skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved from the UK to Canada and have realised that companies really have no clue what potential damage they can expose themselves to. I noticed Bell (phone company) is especially bad for leaving the boxes for their fibre terminals open. No one thinks its a big deal, because nothing happens to them.

One of my friends works for a cable company and occasionally has to patch a fibre connection, and whenever he does he has to run back to head office to pick up the mechanical splice and asked the guy one day "Why don't they let me keep some of these in my truck?" and got told "Because it costs over 500 bucks".

When he told me this all my mind went to was: It costs $500 plus time to repair a fibre bundle and Bell leaves boxes containing 20 or more bundles open.

If you'd have told that to a kid where I grew up, he'd be out there with bolt cutters as soon as it went dark because costing a company $10000 for their own stupidity would be awesome.

So I really don't get why companies leave these bundles unlocked and in plain view. Or why they run peoples cable overhead to a wall anchor on the house. Again, where I grew up you'd only have to piss one of your neighbours off and they'd tell their kid to go out with a branch trimmer and snip your TV.

It really doesn't make sense to me when I've worked on new construction and I see the cable and power companies come in when the house is almost done and use a machine to bury the cables and come up in the garage.
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My favorite part of the release notes: "Despite jQuery.isNaN() being undocumented, several projects on Github were using it. We have contacted them and asked that they use jQuery.isNumeric() or some other solution."

This is an excellent reminder of how much things have changed in the last 10 years in our space; a popular tools vendor can go query a massive source code repository and reach out proactively for transitioning deprecated functions.

Kudos to the jQuery team for the great attitude; and of course all hail github, but they know I feel that way since they charge my card every month. :)
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Dell used to do this, but I don't see the option there anymore, which is a pity.
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What you're referring to is the Contacts app (which happens to have a clean, standard-themed interface on the iPhone, though I believe it does have a leather-themed interface on the iPad). The "Find My Friends" app is a new buddy geolocation app from Apple released (in the App Store) alongside iOS 5; it's similar to Google Latitude.
Even back on svn I tended to use svk (not in offline mode, just for workable merging) and branch for everything - keeping to a rule of "it compiles? commit it" and then only caring about everything working when you merge saves data loss and has the advantage of keeping your thought process, even when that process turned out to be wrong.

CVS? I think I've forgotten how I used that, thankfully.
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Also it appears to be easier to convert via a one-step “conversion” process rather performing than a reverse merger.

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/03/entity-conversions-i...
The cost of the Windows license is partially offset by the crapware bundle the manufacture infects the machine with, so you won't save much buying a blank PC and your options will be severely limited. However, you may still be able to get a refund on the license post-purchase, if you're dedicated (and lucky):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_refund

Don't forget to reroute some of your winnings:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/participate/linux-donate
Hi, I"m the author of the blog post.

I definitely think there are too many people these days chasing the sexy trends. What they fail to realize is that by the time something is sexy, it's often too late to catch up. Take Groupon and all the clones out there.

Solving a real problem is definitely the way to go. cheers!
Ghostery is available for chrome, among others: http://www.ghostery.com/download
Yep, there is no Amazon for activities right now, we want to change that :)
I submitted a pull request with the update to 1.7, so hopefully it'll get released officially soon.
This will probably come back to bite me in the ass later, but what is the POINT of Oink? A lot of attention has obviously been lavished on UI/UX, but I have no idea why I'd ever use this.
Today's business environment does not exert any evolutionary pressure on the human species.
Dell lets you choose Ubuntu when you customize a laptop:

http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=us&l=en&...

It looks like the Linux versions are about $60 cheaper than the Windows 7 version.
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No; investment firms don't get acquired.
Thank you!

"Five balls, two hands, you do the Math!"

It's about the unexpected structures underneath juggling patterns, and how we discovered previously unknown juggling patterns through math. If you're interested, look up "SiteSwap." Some of the people at the London HN meetup may remember me.
And isn't that exactly what's happening here? Someone else is going through an experiment, not you. Thanks for adding to the conversation.
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Sorry I don't really have any good links, my knowledge on demographics comes from working in the news/TV industry and attending a lot of marketing meetings.

Heres one I found in a quick google: https://www.aarpglobalnetwork.org/netzine/TrendWatch/northam... but TBH you might as well search the topic yourself if you have a real interest.

Anyway it makes logical sense though when you think about it, and there is plenty of evidence if you watch TV or open magazine. But here is an overview:

The school age people, although highly influenceable don't have spare cash mainly because they don't have a job (or just a part time job). So thats roughly your 15-25 group, you can sell them cheaper more fashionable items. Music has always been a real winner here because its cheap and fashionable.

The next major bracket is 25-35, people who have there first jobs, no real debts, and are trying to settle down or impress others. You can't really sell big ticket items here because they are often saving for a house or something, but medium range stuff you can.

between 35-50 its a wasteland, people have priorities that trump marketing, kids, mortgages etc... You won't see a lot of advertising targeted to this group unless its to do with kids or household items. Car manufacturers target this bracket a bit I think, but really its to much of a hard sell when there is easy money else where.

The next group is the 50-65, these people who suddenly have there lives back. Not a hugely impressionable group but will really splash out on the big ticket items. New cars, expensive holidays, this is where the real money is. Need a computer? buy something top of the line.

I remember hearing 45-55 chucked around a lot in meetings, this would be the mid life crisis bracket. More or less the same bracket as the 50-65 but I guess more impressionable due to the fear of getting old.

65+ it changes again because health starts to become an issue. Priorities start to trump.

So theres only two demographics with money 25-35, and 50-65. With the 50-65 being the real spenders.

Apple historical has had a majority 50+ user base, but recently has started selling very well in the 25-35 bracket. Co-incidence? I think not.
Couldn't agree more, so many companies are a solution in search of a problem.

It's not sexy at all but look at how much money there is to be made running a box factory, or containerized shipping.
I follow a similar series of steps.

But, my step 4. is slightly different. I also give them some time; and 24 hours is an excellent choice.

Now, I ask them to draw me the logo they saw the other day, and reiterate it in words. Depending on how they respond you should take action. If they can't recall it, you should start from scratch. If they can mention a few things, especially details, you should revision your work such that you make these very details even more bold and stand out. In the end, a good logo is something that is unique and well remembered.
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Cyber-espionage attempts on US businesses are on rise
Practically speaking it's a choice between few visitors feeling really really sad and spending development cycles on CSS-only layout. Something like a sticky footer can be done with one line of JS or with some obscure CSS voodoo and markup. For many companies the choice is a no-brainer, assuming the NoScript users are detected and notified appropriately.
Ask HN - How is Amazon able to afford the 79$ price point for Prime?
What is stopping one from ordering some little thing every single day, in which case Amazon would be paying a good amount on shipping?

May be they can absorb this cost from increased business, but retail margins are thin, correct?
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I had some issues with that as well. I did it with Twitter and ended up signing in to Twitter in iOS Safari and then going back in to Oink and then having it authenticate. Worked that way for me.
she's more than old enough to write/receive email

Really? I'm a 25-year-old guy and some of the spam I get curls my toes.
What about portfolio positions?
I was curious to try Ravn, but it requires me to register and login before even trying it out. Why?
iPhone and double tap font. There's something amusing about reading this particular article on an iPhone more easily than on a computer. Your right, it reads terribly on the desktop computer next to me.
I guess the difference for me is that UI speed just seems irrelevant. 99% of my interaction is page forward or back, which is fast enough.
This article makes no sense... You are rightly pointing out that it takes some effort to maintain your privacy and think about managing your circles of friends on G+ and then you compare it with nothing that provides that ability on Facebook. Yes, thinking is hard. If you are ok with saying everything to everybody then you don't have to do it. But Facebook making a few broad automated groups for you solves none of the problems you describe... How does Facebook know who you want to share your drinking stories with? At least Google puts it up front and makes it part of the whole fabric of their product... you always think about circles... just like in freaking real life.
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I can't recommend a Hacker House (we didn't find one), but if you end up considering a hotel, take a look at AirBnB. We ended up paying $100/day for a house for 4 in Mountain View, instead of the $80+ per person you'd have to pay for a hotel in SF.
And, type "straighten" to fix it!
Didn't he say when he formed this group that he wanted to work on big mobile problems? And that he didn't want to do just another photo app... this seems pretty uninspired to me. It looks good, but in the end it's just another Get Glue, it doesn't really make my life easier.
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I'm looking for someone to help with the business-y side of things. Posted recently but it was badly timed/uninteresting/drivel and nothing came of it (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3188364).

I've got the technical side covered but interested in anyone who can help me get started/further.

UK but amenable to travel.
The irony of STEM education, especially engineering, is that the people who design the curriculum would not think an acceptable end user outcome is "if it fails, buy another and try again". They would redesign it until you got the desired result consistently.
Over the years I've bought a few laptops off ebay that have worked out very well. Dual core Dells with two gigs of RAM are in the $300 range. Sometimes the batteries can be iffy, but otherwise they work out great.
I'm 100% sure you can cancel whatever you accidentally ordered on Amazon.com.

Amazon, in my experience, are very good with returns & customer service.

However, for the record of other readers, if you're in the EU, then you are legally entitled to a refund on anything you buy online within 7 days, even if you buy it non-accidentally and you've just changed your mind.

cf. http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/cons_int/safe_shop/dist_sell/i...
Ahhh come on...This video is not some futuristic nonsense. It is almost like an engineered speculation. In the last decade Apple did nothing but implement this vision. In several cases, the implementation surpassed what Apple engineers thought was possible in 1988.
They have probably never made money on Amazon Prime but observed that Prime members buy more goods from Amazon because of the two-day shipping. Simply put, the money Prime brings in is based on the increased volume of your purchases and has little to do with the membership fee.
I took your point to be that people only tend to perceive faults in others if they have those same faults. But since this projecting of faults is itself a fault that you've perceived in others, your maxim applies to you.

My intent was not to actually accuse you of this fault, but rather to imply that "it takes one to know one" might not actually be robustly true.
Ask HN: live website analytics -- installable product
Do you guys think there is a demand for a productized version of live website analytics software? Something that can be installed on the web server itself instead of needing to feed all visit information to a third party analytics service.

I might be getting old, but I am having trouble understanding how so many companies can be acting so frivolously with what essentially constitutes sensitive and strategic business information. Or am I the odd one out?

I realize that the sales cycle for product is longer and trickier, but I am looking at something similar to Shaun Inman's Mint - light, easy to install and without Urchin's shocking price tag.
Don't tell anyone! They want to go 8 digits on the 2nd round and 9 on the 3rd...
> - Signed and sandboxed applications are not prevented from using plugins. No code loading restrictions are placed upon such processes.

> Really? That's good news if true. Got a reference for that?

https://devforums.apple.com/thread/108004 (Apologies to anyone not registered as an Apple developer.)

> Furthermore, Lion-only apps could employ an XPC based plugin architecture and entirely avoid loading code into their address space.

> Please elaborate. I still don't see how XPC can be used to implement a plugin architecture, assuming the Apple documentation is correct in stating that XPC services need to be located inside the main application bundle in order to be loaded.

The app can modify its bundle, so that's not the problem. While I haven't actually tried this myself, there's nothing theroetically preventing the app from copying a service into its Contents/XPCServices directory in response to some user action that makes that service available to the sandboxed app (e.g. they double clicked a file that's of a type registered by the app, or they invoked an open panel within the app somehow).

The bigger problems, and ones that I can't find solid docs on are:

1) Does the service's signature need to match the parent app's signature? The docs actually indicate the service might not even need to be signed.

2) Can the app easily enumerate services, to discover new ones? Presumably, this should be possible but, again, I've never tried it myself.

In the end, it may well be that XPC isn't an option for 3rd party out-of-process plugins. In process plugins are, as noted above, not a problem though.

> Re: Thunderbolt -- the problem here is that even if a kernel extension driver is already installed, a sandboxed app can't access it. (The example case in my mind would be my own video capture app: it's got direct support for devices by Blackmagic Design, including their new Thunderbolt-based units. I'm using the vendor's API for this. If I were to sandbox this app, it would have to lose this functionality.)

Ah, gotcha. I'm a little surprised to hear about that restriction, as I was the BT and Firewire restrictions. I'd have expected all of those to work, as long as your app was only using user-space APIs. Is the mach port lookup restriction what kills these? Have you contacted WWDR? We've got a WWDR contact that has been very helpful and proactive.
And more interestingly he follows up a few weeks later claiming that standford could actually offer the masters for free! http://twitter.com/#!/SebastianThrun/status/1171319537146429...

Free master's in CS from standford is a pretty mind blowing idea. Would be really curious to see what would happen to higher ed if you completely removed/minimized the cost factor.
Does anyone know why that pile was valued at $1.1M in the first place? I occationally stack junk in piles myself, so I'm kind of interested in the prospect of turning that habit into a business model...
That was my thought. Wanting to avoid bind monoculture, I've deployed nsd/unbound into production in several places. Good, solid products.

I'm glad to see a yet another player in this application space. Now, we have two mature options (MaraDNS and NSD/Unbound) and Knot as potential alternatives to BIND.
I was a big fan of the original Kindle's wheel navigation. It just felt right, like a Model M keyboard.
Actually it is likely the distributors make money on Windows with all the crapware and trial software they put on their computers.
No one wants to rate everything. Right? I think this will be fun for a while and then it will get old quickly Or gamed.
I like the concept but it will need a dedicated core to rate and rate often.
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I guess I don't see how they could improve the Kindle drastically this late in the game.

The Kindle should be faster, lighter, and the UI should be a bit easier (but the touchscreen version due out at the end of the month could solve that already).

Amazon's already reduced it almost as much as can be. I feel like if Apple came out with an eInk reader it would be tough to be anything but a "me too" product. Perhaps they could do color eInk? I think it would take an advance like that to make it worthwhile.
This sounds like a great product, but what's it do that Dropbox doesn't? Sharing files was a massive pain in the ass a few years ago, but Dropbox makes it dead simple now.
I definitely do think there is a demand for it. How big is the demand? - I'm not sure but like you mentioned, Urchin is crazily priced and at our company, we are using an extremely old product that was poorly written. We'd love to switch it out but for legacy reasons, we can't really do it. Support for it is gone as well and looking at the code, it doesn't seem too hard to do either. We didn't feel comfortable going with something like Google Analytics precisely because of the sensitive information so I can't imagine us going through 3rd party analytics.
Maybe you found that section particularly interesting and would like to look back at it later? Maybe you're reading the book for a class and instead of taking notes in the margin, you're taking notes on the Kindle.

I actually find myself highlighting stuff all the time. You can also see areas of the book that other people highlighted, which adds a kinda neat social aspect that isn't usually present in reading.
Is productx.com a parked name or will you be infringing on someone's copyright/trademark? If it is the former and you think you have a home run, buy the domain. If it is the latter you need a new name.
Well...I think you are looking at it wrong.

This could be a Trojan Horse (whether Kevin knows it or not yet) into big data mining, and personalized recommendations.

Imagine, you have an app that send you customized ads/offers based on your actual real world history.

For instance, if you liked this sushi dish at this restaurant in San Francisco, maybe you will like a similar dish at another restaurant when you are travelling in Texas. That's insanely powerful.
This Klout Business is Getting a Bit Out of Hand...
Remember no right-click anyone?" I have yet to forget the right click and more importantly middle click...
I didn't realize it when I posted.

Here is Matt Cutts' explanation of the date options:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/useful-google-feature-better-d...
Yes, he did. I wanted to wait and see what he would come up with - and while oink seems interesting, I don't think it could be considered "big mobile problem" solver.

I'll need to give it a try though first.
I have a Chrome extension installed which shows a +1 button for any page (but not every page).

When I try to +1 a comments page on HN, I get a +1 error.

This is reproducible on the linked site (http://i.imgur.com/ZjrMU.png).

Google says, "a +1 button error can occur for a variety of reasons, including the following:

* Server timeout: Check your Internet connection and try refreshing the page.

* Suspended profile: If your profile has been suspended, you won't be able to +1 content.

* Apps user: Google profiles aren't available for Apps accounts, so you won't be able to use the +1 button.

* Blocked cookies: If you've disabled 3rd party cookies in your browser you won't be able to use the +1 button.

None of these reasons explain why +1 would fail reliably for a given URL.
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Same here. I guess they're limiting initial sign ups.
IMHO, this is not a bug but a feature. "do a barrel roll" is a trending topic today. So it must have been ranked higher in their search suggestions. The first query which is suggested when you say "do a" is "do a barrel roll" which causes the whole page to roll.

Pretty cool - I think we should be appreciative of such efforts rather than cultivating bugs. A standard experience is what Google had offered for years - can you even begin to imagine, what it would have taken for the Product Manager for Google Search to even convince everyone to get this implemented. And this is multiple teams you are talking about here (I am guessing at least 5-6 including engg, QA, monetization, legal, support, branding etc).
If Steve Jobs were starting out today he would struggle to get funding
Haha - yes I was thinking the exact same thing - though I was refraining from posting it as I prefer to see if Kevin would have come up with it without prompting.

Now they can just say "uh, yeah that was our plan all along!"
Wow! Then why release it? There's many other services that do many, if not all of the same things as this. Making us pine for more in a world of copycat apps isn't going to make me stick around. The carrot being dangled here isn't that enticing. This isn't directed at you, just a general rant. I'm not sure why they released this app yet. Unimpressed.
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There is nothing I see in the release notes that indicate you would develop non-best practices by using something like 1.6.

Get to coding ;)
Versions (the feature that was added to Lion) would be a good fit. (It however doesn’t seem to be used in that way currently.) There is no one correct way of handling conflicts, how to best resolve them depends entirely on context, context only the user is aware of. That’s why this problem is so damn annoying.

I nevertheless believe that it’s possible to find some heuristics that do the right thing most of the time – without ever having to annoy the user with dialogs. Easy to use versioning (where all conflicting versions are still available as versions) covers all other times.
An alternative question: Does Y Combinator ever consider fully acquiring one of its companies? Surely there must be a few companies directly relevant to your business that you could acquire?
Not that I could see on the linked page. I think the title of this post is factually incorrect and misrepresents the content of the page.
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Problem Solving: try to utilize what was done before.
Didn't Sequoia invest in Y Combinator, $8.25M in 2010 (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/21/y-combinator-closes-new-8-2...)? I guess you can argue that LPs it's not quite the same as a direct investment.