skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sigh.

At the risk of exacerbating this, I'll reply once more. Please read the dialogues you posted carefully: "To download and restore Mac OS X, your computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple."

You are re-downloading from Apple and thus restoring this new image. I'm not too surprised Apple wants to do a check at this point, just to make sure it's not giving out free, unauthorized copies to whomever may be asking. Also this requires an Internet connection because, well, you're downloading the image again.

Using the local media on your computer, say from an installation DVD for instance, you can install the seeds without restoring and without re-downloading. In fact you can even update the seeds with Software Update which does not require an Apple ID.

You're right that if you re-download the image you will have to verify the download, similarly when you go to grab the image off the dev site you have to login. However I'm not sure I agree this is comparable to other activation schemes. But for the sake of argument, let's just say it is.

The bottom line is I don't think most people want to re-download the image when they're doing an install. I certainly didn't. I just installed from my local media.

At the time, the machine I was using was disconnected from the Internet completely and I opted out of providing my Apple ID during set up.

The result was that I was able install the Lion seeds and was never at any point required to provide credentials that verified my status as a holder of a developer account.
While I don't know specifically how much equity they intend to sell, investment banks typically like to make their IPOs between $12-14/ share. Given their last VC round was funded by Morgan Stanley and T. Rowe Price [1], I would guess they will be shopping the deal among their investors to gauge interest, and then price the shares as they see fit.

[1]http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zynga
Not really. People who feel the need to point out a use of void main every time they see it have nothing important to talk about.
Google Plus API coming soon
The Noun Project: Free high quality icons
Ok, that should be fixed now, can you confirm?
Thanks for your help.
You know that you've done a good job of optimizing your stack when parsing JS is a bottleneck. Kudos on getting to this point and pushing past it.
What kind of support will this service have? Web-only? iPhone-only? I would sign up for the private beta, but without an iPhone, is it worth my while?
+1 for the detailed comment, thanks.
Fixed the grammar and am working on some copy to replace the current text, thanks :) also, if you couldn't see the button and logo earlier, it should be fixed now if you want to take a second look, thanks :)
I kind of, sort of maybe see Gruber's point, but wow. Talk about making a mountain of a mole hill. I have to agree with you. Why not pick on CNET, who had NO attribution at all? AllThingsD linked to the damn site. They pushed traffic and they gave credit. Sounds fair to me.

I'd like to hear what Mr. Viticci has to say about the whole thing. If nothing else, Gruber is certainly making that guy's name known.
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Please don't force me to choose a political view. Just the fact that this field is not optional made me decide not to use the site at all.
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Lots of people still use it, are you sure adoption is going down?

Hulu+ is pretty popular in my circles.
Hulu halts Facebook Connect after exposing user data
cool, looking forward to seeing it.
I meant convert it to a real native app, not wrap it. I meant actually converting the Javascript to Objective C. So when you do: <div>Hi there!</div><div padding="5px">Hello!</div>, it gets converted to: frame = CGRectMake(0,0, 10, 10); frame.label.text = "Hi there"; frame2 = CGRectMake(15, 15, ...) frame2.label.text = "Hello";
Don't worry. I am sure he will suddenly have to leave the company the day before his stock options vest.
Great video. Everyone should see it.
"This money goes to pay the debts of a bankrupt company."

Not disputed. Nortel was mismanaged into oblivion. That does not show that the fundamental incentive in the patent system is broken.

"If the patents ("innovation") were so valuable, Nortel wouldn't have gone out of business."

That's a total non sequitur. Any business can be driven off a cliff. The patents are that valuable and that's been clearly shown at auction.

"Given those facts, the case for patents as a way to "reward" innovation is thin."

Your "facts" are better termed anecdotes and only disprove the straw men that "you can't be successful without patents" and "patents guarantee success" neither of which is being claimed by anyone.
I was surprised that so many people were thrown off by this. We want to do more cool visualizations in the future with this sort of data.

We'll make a decline to disclose at one point. Sorry about that.
There is no online activation.

Apparently there is a confusion between re-downloading from Apple servers (requires verification of the legitimacy of the request) then subsequently restoring and installing from local media (assumed to be legitimate, no Internet connection required).

If you install from local media you don't need an Internet connection, you don't need to provide an Apple ID, and there is no verification of installation. (At least in the DPs, I can't speak for what the final public release will look like obviously.)
It's not completely backwards: both ways are gross generalizations. For one thing, my mom won't join Facebook because "the privacy toggles are confusing," whereas many of my geek friends won't enable 2-step authentication or even https (on both Google and Facebook) because "meh, why bother."

But that's not what "your mom" is about. We use the "your mom" persona when we want to put ourselves in the shoes of someone who interacts with technology in a ridiculously different way than we do. Also, it's endearingly masculinist.

So. Your mom might be fooled into oversharing by accident. She also might be too scared to ever share anything, because she doesn't know how to control privacy settings. Both situations are bad for your mom, and Facebook has plenty of both (like I said, my actual mom being an instance of the second).

This way, your mom just taught us that the usability of Facebook in regards to privacy is downright horrible. I have no idea how your mom (or mine for that matter) will react to Google+, and quite frankly, I think this will be a very controversial issue until real moms start toying with it.
Around 1999, when I joined Sun, I saw (and used on some site) Internet Explorer 5 for Solaris.
Ask HN: What does the buyout of GoDaddy mean for customers?
Warren Buffet is one of the most successful M&A orchestrators of our time, but is primarily hailed simply as the greatest "investor" of our time. His success came in part from both areas in fact. In 1972, Buffet (via Berkshire) bought a large stake in See's Candies. His logic: he figured out that he could influence the board to allow small price changes, adding pennies per pound to the current price. In volume, this would equate to significant increases in revenue. As with many of his genious schemes, Buffet's strategy was effective in raising the value of See's Candies over a short period of time - and with it, his personal wealth.

So I'm interested to hear what you think about the matter.. Will GoDaddy be raising prices under the new management?.. a heuristic that has been proven effective by Warren the Great?
Both at launch, shortly followed by Android support.
It's not the fact that I care that people know which political party I choose to affiliate myself with, it's the fact that there is no apparent way to not choose. I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, don't force me to choose. A "decline" or "other" choice would solve this nicely.
How is this gonna make you a million dollars? You're applying to YC, this ain't a hobby project, so that's why this is a legit question.

For the record, it doesn't really solve a pain for me. Just a minor annoyance, and it's not something I'm willing to spend money on. If you're making this to an app, remember that app sales are just 1 time profits. And the profit gradually goes down as your app lifetime goes up. Is earning $300K once (this is optimistic) really a serious business model?
I would say that on the other hand Facebook is also dependent on Zynga: They get a big part of their revenue from them and the games are a big reason people come to Facebook.

Also Google owns a big part of Zynga and G+ will soon launch developer tools. They are probably already on it.
Ericsson: File-sharing Is a Symptom Not the Problem
I got an invite two days ago and had the same problem. However when I installed the Android Google+ app, it allowed me to register start using it immediately.
Really, it depends on what your goal is. The point of enlightenment is to stop suffering, so if you're trying to do that then our emotional responses must be transcended. If you're not, then what you say makes more sense. I think that the target audience of this website is people who have the goal of transcendence.

The interesting thing is that detachment does not remove the shades of grey, it's not about removing anything and more about accepting it. It's the difference between having a favorite colour and having every colour as your favorite. In the latter case, you don't care what the weather is, you're still smiling.

In a world of wandering sadhus there wouldn't any development of culture and technology since they would all be dedicated to reaching enlightenment, which means that none of them would have attained it. It would be a world of people with the same goal which nobody has actually achieved.

I think that after enlightenment has been attained, people do the same things as we do now, just with infinitely less friction. The saying goes - "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." Some minds are inclined towards science or cultural development or computer programming and the same would apply to them.
Vega Beta Release
the 'someone just joined this page. boom!' is so annoying and distracting. if that were to stay, i wouldn't ever use the site.

what it says to me is, 'we are more interested in eye candy then real features'.

why?

because you are constantly trying to distract me from the actual content.

the 'take another poll' button constantly gets covered by the noise.

the techie side feels the need to tell you that i had to get my cursor in just the right place ( using latest google chrome ) to even make the next poll button work, that is when an annoying 'someone just voted' message would let me. i tried. took me 2 minutes to manage to click it.
Ok, I've changed it around a bit, thoughts?
Almost all process is poorly implemented. Just bypass it. If you're a good coder you should be able to contort your programs around the process.
From the PDF:

"This paper takes the position that disk-locality is go-
ing to be irrelevant in cluster computing, and considers
the implications this will have on datacenter computing
research. The quest for disk-locality is based on two as-
sumptions: (a) disk bandwidths exceed network band-
widths, (b) disk I/O constitutes a considerable fraction of
a task’s lifetime. We show that current trends undermine
both these assumptions."
Button background still isn't appearing for me.
Learnings from scala Actor Development
NodeUp http://nodeup.com
It won't help to wait until they do vest.
There is a plugin for Firefox called noscripts
Breakthrough the Filter Bubble
Be sure to leave feedback. I asked for denser "dense" view.
Great feedback. We just launched this today and honestly didn't expect it to be #1 on HackerNews. We're going to start grouping the messages together and less often so they aren't as distracting like:

"Bensign, Bob, Joe & 17 others just joined the page".

Our team will be rolling out fixes very soon.
That is already available with NoScript.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

You can whitelist (and blacklist) sites temporarily or permanently.
Fair enough. I apologize -- we didn't think about this enough and will change it this weekend. Thanks for the feedback.
When I choose a poll option I immediately get taken to a page with just an ad on it. Perhaps one of your advertiser's use of document.write is to blame?
Life.

It's like when Elmer Fudd realizes he can't kill Buggs and finally says "If you can't beat em join em."
On the other hand, people who write void main clearly have nothing to teach about C++, because that plainly isn't C++.
"We want to be clear about how we collect and use that data, so we’ve explained it in our privacy policy. For example, we collect information such as your country, operating system and the hardware ID from your device. This data allows us to optimize your experience for your device and language."

I was thinking they'd have examples like the above in their Privacy Policy... but I was wrong. If they want to be crystal clear, I think they need to be more specific rather than Analytics, Geo-Location Info, and Personal Info are stored.

"For example" to me seems like just the tip of the iceberg, and the three bullet points seem fairly basic.
Seeking Work

Looking for JavaScript only work. jQuery + Backbone (preferred). My email is in my profile.
Right, should definitely be working now - had it in a weird form that must've been messing the display up. Can you see it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

IE for Unix supported a couple "big iron" Unices, but never supported Linux.
Google+ may have an official iPad application before Facebook now...
Do you have very bad experiences with using Skype, or is it the company you are leery of?
lol, good point. I wouldn't be surprised.
congrats oliver
no button- latest chrome for mac.
very cool - the video was great. just a tad long just a tad -- kudos
doesn't inspire me to want to follow you on twitter.

i don't like teasers with no info.
God I feel old. And I'm in my bloody twenties.
You're still missing the point though. If these patents are valued so highly because of their potential as weapons (as opposed to their production potential), then this is a distortion of the market that patents are supposed to foster.

This cannot be stressed enough: our patent regime is intended to foster the progress of technology. Where the market for these patents acts efficiently as as intended, the value of a patent is based strictly on its ability to allow a company to generate revenue. This is a specific condition and the threshold of quality tends to be high for patents that can genuinely enable production.

The threshold needed for patents to be merely wielded as weapons is much lower. However, as you can plainly see, this does not diminish their value in the patent marketplace. Thus, the patent system in its current form encourages the misallocation of resources toward patents that do less to promote progress.

Software patents encourage the worse kind of abuse, in part because the patent office is utterly incapable of properly evaluating them; you can patent nearly anything.
Can we cool it with the stupid sexism already? It's absurdly arrogant for Greg Knieriemen to think he knows anything about my mom. I know several moms who are quite a bit more technically competent than "enterprise tech evangelists" are, including one who wrote an operating system for the SDS 940.
Not the mail stuff they don't. I have not received an email from facebook since 2006, so no worries really.
a video would be great - *just saw atomic contacts video and i knew exactly - what I like and dont like about their service. thanks
Realtime is so IN right now.
the original set language, SETL, was invented as a DSL for compiler optimizations. Compiler backends heavily use set operations, and SETL made them efficient & succinct. In fact, the original SETL compiler itself was highly optimizing and benefited greatly from the new "executable notation".
INCREDIBLE COSMIC DATA
itty bitty storage space

(relatively, anyway)
What does this have to do with Twitter?
San Francisco, Seattle

Shopobot

We're building a fresh approach to online shopping - and were recently funded by Google Ventures and AOL Ventures.

Looking for java devs. Extra bonus if you've done online marketing!

http://jobs.googleventures.com/jobdetail.php?jobid=70661

http://jobs.googleventures.com/jobdetail.php?jobid=70662

http://www.shopobot.com
Maybe I should have said "Google Calendar power user?" Setting aside the features, people that use Google Calendar heavily to schedule things vs people that use it to schedule the occasional dentist appointment probably find different aspects of the UI annoying.
Good question about raising prices.

Let's hope the new owners improve the UX/UI at GoDaddy, but I highly doubt that private equity KKKR has an interest in that (unless it'll make them more money)
What is the morale after that board/earnings call where Carol was really taken to task?
Our goal was to make something where you can ask quick questions on Twitter and get quantitative responses back instead of sifting through @replies.

We want to have accounts with lots of followers start using our polls to quickly and easily get feedback from their followers and then be able to segment the votes accordingly.

Think of if CNN could ask a question about a current topic and instantly get feedback. Much better than thousands of @replies.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=178795925495025&to...
Hm, this is a problem. We'll take a look at it. Thanks for the heads up.
found the problem, it's fixed now. for real this time :P
If the candidate is smart, passionate and very excited about security we would absolutely hire a fresh graduate. We can also sponsor an H1B.
Blogspam. Here's the direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo-lMdQMsdw

Could you post more ontwik.com links? I don't think we have enough. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ahmicro
It's all about quality and ease these days.

Facebook is SD and Google+ is HD.

It's a nicer experience viewing albums, and in general it's easier to find things.

Set your grandma up with a circle of her grandkids, so every-time a new picture of them is uploaded, she can see it.

I can see it working nicely. Remember, this is still a beta.
Android was successful because it was attractive to carriers and handset makers, but consumer faith in the Google brand had a lot to do with it, as well. I wouldn't say it was the deciding factor, but the fact it was made by Google rather than random company x probably influenced buying decisions.
Arround the same time Microsoft Frontpage Extensions for Apache were also available for Linux.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/202198
i'd suggest both an "other" and "decline to state" choice. or go crazy and include Libertarian, Tea Party, Green, and Working Families Party as well!
[video] How to get started in the Rails community (no blogspam)
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"stay in the loop without giving your email to random people"

better, imho
Circle jerk reddit posts on HN?
No-blogspam link submitted here, in case you wanted to save the video but flag the spam submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2720582
Good point. I'd rather work on the actual product though instead of spending ages on the splash page. Thanks for your comment.
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Facebook will probably soon cover the distance to google+, one way or another. The question is, is that enought to stop people (esp. early adopters) from using google+? The thing about facebook is it has become bloated, while google+ looks pure and clean. Similar to what happened to myspace.
> You're applying to YC...

If the OP is saying they're YCS11 then they're already in YC (that cohort is going through now). Your point about how they'll make money is still valid although it might be something they'll need to work out later (after they've 'made something people want').
Not GWT, but Google Closure.
Palo Alto, CA or REMOTE (full-time preferred)

Looking for intermediate to advanced full-stack coders and a designer with additional skills.

We're just days from launching a restricted beta of our unique idea in the groups and events space, and are planning on launching our real-time product on the web, mobile web, and native mobile to a wide audience in a month or two. Our dev team is all remote right now, but it'd be great if you were local to the peninsula or willing to relocate at some point in the coming months.

We've built a real-time stack of our own that bridges backbone.js <-> socket.io <-> gunicorn+gevent (through nginx) <-> django. As the stack matures, we may release the source. The web application is nearly all single-page architecture. We use coffeescript pretty much everywhere, including our javascript tests.

* backend: postgres, redis, python, django, gevent + gunicorn

* frontend: coffeescript, jQuery, backbone.js, socket.io, compass

I'm looking for:

1. Advanced web jacks-of-many-trades. You know a lot about several things from above and have at least tried your hand at a demo app using the rest. Backend/frontend/deployment. We'll be growing our user base very soon and will need some deployment automation skills (chef or puppet + fabric) and knowledge/experience scaling the above technologies. Note: we have a great lead architect right now, but are on the lookout for locals (or those who can move to the bay) who want senior developer ownership and can be mentors/leaders as we move towards having more of a local presence.

2. Talented web app designers (referrals would also be good). Even with the nifty tech we're building, our app will probably live/die based on making an intuitive UI with fun and easy experience. There are several unique challenges in this product that require novel widgets -- creativity is a must. Would be great if you have more than just design skills, but very high quality design is more important than ability to build it.

gmail - davidmarble
...I take back what I wrote here! I've now been playing with Google+ and it's killer. It may still get killed by abuse, but perhaps the Google team with some luck and hard work can prevent that.
My QrCode app (60% from France)
10% IE
30% Chrome/Safari
60% FireFox
GoDaddy responds: "Well, looks like you won't be getting your options vested then!"
+1 for good idea :)
Just changed it there, thanks a lot :)
My cloud server knocked down
My friend is still working on to bring more nodes up to handle the traffic. Amazon EC2 is still handy to debugging server crash. I need to reply some angry customer email tonight.
I noticed the same ranking too. The people in my top 5, I speak with on Google Talk frequently.
Haha, damnit Bucky, every time I post a job to HN you always gotta comment :)
Shame it's not possible to make titles on Hacker News more truthful than their linkbait versions irrelevant of the original source's title...
"Stop giving your Email Address to random people - but still be in the loop."

I was going to comment on your choice of copy text, then I refreshed the page to get another look and you had changed it to:

"Stay in the Loop without giving your Email to random People."

Much better. Why not make it more succinct? "Stay in the loop without giving away your email address" or even better: "Spread helps you stay in the loop without needing to share an email address". Tells visitors what you're doing, makes them ask "How" and it's direct copy.

Also, stop with the random capitalization, please?
I would pay a lot of money for an app that could easily export all my domains and their setting out of godaddy to another registrar/host.