skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don't really get that either. It seems like it was unnecessary to even write this blog post or include any examples if you really had to say this publicly. This seems like a great candidate for an office email.

Right now I'm picturing the worst about someone without details so my brain is just making up things that are probably much worse than anything that actually happened. I didn't much control over that instinct either which is the most annoying part.
Well said sir/madam.. well said
I can't wait to see Cortex A5 phones (cheaper than ARM11, almost as powerful as Cortex A8) starting to arrive later this year. We should start seeing under $100 Android smartphones by the end of the year, and we'll probably see $50 smartphone sometime next year.

All this means bad news for Nokia especially, but even for RIM in the consumer market.
They'll drop support once the costs become significant relative to the number of users. Right now, older IE versions have a much higher cost due to being built on an antique rendering engine - Firefox 3.6 is generally far less expensive unless you actually depend on certain more recent features because it wasn't missing support for so many basic features (e.g. think of the impact on your CSS without something like inline-block versus, say, box-shadow).
They can't drop IE8 because too many businesses are still on XP.
One way to test it would be to see if the median face, by some choice of metric, was also more attractive. The problem with other averaging methods, like simple pixel averaging, is that you can produce a result that is not actually particularly similar to any face anyone has. For example, if you had a population where everyone's face was highly asymmetric, but 50% in one direction and 50% in the other direction, the average would be a symmetric face that is completely atypical for the population.
i first came across the idea in o henry's classic "the cop and the anthem": http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/o_henry/32/
This is a pretty odd blog post.

Who would possibly think that success or even a metric of success was owning tshirts? Anyone that even suggests that, well, you probably want to avoid talking to them as they are clearly a delusional, for lack of a better word.

It'd probably take $20 and ten minutes to have bespoke tshirts printed. Did I miss something? Why is this a big deal either way? I'm a startup founder and I cannot stand startup printed tshirts. (I only wear slate james perse tshirts.) I didn't realise I was on such a back foot compared to other startups, irrespective of their funding or aptitude, but solely if they have tshirts with their shitty logo on them.

I can only rationalise this blog post by assuming you are alluding that people worrying about bespoke tshirts is the beginning of the end because you are not focussing on creating a good product or talking to your users
The upgrade difficulties in large organizations are often brought upon themselves with poor adherance to public standards and insufficient test automation. Last I checked, Google itself is a large organization, and they don't seem to have any worries over the rate at which software gets updated.
At least he has the decency to admit that pageviews are more important to him than integrity.
> before telling the hole world about it.

Unclear if the pun was intended or not, but amusing either way...
There was an article a few months ago that showed the FBI spends most of its resources going after copyright infringers. Maybe you could claim some of your intellectual property was stolen next time?
That puts us back at break even, maybe...

It doesn't pay for healthcare. Look, I'm not saying we don't need reform, but we can't just flip a magic switch and make it so.
Geez. What's up with the "write 20 lines of trivial javascript, put it on github, put more effort into making a webpage than the actual code, post it on HN".
Be sure not to step on the bushes when getting your football...
Yeah, but it's a term that's used differently by the mainstream than by hackers, so you'd be constantly explaining yourself to avoid misperception. Constantly explaining what you mean is fatally geeky. It's better to use a word people don't know and only explain if they ask.
i'm interested in knowing how you would "incent" corporations to voluntarily pay some taxes if they pay none at all

and the US has somewhere around forty-seventy TRILLION dollars in unfunded liabilities, so i'm also interested to know how "bad" things should get before its fixed?

and don't respond with some moronic plea for me to cite the unfunded liability number, google is your friend
My (admittedly poor) understanding of antitrust is that it's not illegal to have a monopoly, but rather it's illegal to abuse that monopoly position in anti-competitive ways. And aside from the consumer rights issues of walled gardens, there are serious conflicts of interest with Apple offering services such as iTunes and iBooks while also being the sole software vendor for competitors such as Netflix and Kindle.
I'm quite grateful to Google for this. As a web developer, I'd always hoped that some big industry player would start forcing people to use modern browsers, and now it's happening.

As small players, dropping support for older browsers kind of pulls us into the morass of a Nash equilibrium. Everyone would benefit if all web developers could agree on requiring modern browsers. We'd all be saved the pain of supporting old browsers, and users would upgrade because every site forces them to. But as an individual web developer, I can't very well just make that call and hope others will follow suit. Because until everyone else does the same, I'm stuck telling my clients they're giving up visitors with older browsers "for the greater good." Not workable. So my current best strategy is to support older browsers, and the same is true for each other developer. Yet as a whole industry, we'd be way better off dropping old browsers.

But a huge player like Google can afford to do it unilaterally. And when they do, they create an opportunity for countless small developers like me to do the same.

I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon just yet. I plan to embrace this cautiously. We still don't know when it will be safe for freelancers and small companies to drop IE 7 and other dinosaurs. But I predict that day will come much sooner thanks to Google.
Any reason you choice rackspace over linode or aws?
I don't think consumers WANT tablets or iPads. They have been told that's what they WANT by marketing.

WANT is a disease in this society. NEED is the great leveller.

The following is from experience dealing with hundreds of people:

They NEED a cheap, flexible computer that just works, doesn't poke you in the eye, doesn't try to upsell everything to you every 5 mins (like apps and virus scanners), lasts a good number of years without spectacular failures, doesn't pick up diseases like a cheap whore and doesn't set fire to your house.
A confirmed email address is not worth $948 to IBM. What's worth $948 is an email address voluntarily submitted, saying "I am interested in IBM products. Please tell me more."
I do work for the US government. Government jobs, even the good ones, combine all the worst parts of working for a large multi-national with all the worst parts of working in academia. You have reams of bureaucracy and even simple things can take months or years to accomplish, while at the same time advancement happens based almost entirely on seniority and politics. For GS positions, the pay is good and the job security is second to none, but the entire system is almost constructed to sap away your motivation.
I love how this works on the iphone!
don't despair, someone will soon write sudo-zsh.js, and then all the frontend people will believe ops is also just a trivial matter of knowing js, and then your problems will be solved
If your developers are spending more than 5 minutes a month managing, monitoring and looking after their repositories then you are doing it wrong.

Github's monthly fees are so much cheaper than the cost of your developers time and happiness.
"Mr. Nguyen said the company had taken the criticism to heart and charted a new course".

"Photos might not even be a part of Color in the future, he said".

Sounds like a pivot to me.
I found bzr to be much as you described it - like hg, but slower. Nothing objectionable about the workflow (though the tools on Windows were very poor, I wasn't using Windows much at the time), just the perf on a particularly large chunk of code.
Perhaps a service (imalive.com) where you have to click a button every day/week/month otherwise it closes all your accounts...
I seem to recall a star trek episode about that...

[edit] Yup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Ge...
I'm going to go with the fact that unless you NEVER restart your browser, the likelihood is that you are one or two minor versions behind the latest Chrome code at worst. With Chrome's automagical update system, most users barely notice when an update comes down the pike.
Huh, strange, I must have missed that paragraph. Totally sounds like you're right.
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The latest builds of Firefox and Chrome both work fine on XP, so they could theoretically force users to upgrade away from IE altogether.
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Sigh... Please make an argument showing I am wrong, not just a personal anecdote.

Don't you need to read pdfs and browse full size web pages? Or you do it so little, it isn't a problem? Then the interesting part: Why would that be a large set of customers these days?

Or do you just have young eyes and can see smaller points -- and old farts which need 10" should just die?
Lots of thanks for the feedback and templates!
"Security fixes" doesn't include support for any new features that Google Apps chooses to use without considering older Firefox versions.
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There was a reconstructive surgeon that did a lot research into beauty, because he had to remake faces given partial information. He found golden ratios for all the major features of the face. He constructed a transparent mask with guidelines and did wonders for his patients.

This was the best application I have heard for similar research. Not so much for the money aspect but for the good it did.
It's different in new Zealand. If you don't like the waiting list you can have private insuanace or pay yourself for a private hospital. We did this when my wife had a melanoma. Waiting list was 3 months (non urgent) so we went private. It cost $4000 (operating room, surgeon, nurses etc).
I think Cusumano is right, however the problem that apple presents is two-fold, or at least two-fold. Apple makes it's money from hardware, but by doing so they undercut all software. So MS is undercut in the software business. Apple then makes the software tied to it's hardware via DMCA and thus they can continue to make hardware, because once you go mac going back to windows is just painful, and still possible while on your mac.

They then do things like the App store which further undercuts software, they do everything in favor of comoditizing software and making hardware the piece that you care more and more about. Its not PC vs Mac, its Mac hardware, then we don't really care, but I'll give you the super awesome mac software for nearly free.
If your goal is to have only one account, and you presumably also back things up that are not under version control (who doesn't?), then S3 is clearly the more appropriate route since it can do both.
Do you store your 1Password keychain in Dropbox? If so, check out the html file they put there. It's 1PasswordAnywhere, which is basically a web interface to 1Password. You would still need to remember your Dropbox login, and of course your master password that encrypts all the 1Password data.
This actually blew my mind quite a lot.

Color is a damn good proposition and ironically a company that shouldn't pivot and the founder should be stubborn and force his idea down peoples throats. I really really like their end goal idea, and feel like they could get there with a lot of very clever execution.
The NHS is the closest thing modern UK has to a religion.
Hospitals will usually only treat uninsured who walk into the emergency room with an immediate life threatening condition.

You cannot for example walk in with cancer and demand treatment.

In the USA you cannot walk into a hospital and ask to see a doctor without insurance or some other way to pay right then, unless you find a private doctor who is willing to negotiate with you on payments (but without credit or being able to prove any income, good luck with that).

Even state assistance programs right now are so badly defunded that they will usually only help people who already have a disability status, being below the poverty level is not enough of a qualifier.

Very related: remember that unemployment numbers are a huge lie because the government doesn't count people who no longer qualify because their time was up. There are a massive number of people in a really bad situation right now.

In fact having SOME income puts you in a worse situation in the USA than having no income. But even no income without a disability right now just makes you part of the crowd and you'll rarely get help.
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This is what really irks me about Google Apps. You don't have any control over this kind of thing. They can (and do) yank the rug out from under you whenever they feel like it. A while back, they forcibly transitioned all accounts to also be normal Google accounts, with no user input. They did this before they figure out how to transition users who already had Google accounts, so now my users are split into first class and second class citizens.

It really doesn't feel like it should be the hard for Google to have some infrastructure where the user can control version transitions. Google makes a new version, but barring security issues, keeps all old versions in their cloud. At that point, you transition when you're ready.
it's a term that's used differently by the mainstream than by hackers

Exactly like "geek". It used to be an insult.
We do spend more on healthcare than any other country, it's just that we also have more lawsuits than any other country -- it's what keeps costs high unfortunately. If we weren't allowed to sue doctors, we could probably have cheaper healthcare.

My grandmother died due to improper surgery procedures in canada but we couldn't bring a suit against the doctor. I'm sure if she died in the USA under the same circumstances, we would be able to successfully sue the hospital for negligence.
I'm all in favor of anything that puts upgrade pressure on users of IE 6 and 7, but this rolling "current and previous major releases" idea is silly. They should simply establish minimum browser requirements like everybody else and update them when it makes sense to, not arbitrarily leaving it to whenever the browser makers release new versions.
I've never done this before but Galaxy S II tempted me: My Review
I've never done this before although I've owned other Android phones as well. But SG2 tempted me to write this one. Tell me HN what do you think:

http://techsplurge.com/4139/samsung-galaxy-ii-review-bullet-style-smartphone/

After spending hours and clicking 150+ photographs, I was finally able to write my review of Galaxy S II which only consist of 11 sorted out photographs (and some screencaps).

Phew, didn't know writing a review was this hard. Hats off to all of you pro reviewers!
Anyone else getting an error page during app authorization? Here is the broken URL it's taking me to:

http://timber.devel:3003/?error=redirect_uri_mismatch
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LOL. I ama journalist. Arrington is a jackass. I've blindsided a company or two in my day but you ALWAYS call first. Blindsiding happens AFTER they say "no comment." It's not really blindsiding then, I know.

But yeah, Arrington isn't really much of a journalist in my opinion. Just a guy who wants power over people. Does he actually claim not to be a journalist? I mean, he's attempting to perform acts of journalism, so I would assume his claiming not to be a journalist is some sort of dodge so people can't call him an unethical journalist.

But if it walks like a duck.....
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"But until I don't hear a confirmation from Dropbox I am going and assume that all this never really happened and it's just a prank."

Various big-name dropbox people are likely aware of this thread now based on their quick responses to previous threads here at HN. The fact that they've said nothing here is virtually an admission that there was a problem. It only takes a few seconds to bang out a 'this claim has no merit' post if it indeed does have no merit.

The question is, are they working on some sort of official statement to make (which would have to be exactly worded and thus I can understand the lag time) or are they ducking down and hoping this will just blow over?

IMO they absolutely need to address this very soon, and not just as a one line email that promises it'll never happen again.
> ...the real concern.

Ironically, "the real concern" is personalized. The married guy searching for "hot local hookups" doesn't care what google knows, he just doesn't want it to show up in his browser's history. The junior high student reading The Big Book of Mischief in the computer lab doesn't want his school's network monitors to find out. The dissident in Tunisia doesn't want his government monitoring his Internet usage.

There's only a small set of privacy-conscious Internet users who should be concerned about Google, whether or not they're as impregnable a bastion of privacy as their employees might claim.
Gitweb is exceedingly simple to set up...
Enterprise storage gets interesting again
Just wait for his soon-to-be-written "AOL is making us be jerks!" complaint/excuse story.
As a web user, I'm not grateful. I don't think having more pixel-perfect control or slightly faster JavaScript makes the web any better. All websites look slightly better, but the client side dies a little bit every time. In the web circa '96, anyone could write a web spider or web browser, and everyone did. There was tremendous innovation both client-side and server-side. Client-side innovations included things like search engines and Google. With the hyper-AJAXed world, client-side innovation becomes impossible. I don't think this is a net win for the world.
I hadn't gotten around to commenting, and I'm glad it took me a while, because while I first went to Codeplane and set up a trial account, pushed my Github private repos therem and downgraded my account from a paid to an unpaid account — thereby netting myself a free cheap beer a month — I went on to read some of the comments here, set up gitosis, and am now free of any sort of paid git hosting fees beyond my existing Linode virtualized server — upgrading my free monthly drink from a PBR to a Hendrick's martini.

Thank you, fellow Hacker News citizens.
Does he actually claim not to be a journalist?

Yes.
For the record, Arash isn't some random support guy, he's the CTO.

That means the support team properly escalated this way up the food chain very quickly, and I'd be extremely surprised if we didn't see a response from Dropbox later today.
Presumably, he doesn't want to use Mercurial.
Codespace is in the feature middle-ground between Github and a zipped backup.

It's online and active, but its a CLI only.

To match the functionality of Codespace, you don't need anything as inelegant as S3. If you have a dropbox account, you basically have the same functionality as Codespace offers. And its free.

And as a bonus, you can store other things in dropbox apart from your git repos.

Looking at Codespace, its targeting a space below Github that's already massively serviced by other simpler competition.

Edit:

Let me add. Before using Github, I personally would just open a network drive to my webhost, and save things on there. It was cheap. It was CLI. And as a benefit I could save other things apart from my code there.
You should leave symbol nonsense out of the title, as requested by the guidelines.
Really, that doesn't feel like it should be that hard? As a developer, that sound like a nightmare. Services like these aren't just a piece of software that can be versioned, it's a system of systems, each one with certain requirements, limits, supported APIs etc. Wrangling all of that is hard enough just to support one user-facing site, much less keeping every version of the site available and working.
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I love 1Password, but really wish they supported syncing over iDisk (apple) or ideally over a user-specified WebDAV directory. I use dropbox for sharing public files only; my password db, even with a strong passphrase, is one of the things I least want to share.

The wifi sync thing works ok, though.

It would almost be worth writing a utility to manage 1Password syncing external from 1Password.

The real solution to all of this is some kind of active agent running on each frontend which can make zero-knowledge proofs to third parties about credentials, vs. passwords, but I don't have a lot of faith the web will move to a sane authentication infrastructure anytime soon.
The question is will the consumer buy into any new TLD's?

Seems to me that this is in part just a mechanism for ICANN to setup new revenues for all concerned. And let's not forget with search engines trying to make you, the average consumer, forget about TLD's altogether it seems a battle is shaping between TLD's and the search engines.
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There's a personalization / privacy trade-off that needs to be considered. It is annoying that personalization cannot be achieved locally on the user machines or browser. Filtering / re-ranking results at home offers much privacy. My little personal project is to have the ML for personalization done at home, seeks the Seeks Project, http://www.seeks-project.info/
Personal control over the personal bubble matters...
Ask HN: Could we improve password security by using a public/private key system?
Could we not improve password security by using a public / private key system, integrated in our web browsers?

For example, I give every website I login to a public key. When I login to the website, the website uses this public key to encrypt a secret message. My browser automatically reads the secret message, decrypts it with my private key, and then sends the message back to the website. If it's the correct message, it lets me in. This whole process would be integrated into the web browser making it transparent to the user.

Should the website get hacked, then all they have is my public key. Not much they can do with it. Is there a system already out there that already implements this system of authentication?
Despite seeing fewer and fewer Arrington-penned articles on TechCrunch, the site continues serve its near-singular purpose as the main channel on which we can catch "The Arrington Show" live in all its passive-aggresive (and aggressive-aggressive) glory.

Soap opera for nerds.
That's not really a good tactic, because Google could just change its policies.
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100%, we plan on getting shirts...it's on the list for one of our interns this summer.
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A koan:

Once a young man loved a woman very much. He made sure to grow strong, to impress her parents and her friends, and to collect a great fortune. He proposed marriage to her and she said 'no.'
Yeah, because as we all know, that priests are all about raking in the Benjamins.