skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The less features mantra has been the new black for some time now. However, in reality features are a good thing. The real evil is when features become features, knobs and whistles for their own sake. When I first used an Android phone after using the iPhone, I found it hard to do simple things that seemed "intuitive" on the iPhone (kill an app for example). Those are most definitely features, not the in your face, sticker happy, slogan heavy gimmicks but something that took a team to think through and deliver. These features are amazing because they are executed to be either intuitive or "accidentally" discoverable.

When you look at the way Apple releases, they focus on what matters at that given moment, pushing aside something that might seem as essential as "copy and paste", rather than deliver half-baked solutions. So, when I read articles like this, it makes you wonder why Nokia is struggling against smartphones. After all they nailed the basic features? It's a phone isn't it?
A change thousands want made to Google+ circles
> We have no voice.

Not true.

Support these:

http://demandprogress.org/

http://www.eff.org/

Contact your representatives, do something.
I submitted a question, but there was no confirmation screen, just a screen asking for a new question. Hopefully it got submitted because it's important:

"Like many, I spend my days logged in to a G Apps for Domains account and all my primary emails are there. How can I use Google+ and how can people share things with me?"
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There should always be a divide between public life and private life. It's called professionalism. Unless your profession revolves around peoples private lives you should avoid the 'realms of human experience' and focus on 'experiences related to you getting money/work done'. There is a time and a place, and knowing this is an important part of being an adult and fitting into society.
Nice! Are you using spreadshirts to print?
If I'm reading that article correctly, GoDaddy is more than $1 billion in debt?
UNC professor tries to go email free
Worse, it's asking for my Twitter credentials even when I'm signed in to Twitter already.
I believe the point of this article is that if your system assumes that humans aren't stupid, then your system will fail. Blaming the humans for being stupid is no more useful than blaming rain for being wet. Shaking your head and saying that the system is fine because it was only defeated by people being stupid ends up missing the point.
Lol, wait what? Which 0-days has it been shown they're using, let alone ones they developed themselves? I think the phrase here is citation needed. If you're using private zero days to break into systems you're almost assuredly not telling anyone about them - and the flip side is probably true as well.
>If the senior execs have stock and leave, and it becomes worthless they lose.

it doesn't necessary become worthless. It is just may be not liquid [enough], ie. may be sold only back to company or the other owners. The valuation it may be sold back at may be of Skype-type, ie. no profit, or at the current valuation.
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"This means that the smartphone OS market is effectively closed."

So how did Apple enter it? Or Google? When 75% of the market is an exception to your rule it's time to give the rule a second look.

"too expensive for small players"

This is dreamland. Patents aside, making a competitive mobile phone is a huge capital intensive endeavor. Patents don't scare people off half as much as the world of contract manufacturing does. There's no 17 year old wunderkind in Topeka being stopped from billionaire status here.
I wish I could vote this up more than just once.
How else do you propose anyone can put an end to the software patent system?
Chrome also doesn't throw version numbers around constantly and it silently auto-updates. I installed Chrome 9 when I switched away from Firefox, then I later saw an article about a new feature in Chrome 12 and was surprised when I was already running it.
Hate Working With Legacy Code?
With a B.S. in Computer Science, a few years of professional programming experience, and a decade of "playing" with programming, I went and got my MBA with the hope that I would "advance" in my career.

What I got was a very frustrating look into the attempt at logic used as the foundation for the stupid decisions that business people make. People who major in business (with exceptions of course) are focused on making money today at any cost. There is no concern for business longevity or taking care of employees. They actually teach short-term gains over long-term growth, tax evasion, and employees as replaceable cogs.

I'm happy for having the degree because like so many other experiences in life, I learned more of "what not to do." And FWIW, the school is top 100 for MBA.
Well as an entrepreneur i am looking for safe spots on local rivers to rent kayaks and canoes.

Many proven safe spots are in state parks per my research. I haven't been to these same state parks since i was a kid - about 15 years ago. So when I went to check four different potential spots(each in various PA state parks) I was flabbergasted by each and everyones population - all hispanic.

I recall going to these parks back in the day and none were very crowded as they are now. Also, back then it was a melting pot of people enjoying the parks - black, white, hispanic, asian ... not just one culture and its not just a few families it's like 50 to 100 families on the weekends.

I guess that's what these posts are to point out .... that im flabbergasted(taken by surprise), dealing with racial tendencies i didnt know i had, as well my own selfish desire to create a business on these waters but can not due to this MASSIVE influx of immigrants getting in the way of this legal citizen's desire to build a business (i know u cant set up shop in a state park but there are ways around that point).

Im not hear to argue or to incite one ... im just here to point something that has taken me by surprise and learn to get over it. Maybe someone here has been to a state park recently and thought wow things are changing.....
In my mind, you're talking about deserving vs. earning. To me, deserve is intrinsic (e.g. You deserve the right to a speedy trial) while earn is value-based (e.g. You've worked hard, you earned it)

The two words are close to eachother, but I am wary of 'deserve' because it seems to be abused.
Thanks you just saved me $70 bucks, I got charged extra for one year already and they didn't refund me after I complained.
Right. If 6% of people fell for this, shame on them. But if 60% of people fell for it, shame on the security team.
TechCrunch redesigned.
Judge rules "locker" site is not direct copyright infringer
The N2E is an e-ink device :)

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp?PID=35699

I agree on the openness. I don't get the impression that many manufacturers are interested in an e-ink Android device though- B&N and Notion Ink are basically the only ones, IIRC.
Your post was a very interesting read, thanks for posting it. I wish you the best of luck!
You probably are already aware of this job board, but if not:

http://jobs.usethesource.com/
Probably. The exact vulnerability used here (autorun) is closed up on Linux, but that only protects against the one attack.

Do we think there are no vulnerabilities in the USB code, the drivers for any particular USB device, filesystems, or any other pieces of code a USB device can invoke? I am very doubtful.
Don't put your eggs in one basket. Having one source of income that can be easily cut off is like driving a car without seat-belts or airbags. It's an illusion, yes, perpetuated by those who benefit from it.

I've worked with a company like that and it was an incredibly depressive experience (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374271). Don't be naive, people, it's in business's best interest to keep you as close to a slave as possible, while cutting off the rest of your options by making you stay in the office for as long as possible for as little of a pay as possible.

You think your boss is your friend and likes you, and cuddles you but in reality he is an actor; it's his job to create that illusion, and he gets paid very well for playing the role properly. I do not see how this is much different from scam-artists.
> Where do we draw the line?

50% is a start.
Wow, great content on his site! I ended up reading every one of his blog posts today while I was waiting for builds, etc. Also, I am going to do a careful read-through of his crosstalk code when I have a free hour or two - looks very interesting.
Best of luck mate, great article to read. Hope you learned from that experience
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Yes, but I'd not call what Godaddy doing scam. The practice of discounting first payment is popular with subscription business model, to lure customer into signing up. I don't know what the situation in the US is, but here in Germany for example a lot of newspapers often try to get people signed up with first two weeks for free, after 2 weeks you will be billed. Annoying it is, if you don't read the fine-print, but it doesn't make the practice illegal.
Agreed.
I stopped reading after:
"How many people did you work with on Google+?"

"We're a surprisingly small team"

Useless.
Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off
> Picking up random USB sticks and sticking them into your computer is the equivalent of having sex with random people you meet on the street

I can't tell if that's an awful analogy because people do it all the time, or a brilliant analogy, because unless you do it safely you will eventually catch something nasty.
Or keyboards! Or monitors! Or hard-disks! Or processors!
If you work for a place where security matters, your default assumption should be, "it's unsafe".
-fmudflap always interested me, but I never seem to remember it when I'm actually confronting a hard to debug pointer issue.
Why the link to a content-free article instead of the original?

http://craftedsw.blogspot.com/2011/06/change-in-attitude-leg...
Thinking you are never sexist is like thinking you never have boogers hanging out of your nose.

Sure, you never see it... that's makes it easy to pretend it's not happening. But anyone with eyes below your nose level (most likely women) definitely sees it.

And your only defense is developing good rapport with those people, and giving them reason to believe that you'll respond graciously when they point it out.
> I guess they're all the same.

Gandi has been nothing but ethical in my dealings with them.

You don't have to deal with the abuses of the godaddys of the world, you just have to be willing to pay a bit more to support companies that aren't out to fuck you over.
The primary purpose of typing in modern code is just to make you slow down and really, really read it.

Unfortunately, looking back with hindsight, Compute! et al were not good places to learn about code because the programs in the back were optimized so heavily that there was hardly anything to get a grasp on. Especially the programs that were just a long, long series of DATA statements and a small stub to load them somewhere, then jump to them. Tweaking them afterwards was your only hope.
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Personally I think the text editors in all IDEs I've tried are awful anyway. Plus IDEs are sometimes fiddly to get set up right for a given language; it's easy to sink way too much time into getting things set up when you could just be writing working code. Also, it's probably helpful to learn a new language without the instant crutch of auto-completion features.
Miranda doesn't apply, here. That derives from the 5th amendment, but it pertains to police interviews after arrest. The ability to obviate the 5th amendment by offering immunity amounts to a way to compel potentially incriminating testimony. It's likely that eventually the question here is going to be the extent of the immunity required to compel testimony of the password: just immunity for information contained in the password itself, or for information contained in the files it unlocks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning
I think it comes down to the old adage "everything in moderation". When the balance of power in the auto industry shifted to numbers over products, quality began to decline. However, the value of skilled business leadership shouldn't be discounted. All large businesses need strong finance and marketing people to ensure products have relevant markets and are profitable (Apple is a great example of this). However, in the end, it's the products and services that define a company and the engineers, inventors, developers and designers should have equal influence in decision making and company strategy.

BTW: It's funny that the decline in the auto industry seems to coincide with the rise of the consumer advertising industry :)
Ask HN: Best startups to work for?
From perks, to equity, to environment, to salary, what are some of the best startups to work for in your opinion and why?

I will seriously be looking into your suggestions
You've defined magic to the point that there is no non-magical thing. This is not a useful definition. Those are core Erlang components; if those are magic, then in the simple Python program

print "Hello World"

the print statement and the double quotes are "magic" too.
> it will be years before they have buying power
> as a population to help our economy.

This isn't necessarily referring to the recession. I would just give the benefit of the doubt.
You've got to see it differently - that means a bill costs about $500K/senator. (http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=... for Dick Durbins money influx.)

I wonder if it's possible to buy bills via Kickstarter...
Jon Rubinstein's new job at HP: Make it more like Apple
The "open source SSL Accelerator" mentioned in the blog posting is a quad-core server running Linux and nginx.
It seems to me like the only people hotly awaiting the arrival of the iPad killer are the tech pundits and people who desperately want to see Apple fail.

Normal people don't care. And that is why the tablets fail.. the market doesn't care, and the pundits can't _make_ them care. The dirty little secret of the tech press is that no one pays attention to it anymore.
Great point, thanks. I have a hosting account there because I don't want to manage a VPS for my (static) blog and the other low traffic site I host. I didn't even realize you can't only use them for domains, that's a huge gotcha.
one of the best things you can learn how to do is say no. projects without proper funding never end well.
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The thing I notice about Google+ is that the only thing people use it for is talking about Google+.

This strikes me as a bad thing. Didn't Orkut and Wave and other 'failed' similar services from other companies have the same problem? Limited appeal? Too recursively tied up in their own cleverness?

The thing people hate about Facebook is the trivial uses the muggles put it to. But there are not 500 million techos in the world.

Unless and until people start talking about mundane non-techo stuff, I won't consider Google+ to have succeeded.
You let them run a java applet.
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I realize you're being facetious, but for arguments sake:

* Keyboards do not have enough bandwidth to allow an attack unless your physical security is incredibly lax.

* Monitors make a really bad attack vector, since they're not really an input device :) They are, to some extent, a possible route of filtering data out, so make sure access is indeed limited. (I.e. don't put them in front of windows :)

* HDDs are presumably (if you really care about security) inside the case only, and the case is locked. Also, hopefully hard-erased before installation.

* Even though processors make for a decent attack vector (read "Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson, if you haven't yet), enforcing the air gap makes it very hard to actually communicate that data to the outside world.

Of course, all this depends on what level of security you want/need. Sealing of IO ports for your home machine is fairly silly. (And if autorun is disabled, you're probably safe plugging items in - you're most likely not a high enough value target). But if you indeed do have items that MUST be kept secret on your machine, batten down the (IO) hatches.
Palm didn't hire Rubinstein, he (as part of an investment group) bought Palm. He might not even want to work at HP.
New logo reminds me way too much of Minecraft. I keep looking in the new logo for a hidden Creeper.
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Awesome. Thank you so much!
It gives me great dissonance to consider Modernist Cuisine so cool and yet know that IV is a patent troll.
Feeding the troll...

Guns have uses besides shooting people.

USB sticks have no use besides being plugged into a USB port, and USB ports have no use besides having things plugged in to them, hence it should be safe to plug things into them.
But wouldn't just really-really reading it do the same thing more efficiently.

I've learned tons from using Firebug. In part because I could start with prewritten code and tweak, and read, and tweak, and read. If I had to enter all the code manually into Firebug (no copy and paste), I think I'd have better muscle memory for typing some of the stuff, but I don't think I'd be a better developer for it (not that I'm a web dev, but just sayin).
I cannot really help this inescapable feeling that the new design is somewhat obnoxious. It's just... there's something about the design that I just cannot get past. This will only serve to further decrease my already declining viewership.
I ain't gonna lie. I vomited a little when I first saw the new logo. The pixelated green is seizure inducing. Congrats TechCrunch, you've just topped the Gawker redesign. Keep up the good work.
Holy shit. It's terrible. That said, I like the sticky navigation bar.
I must confess that I plug in unknown USB sticks quite frequently, and even knowing the risk, I probably won't stop.

I work part-time at a reception desk (the computer has access to nothing important). The assumption seems to be that found USB sticks are suspicious, but they actually show up quite frequently. People lose their USB stick--usually in one of the lab computers. The overwhelming majority seem to be personal drives that people have lost. Often there are obviously non-confidential files ("Econ101Paper.odt") on the drive, and it's easy to contact the owner to let them know where they can find their lost drive.

The average user simply doesn't see USB sticks as malicious (recall how much pain it took until people generally recognized unknown email attachments as dangerous!) and is occasionally exposed to lost USB sticks that they can helpfully return. This is a problem that will not be fixed by user education, except perhaps in secure facilities where USB devices are prohibited completely.
I'm not hiring right now, though I wish you luck.

A word to all the other devs out there being courted by co-founders. This is from a guy who learned from experience (ie. the hard way) and wants to pass along some learnings.

Only get in if

A. Everyone has skin in the game equal to their share (if you are doing 200% of the work for 5% of the company...)
B. There is plan for either bootstrapping, funding or some revenue model well thought out (if they aren't developing, they are selling or raising money...if they aren't selling or raising money they are doing nothing).
C. You trust your co-founders and they trust you, implicitly. Things are going to get worse before they get better and if you don't trust each other about everything, it is going to be a nightmare ride.

On C. At the first sign of trouble, give benefit of the doubt but don't forget it. On second, think about getting out, don't wait for a third sign. There are too many people willing to ride someone else to their victory. I've seen it over and over again from people who can't "do" themselves.

And
D. Get everything in writing, upfront.

On D. Personal story. I trusted a co-founder in the past. We went and started to build something. We had an agreement on roles, equity, strategy...all that good stuff. Once MVP got to angel funding stage, all of the sudden the "we started" and "we built" became "I built" and "I started" (my co-founder saying that, not me). That was the beginning of the end.

My $.02
I wouldn't have a problem with the logo if it didn't seem so far out of place with the rest of the design. It's a shame because the navigation bar looks really good once you scroll down the page.
I already use it for sharing pictures with my friends and more or less as a replacement for Twitter. Of course, I'm not a very typical example, since my Twitter is mostly tech news links anyway.
whoops! my apologies -- the capitalized "SSL Accelerator" set my mind into thinking dedicated hardware device.
Perhaps it is the sticky "menu" bar on top. Is it just me or do other people really despise these sticky bars that people like to stick on the top/bottom of their sites.
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Unknown forces? They're electrical signals. They can (should) be interpreted, or more safely, not interpreted, according to the user's desire.
I was about the comment with the exact same thing. It does look like a creeper to me.
In two years, people will still be saying "nginx + ssl = bad" because of this post even though the problem may well be fully addressed. Google will continue to surface this article even though it may be totally wrong at some future date. That sucks.
and facebook comments too
Ya that nav bar is slick!
> Keyboards do not have enough bandwidth to allow an attack unless your physical security is incredibly lax.

What does this mean? What's to stop someone from building a fake keyboard with an internal USB hub that connects the original keyboards USB connection and a thumbdrive to a normal-looking outgoing USB cable?
Keyboards can be hubs with hostile code implanted in them. They can also have built in key loggers.
I prefer Learning Python by Mark Lutz. I've read a ton of programming books, and I can't recall one the didn't recommend typing the exercises by hand, reading the code carefully line-by-line to understand exactly what is going on. Few quality language books say "go ahead and copy and paste the code from the books website, and don't worry about what the code is actually doing."
Looks like a ripoff of Linode's logo, topped with a bit of Minecraft texture.
Interesting, can you elaborate more?
Pro:
The Share "widget"'s options are hidden, so I don't have to see 45 options next to each headline.

Cons:
The logo just doesn't seem right.
Not a fan of the new header.
Impressed. Looks pretty good. But those titles with the green remind me of The Onion.
To be fair the Gawker redesign absolutely ruined the usability. If you don't like the look then ok.
The feedback on this redesign should serve as a reminder for startups: Ignore all feedback after a redesign and look at your metrics. Your metrics will tell you the real story whereas feedback will almost always be negative.
Your environment affects your coding
The logo looks like a minecraft creeper caught in mid-explosion. http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/220/3/d/Minecraft_Cre...