skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You effing fanbois?

This post doesn't contribute positively to the discussion, and doesn't address the actual question raised by the parent as to the OP's motivation for creating his blog.
Certainly not all. Several address the morality and question it further. I'm sure you'll agree there is a lot of noise from people saying the same thing (aside: this wouldn't be the case under if votes were visibly I think, me toos aren't needed then).
How is it not understandable? To say something is simply not understandable is to say you cannot even begin to conceive of why they would do such a thing.

Whether or not we agree with FB, I think just about everyone sees where they are coming from.
Heh, I agree, that second one is rubbish. It seems like they're trying real hard to paint a picture of how young and energetic and fun they are... but then didn't say the first word about the product they're building. I don't know about the rest of you, but all the "young, hip, energetic, red-bull drinking, prank pulling startup vibe" stuff isn't terribly interesting to me, compared to knowing something about the actual, ya know, work.

As they say "it's called work for a reason."

Sure, we all (well, mostly all) want a fun, happy workplace... but if I'm working on something that's mind-numbingly boring, I'm going to zone out and not give a flip about the red-bull and the nerf fights and the after-work LAN parties and all that B.S., in about 2 minutes.
US skier tossed off team over in-flight urination
I think the implications are still unclear. It's hard to tell if they're specifically targeting apps that are "badge-arrific" and use Facebook to market themselves, if they're referring to canvas apps, or if this a wholesale attack on all apps that use Facebook data. For instance, I'm working on an application that will eventually integrate (hopefully) data from Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc., in a similar fashion as Summify. It is the power of combining all of this data that interests many users.

All that said, there is a shred of logic behind they're actions...Logic in a very self-serving way, however. I am certainly biased, but I can't see this helping anyone but Facebook!

I'll end with the first line of their platform policies: "Facebook Platform is an extension of Facebook, whose mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected."

Right...
The worst thing that can happen? Status quo.

Mixed success: cheaper trucking, cheaper taxis, and nothing else changes.
I'm applying! I already have the funds saved for the plane ticket. I'm coming from the East coast. I wanted to apply last year but a.) I didn't have the funds and 2.) I wasn't confident in my coding skills as I am now. I'm super excited, because even if I don't get in I'll still be one step better than where I was last August :)

I'm a little uncertain about housing, but worst case scenario, I'm willing to take a same day flight back.
Ask HN: Consultants - How do you charge your clients?
Do you charge per project or per hour? If you sub-contract out and work with designers are you transparent about this?
While true on the Playstation platforms, the view of the iPhone ecosystem is extremely inflated. Either all iPhones offer a similar experience across the entire platform or not.

Most of my friends, with iPhones, have upgraded with each iteration of the iPhone. They would each be counted three times, were we to consider each iPhone iteration a separate platform. However, if we're being honest about the experience being compatible across the iterations, is the triple dipping really fair? Frankly, most of the same friends upgraded because they could (afford to) and need shiny objects and that phone-dropped blemish gone -- "The Apple Way."

I think you were going there, but I had to spell it out.
Excuse me if I don't find statement made after the fact by him such as "is pursuing art (or whatsver) admitting to yourself that you value art more than world hunger? After all, that's how you're allocating your resources." to be "silly" or "whimsical", but rather condescending and pretentious.

Nobody is saying that we should destroy his business. People are saying that we should avoid supporting it.

As for running him out of town on a rail? Well actions like this are not exactly acts of good community building...
>> Everyone simply ask "Can I have the files on a disc?"

Unless you work for a big consumer printing service, how do you know "everyone" is not printing the files out themselves to bypass the "professional" printing cost?
It's like with any other program supposed to help you picking up a password; you run it a couple of times until you find something that ticks.

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The arXiv turns 20
I get the feeling Gruber and Marco do not exactly like non-Apple platforms.
Goodwill: something that can only happen when a poor person is involved

(I take it that's what you mean to say?)
That's very exciting. Will MRI be fixed "soon" ?
Right, understood. But that is also a big point of what we are doing with Cityposh. It's a promotional tool for businesses after all. So traffic back to their website is very much desired by companies who want to use Cityposh to promote them.
The code for the extension is freely available on github (https://github.com/forward/mustachio-chrome), you can see that we aren't doing anything shady with your data.
In the US, the perp probably always pleads guilty, so there ends up not being a trial where the victim would be able to learn more about the case.
You said you got diagnosed on advice from your Dad, what exactly should somebody look for before they go to a doctor and get diagnosed? Are there any sure signs? How does somebody know that they're not just lazy or have a short-attention span.
Was it determined that the "experiment" was a hoax/viral marketing effort by Starbucks?
Rating agencies are irrelevant at this point. You'd have to a total economic ignoramus to think the US is AAA. This'll be abundantly clear even to the masses by next year.
This is default behavior as of Firefox 4. When you launch a new browser, the (default) home page has a "restore last session" button.
Where on Gruber's website is his relevance to the subject made clear?

EDIT: No, seriously. If someone has no idea who Gruber is and they click through to his site, tell me where on the screen they would see information that answers the implicit question "Who is Gruber and why would him finding out about this problem aid its resolution".
Which is exactly the sort of terrible rules xkcd is criticizing (paraphrasing glenra).

Instead of 4 extra enforcements you could add 8 extra characters.

Your entropy is (somewhat simplified)

One 8 letter word: 15 bits

1 uppercase = 3 bits (or even just 1 bit, people capitalize the first letter)

reversing 2 rules above: 1 bit

replacing two characters at random places: 8*7/2 = 4.8 bits

inserting 2 random non alphabet characters: 40^2 = 10.6 bits
Total: 34.4

The entropy of three medium difficulty words is log(4000^3) = 35.9

Instead of memorizing K!ybo4rd it could be mykeyboardisblue.
Device activation. When the device is first turned on and connected to a network, it phones home.

That's how Google knows about every Android phone.
I love Subjot. Much better than Twitter because there is less 'noise'
Sweet and addictive.

Complaint! When I click correctly on something, a red box shows up around the object for a second and then a little alert says "1 out of 2 tries" above the items. Below it tells me if I got it right.

This is confusing. The red box and the 1 out of 2 tries makes me think I picked wrong. But then the text below says I chose correctly. It's not immediately clear if I did well or not as I'm playing.
Did mainframes die when PCs arrived?

Did stone tablets die after the invention of paper?

Did coins die after the invention of paper currency?

Did propeller planes die after the invention of the jet engine?

Did rowboats die after motorboats were created?

An entire technology tree doesn't die out just because a new one starts to sprout. The branches themselves may get pruned from time to time, but knowledge and knowhow tend to be valuable and sooner or later a new application is found. The tree just gets pruned, and spouts branches every now and then, as the new one takes root.

So, no photo printing itself won't die out. I have no doubt that the current paradigms we use this technology under will fade away, but I'm also certain that a new one will take its place.
iPhone 1/2/3/4 are evolutionary devices, better hardware of same kind, same software, same software ecosystem. PS1/2/3 are different hardware architectures, different software and different software ecosystems.
Unfortunately, I can't yet blow those users off. The last set of visualizations I did with Protovis saw over 20% of its traffic in IE < 9. I'd be ecstatic if I could ignore VML...
For me, ADHD isn't a disorder as much as a collection of personality traits. I have a bunch of traits I constantly have to look out for to ensure I complete work, and I've built a system so that I can cope really effectively, w/o medicine.

To argue that it's any other case is sorta weird.
Are you sure that comment applies here though? The QR codes it referred to and these are like night and day.
Subtle Things That Hold Women Back
He donated to a fund that was intended to be used in a very particular way. Sam Odio took money from that fund, used it otherwise, and insulted everyone who placed money into it.

Sam Odio stole from the fund, Sam Odio stole from zacharycohn.
Facebook bans rival social networks
Thanks for sharing. The diary/journal app space is pretty crowded, otherwise I think you would be selling a lot more apps. The one thing that I noticed is that there aren't many reviews. I think that reviews are key when someone is evaluating your app for purchase.
Yes, causality is generally not broken, so i assumed the meaning "justifiable" for "understandable". My comment was not so much a response to the comment but to the general "free pass" that the "new ethics" get in mainstream media.
What can possibly be done is to open a in browser popup which shows the details of the product with an option of viewing them later. If i am playing the game with the intention of playing its not very likely that i would pause to buy before returning to the game. You can add whatever items were clicked for in a list below and when the game ends show the items that the player showed interest in.
Had you used brainfuck, I would have downvoted you.
The reason that people are annoyed is because the title of the article is misleading. Yes, this guy may be a "hacker" in the sense of the word that we all like to use (he's a programmer).

The issue is that the article is titled "Why you don't steal from a hacker". This is not actually an appropriate name for the article, because it's not the writer's status as a hacker that leads to the final result. It is the writer's position as an application user that leads to the final result. In that sense, this article be should called, "Why you don't steal from someone that knows how to use an application to track their stolen laptop". Hence, by replacing the the "application user" with "hacker" you are diluting the meaning of hacker that everyone here loves to use. I'm not trying to be critical, just explaining why people are stating this and that they are attempting to express a consistent stance. You may associate this type of activity with a hacker, but understandably, it is not what you'd come up with when you attempted to define a hacker.
Did mainframes die when PCs [arrived?]?

Of course not. But by the time the trend was obvious, I don't believe anyone was launching mainframe startups anymore either.
Agreed. I had the same kind of thing happen, and felt the same way. Thanks for bringing that up.
My dad's advice was the last grain of rice. Getting diagnosed was the result of a long period of slowly accruing more information about the disorder. If you suspect you might have it, it's worth going to see a psychiatrist or psychologist; if you don't really have that kind of time or cash, then buy or borrow "Driven to Distraction", which has a section devoted to figuring out whether you have it.

Even if you don't, reading the book will probably still give you some insight into your own personal habits!
Same thing happening here, I'm in Canada though.

EDIT: Worked when I used IE8 though. I was using FF5 on WinXP before. May just be a coincidence.
I'll admit i'm biased here as I also use chrome primarily, but:

Your assertion that safari gets webkit changes later is correct if you restrict yourself to official releases. But if you include the nightlies, I'd say the gui application we call safari wins out over chrome. The changes to webcore, note i'm omitting javascript interpreter changes since google plugs v8 into webcore/kit, tend to show up in the webkit project and thus webkit nightlies well before google merges them into chrome/chromium.

I use lastpass/xmarks for syncing though. Just because I like the option of ditching chrome if I ever need to. And I pay the $20/yr so I can get the desktop/mobile versions in sync too. i* devices included.

I totally agree on the favicons part, wonder if there would be a way to make an extension bookmark bar or modify the tabs. Haven't looked at what the allowed extensions can do.

On that note, extension syncing, chrome is about the only browser that gets this part right. I wish all would allow pref synchronization, half the reason I despise firefox is getting all my extensions in sync on each computer.
Fair enough. I don't have any evidence either way to be honest, I was mostly explaining why he was mentioned in the post.

Though, in any case, one thing you can be sure of is that when he blogs about something, it gets significant attention in the tech sphere. You wouldn't be able to link a fix directly to him afterwards, but I think it's fair to say that his blow-horn is loud enough to have some influence.
I don't think "disorder" and "collection of personality traits" are mutually exclusive terms.
>I could believe that a fraudster might spend a few months trying to appear legitimate, but six years?

Remember to take into account (pun intended) hacked reputable accounts.
odious indeed
We're developing on Gumstix (an Openembedded platform). The platform compiles everything for us into the native ARM architecture. I'm building it using lighttpd, sqlite, and PHP. I've built my own lightweight template/framework based on the work started at (www.sitepoint.com/beyond-template-engine/). It needs to handle pretty much everything your typical wifi AP control panel would normally handle. :)
And that's why competition is good in almost any area :) It forces the players to give their best. When you are the only one on the track you are competing against yourself and the motivation is not as powerful because you're always No. 1.
Thought I was the only one hunting for that FCC post with the WP plugin!
Subjot solves the one problem everyone hates when following, circling, or friending people you enojoy. There is no longer the "Hey everyone look how cute my dog is" syndrome. Best of luck to Chris Carella and everyone at Subjot!
Gruber bases his analysis on Google's biweekly publication of Android version distributions, observing that for the two weeks ending July 14th, only 0.9% of 'live' Android installations were running Honeycomb (Android 3.0 or 3.1). This is somewhat disingenuous, since the vast majority of Android apps run fine on earlier versions (as used mainly on smartphones).

But let's go with his Honeycomb filter anyway; the latest update from Google (August 1) shows Android 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 enjoying market shares of 0.4%, 0.7%, and 0.2% respectively, for a total of 1.3%. A 44% increase in Honeycomb tablet shipments in the space of 2 weeks seems somewhat unlikely, but a portion of that may result from 'back to school' sales; that's part of why I bought mine.

The market is going to look very different in a year. I consider myself and Android/Google fanboy, but when Motorola launched their Xoom last winter I rolled my eyes at the absurdly high price along with everyone else. It seems to me that the Honeycomb platform didn't get started properly until April, when Acer and Asus lunched products that competed with the Ipad around the $500 price point. Since then Samsung and Lenovo have released their own Honeycomb devices, and Asus claims to be selling 400k/mo. of its Eee tablet. Amazon's two forthcoming tablets are likely to sell well too, if the success of the Kindle is any guide. I see a 4:1 use ratio between iPad and equivalent Android tablets this time next year, maybe even 3:1 if Android products cluster around the $400 price point. It took Android on smartphones a few years to achieve market parity with Apple's offering.

As well as being good for consumers, this is good news for developers too. From never buying any apps for my Android phone, I'm about to drop $20 today (VPN/remote desktop, pro PDF tool, sketchbook). Although I only got the tablet last Monday (an Eee btw), it's already drastically altering my use patterns, and I feel safe in finally calling the death of the conventional PC. I find the device infinitely more satisfying and productive to use than any laptop I have ever owned, and can plug in a keyboard dock if I need to do a lot of typing.

RIM and HP are the big losers here; I can't see any reason to buy into the Blackberry OS or WebOS from either a consumer or business point of view.
Any chance you could open source the server bits too? :D
Yeah, that's a very interesting idea. Thanks for that. We'll chew on something like that for sure.
My parents (my children's grandparents) are moving away from physical photos. The thing that pushed them over the edge was us starting to use an EyeFi card (http://www.eye.fi/).

It's an SD card that can wirelessly transmit pictures and upload them automatically to designated endpoints.

All of the pictures we take are automatically uploaded to my flickr account that my parents have access to. When we talk regularly on the phone, they've already been out to flickr to see the latest photos.

For the few pictures that they think are good enough to have physical prints of them, they can order them from snapfish directly from flickr.

Previous to owning an EyeFi, it'd be weeks or months before I got a chance to manually go through and curate the photos to find the "best" ones actually worth sending to a service like PicPlum and I'd always get complaints from my parents about the delay.
I just could not get it to work. I follow several instruction pages carefully. I was initially trying to follow:

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book#se...

I kept getting issues with versions.

I should have specified that, I do not necessarily think it is a bad product, but it did frustrate me a lot when trying to set it up. I'm sure it has saved a lot of developers time, but I speak for myself and myself alone, and the cost-benefit for me was way off.
100+ MB download... No thanks.
Yeah, I could do that, but to be blunt I'm not going to waste my time analyzing the security implications of installing some novelty app. In my opinion, and I am by no means an expert on writing chrome extensions, the more appropriate thing to do would be to tweak your extension so that it only uses the functionality it requires to work. Surely it does not need access to everything in my browser to do what it does.

Look at it this way, if you were selling this thing for $.99 on the android app store and I wanted to install it, and I saw that it needed such broad permissions, you would have just lost out on a sale. Something to keep in mind should you ever move to monetize this in the future.
> I do not understand one thing, why don't government spend these many resources in improving our cyber security. Why don't they try to save government websites which are under constant attacks of foreign hackers?

Probably because internal threads are more worrisome than external ones. Foreign hackers don't topple governments - local revolutions do.
It amusingly says "We ask for a Twitter or Facebook account to help find your friends on Subjot. We'll never post to Twitter without your permission".

So it will post to Facebook without your permission?
The best of luck. I really like the idea. Not sure if the gamification thing will catch on in the long term, but anything to improve productivity with fun is something I can buy into.
They are at least reasons to monitor the email and to respond to select ones. If your support has a general framework to work upon, they can handle most emails very well. Handling all/most or handling none of the support are both bad options.
Sorry, I'm tired.

>>> I don't believe anyone was launching mainframe startups anymore either. <<<

But they do still launch mainframe startups! In fact it's all the rage today, and everyone is doing it these days.
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Its not a marketing effort by starbucks.

But this guy is an a$$hole... In his blog, he states that he took 625$ PERSONALLY and that he doesnt intend to profit from it, BUT he also mentions that he and OTHERS have been doing this. So theres a bunch of people out there stealing from this card. Great.
how does this work? is he using stark's card balance to buy a new starbucks card?
I don't understand why apps make twitter and facebook as the only gatekeepers. Why not have an independent signup?
I think this quite reflects the whole evolution theory - something quite good is replaced by something a little bit better, which is again replaced by something a bit better, and so on, and so on, and so on.
oh good catch... we'll fix that because no we will not post to FB without your permission.
I'm not a female entrepreneur and would find it quite odd to receive a request to meet at someone's apartment instead of Starbucks. I've never had a professional "first contact" meeting like this at someone's house.
Ouch. That's a series of far-fetched statements.

For one gem dependencies can be handled through Bundles. If you mean version dependencies, I will give you that. But just because RVM's goal is great doesn't mean it's execution is flawless.

Also, I did RTFM. Do not make assumptions about why I failed to get it to work. There are a million variables when trying to get anything to work (OS, env variables, etc).

Lastly, I love feeling utterly incompetent, because it usually means I am learning a lot. Furthermore, what areas of the Ruby language are you talking about exactly?
Right, and Wikipedia exactly proves my point! Ritalin != 'a more potent form of crystal meth'. Yes it's chemically related, and yes it has in the abstract and in people who do not have ADHD similar effects, but no it's not the same. H1N1 and seasonal flu are both influenza strains, except that one kills tens or hundreds of millions over a few years and the other one everyone gets once every few years and shrugs it off with a few days in bed. Does that mean that they're all the same?
Scott is one of the rare biased, objective posters in the blogging world. He never tries to hide his love of Microsoft and its products, however he never makes unfounded, baseless accusations and always backs up his claims with real data.

Consider these posts in recent history:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ReviewMicrosoftTouchMouseForWi... (critical of MS hardware)

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HackersCanKillDiabeticsWithIns... (well-researched article)

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/RequestForCommentsIssuesWithNE... (a common question raised among .Net developers)
This is indeed just the first step.

My mom wants prints. lots of them. And I'm sure she's not alone. She actually sent me a massive email about what photo prints mean to her and wanted me to post it somewhere. So I did:

http://blog.picplum.com/post/8818368168/what-photos-mean-to-...
Couldn't agree more. The bonus reason sums it up best: "It's the right thing to do". This kind of stuff pays off in the long-rug I bet. A few times I have replied to emails from startups and the reply-to is their CEO. I get excited, send off an email, but am disappointed when I see an employee replying to my email which was forward to them by the CEO.