to acquire.
I'd blame the person and not the company myself if it were not for

a) Witnessing the havoc Accenture consulting unleashed upon a couple of businesses personally
b) Knowing, albeit superficially, a load of people who currently work or had worked at Accenture. With the exception of one they're the poster jerks nobody likes.
Essentially Apple wanted to see if they could get away with being greedy, and when it didn't work out they abandoned it.

It's similar to what they've done with app approvals, features, terms of service, signal strength bars, location data, etc.
The best part was my manager, at the time, taking me aside and giving me a little speech on how I should be honoured that the client was getting me involved this early in the project - that typically only senior managers and partners got involved so early in a project, and that as a consultant I should realise that this was a great opportunity to help the client define what needed to be done, etc.

In the meantime, I was busy working on not one but two startups on the side, so although I nodded agreement (you have to be political..), I wasn't particularly awed by the chance to work on this particular bit of work :-)

The rest of the project, once I got into managing the actual delivery of the module, was much more sensible. And of course it didn't quite follow the plan. Nothing ever does.
Tomate: a very simple productivity applet for linux
Absolutely! I develop Mac window management apps and every time a new OS is released I half expect Apple to come and wipe out my product line.
That's exactly the childish behavior though. People getting offended by others likes and opinions and downvoting because of their disagreement or offense.

Not to say that all FSF people write MSFT as M$FT -- it would only be a small subset. But getting angry, offended, annoyed by people that do this and then voting them down is childish.
Reporter (in Bangalore) cites his source as Financial Times.

Googling offers: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/885a54e8-9225-11e0-9e00-00144feab4...

Which says, "The US bank on Wednesday revealed details of the breach...

And MarketPlace.com is similarly unforthcoming: "Citi reportedly said it discovered the breach in early May, and that it had affected about 1% of its card customers, according to a report in the Financial Times, citing a Citi statement." Link:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/citi-customer-data-exposed-...

And Reuters says little more. That's (to me) one of big disappointments of journalism (on/offline): lack of citation for further investigation.
Perhaps the culture is different in other countries. This was in Accenture UK.

Edit: I hate to suggest it, but perhaps there's also a bit of a perceptive bias going on, in both directions. I look for the good in people, and I found plenty of awesome people in Accenture. If you expect Accenture people to be arrogant idiots, probably every Accenture person you meet will look like just that.
Is it confirmed?
I guess it's easier to give people a bit more freedom when the initial rules are causing a lot of bad will than to restrict functionality down the line that people are relying on/used to having.
I think that's the main point is that he created an app that was probably declined because it used private APIs (or required root access?).

Also: he produced the first public implementation of what? A wireless syncing software? iSync on OSX came a while before that and I'm sure there have been quite a few before that.
Doesn't work for me either (Spain)
Askar, the only thing worse than living in the crappy country is to believe in and defend the crappy way of things. I know what i'm talking about as i did my share of it for the first 30 years of my life.

Btw, there are no limits to satire, only to the one's understanding of it.
I believe that you believe it, and can make others believe it, Accenture spent a lot of money training you to, but c'mon, you can be productive in any subject quickly? Really? Have you tried it in anything that was truly outside of your comfort zone?

I'm an ex-Consultant myself, like you right out of college, so I know about this from the inside.
One thing that time is telling: 24 hours later and this security firm has not yet removed the defaced image. :/
Reverse engineering a Wii game script interpreter, part 1
Yes, I've just logged in to Developer Centre to check and the policy is updated on there.
Though I agree with the sentiment, this is a lot easier to say when external to the problem. Much of it is about fixing or changing lifestyle and behaviour, and in such cases it may be easier to go for "safe" wins, such as a day job, with certain and known results (positives such as known income, and the negative such as web-app/startup opportunity cost) and building up and moving forward before re-exposing one self to risk (esp as it is similar as per his situation before).

The higher risk 'do another startup' could be the way to go, but in such an environment/situation, I fear this perhaps is only shying away from underlying problems and hence it is better to take safe route and fix them first.
Sounds kind of like what Erlang has had for years.

Truth be told though, I think a tiny bit of downtime to restart is perhaps not as important as many other considerations for many web apps.
I believe the same Senators are trying to go after Tor as well, which is comical because Tor was originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory.

Remember when Congress tried to get encryption banned (or hobbled) too, once they realized that people other than the government could use it?

Anyway, I think they'll probably start focusing on issues the general public can understand as election season gets closer.
I know this exact feeling; in fact I'm in the same position having just finished a year of work before going back to university.

I've got more ideas and interests I want to pursue _right now_ than I have time in the day. I also can't imagine going back to being an employee after having this realisation!
Individual people I judge on their merits, same as anyone, but Accenture's involvement with the UK govt has been a disaster for everyone but them. What did they charge the NHS, and what did they deliver? Ripping off a healthcare provider is pretty low.
BitCoin story trends on HN
It doesn't seem like that's 100% the case, as you can generate a new bitcoin address for every transaction.

Unless there's some way to associate addresses as coming from a single wallet, which I do not think is the case.
Any topic that involves advanced maths or other hard science will be hard to pick up quickly (despite doing a Physics degree), but other than those, most business-related activities tend to be fairly straightforward to pick up, so long as you have the right "learning materials" (be it work samples, manuals, people to coach you, whatever makes sense for the activity).

Sure, there's a world of difference between "being productive" and "being an expert", but again, I'm not saying you can become an expert in a week, I'm saying you can be productive.

Moreover, I'd argue that with the right coaching/motivation/environment, most smart people can do this.
30% would be somewhat defensible if Apple provided the CDN for the content. As they don't, they're taxing convenience and taking it far too high. The 5-10% number holds a lot more water.

On the flip side, young upstarts will still lap the system up. Apple has has given them a chance to get one up on old media. The problem is it makes Apple a very large, capricious gorilla in the market.
FB API Limit?
Is there a limit for how many calls my app can make an hour to the Facebook API?
If the prices over the last few days are any indicator, that's probably the case.
As soon as I click play/replay, I get the message Game Over :-)
I am using FF4 on Mac
Why Europe Is Freaking Out About Facebook Photo Recognition
Not recording here in Australia.. But it sounds awesome lol
Accenture's involvement with the NHS was a major disaster for Accenture too. I can see why they went for it - it was the kind of huge contract that a company like Accenture can't resist - but unlike the other providers, they pulled out when they realised the whole thing was doomed (and took a very hefty financial penalty to do so).

FYI, they cancelled one of the twice-yearly promotion points because of the NHS debacle (which resulted, iirc, in a $450m write-off by Accenture UK, and basically wiped out the profits for the year). That pissed off a lot of people and caused a lot of their best people to leave the company. So, yeah, they took a big hit!
Yak Shi Mash! Borat must be fuming now.
On a side note, if bitcoin ends up doing one thing it will be popularizing Dwolla.

If they were smart, they'd get transaction notifications working ASAP so Mt. Gox and TradeHill don't have to keep processing transactions by hand.
sure does, tested the same interfaces with dapper way earlier and they work fine
I read an article in the Economist, according to them Walmart is opening stores throughout Asia in accordance to Asian lifestyles. Carrefour, who was in the region first, is scaling back and selling off stores because they aren't as profitable as they thought. Part of this is corporate culture, Carrefour (big French company) wanted to run its business in the Carrefour way, all decisions are done in Europe. Walmart chose the franchise model, the store is designed and decorated like a giant chinese market, carries more local products (fruits, veg, meats, etc.) and buying decisions are made per store.
Mhm, so I don't understand why he expected anything different or why people are so outraged it was rejected — that's one of the major benefits of the App Store: sandboxing and access restrictions of apps.

Yeah, as far as I know it was the first publicly-released wireless syncing software designed to let you sync iTunes and iOS.
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I forget who it was, but someone said "You can only ever add features, you can never take them away."
> If I convert dollars to bitcoins, I would be tempted to wait a couple of days and sell on mtgox and then buy the service with dollars.

Remove the "purchasing a service" element out of the equation and this still holds up -- the temptation to put money aside in bitcoins is still there.

As the service is a month-to-month thing, there's a limit on the amount of time you can wait if you did purchase by bitcoins. Also, if the price of bitcoins is going up, it's encouraging customers to pay earlier and earlier which is a good thing as most customers seem to wait until the last day (but server bills come up before then...).
"Number 1.0: [waggling his finger] D-D-D-D-Don't quote me regulations. I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the colour of the book that regulation's in. We kept it grey. "

http://www.futurama-madhouse.net/scripts/2acv11.shtml
"a lot of "real" certificates depend on this CA"

How many? did you estimate from sequential serial number allocation?

I am surprised (even if it turns out this is "just" an encrypted webserver key) that they aren't using hardware keys: (a) it's their core business (b) they appear competent (CTO posts to technical mailing lists) (c) they have a /29 so aren't just a single IP on an inaccessible low-end VPS.

ssllabs.com gives them a C rating.
You might have lucked out, since it seems like they're going for the "full screen or nothing" approach :)
I tried this app in the past. It was very....slow.

Which is why I think Apple rejected it. Their syncing protocol, even over USB, was painfully slow. Over wifi it was dreadful. Apple has a, "do it right or don't do it at all", philosophy.

They seemed to have fixed USB syncing in 4.3 because it takes me less time than before. I'm fairly confident that if he submitted his app after 4.3 was released it probably would have passed, but now that iOS 5 is on the horizon and contains the same functionality it has made his app irrelevant.
When, 9 out of 10 experiences with a company turn out to be negative, it could be argued that you build up a negative bias. I'm not saying that there are no decent people at ACN, there definitely are.

Either way, Accenture has an awful reputation within the technology sector imo.
>we can try, right?

i guess we could if your knowledge about Kazakhstan was enough at least to recognize the references beyond a certain movie from several years ago
This seems like it'd be useful for almost all situations except for DB schema changes.

Those of you using Tomcat JEE apps, and deal with downtime, how do you handle putting up some sort of "we're down" page? What strategies do you use?
I would guess that 99% of the outrage stems from the similarity of the icons.
Caesar's invasion of Gaul changed the people and culture. Modern France still acknowledges a direct cultural link with the Roman era, while there's barely anything remaining of the Celts who were invaded.

Granted, it took hundreds of years. Present-day imperialists lack that kind of patience.
I wonder if there's correlation between your graph and the value spike in bitcoins:
https://mtgox.com/trade/history

This is really cool, I love the random things that come up(e.g. search for goats).

Also, I suggest you add the ability to compare multiple trends? It would be interesting to see the Bias's on HN when comparing say, Apple to Microsoft or Android to IOS.
Citibank confirms hacking attack
Not to mention that they apparently thought of hiring him.

It isn't obvious of whether they actually made an offer, but I think not.
doesn't work in my ff5 also (mac).
Interesting post. What was that bit about the three heads?
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Quora may have the answer [1]

[1] http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-Facebook-Open-Graph-API-rate-...
thanks, comparative trends is definitely something I'd like to include although not sure how to fit it into the UI right now.
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While it depends on the country, you don't have to be a bank to be regulated in the UK.

For example, the Financial Services Authority says you need to be registered for accepting deposits or issuing e-money: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Doing/Do/index.shtml

I have no idea whether this is simply or cheap though...
That level of blurring is almost certainly insufficient to actually redact the information, as discussed in http://dheera.net/projects/blur.php (discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939607)
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goats seem to be trending down, poor things.
U.N. Declares Internet Access a Human Right
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For any user that has switched from a basic phone to a Smart Phone would definitely love all the in-built features it comes with.
I truly don't understand why apple does this, I can only assume its because they have nothing but contempt for the people who develop apps for their platform.
This would actually be a problem.... if the private key was good for anything. Certigna's response says it is not:

"Certigna has issued a response claiming that the file represented a 'test' certificate that had long since expired. "The private key available on the server corresponds to a test certificate used on our website certigna.fr," the company claimed. "It is impossible to generate new valid user certificates from this key. Moreover, it is encrypted and is an SSL certificate expired since July 2010. This key does not affect our infrastructure security. The Certigna SSL authority’s private key is stored in HSM (Hardware Security Module) and hence can never be recovered. This useless file has been removed."
I'm kind of tired of all the YCombinator posts too! Let's keep the links here just to hacker news.
Out of interest, what business areas did you do projects in?
Pure Korpo Fascist apologist hack at work here...

Kind of skipped over the whole 'US was founded on the premise of keeping corporations from having citizenship rights'.

Korps in decline, I think not, rights of real people in decline, rights of corporations on the continued rise.
My guess is that the only people left to use Bitcoins is precisely for those illegals activities... Precisely the people they're trying to stop. It's not because something isn't legal that it stops working.
Firstly this is a positive change (not perfect, but better).

But the original rules as stated already in these comments were presumably to see if

a) they could get away with it

b) to stop people using subscriptions to avoid normal purchases

c) to start from the most extreme point to leave room to manoeuvre later
Access two Gmail accounts at once in the same browser
This is great. Too bad recording/playback doesn't work for people outside of the US.

Here's the intro to "Redemption song" since I can't record it: a sd a fhgd asdg dgdas.
I'm sorry but this isn't an anecdote it's a rant. The only hard quantifiable information in your post is that you've worked at Accenture and that you visited a friend who was in the middle of his PHD. The rest is just emotions and yelling at people you don't like.

The fact that this is the top comment [1] on this story is quite frightening to me. It adds nothing to the conversation, and is an open invitation to an unsubstantiated but emotional argument about whether employees at large companies are all assholes that only care about money. Surely enough there's now a whole thread that doesn't add much to the conversation, and from which I've learned nothing.

This is a prime example of the decline of HN.

[1] Since we can't see points it's of course impossible for me to be certain whether this post has many upvotes, or whether it's at the top based on one of the other ranking parameters. (please let us have our points back!)
You can find the Certigna's explanations at http://www.certigna.fr/archives/2984
The problem with in-app purchases was always that Apple HAS to use the same 30% fee. If they use another percentage, developers just create free apps and make 'premium' features available for the same price as their paid app would otherwise be, thereby handing over less money to Apple.

Because Apple's in-app purchases don't distinguish between features and content, Apple can't use different pricing schemes.

I think Apple may try to change this situation with their News Stand system in iOS5. The content appearing there are still normal apps, they're just grouped together in a special folder and feature automatic downloads.

My guess is that content purchased in those News Stand apps will be less taxed than other in-app purchases, for example just 10%. That way Apple will keep some of their most important 'partners' happy.
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This seems silly to me. Apple knows its own product roadmap, so why wouldnt they reject an app that implements a half-baked version of a product line they're releasing themselves?
It sounds like that might spark the first real "cyber wars." I'm not sure most governments would survive it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g0pi4J8auQ
Sony has learned that lesson very well lately, well hopefully.
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It doesn't work on IE9 either. Thus we see the flaw in designing programs in html/CSS there is no guarantee that what you wrote is what will happen/appear on a browser. Even worse than an untyped language. A programming language that has the programmer "suggest" commands rather than demand them.
They are still in business and still profitable so they must be doing something right.

On the other hand it took GM decades to burn through their reputation until they had none to salvage. Now they apologize profusely for being a shitty car manufacturer. I still won't buy one btw.
A brief history of hacking
You really need a designer, it looks outdated and unprofessional at the moment.
It wouldn't be defensible as long as they force them maintain the same price. For some of the companies, 30% of the profit is all they've got, perhaps even more than they've got. The biggest problem with this is Apple wouldn't allow them to increase prices. So Amazon wouldn't be able to sell an e-book for $14 to compensate on iOS, and $10 on their own site.
In many cases I think it boils down to "we reject your app because not only we have thought about this use case already but we have a solution in the works, and while it's not ready yet it will probably blow anything else you would have thought about because we know the system in and out, so your app would be dead a few months from now anyway. As you're doing an impressive work on it maybe you can join us to contribute on that work we're doing right now, or be patient about it and concentrate on other areas." In other cases it's probably overzealous employees.

I noticed Apple hate was growing in line with their price history [1] and I understand there will always be baseless haters, but it appeared to really blow out of proportion during last week.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=NASDAQ%3AAAPL+history+l...
I don't think so, it'd take way too long to dictionary attack/bruteforce the missing 64 x 9 characters of the blurred image. Which gives 64 ^ (64 x 9) combinations judging from the base64 encoding.

That is assuming you have the blurring algorithm and font perfect.
Awesome idea, even though it means you can never use stars again.
The catch is that images are not displayed by default. Why would an attacker click on show images? Only if the text of the email asked them to...

EDIT: I'm wrong as pointed out by others in the replies below.
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Pandora is leaving money on the table
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Works fine in Chrome 11 under linux