skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it now says ZAARLY.COM on your statement for Zaarly. This was a previous bank limitation, not technical or design, that has been resolved.

new business comes in through referrals and press by our marketplaces, so we haven't focused on press.

if you want to sign up as a marketplace: https://www.poundpay.com/developers/application
> Removing freedom to see the source might not effect peoples choice it's self I agree, but really why should it also effect the quality of the software?

We are in violent agreement. Freedom to see the source is entirely orthogonal to quality. However, the space of implementations is not fully populated; there are domains in which there is only a (good, closed) solution and a (poor, GPL) solution (this is in no way a criticism of the quality of GPL'd software in general; there are also domains with only a (good, open) solution, or where the GPL solution is significantly better than all competitors). It's not unreasonable for some users to prefer the (good, closed) tool in that situation.
Totem - Quick press pages for startups
Historically, the copyright lobby has been even more successful in lobbying the state department to bully other nations to adopt draconian copyright laws than it has been in lobbying our own congress to adopt such laws.
Your title makes this sound controversial, but it seems pretty straight forward.

If as you said, you sold a few hundred copies at both $2.99 and $4.99, haven't you made enough to renew the $99 dev fee and still be ahead? Assuming 'a few hundred' means 300 (could be more) and charging the minimum you stated of $2.99, that's a little over $600 profit after Apple's cut. Pay the dev fee and you are still up $500. Doesn't sound like much, but match the success of this app (which I think you feel is actually a failure) with 3 more apps and you have $2,000 a year--enough to get a new, tricked out Mac every year.
How hard it can be to tick a few checkboxes?
"Start stacking the dimes" - How to save newspapers and healthcare
Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil
US merchants, international buyers -- just like Amazon (FPS) and Etsy's current systems. Which countries would you be most interested in us adding?
I can say for sure that iTunes username is not exposed. In fact, they won't even provide an opaque user ID, which makes correlating purchases through in-app purchase with server-side user accounts very frustrating. You can sort of fake it by correlating with a device UDID, but that is leaky and has a lot of edge cases.
WebM and WebP Hand Ported to JavaScript for All Browsers
I've always found a lot of correlations between Anonymous and Al Qaeda. Not because of terrorism or exploding vans but because both are relatively unorganized collectives who appear much scarier than they are because independent operators/cells will claim they are flying under the group's banner, leading to headlines like "Anonymous Hacks Symantec".

The media eats up the concept of an organized global conspiracy group so it works out for everyone; the media makes money, the independent operators have a convenient, catch-all banner to fly under and the collective gets publicity for their cause.
Why we are fascinated by lists
There is a temple in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, which like many tourist locations, where many people take the exact same photo. So much so, that I have at least six friends on Facebook, most of whom don't know each other, who have posted the same photo, with roughly the same cropping. This is also a shot, or at least the composition, which has featured many times in advertisements and books.

I can see the same shot, or roughly similar composition, for city skylines or buildings many times with only slight variations. As an amateur photographer who licenses photos, some of my best revenue photos are of these locations.

If anyone wants to come and sue me for copyright infringement for a photo of the skyline of Hong Kong, I'd likely create a new site with my infringing photos and ask for more licensing revenue to help pay to defeat the troll.
To be clear... are you saying you ask contractors to not use features like CSS rounded corners, gradients, and box shadows?
AH dammit, you're right.
Though it's quite a difference whether the contacts are checked client-side or all sent over to THEIR server including all (unnecessary) info.
Uhh, Safari? Safari is the number one browser on one of my (non-technical) websites, primarily because of mobile traffic (iPhone and iPad).
People complained just as hard when transitioning from slide rules to calculators and they have some valid points, but the net gains where also clear. It's easy to make a bad interface but there are plenty of great Math interfaces that keep a listing of all previous steps above what your working on both how you enter it and show you how things would look like on a blackboard. There are a also plenty upsides like the ability to cut and paste lines so you can avoid a lot of stupid mistakes like dropping signs. But, far more important from and educational perspective is a students improved comfort using a computer to do advanced math vs. the near phobia that you and many others apparently have.
Why in the world is this restricted? I live in the Netherlands, and I really don't get what's so hard about releasing here. Sure, we're a small market, so not as important, but still... Software is global, man!
This is worse than PayPal for sellers with products over $5 (after shipping, tax). I wish they could've come up with better pricing. I would think most shops would be selling things over the $5 mark, but I can't say for sure.
Albeit too late, after reading this I uninstalled Path from my Android. I did not buy into this.
You asserted that it was “a non-solution for a non-problem” - the onus is on you to explain why the stated problems aren't real or how the Nest doesn't solve them.

As for the promise of saving energy, either reading Nest's citations or spending a second or two on Google might prove educational as to the current gap between what is technically possible and what people actually do:

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2011/03/21/do-programmable...
Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane
Pusher-like service implementations are very easy, I know, I've built one[1] and there are others[2]!

If you have any questions, feel free to email me.

[1] https://github.com/danbeaulieu/PushPlay

[2] https://github.com/stevegraham/slanger
The app explanation for it will be 'path can hook into your address book' - presumably for sending invites or messages to friends. However at this point the cat's out the bag and path can do what they like with this data (albeit against app store policy).

The problem is surely one of governance - it must be that the app reviewers simply don't (whether through sheer volume of apps they have to review, or lack of ability) see what's being posted, and where.

What's more if Path used https and a CA, would we ever have found out what was being posted short of live debugging?
I agree about deciding what you do and do not want. I think a really simple, no-frills system can actually help there. There's just no way to spend much time "procrastiplanning" without realizing it. As for deciding what you really want, I've found that reading something on my todo list over and over again brings the question to the front. There's only so often I will look at an unwant item before I realize it's an unwant item.
Yamatough demanded that Symantec transfer the money via Liberty Reserve, a payment processor based in San Jose, Costa Rica. But Thomas appears reluctant, calling it "more complicated than we expected." Thomas instead suggests using PayPal to transmit a $1,000 test as "a sign of good faith." Yamatough rejects that offer, saying, "Do not send us any money (we do not use paypal period)

Could someone comment on how it is possible to use Liberty Reserve to receive money anonymously?

The stakes are really high for getting caught, and receiving the money is the weakest point for the hackers. So I'm curious why Liberty Reserve is the payment processor of choice for these cyber-criminals.
I suck at pure math, so I tend to think of this in some sort of analogy.

Suppose the fraction a/b is some statistic you are trying to measure, say, a batting average or percentage of correct notes played in Guitar Hero. (a+1)/(b+1) would be the new fraction after you got the next one right. By getting the next one right, did you improve your score?

Of course, if you have a perfect record already, getting an additional 1-for-1 won't change anything. And if a>b, then you'd have to somehow score more than 1 point per attempt in order to maintain the same ratio, so (a+1)/(b+1) would be lower.
This is an excellent post: short, to the point and helpful. However, I find the title slightly misleading. Performance is not the only form of technical debt. Arguably, there are forms that are even worse than performance. If you're looking for the generic recipe for breaking out of the typical technical debt nightmare, the solution isn't in this post. Doesn't mean you shouldn't read it, though ;)
Ditto

Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=sqrt%283%2F4%29+&ie=utf-...

Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=sqrt%283%2F4%29+&qs=n&f...

Duck duck go: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=sqrt%283%2F4%29

And Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AvTUYMAAOlorkQUnfaCGxPSb...
Unfortunately, because of shortsightedness from both Google and HTC (HTC mostly), phones back then only had like 450 MB internal storage, and from that only 250 MB were for the OS itself.

This means an ICS install would be severely limited by the hardware (I think a full ICS install is significantly bigger). Modders might be able to put ICS on it by cutting apps and features, or doing other kinds of hacks to extend the internal storage, but for Google that just wasn't worth it.

I would really blame HTC for this. Pretty much all of their phones throughout 2010 were like that. It was my main frustration with HTC at the time, another one being the weak Adreno 200 GPU.
Anonymous Releases the Symantec Source Code
You can use https://market.android.com/details?id=com.notenking.mf if you're rooted, dan werkt het wel bij mij namelijk
And, yet, one of the sides is very determined to play last man standing.
I think I wasn't quite clear in what I meant. d is the distance that your center of mass changes while your feet are in contact with the ground (While you are doing work) and h is the height that your center of mass changes while you are in the air.

Saying a force is impulsive means that you making certain assumptions to make your calculation easier. It doesn't change the fact that W = integral of force dotted with displacement. It is true that I am making a big approximation where I say that the force is constant over the jump, making the integral evaluate to f * x.

Thanks for the link. I think this kind of stuff is very interesting.
Moral of story: don't target techies as your end users. They'll just look under your hood to make sure you're not doing anything embarassing like this, and passing back clear-text password in JSON.
Dang, the bad guys found out about eTrade? We used to use them to get Japanese folks US bank accounts because their Know Your Customer policy was so incredibly... Never mind, I understand how the bad guys figured it out now.

[Edit for posterity: You could open a brokerage account from anywhere with minimal documentation. After having a brokerage account, one phone call from your "secretary" and they'd add a US checking account to it. No KYC verification required because of "preexisting business relationship."

It was a great way to set up US bank accounts for folks who had business dealings with American clients before they got the opportunity to visit the US.]
> Then why did you ignore the third possibility?

I didn't. I was contriving a hypothetical to illustrate how the GPL can produce a positive result in some cases that BSD-like licenses cannot. That's why I started my post with "Let me contrive a hypothetical".

I even explicitly pointed this out at the end of my post by saying, "Note that I'm not saying GPL is always the best option and BSD is always worse. I'm just pointing out that, in your previous post, you miss out on one of the advantages of the GPL: it can encourage the release of open source code that otherwise would not have happened."

I did this because I knew that otherwise someone would misinterpret my post as saying the GPL is universally perfect in all situations, or that the situation I described in my contrived hypothetical was the only possible situation that could ever occur. I'm not sure how I could have made that more clear.

> > That's not the type of corporation I was talking about in my post.

> Then what did you mean by:

> > Imagine you're a ruthless corporation and you don't care at all about the open source community.

A ruthless corporation that doesn't care about the open source community (which I think describes most corporations, FWIW) is very different than "a company that's adamant against open-sourcing". The former will contribute open source code when it is in their economic best interest, but they won't go out of their way to play nice with the open source folks. The latter will sacrifice their economic interests just to stick to their ideology.
While that's true, if I have to resort to a mailing list for an answer, I'm almost certain to later ask the question on a StackExchange site and answer it myself.

It feels wonderful to take some information which it cost me days to find out and make it the first hit on Google, with the right answer clearly marked. Even when mailing lists are indexed on the web, they are never as easy to find and visually scan as a SO thread.
I totally agree.

In most programming projects, the most important thing is maintainability, and that is relative to the skill of the maintainer.

If the maintainer is going to be junior developer, then writing complex OO design is not good, even if it makes the program more concise; if the maintainer is a business developer who is not good in math, then crafting non-trivial algorithms will throw him off, even if it means shorter program; if the maintainer is smart and willing to learn, then you can do whatever.
You may want to try out Firefox Mobile!
Why Scoble doesn't like Hacker News
I do pretty much the same thing but using simplenote. Simplenote has a lot of clients including one for vim and emacs so it's pretty easy to find one on the platform of your choice.
They do already, it's called first class and business class. The seats cost more and you get more room.
> One might have hoped that Plaintiff - an artist - would have understood as much, or that her attorneys, presumably familiar with the basic tenets of copyright and intellectual property law, would have recognized the futility of this action before embarking on a long, costly, and ultimately wasteful course of litigation in a court of law.
Like FB apps, even legit Android apps ask for the moon, with no option to dole out granular permissions.

"The Weather Channel" is a default icon suggesting a free download on the Kindle Fire.

It asks for:

Set the wallpaper
Send SMS messages
Write to external storage
Access info about Wi-Fi networks
Access coarse location
Initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call being placed
Write (but not read) calendar data
Read calendar data
Required to be able to access the camera device
Open network sockets
Access fine GPS location
Access vibration feature
Access info about networks
Record audio

I haven't installed it, so I have no idea why it should be able to silently dial out without my permission or send SMS messages.

If legit apps are demanding all this, then a Chinese weather app dialing those toll numbers in the Caribbean could do the same.
But it's often much easier to grow out of that need if you've made a sincere effort to actually go for it.

I founded a startup at age 25. Worked my ass off on it for a year and a half. It failed and went nowhere, as many startups do.

But I felt that in many ways, the experience set me free. I'd kinda coasted through school, college, and my first job half-assing whatever work I felt like, because I figured that at some indefinite point in the future, I'd found a startup and become a millionaire, and so nothing I did really mattered. Whenever things didn't work out, there was always some reason - "The material wasn't challenging" or "The professor didn't like me" or "It's not what I want to do anyway" or "We're using the wrong technology stack" to explain it away.

When it was just me & my cofounder though, the material was challenging, it was what I wanted to do, there was nobody else to blame, and if we were using the wrong technology stack, I damn well better change it.

So even though it didn't work out, I felt that I gave it my best effort and made a sincere shot at it. And that set me free to give my best effort on other things, because really, the consequences of it not working out were pretty minor (I got hired by Google). It wasn't the outcome that mattered, it was the process of figuring out what I was capable of when I really put my mind to it.

I'd much rather figure that out at 27, when I'm single, living like a college student, and have my whole career ahead of me, than when I'm 40 with a couple kids, a mortgage, and a string of dead-end jobs behind me. And I'd much rather figure it out at 40 than when I'm dead.
The address book is uploaded using TLS/SSL and the author used mitmproxy.
This reminds me of Fred Brooks' concept of essential complexity and accidental complexity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
Accel, SV Angel Put $1.5M In Online Bank Payments Platform GoCardless (YC S11)
Are you talking about the feedback in this article? Its sort of hard to act on "Using computers to teach math is just stupid".

As to why many people might want to defend Khan Academy, well, its because I think I would have been much happier with Khan Academy than the math education I actually had, and I would very much like it to be available to children like myself. I was bored stiff in math class in middle and high school, and being able to work at my own base, not bound by the slowest person in the class, would have been amazing.
Been hearing about companies gaming the App Store? Here is the biggest one
Ninja MySQL Backups: Your Silent Guardians Against Interweb Oni
Understanding Why People Buy Software
Who needs an "official" ICS? I've installed a beta ICS ROM (teamDRH) on my Viewsonic gTablet and it is as tabletized as honeycomb, though it looks better (this build has issues, but developer support is pretty impressive). The best Viewsonic could do as an update was a Froyo-based bugfix release.

Besides, people who have installed custom ROMs on their phone/tablet are likely less worried about using alpha/beta software, so I wouldn't be surprised if most of the early beta testers will be from this group.
D'oh. Would this man-in-the-middle attack have worked if path validated against a CA or stored cert and only submitted the data when it was sure it wasn't being snooped on?
There is only an alpha 1 version of 4.0 (CM9, in fact) out for my phone, and it still has severe bugs.
There are some long running branches that are difficult to avoid...a typical one might be moving between some very key infrastructure piece (going from ruby 1.8.6 to 1.9 for example or python 2.7 to python 3).
Are You Too Old to Start a Company?
Oh no! I hope they will open it up. Thanks anyway; I asked because I don't have an Android device but I do make web apps.
Vim anti-patterns
Scoble. Sorry for being so negative. I'd code you a cookie if you could understand its genius.
Apple seems to be able to innovate iOS while providing robust and timely updates for older devices.
It's normal in my experience. A cliff of some kind has been part of every incorporation agreement I've seen or signed.

http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/why-your-startups-fou...

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2007/07/19/what-should-t...

Moreover, if I were working with a co-founder, I would (and have) insist we vest on that schedule, and certainly not monthly from day 1.

There are a few reasons:

1. I don't want my co-founder leave before a year and having a chunk of the company. Likewise, I want to do right by my co-founder. If I leave before a year is up, it wouldn't be right for me to own a chunk of the company.

2. It's inequitable for the founders to have different vesting schedules than employees. What happens if someone joins the team pre-financing? If they get the same terms as the founders, then what about an early employee vs. a later employee? It makes for a weird, political situation.

3. It makes it easier to raise money. If you're vesting on the same terms as your investors they have no basis to negotiate over that term; they'll just check the box and move on. It passes the "blink test."

These are just my experiences, so YMMV.
Is it HTC or Google's responsibility to provide future-proof reference designs and specs?
The people at the W3 who believe CSS-property vendor-prefixes are a good idea and the people at the IETF who believe HTTP-header X-prefixes are a bad idea should get together and have a good long discussion about this, as they honestly seem to be two attempts to solve the same underlying problem in extremely similar ways that cause nearly identical issues when these identifiers are on a track to being included in a subsequent standard.

Deprecating Use of the "X-" Prefix in Application Protocols (IETF Draft)
-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539663

(edit, from W3 discussion:) "dbaron: Email headers with X-. Supposed to be experimental. But the world still works."
If I ignore the rating system in this post, I see this list as an exercise to acknowledge my strengths and recognize where my weak points are. Doing so, I came up with a list of areas to explore in the near future.
With FB apps, you can go into your App settings and revoke individual permissions that you don't want to give. They still have to be granted to auth the app, but at least you can clean it up very quickly and easily.
Why Pinterest is 2012's hottest website
.. It's hard to ignore Windows as a PHP paltform
Wait - What? I use both Windows and Nix, and have always moved to Nix for better speed and security. Do you have links to this statistic?
I would prefer to use 64Bit, but there is no current support for it in PHP.
Interesting idea...however, in my case I keep most of my crons in a directory not accessible through a browser, so that someone can't accidentally come across and run one manually. Am I the only one that does this? I also have crons that run to perform maintenance/clean-up and backup on files/databases (either daily or weekly) and it sound like this service wouldn't work in that case, unless the scripts were changed to a server-side language like PHP and then put in a publicly accessible directory.
Google's Cold War
Good, keep them there.
VodBurner Now Records Skype HD Video Calls
It's still not nobody. And having Firefox playing a significant role will prevent situation which existed in the past where many sites were "IE only". We don't need "WebKit only" sites.
I'd like to keep my contact lust private, thank you.
> I wish they could've come up with better pricing.

It's nearly impossible since their processing fees on some card types will be over 3%. They're already taking a loss on those transactions; most will be under 3% to balance it out, but not enough that they could offer better pricing than everyone else.

They're not going to be able to negotiate barely-above-interchange rates like PayPal probably gets from its banks with billions of transactions in monthly volume. Visa's interchange fee to the bank is still as high as 2.7% on some cards, which is the floor upon which the processor can set its markup to the merchant like Etsy.
I'm not sure about the hooker part, but when I finally ran through the Facebook mobile app I discovered some of my "friends" have been using aliases.
The links to the pdf documents containing the emails are timing out. Does anyone have a mirror?