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I left this comment at Uber:

What drives people crazy is insincerity . Why not to call spades, spades? Uber is in the business, an innovative and disrupting and customer-centric business. Your business is good, as it was carved by hard work of Uber team, and your livelihood and success depends on it.

So, why not to tell your customers that you are there for them, when they need you. You don't have to mention "we love taxi, unions, taxes and strikes" BS, or you can stand for your business, and say "f%$# taxi drivers, look at us, we are better, and here's our discount!"

Good luck with Uber, and, please, be sincere.
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They're getting torn apart there. Come on guys, it was a bug that existed for a short amount of time and nobody was affected afaik. I know I'm gonna get shit for defending them, but come on. If you're using Dropbox to store your passwords or confidential documents, you deserve to have your account hacked. It's harsh, but it's an unfortunate reality.
Agreed. Or a notification when a new device logs into your account, like Facebook does.
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I'd love for you to post their reply if you're willing.
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This is for turntable.fm. I can't be the only one who has tried, because I've been beaten a few times by other "clickers." :)
Databases, network connections, processes?
No, actually, it is like saying there is a vaccine that prevents many cervical cancers. And there is:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cervical-cancer-vaccine/WO0...

If you're a woman under age 26 you should get this at once.

The cited article totally skips over these existing vaccines, of course. Probably someone along the line deleted one too many words from a more factually accurate sentence in the original press release.
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I can't be the only one who has tried this because I have been beaten a few times while using it. I usually get a dj spot in the largest channels on turntable.fm pretty quickly, though. If only I knew what dubstep was then maybe I'd have some dj points. :)
What's really cool about Zoosh is what it does for p2p or m2m behavior.
The flat 4,410yen/mo data plan is gone for all smartphones except iPhone.

There are sometimes discounts on Android handsets, but they don't reach Softbank's discount of just completely giving away the iPhone.
I don't get it. Who was did he buy the coins from at such a low price?
Also, I thought Shopkick would have locked up these patents?
I'm pretty sure that your last paragraph is how I was taught it. It does have the problem that you spend an awful lot of time wondering why tangent lines are so important before you find out. (Prior to that I recall wondering why we spent so f'ing much time on "slope". Sometimes I think the standard curriculum would actually be better off if it just admitted that some stuff is only really going to be clear in another year, rather than make up bullshit reasons for caring about the intermediate concepts once it runs out of real reasons.) I'm not sure there exists a serialization of those concepts that doesn't have at least one "bear with me, we'll get to why this is important in about six weeks..."
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I have been working with text mining and NLP for 20+ years but I bought this tutorial this morning because it looked interesting. I watched just the 20 minute introduction during lunch, and it framed machine learning in an interesting way. The video production itself is also well done.
Whether or not accepting it was seen as an endorsement, this is a pretty strong unendorsement considering recent events. So much so that it feels like another nail in a coffin.
I'm not a developer - but if there is interest in a general meetup, I'm in!
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Beautiful hardware design, innovative user experience (borrows good stuff from Windows Phone and webOS), lots of popular built-in apps, outstanding camera, but...

...built on MeeGo, the operating system Nokia dumped for Windows. It's sad to see that Nokia's last MeeGo hurrah is on a flagship device that may never see a major update in its future.
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Yes. Functional test, integration test, request test (as rspec-rails calls it).

Better if it tests the production site directly, in addition to testing in a test environment.
I suppose this will be MeeGo's flagship device? Honestly, I don't know if the mobile OS market has room for another...
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I've also emailed them and will be waiting to hear from them. This was a big breach of security.
You can still pay for somebody else's domain if you talk to the right person. The web dev company I used to work for had to do it a few times.
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It's the first day of summer here.[0] I've been reading HN for a few years, and I figured this would be as good a time as any to say thank you.

Thank you to PG for the essays and HN.

Thank you to everyone who has respectfully responded to a comment that didn't deserve it.

Thank you to everyone who responded thoughtfully and kindly to a comment they strongly disagreed with.

Thank you for teaching me that everything posted is going be be read by n people, and I better make sure it is worth their time. Reading HN is worth my time, and I want to return the favor.

Thank you for the new ideas.

Thank you for the surprises.

Anyway, it is shaping up to be a nice long day. Have some fresh lemonade, and take the laptop outside if you can. I hope you enjoy it.

[0] winter, if you are upside down.
"I feel this article is guilty of exactly what it argues against.... Instead of accepting this, he simplified each view that contradicts his own down..."

Do you know what a "field guide" is? They're not generally full course textbooks on zoology.

If you want a more full treatment, I hear there's this "Believing Bullshit" book by, I don't know, some guy or other, I heard about it somewhere. (Haven't read it, so I can't guarantee it has any given thing, but I bet it's a good deal longer than that article.)

I think one is generally allowed to allude to belief in extraterrestrial visitation and psychic powers being a bit on the poorly-grounded side without popping open a footnote and pouring 150,000 words on the topic into it, especially in what is basically a sales pitch for a longer work.
10,000 passwords are 99.8% of all user passwords in 6m username/pwd database
An email should go out to every Dropbox customer with an option to log in and see all log info during the breached timeframe.
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Maybe...if you could develop for it in Java and they put a lot of work into making it effortless to go from Android to their OS. At which point, you might as well just be running Android.

FFS. If your company name isn't "Apple," use Android. Availability of software is a key issue. I have no clue why anyone would want to build a completely independent and incompatible application library at this point. Buy some water pumps for Indian villages if you have that much spare money.
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Facebook, Microsoft, and Zynga are all indirectly controlled by the state. They can be completely dismantled if we are so inclined. Bitcoin cannot be dismantled via the same direct political power.
This makes sense for a material currency, where you wouldn't want to be burdened with useless paper rectangles or metal coins. (Same thing for an embassy, by the way, which has a non-zero cost.) But for donations with a digital currency, I think it was reasonable to hope that they could just publish a Bitcoin address just in case without endorsing it for real, because the cost to receive Bitcoin is essentially zero. (Keep in mind that you don't even need to run the software anymore, you just need to keep a copy of the private key somewhere.)

This being said, the EFF's choice is cautious, but sensible. (It's just slightly annoying to see Bitcoin labeled as a "product or service", whereas it's supposed to be a protocol.)
Your last paragraph is the approach Spivak takes in his wonderful textbook 'Calculus'. One of the best maths textbooks in existence.
The 6 million username/password database was collected by Mark Burnett, author of Perfect Passwords, over the course of many years. Given that most people use a password strategy that involves stronger and more unique passwords for finance and ecommerce sites, I'm guessing that the vast majority of these username/password pairs were obtained from less important sites. Perhaps Mark will pipe in to clarify this point.
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MeeGo will live on and grow, but the N9 will be hobbled by Nokia refusing (not officially just in dribs and drabs) to provide the necessary updates (drivers and other binary blobs) that N9 owners will need to upgrade.

I'll wait and see how bad the vendor OS lockin is before considering buying what should be a device (and OS) pretty much perfect for me.
Awesome. Thank you so much for your help. If you need anything, drop a line.
If you're trying to illustrate position on three spectrums, illustrate three spectrums. 6 bars on a graph implies, however vaguely, to the reader, despite your intent, that the abscissa means something. But it doesn't. It just confuses the picture. so get rid of that abscissa.

In any case, anxiety and depression are generally a package deal in clinic. So I would put them together visually.

Depression --------------------X------- Happiness

Anxiety ----------------X----------- Confidence

Hostility -------------------x-------- Compassion
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Anyone know how much it cost ClubPenguin to get the domain name back?
http://www.bitcoincharts.com lists the daily trading volume of various exchanges. I think the numbers for Mt. Gox represent the volume before things went sour, so based on that, Mt. Gox sees almost 30 times the volume of the next largest exchange.
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hindsight is indeed 20/20
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But will instead pull out a magazine or book that's larger? I don't see the logic.
I wrote a recent blog post that explains the sources:
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i work with images (and code too) .. but with my mid 2010 macbookpro it gets too slow to be usefull .. i think this kind of interface just need the next (or the next next) chip generation. than you can design a application like that the way it's supposed to be - ultra fast, with every label changing size to be readable .. etc etc .. nice try though ..
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They introduced a family of NFC paired accessories too, http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/06/21/nokia-steps-it-up-...
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I was just wondering when someone would pull off something like that when I read http://www.news.com.au/world/indias-oldest-prisoner-free-at-... a couple of days ago.

In a gist, the article is about India freeing her oldest prisoner because of the authorities "who found it difficult to provide medical treatment"
You can always check out SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com) or Wuala,com. Client side encryption key creation, zero-knowledge, cross platform, sync and mobile clients.
This is pretty neat...

Wouldn't it be more wonderful if could organize our own hacker dojo (where people just drop by and discuss what they are working on OR brainstorm about cool stuff to build).
Once again, (after viewing their demo video again) I find myself puzzled by who Color is targeting, what their app really does, and of course how they will make money.

It seems they're kind of a twitter for photos with ad hoc local area wireless photo sharing. What problem does this solve?

When I take a snapshot, why would I want to share it with anyone who happens to be in range? What makes this so appealing? I can't see any appeal, but perhaps that's just me.

How do they make money? It seems they'll be going for some variant of permission marketing, based on accrued data of user interests. But how does the user benefit?
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I really hope this supports ATT bands for 3G!! I've been pulling my hair out because the N900 (an awesome phone that I had the pleasure to develop for in Python + Qt at $work) only supports EDGE on ATT. I will miss the physical keyboard but I think a real (read: not resistive) touchscreen will work OK.

edit: It does indeed support ATT 3G bands (850 and 1900 MHz): http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/11/nokia-n9-hits-the-fcc-pac...
Selenium (http://seleniumhq.org/) might work but it's not a simple command line script.
I think you and the EFF are using different meanings for endorsement. Yes, by accepting it they were saying "we recognize that these BTC have some agreed-upon value and may be exchanged for good or services", and that is one type of endorsement.

What they do not want people to take away, though, is an explicit or implicit statement that "we believe in what bitcoin has set out to do, and lend our [moral] support to the effort" and possibly furthermore "we believe this is a legal thing to do and that it is a freedom we will fight to defend." Those statements, explicit or implicit, are a different type of endorsement.
I've been anonymously paying for the domain name of a local charity for almost a decade. The registrar they use doesn't care who renews a domain, anyone can mail in the form with payment and a domain they control written in.
I'm pretty sure they'll reconsider the final strategy if this device is successful. At least it seems to get pretty much positive attention right now.
Given the UX carwreck onSwipe's ipad theme on wordpress.com is I hope for Forbes' sake things have got better. Page turning effects and other CSS3 transition icing are cute and all the the combination of slow, juddery scrolling and moving and the complete lack of feedback (click on something, wait, wonder if it's broken, slowly watch content judder up the page, wait patiently to be able to actually read it....) renders sites I usually enjoy unreadable.
That seems like a pretty empty criticism when the article itself is basically a dust-cover synopsis of his book. He's illustrating particular points using representative commonly-held irrational beliefs, not laying out a point-by-point case against each.

Your line of thinking seems to imply that every counterargument must be considered before drawing a conclusion. Since the possible counterargument space is basically infinite, we wouldn't be able to decide anything. That can't be right. You have to be able to identify patterns of reasoning that are common to a whole set of "thought processes working in any number of contexts," and recognize how certain patterns will invalidate any argument that relies on them. Which is exactly what he's doing. And why he can feel confident in calling certain beliefs irrational without having heard every possible argument in their favor.
> There appears to be a real market demand for a currency that is not controlled by a national government, especially one that has the features of cash-like transactions. That bitcoin is lacking as an implementation is immaterial, people want it for whatever reason.

"We must do something, {random} is something, therefore we must do {random}" is generally regarded as a fallacy.
It's a penta-band (just like the N8), so you should be happy:

http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n9-00/sp...
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I guess the point can be summarized like

- When someone says that something is obvious, we cannot claim that he/she actually understands it well.

- But, if someone understands something well, it will seem obvious to him/her.
"To land, the pilot cuts the engines and glides down to Earth before reigniting the regular engines before landing."

What happens if the engines don't restart as planned? An interesting idea, but it seems to have a high risk factor.

Overall, it reminds me of the "semi-ballistic" transports described in Robert Heinlein's book "Friday."
No they could not. There could be and in some cases already are Web based similar services out there. But they are inferior, unpopular among iPad users. Connected Application can not necessarily translate into a web application and remain the same attraction or even feature parity.

Angry Bird/Tiny Wings/Fruit Ninja etc are not as graphically demanding as say Infinite Blade, but they are still very well done games with impressive art work. As a matter of fact all the Zynga games and Gameloft titles in the top 10 are not flashy by any means, to be honest Gameloft's 3D engine is so out of date it's laughable.

I'm sure given enough motivation Adobe can make Flash do anything, it could do your dishes and make your coffee. But it doesn't mean you should let Flash take over.

IMHO your wishful thinking is as meaningless if not more, especially when you don't even have stats.
Looks cute, it's like the what would come out mixing an iPod Nano 2nd gen and an iPhone. And it's unibody ;)
If you weren't around for the last discussion and haven't figured it out by the web client: dropbox encrypts and decrypts your data on their servers which inherently provides anyone with access to them and their encryption decryption methods access to your files.

The problem as discussed many times is that of security and usability, dropbox takes the usability route and for some users this is great for others not so much.
Completely different framework and way more fluid. That experience will be ported to Wordpress soon too.
For those who are interested in the trade-offs between anonymity and accountability online, here is a really great talk by Vint Cerf:

http://www.livestream.com/internetsocietychapters/video?clip...

In particular, I found the distinction between "identity" and "identifiers" (with strong cryptographic verification of the latter) to be enlightening.
I don't know why you've been down voted to oblivion, but have an up vote. :)

This thing is not even close to Android or WP7, let alone iOS. Swiping is a feature now? Really? The basis of every phone since 2007 is a great new feature?

Sigh. :)
Flagship and Swan Song at the same time.

I don't know how they expect developers to make apps for a platform that they've publicly stated is only going to have this one phone released for.

I hope I'm wrong though, I still have an irrational fondness for Nokia hardware and the N-series (I bought and regretted every Maemo device they sold).
If it's online, it's not safe, period. Not combination of encryption, or BSD*, or any operating system will make it safe. Why? Human error.

Brain surgeons makes mistakes, people die. Pilots makes mistakes, people die. _Everyone_ makes mistakes. There is not one single person on this planet who is perfect, human error, this includes the employees of rsync.net, or any other company for that matter.

Today it happened to dropbox, tomorrow it happends to Visa, Bank of america, Amazon, rsync.net, <insert X company here>

Its just life, learn to deal with it. If you seriously have seriously confidential stuff, you're probably intelligent enough not to "upload" it anywhere, much less some file service with millions of users.

The more users the more exposed it is, human error. No encryption or system will ever protect against it, at least until we have true AI, and yes you also make mistakes, now matter how stupidly simple or complicated they are, nevertheless you do.

And dropbox, don't get a sad face because of this, just look at Sony or whatever, then smile.
Those were some horrible examples. Its not surprising that star ANALysts make no difference. Studies show that monkeys perform just as well at investing.

His other example are teams in professional sports. This is also horrible because even the "average" professional athlete represents the cream of the crop (.01%). Scotty Pippen, Steve Kerr, and Dennis Rodman were no Michael Jordan but surely they're stars by any other metric.
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Write down the steps required to merge changes from 5 different people using your method. Now what are the steps using something like github without the web interface?

There is a big difference.
Such an arrangement of payment in a different currency might fly in the US. But I am guessing such stunts in the top two populous countries can get you arrested?

edit: s/pretty sure/guessing
Here's a pretty good analogy: You're playing chess. Each move must be made in 10 minutes or less. Do you want 1000 mediocre chess players on your side, all conferring and required to reach majority consensus, to decide your moves? Or would you rather have 5 great chess players conferring to decide your moves?
Wouldn't it be difficult to find apps for MeeGo? Compared to iOS, Android or even Symbian for that matter?
Another positive comment: I find myself stopping the video to set up tools that she is using (e.g., the JSONview Chrome plugin, Peter Skomoroch's dataset bookmarks, and I just signed signed up for several New York Times APIs).

Also good advice from the video: ask politely for data. About 12 years ago, I wanted access to a large corpus of news stories and none of the national news web sites I contacted would respond to my requests for legal access to their data (i.e., scraping their sites). I then contacted a local paper we subscribed to (Arizona Republic), told them I was a customer, exactly what I was going to use the data for, etc. I received a permission letter fairly quickly.
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My girlfriend's heart rate monitor uses a similar technology to transmit her heart rate data to her computer. It's a neat idea, but it also leaves me skeptical that such an idea would work well for purchases...
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Not much. Typically there is a 60 day vesting period (I am not sure if that is the correct length or name) when the domain is still in the control of the registrar and the owner can pay them a fee (it was $100 for my previous registrar) to get the domain back.

http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/gtld-lifecycle.htm
Suggestion to PG: infinite scrolling instead of "Unknown or expired link."
HN would be well suited to an "infinite scrolling" UI, similar to dzone.com

Constantly getting the "expired link" message after pressing "more" is getting a little tedious. It feels like the HN architecture is broken around this.

I assume HN works this way because HN creates static pages which eventually get replaced with a new set of static pages as more items are submitted? Infinite scrolling would fix that because pages would not need to contain a consistent number of rows.
I'm not sure, but they may have been pushing Qt more than actually pushing the Windows 7. Good to see the trolls are alive and well.