skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location seems like a great input for a security policy if it's reliable enough. Companies might want to wipe data if a cellphone enters Gawker Media's or TechCrunch's office. A useful policy would be to wipe data if it enters a law enforcement agency. It would help protect one's Fourth Amendment rights in states that allow all data on a smartphone (including email, text, photos, call history and contacts) to be searched without probable cause.
Depending on access pattern you could use linodes to serve most active content and dump the rest to s3.
> Because no one used Firewire.

It was meant for Macs, which already had it, remember?

> And because Mac market share when the original iPod was released was very poor.

Still big enough to create a device to test waters on, and gradually enhance it. Which was kind of the point, remember?
What browser are you using please?
I thought the creation of the mobile App store was in response to Web apps.
I'm the same way. I never listen to music "casually" or in the background. All music is either something I'm really into, in which case I listen very actively, or something I don't care for, in which case I'd rather not be listening to it.

One potential exception that I've experimented with is classical music, but the high dynamic range (which is awesome) makes it difficult to listen to on headphones because parts are too loud and parts are too quiet.
Actually it was so "stupid" (sic) that even though it was initially aimed at Apple's own demographic, there was demand enough for it on the Windows side for dozens of third-party integration solutions to be created...
This is actually what the new online Stanford CS classes seem to be aiming towards. I've only been following ml-class, so I can't attest for the ai and db classes, but the ml-class's lecture videos are structured very much like Khan Academy videos.
Sorry about that I didn't want to feed a flame with new fuel, I just wanted to add some context to the topic which is "LN the community" and not the software behind it (already discussed in another thread).

Still if you think my comment is inappropriate downvote it.
The North Carolina facility is reportedly for iCloud. But construction was barely completed, so it is probably not online yet.
Quite probably. High infant mortality rates do wonders to average life expectancies.
I don't see it being that complicated. Just respond with your gross yearly pay, as seen on your paychecks. This works fine for anyone except perhaps co-founders are very early employees that don't receive a traditional paycheck.
To be precise, there's really nothing that you can determine from the resource you're POSTing to. A POST to /forum/http/ could create a new cat picture in /yaykittens/ for all we know.

It's meant to be a catchall method, used for anything the others don't specifically cover.
How can this be "your point"?

Your original point was

"record labels only signed on because the market looked to be safely relegated to Macs. Little did they know that iTunes would be ported to Windows and FireWire would be supplemented with USB".

and he just told you that Record labels signed LATER when the market was no longer relegated to Mac, and USB iPods and iTunes for Windows already existed, i.e the opposite of your original point.
> Self responsibility . . . would help.

The point of a lot of great tech is to help humans where they're weak. People in general are not very responsible nor do they remember well: That's why we have schools and calendars.
If you had a Mac--which was the original requirement--it was far from stupid. As a penniless high school student I didn't have one, but I wanted one and it was, basically, what the iPod was always meant to be: a way to carry around your entire music collection without a huge binder of CD's.
Because it's interesting. I usually read the comments and not the article.
Yes, but did it have useless (for a portable player) FLAC and vorbis support?
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Since this has kind of turned into a "post your bookmarklets" thread, I'll add mine into the mix:

https://gist.github.com/1293929

It searches for specific usernames in a comment thread (replicating the ctrl+f 'by $username' trick that stopped working when the comment-header syntax changed to hide comment karma), then scrolls to the next result every time you re-click it. You choose the usernames to search for by editing the query variable in the bookmarklet.
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"This kind of makes me rant about how a lot of people I see constantly refuse to learn how things work. I see friends that have cars and they break and they just take it to a mechanic and let the mechanic worry about knowing how it works"

To me it sounds like you're making a really good case for OSS, particularly on the desktop. I recently took my first stab at patching a desktop application written in Qt that I use everyday (I'm a web dev) and it was extremely educational.
Is that a fixed price for the next 3 years then? I would expect normal prices to at least be cut in half 3 years from now as hardware gets cheaper.
Well, i will add that the major determinant for whether an article stays on the front page is whether there is an active discussion.

So the more chatter there is, the longer it stays on the homepage. The longer it stays on the home page, the more people upboat it without reading the post or the comments.

But that's me retreating to the study of aggregate behavior. sigh
SolarVPS has servers in New Jersey and Los Angeles for $5-40 that I've been using for a years. Like Rackspace (4 cores), these small boxes also have up to 16 cores. Great for mysql replication, code repos, distributed data nodes.
> Since this has kind of turned into a "post your bookmarklets" thread

Would be great if someone made a list of the best (or all) HN bookmarklets and Greasemonkey scripts
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I've had lots of macs, and every powermac/macbook/macbook pro/mac pro has a very obvious power button conspicuously placed. So.... huh?

Even the phones/ipads/ipod-touch have the sleep/power button on top. The only product I know of that doesn't have a power button at all is the classic ipod.
The problem is the people who tap you on the shoulder, or worse... those who know they shouldn't disturb you so hang quietly around your desk until you give up and make eye contact or otherwise acknowledge that they're there.

They succeed in disturbing you without actually disturbing you, it's great (for them).
I haven't heard of anyone actually caring about Ogg Vorbis support since...well, since 2001, when the iPod came out and everyone on Slashdot was up in arms about Ogg Vorbis.
My neighbour borrowed the book from uni library and gave it to me to read after he'd finished reading it in 5 days. I'm a bit slower than him, but so far I'm about 2/3 and it's a very understandable book with short concise stories that reflect on some major point to software development, and project management in general.

23 year old informatics student signing off.
Also his book "Making comics" is useful to understand visual story making; I am actually half-way through reading it.
From what I understand, many websites now use "soft deletes", where they cut out the ability for users to see/modify data. It remains intact on their servers though.

I really don't agree with this, but I can't deny that there's value in this data. It's unscrupulous to hold onto it, though.

In my opinion, there should be some way to hard-delete information like this, even if the user has to go through some two-key-nuclear-launch confirmation process to prevent accidental deletes.
Ok, tested: something's wrong with Firefox. I have the same issue. That's since our last update, which was yesterday.

Looking into fixing this asap. Thanks
I'm curious as to why you'd bother to mock up with a PSD when (at least in part) the idea behind Twitter Bootstrap is rapid prototyping?
Well, he did only say that he "didn't like" putting on/off switches, not that he didn't allow it.
My most productive time is after midnight. The streets are quite, the house is asleep. Besides me, only my dog is awake, and she's only half awake, doing her job watching me.

Lucky for me, I'm one of the principals of the company. So I can work till 4am and stroll into the office at noon.

By the way, the music I zone out too is classical. I have playlist of symphonies and after each one I stretch out. when Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra, Tod und Verklärung" are (is) over I know it's time to stand up.
Loving the similiar feature. Already found three bands that I had never heard of before that have tunes that are right up my alley. Very nice work.

One thing and I dont' know if it's possible, but is there a way to have it where if the video is flagged as no longer there, it's not returned in the results? I get about a 25% to 50% rate where the video is listed, but doesn't play.
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I first "disabled" it, and then I continuously pestered them with emails until they told me they had deleted my login and my account.
Social Security is 6.2% employer, 6.2% employee...but most economists would say that the employee pays both halves, since the cost is directly related to a specific person's job. (this year there's a temporary cut in the employee half as a stimulus measure)

There's also a similar 50/50 Medicare payroll tax that totals 2.9% of each worker's salary.

Total hit on most Americans for both programs is 15.3% of gross income.

What's scary is that is nowhere near enough revenue to sustain either.
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I agree, open source saved QS :D
The concrete things to do are build, measure, iterate. I think the case studies in the book are extremely helpful to entrepreneurs. I think you need to have some entrepreneurial experience to get much out of it though. Until you've run into some of the problems that the lean startup proposes to solve, you'll probably find the concepts too abstract.

If you're looking for a book to take you from step 1 to the end of building a successful, profitable business, you'll be looking for the rest of your life. There are far too many variables to create a completely replicable business. Instead, it's better to know what things to look for going in, and have a framework in place that makes it easy for you to see if you're on the right track. I think Eric's book does a great job of showing that side of things.

If you're looking for additional reading on the topic, you might find '4 Step to the Epiphany' worth reading. 'Business Model Generation' also gives some additional tools. You won't find anything (worth reading) that gives you step-by-step instructions, but there's enough literature out there on the Lean Startup methodologies that you should have enough to get started.
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It can be my point because I understood ZeroGravitas to be saying that the record labels did not sign on until after the original iPod was released, which of course is correct.

Your interpretation of his post seems to be that he was claiming that the record labels didn't sign on until after a USB iPod was released, and after iTunes became available for windows. But I have too much respect for ZeroGravitas to think that he was saying something that was not historically accurate.

Wikipedia says that the iTunes store was introduced April 29, 2003, and that the 3rd-generation iPods (the first with USB) were first available on April 28, 2003. Furthermore, iTunes for Windows was announced on October 16, 2003.

So when, in this timeline, do you think labels would have signed contracts allowing Apple to distribute their music? It would be incredible to think that they put pen to paper after the store was introduced, wouldn't it?
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Most require more setup to get to that point, either through being a bit more fiddly to set up (eg, the BSDs), or through simply not shipping with a decent package manager (eg, OSX, where the package manager isn't even comprehensive -- you have to manage different software from different places).

Sure, with more work you can get stuff up to the same ease of install, but with most Linuxes it's all working out of the box.
By the way when I said LDAP I actually meant LRAD. But LDAP does make a bit of sense too. :)
<nit>All my copies of 'My System', say Aron Nimzowitsch</nit> Great obsession though, pretty easy to relate to as well. Glad he found comics...
The questions they should be asking:

- Where were the girls parents in all this?
- Is this a problem we can solve through education, rather than by creating more restricting laws?

Instead, they go down the typical path of denying personal responsibility and creating unenforceable laws. I, for one, would be personally offended if that assemblywoman was getting any part of her salary from my taxes.
Reputation is Symantec's attempt at crowdsourced whitelisting. It sucks for small Windows software companies because if their products haven't achieved widespread usage they can be flagged by Norton AV for lack of reputation.
It should be fixed by now; please refresh.

Btw, deegr is muuuuuuch smoother on Chrome or Safari.
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It appears that the app your talking about only played the audio from the video, stripping the actual video out and any ads that might have shown up. They also used YouTube in their name and where making money off the app. I'm not sure what Terms of Service I've violated, I'll have to take a closer look. Thanks for the heads up.
Why don't you make that policy for the rest of your company?

Or look at your workspace and figure out why the fuck people need to stay up until 4am to be productive, rather than being able to, you know, work, at work?
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I published one of my thesis as a book. Always tried to get into writing a mainstream book, but working against a self set deadline with all the "other" distractions in life is tough.

What I can recommend you is taking a look at "Steve Manning How To Write A Book On Anything In 14 Days or less". Even so the title sounds very scammy and marketing'ish it provides really a solid advice for non-fiction books and gives a very structured approach. You can find of cause copies of it in various online "repositories".
Is the low, high - some sort of sampling method to measure peoples likelihood to estimate on the high side?
Awesome, glad you're enjoying it! As far as filtering out the videos that dont allow embedment, I should really look into that and eliminate those out of the playlist. Thanks!
I'm pretty sure your wrOng. There's a reason why incompetents ate kept on payroll for so long.
Despite the deliberately provocative title, there is no suggestion that web apps are superior to native apps. Instead, it gives an example of just-in-time device interaction which can't easily be served by the native app model. Such a gap could incidentally be served by a web app, where the one-time usage costs are much lower.

Think about waiting at a bus stop in a city you're visiting for the weekend. You probably won't care enough to download a bus timetable app, but it would still be nice to know if it was easy enough to find out, such as via an NFC tag pointing to an HTTP URL.
Love the ending.
I can listen to music when I'm doing easy work, but not hard work. I can listen to it while tracking down a bug (most bugs, anyway) but not while making something new.
Just a few nikpicks. Please somebody correct me if I'm completely off here:

> Remember, it will take 1 day for DNS propagation,

Usually not though...

> rvm install ruby-1.9.2-p290

> gem install bundler

> bundle install

> bundle update

Shouldn't he "rvm use" after installing 1.9.2? Also: Why bundle install and THEN bundle update. Wouldn't you want to have the gem versions that the app specified?

> The solution is do bundle update and rake install again.

Wouldn't the actual solution be to use "bundle exec rake install" as the error message suggests?
Bypasses for this sort of technique seem too obvious to have escaped the research team. I could be wrong as it's happened before. The article describes limiting functionality of the device based on location. Perhaps a few of the more obvious bypasses could be mitigated this way?

The wording strikes me as backwards, though. The device ought to be largely disabled outside of the facility, nearly useless. Proximity to certain areas of the facility would enable the device with additional functions (hardware and software), as well as accessibility to data.

I see this benefitting a negligent user more than deterring a malicious one.
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Typo: "Purshase" -> "Purchase"
I can see both sides of this.

Yes, the superstars are productive despite interruptions.

Most programmers, however, aren't superstars, or are vastly more productive superstars when they can work without interruption than even those who can tolerate a highly non-optimal environment.

Some level of task-switching is necessary, but as the other respondent said: this is what a PM or support triage role is for -- figuring out how to schedule stuff for your limited attention without breaking the conditions that contribute to your productivity.

The research behind uninterrupted periods of work is hardly new or novel: The Mythical Man Month, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Peopleware, Flow, and other books span a few decades.
Man, that is annoying. "Don't like it, don't use it" they say. I don't use facebook. I blacklist any requests to their domain ("Like" button etc). As you have pointed out, but I did not previously realize, they surely have my name and number in all of my friends' social graph, because they snarfed it from their iPhones or other mobile device.
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It's obviously impossible to provide a 'template' book that "walks you through it". If it were that simple, everyone would be doing it.

I've read plenty of business books, and most of them tend towards the "few big ideas, expanded to fill a book", and I'm getting the impression this one may fit that mold.

Rob Walling's (honest, I'm not paid to promote it:-) Start Small, Stay Small, gives you a bunch of very practical tools and numbers to use to work on a small startup, and is my new benchmark for this kind of book.

It's easy to write "build, measure, iterate". What kinds of useful details does Ries go into about those, though?
Fair enough, thanks for the comment.
I don't the technology itself can do much about human weakness.
Boring teen angst.
Or, you know, a business cycle could be killing our jobs. You never see these articles when unemployment is 5%.
You raise an interesting point. I drink tea too, and I discovered surprisingly recently how much of the work is done by the heat rather than the tea. Sometimes now I just drink hot water.
I'm surprised your the first one to bring up the name, I've had friends question me about it... but no worries, I have a reasoning/meaning behind it.

I originally liked the word Tubular(used mostly in the 80's, or by people mocking the 80's to describe something 'awesome' or 'excellent' ie, good.); however, that domain was taken. Then I started thinking about variations of the word, and went with Tubalr. I went with this version of the word because it has the word Tuba(a musical instrument) in it and in my head sounded cool :P. So with that in mind, I thought it was cool to have a name that came from a word meaning "awesome", "excellent", or "good" AND have a musical instrument in the name.

Hope that clears up the name a tad bit. Oh, I pronounce the word something like: Tube-u-ler
Doesn't have to be after exercise, but if I haven't gotten sweaty in a day or two, productivity lags.
The more we use helium for stupid shit like this, the less helium we'll have in the future for MRIs and anything else that requires super-cooling.

Forget peak oil, we are, in fact, sitting at peak Helium, and selling that shit for children's balloons and crap like this.

(And for the historical context, Congress in its infinite wisdom, during the deregulation boom in the 90's, decided to mandate a price to dump all of the US's Helium reserves. As a result we are selling it at way below market rate, depleting a finite reserve of an element which we have no means of recapturing once it's released into the atmosphere. Quite a number of scientists have lamented this insanity, and begged the government to do something even if it is just allowing the rate at which the government sells Helium to float to actual market value, let alone get congress to reverse itself. Check it yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve )
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This uses SMS right? Isn't that a bit costly?

Could you do that same with email for instance?

It's a great idea all in all. Lot's of companies will be looking for a way to integrate with Siri, and this approach seems quite fair.

I see possible uses:

Messaging with your dry cleaner.
"Siri, ask My Dry Cleaner when my dry cleaning will be done"
Send email/sms to contact with name "My Dry Cleaner" with text "when will my dry cleaning be done".
Get email/sms back with date and time

Messaging with your TV [schedule].
"Siri, ask My TV if [enter name of show] is running tonight"
Get sms/email back from your TV :)

This will all need natural language parsing on the backend though.
Curses. Had this same idea the day Siri came out but no time to execute. Good job! Interested to see how people put this to use.
> This reminds me of when you first watch the Matrix. If you're young, you spend a while thinking "But it could all just be a simulation!" Until you finally realize that yes, it could all just be a simulation, but it doesn't matter. You grasp the really cool part of the concept -- we all live on computers -- and forget that details and practical implications -- simulated people living in a simulation and real people living in reality aren't really different. So it doesn't matter.

That's the basic premise of what I think is a pretty cool philosophical paper: The Matrix as Metaphysics by David Chalmers. http://consc.net/papers/matrix.html
It's not health it's government.

The ministry of defence stock control project is similarly behind schedule and overbudget - and last time they tested it they had 8Bn worth of kit the army couldn't find.

I mean how difficult is it to make a stock control system ??
Hey Gee, I plan on adding an easy way to get the url of the current playlist so you can share with friends. The URL's currently exist, just no way to easily copy them for sharing.

Example URLS: http://www.tubalr.com/just/Muse OR http://www.tubalr.com/similar/Jack+Johnson
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Thanks for the tip, what resolution are you running?
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Me too - I only used Quicksilver as an app launcher, so now I just trim the things that Spotlight shows me (System Prefs->Spotlight) to Applications and PDF docs, and it's all I need.
For the cheap people (like me) may I suggest a rather awesome chair from IKEA: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90163889/ . It's around 60USD (was ~100CHF for me here in Switzerland).
Nice work, I dig it
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