skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something isn't working right for me.

There's no affordance suggesting what to do. If I start typing, I only get two lines of visible text. If I enter more than two lines, the top line(s) scrolls out of view. this doesn't seem to be intended behavior given all the "white" space on the page. When saved, a multi-line bin seems to work normally.

In a quick check, it seems all resources are loading. Safari 5.1.1; OS X 10.7.2. (Tried with extensions, e.g., AdBlock, off too.)
So would something like this help if you want to work, say at Matasano?
For some reason on Chrome 15 (stable) the body is about 32 pixels high, meaning you can type two lines. Other than that it works nicely.
That's assuming that this comgressman believes his talking points. I'm of the opinion that many talking points are for _other_ people to believe, but the ones saying them do not believe in them. The subject matter just doesn't affect them. Why would a politician who has been bought by Big Media care about innovation, loss of jobs/liberty, or erosion of rights?

Hit them where it hurts. Threaten _their_ job. If you lose your job due to their legislation, they'll just blame their opponent and tell you to stop begging for handouts.
Can I ask why you asked the question about salary?

What did you plan to do with the number he/she gave you?
Although new mobile commerce solutions avoid paper receipts for emailed digital statements, I oould see this being used by many vendors in combination with payment technologies like Square to provide clients with paper statements.
Might be fun to pair with a bluetooth heart rate monitor for highly customized aerobic (running/cycling) workouts.

Particularly for allowing someone to easily get a customized interval workout. More specifically, I would enjoy having a heart rate alarm that allowed me to spend 10 mins at 70% max heart rate, then switch up to 4 minutes at 95%, 2 mins recovery to no less than 70%, repeat . . .

I could see how personal/high school/college coaches might like that.

Has anybody done any hacking with the garmins HRMs with GPS?
Nice work. I've been looking for a pastebin server to run on our internal network for a while now and this certainly seems like a winner.

Would be useful if there was an option to enable line numbering. Not sure if this would go against the minimalist style you're going for though.
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The Motorola Motoactv http://www.motoactv.com is an Android watch targeted to runners, so it has ANT+ as well as GPS and Bluetooth. Though it's much more expensive ($249), and doesn't have an open API. It pairs with Android phones and displays texts and lets you take calls with your headset.

That said, I have one, and use it for running and love it.
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This is awesome. No need to run cron jobs to read from a text file and update data in Riak anymore.

Imagine the possibilities of Hadoop + Riak for analytics applications/services. #MyDreamCameTrue
Did you submit this without remembering to give it a title?
<i>it really seems strange/weak/victim-ish to blame something external for what really does feel like a personal shortcoming</i>

I totally agree about taking personal responsibility.

However, when it's also a reproducible difference over a large set of people then it's worth looking for systematic causes and working to address them as such.
In a former life I worked at HP testing printer firmware. It was definitely not unheard of for early builds to have issues where instruction loops would cause fire hazards, or more commonly... pools of ink to be waiting at my desk for me when I came in the next morning. Makes perfect sense to me that with the addition of network availability, vulnerabilities like this would be very real.. and I'm sure not limited to HP's hardware.
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It looks as if this is just a debug log; is there any information on what is sent off-device? Is it possible this is just stupid over-zealous troubleshooting/debugging logging left in?

Although, if these logs are always on, it seems like it might be a problem as third-party apps can request log reading permission. So even if CIQ isn't sending this info, another app might pick it up and use it. Also, I would guess there might be a performance impact if every touch is logged.
I see this sentiment a lot, and I appreciate that your visceral reaction is because of the tone of the post you're replying to, so please don't take this too personally.

But, and I say this as a happy resident of the East Bay, you're simply sticking your head in the sand if you ignore the fact that Oakland and some of it's neighbors are very good places to become a victim: ranked fourth in the US, actually. 2010 FBI crime rate data; sort by "violent crime":

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

I love living over here, but this is a terrible statistic, and Oakland has more than earned it's reputation. Expending all your effort telling people they're wrong to be afraid feels like such a waste; there are so many more productive things that could be done with that energy that might actually address the problem.
You are only telling one side of the story...just like all of the OWS propaganda.
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I suspect two differences:

First, "working hard" and working the sort of insane, body-destroying hours that Arrington & co are advocating are two different things. It's good to work hard, be diligent, and get things done, but balance is essential. Arrington doesn't agree.

Second, Work for our parents and grandparents involved physical labor in some degree - ours does not. Our work takes a huge toll on the body for what seems so sedentary, and requires (I'd suspect) much more demanding mental processes, which are also extremely draining.

So yes, work hard - as did your father and his father - but don't kill yourself, and don't spend it all in what my doctor calls the Chicken position.
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What are you hoping to improve over Yelp and Google Maps/Places/Hotpot? They would seem to be the biggest competitors. Is honesty / quality of reviews on Yelp honestly that large of a problem?
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Definitely a concern, as reviews likely have less exposure than something like Reddit and HN posts.

We have a few strategies in mind where users will either earn votes or have limited votes available. For example, users could only vote when above a certain wisdom score and/or could only vote, say, 10 times a day. These are strategies we'll have to emperiment with.

Skipping is a fun feature I added to try to evolve into a social feature. Many users use review sites to plan trips, so we added this. Basically, you 'skip' to any number of places you like, which forms a sort of itinerary with directions and ETAs. In the future, we'd love to expand this feature a bit, allowing users to share their 'skips' with friends,or possibly even advertise public and/or private skips (think of a bar crawl for example).
(defun foo (a b c))

could accept a map of variable names

(foo {a: 1, b: 2, c: 3})
You wrote "Then I pushed this link to Hacker News and Reddit" like that's a simple solution for getting traffic. I feel like you left out the important part about... you know... getting picked up by Hacker News and Reddit. Is there a secret we're all missing? Pretty sure thousands of hits on a vanity-submitted link to HN/Reddit/Digg/Slashdot/etc. aren't guaranteed front-pagers.
I think you mean it includes HTTPS URLs. At least from the video, there doesn't seem to be any information about logging HTTP authentication or form submitted data.

This is also a reason why you shouldn't put sensitive information in the querystring even if using HTTPS - too many systems might accidentally log or show that in history.
My point was: I have seen clients receive work, change the password on their site and not pay for it. In relation to the topic, it is not possible for the developer to remove the work so whether it is ethical to denounce the client publicly otherwise is the dilemma (personally I would not do this and send a debt collector, but then again you're not always in the same country). So what do you do, put a bad review on Yelp?
In chromium on linux, I can only ever see two lines of text at a time. If I type more than two lines, they scroll off the top of the screen. When I move back up with the arrow keys, I can see those lines again, but I still only see two lines; those further below just disappear until I move back down.
Personally, I pay much more attention to what is being deprecated, and plan my upgrades with that trailing horizon in mind.

Forget about if the newest release of a class is easier for me (the developer) to use, if it doesn't deliver a significant performance advantage to my end user, I ignore the new features and stick with the oldest version still supported.

Obviously I couldn't do that with an entirely new functionality like iCloud, but for something like MPMoviePlayerController? Forget about it.

I know it can get annoying to check the iOS version before every method call, but well designed code can minimize this greatly.

Personally I'll be supporting iOS 4 until a good bit of the stuff I use in it is deprecated by Apple.
It's catching on in certain markets. Garmin has been dropping it into a lot of its cycling gear.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=160
"Are there tips out there to help getting over the fear of negotiating?"

Start by practicing in situations that don't matter in order to gain confidence.
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Meh, sprinkler systems will rain on that parade.
> That makes some sense to me, but technically that object at that point is not an "Enumerable"

Why not? An enumerable is anything that can be enumerated, the query object holds the potential of being enumerated, it's just an actual underlying query away but that's of no relevance to the interface. The only reason why it's not "technically Enumerable" at that point is... that it does not implement Enumerable's interface.

> so you are essentially faking it knowing that it would be once executed.

Why would you be faking anything? Is LINQ faking anything when it produces IEnumerable<T> after each "operation"?

> Is there some significant benefit to it returning true for Enumerable that I'm just missing?

Interface simplicity? Workflow simplicity? I see no reason for it not to? Get rid of the useless `all` method?
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My point was that it's probably not any better.
It's not really 20%. It's 20% of whatever is left after the limited partner clears their hurdle rate. And to a degree, it is a bit insane, especially when you look at the historical returns of venture capital. But you'll find similar structures throughout the finance world - hedge funds, real estate, leveraged buyouts, etc.

To me, the crazier part is the 2%.
I think we're getting into semantics. I don't see the difference between "doing it in your framework" and "doing it in your controller" considering that my controller is part of my framework. I do a lot of rails and my controllers are mostly thin declarative setup of filters and such.

regarding validations, my models do decide if a from submission is valid, but the controller then decides what to do if the submission is invalid. I.e. serenader the form with some error messages. This is a good example of something that makes more sense to me in a controller.
Just launch already.

It's not clear to me how your reviews are more trustworthy. Voting reviewers has existed for a while on Amazon, but I'm not sure that isn't gamed.

Apart from trust, the other problem with reviews is that their relevance depends on the type of reviewer. For example, being Indian, when I'm looking for Indian restaurants, I trust reviews of Indians more than those of Americans because my expectations are more similar to other Indians. If I'm looking for hotels to go on vacation with my kids, I want reviews from other parents, not 20-year old single dudes who hated some place because there were too many kids making noise.
I see it in finiteness devices. It allows you to integrate things like heart rate monitors and cadence sensors on bicycles or running shoes with watches and smartphones.

Once a device has ANT+, it is the logical tool for data transfer as well, so devices like Garmin watches come with an ANT+ USB dongle to integrate with your computer.
Wait.. why is raganwald replying to raganwald?
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Ask HN: iOS hacking/reverse engineering resources
Hi everybody,

I'm a Rails developer, but recently I've some interest in hacking iOS/reverse engineering its core parts/apps and/or probably a bootloader.

I have no knowledge of C (and kinds of it) nor C-related tools like gdb.

Are there any great resources to get started with the subject? Resources, explaining about reverse engineering at all, iOS bootloader/core-land/user-land hacking particularly? For non-C-dev, non-hacker, etc?

All the suggestions are appreciated.
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Apple pulls iTether, our official statement
This is just a demo for iPhone & Android owners but fairly convincing none the less.
Apple Pulls iTether

Submitted by phankinson on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 14:22

Around 12PM EST, Apple called our head office to let us know they were going to go ahead and pull our app iTether from the App Store. They stated it was because the app itself burdens the carrier network, however they offered us no way to remedy the solution… We were very clear when listing the app what the primary function was and they even followed up with several questions and requested a video demo then they approved the application.

We strongly disagree that it burdens a carrier’s network, as from our own data history on more than 500,000 users we know the average user consumes less than 200 MBs of data per month on Tether. In comparison, one TV show streamed from Netflix, an approved Apple App, could easily be in the 300-400 MBs range. Sure, there are some users that will consume way more than the average however that’s the case with any of these types of products.

Our team is very disappointed in Apple’s decision; as we strongly believe we help carriers better monetize their data stream by pushing customers into new data tiers further increasing their bottom-line. It is very anti-competitive to not allow any Tethering application to enter into this space to innovate. Our team has created a lot of innovative solutions for the BlackBerry product, which we were hoping to port over to the iPhone like end-to-end encryption, compression, website filtering and port filtering.

According to Apple, users who purchase iTether before it was pulled will continue to be able to use the product.

Our team is evaluating all of our options… Stay tuned.
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Definitely our biggest competitors. We're trying to create a more credible and helpful review site. I liken us to the Rotten Tomatoes for food/entertainment reviews. We encourage quality over quantity with reviews. If you're an IMDB fan instead, then you may choose to stick with Yelp and others.

We break reviews out per service, which I've yet to see anyone else do. And I do indeed think quality is a major concern with sites like Yelp. Their shady filter and questionable business practices have been brought up many time before. Reviewers are held to no accountability, so you'll often see ridiculous 1-star reviews in Yelp.

Basically, we want to form a unique review site, one that knows intimate details on a business and one that provides extremely helpful reviews.
Siri is technically a beta product. There's still a small glimmer of hope that they might backport the final version to older devices once 4S sales have plateaued, and/or once they've ironed out all potential problems with current 4S users.
ITether is pulled from App Store
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Do you honestly think that the emergence of a global super-entity to serve as a niche to all kinds of low-lives is a good thing?

Tell us how you really feel. Don't worry though, I'm confident that the government will eventually find a way to expunge all the undesirable "low-lives" from the net.
"I've been contemplating a rather severe letter in response, but I haven't gotten to it as I don't believe anything I can say to him will be effective."

I doubt whether anything you say to _him_ would be effective. But why not write a response and then post the three letters (your first, his reply, your response) to a blog or website? If you publicly reveal the weakness of his position it could have some effect.
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There is another way to work around that. Most large UK companies pay you in lieu of unused holiday allowance when you leave. If you arrange to leave your previous company in late April/early May and have this holiday pay included in your final paycheck, only this paycheck will appear on your P45. So if your new employer estimates your previous salary by looking at your P45 to see what you earned in that month and multiplying it by 12, you can easily have them overestimate by about 25%.
Skipping sounds great! I'd love to socially plan a whole evening out with my friends using a site like that, factoring in drive times and everything. In my opinion that's more interesting than review quality, although reviews are of course also important.
It's not a US issue. 2 out of 3 Dutch carriers (that I know of) do not allow tethering in their profile.
And sometimes freedom is won by marching for salt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March
This is the main reason I would support this search engine. Because it's anti-censorship and hard to stop. They would still need to make it great, but I'm listening.
For what it's worth, changing the extension doesn't seem to work for me. A simple C program (http://hastebin.com/36QWBlYlML) gets detected as TeX. Trying to change the http://hastebin.com/36QWBlYlML.tex to http://hastebin.com/36QWBlYlML.c just redirects me back to the .tex URL.

Also, while I am entering a file, the edit box is only two lines long, and I can't see the handle to resize it. This is Safari 5.1.1 on Snow Leopard.

Looks nice!
I saw an old guy wearing this while driving and thought that is was brilliant for accessibility with its oversized buttons and interface. Perhaps you should market this exclusively to older people?
you mean like this?
http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/06/22/prototype-thermal-...
I don't think he's referring to the fact that newspapers aren't written for an expert audience. I think he's referring to their routine inaccuracies and errors. That's what I get from it, being a expert who's cringed at quite a few press articles.
I don't see how this article demonstrated its claim in the least.
I started this by saying "Perhaps" the phone was jailbroken. I don't assume that is the case, I just provide it as a plausible option. Also notice that the Apple logo on the phone back has been modified.
when I had a similar thought about hashmaps, I noticed that a hashmap is basically a function that takes one argument and returns a constant.
And then I fell into a Turing tar pit about Church encoding.
...
I'd love to try again, though.
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Why are you ignoring the Notion Ink Adams? It's not the finest tablet, but it is surely more real than a "non-production tablet on loan".

I bought the Notion Ink more for the intrigue of testing an Android tablet and the Pixel Qi technology. I can't say I recommend it, but it is not so horrible as to be completely ignored.

Also, who knows if ice cream sandwich might finally give it an operating system to properly perform on and give proper value to the fantastic technology they have locked up inside the device.
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You can give a range, but never tell anyone what you make right now.

Instinctively, I have a hard time giving out a range too. Mostly because I would tend to give a range centered around what I'm making, which I feel beats the purpose of not revealing the amount. Shifting the range to be on the higher side feels like lying or something.

Let's say I make $100k. Saying "I make between 90-120k" feels wrong to me, because I instinctively think to myself "well, this is technically true, but what's the point of giving a range if it's not accurate?" And even suggesting 90 would feel like a bad idea because I wouldn't want less either…

The other part is how wide should the range be? Too narrow or too wide and it's really useless.
At some point many years ago, gum was a startup. I would have loved to hear the elevator pitch:

So, we have a sticky product that you put in your mouth and chew.
We call it "Gum".

It's a food?

No, you just chew it for a while. Then, you throw it away.

Throw it away? Where are you going to sell it?

Everywhere - gas stations, supermarkets, corner stores.

OK, I might pass. Let me know how it works out.
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""Is that your best price?""

I've done a fair amount of negotiating (on both sides) and to me saying that telegraphs "I'm going to buy but please throw me a bone so I can keep my pride".

I use the same technique in reverse to get a few extra bucks out of a buyer sometimes so as to not screw an already good deal (when looking a gift horse in the mouth).

Say someone is willing to pay $5000 for something and I would gladly accept. I don't want to loose the deal so I say "do you think you can do $5500??". If in their mind they have money on the table they will normally do the deal but it gives me the ability to accept the initial or latest offer if they won't. It's like a Rorschach test in a way interpreted differently depending on the mindset of the other party.
You could lose the quotes around strings, but you'd still have the commas.

Maybe start with lisp and just add {key: value key2: value2} syntax for tables? It'd be useful to get ruby-style keyword args for free, at least.

I spend a lot of time thinking about keyword args because I've been working on a lisp interpreter that supports them. Here's a webserver that is nice to read because of a crucial keyword arg (it starts with a colon):

http://github.com/akkartik/wart/blob/460565a2e0/064http-serv...

Like in python the keyword arg is always optional. You could delete it from this definition and it would behave the same.

In conclusion: please try to include python-style keyword args in your next language. You never know when they'll come in handy.
So you nailed what I've already argued to many others, which is reviews are relative to you. I completely understand your point, but it's hard to achieve what you desire w/o being intrusive. To highlight relevance, we'd have to get users to fill out a questionnaire about their race, age, interests, etc. This is a possibility down the road I suppose.

That's why I created the 'trust' feature though. If you spot an Indian reviewer, add them to your 'trust' circle. Later on, we can get smart and provide 'trust' recommendations for you, but that's a future feature to tackle.

Also, you're correct, voting reviewers have existed for awhile, but they're hardly highlighted by those sites as important. We feel like by encouraging voting from day 1, we can start a culture where it's widely used. Maybe that's a bit naive, but emphasizing how important it is to site functionality should hopefully encourage use (just like how it's used in Reddit/HN).
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