skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a neat design. timeline with horizontal scroll (lifepath) is more natural than vertical scroll (fb). Of course FB designs this way because of its layout limitation.
For what it's worth, you can download your Facebook data here: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=account (see "download your data" at the bottom).
The thing:

1) was built in Rails

2) can be a really decent alternative to Facebook's Timeline, if it finds a new home

3) does not necessarily depend on other people's data

4) has a path to generate some revenue (charging to buy
an account if you don't have an invite)

5) has the possibility to go open source

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I see all these things, and I can only think how Diaspora should be running to get this.
i agree, Hn used to have a community feel, now I feel it is more an advertising platform.
I disagree. I feel we shouldn't have to have an extra step to share what we search for. The act of searching can be sharing and also in itself what people search. I do agree facebook is the wrong medium to achieve this though, google maybe; it needs to be at the browser level and open sourced as much as possible.
Metacritic features an iOS section:

http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/release-date/availabl...

They do aggregate scoring and have established themselves as the main way to rate "greatness" on PC and consoles, going as far as landing game directors a bonus if their creation gets a score above 85. They're quite valuable for iOS as well. "King of Dragon Pass" gets a 90 at MC.

Most critics review games based on what they are. So a simple jump&run game might rate highly if it's a truly original+fantastic one. I would suggest you go through the list - anything above 80% is a game absolutely worth your while - then see if the genre and complexity fits you.
Is LUKS going to help here? If the phone is switched on then the LUKS keys are held in memory and the disk is completely open. All that an attacker needs to do is to ensure that the phone doesn't switch itself off or run out of battery while the information is copied off.
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I still use a typewriter. It's quicker to just bang out an address on an envelope than it is to load the sticky labels into the printer, open the word processor, type the address, then print it.

but this does seem expensive.
You're claiming gold is not risky? You're like the cheap little ads plastered all over the back of magazines trying to sell you gold. If gold is such a sure bet, why are so many people so desperate to sell it to you?
According to the article, Zynga made quarterly (or yearly?) profits of $1.3M out of revenues of $279M. If I'm not missing anything important, this means that the company had to sustain expenses of over 277 million dollars during the quarter.

The company says that it "spent more than it traditionally had on hiring, acquisitions, and its international growth." But does anybody have an idea about where did all that money actually go? I would have expected a company like Zynga to be much more profitable.
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Advertising for what?
Perhaps there is the notion that as a society you want to marginalize drug consumption - whatever the cost. You might want to send the message that doing drugs for entertainment purposes isn't a "normal" activity and you prefer to have citizens that look for something else than "having fun".

But there's more to the story...

It's over simplification to say that puritanism is behind entertainment drugs prohibition.

Endemic and widespread drug usage is a real possibility and generally results in a society coming to a halt. A contemporary example is Djibouti and its widespread Khat consumption problem. France, early XXth century had a major issue with Absinthe as well. Older example is China and Opium.

Most of the drugs that are illegal were legal at some point. In the early XXth century you could purchase heroin at the apothecary. This is no longer the case, and that's not just because "doing drugs is bad m'k".

Having drugs illegal makes sure it cannot go beyond a certain point, with counterproductive effects, that's true. But even if it were legal you would have a black market for cheaper/stronger drugs.

No silver bullet...
I just submitted it, and it worked under the share url youtube gives you.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029308
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An encrypted hard disk will be visible in the clear when the phone is turned on. You'd have to ensure to turn off the phone before the cops get it.

For some people encyrption is suffering. If they lose/forget the password for the encryption, then they won't be able to get their data back.
Do we have to have the slightly emotional title of "Bill on X's Desk"?
I wouldn't trust this service, because I can't find any information about who is running this service - at least not in the few minutes I have spend clicking around on their site. Maybe there is some info somewhere, I have not found it.

In another comment a quote from a different article was mentioned regarding the Terms of Service. I could not find a page about the terms of service. Maybe it's me, but I think that these informations should be easy to find on a site.

Some other interesting points about this service are explored in an article by rsnake from ha.ckers.org:

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20100104/anonymous-proxy-woes/

"So yeah, please don’t use CGI proxies, unless you really know what you’re doing. They really very rarely increase your security. Most of the time, they just decrease it, as a matter of fact."
I'm glad Marco wrote this piece. I've been a reader of BI but had no idea they employed these kinds of practices.

It's incredibly misleading, frankly unethical, to post content like that and pretend like they're publishing with the author's consent. How disappointing.
Yes, and to be social, you must. share. everything.

EVERYTHING!
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This is a cool hack, but what I really want is a hardware calculator keypad that interfaces with the iphone. There are some great calculator apps but it's just not usable at speed without physical keys. You could do a nice case with the keypad on the inside and the phone in landscape.
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If you mean the death of the old HP, the 2008 acquisition of EDS was the formal declaration of HP's death.

The company named HP will not die anytime soon but that's irrelevant - it's just another large IT services vendor.
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Demanding that all drivers always stop at all yellow lights effectively turns the yellow light into a red light, and drivers are forced to switch instantaneously between "go the speed limit" and "stop."

I don't know about where you are, but here amber lights mean "Stop if it's safe to do so", i.e. if the choices are go through the junction or slam on the breaks, you should go through the junction. If the choices are to stop smoothly and safely or go through the junction, you should stop.
Cave's games are pretty solid, if you're willing to pay $10 for an iPhone game.
I'm too tired to find the cite now, but Car and Driver has done numerous articles on this subject. In fact, the contractors who run red-light camera systems have sometimes prevailed on authorities to reduce yellow-light durations on camera-equipped intersections to increase the violation rate.

These systems are usually run by contractors, who include a guaranteed-revenue clause in their operating agreements. If the cameras are actually effective in stopping people from running red lights, then the operators will go back to the local government to demand that they make up the shortfall.

All in all, a dirty business that's clearly not safety-driven.
How much is "enough" when it comes to personal wealth?
"it would probably also be very sensitive to market changes in demand for developers / designers."

So is your market rate as a freelancer.
You're missing the point by coercing the argument into a linear left and right scale. Abortion alone (very much on the agenda in US, almost not at all in Europe) screws that up. And there are plenty more issues.
Is that something you would pay for? Physical interfaces and keys are something of an obsession of mine (I don't use any keyboards that don't have Cherry MX switches, for example).
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Looks like for your money you get a typewriter (presumably refurbished), a display and the electronics. As you noted, he sells a DIY kit if you want to provide your own screen and typewriter (with an estimated assembly/install time of 6-7 hours for an experienced person.

Actually sounds like a fair price to me. But perhaps you are used to getting your electronics assembled overseas on a massive scale by (essentially) slave labour.
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Which criteria?
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Yeah, there are solutions like this. But the big screen is what we have, and it works great
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For some of us, best thing about facebook will always remain the same: not to have a facebook profile at all.

What happened to catching an old buddy after ages, in real life, and getting to hear each others story over a cup of coffee or dinner table. I would always prefer that to getting to know every other detail about my friends living far away, throwing every little detail of their life at me, every 10 minutes.
More than likely it goes right back into user acquisition (ads) to drive more traffic to their games.
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As a developer I view the rise of the $1-$2 price point with some concern. There's not much room between Angry Birds and the massive piles of junkware to make a living as an indie there.

As in most things, you get what you pay for.
Sorry ...I mean..where I can get this package..not language. I want use this in some blogss as it looks very nice.
You can find everything that Zynga has reported here (particularly p. 59): http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1439404/0001193125112...

When they (Gamautra) say "year-on-year", they actually compare Q2 2011 to Q3 2010, which is not standard; in general, you would want to compare Q2 to Q2 to account for seasonality of demand etc.

You can see that their sales and marketing expenses stayed roughly the same over the last 3 quarters, but there is a huge rise in R&D (almost 2x from Q4 10 to Q2 11), G&A and some small increase in cost of revenue (Facebook credits?).
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Forget typewriters. I want a Bluetooth IBM model M keyboard for my iPad.
That statement is not supported by data - see my comment above.
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Cute map, but pretty huge and hard to zoom in.

I have substantial OpenLayers and GeoServer/WMS experience.

OP: if you're interested in an interactive navigable map to show this information (perhaps updated dynamically), let me know.
My thoughts exactly. I found the whole "timeline" quite trite and deeply depressing.
And a comment written by a 13-year old proves what exactly?
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Yeah, that's the point. Freelancing rates and salaries take a dive during low demand. An auction is focused on getting a high price for something which is in high demand. If there is not a high demand, you wouldn't have a need for an auction model (when talking services / hours, not physical products).

Unlike a physical product, every developer / designer will have a minimum price which they won't go below. Thus the auction will never favor the buyers. In a low market, buyer will pay only minimum price, hence the auction format loses its purpose, as there will be no bids.
That the market doesn't regulate demand for gas very well in the short run. I guess the govt. can't either, though.
The only graph that matters there is the first one, and no one should be surprised that units have dropped. They should be surprised that they've dropped so little since the iPhone does everything the iPod does and more.

% of revenue presented like that is misleading. The iPhone and the iPad are selling like hot cakes and making a ton of money, but they're not iPods.

Revenue growth at around -6% may look bad, but that just means they're making 1.48 billion minus 6%. If you don't think that's a lot of money, you're mad.

iDevice revenue breakdown.... what's the point of that graph?

Here's what Apple should do with the iPod. Keep innovating. $1.48 Billion is a lot of money. It's a business in it's own right.

IT'S MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS!!!!
All numbers are in mn USD

Revenue Q3 2010 .. Q2 2011: $170.7 $195.8 $242.9 $279.1

Total cost and expenses: 136.4 124.3 206.7 266.1

- Cost of revenue: 49.9 51.6 67.6 78.1

- R&D: 39.8 51.5 71.8 95.7

- Sales and marketing: 28.9 38.3 40.2 38.1

- General and administrative: 17.8 (17.1) 27.1 54.2

Income (loss) from operations: 34.3 71.5 36.2 13.0

Net income: 27.2 43.0 16.8 1.4
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http://jsperf.com/object-cycle-detection

I've added a jsPerf to see how bad it performs. For small objects it's reasonable but if the object has 10 000 elements the Javascript test will take 1 second, which is not acceptable.

I'd rather give people a detection cycle detection library if their input may be circular.
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Every now and then there's a thread about git hosting, and there are always a few people that apparently fall in the following niche:

* need just the server, w/o issue tracker, collaboration, pull reqs, etc
* have a lot of private repositories
* happy to use the command line for everything

The usual answer for them is "it's 5min to set up if you already have your VPS". Fair enough. But the point comes up often enough that it might be a convenience pain point worthy of solving.

So: http://gitbox.dobarkod.hr/ - unlimited private git hosting for freelancers

It's just a temporary landing page for explaining the value proposition and gauging the interest.
Would you use it? If so, please vote with your e-mail address ;-)

Note: the killer feature here is hassle-free unlimited backed up repos for a single user. For multiple users, there's already Codeplane (good discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674417).

I don't believe this would be in competition with Codeplane - more with the cheap hosting with ssh access that people can use as git servers (but then they have to manage them at least a bit).

PS. I know name clashes with Gitbox for Mac: if I go on and implement the service, I'm probably going to change the name.
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Ugh, physical analogies. That's my point. You're stuck in a world of things. Where things go missing or get broken.

This is data. Physical laws apply badly, especially when applied in fear by people who hardly seem to understand the domain. A webserver is giving out data. "Hacking" it is just tricking it into not checking what it's handing out.

Imagine a webserver as a really dumb employee. "Give documents in the first box, labelled 'public' to anyone. ..." If you've ended up telling that employee to give a copy of your financials to anyone who asks for it, because you forgot to tell them it wasn't a public document, it's your fault.

Not only would preventing this in law involve criminalizing many protocol errors and mistakes but it merely serves to hide the real problem - trusting inherently weak security.
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Well the model is the thing that tells us what effect a rise in temperature/CO2 would actually have, no? Seems common sense to me that this should be open so that people can judge it. You could program a model to say anything regardless of the data.
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How would kqueue compare to Windows's IO completion ports in terms of performance?
The unwillingness to cut and paste "mark dowd sendmail" into google for something you would "love to see" is amusingly typical of lots of the comments on this thread. It's the first result BTW
Agree with Random_Person, I just kept reading, quite engaging and interesting.

Although in "Like a Phoenix with clipped wings" I was confused by this:

It should come as no great surprise that I choose to take Polite Blonde and Pregnant Girls side of things, given everything I knew about how our company was managed to date. The next shocking twist, however, would confirm that any faith I may once have had in these people, was sorely misplaced.

Did you mean the faith in the girls or the others?

Otherwise, great read as I said.
So are they suing everyone else too? Sounds like the whole computing world is in violation of their massive 5,000 patent portfolio.
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Yea, because it's only Apple who sues people. It would have been irony if a real patent troll company got sued for patent violations.
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Hi Folks,

my company's about to trial some new public display equipment. We'd like to find a company who can test the security of our solution to ensure that no one can change the messages put out, or disrupt communications with the service. Can anyone recommend any UK based white hat security firms?

Thanks in advance,

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ps. I haven't yet heard what technology is being used by this equipment, but am pretty sure the equipment itself will be running apache on linux. I hope to find out more info soon.
Germany is not a good example, the highways are saturated, always under construction, speed limits are not respected and when you do not have speed limits, you have crazy people driving 190km/h+ thinking they can control their car and are driving safely.

Really, cars and speed limits are very particular in Germany, if Germans are normally very rational in the way they manage their life, they keep all their irrationality for their behaviour with respect to their cars.
There is a distinction between 'ad hominem' and 'refuting an opponent's ethos'. Somebody made a factual claim about something, therefore implying some form of at least familiarity with the subject at hand. When his arguments show the he lacks even the most basic of such familiarity, then calling that out is not an ad hominem.
He's, allegedly, the one who made the leak public. Yes. But that data was leaking for a long time and we have no way of knowing who else collected it.

If I had thought Sony was secure I'd actually be better off now, with my card visibly leaked, than before where only the bad guys had access to it. If my card was fraudulently used I'd have been in a bad position before the leak was known - I'd be assumed to be a criminal until I proved that I didn't make the purchases. After the leak became public I'd be more likely to get reasonable treatment from my credit card company.
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Basically every US citizen on HN needs to sign this right now - unless you have a vested interest in more patents being issued like patent number 6080436 issued in 2000, "Bread Refreshing Method." which is basically a patent for making toast. More on this and patent trolls:

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Hrm, what languages are you open to doing library work for? Any further constraints (e.g. only OSS, etc.)?
Do not underestimate the police like that. They know very well what they are doing. They control most of the time outside pick up time to not bother you and just some times to times at pick up time. The goal is mostly to condition you to think that you could be controlled. This is just the goal, putting in your brain that you could be controlled. Just that will make you go a bit slower, even during pick up time.

Oh, and this I got it from a German policeman because I asked him why they were not controlling during pick up time.
Since the audio and video streams are muxed into a single file, and the copyright "check" is done based on location this would mean YouTube encoding every video twice (and for each resolution), effectively doubling YouTube's storage requirements.... most people will then re-upload their video in a non-infringing manor anyway, so it would be quite wasteful.
The reason is that you usually start talking with the potential customers about the idea before you have a product ready. You bounce your idea from people on barcamps, you discuss the idea on forums, etc.

Now - these people quite often want to know when you launch, and the best way is to give them the website address, so they can leave their e-mail address on it.

So: promoting a landing page? Makes no sense. But talking about the idea before you have a prototype - definitely!
On paper... a lot of the other people on the list have actual assets. Till an IPO its all speculation.
I'd like to get a device the other way around - a daisy-wheel printer with simple parts and a serial or USB interface.
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My question is why didn't he just destroy the canvas instead of painting over it? Would it not been easier? Was canvas really that valuable that he opted to reuse it even after it had an almost completed painting on it?