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Content scraping happens all the time, and the benefits outweigh the risks (worst that happens is a cease and desist). If the alternative is investing lots of time creating fake users and fake discussions, I rather scrape and use that precious time for marketing. The content you're scraping technically isn't copyrighted by the website - it's user generated content.
Meh, there are commercial products out there that will rip the video from netflix on windows, so that level of DRM is really a myth anyway.
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Pro-tip: SMS isn't going away.
I can't wait. based on my plan, I currently play $0.005 per goddamn SMS, and $0.000005 per kb.

the vast majority of the people I communicate with regularly are on an iphone or android, and many of them refuse to switch to beluga because they don't want to deal with beluga AND sms (multiple vectors). if imessaging is open protocoled, and transparently handles non-imessage reciepents, then this would solve a lot of problems for me*

*extra points if I can finally reply to sms/imessage via my desktop. I hate pulling my phone out when I'm at the computer.
This statement, taken literally, is absurd. What are you trying to say?
> We vote for some people every 4 years and then they can basically do whatever they want

That's the reason I have not voted for a while. Once I give my only vote, I cannot take it back but I'm indirectly responsible what they will do.
New Study Finds Elite Viewpoints Dominate Online Content
As a designer I found the article a bit of a throw away. Firstly designer can describe a wide range of talent — anybody from a branding expert to an HTML/CSS production jockey. The way you'd search for each of those roles is quite different, it's like the difference between a Unix admin and a Object C programmer who knows iOS.

I think the main problem that many non-designers have when hiring talent is that they don't understand the process of a designer, so they don't know how to manage a designer. I also think there's the sin of going the cheap route and then being unhappy with the results.
If you tip your head 90 degrees to the left, it kind of looks like an angel around earth - the 'halo area' is the main Van Allen Belt loop causing Auroras by firing the particles towards each polar cap.

That reminds me of the passage in the Bible claiming four angels standing at corners of the earth. Not to get into a theistic thread or anything, but who needs religion when science is that stunning? Beautiful imagery!
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It still doesn't make sense. The only way to interpret such a sentence is that the flare is releasing 10% of the Sun's rest-mass energy which of course is ludicrous.
Well, that link is down right now, but I tried http://html5demos.com/contenteditable aaaaaand.......

It worked :)

It appeared to be a normal webpage, but as soon as I pressed in the middle of the paragraph, the keyboard sprung open and a frame surrounded the ContentEditable object.
source of hackerstream.com on github open ot be forked and embedded
[The study] tracks the relationship between socio-economic status and 10 online activities most likely to influence the public, opinion shapers and policy makers. Among those uses are such social networking activities as Facebook; website building and design; blogging; photo-and video-sharing, such as on YouTube; chat room and newsgroup participation; and the posting of comments and ratings.
I think if there was grant money or funding it would help things a great deal.
I would consider myself as someone who is into fitness, or at least lifting(deadlift 400, bench 280). I honestly don't think fitocracy, as it is today, is for people who are into fitness, but rather a gimmick to get people to workout.

For the most part, fitness people want tools that will help them improve their lifts, diet, overall looks and how they feel. Thus why some are willing to spend $1000's on supplements to assist getting them there. Knowing that I'll get a virtual badge if I pull 415 x 5 next time I'm at the gym gives me no extra incentive or edge towards accomplishing that.
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If anyone does KVO on your object, they will be sent a "property changed" notification when you call self.myvar = nil in your dealloc method.

It's quite likely that whoever gets notified of the property change will attempt to access your object, but now your object is in a half-destroyed state.
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To add onto that, if you think about it, a lot of other payment platforms already do this without your knowledge.

How else do you think you get stuck with recurring magazine charges for Highlights Magazine... Or is that just me? Anyway, when we do it you have total and utter control over the access third parties have.

Another way to look at it: What if Visa allowed you to see everyone that has had access to your billing information to revoke or change it as you pleased? We thought that'd be huge, especially because you, the consumer, aren't exposing personal information. Also, because 3rd parties aren't allowed to access or store your credentials, they don't have the liability of protecting it.

It's still permission oriented, like swiping, but centralized for independent control.

Go here to see what it will look like to manage those "permissions": http://www.dwolla.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Grid-c...
DVDs or Blu-Rays, or leaking DCP (Digital Cinema Packages) or just with rogue HDMI dongles that don't respect HDCP.
I agree, it would be awesome to have an open standard for sms. It is ludicrous that phone companies have been able to charge so much for sms as long as they have.

One somewhat nice solution for desktop sms is google voice, it's pretty handy but not the ideal solution I think you and many of us are looking for.
x64 uses a complex instruction set, which has a huge number of instructions that can do non-primitive operations in one step. ARM uses a reduced instruction set, which limits the available operations to basic load, store, arithmetic (on register data only), and a couple jump/branch instructions. These design philosophies are incompatible. An x64 chip would be spinning its wheels, wasting power, if it tried to run ARM assembly. An ARM chip would have to virtualize a huge percentage of the operations that an x64 chip would do in a single instruction, and would be painfully slow, mitigating any power savings it might have. ARM will never run x64 binaries. Good thing you're not holding your breath.

This is why we write portable code in higher-level languages that can be compiled for both architectures.

Not sure that Android is a motivating factor for Adobe to produce code for desktop Linux, though. Virtualized x64 compatibility would be slower than ARM, and Flash is already a dog on Android.
ITT: more over-eager moralfags pumping out more MS Sam voiced vids to NATO draft paper. Slactivists everywhere rejoice and begin rehashing usual pedantic arguments.
While I support the endorsement of Amazon's data-driven culture and strategy, I don't think it's fair to describe Apple as its opposite. Apple is not the gut-driven, "bet the company" firm that the general public seems to think it is. Its bets are very data-driven, albeit not quite as real-time-data-driven as a company like Amazon's, whose business model allows for more real time data in the first place.

In broad strokes, I think I'd describe the two companies this way: Amazon innovates through optimization of new markets, while Apple innovates through creating new markets. This isn't a wholly fair description of either company, and as we know, there are exceptions in either direction. But that's the business model of the two companies at a 30,000-foot glance.

As you've hinted, probably the best way to differentiate the strategies of the two companies is on the risk/reward dimension. Amazon operates on a risk-minimization model, while Apple is risk-seeking in favor of outsized rewards. This is partially because Apple is still a hardware company (for now, at least), and it needs to keep reinventing its products to stay ahead of the commoditization of hardware.
If this isn't a hoax (and it smells like one), then I expect some folks to learn an interesting lesson.

I'm not sure if these folks understand the definition of the word 'sedition' or not but they should at least look up the legal consequences of being convicted of treason. It is one thing to joke about wishing harm to a government, but once you step outside the established process for instituting change legally in the government to one where you seek to force change you will find that the 'rules of engagement' with respect to the Government's response have changed in favor of the Government.

Many of those new rules have specific exemptions carved out so that the folks in charge no longer are bound by protecting your 'rights' as specified by the Constitution.

From the form [1] the Justice department fills out with respect to people it is trying for treason, reasons to ask for the death penalty include:

Grave risk to national security -- In the commission of the offense, the defendant knowingly created a grave risk of substantial danger to national security.

And we have the Pentagon recently saying that by policy a 'cyber attack' will be considered an act of war.

Grave risk of death -- In the commission of the offense, the defendant knowingly created a grave risk of death to another person.

And since the military depends on its network systems to prosecute warfare they will argue an attack on these systems puts warfighters (their word for soldiers) into grave risk of death.

There are even this 'bonus' modifiers for treason like:

Obstruction of justice. The victim was killed in an effort by the defendant to obstruct justice, tamper with a witness or juror, or in retaliation for cooperating with authorities.

Where they will argue that if some punks DDoS DoD contractor's computers in retaliation, it might result in disrupting the computers that fly the predators over a battlefield for example.

However, I suspect it's a hoax. Nobody would be so stupid as to set them selves up for the kind of response this would get if it was for 'real.'

[1] http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/tit...
I can't see an awful lot to argue with there. Unless you disagree with universality.
I think it's because the people within government who hired HBGary are living in the same bubble as the people who wrote the NATO report.
Ruby essentially is Objective-C without the C.

If Apple was looking for a language that moved away from the low level C, what benefit would an "Objective" language bring over MacRuby, which is already using the native Objective-C system frameworks?
Moving back to SF and doing Y Combinator again
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I joined the internet in a time when everyone had a "handle" or nickname.

I built up quite a reputation under this nick, but perhaps not enough in the right direction.

Now I find myself going back to the drawing board and building a reputation in my own name.

This also inevitably leads to the dual identity as I struggle to leave the alias behind...
Fixing bugs, or refactoring small things.
Another example of this in action is the little fly or bee that you see on some urinals. This design element persuades its users to take a desirable action; in this case, to pee more accurately.
NATO and the US military are the ones protecting the Internet's vital infrastructure.

Unfortunately, the military and NATO play a crucial role in protecting the freedoms Anonymous waxes poetic about them usurping.
Because business users don't text even a tiny tiny tiny amount of what young iPhone users do.

That's like saying "My Treo has apps way before the iPhone. Why would apps make smartphones popular if the Treo couldn't?"

(BTW, I loved my Treo)
Bill Gates wrote code very well, and was an exceedingly good programmer.

I know, because I used to sit with him late at night at the Harvard CRCT PDP-10 consoles (graduate research center in computing technology), ribbing him about hacking on such silly hobbyist computers as 8008's and 8080's. (He was working on his 8008 assembler/linker/simulator which he used to write the Altair Basic before he ever saw the hardware. Worked the first time he tried it on the real thing.)

He and I also had the same fate undergrad (I was '76, he was '77): we knew enough CS that the undergrad courses at the time (fairly underdeveloped) were too mickey mouse, so we took only grad CS courses (which were good even for their time). And he did well in those courses.

So his brilliance and his skill aren't in question.

Nor is his drive and competitiveness--that was obvious even back then. He was a serious player in the Currier House poker (bridge?) tournaments that would go on for days and involve many $K pots. (Way over my head.)
Mark Thomas' book "The People's Manifesto"* suggests making political promises prior to entering elected office legally binding.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Manifesto
Thanks, I'm aware of that. But where is the difference? I don't know what of my answer would not apply to Austria. But I'm happy to learn.
I didn't say it made sense, merely clearing up the quote.
Ask HN: App for dental forms
Many dentists I've visited over the years enforce me to fill out a form by hand either at the time of my first appointment or fill it by hand at home and bring it along with me at the first appointment. I am trying to pursue an idea of making these forms available online so that the customer can just fill the form, make a new appointment and just visit the dentistry. This will save time of the patient and time of the dentist as well. I've asked some receptionist who work at dental offices and have found out that data provided by the new patient in hand written application format is again entered into the system either by the receptionists or someone else. It is at times entered either into the insurance form generator or just an internal DB to keep record.

I am still figuring out all the unanswered questions I have, however, the biggest question I have is: "Is it a viable idea, given the assumption that I'll be dealing with medical data?" In my opinion, I think this will require the app to be HIPAA compliant (which I don't really want to get my hands into).

Is an idea like this worth pursuing?
thanks for answering, i'm excited for your product and would like to try it if you guys get a canada release.
It is the tight integration with the current messaging application on the iPhone that will possibly kill sms. The average user does not want to go through some 3rd-party app to deal with their text messages. If an average user sees no difference in complexity between using ATT/Verizon sms and iMessage it seems obvious which one they would choose.
By not voting, you're responsible for whoever gets elected. Silence is complicity.
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Everyone should vote and participate. It's our nation's low political participation that allows politicians to be so unaccountable. If more people were politically active, involved, and educating themselves, we'd have much better politicians and laws. I blame our education system for not teaching people how important voting is.
You could possibly use the HNSearch API or HN Firehose Twitter feed to get all the top stories, then check their target URLs for common video types.
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The GTalk Android app only supports one account concurrently which makes it a deal-breaker for people who use business and personal accounts.
I'm really not understanding all the hate against HTML email. To me it seems like saying: "Ascii text is enough, who needs nicely designed word documents or websites"

Also, all our communications (website, snail-mail letters) use our corporate branding. So why not use it in our emails?
Google has had jabber/gtalk integrated into Android since Day 1. It's push and the interface is fantastic. There's a web client built into every gmail user's inbox, and scads of desktop clients.

SMS is still here.

Now, if appleuser@me.com could jabber chat with googleuser@gmail.com across networks, this would be news.
Translating "Everywhere" as "The top 3 browsers on Windows x86" was probably a reasonable approximation for a while, and will probably work for a long time to come. They've got decent penetration to the other 15% of the desktop computing market and didn't really have much of a chance in mobile, so I'd say that a decline to the previous definition of "Everywhere" isn't too terribly bad.
Not enough magazine covers.
"Hacker's Delight" (http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-Henry-S-Warren/dp/0201...) is also a good source for these, as well as other techniques.
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Given that every article calls iMessage a clone of BBM, I don't think anyone is claiming that Apple just invented IM. What people are claiming is that iMessage will reduce SMS volume by billions, which the N900 cannot do because nobody has an N900.
Might be interesting to watch this over the next few days - http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast
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I'll preface this by saying my partner and I have been actively living fitness/bodybuilding-oriented lifestyles for quite a while, so we understand the motivations behind why people use these sorts of tools.

While some people are into Fitocracy simply because of what it is now, I think many are spending time on the site for the promise of what's to come. We're still very early stage and we have a lot more planned beyond simple points and badges. Many features on our roadmap are being designed precisely to help users push themselves and keep consistently progressing in their fitness.
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Known as technology demonstrators and operating from the top secret Groom Lake, these groundbreaking designs tested low observable technologies and proved that stealth aircraft could operate behind enemy lines with a high degree of survivability.
Show HN: Get office hours with real people
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That doesn't mean they have carte blanche to do what they want with it. This is like implying the police should be allowed to break the law.
I think the advantage of the controller here is that it is a touch screen. While your comments focus on the display aspect, I think the fact that it's interactive is more significant. How many buttons can a controller have? How useful are all those symbolically labelled buttons?

I do, however, agree with your skepticism -- I don't think it will be used to it's full (or proper) effect. Business concerns and the failure of imagination on the part of game developers will probably relegate this extra control mechanism to same fate as wiggle-attacks.
I think there is a large truth here, in that Americans have the entrepreneurial spirit in their blood and in their culture. Most of our ancestors were highly dissatisfied with the status quo, to the point where they were willing to travel thousands of miles to a faraway land, back when that was a much bigger deal than it is today.

But I think this is another discussion entirely.
i used this exact method to find the designer i hired about a month ago.

overall, it worked out, but it was a frustrating process. i was aiming for some specifics: a female designer who was up to date on HTML5/CSS3 and ideally had some wedding stuff in her portfolio.

i probably contacted no less than 25 people (through their websites) over the course of two weeks, and was met with either a lack of response, note saying they weren't accepting work, couldn't start soon enough, or for one reason or another i reconsidered.

eventually i found someone who is now doing some really great work, but it wasn't a fast process.

it's important to carefully check out portfolios, because while most things look good on Dribbble, a nice icon or logo doesn't necessarily translate into solid web design skill. i spent a lot of time validating pages (and pages linked in their portfolio), looking for design elements i liked and didn't like, and overall indications that they'd be good for me to work with. that way, once i hired my designer, i knew what to look out for (e.g. press the issue of validating HTML).

all in all -- Dribbble was a good place to find designers, but i still had to do diligence on my end to find the right one for my project. that's basically echoing the point of the article, but it's worth repeating.
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My opinion is that buying a bike online before you have significant cycling experience is a mistake - the benefit of a local bike shop is that they can help you find a bike that fits your physical dimensions, level of fitness and intended use...and of course your budget.

Recommended gadgets: pump, patch kit, small tool kit, water bottle, and lights as required - weight just slows you down.
Negative, it's the fact that you maintain a two party system where both parties are beholden to lobbyists and financial backers.

Edit: Hehe, no not you personally; I should have said "your nation." :)
I think you're missing the point of Fitocracy. It's not to get badges. It's to share your progress and contribute to the journey of other people. Recipes, workout plans, diets, all get shared. There are challenges for people to try new exercises, to expand their workout plan and learn new things. You may think you have skills and strengths far beyond the average user on the site. However, many users from /r/fitness have migrated over there and are making immense lifts.

I've learned about foam rollers, bridges, and countless other things about fitness by being a member. The actual weightlifting may be an individual journey and challenge, but gym culture has always been a social activity. To dismiss the entire site because it has colored badges which are provided for entertainment seems ignorant.
Nice tutorial!

I see few people asking about templates with backbone. I have been there few days back and have ported the TODO app to run on Rails 3.1 with view templates (using coffeescript ofcourse!)

https://github.com/sujithrs/todo

Enjoy!
> Evolution selects for genes that manage to leave lots of descendants.

Nope.

Survival selects for genes that have enough descendants. One way to have "enough" is "lots", but it doesn't necessarily work and isn't necessary.

> In the case of humans, any trait that leads to lots of kids despite economic pressures to have few of them is going to be evolutionarily successful.

Nope - lots of kids is neither necessary nor sufficient. The key metric is "do your kids have kids, rinse and repeat." Too many kids can break that, as can too few.
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I had made plans to learn backbone.js today. I checked out HN this morning and voila there's a fresh tutorial posted :) Thanks so much!
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This page doesn't mention it, but it's interesting to note that the NSOperation subclass used here actually does all of its work on the main thread.
Some systems don't require a complex password. I don't care if someone breaks into the game center thing on the iphone because my password is prettypony2 - what are they going to do, erase my high scores on Tetris? I'm sure as hell not copying and pasting a 16 character password between the LastPass app every time.
My personal data point is also, that most people who are interested in startups, including those who do them, are buisnes guys.
And we do have three big tech university here in Munich.
I know plenty exceptions but overall this is what I see.