skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what the best way to protest a game is? Stop playing for a while and send an email.

I know this sounds absurdly little, but look at it this way: If you're out doing other things, you might find something you like and -never come back-.

This scares the bejeezus out of game developers who exist solely on the fact that people are addicted. If their playerbase actually went and did other things, they couldn't keep going.

So yeah, a few thousand people clogging up the arteries of the system is impressive, but having your numbers drop from 30,000 people at a time to 25,000 at a time is really scary.
I've noticed that in most of the US, "Libertarian" means the opposite of what it does elsewhere. Aside from the Tea Party 2.0-esque "libertarians", most libertarian philosophy is consistent with preventing private corporations from being bullies.

It's a bit counter-intuitive, until you consider that there is no freedom if the rich man makes the rules.
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" The numbers were high enough to cause a real loss of trust in applications, which can impact the entire platform. Where we have failed is not providing enough feedback about negative engagement metrics to developers before needing to take this action. This is something we are working hard to fix with the new Application Insights that will be launching over the next few weeks - you will have detailed information about both positive and negative engagement of the content your application generates."

How this sounds to me: FBlost 7 mil U.S. users May 2011, and one of the biggest exit survey points was wall spam. Some team somewhere was ordered to implement a solution as soon as possible and worry about the fallout from screwing over developers later.

I can't imagine FB will ever get around to reviewing every appeal in a comprehensive manner. But, just in case you're totally delusional, in three weeks or so they'll roll out some new stuff that won't impact in any way the fact they chopped developers' heads off in spite of complying with guidelines. Then, they'll continue going back to being uncommunicative.

You couldn't have taken a few hours to put together a notification? You obviously have the ability to pull together data on all apps and comprehensively shut them off for passing some numeric ratio. Couldn't you have taken, I don't know, 20 minutes and cobble together an email explaining what you'd be doing last night so the devs could at least notify their users?

By the way, this is Hacker News. I'm pretty sure your target audience here could pretty much infer exactly what happened based on anecdotes from the thread and past Facebook maneuvers. The technical explanation could've waited for the final paragraph. The first words into your response ought to have been a big, bold-text "We totally failed at communication and hurt a lot of people because of it. Here are the steps we're undertaking in the future:"

Telling people to go fill out the appeal form is just... I don't know. I don't have anything else to say that is suitable for HN. Bad form, Eugene.
I am very glad I am not the only one that thought about something like this.

My idea was to purchase somewhere that is square, have a central kitchen, but have four different restaurants so you go to one of the four corners and can get completely different experiences.
What sort of barbarian programmer doesn't sort his bills? Unthinkable.
That's just not true, and I wonder if you can cite some statistics or qualifications to back that up. In the Valley vested/exercised shares are equity, common stock, a true ownership stake in the company (see next paragraph, I'm not utopian about that means). Here, he lost his right to the stock after he vested and exercised. _No_ stock! That is profoundly at odds with industry practice that I just don't know where you are coming from in suggesting it's normal.

Standard tech industry practice does, true, allow insiders (at the time of the liquidity event) to play a variety of games to screw common shareholders. Generally, though, the bigger the event in $ terms (and this is big) the less legal room you have to play these games. For instance, as others have pointed out, you can low-ball the offer price but offer "retention bonuses" to current staff. And VCs always have their preferences. But if you keep these things on the safe side of the law, they are less and less impactful as deal size increases. I'd love to hear of a commonly employed mechanism that washes common to zero in a multi-billion dollar deal. I doubt frankly that it exists.
So what's your example of a scenario in which it's worth it for a corporate defendant to spend a lot on legal fees but in which a plaintiff can't find a lawyer who judges the chances of recovering his own fees acceptably likely to take the case?
What happens to the games you've bought if you stop paying the monthly fee, though?
Sounds a bit like hubris perhaps...
The training is not meant to be patronizing, it's meant to insure that your users can use the feature properly. Also, there is to levels of user here--the admin user (who is in control of the feature) and the agent users (the agents who use the product to operate). The forced training is at the agent user level.

From experience, I think mandatory training is necessary otherwise you end up with your agents using fields as they _think_ they should be used instead of how they should be used.
Apple does OK charging high prices for simple products. The target market is prosumers - people who pay a bit more for a product that is (or is marketed as) a joy to use.

Most software engineers are prosumers, so you either target them or the enterprise.

Now, "onion" products are better - they let the user grow from a simple base. But a simple product is a lot easier to make, which frees up resources for marketing or other products.
This title could use a [1995] tag
@vannevar you have obviously never been sued or threatened on a meritless claim by a multi billion $ company. Loser pay is a significant equalizer because let's say the case is speech related, the ACLU will defend you all day long necuase their attorneys get paid in the end. I imagine other attorneys would take up your defense for similar reasons...
Is this for all of the bills? My parents were.given a fake $5 bill at a store last weekend. $5 and $10 seem to be more common
Source? I don't disbelieve you, I'd just like to read this in black-and-white myself for maximum astonishment.
I'll be in Palo Alto from July 5th on and am awesome. I'm emailing you now.
Have you dealt with the issue that checkins are almost impossible to verify in their current form?
Emergent gameplay!
I figured that might have happened :)
The definition of active is absolutely not fuzzy. Standard metrics include 1, 7 and 30 day actives, i.e. the number of people who have logged in at least once in the last N days. Tracking those three over time gives you some good statistics.
>To put it another way, it decreases the likelihood of frivolous plaintiffs but increases the likelihood of frivolous defendants.

An acceptable trade-off in my view. The defendant is by definition not the one starting the court case so its more difficult to abuse. e.g. I can go onto the street & hit 10 guys with a baseball bat. Compare that with waiting on the street to get punched in the face (unlikely to happen) & then hitting them back with a baseball bat. Both involve the possibility of someone getting hit with a baseball bat but the one is less likely to happen & more difficult to abuse.
If you simply round to the nearest penny (3,4,5,6,7=5, and 8,9,0,1,2=0)on all transactions, then it evens out.

Those pennies really don't add up. See if you can find a store that won't add in the extra pennies to round you up, seriously - they certainly don't care.
The video is a black rectangle for me. Can someone post a YouTube link?
My sympathy. I am thinking the tax, as described by them, is not how the IRS would view it. I would imagine that you probably want all this behind you, but I would think a lawyer mightbhave a different interpretation. You would still net zero, but the tax things seems way out of left field.
The fifth amendment defense was overturned in the Boucher case because: "A District Court judge agreed with the government, holding that, given Boucher's initial cooperation in showing some of the content of his computer to border agents, producing the complete contents would not constitute self-incrimination." [1]. Without Boucher having given up the names and titles of his files, it is entirely reasonable to expect that the fifth amendment would hold when testimony is asked without knowing what is inside the encrypted space.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/United_States...
This may have been posted below as I did not read every comment but isn't impossible to prove that the file is a TrueCrypt volume to begin with? Couldn't you just claim it was a corrupt computer file that contained random data? How can they ask you for something that they have no proof even exists? There is no proof the file is a TrueCrypt volume so there is no way to prove there is even a password to find.
Loser pays in Canada too. There's way less lawsuits but even if your in the right you might not sue, simply because you can't afford to lose.
this is a sad news i am a big fan of Jon and Opera :(
Wind farm sale sends SeaEnergy plummeting
Refering to a Robert Scoble post while accusing DHH of being on insider bubble is really hilarious. There is no one more in the bubble than Scoble, and no one who is more blinded by the fact that he's in the bubble than Scoble.

DHH was fundamentally right, even if the details were wrong. For 99.9% of apps there is a replacement app available on any of the mainstream phone platforms. The long tail maybe gets you a bit more polish, but its polish on non-core scenarios. Most people will decide based on the polish for their core scenario, not on Textalyzer.
Having different sized bills is kind of like keeping your money in a visual/tactile hash-table. An array is the wrong data structure for your wallet!
They could also have executed their options to purchase the stock...
Google didn't do the news stuff with minimal input.

I know because I lead one of the teams on this.

The hole in the news industry is much larger than anything Google is going to be able to fill. Calcified organizations, insane cost structures, low value production, archaic formats... this will take more than some software to fix.
Yes, it is in fact a blanket protection against having to give testimony.
Am I the only person who couldn't get anything out of this post because of its bad grammar?
Wow, what an amazing idea! Personally, this is one of the few examples I've seen where QR codes are used effectively.

Has anyone seen other examples similar to this in the states? My guess is that something like this would be a hit in larger metro areas like NYC??
My reading of the response is that they understood they made a mistake, and that was the good part, admitting the mistake, but I suppose it is open to interpretation.
Sadly, what POSIX set out to achieve has devolved such that each mobile platform has a unique programming interface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FByfSsvKVzc
I wish I knew how to create internet.
Ask HN: Bitcoin value after relaunch?
What do you think the value of Bitcoins will be (USD) at the 03:00 GMT Launch (June 25)?

Will the value of a Bitcoin rise or fall after relaunch?
Facebook To Launch Crowdsourced Ad Format Next Week
It works the way the parent says, not the way you say.
I'm from Brisbane and have been there a few times. Aside from being tiny it's pretty good.
All bills, starting with the $100 and working down.
I wonder how many spectators there were during the heyday of CS on HLTV watching the matches — during CPL and whatnot . .
Yeah, I think a solid color or a soft-going gradient layout that contrasts well with the colors of the site's body would work well.
Don't you? Of course you would...
So it's momentum and fear of change (which plays into a fear of no-one-will-need-a-lawyer-to-decode-this, perhaps). Makes sense, but obviously not ideal. What can we do to change this, if anything?
I wonder if Android has a chance, long term, in the tablet market. I personally love Honeycomb and my Galaxy 10.1, but I have yet to meet a non-techie who knows what one is, let alone wants one (nook doesn't count).

People know what an iPad is. They want iPads. They see my Galaxy and ask why I didn't get an iPad, or say "ohhh, so it's like an iPad...". My mom doesn't know what android is, but she knows what an iPad is, and to her the word tablet doesn't exist, just iPads.

Android on smartphones has largely succeeded to fill in the hole where iPhone can't fit, which was until recently anyone off of AT&T. But phones are a necessity, a tablet is a more deliberate purchase. So until people start to identify Android tablets as something themselves and not just a generic, poorman's iPad, they'll continue to stay obscure.
That tin hat of yours comfortable?

Asserting that the government is going to make thinking illegal makes regular ol 2012 alarmists look good in comparison.
It is politically very difficult, because the government is then seen to be putting brakes on the most promising sector in the economy.
"If they do have probable cause, they get a warrant which gives them the power to do the search temporarily and only for what they think exists. So if you get a warrant to search your hard drive for something, you are compelled to give them the password just like you are compelled to let them into your house if they have a warrant to search for something like drugs or guns or counterfeit plush toys."

Does US law require me to open the door of my house to the police if they have a warrant?

In lots of countries a warrant allows the police to search your house, but it does not require your cooperation. You may not actively hinder the police from doing their task, but you, e.g., do not need to open the door.
So Steve Landry goes up there and insults Carol Bartz for 6 minutes...and she gives a non-answer.
"Questionable" is the key point here. We can't be sure if the defence holds water until it has been thoroughly tested in court.

As for shadow volumes, that's a whole other kettle of fish. I'm sure it won't be quite that simple - if your VLC history has a link to /shadow-volume/pirate_movie.avi then they may be able to compel you to decrypt it.
Well, the OP is German, so I'm sure he's doing the best he can. And it's really not that bad -- certainly writes better in English than I can in German! :-)
From Classical to Quantum Shannon Theory
There may be a decent argument to this effect, but the one presented is extremely weak. I don't understand why you get to ignore all[1] mobile native gaming because of an unsupported assertion that "most people" don't play web games. Firstly because it's not clear why you would ignore something people do on one platform because it's (allegedly) not done on another. Secondly because it's not at all clear that it's true.

FarmVille alone has in excess of 80 million users, some 20% or more of which play every day. Even the original Flurry post that the author links to points out that "Games, which typify the most popular kind of app played on the Facebook platform itself, are also the top categories on both Android and iOS platforms." (emphasis mine) How, then, does it make any sense to completely ignore native gaming without cutting a single minute off of web apps?

[1]:Oddly, the author cites web-capable portable devices used for gaming (like the Nintendo DS or Sony PSP) as something other than native mobile gaming. I can understand not including them at all, as they weren't part of the original comparison, but citing them as a reason to ignore gaming on iOS and Android is convenient.
Especially when the "protest" generates news, and gets the product name in front of casually interested gamers who might actually sign up for new accounts.
Basecamp is a good product but only if you share its "opinion" on workflow and design. Obviously 37Signals has done well by sticking to a minimal set of features and catering to a very specific audience.

We are of the mindset that software should fit the way you work, not necessarily the other way around. We're building a Force.com-like platform that allows you to create custom business workflow apps in minutes to handle not just tasks, but also lightweight crm, recruiting, and other business functions involving a relatively defined process. We provide a fast UI to access these records, so all you do is specify the schema and callbacks.

We're still in beta, but happy to release some invites and work with members of the HN community -- http://www.devcomb.com
Apple doesn't typically raise prices - usually same price point and better hardware, more features, etc. The OP was taking issue with coming back to Basecamp and having to pay more than he used to, without getting any new substantive features.

If Apple did this - raised their prices while also taking a 'less is more' approach wrt features, many of their most ardent supporters would eventually defect.

re: basecamp - I knew several orgs in 2008-2009 that had paid versions of it. none of them liked it, but used it because it was something, and they were paying for it so it must be OK. I suspect that over time, BC will bleed enough paying users to the point where they'll reinvigorate the team and start adding more value. Then again, they may just raise the price and ride out their name brand making boatload of money for many more years to come.
The worst possible thing about US money is that it is all the same colour. Whomever thought of that was obviously not working at maximum power.
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Definitely agree that big, popular dating sites won't be quick to pick this up. I do see the possibility of them monitoring the usage of the API and perhaps integrating some 3rd party API's into their sites too.

What the dating API allows you to do is show off not only what you SAY you're doing, but what you're ACTUALLY doing. It adds an additional facet to someone's profile, which only enhances online dating in my opinion. Could be something larger players would want to look into.

The ongoing trend of mobile dating and social apps should benefit from this release.
The first link isn't dead, it just has an extra quote at the end of the URL:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2001-10-09/india...

There are also footnotes here sourcing all of the claims to major newspapers:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO206A.html

I haven't actually gone to the library and looked up the paper editions or the original broadcasts, but I have no reason to believe that they don't exist. E.g.

"As to September 11th, federal authorities have told ABC News they have now tracked more than $100,000 from banks in Pakistan, to two banks in Florida, to accounts held by suspected hijack ring leader, Mohammed Atta." Source: Statement of Brian Ross reporting on information conveyed to him by the FBI, ABC News, This Week, September 30, 2001.

You might even be able to find this on archive.org, otherwise you'd have to go to a library I guess. I think that Loose Change: Final Cut also sources the claims, but I haven't seen it in a couple years so I can't remember.

edit: Even the sites purporting to debunk the claim don't deny the articles exist, they're just challenging the existence/validity of the anonymous senior official(s).

edit2: Loose Change link showing the government redacted a question about the ISI from the official transcripts of a press conference even though it was asked on video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8IqZwl3l-o#t=1m14s
When I said, "nonsense," I meant that it's nonsense to call it a retention plan if you don't actually tell people they have an incentive to stay after their options so-called "vest."
You're in the post-first-year quiet rejections, months between e-mail replies, and horrible uncertainties of iOS development period. Perhaps Facebook will get there one day too? :-)
How do you deal with failure of the Metadata server? According to Wikipedia, there's only one per filesystem, and failover or multiple MDSs aren't supported. Had any problems with this?
What does this have to do with anything? Forcing users to change their passwords every 15 days to a 15 to 30 character password composed of no dictionary words, mixed upper- and lower-case letters, special symbols (except '^' and '$') and at least four numbers that do not appear in their SSN or birth date is a security measure too. Doesn't mean it's sensible or even reliable security.
One of the big problems with 'stop playing' protests is that gamers have to pay for a month of playtime in advance, and in many cases, they pay in 3-12 month intervals to save money. This is the case for World of Warcraft subscriptions, for example - they give you a discount if you pay up front.

If you stop playing after you already paid, the company isn't really going to suffer any immediate impact, and any visible dent in their metrics will probably be deferred until they see people not renewing subscriptions. A delay that large will basically kneecap any attempt at drawing attention to players' reaction to a change.
We can't really judge the success of that until after the first crash.
In Australia, the shops will say "4.99", and round the total (say $24.87) off. The occasional crazy old granny will go through the supermarket checkout multiple times, forcing them to round down multiple times, but it's not that common. Inflation means that even 5c coins are seen as an annoyance by shopkeepers.
Since they serve entirely different market segments I seriously doubt that Five Guys is disrupting McDonalds. McDonalds probably pulls more profit out of Manhattan that Five Guys does across the entire country. Five Guys may have a better product, but McD has a better business...
It is sad that CS students are now encouraged to become fancy sysadmins, linking existing technologies together 95% of the time and maybe adding 5% of actual stuff.

No wonder resumes come with tens of technology names on it, but the owner fails to implement basic things like itoa.
I thinks its just a feeble attempt to rationalize their evil actions.
For smaller projects CodeIgniter is great. It's simple to learn and use, and has excellent documentation (better than Kohana's).
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So what you're saying is that the penny got nickel and dime'd to it's current value?
Is it the top on mobile devices that are growing? Longer term, being on Nokia (for example) while Apple and Google continue to grow can't be good for Opera's mobile share.
To be fair, it failed completely then -- Steam servers crashed, downloads were slow and it offered virtually no benefit.
Well, the Reserve Bank of Australia's subsidiary used to just offer hookers, coke, and offshore bank accounts to their clients; but was told it wasn't an appropriate sales technique for a government owned entity.

Duckduckgo "RBA corruption".
All you want to do is showcase your company's growth in the best possible way without being misleading. They're not being misleading or shitty. If you're a free service that doesn't require a signup and makes money off advertising, then reporting registered users doesn't make sense. Advertisers just want to know eyeballs, so Google Analytics Visitor numbers will do. For Foursquare reporting registered users doesn't really make much sense either. They could have easily reported mobile installs too, but that would be similar. Internally, I'd be checking other growth metrics such as "How many people are using Explore", or "How many people are referring friends", or "How many businesses are getting new leads as a result of Foursquare". These are much more important questions, but alas, getting the media to care about that is hopeless.
The weirdest thing about the penny is that it costs more than one cent to manufacture. Given, they last for quite a while.

That's why it's illegal to melt them down, and the US restricts exporting them.