skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I see that warning every single time I click a link from inside the FB app.

I find it annoying as hell, but I took it as a bad UX decision and not a conspiracy.
Google. The search engine's algorithm really was a technological breakthrough in comparison to its antecedents which were better priced, packaged, timed, and marketed.
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The key problem here is that people are conflating technologies that work on a completely different principle and don't have the same capabilities with the iPhone touch technology, and saying that their existence proves that nothing was invented for the iPhone. However, this is obviously false, as the technologies work using different methods and have different capabilities.

Multi-touch is a trademarked term[1] Apple uses to describe its technology for resolving the amorphous blob a finger makes when in contact with a screen into a single pixel.

Notice that the surface doesn't do this. It just detects a finger, but it can also detect a stylus or anything else. Its accuracy is that of an object, maybe a finger, not a pixel somewhere under the finger that is much smaller than the finger.

I'm not discounting Microsoft's work, it its just not relevant to this discussion.

When doing the trademark search just now, I found that some one else used it to talk about a switch based technology, invented around 1990.[2]

Again, "touch screens" whereby finger pressure closes a circuit by bending one trace into another has been around since the 1970s. These are almost alway single touch, but even when they can detect two fingers, they are not solving the same problem Apple did.

Apple resolved a finger down to a pixel, these things just detect fingers. There's a huge difference.

Thus, people bringing up these other technologies that do not even do the same thing, as if they are "prior art" are being dishonest.

[1]Word Mark	MULTI-TOUCH
Goods and Services	IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Handheld mobile digital electronic devices with electronic mail, digital data transmission, audio player, video player, handheld computer, personal digital assistant, electronic organizer, electronic notepad, telephone, computer gaming, and camera functions. FIRST USE: 20070109. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20070629
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code	(4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number	77219819
Filing Date	June 30, 2007

[2]Word Mark	MULTI-TOUCH
Goods and Services	IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: switches, switch panels, and communication circuits. FIRST USE: 19900202. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19900202
Mark Drawing Code	(1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number	74438236
Filing Date	September 21, 1993
I don't often tweet blogs, but have done today. These buttons are beautiful.

Not entirely sure about the Google one - doesn't look quite as good as the others...
Why do they want to try and buy back TC? I understand that since their acquisition there has been a slew of disagreements but I fail to understand the mass of continuing drama.

These two observations are related, but suffice it to say that "drama" is their lifeblood. They are the TMZ of tech.
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just for the sake of completion: I usually went for hidemyass.com as a vpn to get access to any service unavailable with my ip or country.
The whole war = innovation thing never held much water for me.

First of all, there is no way to know what would have happened if there was no war. Some of those things might have been invented anyway. Maybe other more important things would have been invented.

Also, if you look at non-war years they too are full of innovation. The period just before WW1 brought us the light bulb, the telegraph, the phone, skyscrapers, the type writer, etc. etc. I mean, it was over a slightly longer period of time, but I don't think it would be outrageous to argue that the rate of innovation was just as high as during WW2.
This is basically google chrome on Ipad nice...
The Apple II came with video built in. It also had a user interface in the form of a command line. Thus, when people used the computer, graphics were drawn on the screen, sometimes in the form of pictures (such as for games) and sometimes in the form of glyphs and even icons, to represent concepts to the user of the command line. Your position implies you believe this to be a "Graphical User Interface".
Does Enjoyment Trump Efficiency?
Well look at that. Exactly what I was thinking of.
I feel the word rubs you the wrong way and you are trying to come up with arguments to support your emotions.
Unless you're elbows deep in someone's chest cavity during a triple bypass, whatever you're doing can wait. Take a day off, leave your phone and ipad and laptop at home, go somewhere else.

This happens to me every few months. Go do something totally non-technical, simple, and enjoyable. Last week I drove from Chicago up to Wisconsin to enjoy crisp country air, an array of cheeses[] (ack. no technical stuff...) and I got to yell at some sheep. I didn't check my email, text anyone, and I tried desperately not to think about my projects that had me on the verge of a melt-down.

Trust yourself to know; working more/harder is rarely a good choice. If you take a day off and you're still tired and don't want to work, take another day. And another. If, after 2 or 3 days, you're still right where you started, you're probably working on stuff you hate.

If you're just burnt out on working on what you enjoy, a couple days (or even a week) off will make all the difference
I need some real estate marketing ideas
How much does it cost? I saw no mention of that during my three scans.

When will you offer a payment processor that isn't Paypal?
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Great work,I'm a Spanish speaker so I know the complexity of this language, I mean, verb conjugation is so complex compared to English. Let's just think about the "Work" verb:
English: Work, Works, Worked, Working, will work, would work, have worked, has worked.
Spanish: Trabajar, Trabajo, Trabajas, Trabaja, Trabajan, Trabajé, Trabajaste, Trabajó, Trabajaron, Trabajaré, Trabajaras, Trabajará, Trabajarán, Trabajando, Trabajaría.
And let's not talk about "normal" word transformations, like "diminutivos".
In this moment I'm developing a spanish word predictor to help a girl with special needs to communicate easily, and your thesis is inspiring me, thanks for sharing.
Consider hardware issues. In absolute numbers there may be more hardware tinkers than 25 years ago. But as a ratio of technologists, they're shrinking.

I'm not sure this is true. I'm not saying it isn't, but it's at least not obvious. (Unless you're counting, say, anybody who today owns a smartphone as a technologist.)
Moral of the story: technology wins, always.
I was hoping this would be about worker cooperatives. However, I agree with everything in the article. There's a great deal of overlap with what I was hoping to read about and what I did read about.
Unless something really exceptional takes place, it isn't necessary to literally hold the floor and read names (or anything else) in order to filibuster. There is effectively a gentleman's agreement that if there's the intent to filibuster, it's as good as doing the deed.
Mark Cuban releases updated blog posts as an ebook about business
SERP Turkey: Free tool to test CTR of different search results page entries
I was aiming to mimic any existing native sign-in or UI buttons styles for the service in the hope of providing some visual familiarity for visitors who have experience with any particular provider.

The Google one borrows from their new button styles and their flat-color favicon...but it could possibly be improved. Open to design suggestions. Thanks!
I think having Stanford or some other strong third institution here in NYC would be a good thing for diversity.

Full Disclosure - I work for Columbia and am a native NYC'er.
It likely got flagged by enough people to kill it. I'm suspecting a combination of "Folks thought you were selling something" plus the seediness of the Make Money Online niche. The audience here also would not love the takeover lightbox.

Resubmissions are frowned on, btw.

FWIW, I sort of liked it, and I wish the mean startup understood SEO as well as you or the costume affiliate site.
I'm usually pretty tolerant of Facebook's more aggressive initiatives, but I've started blocking all of the "frictionless sharing" apps. The user interface they present is ridiculous.

1. I see a friend read an article that looks interesting. I click it.

2. Every time I click one of these I'm asked to add the application before I'm allowed to view the link.

3. My options are "ok" and "cancel". The first few times I assumed I couldn't read the article without clicking ok so I just hit the back button. It turns out "cancel" really means "don't add the app, just take me to the link".

Without that confirmation dialog (which most people probably blindly click through) this is exactly how social media worms work.

Perhaps alert users will click "cancel" the first 5 or 10 times, but eventually they're going to accidentally click "ok" or just give in. Not cool.

Plus, why would I want to see articles that friends read, but didn't think were worthy of manually posting about in the first place?
I'm not being contradictory for the sake of doing so, I'm being contradictory because your assertion is incorrect - many people might actually wish to alter their sexual orientation, and there is nothing 'barbaric' about it, provided we have the ability to do so humanely. Being forced into it is obviously not what I was referring to.

Your second point is called 'assisted suicide', and people do quibble about the difference.
I would pay for the opposite, i.e., access to hulu.jp from the US.
Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship
I'm getting:

Request Timeout

This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase 'Connection Timeout'.
Assistly's pricing model ( http://www.assistly.com/pricing ) bucks that trend, but I think there's a psychological desire for some choice (to feel in control) but not too much (which might require research) and pricing tiers are a very easy axis to make that decision on.
The authorization issues have been fixed. You can now only view the things that you have submitted. I took a "least permissive access" view, starting with locking down everything. Then, through a series of tests, opening up additional actions as proven necessary, based on which user owned the object in question.

I'm working on a couple of redirect issues, and a broken feature or two today, and expect to have the major kinks worked out by tomorrow morning.

Thanks again for trying it out. Much appreciated!
Lots of comments here defending Apple. I think the relevant question is: why don't we see more innovation in energy, transportation or medicine?
Do you care rewriting it for us(me)? Just curious for how perl should look like now
my server host literally JUST crashed. That's insane, what bad timing, let me get you guys a cached copy asap
Pretty spot on for the most part but I have to disagree with points 4 and 5.

On point 4: if you have employees and you expect them to do their job, pay them. It does't matter if they are 24 or 54, your cash flow problems should not become their cash flow problems (even if they whine like a little bitch).

On point 5: I can't find it on youtube right now but there is a parody video about client work with a lady asking a hairstylist for free highlights and if she is happy with them she'll reward the stylist with more work. That's how that little rant came off (although the employee/employer/stakeholder relationship wasn't clear so maybe it was justified)
For those who don't know, "mechanism design" is the extremely interesting field which is the "opposite" of game theory: instead of analysing how rational players act in a certain game, it asks what game will force rational players to act in the desired way.
Add multiple tabs and I'd never use Safari again. Think Safari on iOS 5 got worse... the top nav bar takes up more room now.
Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Have you used Hunch? Have you ever written a recommender system? Have you even read the source of one??

This isn't some naive Bayes spam filter from 1992. Hunch is really, really accurate.
The NumPyPy codebase is fun! You can to learn a bit about all different parts of PyPy, you can play with jit stuff, Python interp stuff, or just plain numeric stuff. It's programmed in a pretty nice meta-programming way in Python, and it's very well tested.
Let's argue Reductio ad absurdum.

Why does not Google pop-up similar warnings when you click on its search results?

-Because Google is dependent on the richness and abundance of third-party websites, for its search to be meaningful.

What is the objective of Facebook?

- To suck users into facebook.com, and sandbox them there. Similarly, the smaller objective of Facebook Social plugins is to lift the userbase from third party websites and move it into Facebook.
That's interesting, as that's my preferred idea as well.

I am really really good at finding people in various niches and getting them to do stuff (in my case, getting them to write articles for my magazine for free). So I can probably get a site seeded with content without too much hassle. Or maybe I am totally delusional about my ability :)
It seems to me that if Google, Facebook, etc. really wanted to effect change, just redirect their homepages to a message about SOPA and why this legislation is detrimental to the economy, etc. That would be better than any lobbying money spent in Congress. It could be the "emergency broadcast system" of sorts. I suspect that the inundation of phone calls from constituents unable to search for Thanksgiving recipes utilizing their favorite search engine would make my vote awfully easy.
Arrington Tells Entrepreneurs To Make Their Own Luck, Then Get Lucky
Thanks for the templates suggestion. I added it as an issue: https://github.com/normalocity/rpglogger/issues/84
"New laws by very nature are liberal."

I sense that this was said without the slightest hint of irony.
This looks really great. There are some awesome new interactions that might actually work really well. I'm happy to see Google didn't try to pull what they did with their Gmail app.
Here is a cached copy while my domain host is crashing, COME ON Page.ly : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/153216/hackernews/Passive-Income-101...
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, candles made from spermaceti were used as standard photometric illuminants. They burned more brightly than even today’s paraffin candles, and could be made in a reproducible way [1].

NASA used spermaceti as a binder for joining iron particles to acetate for longer-lasting data storage tapes [2], and one author indicates that it was used more recently as a lubricant on the Voyager probe and the Hubble Space Telescope[3].

It's a sad story about our (over) exploitation of the seas, but very interesting history.

I wonder if any research has been done on producing cetyl palmitate via recombinant DNA synthesis. Imagine having a vat of E. coli or yeast producing it.

As the article mentions, jojoba oil is a decent substitute. I use jojoba around the house to fix squeaky hinges, etc.

1. http://books.google.com/books?id=DI4AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA183&#...

2. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5971/1322.full

3. http://books.google.com/books?id=y2zXTivayCQC&pg=PA344#v...
You should definitely show temperatures and measurements in SI units as well for us Scandinavians (and other non-crazy folks)!
Sam Peltzman's book "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" makes a statistical case that the FDA's "safe and effective" mandate has cost more lives than it has saved.

From the back cover: "The 1962 Amendments by Sam Peltzman concludes that the 1962 ("proof of efficacy") amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 (1) have cut the number of new drugs (new chemical entities) brought to the market each year by half with no corresponding reduction in inefficacious drugs, (2) have doubled the costs of drug development, (3) have have increased drug prices by reducing competition among drugs (so that the sick pay $50 million more each year for drugs), and (4) have imposed substantial net social costs from death and illnesses that could have been prevented if the development of new drugs had not been hampered by the amendments. These conclusions are reached despite the fact that Professor Peltzman has assumed for the amendments benefits that cannot be proven and may not have taken place."
If I remember correctly the filibuster is a way for a very large minority to protect itself from the (potentially just above 50%) majority. In other words it is undemocratic in the same way the admemdments to the constitution which protects the individual/minority against the tyranny of the majority.

The founding fathers were very, very, very well educated so they pretty much found all the ways liberty had been subverted throughout history from Greece through the Roman Republic (the Romans themselves were extreemly paranoid about one person holding power) and its fall into the Roman Empire, all the ways the kings of England had subverted the people liberty (fun fact, you can plead the fifth, have a the right to speedy and public trial, etc as a way to prevent another Star Chamber).

In summary, yes it is undemocratic. But democracy is potentially at odds with liberty and freedom. And the Founding Fathers backed liberty over democracy.
Thanks man :) That means a lot from you.
HN is very anti-MBA. Frankly, that's because the anti-MBA set don't have MBA's and lack an understanding of what an MBA is all about.

An MBA will:

...introduce you to many, many smart, helpful, agressive, motivated people. Hundreds of them. And you will have two years to go drinking with them, travel the world with them, and get to know them. That alone is extremely valuable. There is a bond of shared experience that is unobtainable by "reading books".

...make you smarter about the worlds of big business and finance. This classroom stuff is mostly available in books. Mostly. But are you really going to read them? Finance is not the hardest thing I've ever learned, but having a few classmates and professors who had been investment bankers and money managers is a good thing.

...be really, really fun and educational, just not in the way you're thinking.

An MBA will not:

...prepare you for a startup. The tech business has a lot to it that just isn't taught in B-School. You'll have to learn that on your own like everyone else.

...prepare your for a career in big business. EVERY business has a lot to it that just isn't taught in B-School. You'll have to learn that on your own like everyone else.

...fast track you to wealth. Business school is expensive these days. You'll be broke for a while as you recover unless you're really, really lucky.

...turn you into an asshole. Assholedom takes root at a much younger age.

Is it worth it? For me, it's an unambiguous "HELL YES".

In perhaps the funnest two years of my life I managed to:

travel to 7 countries

play rugby with schools from around the world

learn more than I ever imagined about finance.

learn less than I would have thought about marketing.

meet many of my best friends, including several startup CEOs.

meet my wife.

watch my school win a national championship in football.

drink more than is healthy.

see some really smart people do some amazingly dumb and wonderful things, sometimes simultaneously.

and that's just the stuff that comes to mind now. A fantastic experience overall.
Sorry for the ugly doubled stuff and popups, those don't exist on the main site, it's only cause of the cache
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What's a good standard to aim for, for those people who don't wish to be counted among boilerplate hacks and beer-swilling hipsters?

Learn algos really well, I guess? Hack on C/C++?
Average net worth of US Senator: $13,400,000

Average net worth of US representative: $4,900,000

Before looking at this chart, I had a vague notion that senators and representatives are better off than the average american. Turns out they are WAY better off.
Which is a large part of why it's become overused.
A game changer for interactive performance
Apple plugs iTunes hole assumed to be responsible for 4+ million botnet
If CSS selector behaviour and the DOM elude you—especially if you use them in production and they still elude you—this is a must watch: it's relatively short[1], no nonsense, and though not definitive, it's a nice way to get up to speed with what's behind HTML5 and why all the buzz.

[1]: Definitely shorter than what I'd suggest as an alternative—Mark Pilgrim's history of HTML5 <http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html>.

(PS - @DanielRibeiro: what a small world, a friend of mine works at the company you used to be CTO of!)
I tried clicking “Cancel” on an app today, I was returned to FB without reading the article. I won’t bother trying again to discover whether it was a one-off, whether it was just that app, or whether the problem had something to do with whatever I was using to read FB (Flipboard, Facebook for iPad, Mobile Safari, Desktop Safari).

It is enough for me to know that regular links always work (even though FB tracks click-through) and “frictionless” links, aren’t.
The only way to stop Facebook is to protest and boycott it. It worked in 2006 and 2007 (News Feed and Beacon, but Beacon might have been 2008) and it'll work again.
If the RIAA tried today to lobby for a law that all Interstate highways include checkpoints to search cars for infringing copies of movies or books, they wouldn't find a sponsor. This is not because the public has a deep understanding of auto mechanics. It's because the public understands that traveling at highway speeds is desirable and checkpoints to serve a special interest are not. It's hard to sway people today by arguing that highways make it too easy to transport infringing copies.
Nice. This looks awesome. Maybe it's just me, but it's a little ironic that Google has obviously spent a lot of time making a really cool app for iOS while neglecting their very own OS, Android. I use both and would love a tool like this for Android. Props to Google.
Or just don't use FB.

Everything I read about it just makes me happier that I don't.
Apple's trademark application got denied because the term multi-touch is generic ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/66447722/Multi-Touch-Trademark )

Additionally, there's a load of research referencing the term 'multi-touch' a long time prior to the iPhone - a quick google scholar search, for example: http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=multi-touch&hl=en&...

Apple did not invent capacitive multi-touch capable screens, and they did not invent the common UI metaphors used in multi-touch screens. Apple's software did make for a very precise capacitive touch screens, but their improvements were incremental.

This is not to downplay their achievement in the iPhone - I think it was a marvellous device, and the first truly usable smartphone - I just don't think it's fair to ignore the contributions of those who came before, and the long history of research into multi-touch screens.
> No, but NYC is arguably the (or at least a) world capital for art, theater, and fashion.

Also food, music, import/export, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and the already mentioned finance. There are other industries as well, including all the tangential industries that are fed by the leading ones. This cornucopia of leading industries creates a very healthy environment for cross-industry innovation.
In addition to that, I sometimes flag submissions that don't load.
you are calculating the tax here at around 25%. Wouldn't this count as long term capital gains tax (if you hold the stock for more than 1 year, which it seems likely since the company was incorporated in 2007) that is currently being taxed at 15%?