skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good argument. If the looter still comes after you after noticing your bat then you should be really scared. If he manages to get the bat away from you he will probably use it to beat you to a pulp.
Just a correction: Morgan Stanley invented the CDS. J.P. Morgan came later.
Apple also wins because business may now avoid the legally-challeged or legally-risky Android devices. Better safe than sorry. Esp. when the iPad is not being sold at a much higher price.
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Those reports weren't about Samsung Tablets. They were about Logitech Revues, and they turned out to be wrong to begin with.
Ask HN: Does anyone find jobs on job websites?
Do people actually get jobs for sites like Monster or Workoplis?
Im surprised they don't have markdown or textile in their list of languages.
This lawsuit, however, seems to be only about the general shape. It doesn’t make much sense to say that the result of a lawsuit about the shape is justified because of the software or other factors unrelated to the shape.

As for obviousness, let me submit exhibit A, used in 1994: http://de.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Datei:Plan_des_Arboretums.jp...
this is nice gesture but ultimativlly moronic, because it can ruin evidence.
Another possible explanation against the fermi paradox could be that interstellar communication, let alone travel is much more unlikely to occur even among highly advanced civilizations. maybe just travelling beyond our solar system might remain uneconomical for a long time.
Looks like they're using Ace underneath too. (http://ace.ajax.org/)
Emailing the password is bad and they should stop, but where is the evidence that they are storing the password in plaintext?
Because it is easier to create slapstick than meaning.

Humor may be a part of life and discourse, but in certain cases, and especially on the internet, it distracts from the real issue at hand, as most slapstick fails to convey meaning. If you can make me laugh and then think, then more power and karma to you, but most of us are unable to produce such witty insight on the fly all the time. We try. We fail, and we spam. That's why HN doesn't like slapstick jokes. If one person starts using slapstick then it creates a chain reaction that distracts from the real issue at hand.

Such slapstick doesn't create meaning. It ends up destroying it.

I hope that made the issue clear to you.
Likely all the interested partys already know this.
There are probably lots of static websites, but I also suspect that there were lots of dynamic web sites that are difficult to analyze.
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Next on the agenda for Apple? Purchase Michael Dell.
Well if anything, immigrants, who choose to move their whole lives to Britain, should love Britain and its traditions even more than random British folks who happen to be born there.
Memes are the culprit, not genuinely humorous jokes. The pun and joke tangents on Reddit are the best thing on the Internet.
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I would expect a degree of local variation in the choice of ad-hoc melee weapons. Here in Scotland I would expect golf clubs to be more popular, perhaps shinty sticks in the Highlands.

As for myself I have a rather nasty looking ice-axe somewhere...
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Just to be clear: there is no significant difference between either of these and simply storing in plaintext.

"In a recoverable form" means that a) there's a single key with which to decrypt the passwords. If I can get the password list, the key isn't far away. And it might not be worth the effort to track it down, since it's practically equivalent to have the (two-way) encrypted passwords and to have the plaintext.
Though this post is great it makes me worry the tech sector has learned nothing from the past. If you're worried about the stock market and the climate for IPOs and acquisitions you've failed to learn the lessons from the 2000 bust.

Quick refresher: After the first, big dot-com bubble burst a new ethos based on its lessons spread and came to dominate biztech thinking for at least several years. It emphasized slow, organic growth; revenues exceeding expenses from almost the very start of a business; and a bootstrap self reliance that said you pay for growth from income, personal debt (credit cards) and maybe some very trusted seeders (friends and family). Think Joel Spolsky, 37signals, Paul Graham. This was the start of the deprecation of VC.

People were receptive to this message not only because VC was discredited and largely AWOL, and because so many revenueless VC backed companies had blown up, and because Spolsky Fried and Graham were such articulate writers, but also because servers and bandwidth and hosting services got so cheap in the early aughts. You didn't need VC to get up and running on a Sun with Netscape Enterprise Server any more; you could conceivably launch with a VPS running a free LAMP stack for $100 month or less.

It seems to me a lot of this very sensible, fundamentals-oriented thinking has been lost in the last several years. You still see a lot more bootstraping than in the first boom, don't get me wrong, but you also companies taking loads of VC to stay afloat, before they have a real revenue source, just like in the bad old days. The biggest companies doing this would be Twitter and Foursquare but there are loads more smaller ones beneath them in the same boat obviously. Even Spolsky who partly made his name railing against dot com era VCs (e.g. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/VC.html) took VC for Stack Exchange, a startup without much revenue (though the tech and user experience is superb and the whole Careers 2.0 thing could produce some very solid revenue some day).

All of this is a long way of saying, if VCs had been investing in the 2001 style all along -- companies with a demonstrably viable business plan; with real, substantial and growing revenue streams; and with a specific identified use for the capital invested, with plausible scenario for how it would be returned to investors (not IPO/acquisition lottery) -- they would have no reason to worry about the public market because the model for return on their investment would have to do with the income of the company and not the existence of lots of Greater Fools in the stock and M&A markets.
How do you plan to defend the looters? Just on the Internet or actually going into action and trying to reason with store owners?
This. is. not. reddit.
No FTFY type of comments please.
The best advice I've read for this is to treat support emails as bug submissions. Questions about your company mean you don't have sufficient documentation, help, user interface, etc etc, and work should be put into shoring up those areas.

Obviously this idea doesn't eliminate all support requests, but I imagine it would reduce the deluge over time.
Ask HN: How did Spotify get there first?
Spotify amazes me the same way Hulu did when I first discovered it. How did Spotify become the first to acquire so many licenses, and be the first app to offer easy streaming? Or rather, why did they get here first? Why couldn't Apple or Amazon or Google roll it out first? What separates Spotify from Grooveshark, Pandora, etc.?
I haven't had the time to look at the numbers myself recently, but I have heard from some oil industry friends that I know that Exxon is currently in a state of slow-motion liquidation.

From what they are saying, exploration and expansion has not really taken a high priority within the company in recent years, and the emphasis seems to be more on maintenance.

I don't really know about the extent to which this is true, but if this is the case then it could possibly explain the low p/e ratio.

Personally, I think that the problem with Exxon is that it is an oil company and oil prices are connected with world economic outlook. (Most economic activity requires energy, which oil just happens to be a great source of.)

World economic outlook is a bit grim right now, so Exxon's outlook is as well. When economic activity heats up again then oil prices will rise, and, at that point, I am quite sure that Exxon will be doing quite well again.

This post does not constitute investment advice.
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Context: GelSight can register “physical features less than a micrometer in depth and about two micrometers across,” which means it can create a 3D image of ink on a piece of paper (below):

Below that there is a 3D image of ink on a piece of paper. Taken with a handheld device. "Wow" about covers it, although I might go with "WOW."
Who's Behind the Bitcoin Bubble?
Shooting at a bird or a wire isn't shooting arbitrarily. If it was illegal they wouldn't sell licenses for bird hunting. You do have a duty to be aware of what's in your shot's potential flight path, so one could be charged with that.
HN is allergic to humor. It's not entirely unfounded, but sometimes people take it too far.
Even tough I am not directly interested in startups (I enjoy a lifestyle of learning a lot from many consulting jobs) this article is the best article I have read about the economy in a long while.
Stock Rally Makes Apple World’s Most Valuable Corporation
Really? You're a non-violent, non-rioting good person because of the law? I think you meant "civility loses its grip for a moment."

I'm not a non-violent non-rioting good person because of the law, and I'm prepared to give the grandparent the benefit of the doubt and assume that doesn't apply to him either. However...

Most people, I think, are fairly good, and are restrained from rioting and looting by their own consciences. But some people are just arseholes, and are only restrained from crime by the thought of punishment.

Civility doesn't have a "grip". Either you've got it in you or you haven't.
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That is where my thinking is as well. Basically its easy to do one of these 'look what I coded up over the weekend' kind of web sites to prove a concept, but if you're going to deal with more than a few K bitcoins then you need to plan appropriately dor folks who are going to start sniffing around when there is that sort of value sitting there.

There are various folks who provide pre-configured VM's for things (jumpbox [1] comes to mind) so presumably they could provide a site that was at least moderately safe. Of course that means money to pay for that sort of stuff.

[1] http://www.jumpbox.com/
I doubt it is in the contract, just that the overall behaviour is odd.
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Given that patents are not at issue here, it's worth noting that software patent reform would not prevent something like this from happening.
Ever develop a modal window? Arrange a timeline of messages according to date received? Arrange icons or shortcuts in a grid-like structure?

Congratulations, you've violated an Apple patent. Other fun tidbits from their collection:

* A mobile device with rounded corners

* Having a picture of a phone as a phone icon

* Having a picture of a gear for a settings icon

* Interactive widgets
Attack of the clones (Int. bus. model copying)
Obligatory link for those who haven't seen it before but want to know the right way to do it. http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
The death of freedom and privacy
Bloomberg Game Changers: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Revealed
Apparently CNN has picked up on this and has a story pointing this out as well:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/09/technology/amazon_riot/
The initial criticism and long discussion any time someone cracks a joke isn't much of an improvement.
This library will produce a decision tree where each argument is only tested once - no backtracking. How is a bit too much to explain here. I recommend the Maranget paper Compiling Pattern Matching to Good Decision Trees on which this work is based.
Almost fifteen years later, and that snarky statement is still the first thing I think of when someone mentions Michael Dell: http://news.cnet.com/Dell-Apple-should-close-shop/2100-1001_...

Can't imagine how awkward a meeting between Jobs and Dell would be--at least for Dell.
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Since you seem like a science-minded man, I'll point out that every Christian in this thread has said nothing like what you said. Perhaps you should revise your model.
I agree. I would add that any kind of rioting opts you in to the possibility of death and dismemberment. Be it by bats, rubber bullets, trampling underneath fellow rioters. Responsibility for a wide range of consequences should lie with the rioter.
Man just reading that list makes me tired...
Nokia to Exit Symbian, Low-End Phone Businesses in North America
Your bank stores passwords in plain text, but then they never email it to you.
While its ugly, I can give a little insight in to why I think it (or something like it) is a good idea. This attempts to solve one problem that I see daily as a steward of the "canvas" tag, which is used for HTML5 Canvas questions.

A lot of people will tag something with "android" and "canvas" when they are looking for help with the Java Android Canvas. I have to retag these to "android" and "android-canvas" because the Java Android Canvas has its own tag and the questions related to it are very different than the questions related to Android using HTML5 Canvas.

To help people a little while ago, I wrote excerpt for the "canvas" tag as Canvas is a commonly named object used for drawing or as a layout container. This tag is for HTML5 Canvas. Use "android-canvas" for Android and "wpf-controls" for WPF.

Of course nobody ever saw that until after they posted their question, if they saw it at all! But now they are much more likely to see it.

So I welcome this, though I think there is probably a slightly nicer way to do it out there.
Accelerando by Charles Stross (available for free here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...) has a great take on the whole idea (and is just a great novel for futurists in general).

Its conjecture is that physical travel to other civilizations is so expensive, and light-speed communications are so slow and inefficient, that the only way highly advanced civilizations communicate is by digitizing their consciousnesses and transmitting those, to be run in simulations on the receiving end. However, since you wouldn't want to transmit a copy of your own consciousness to an alien only to have it tortured or worse (even in a simulation), there are very extensive negotiations around trust involved before full contact with other civilizations is established.
Mine would be not seeing what technological improvements we will come up next in the next century.
I don't think you should consider vectors a special case of matrices - that makes tensors difficult to handle. The other way around generalizes better.
$78,000(US) worth of bitcoins couldn't fetch $50 16 months ago
Because if Stypi can become one of the top 4 companies on that list, the VC firm gets a stake in whatever Stypi decides to build with the huge number of users that implies?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but, it's easy to see why you wouldn't invest in it: because you can't afford to put that much money behind a 1:10 or 1:15 risk. But that's exactly the problem every VC firm in the world has: finding the right set of 1:10 bets to put their money behind.

I feel like, if you're going to complain about people funding stuff like this, you're really complaining about the whole VC model. And sure, I don't like it either. So go build a company without it. Plenty of us here have or are doing exactly that.
The real question I have is: why posting a mean question without making a slightest effort to answer it yourself? Did you read the article? Did you try the product yourself (or all of the competitors you've mentioned)?

I, for one, believe that collaborative editing should have been added to every authoring application, not just editors, 10 years ago. I still use shared screen sessions for that.
Looks like the interesting discussion is happening here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/forum/cd/discussion.html/ref=cm_c...
Yes, or replicate all of the original SNES hardware in one FPGA chip (and perhaps a few external passive components).
Until you miss the looter and hit a door-frame, wall, rack of goods, etc.

After that, as your aluminum bat is likely rolling around on the ground, it will seem like a bad idea.
Is there any guarantee that this actually entirely removes your data from their databases? How do you know they don't just toggle an `active` column for your row in the users table?
Thank you for the informed reply. I appreciate it.
Sort of? No more FA117 or SR71, but the B2 is still in service.
my guess is that this suit is specifically because of samsung and apple's business partnerships, and apple will be dropping the suit in exchange for better pricing or availability on some component they need.
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The force and momentum of a solid wood bat will trump a hollow light aluminum bat any day.

The only thing you get with aluminum is a greater velocity.
I really posted this just to get someone who understands bitcoin to tell me that I am (not?) mistaken here. I don't understand bitcoin, but it seems absolutely unbelievable to me that people would have faith in a currency that shows such outrageous volatility as this example seems to suggest. As for "volatility," I don't know all the numbers, I just mean that if it can increase that much in such a short time, it can clearly drop as much in the same amount of time or less.

Is the title correct here or am I mistaken? If correct, what the hell is going on?
some do like discover.com (unfortuantely) truncates your password at 8 characters, downcases, and sends you in plain txt email
I was undecided between getting a Galaxy Tab or an iPad. Now I definitely won't get an iPad.
In Germany, 1-2 day shipping is the norm. There are cheaper, slower options, but standard package service is very often next-day. I imagine it's the same in an even smaller country like England.
Cause of London riots: Disposable income inequality?
GameFly goes digital with PC game "rental" service
I’m glad to hear that you didn’t lose anything critical. But snapshotting EBS volumes are not backing them up. If, by definition, it’s stored using the same service, and therefore susceptible to all the same catastrophes that might befall the service, then it’s not a back up. I always set up a local read slave of the database server which has hot-swappable hard drives that get rotated out of a safe deposit box or fireproof safe. The only way I can properly trust that things are being backed up properly are to do it myself.
The most valuable publicly traded company anyway. I am quite sure that Saudi Aramco is more valuable than either Exxon or Apple.

With that said, it is perhaps unlikely that Apple will be able to maintain its current advantage in the smartphone and tablet markets over the long-term.

On the other hand, at a P/E ratio of roughly 14 Apple does not exactly seem to be overvalued at this point in time.

Something else to consider is their cash hoard. What exactly do they intend to do with that $28.4 Billion dollars in cash? That is a mystery that I would love to know the answer to.

Personally, if I were Apple, I would be supplying investors with a dividend at this point in time. The fact that they are not indicates that they are either stubborn or they believe they are still capable of significant growth.

Let's assume they believe they are still capable of significant growth. The cynic in me doubts that this is the case - just because of the significant amount of competitive pressure that they are facing. The optimist in me thinks that it just may be possible for Apple to still expand.

Apple's history encourages the optimist in me. Apple is one company that, historically, it has always been a serious mistake to count out. However, how much of this amazing resiliency depends on Apple having Steve Jobs. Well... That's another wildcard.

I just don't know. It should be a very interesting next decade for Apple customers, investors, and competitors.

This post does not constitute investment advice.
It would be nice if there existed a browser extension that would warn the user anytime they are about to register on a site with password storage issues like this. Of course, there would need to be some sort of community maintained repository for tracking which sites are doing this.
One day people will learn that price != value. Apple is definitely one of the most valuable companies in the world, but you can't say it's the most valuable because it has the largest market cap - not unless you believe in efficient market theory, but that's a debate for another day :)
Recoverable passwords are what everyone means when they say "plaintext". You're positing a distinction that doesn't exist.
Also...

Equifax also stores your password in plain text.
its bs. 80+ engineers as sample size ? WTF. From what I see its a race to the bottom.
I saw guards mentions in the "notes" but no evidence in the TODO. Does guarded pattern matching work with your compilation strategy?
Password security is a shared responsibility between the company storing the password and the user who chooses what password to store. As a user, you rarely know the full extent to how a company manages the storage of passwords so the responsibility truly rests on your shoulders to choose unique passwords for each service that you use.
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I think this is probably directly or indirectly responsible for the recent health and longevity kick people have been on in the Bay area. Many people in their 20s-40s are right at the age where we can see some of the amazing things on the horizon, but it's uncertain whether we'll live long enough to see them. If I could live to 120 instead of 80-90, it greatly increases the odds that I'll live to see things like neural interfaces and things like that.
Probably a smart move, since various acts including importing and selling such equipment are probably illegal in the UK, and carrying that sort of kit in a public place would be as well (other than for police officers and the like, obviously).
That's not true. Some people say "We keep your password encrypted" instead of in plaintext, and make the dubious claim that they are then safe. It's good to help them understand the distinction that even if the passwords are encrypted, it's still a problem if they are recoverable.
I'm deeply ambivalent about this. We'd all be better off if tech companies competed with engineers instead of lawyers. Nevertheless, there's just no getting around the fact that the Galaxy Tab is a pretty direct knock-off of the iPad. Are we supposed to get all upset because Samsung's right to ride on Apple's coat-tails has been violated?
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In theory, yes. In practice, it's not so simple. Most developers using php do so not by choice, whether due to legacy code, or requiring php's ubiquity, or what have you.

You can't use ruby or python to build wordpress plugins, for instance.
The idea of non-terrestrial intelligences has been part of Judeo-Christian belief for thousands of years. Angels are generally considered both non-physical and non-terrestrial. But theologians as orthodox as Thomas Aquinas have also considered belief in non-terrestrial yet physical intelligences to be theologically acceptable[1].

[1] http://vox-nova.com/2009/10/10/on-multiple-worlds-and-multip...
This doesn't resemble an iPad to me, and even if it did the obscurity of the source nullifies any claim to obviousness. You know, at some level of abstraction you can show that any two designs are the same, but I think the level of abstraction you have chosen goes too far and doesn't get at the essence of the claim.
to give them the chance to meet bigger calibers suppliers?
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