skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VbV has to be some of the worst security engineering I've ever seen. iframe content, arbitrary domain (securesuite?!), trivially guessable or resettable details.
The Sprint pricing is wrong, you're missing the required $10/month smartphone data add-on. That brings the prices to $80, $100, and $110 for each tier.

Also, do you have more info on the $10/month discount on VZW for FIOS customers? I did some searching and wasn't able to find anything concrete on Verizon's site.
Steve Jobs' biography selling like hot wieners in a famine
My bad, I didn't know that. Thanks.
A traffic ticket is not an arrest. The police cannot without consent search you, your car, your jacket, your bag, or anything else simply because you were caught speeding. You have to be arrested for that to happen.

The pattern of facts here is, if you get pulled offer, arrested for DUI and driving without a license (both of which are arrestable offenses), and the cop finds a loaded gun in your car, you cannot claim that your "expectation of privacy" protects the contents of the phone with your picture on it sitting in clear view in the passenger compartment.
I remember a video of Steve in 1997(?) where he said "people want big beautiful color displays, maps, intuitive interfaces, etc." (horribly misquoted I'm sure). It was clear back then that he had the vision for the iPhone and iPad, in some way.

Just because Steve wasn't technically proficient doesn't mean that he didn't have any good input into the design and features of the machines that Woz was building. I'm sure Steve said a lot of things, about the software especially, that helped determine the direction of the product they were building.
Well Steve Wozniak also became a billionaire, so while Jobs may have gotten more money but he also ran Pixar so it's not all that one sided. As to the "collective" effort argument that IMO that often get's into a social constructs where people are expected to sacrifice for the company and get rewarded for it. Where I prefer the concept of people who are directly compensated upfront for there efforts vs the social contract of working for a promotion etc. You can't be cheated out of a pension you where never supposed to have.
As usual, the sensationalist headline implies something very different from what is actually the case.
Nominations are open for the 14th annual Free Software Awards
Ask HN: What is the early personal computer technology equivalent today?
Like many people, I was thinking about Steve Jobs last night, and Apple and the whole personal computer ecosystem that I've grown up with and I was trying to identify a physical technology product TODAY that is in the same place that PCs were in the late 70s - built from kits or purchased at Radio Shack. I'm guessing robots. What are your thoughts?
This is only true if you're going to burn it (chemical), not if you're going to fuse it (nuclear).
Fixing FOUJUI: Flash of Uninitialized JavaScript UI [Code]
Sorry for that, here the link from amazon.com and without the ref (which I think wasn't even mine) http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/14516485...
Thank you Steve. Badge your website.
Ask PG:  What's the highest rated HN article ever?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128

I don't recall seeing an article get this many votes. Is this the post on HN with the most votes?

Also, I'd like to propose adding a new list: highest rated articles of all time. It might be interesting to see what the articles that had the most impact in HN's history.
Hehe, wikipedia, of course.

The only way to fix the Italian government would be the equivalent of a 'make mrproper', so to speak.
From what I can tell, there's nothing remotely "clever" at play here. The search context we're talking about is many decades old. The arrest that instigated it was not subtle; any of (i) reckless driving, (ii) driving without a license, or (iii) DUI can get you searched "for reals". In a "for reals" search, your phone is not off limits, never has been, full stop.

If you want to force the situation into a grey area, use a strongly encrypted passphrase protected phone, like an iPhone. You'll have a lot more room to maneuver in the case where someone tries to compel you to divulge your passphrase. That's not what happened here.
Here's a great discussion about how to run multiple versions of IE on a single windows instance,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574463/running-internet-e...
INTENSIVE LIFESTYLE CHANGES MAY AFFECT THE PROGRESSION
OF PROSTATE CANCER

http://www.abundantwellbeing.com/Nischala/CancerStudyOrnish....

"Purpose: Men with prostate cancer are often advised to make changes in diet and lifestyle,
although the impact of these changes has not been well documented. Therefore, we evaluated the
effects of comprehensive lifestyle changes on prostate specific antigen (PSA), treatment trends
and serum stimulated LNCaP cell growth in men with early, biopsy proven prostate cancer after 1 year

...

Conclusions: Intensive lifestyle changes may affect the progression of early, low grade prostate
cancer in men. Further studies and longer term followup are warranted."
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000169487.49018.73

===== and ....

"Clinical Events in Prostate Cancer Lifestyle Trial: Results From Two Years of Follow-Up"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0090429508...

"Changes in prostate gene expression in men undergoing an intensive nutrition and lifestyle intervention"

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/24/8369.short

"Increased telomerase activity and comprehensive lifestyle changes: a pilot study"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470204508...

"Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease?: The Lifestyle Heart Trial"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01406736909...
The Day Steve Jobs Called Walter Isaacson
I wish more people could be closer to the middle.
I can say that I touched Jobs by using his beautiful products.
Of all the tributes, this is the one that brought a tear to my eye.

I worry that the long hours and extraordinary commitment to our craft may not be worth the sacrifices we make. The time is now for me, and I'm driving hard to a personal goal. Late nights and early mornings, essentially every waking hour is spent preoccupied by building a great product. And I see it in my son's eyes that he's missing me.

Reading Gruber's final paragraph reminds me that I'm going to regret this lost moment in time with my family, and that any success achieved will be paid for by their commitment to stand by me along the way.

Tonight, I'm going to kick off early and go watch his Hockey practice. And then enjoy a few periods of the Leaf opener tonight with the kid. He deserves it.
I'm not sure they've been co-opted; unions still seem outnumbered by people who I'd place closer a to university-activist or counterculture-oriented scene. If anything it seems like a cautious alliance between those groups. Strategically that's probably a good idea; one of the main cultural problems of the left has been decades-long mutual distaste between union members and people they perceive as more middle-class hippie or student-activist types.
Taking inventions from others and making them attractive to the marketplace is innovation. :)

Henry Ford did not invent the car but he was the best innovator if it.

However, it is no exaggeration to say Apple reinvented many products time and time again.
> investors will no doubt assume that financial institutions are state-guaranteed

They are state-guaranteed. Too big to fail. Every piece of financial machinery for the debt circus is required and they can't get rid of it or let it fail without exposing the same functionality elsewhere.

As long as we use a debt-based state currency the banks can't be allowed to fail. At some point they'll just print new money and start fresh hoping it doesn't happen again.

Until we declare the debt-currency game to be unwinnable and stop playing, we'll keep losing.
SourceTree is the easy to use GUI for Mercurial and Git (free)
Verified by visa is hideous security theatre. I have no idea why banks fail so hard at security. They're actively targeted by criminal gangs; they stand to lose money if they get it wrong; they have money and expertise to get it right. Yet they all suck.
Do you test all of IE6, 7, 8, and 9 like that?
My money's on chip stacking! At least until other processes reach the efficiency of silicon, anyway.
Data in advertising, and why I barely care about my blog’s stats
It seems to be fixed: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/admin/
It was a general reference referring to no one in particular, before the election of 2008.
We randomly throw older items out of memory. If they're needed again they'll get reloaded from disk, but it's unlikely they'll be needed soon because older stuff is mostly visited by crawlers or random Google traffic.
Another 15 law schools targeted over jobs data
Yea, what a great idea. Why did no one think of this? Oh, wait. They did. They voted in Obama to make a statement against Bush's policies. What did they get? More of Bush's policies.

The US is a two party system where both parties get the majority of all their funding from big business. Why would they care what individual citizens have to say? Elections are won with campaign money.
Sorry, but I disagree. I don't want to see alternative medicine advocacy here; as superstition it is antithetical to the hacker philosophy.

Would that I could downvote in meatspace and relegate this nonsense to oblivion, where it belongs.
I just pay for Rdio and don't think about the details. Rdio has saved me hundreds of dollars this year that I'd have otherwise spent on iTMS for music. I don't have the bandwidth to sit around thinking about how much music I have "left", or coming up with ever more devious ways to avoid paying for it.

Rdio is one of the better investments I've made in the past few years (I'm sure Spotify would be just as good). If you're considering forking a little cash over in order to stop wasting time planning what music you're going to have access to or how you're going to reach it, I say do it.
What would Steve have said about the software? Have you actually used Integer BASIC? Looked through the red book at the code samples they shipped with the machine? Seriously, it's 100% Woz. The case, and the idea of selling it as a preassembled machine clearly came from Jobs. And the hustle required to actually sell and market them was all his. But I'm not kidding: Jobs' technical work lay in the future. His skills weren't well suited to the hardware world of the mid 70's.
Would be awesome to see a list taking into account community size too. To see if there were super popular articles years ago that only had a few hundred votes because the community was so small.
I have plenty of Spotify invites, if you or anyone wants to try it without using Facebook. My email's in my profile.
Actually, I think diamond is getting much cheaper. It's becoming much more integral for satellites and extremely small electronics because of their susceptibility to radiation. http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/08/nanodiamond/

The first thing I'd wonder is what the susceptibility to radiation is for spintronics. The paper "Spintronics: a new paradigm for electronics for the new millennium" says that it is as hardened as the silicon. So then I'd question how hard the graphene is and found a couple of papers about that: Unzipping and folding of graphene by swift heavy ions, Effect of electron-beam irradiation on graphene field effect devices.

Researchers out there realize the problems popping up with silicon and are working to find the solutions. It's a really cool time to be in material sciences, physics and/or electrical engineering.
I was too reminded of Randy Pausch, specifically the last pages in his book "The Last Lecture." In my mind, there was an obvious parallel between the ending chapters going by much quicker than beginning ones, a lot shorter, more succinct, reading the words of a dying, and now-dead, man.

On one hand, we never experienced this with Steve, he never really gave an indication of slowing down (except for his resignation speech), and I never noticed the energy sucked out of Apple like I did from Randy's book. That's obviously because Steve made all the right moves in transitioning the company.

On the other hand, the empty-chair photo made me visualize how he was watching the presentation, and that in itself reminded me of the last pages of The Last Lecture. The fact he died the day after the presentation is Steve's version: The Last Keynote.

RIP Steve.
The complaint is worded to indicate that the atlas contains interpretations based on extensive original historical research. I suppose they are arguing that these aren't published facts that exist anywhere in the historical record. They reconstructed what was possibly in effect during many time periods based on possibly anecdotal historical documentation. I'm no lawyer, but I suspect some concrete examples of this would come up during the trial.

These atlases set forth interpretations of historical
time zone information pertaining to innumerable locations
throughout the world, based upon the compilation of
historical research and documentation regarding
applicable time zones officially and/or in actuality in
effect, given the actual latitude and longitudes of
specific locations throughout the world.
> his theory for a name was to start from the generic term for something, then romanticize it. His favorite example at the time was Sony’s Trinitron.

This theory appeals to me, but the example doesn't seem to be an instance of it. Neither trinity nor electron are generic names for TV (or for a tube). Maybe the story got mixed up somewhere.

> The name Trinitron was derived from trinity, meaning the union of three, and tron from electron tube, after the way that the Trinitron combined the three separate electron guns of other CRT designs into one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitron

OTOH iPhone is a romanticisation of a generic term.
The Tao of Steve
This looks cool, but I'm not sure about the long-term value.

Looking at their browser list, I could test all Firefox, Opera, and Chrome versions, one version of IE, and the Windows versions of Safari on one Windows 7 box.

I could add to that three VMs for older versions of IE, and a Mac (maybe with a VM) for Mac Safari versions. If the main Win7 machine is also a VM, I could do this all on the Mac.

So, that's a total of 5-6 OS licenses, which would cost $750-$1000.

At $19/month for a single user, BrowserStack becomes more expensive after 2-3 years. At the small team rate of $68/year it becomes more expensive after one year. (I could host VMs on a server and have my testers RDP into it; they can't use the VMs simultaneously but with 4 testers and 5-6 VMs that's not a problem.)

To me, the pricing is right on the edge, which forces me to evaluate the effort of maintaining local VMs and browsers (an invisible cost is most organizations) vs the potential risks of running my in-development software and providing access to my development environments to a third-party over the internet. If the pricing was lower and clearly less expensive than maintaining my own VMs, it'd be a slam-dunk decision and the other factors wouldn't even be considered. (I'm thinking about this from a "how does a developer sell this to corporate management" perspective.)
see this journal:

"Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that seeks to understand the sources and to encourage rigorous research in this new, yet ancient world of complementary and alternative medicine."

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/
I prefer 'dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda'
This is great stuff. Thanks a lot!
Unfortunately, though, few homeopaths would give this type of advice. Most homeopaths actively recommend people not use scientific medicine.

The following quotes are from an investigation of what type of advice real homeopaths give when asked to recommend treatment for someone planning to visit areas exposed to malaria.

"... I tried to find out what homeopaths would offer to a young traveller seeking protection against malaria. Working with Alice Tuff and the charity Sense About Science, we developed a storyline in which Tuff would be making a ten week overland trip through West Africa, where there is a high prevalence of the most dangerous strain of malaria, which can result in death within three days. Tuff, a young graduate, would explain to homeopaths that she had previously suffered side-effects from conventional malaria tablets and wondered if there was a homeopathic alternative."

...

"Next Tuff found a variety of homeopaths by searching on the internet, just as any young student might do. She then visited or phoned ten of them, mainly based in and around London. In each case, Tuff secretly recorded the conversations in order to document the consultation. The results were shocking. Seven out of the ten homeopaths failed to ask about the patient's medical background and also failed to offer any general advice about bite prevention. Worse still, ten out of ten homeopaths were willing to advise homeopathic protection against malaria instead of conventional treatment, which would have put our pretend traveller's life at risk."

http://www.1023.org.uk/whats-the-harm-in-homeopathy.php
Their complaint points out that not all historical timezones used in practice are actually defined by law.
Did Apple quietly pay tribute to Steve Jobs during Tuesday's iPhone event?
An interesting angle of this, which Wales highlighted, is that it was a community decision made entirely by the Italian Wikipedia's editors. Afaik, that makes Wikipedia the only top website where the userbase controls the website in some sort of effective, practical manner, so that it's even possible to temporarily take it down as a protest. With most other sites, it would've had to be a top-down decision of the site owner.

I suppose the next closest might be convincing people to mass-blank their tumblrs, but that has a certain collective-action-coordination problem.
1955-2011 (by Scott Adams)
The Children by David Halberstam: http://www.amazon.com/Children-David-Halberstam/dp/044900439... I can't recommend it enough. One of the best books I've read in the past five years.
> The ongoing miniaturization of silicon technology has to end fairly soon, as the atomic scale is approaching rapidly.

Again: The issue is not the material science or the physics, it is the economy of scale.

Even if miniturization stopped tomorrow, there would be bigger wafers, or 3D stacking, or wafer-scale integration, or (insert favorite technology here.)

Those economics are very tough to compete with. The net effect is that other materials are relegated to markets where there is an honest differentiator. For example: III-V's are much superior lasers compared to Si-based technologies. (Look up "Direct Bandgap" as to why.)
I think the reason it didn't work was a combination of things, including the timeliness of launch. Six years ago the automotive industry was still in the 90's as far as their tech knowledge went, and were stuck on platforms like AutoTrader. In addition, like you said it was a marketing and sales problem as well. My primary experience is Marketing and in the Automotive Industry dealing directly with dealers, I've incorporated this into Bidzuku. And finally, we've acquired several individuals who represent over 200 dealerships nationally who have committed to bringing out product in front of them and I am personally well connected with large groups such as Hendrick Automotive and Carl Gregory.

We've put a lot of time, effort and thought into building a platform dealers will want to use... and luckily our experience is in the related industry so we can do it with inside knowledge and experience.

As of right now, we haven't entered Beta, but are working towards it quickly. Thanks for the kind words!
Chip stacking tends to be too expensive. Think of it this way: take the full output from a factory creating chips. Now if you stack just one chip on top of another, you have effectively cut your production in half. It also means that your chips will have to be at least twice as expensive (probably more since demand will be greater since the chips are now more scarce).

I think there is some interesting research work going into chip stacking but it wouldn't be accessible for public consumption until it's cost effective.
The thing that has always turned me off of Grooveshark (compared to Rdio and friends) is extremely-poorly-curated content. Albums are frequently duplicated, mislabeled, out of order, and so on. That, and it's much more legally questionable.
Yes, I do. Which is part of the reason I pirate windows, because it is the only way I know how to get an IE6 install.

It is reasonably fast to setup, because once you install XP, you can copy the VM, and install IE 7, copy the VM and install IE 8. I then do the same thing for Vista/Windows 7.

With 8 Gb of ram, I have no problem running 3 Xps, and 2 Windows 7, at the same time.
How much more plain than "Who can I contact regarding security vulnerabilities in your system" can you get? When she asked what kind of vulnerabilities, would saying, "unsecured admin panel and xss allowing for session jacking and spoofing" really have been more meaningful than what he said? Even saying "unsecured admin panel" on twitter would have sent people scrambling for it. He was attempting responsible disclosure before he turned to full disclosure.
Can you help us revive our open source Rails app? Fat Free CRM needs your input
Sir Richard Branson on Steve Jobs
"No" happens a lot to source contributions; usually with a "fork it if you want to"
I think it's more likely that he would have said, "I've barely begun."
Maybe that'd make for a good startup? We outsource your government!

Of course, if things get bad enough, Italy could always adopt a successful country's laws and practices. Just pretend to be a German provice, for example; follow all their laws and proceedings, adopt their charter, etc, etc. Then after a while once things stablize it can be customized to fit Italy.
What we should do is gather up every single person in the protest and every single person who wishes they were but can't and send them over to Scandanavia/France/etc. Then they can participate in the kind of system they actually want and all that will be left in the US is people like you.

My mouth literally waters imagining what would happen when all the "hippies" and "losers" were gone and no one was left but self proclaimed "hard workers" and the mega rich. Listening to people like you try to rationalize the fact that, despite all your "hard work", your wealth was staying flat or decreasing (in relative terms if not literal) while the top 1% continued to capture more and more of all the created wealth would be pure bliss.

And I'm sure all the "99%", who would be enjoying systems with much healthier distributions of wealth would be enjoying the show as much as I was.
The new photo sharing option: Print & Ship
Reminds me very much of the scene from film Stop Making Sense of David Byrne singing and dancing with a lamp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqg_ZGcuybs
Ask HN: Fellow bootstrapped start-ups - How did you market to the masses?
I launched my start-up about a month ago and have been fortunate to have some great tech press but am not sure how to break out into the masses. How do you get your app/product/service in front of joe and jane public when your marketing budget is next to nill?

Thanks in advance for your help.

For reference, here is a little blurb about what we do:

The Wisdom of Others - An app for making personalized quote books filled with the practical advice, useful wisdom and favorite quotes of family and friends.

Link: www.TheWisdomofOthers.com
I get AppSumo emails right around 1:00 AM CST, I didn't hear about Jobs's passing until about 6:30 PM CST. It seems more like a coincidence than exploitation (ironic as this seeming "callout" is being exploited for linkbait)
One last thing: R.I.P., Steve Jobs
S.Jobs legacy is his creativity, his passion to 'think differently'. Not flaccid dogmatism.