skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that was the entire purpose of Yeoman Rand, well, that and the short skirts (this is TOS, after all).
True. What I meant was that they try to make it sound (at least to me) like the action of stealing the contacts of its users was a mistake. They do this by saying: We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. etc. etc. It makes it sound that it somehow was a mistake for those believes to be violated. It wasn't.

And if you ask me, that breach of their users trust is not something that you can just turn around. If they didn't understand that their users might get upset that only makes it worse (when it comes to trusting them).
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Earnings didn't come out until after market close- GRPN is down ~15% currently in after hours trading.

Seems as though a lot of people expected much better news.
That is the beauty and curse of entrepreneurship, there is no clear goal post, no absolutes, just approximations. It takes a lot of toughness to go through the emotional roller coaster of excitement and enthusiasm to frustration and disappointment. That is why most fail, that is why most don't even start. Resilience is the name of the game.
Path CEO: "We Thought We Were Doing This Right"
Introductory. I don't have a particularly formal background in discrete math or ML, but I was able to absorb most of the content.
I disagree.

There are ALREADY interdependency issues if you're using git. Anyone could have changed anything before you did your last commit. If you pull and then push your changes without running tests, you're already risking breaking the build.

If a diamond dependency conflict came up, it shouldn't ever be committed to the TRUNK. Whoever made the change that causes a conflict should ideally discover that conflict before they submit it to TRUNK. But it's still not relevant to the decision to have one big repo or a hundred smaller ones, since the exact same problem can come up in either case if you fail to test before you submit.

With the proper workflow, having a lot of smaller trees can be functionally equivalent to having one massive tree. Checking in your branch to the TRUNK would require that you have the latest version of the TRUNK, and if you don't, then you'd need to pull the latest, just like how git works now. And updates to the TRUNK ARE atomic: Before you update TRUNK, it's pointing to the previously working version, and after you update, it's pointing to the one you just tested to make sure it still works.

And, just like now, a developer should therefore test to make sure the merge works after they've grabbed the latest.

It sounds like you're assuming that, if I update one of the submodules, it could break TRUNK? That can't happen without someone trying to commit it to TRUNK. Git remembers a specific commit for each submodule, and doesn't move forward to a new commit without being told to.
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Path is one of the most well-managed apps I have had the privilege of using to date. Their response to this 'scandal' was as close to flawless as it gets.

Not only did they take full responsibility for what they did and apologize instead of making excuses, they deleted all the data people were concerned about, wrote a well-worded blog post about it that hit the top of hacker news within a couple hours, AND pushed a fix for the issue to the app store all within less than a day of the concern becoming public.

Path's attention to detail not only in the gorgeous design and user experience of their app, but in the way they handle PR crises like this one only makes me trust them more. Well done Path, well done.
Sure, I'll take a look. Will get back to you in the next 24 hours.
It is much harder to refine, expand, and mass produce camels.
Camels manufacturing time is much longer.
Camels are much vulnerable from enemy fire than metal&plastic.
Camels don't have night vision.
It is much harder to silence a Camel.
Camels can't negotiate rough terrain.
Camels need to be fed. Military logistics is tuned around delivering fuel, ammo and parts, not hay.
Camels get sick, scared, injured, run away, etc.
Camels spit.
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I really don't mind paying with paypal. It's rather convenient.

I don't think that the offered payment methods have ever impacted whether or not I actually buy from a particular merchant.
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It is news when arguably a company that created the most well known web framework posts a blog entry titled "No framework needed". If you look for a TL;DR it would be "Use the right tool for the job. Do not be dogmatic about your technological choices."
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GLONASS (and eventually Galileo and Compass) have put us in something of a cold war situation. All the superpowers will have full GNSS systems in operation by 2020. Crucially, Galileo is effectively the "non-aligned" GNSS system, with diverse investment from outside Europe.

If we start shooting at satellites, there'll be much scarier things to worry about than how aviators will plot a course for landing. For better or worse, satellite warfare is the new Mutually Assured Destruction.
Switzerland is neutral.
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I want one, and I don't even own an iPhone.
>Not to mention, WINE is far from perfect. I'd argue that ReactOS, albeit with chunks of it coming from WINE is still far more likely to behave like a real Windows machine.

I would really like to know why you think this. ReactOS's userspace support is WINE almost entirely. They may write extra win32 applications like explorer.exe for use with ReactOS, but they do not use a separate runtime translator. They may modify portions of WINE to work with their ring 0 graphics code or whatever, but almost all of the serious work is done by WINE.

WINE is tested broadly on Linux platforms and the bugs usually get solved quickly. ReactOS is barely tested at all and I would not expect the kernel to be remotely stable for a long time yet. Why do you think ReactOS, which is usually not using a very recent WINE base (at least not in snapshots), would be more stable than Linux + WINE?
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> That's a cop-out, of course. There is no lesser responsibility on the part of an app developer to "do no evil" if you've simply bent your definition of evil to "whatever Apple DOESN'T let me do to their users".

That's arguable. Privacy is all about "expectation of privacy," which means there's really no predictable, testable methodology other than implementing a feature and finding out if people are outraged. In fact, it's almost certainly different for apps with different target audiences. Path probably gets a lot of tech-savvy 20- and 30-something users who are outraged by address book sharing, but the average Facebook user probably wouldn't care even if they found out it was happening.

Obviously, this just means that developers should err on the side of openness (e.g. in your privacy policy) and explicitness (e.g. popup dialog asking for permission). But that's often only apparent in hindsight, since a developer may never think that something could even be interpreted as a privacy issue, since the developer knows he or she will never misuse the data or even use it all in any personally-identifiable way.

Presumably, for better or for worse, many developers either consciously or subconsciously trust Apple to have a pulse on the community of users when it comes to privacy. It would be nice to be able to do so, but apparently that can't be trusted. Of course, from the user's perspective, it means they can't trust any app to not be abusive (according to their own definition of "abuse").
The Network + post rock mashup was awesome.

Unfortunately, there was some stuttering, which kind of killed the effect.
"someone ought to benefit from it. "

Why the link poster and not the destination shopping site?

It's quite possibly a violation of affiliate agreements as well, since it's not promoting the link, it's, well, skimming affiliate revenue.
While there are quite a few companies in the textbook rental and marketplace space, this seems to be the only one doing flat-fee swaps: http://edubookswap.com/
I've been using tools like this for several years and I can say I watched the video, tried the online demo, and then looked at the prices and the pricepoint turned me away immediately.

I left woopra because it was too expensive as well and now use chartbeat ($10/mo for up to 1000 concurrent), reinvigorate ($10/mo w/ coupon for 1 million pageviews (though it doesn't actually limit you there I don't think), $20 otherwise I think), and statcounter (free).. oh and google analytics does real time now too for free.
I'd rather think that outside of episodes devoted to gay issues that many characters could be interpreted as gay or straight. Essentially that it was a non issue in the future.

I partly agree with your second point. I think the Cardassians are clearly the Nazis and the Bajorans as the oppressed Jews.
You can guarantee a unique hash for all practical purposes. If you manage to find a collision in a robust cryptographic hash then the world of computing will have far more important things to worry about than a social network getting slightly confused.
Nobody does it that way because you can't do it that way. I and most people I know either use two hands, or grab the phone while holding the dock in place with one finger.

This is an absolutely fantastic, thoughtful design.
Seems like they did the right thing. Kudos to a company that reacts appropriately.
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Ok, admit it, #2 is simply Alien vs Predator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_vs._Predator_(film)#Plot)
Sorry to pick on semantics, but wanted to clarify this because I initially was confused when reading your post: you meant "immoral," correct? "Amoral" does not mean "morally wrong," but rather refers to things which are morally agnostic. It actually seems to me that Path believed their actions were amoral, that is, not registering anywhere on the moral spectrum (neither right nor wrong).
Yeah, they're gearing up to a new product launch. Is this supposed to be bad?

Besides, that only tells up that they post a lot of new content for their blog. Nothing about how this content is voted up on HN --which, I, presume, is simply by folks finding it relevant and upvoting it. Or, do you think that they have their employees doing the voting to their own articles. Because certain people certainly imply that. To which, I respond:

1) HN is a social news site for hackers, people vote on stuff the like, and DHH et co are popular in Ruby/Rails hackers to say the least.

2) HN is a social news site for hackers. You really think a company like 37 Signals thinks they'll gain something regarding new customers by having it's articles linked and discussed here, and so much that they'll devise such a scheme?
Wyatt's sense of humor really makes his videos (and Vim) accessible.
I do not know but I suspect it is about some laws that may make it more favorable there?
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Common circle education
Permaculture educates much more than varied ways related to farming. In fact, it is an approach of life that includes nurturing people, placing limits on consumption and learning to respect our mother Earth.
Here is a good answer: http://www.quora.com/Patent-Litigation/Why-is-the-Eastern-Di...
Lack of empathy. Lack of appreciation for what is obviously an elegant, more thoughtful design across the board.

"Why do you need Dropbox? You can just use rsync and some bash scripts."
> At that point, I think it's plausible that people will adopt radically different attitudes towards online sharing.

That's a fairly tame prediction. Most of the benefit we get from keeping secrets is either temporary (I don't want my boss to know I'm looking for another job; I don't want my wife to know I'm having an affair) or only benefits us if everyone else keeps the same secrets so it becomes a taboo (I'm gay; I don't believe in God; I have embarrassing sexual fetishes; I have fringe political beliefs). The first kind we don't care about keeping after death unless we're especially vain and famous enough people would care, and the second kind is only work keeping secret if everyone else keeps it secret.

I can't imagine a huge backlash against sharing and social networking once it becomes culturally engrained; instead, insistence on privacy will be seen as suspicious and eccentric.
Then does it make sense to call it a "permission?"
Routesy is awesome and does exactly what you want!
It does contain adult content.

The IDs are sequential, but there are substantial gaps. Removed spam torrents, most likely.
I think you've read something I didn't write. What you call willful ignorance I call a realistic assessment and acceptance of the risks of pioneering space flight.

Nobody is forced into an orbiter - people BEG for the opportunity. We gave them that opportunity, working in good faith to the best of our ability. Sometimes it doesn't work out. Sometimes things break. Sometimes people screw up. We all know the risks.

You can sit on the porch with a near 100% safety record or you can give it a try. Your choice.
There's a very similar problem in maritime navigation. Ships used to steer their course along shipping lanes by hand, but now they're automatically steered by GPS. Everyone is crowded right into the middle of the lane, greatly increasing the likelihood of collisions. After a fatal accident caused by this issue[1], the British Coastguard specifically instruct ships not to follow the exact line of the shipping lanes in the English channel.

[1] http://www.maib.gov.uk/cms_resources/SB_%202_2001_%20Ash_and...
It wasn't total hyperbole. I don't think it's fair to demonise one person's vanities over another on the basis of personal preference.

My vanity is technology. I also place a premium on having a living space that is aesthetically pleasing. A colleague of mine gets a similar aesthetic thrill from beautiful clothes. I tend to judge people whose vanities are primarily outward facing, e.g. buying an expensive car not because you appreciate the craftmanship but because you want to look snappy in it, but that's for the potential insecurity it alludes to rather than the indulgence itself.

A $17 million purchase is proportionally peanuts to some people. What you and I may call peanuts is a lifetime of difference to someone in the third world. Classifying materialism on such a high level seems absurd.
There are many legitimate uses and I know I've downloaded many apps that uploaded my phone book for backup purposes, syncing purposes so on. Anything can be abused if used wrongly however, that's my philosophy.
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My dock pissed me off so much I made a bracket and screwed it to the table. It seemed to be just tight enough so that I'd start picking it up and them it fall loose and smash back down, usually ending up on the floor.

I think there's going to be a revival of ordinary things that aren't cheap plastic from china. Its become a theme in my life.
From the article:

'Gumroad monetizes by taking a 5% cut and 30 cents out of every transaction'

From the HN launch thread:

'I think something like "5%, but at least $0.30" would make more sense'

Good on ya for listening to your potential users :)
Somewhat sad that since my last visit to that site not a single new county has been added. Not even the UK which in itself should be not that much of a challenging endeavor. From the targeting of the website most potential users should be well enough educated to understand English no matter where they are located. Would be nice if there were at least the 20 largest EU cities included.
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Note to self: must send balloon into near-space before it becomes wholly passé.
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I still don't understand how someone, maybe even a friend, can allow Path to access/store my information from his/her contact book.
I you could spare a few minutes at http://www.mobicentr.com, I'll honored. The site is not yet officially launch (there'll be an HN show) because I still have to add screenshots and marketing text in the features pages; and update the Android client.

I'm not a native English speacker, the text is not yet proofed by a translator, so please forgive the spelling mistakes.
It's a broad metaphor for companies giving executives incentives to earn income that comports with the value they produced for shareholders. The incentives drive these executives far beyond where it has material significance for them because there are things beyond the material which money can increase the probability of attaining and that many people aspire towards.
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Many wrong assumptions here.

1) People did produce vlogs and responses from their webcam. You got that right. But this has nothing to do with Flash, and it's ability to use the webcam on a flash app. People making vlogs with their webcam just used one of several commercial video apps to create them, not some flash page.

2) I seriously doubt vlogs were "the underpinnings of YT's critical mass". YT got popular because of its videos (of cats, songs, babes, funny stuff, etc), not because of video blogging or the NUMA guy.
If this mattered, people would be using Gnutella.
I'm confused. Once some one buys the link do they get the real url? Could this person share this real url on Facebook?

I understand that with a traditional online store, a customer could upload the downloaded file as a torrent and share it on Facebook, however, the ease of sharing a link compared to creating a torrent is pretty large.

I guess the idea is to use this for content that you never really expected to make much money from, so if it is shared you are okay with that.

I almost feel like the service should have a pay what you want option. Some people may use the stolen free link if the only pay option is $10 but would be willing to pay $5 if it was an option.
And, continuing back from hexadecimal, we have the splendid:

842254760070427756125843951997302119090555319708

in base 10 for the magnet link of the torrent containing the list of magnet links for the pirate bay's torrents. Shall we add to the list of illegal numbers?

Perhaps its prime factorization also belongs on that list.

2^2×3^2×23×89×24733×462111028392156064869667382167578133253

Best to include the Roman numeral version of the number, as it's equally illegal.

http://i.imgur.com/JROu8.png

It would also be wise to outlaw the URL I've just linked, and perhaps also the combination of letters "JROu8" as they also contain the information in question given proper context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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Wow. I remember when this first got started on HN a while back. It's amazing to see where you guys are now.

Congratulations Sahil!
I forgot: this is a B2B website, aimed at medium to big business (management of Android devices fleet), I don't know if it fits HN, I mainly see B2C here.
Watching, learning and forever re-thinking.

I was at AOL from 1989 to 2001. When I started, there were 150 employees, and a month later, we had one of those "Look around you - everyone you don't see isn't here anymore" layoffs. When I left, there were 10,000 employees, not counting the 90K cable techs at Time Warner. In between, I learned more than any MBA course could teach, because I saw everything we did right - and everything we did wrong.

As time went on, I got to revisit our old mistakes in a new light. Business books are best read years after the fact, when you can see which predictions hit their mark and which were passing fads. A decade later, I'm still gaining new understandings into why we were bound to fail, business-wise, and what technical leaps we made that would still be useful today. (Hey, turns out multiplexed connections ARE more efficient! Hi, SPDY.)

There are three ways to understand what makes a city tick: Study its history, ask a realtor, or live there. When you live there, you have less formal, analytical knowledge, but you also have an intuitive sense of how things work. That intuition is gold.

So really, I'd just recommend getting a job someplace that grows into a multi-billion dollar global megacorporation - and keep notes. Hindsight is 20/20, and history repeats itself. That's a winning freaking formula right there.

Also, mail everyone CDs, and be sure to get Apple to pay you to develop a service and then pay you to discontinue it. Twice.
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Thank you. Okay, I'll buy the MAD analogy, although we were very lucky that MAD worked. No guarantee it's going to work in a multi-party situation. But fine.

Sill, where's the dual technology system? When I got my IFR ticket, I shot an NDB and an ILS plus I had to know about GPS approaches (they weren't certified then). If I couldn't shoot an ILS at an airport, maybe I could pull off an NDB at my alternate. If your GPS broke you could use the NDBs to get a fix, your pitot freezes over you use pitch and power, your vacuum gyro fails you have an electric backup, etc. There was always a mix of methods. The beauty of the system was that you never depended on just one thing.

Is that gone now? It's all GPS or nothing? A solar flare takes out our GPS capability, and simply because "there'll be much scarier things to worry about" that means we're not as hosed?

Thanks again for the information. Just trying to sort out in my head what risks are being taken.
Ha. I bet one of those hashes is a hex representation of a copyrighted song lyrics
I think Sahil addressed this elsewhere before, but my own assumption is that if someone is willing to hand over money for something they understand that creators deserve to be paid for their work and they won't then go ahead and distribute it at no cost. The latter shouldn't be a concern anyway, even if the link was unsharable someone could still download and re-upload elsewhere.

The technical solution I assume (which actually goes against what appears to be the idea of Gumroad -- simple for everyone) would be a Paypal IPN type system.

You can upload directly to Gumroad and that has no issue of unauthorised sharing, but if you use the pay wall for a link type then you do risk it.
I suspect your address book is just names and phone numbers?

I use my address book for everything. I have my contacts' names, phone numbers, email addresses, addresses, IM usernames, birthdays, anniversaries, websites, workplace and other info stored in mine (not to mention some personal info jotted in the notes section).

Until today, I believed that information was secure. I had no idea an app could upload all of that information to their server WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE, much less consent.

Because of Google's approval process (or lack thereof), Android users have always been paranoid of the apps they install and what permissions they give them. As an iOS user, I never thought I had to worry about that because of Apple's approval process.

Does it make a little more sense why some of us are furious about this now?
I have my birthday fairly late in the year, so technically when I started UCLA I was 17 years old.
Has any (mainstream) sci-fi besides Wall-E shown a future where laziness and preoccupation with the mundane is the norm?
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Is it just me having a hard time reaching the site?
The purpose of this site is to play the videos at the same time which is what the "play all" button is for. Do youtube playlists support this feature or was that just not immediately apparent?
It does not for a very trivial reason - we lack benchmarks that have some reasonable memory impact. Right now most benchmarks would measure interpreter size, which is slightly boring