skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most likely explanation is that they didn't 'intercept' the call but simply dialed into the conference call system and recorded the call.

The question then becomes how did they get the conference call dial in information? Perhaps they managed to get into the email of one of the participants. That would seem to be even more worrying than the interception of this single call.

Also, on many conference systems I've used standing meetings use the same dial in information from week to week. If this is a regular meeting it's possible that Anonymous has been listening in every week.
Even at 0 profit, you could say they were stealing profits away from the original author. However, they are not for sale anywhere in their original form. I'd like them to either actually put them up for sale, or encourage others to print them out, but I'd have to respect the original designer's decision not to see his work being duplicated elsewhere.
I am curious though how often the other shareholders are able to force the founders into a sale against their will. Is this common / documented? Seems doubtful that a Big Co would go into a talent acquisition if the talent wasn't on board.
Hey.

As the hacker behind the version at http://print.imaj.es/ - I figured I'd share my response here too.

Ben's response is understandable - designers and hackers alike are proud of their creations and often are quick and strong-willed in defending their work.

However, the project that he's been running internally at FB itself aped the original British Ministry of Information project during wartime - the keep calm and carry on meme.

Ben's sentiment to keep focused is good. It's so good that when I saw it, I felt a resonance, a reminder that I should be shipping - so that I wanted to right there and then, make it, produce it, ship it.

So I went to work with my (legal) copies of illustrator and photoshop, and crafted my version. (see it here: http://print.imaj.es/products/stay-focused).

The comparison ends here, though. I took the sentence, sure.

But my process is letterpress, with really awesome paper, all made by hand (by me) locally.

So, I think at this point there's a valid conversation about what is art, what is originality, and how that can be defined - my work can easily be seen as derivative, implied.

I don't make a comparison here with Andy Warhol (who's work will far outstrip anything I'll ever make creatively), but Ben's argument here extends to the notion that Warhol's Campbell's soup work is theft; whereas many others (myself included) see it as a valid expression of the modernity the cans represented. I see the poster as a valid expression of the notion of being a developer-entrepreneur, of needing to keep on the track and ship - a mantra we can all live by.

Ben accused me of theft, suggesting I should donate profits to charity. He used language such as this being a rip-off, and worse.

I have thought about it and frankly I don't see it as theft, but as the normal course of art. Theft would be to make it and not reference the original - to ignore the ancestry and pretend it doesn't exist.

And, for the record, I'll donate any profits to charity- if there are any. As it stands, there's little chance the project will even get printed, as there is not yet sufficient orders.
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What about notifications that don't require Firefox to be opened? Or notifications that don't require an internet connection? or notifications that don't require your computer to be on? What about notifications that don't even require me to be awake? Send me push notifications through ether, straight into my brain.
Finally something in my timezone!
i never even considered this when i was in school so I don't know the answer to this queestion: what is the usual policy for leaves of absence for students at somewhere like MIT?
Plus Lion asks you everytime if you want to save the state or not.

We'd both be happy if it remembered our preference in that dialog box. It does not.
Which manufacturers rely on point and shoots to stay afloat?

You're point is valid, though not exactly contrarian. The decline of point and shoots became pretty obvious when the iphone 3g was released. I'm sure this is why every manufacturer has been diversifying their lineups away from point and shoots over the last 5 years. Sony released a full SLR lineup, including lenses. Olympus has been producing very high quality mirrorless bodies (not exactly point and shoots) for a few years now. Even Fujifilm has followed suit. Nikon and Canon, who probably generate a lot of revenue from p&s sales, have been widely diversified for decades.
Just disable it by default and get the best of both worlds. I dislike my browser loading Flash (which is often advertisements) so I only allow it when it's some content worth viewing. Unfortunately there are still worthwhile websites that require Flash for certain content.

On the bright side, it provides an easy way to disable most annoying advertisements! We won't be able to say the same when Flash penetration decreases and HTML5 adverts are the norm.
Promoting their own event is not without self-interest, even if the poster sales aren't directly profitable.

Also, it's not authorship over "red on white" as a concept, it's authorship over this specific combination of type, size, layout, & copy that implies association with Facebook. If they just wanted to maintain the message, and not the association, they wouldn't have kept the visual style. Implying an association (with Facebook, or Ben) that isn't really there is the dishonest part.
Oula... il faudrait créer un compte Facebook rien que pour s'inscrire là dedans ? ^^
I'm growing tired of people still trotting out the old trope about "Steve Jobs… prohibiting Flash web players across all iOS devices." Flash isn't prohibited in iOS, it was never enabled in the first place! That phrasing implies that Apple expended developer effort to ensure that Flash wouldn't work on the iPhone, which is an inaccurate characterization of what actually happened.
should mention that Flash won't be available on mobile devices anymore as per Adobe.

looking at the sales figures of smartphones and new tablets (both iOS and Android) - Flash is going away.

as per browser support: IE10 will be plug-in free, didn't MS just say that? Chrome will introduce click-to-play.

the graph shows the past, not the future.
Agree, innovation has slowed and for me anyway, financial innovation hasn't quite replaced the physical type e.g aerospace.
That pane did have horizontal scrolling at one point; think they changed it ~ Lion release (since no more scrollbars)
All the points that OP mentioned, whether they are correct or not, are irrelavent.

The only factor that drives technology success is the people, aka the community. There are a lot of people on board of nodejs. This just creates more gravity and pulls more people toward it. Together, the community will carry the momentum that drives its success. If v8 is not server technology like OP said, there are enough open source developers to make its on fork.
Thanks! I've heard of Shpider, haven't had a need for it as of yet because I haven't needed programmatic web browsing (just downloading the page and extracting info).

I'll see if I can clean up the markup enough to get it to parse with hxt, otherwise Shpider provides a good reference on how to correctly use Tagsoup. And also the Shpider codebase is really clean and well documented.
Emails: http://pastebin.com/8G4jLha8

Call: http://youtu.be/pl3spwzUZfQ
I agree. I experience this problem a lot in Chrome and I've lost form data a few times from it.
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I haven't developed much for Android but when I get a bug/fault in an iOS app, the stack trace is cryptic as heck. When it shows me what line is causing the issue, it goes to main.m, which is unhelpful to say the least. Is is the same for Android development?
There are definitely advantages to Flash but this reeks of bias. For example, Flash is supported by 99% of web browsers? Guess we're ignoring mobile?
Quite right, sir. But this gives me an idea for a different poster you could make which I think both you and many Hacker News users would appreciate seeing every day:

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum
I ask because I saw it the first time I noticed points. Is that because I'm a newbie?

I only noticed it twice and that is the reason I asked about the issue. It may very well have happened before, that is what I was inquiring about, to understand if it is widespread.

And the relationship between HN quality and "inappropriate downvoting" is?

I think you are looking for something empirical which is not what I am basing my view on this subject on. Rather I hold some core values and that is what I am basing it on a value system as such it is internal to me. To me a widespread demographic of people who downvote out of malice compromises that value system, I would not want to participate in such a system. In saying that, I am not saying that HN has come to that.
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Not at all. The behavior in Lion (inverted scroll movement, bouncy scroll edges) encourages the user to see themselves as actually touching and directly manipulating physical objects on the screen (cf iPad/iPhone). One such resultant user-behavior is "flicking" to quickly perform the scrolling action.

If this behavior is overloaded with a navigational function, the user now may very well accidentally invoke the navigation function with a flick and lose data (HTML form data for example.)

This is a genuine usability issue that needs to be addressed by Apple.
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As a designer, I am impressed with how graciously Collazo handled the situation, and disappointed that he had to go to such lengths to satisfy Barry.

I'm hoping that the inherent bluntness of Twitter exaggerated Barry's response; the poster being sold was a different layout & typeface, not a "straight ripoff".

I'm not saying Barry doesn't have a case, just that if I were in his shoes I wouldn't have reacted in the same way in the least. He's reinforcing a stereotype of designers that I'm not particularly proud of.
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In many cases calls can be recorded by the conference call service provider. Couldn't it be that the recording of the call was later accessed? An anon need not have been listening in on the call live.
what about splitting HN into different sections?
Yes it is a tax on unsold inventory. If I spend $100 on inventory, my business has $100 less cash. IRS rules do not allow my business to write off that cost until the goods are sold (COGS). If I do not sell that inventory, the IRS treats the unsold physical inventory the same as $100 cash for tax purposes, however my $100 is gone and I have no customers, so unless I destroy my inventory, I have to come up with tax payments for $100 I already spent. I've witnessed retailers smashing mass amounts of merchandise in compactors to avoid taxes on sunk cost. Some publishers have incinerated train loads of books for the same reason. Unsold inventory is a liability... Regardless of what the IRS says, inventory isn't worth anything until someone pays you for it, and you can never be sure if anyone will pay you for it or exactly what the price will be until the transaction occurs.
Interesting, all of the 'subscribe' and 'login' buttons in the article area are served by the doubleclick network. So anyone with adblock enabled just sees a partial article with no indication that there is a way to access the rest.
no one, for all intents and purposes, would associate these signs with facebook.
It's not just auditory noise, visual noise is a problem as well. The trend toward putting programmers in open plan offices has driven me to telecommute. I wish we could go back to the days of the boring cube farm with white noise speakers in the ceiling.

I've noticed that as I get older I require more control over my environment to maintain concentration than when I was in my early 20's.
You are correct. They managed to gain access to the email account of one of the participants and simply used the information in the email about the conference call to dial in.

This is the email http://pastebin.com/8G4jLha8 and at the beginning of the recorded call you can hear the conference call software asking for the access code. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3spwzUZfQ)
Gorgeous HTML5 particle effect (runs best in FF or Chrome)
Don't bash chrome too loudly, you'll be down voted like a monkey with rabies at a kids birthday party.

Dont you know google is every single developers favourite company and they can do no wrong?

It's clearly not googles fault for copying a feature in a half-assed manner, it's apples fault for not predicting that would happen and abandoning the feature.
Used it for half a year then did "sudo apt-get remove unity-desktop && apt-get install xfce-desktop". I dislike the concept of huge sidebars that move around and overlays etc. So I will probably not try it again. Xfce is nice and fast.
Even though I am a fan of Hacker News I have the same feel that it is mostly USA centric. Sometimes after reading some articles I wonder how things are in Europe, similar or not, etc. Hopefully it can become not a replacement but a complement for the european hackers.
> I don't use rsnapshot but you can set up arguments you pass to ssh, in which case you can selectively disable ControlMaster

Just FYI, that worked perfectly.
See, I don't really agree with that. Yes, fullscreen is worse than useless on more than one monitors. But you don't have to use it. Fullscreening an app on a big monitor was never very useful in the first place.

But as I said, inertial scrolling is great. Spaces are great. The gestures to navigate spaces are great.

All that Versions and Autosave stuff is atrocious. But I rarely stumble into it since I mostly use Emacs.

I really like the non-existent scrollbars. I don't miss having those ugly grab-bars on every window one bit.

All things told, I'd rather have Lion than Snow Leopard, but really only by a small margin.
from where did you extrapolate his "decision not to see his work being duplicated elsewhere"? as far as i was able to tell he simply requested the profits were given to charity- of which there were none.

moreso, and i recognize this is a touchy subject, i'm not sure it's even fair to suggest he conceived these designs.
Oops, didn't see that paywall. Here's one from Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/02/03/hackers-st...
Software is not raking leaves...
One good reason to stick with Ubuntu( or Mint-which is essentially Ubuntu with few items different) is the availability of drivers. If you are using any hardware from known makers like dell,HP etc. chances are, you will see it working fine right out of the box. For example I have a all-in-one from HP it has drivers already available. Same way I have a USB wireless network adapter and it worked just fine. You can run the LiveCD make sure your system runs as it should and then dual boot or virtualize.If you are windows user and start with idea of learning the hard way, you may not take a full dive at all. I have been using Ubuntu almost for 2 years and still consider myself a newbie as I dont know how to do many things still.
You could try Ubuntu-GNOME for best driver support or Mint Linux GNOME
Here are some links I've collected over time:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/12/9-important-things-sell-sta...

http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+To+Sell+Your+Company

http://maplebutter.com/getting-your-startup-ready-for-an-acq...

http://www.davidgcohen.com/2010/06/18/you-have-acquisition-i...

http://www.slideshare.net/VentureArchetypes/startup-exit-str...

http://blog.asmartbear.com/how-value-company-1.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2154106

http://startups.ryanjunee.com/acquisitions-pulling-back-the-...

http://horizonpartners.com/article/things-fall-apart-part-i

http://horizonpartners.com/article/timing-ma-part-i-it%E2%80...

http://walkercorporatelaw.com/ma-issues/5-biggest-mistakes-e...

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/ma-issues-breakup-fees.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2253869
Most popular stories on HN in Jan 2012
"I’m sure I’ll catch a lot of flak for that prediction, but it wouldn’t be the first time. People called me crazy when I predicted the end of console gaming, too."

The author makes that statement as though this example vindicates him, while the death of console gaming is far from a foregone conclusion (the only way one could present a credible argument for the death of console gaming is by arguing that modern consoles are actually PCs, an argument which is at best a technical red herring).

The observation that "hey, phone cameras are pretty nice these days" isn't novel or bold, and it's not a Holmsean tour-de-force to extrapolate the declining point-and-shoot market. This is sort of like writing an article in 2003 saying "if you're a camera manufacturer who relies on 35mm film cameras to stay afloat, you should be worried as hell".
I can't help but cheer for any kid (yes, I'm old, so they are all kids) who takes Peter Thiel's offer.

Laura Deming is especially easy to cheer for, as she's working on age extension. (Did I mention I'm old?)

It's great to hear she's meeting with other investors as biotech has always suffered from high capitol requirements. Super science ain't cheap. I really, really hope this sparks a fire in Silicon Valley for funding biotech startups.

The other major thing biotech startups suffer form is regulation. It's just so SLOW and expensive to approve any new drug, device or treatment.

I am not sure if regulation can be "hacked". My only advice is to mention industrial and veterinary biotech, were a lot of advances can be made much, much quicker. Life extension for dogs and cats, why not.
To all of those complaining that "side scrolling is a bad idea": This is a red herring. The chief complaint here is that Apple made a single gesture which in the past caused a single action (scroll to the left) and made it modal, such that it means "scroll left" UNLESS (1) the user is in Safari and (2) there is no more content to the left, in which case it means "go back".

This is an excellent complaint, and it has been raised before by users (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3192014?start=0&tst...) and bloggers (http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/02/baffling-inconsistencies-in-o...). It's a UI inconsistency which makes no sense, is confusing for users trying to scroll, and causes problems for developers.

Regarding reverting it, the following Stack Overflow question and answer seems to have found a solution via a github plugin:

http://stackoverflow.com/q/8737709/168775

I have no idea if it works. Good luck!
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While we are adding anecdotes - my experience has been the opposite. While trying to enter Canada (Vancouver), the Canadian border guy asked me and my friends all kinds of detailed questions (How long do you know each other, how do you know this guy etc) Entering the US was as simple as looking at my passport and waving me through. (The only time I've been asked a bunch of questions while trying to enter the US was when I was walking across the border from Mexico)
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I think Facebook is more entrenched than myspace ever was and that'll make it more resilient. Now everyone is on Facebook not just teenagers, e.g. my 50yr+ aunts and uncles who would have been PC-phobic before. That'll make it harder to leave because of the circles of contacts built up over time.
Andy Warhol produced numerous versions of his Campbell soup, in doing so he added some value in asking questions, if it was just one can of soup this wouldn't have been the case.

A can of soup doesn't equal a painting of a can of soup.

There are many differences.
That was fast. German ban on Apple 3G products lifted.
And why wouldn't they? They're explicitly an homage to a photo that hundreds of thousands of people (especially those in the startup scene) saw.
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Ah, I was wondering why the article ended with "The recording's authenticity ..."
The funny part is I've seen the same thing, in reverse!

I'm a Canadian citizen and I get no end of grief from the Canadian Border Patrol. "Are you trying to bring this car in illegally?" or "Visiting family? What do you mean by family?".

Then I return to the US and all I get is "Welcome home!".

It makes sense if you think about it. Who in the gov't cares if one of their citizens complain? It's not like you're going to stop coming back to your home country.
a look at the HTTP headers:

tahu@laptop:~$ curl -I http://hackful.com/about
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Status: 200
X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack) 3.0.11
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
ETag: "6972d16343b1a4d0f2a49c9a3174e977"
Cache-Control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate
Set-Cookie: _hackful_session=BAh7B0kiD3Nlc3Npb25faWQGOgZFRkkiJWQ5NzYzMThlNDFkOWVhYTI1YzJiZGI0YzNjMjlkOWFhBjsAVEkiEF9jc3JmX3Rva2VuBjsARkkiMUVRU1gzZkhvcHRockpaWndWY2NRcGk3SElJczBmOEY3TW50YjJRZ0plSTg9BjsARg%3D%3D--572416e3b12cc85dda3675c22d117839535e636d; path=/; HttpOnly
X-Runtime: 0.017811
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:26:04 GMT
X-Rack-Cache: miss
Server: nginx/1.0.10 + Phusion Passenger 3.0.11 (mod_rails/mod_rack)
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For a good example of this, think Digg vs. Reddit
So, if you already speak the language, why not use your larger demographic to promote more relevant articles here on HN?

We benefit from having another perspective represented here more than we do from having it shown in some other far-flung echochamber on the web.

Or is the idea of melting pot a bit much for you old country folks? :)
It seems to me like the author overly cares about languages, when the power of Node is the community and its simplicity of use - there's very little boilerplate even for complex things like network programming.

Who cares about the language. Use JS if you want, or use Scala. At the end of the day is the maintainability of the product you're developing that matters.

I feel, for example, that NPM is much easier and simpler to use than something like Maven. If it makes my life easier, I'll stick with it.
different tools for different jobs
My question is why don't you think your family would be supportive? I think that's where you should start, after you get that figured out I would suggest you explore the possibility on the side at some point you should "know" which direction to take. You need to keep your family in mind however you only have one life so if I were you I would at least explore to see if you can make some changes that would make you feel fulfilled.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:

Physiological Needs -
Security Needs -
Social Needs -
Esteem Needs -
Self-actualizing Needs <- This is what you feel you're "missing".

Good luck!
Q: Why did Apple launch so many patent wars, aren't patents just supposed to be used like nukes? (Don't sue me, or I'll sue you, and we'll both lose tons of money.)

A: Maybe because Apple has so much money, patent lawsuits cannot threaten them too much, but they have a chance at badly damaging the competition, who might run out of money.
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I based it on his reaction, which as you just said, was to request that any profit be given to charity.
Ask HN: Revenue from paid Wordpress plugins?
Has anyone built a paid Wordpress plugin? What did your sales figures look like? Where/how did you sell it?