skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like Google+ is going to become highly useful whether you like it or not. I'm not sure whether I like Google+, but I admire Google's endurance behind it.
YouTube’s New Homepage Goes Social With Algorithmic Feeds
Google+ Hangout scheduling just got simple
What I have never understood is how password length limits come into existence. Is there really some developer out there who things long passwords are bad? Are they using some sort of shitty technology that doesn't permit it for some reason and are too lazy to get around it? I just don't get it.
Yes this is indeed very disappointing. I guess I might have misunderstood most of the blog posts when they said they would be releasing by the end of this year, and that the prices were set to $25 and $35. So I guess we all have to wait for next year.
100 boards doesn't cost all that much more than 10, IIRC.
A conservative voice
Wikileaks should not be editorializing.

Feeding us a party line about a "mass surveillance industry" and "Orwell's World" and "Selling Surveillance to Dictators" is not going to bring people to their cause. All it does is make them look like someone with an agenda to push, and I'm not in the habit of going to people with an obvious agenda for a primary source about someone they don't like.

What I want is the old Wikileaks back. Anyone else remember the days when they were actually a wiki? Whistleblowers would approach them with documents from all manner of sources from governments to corporations to religious institutions, they would be subjected to source verification, and then they would be published and indexed for the world to see with minimum fanfare. Back then, I at least got the sense that they were devoted to aiding whistleblowers, not some silly and ineffectual crusade against the US government, no matter how right that cause may be. Can anyone really say that that's gotten us anywhere useful?

Let us see the documents and judge for ourselves what they mean.
Patrick. when AB testing your podcast, please try doing a 20 minute "snack size". I find I mostly have little pockets of time (i.e. when washing up after dinner) when I can listen to a podcast but anything longer than that requires me to set some time aside just to listen.
Carrier IQ Tracking: The Story So Far
Thanks :).

Yes, you're right. I currently don't have any other idea how to deal with those small, spammy SEO businesses than to raise awareness about the subject and hit their customers directly. It's sad, because the customers here are usually not to blame - like you said, they neither know nor understand what's going on here. I was quite (pleasantly) surprised by the immediate reaction of that particular person, who 'out of respect for my space in the Internet' decided to take action that cost her money. I deeply respect such people. "Vote with your dollars" mindset should be encouraged, IMO.

Anyway, here's the story - it's in polish, but maybe HN folks from Poland will find it interesting (and get to know about one thoughtful photographer) - http://temporal.pr0.pl/devblog/2011/09/19/spam-seo-i-fotogra....
A determined hobbyist can handle that stuff. As I understand, the only thing that really stops a determined hobbyist is BGA.

Which, actually, might be exactly what the square in the middle is. In which case they certainly will not be marketing bare boards.
Sorry for the tangent, but why does this word get a "y" in the "dys", when any other "dis" word is spelled with an "i": disturb, disrespect, discombobulate, disconcerting, etc.
Keeping addicts adicted:Why quitting smoking is easier than quitting Facebook
You have a great start-up idea? You are running out of time. Just do it
The point is both Adobe and the W3C are guessing. Think how much faster we could advance if it was put in the hands of the community. A community that constantly implements, gets feedback, re-implements, collaborates. You only have to look at three.js (https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/) and similar to get an idea of what can be built on a low-level API.

[Edit: guessing, not second-guessing]
Why is this confusing? I've seen numerous iPad vs. Android browser comparisons, but yet to see an in-depth Silk test (other than the many reviewers who said it was slower).

Silk (and whether it lives up to it's billing) is the most interesting part.
That's plausible, but suggests that the creator never tested it on real-world data. Either way, it's really bad development work.
It's realworld in the sense he used some of the most popular sites, not some kind of laboratory test with local network.

Caching turned off is for cold-cache test. Storage is relatively small on tablets and it's very plausible to get a cold cache first pageload.

Steve is pretty good at these kinds of tests.
Goodbye Black Bar, Hello Grey Bar - Google+ Gets a Visual Update
1999, is that you?
I have to agree.

First implementation of agile/scrum I worked with was a bunch of printed cards nailed to a board where in the daily meetings the PM used a pen to take hours out of it, or add more if we decided it was going to take more. After the meeting he took the cards to his computer and wrote some kind of report (no idea the format). Second company about the same except PM didn't do the report after but still post its on the wall. And it all worked great, then I got to the third company and no board, just tickets in Team Foundation the programmers had to update every day (heck, they even asked us to update various times a day). We had a daily meeting but not much else.

Truth be told, I usually just forget about the hours update, whenever I closed a ticket I just looked at the estimated time that was there (which wasn't decided by me) and put that as working hours. I was bugged everyday to keep my hours up to date because it was very important some higher up had a general idea on how things were going...

Here is the thing, first two places started using agile/scrum by reading online and books, third one payed a consultant more than 25K to implement this system.
I'm surprised the author didn't jump on this sentence:

"With any diagnostic data sent to Apple, customers must actively opt-in to share this information..."

As I understand it, Carrier IQ is about sending data to carriers. Apple only denied that data was silently sent to Apple. That's completely different than saying no data has been transmitted at all.
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Looking for someone to write a TCP stack for BareMetal OS. This needs to be written in x86-64 Assembly. See the posting here: http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=24471
Some cool things you'll learn in this presentation:

* How to travel the world for free (with $7500 in free tickets)

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Hey Tom. We haven't really tracked the difference in what ASAN finds. If I had to ballpark it I'd say that ASAN wins significantly more than half of the time--meaning a given repro faults under ASAN but not under an uninstrumented build. And for a bit more context, the vast majority of the bugs we deal with are use-after-free issues, which is something that ASAN really excels at detecting and clearly reporting.

In terms of process, our scaled out fuzzing is rapidly evolving anyway. So, I think it was early enough that our approach wouldn't have changed too much. It's more that ASAN has enabled us to move faster, with fewer resources. And the improved turnaround time has significantly reduced the number of bugs that get past trunk.

If you want, I can put you in touch with the guys on my team doing the real work on the fuzzing cluster (I've been assisting in only an advisory capacity). They're also planning on doing a Chromium blog post on the project soon, so you could wait for that if you prefer.
Amazon’s Business Is ‘Disappearing,’ Columbia’s Greenwald Says
This Young Woman Scored $1,200 A Month In Fancy Dinners Using Match.com
Great job for highlighting "your assets" and "your constraints", which deserves much more attention than they are receiving.
IStation: a vintage look for your iPad
San Jose, CA. Full time.

OptumInsight is hiring entry-level software developers to work on our Axolotl http://www.axolotl.com/ suite of health information exchange applications. Our products enable sharing clinical data between doctors and other healthcare providers to improve efficiency and deliver better patient care. We mostly use the Java EE stack but have other major tools and platforms as well.

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(I expect to be hiring higher-level developers as well in a few months but don't officially have those positions open yet.)
Wasn't one of the iPhone jailbreak devs quoted on twitter last night as saying that CIQ is only enabled (at all) if you enable diagnostic logging?
Ever since my forum got popular, I've had non-stop trouble with human spammers. Straight up IP banning doesn't work. Too explicit and obvious.

A better solution is to let them register, but check all registration/post IP addresses against the blacklist. If they match, unobtrusively move them into a usergroup that just seems like your site isn't working that well.

Works wonders.
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Different root - think dysphoria.
Did you read the article? In it he benchmarks Silk (accel) vs. Silk (no accel). He's proven to himself that the acceleration system doesn't work, using his own testing methodology, which, given that he produced the results, he should be biased into believing.

Nothing is keeping him from turning it on later in the future, when it's objectively proven to be faster. But he keeps it on now, basically because of his optimism in Amazon.
I was just a little disappointed to find they weren't really giving a cow. I have a barn she can stay in and everything.
I asked her, she didn't.

If the cheaper one has nearly all the same physical properties and a vastly better price, she didn't care very much if it was a "genuine" article. Nurses are very utilitarian.

Now you can believe that is a good way or a bad way to think, but it's not a problem that's going to be significantly improved by having the legal system DNS-jacking .com and trying to censor the internet.

tech companies that are de facto facilitating these scams

As if there were no scams before the "tech companies" came along to facilitate them.

Yes, there probably are businesses and business models that are threatened by a post-information-scarcity world. But whole societies are threatened by censorship.

But, more immediately and directly, the security of critical infrastructure like DNS (and our networks that depend on it) is threatened by these attempts to kink around with it.
Yes, it is ridiculous. They are ensuring that they get people who are interesting... and all the exact same flavor of interesting. It feels juvenile, even if they intended it sincerely.

Maybe they are find people, and maybe it is a fine company. I have no way of knowing. But this approach does not appeal to me, personally because is feels like it is trying too hard.
If the only thing that differentiates you is a fancy fucking pop-up menu, you've already lost.
I suspect you are referring to this: http://yourbrainonporn.com/
It's an interesting comment on governmental policy to see how quickly recent events have gone from Internet meme to Congressional attention.
But do they still get the $20?
They give you an incredible amount of control and balance at slow speeds, which is often useful for city riding. They are also really fun in a way that is hard to explain (at least without sounding really pretentious).

Plus they are required for track racing, which is also fun for completely different reasons.
You're right about IE5 (then 6) stagnating, but the predicate there was Microsoft's OS monopoly and browser tying. No such condition today -- we have a much more competitive browser market, and no browser can afford to self-stagnate.

Roc says he is nearly done with MediaStreams and if that looks good to enough people on the standards bodies, or really among the browser implementors, then it'll go forward.
It's called Sweden, buddy.

:)
You can give discounts for particular payment methods - the thing you aren't allowed to do is add a surcharge for using credit cards.
Springtomize 2
I also think that using html tags is a poor practice. That said, Dojo does not require it for anything.

I use dojo daily, and I find everything to be well-written and high quality. It's the documentation that has always been a train wreck. Their idea of improving the documentation is reorganizing it on a new website.
I'm assuming you meant article instead of office. I totally agree... I keep thinking the picture relates to the article and get confused!
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We think adding group functionality to Twitter will open up the platform to a variety of exciting new use-cases. From a Yammer type experience for non-enterprise users to an entirely new way of leveraging the Twitter platform through crowdsourced Twitter accounts.

See a little more of our vision at http://www.GroupTweet.com/examples

Email: jobs@GroupTweet.com
I'm pretty sure Apple's "wait a week" clock began ticking when the initial flurry of reports about CarrierIQ on Android started circulating, not yesterday...
citricsquid - thanks for the info. Did it give any false negatives for you?

To all complaining about the product giving false positives: think about it from the user's perspective. If you ran this program, and it showed you no results, you'd probably just think it didn't work. Showing you a scattering of false positives "proves" that it at least did something. And checking down the list makes you feel like you completed your audit.
At the risk of driving an accusation of conspiracy theory, I'm reading that sentence exactly the same way. This is a "non-denial denial". They're denying something not alleged in the hopes that it distracts or confuses people about the real issue.
I agree, they are pretty fun. To go fast, you have to pedal fast. It makes it feel like you are going REALLY fast.

That said, I wouldn't want to ride one as my only bike.
Think I'll Stick to JS...
Depends on the community, of course. Someone that can't fill out our simple human question wouldn't make it very far.
Google Maps with a paper map look
I think this comment was widely misinterpreted. The product only runs on Windows. That was the point.
> Yeah, this is the reason I use a track point instead of a mouse.

VIM + touchpad beneath space bar on a standard laptop works well too. I can left\right click with my left thumb and move the cursor with my right thumb without my primary digits leaving the home keys.
Sure, assuming the device supports the API. We all know about Apple's fascist policies about what its apps can and cannot do. They can always choose not to support your app or your app's features if it's in their best interests.

Alas, I think you miss my point. It's not just that "the web isn't the web anymore." It's that this push for more and more technology where it isn't needed will eventually impede people's lives (and truly it is not needed - a webpage that emulates an app should just be an app). It adds to the further complexity and cost of the modern age without giving us something of fair value in return. It's an unfair tax on humanity.

I understand that somebody has a need for a multi-user realtime image editor. But that should be an app, not a web page. Obviously not every device is going to be able to do everything. But in most cases they could if they were implemented the proper way.

I guess this kind of argument isn't for Hacker News. I'm the kind of guy who wants to throw his smartphone away, who doesn't own a TV, who doesn't go on Facebook. I'm not interested in giving chunks of my life over to consumerism and mindless wastes of entertainment. And i'm not interested in pushing new technology where it was never meant to be just because it can be done.

By the way, JavaScript never should have been ubiquitous. It started as a hack and now it's a monster.
Samsung Reveals 2 GHz Cortex-A15 Exynos 5250 Chip
Hmmm. I'm not shedding any tears over the lack of graphical boot. I like to watch the messages.

What I would love though would be reliable suspend/resume on an OpenGL 4.2 accelerated notebook.
I was really hoping this startup was actually giving the developers a cow - not donating to an organization that donates livestock (including cows) to hunger stricken areas of the world.

I have donated to the Heifer project before, but never saw "my cow". Regardless of that, it's a great organization. Amicus on the other hand is great at getting news sites to write misleading titles about them.
I agree that there is too much focus on "intuitiveness," but I'm neither a programmer (I'm working on it) nor a sysadmin, and I'd like a more robust user interface too! I have a lot of work to get done, and I'm willing to learn a different set of interface axioms than the ones we've been working with for the last few decades.

Here's the beginning of my thinking on the subject: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9325300749/a-different-kind-o...

It's great to hear other voices in this discussion, though!
> Rather than being hit by new sales tax regulations, the company is now using the regulations to profit.

What did anyone else expect to happen? Processing that information isn't free, and I wouldn't be surprised if they push to require all online stores to use their sales tax processing service.
A couple month slips is pretty typical, especially for a project that is everyone's 'side-project' and not day job.

I'm happier with their open communication instead of having built it in private and released it suddenly one day.
Getting to Continuous Deployment in Django: Feature Flipping
I did not imply that the default thing is necessarily better than hobby thing, but that someone who knows enough to know what a shell is knows what they want and how to get it. And if they made a poor choice, so what? It's easy to change one's mind.

Scrutinizing an idea for a new method of programmer-computer interaction from the perspective of a newcomer makes little sense to me, as does the "competing standards" thing from a neighboring comment, scrutinizing OP's idea for being potentially unable to win a popularity contest. OP's terminal system isn't a standard struggling to gain widespread public acceptance. It's just some guy's program.

I think that an idea about programmer-computer interaction ought to be scrutinized for its merit in facilitating programmer-computer interaction, and that criticism from a perspective that isn't the programmer's and isn't the computer's is useless.

PS. You forgot one of the most interesting Unix shells, es. It could turn out to be the best shell you've ever used.
Hi, you might have heard of the company I work for, Yammer. We were in the news recently, and we're looking to hire in San Francisco.

We've got a variety of positions open, but since this is Hacker News, I'll tell you about our engineering team. Every single engineer here is the type of person that can be honest with themselves and others. We like to use tools and technologies because they allow us to build things our customers want, not because we think the tools are cool.

Some tools we use: Java. Scala. Ruby, and Rails, Javascript, Node.js, Objective-C, and C#. We like to store things in Postgres, Riak, Vertica, and our super-awesome custom-built distributed feeds DB written on top of BDB JE-HA.

If you're the type of engineer who believes in the One True Language To Rule Them All, we're not interested. If you're the type of engineer who doesn't understand how users think, we're not interested. Yammer has a high bar, and we're not willing to compromise on that. If you're confident in your abilities, and you think you can help use take over and change corporate America, let's talk.

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Our product is kinda like Facebook, and kinda like Twitter, sure. We're inspired by the best, and we won't hesitate to steal good ideas. But any change we make to our product is tested thoroughly and analyzed intelligently. We like the scientific method. We're not messing around. If you'd like to join a serious team of hard-working and effective engineers with their hearts set on changing how the modern corporation communicates, get in touch.

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Even they seem to agree with it; rather than just shutting up about their C&D, they actually issued a formal apology to Trevor. That's an uncommon move.

I don't know whether some other shoe is about to drop; for instance, someone could actually show that they're transmitting real keycodes and not just metrics data. But in the absence of that shoe dropping, especially given how many people have jumped to a conclusion about CarrierIQ, I'm inclined to believe that what they do is actually benign. If you want to get upset at someone, get upset at the carriers themselves. When you do, remember, they're already recording all your messages without CarrierIQ.
Would you mind sharing what are you testing here?
CarrierIQ not on Blackberry by Default
Fantastic! I'm literally working right now on a large application that uses Dojo 1.6 extensively. I must say that I'm overall impressed with the framework. The selection and flexibility of the widgets is great. I've done plenty of jQuery UI in the past and I'm honestly done with it until they get some consistency issues resolved. Dojo definitely fills a need.

But, I wish Dojo was still a bit more straightforward to package up the various modules/widgets our project is using into a single .js file. For now the dynamic parsing with dojo.require works fine. But as the project grows it won't cut it anymore.

Congrats to the team :) (PS. When can we expect it to be available through the Googel CDN?)
First we need an open-documentation GPU.