skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something we (team of 3) launched today. With one click you can now save, tag, share and later quickly recover anything on the internet that you find interesting. One key thing we try to do is automatically tag each bookmark while you save it.

We also import your favourites and shared links from Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google Reader (more to come).

You get a profile like this: http://utopic.me/jkaljundi

We have bookmark extensions for Chrome and Firefox and JS bookmarklet for others.

There is also keyword-based content discovery through other people sharing your interests. Here´s an example category for Technology (understandably skewed towards Steve Jobs today): http://utopic.me/discover/Tech%20%26%20Science

Appreciate any comments or suggestions for improvements.
This all makes total sense. I 100% buy that someone with an exploit can get access to a running iPhone.

(I am frequently wrong even about things I know well; how iPhone device encryption works is not one of those things).
While I'm happy for Palantir, this seems like another strong datapoint supporting US equity markets are broken. Palantir is exactly the kind of company which should be publicly traded; preventing individual investors from having access to growth companies is going to make public market equity returns even worse.
I'm trying to understand what your view of evolution is if you think we're going to be significantly different in a few thousand years given we stopped all technological process today and let "nature take its course", or if you think we can survive things like climate change without using our intelligence and technology (perhaps it will even be necessary to augment both). Evolution is slow, evolution is dumb, evolution isn't going to magically make us more likely to survive threats to our existence. You would rather subject yourself to such a blind, dumb, uncaring process, than a future product, perhaps itself intelligent, of our own intelligence that outclasses a natural evolutionary process in every way? Do you think evolution is going to magically get our species off this planet should an asteroid wander this way, or in the future when the Sun dies? Our long-term survival is completely dependent on our technology already.

I would be very surprised and disappointed if our technological processes in a mere hundred years are not more robust and better than evolutionary equivalents--indeed we can already do many things evolution could never do itself, the last big step is doing that more on the micro scale. Work on that has already begun, it's pretty exciting to look at it. E. glowli is just the very beginning.
Nothing has been said on pricing yet. It's free while it's still in developer preview.

Pricing will be revealed later. But even if it ends up being a 'mess' like app engine's pricing situation, it should be much easier to move onto another platform.
Tribute Cartoon: Steve Jobs arrives in heaven
Only as much of an issue as with other database hosts? (ie. not much of an issue at all)
Yeah if you're from Manhattan it's going to be an adjustment - I'm in Manhattan now and haven't been back since I graduated (my mom moved to NC). Here's a few things I wish I had done differently:

1. Don't skimp on where you live (live in a good place in a great location like right above Murphy's). The rent seems like a lot when you're a student, but in hindsight it's the best deal you'll ever get. Don't live far away from north campus to save money.

2. The ACM at UIUC is pretty amazing, they have a secret lab underneath DCL where they have every thing you could ever want to build a robot, hack on Arduino (I think I salvaged a HP oscilloscope).

3. If you're looking for some more money - there are a lot of companies out by Assembly Hall (motorola etc). Good jobs/pay, really painful to get to.

College is definitely an adjustment but I found my groups I enjoyed hacking with, going to Brothers' with, going to Murphy's with and got a lot out of the experience.
> Gotta love the ways you can elect to give away your data to any third-party service provider.

Fixed
Best Buy's HTC Flyer Cluster Fuck
Ask HN: Steve Jobs a product of nature or nurture?
The most incredible thing that I find about Steve Jobs is his score in terms of building shit people not only want--but LOVE. He seemed to rarely get it wrong, at least in the past decade.

It often gets me wondering if his taste and sense of market demand was something he was born with OR something he mainly developed through the years.

I honestly don't know where I stand on this. Where does the rest of HN stand on this?
The author also gave a good break down of the map file format and the approach he took to rendering it in a previous post:

http://blog.tojicode.com/2011/09/source-engine-in-webgl-tech...
Sprint iPhone pre-sales will be handled online; no in-store pre-orders
Transit Treasure rewards public transport users
I believe the issue is that copying the Atlas directly would not be permitted, but using it as a research source would be allowed.
That post yesterday was what prompted me to go ahead and share this. My goal was to provide a little more at a glance info than most lists like that tend to do.
Don’t Let Personal Biases Sabotage Your Startup
Of course the people who don't find php to be painful would disagree in my assessment that php is painful, kind of by definition. :)

Would you choose an operating system based on how easy it was to install, or how pleasant it was to use?
Playboy interview with Steve jobs [1985]
Integrating web and specifically mobile technologies with the real world and physical products. Creating a seamless interface, some companies are just starting to explore this in the medical and entertainment areas. The next set of billion dollar companies should come from this area. It'll take awhile though since there are only a handful of people with the skill sets to launch and guide the companies.
We rely on heavily on timezone databases and when designing our app had a a lot of debate on what would be the best way to go. We opted for a hybrid solution implementing several options with redundency
Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine that the Unix TMZ database would be compromised in such a a way.
Just goes to show that you can never think of all contigencies, but good planning and foresight is essential.
Facts can not be copyrighted. See Feist v. Rural: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural

It is difficult to imagine what data this database contains that is somehow of a creative nature, that comes from the source in question. Though I do recall there being some actual text in the comments it didn't strike me as pulled straight from an almanac.
A Toy Story Generation
I'm aware of it, but it's just not there yet. It's very early stage -- just last month there were arguments about how to handle permissions around this even. It's at least 6 months from being mainline, if not longer.
Thanks! We'll think about it and see if there is a better one.
Wow, does that mean we finally get full text search (i.e., LIKE '%%')? Bonus points for OR, JOIN's and multiple inequality filters.

Since they forbid these operations on the datastore, I'm guessing this will either not scale as well or be significantly more expensive. Since the sign up sheet implies you can combine technologies, I suppose you can use a "hybrid" approach and keep denormalized data in the datastore.
Why should he? The company was trying to be hard to reach to control costs. It cost them in another way. Life is tough.

This is financial infrastructure, there's a higher bar. I think the government should mandate that we give the hacker who discovers the hole 2% of the company's profits for the year... If not, nationalize them and rid us all of the useless frictional costs.
US government dictates Swedish copyright laws
In light of this, can anyone recommend any self-employed/entrepreneur health plans in the USA that provide reasonable coverage for preventive testing and checkups?
Yeah. And that's where it moves - centralized hosting, with ability to quickly iterate through in-game and software changes. With ability to access it from (in future) any browser. I definitely like it.
I want to learn HTML5, what's the best way to go about this?
What are some good resources, and what topics should I cover to begin with? I have no previous HTML experience btw.
Depends on your GPU and drivers. I don't remember the specifics, but I believe only (most?) the closed source drivers can support hardware acceleration.
Right on. I'm a die-hard Left4Dead2 addict. I play almost nothing else anymore. Even then, I only play a little bit on the weekends. Not enough time anymore to really enjoy a game. It has to be something I can dip in and out of in bursts.
Letter to Steve
Basically in the same boat. Gnome 3 left me with no equivilent to what gnome2 was and now I'm stuck with xfce or an ubuntu LTS/debian until they get upgraded.
I don't consider telephone contact for security vulnerabilities to be that unreasonable. They should support PGP encrypted email, yes, and have a page about how to report incidents, issue tracking numbers, etc., but it took me ~3 minutes on the phone to get the right info for Amex corporate security.
You have it backwards. In order to understand why homeopathy doesn't work, you have to have at least a little knowledge on why modern medicine actually does work.

The lack of that knowledge is what homeopaths prey on.
Like most of us, he shared credit more often than never and less often than always.
One crazy friend of mine developed a website to do exactly that, check it out http://toolz.me/kirillzubovsky. They are in public beta, I believe.
Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley Mourns the Death of a Founding Father
Palantir has some big names in the industry. Its investors include Peter Thiel from Paypal. Their CEO is Alexander Karp and Michael Lopp (a.k.a. rands) is also working there. I'm glad to see the high valuation, from what I've heard their revenue has increased a lot in the last two years.
I didn't mean to be so snarky, I was just projecting. I personally don't have the patience to deal with organizations like that anymore. Life is too short and they aren't the only source of paychecks that I can find.
If they are the same ones we tried, they are a giant pain. Lots of screwing around to get everything downloaded and set up right for multiple version of IE. Then they expire every few months, requiring regular doses of rigmarole.

And when you finally have them set up, you know what prize you win? You get to debug some crazy-making IE issue. As far as I'm concerned, free isn't enough: they should come with masseuses and bottles of good scotch in compensation.
"drop the stuff I said about Samsung."

Your stuff is right there, I parsed the quote I originally responded to that made it clear you were very clearly not originally talking about a specific case -- a "broad detente in the industry" that Apple was the first to violate. Saying after the fact that you were only talking about Samsung is moving the goalposts. Maybe we don't disagree there but I'm hardly wrong for pointing out what I did when I did.

"You think either of those is a good thing?"

I think Nokia had many innovations that Apple infringed on and Apple probably deserved to be sued by Nokia and they paid up. I certainly don't remember anyone crying about how Nokia started "high stakes asshattery" in that case. Apparently it's only when Android vendors are the target of lawsuits that people get up in arms.

I think Samsung comes very close to if not crossing the line of infringement and Apple has the right to test that in court. You call this "high stakes asshattery" but you can just as easily make the case that Samsung is the asshat for blatant copying.

I think Samsung (like Nokia) has many technologies that Apple may infringe on. Based on limited evidence we've seen it's not as compelling as Nokia's but they have the right to test this in court or leverage it for a settlement or whatever.
Show HN: iOS 5 Global UUID Replacement
Thoughts? Comments/Criticism?
The hacker didn't want to use Twitter either...

And what do you think the doorman/receptionist is for?
http://diveintohtml5.info/

While it lasts...
Porn APIs (sfw)
True, but since they sit on AWS, you can just use Amazon RDS with your Heroku app on a small instance and be just fine.
ah sorry! I thought I'd seen this somewhere else, hadn't realized it was through HN - doh! And yeah, yours is far more helpful in an at-a-glance sense.
Single-game guy like me then :) I only play TF2 and some indie-games. Often it's either TF2 or doing something else.
I'm afraid you'll have to resubmit this at some later point... :/
Steve Jobs' Forgotten Life-Saving Legacy
It has been a long time since I took an IP law class, but my hazy understanding is that you don't have to defend copyright unless you want to. Trademarks can of course be ruined if they turn into generic terms. But I don't think that's true for copyright; I believe old infringement doesn't keep you from pursuing new infringement.
So I take it you don't read poetry.
This is simply an amazing anecdote. I can't believe how far reaching Steve Jobs has been in terms of his influence over technology, even down to the name of Mathematica. Incredible.
You have to realize that nobody just goes and "learns HTML5". HTML5 is a very broad collection of mostly new web APIs. Some of these include:

The canvas element, Timed media playback, Offline storage database (offline web applications), Document editing, Drag-and-drop, Cross-document messaging, Browser history management, MIME type and protocol handler registration, and Microdata.

Nobody would go and learn all of them unless they needed them. Expert canvas users may know nothing about browser history management, and its possibly they will never need to.

Think of somehing more specific, like some sort of thing you want to do (make a good Canvas apps, make a good app that uses WebSQL, have a good reason to make use of Web Storage, etc).

In short, there isn't a reason to touch any specific part of HTML5 until you have a specific need to do so.

There are books that gloss over each of these topics like HTML5: Up and Running or websites like http://diveintohtml5.info. If you are looking to increase your general knowledge of whats out there and what can be done with it, I'd look through those.
How scalable is this? Are there capacity or transaction rate limits on Cloud SQL?
Browserstack is great, but it's still catching up to Sauce Scout (disclaimer: I work at Sauce Labs). It needs better support for testing firewalled or localhost sites, and it needs security (it re-uses VMs)

Awesome work, guys! I know first hand how hard it is to maintain a product like this :)
Fellow European here. Unfortunately also too slow use it properly...
Is more like, I found your wallet here it is and all the money is still there. Perhaps honorable is the right word we are looking for here.
I guess it depends on what the goal is. I personally don't care if anything kills or supplants php. Different people can and should use different tools.

When trying to answer the question of "what tools should I, as a serious professional who is in this for the long-term, choose to work with right now?" it's really short-sighted to balance everything on how easy it is to get to "Hello World".
I don't think I'll ever be able to hear the name Palantir without thinking of the HBGary fiasco and the plan to discredit Wikileaks. I wonder if it's a widespread sentiment, or if others wouldn't know about the situation, or would be surprised by its prominence in my mind.
There is arguably some creativity in the naming of the time zones, such as "America/New_York" or "America/Los_Angeles". Though I have no idea if this is part of the litigation or not.
I think this is a great list. It's one thing to mourn the loss of a great person, but the most frustrating thing about this is watching all the people on TV and in the mainstream media, and others who don't know much about Apple, say things that show they didn't really understand Steve Jobs at all.

I would disagree with the list in one respect. I believe Steve Jobs didn't have taste. Well, he had some taste, but he didn't have genius level taste. Steve Jobs did, however, know how to identify and listen to people who did have taste, and he worked very hard to learn from the people who did have it who didn't work for him (Eg: from the past, or people like Dieter Rahms who is retired, etc.)

But this is a great list overall.

I do wish the people who have been bashing Apple out of ignorance, and Steve Jobs out of ignorance and based on their preconceived notions or personal projections of their own faults, would at least wait until his body is in the ground before posting their drivel on the internet (I've seen far too much of this on HN already... making the site a lot less classy.)

In life, Steve Jobs didn't bother to respond to every scurrilous lie told about him, I wish, in death, such people would hold off until he's buried before ramping up the hate again.
A summary of why refinements is a bad feature for ruby.
You're still doing it. When you say "We're still competing with other species, and we're still vulnerable to things like the effects of climate change, so if we completely stop evolving", what you imply is that if we keep evolving, we will improve until we can survive climate change and outcompete other species.

Again, that's not how it works - dinosaurs didn't evolve to be meteor resistant, and carrying on evolving could as well lead to our extinction as to our saving, or indeed to our losing intelligence and becoming a niche species again.

And that's aside from the fact that even with technological immortality, we'd still have people dieing and being created, and evolution will still be happening - it can't not-happen.
Wow, great list thanks!
For CRM you can also add Nimble, they integrate with google app, linkedin and facebook. If you use google apps its really good.
Yeah, they teach us in business school that "time = money".

Only a pinko commie would think that privately-owned intellectual property like this should be free.
If the majority of the round went into buyouts, then yeah. This was a Series F, and they don't seem like the type of company that hemorrhages cash. I could see it being a reasonable move if this went to expansion while waiting for a better IPO scene -- then it's cheap money at that valuation.
Mafia and drug cartels create jobs as well. That doesn't mean they are good for the society, and that the people employed by them could not produce more value doing something else.
Which starts around $80/month. There is still a hole there.
Apple University to Teach Executives to "Think Like Steve"
So is it the slash or the underscore that's the creative part?
As a complete aside to Steve Jobs, I have to say that one of my all time favorite memories of the last decade is sitting on top of the Moscone Center (for the fifth day in a row) a few years back at an Oncology show - in a very transitional period of my life. If you've never been there, it's hard to describe. Below you in the halls is a barrage of activity and noise and up there it's peaceful and tranquil.

I've been to convention centers on every continent, on a weekly basis for the last five years. I've seen more of hotels/conference centers than I have of my family and friends in that time, but I still think back to sitting on top of that building with sound of laughter, happiness & peace, while eating a meal with a it's own hand picked/hand chosen tea, plate, cutlery and everything else, picked to go just with that one meal on the menu and think of it's basic, intrinsic magical symphony. I guess in someways that's why I think of that memory today and how that memory relates to Steve Jobs, Apple and all he created.
On the other hand, Italy is running a primary surplus, its families are among the less indebted in the Western world, and its banks have liquidity. To put it simply: if needed, it is still possible for the government to raise a lot of money, for example through a property tax - something that has already been done in the past and is being discussed now.
Management Quality Assurance
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Thank you for that explanation, that made me understand the nature of HTML a little bit more.

I'm looking into making webapps (not sure exactly what yet)

is that also too wide of a topic itself?
I wonder if even some GNU software has gotten caught up in this. Those guys are pretty darn careful. Talk about justifying your paranoia!
As I discovered with a similar system, a cheap arm's motions are also not easily repeatable. I wanted to pick up CDs and move them around via robotic arm, with something similar to the Armatron. We discovered that there's enough slop in the system as to make anything remotely precise impossible.
For the record in some countries primary legislation is sometimes copyrighted, and if it includes a map, the map might be copyrighted by the national mapping agency.
This is basically the only readable naming convention that uses well-known geographical names and is computer friendly (Unix-like separators, lack of spaces). I see no creativity here.
Thanks, this list looks awesome!

I've been looking for a finance/expense tracking app for a while but haven't found something that fits my requirements. I hope this list helps
There are people who see the results that Steve Jobs helped create, and because they don't understand the process, they think that somehow he had magical instincts, or this was a unique talent.

Then there are those who see the process Steve Jobs utilized and recognize that the process is where he really innovated... and further, by studying and understanding this process, we can do better.

It's obvious that you are in the first group. I quote, from your own blog: "To be honest I don’t think you can learn much from Steve Jobs because he had such an extraordinary talent. His instincts were better than the combined rational thought of an entire industry. So in most things you can’t hope to emulate Steve Jobs."

So long as you believe this, you will never learn from him. That's fine. But when you post on HN and blatantly miss the forest for the trees, you're not going to be abel to successfully debate people who are telling you about the forest.
Referrals are part of modern medicine.
I don't understand what kind of protest you were anticipating. Calling for deeper discussion of the motives or thought process behind a mistaken action is in no way an endorsement of gadgets over human life. It sounds more like you were trying to twist this into something about Apple.
Google: bringing the reliability of the Internet to relational databases!
Guess I needed the snark tag. Thought the unix and java line would be a dead giveaway.
The post says that the 20-year-old screen savers probably will stop working, and that's simply because KDE is trying to make progress. It's very well stated and makes sense. You can rewrite them or make new ones in the new system, screen savers will still be supported in KDE.

The GNOME people are saying "I don't think you need screensavers, so you don't get them anymore", and aparently with about as little tact as possible.
As they said, there is no completely secure way of providing device ID. I think people need to get over device ID though. Often what is important it really the user identity. There is no completely secure way of providing user identity either. Something close would be combination of DNA + Mitochondrial RNA + facial + retinal scan + at least one code known only to the user. But you could have multiple users playing an iPad game at the same time, etc., and how do you handle that? This is the wrong road to go down.