skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Obviously a stupid response, but really seems to be a response out of pure desperation more than anything."

Yes, that seems to be the simplest explanation. But from the original article this was the second communication as well. The first one, (which is linked), was pretty clear that the choices were 'give us a link or pay us money, your choice.' The author notes it had a useless subject line. And useless or not, if a vendor I'm using sends me an email I read it, and if it truly is useless I ask them to not send useless email.

So this was an escalation on the part of Gigya from "We've changed our pricing, we don't offer a free version any more so you have to choose a new option." To "You ignored our previous response, let's be perfectly clear about what your choices are."

Now you can argue that the sequence might be: nice, nice, threat. But if the company is looking at a shrinking runway they might cut out the middle 'nice' version of the communication.

And the author comments "This almost makes it a paid link that can help them rank up for ‘Social Media for Business’" No, this is exactly a paid link for helping Gigya rank higher on Google. Clearly they feel like the paid link is 'equivalent value' to the $6,000 which they want to charge.

The only economic question here is what economic value does SupportBee put on a paidlink on their site? If it were less than $6,000 then they win by giving the link to Gigya, if its more then they should just pay the $6,000/yr. (or use a different service).

I can't find a lot of fault on Gigya's part here. That it caught SupportBee by surprise seems to be because the author didn't read their mail.
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Complete linkbait piece then, b/c DDG is anything but popular.
>While Zynga reports 150 million users, only 2.2% (or about 3.3 million) actually pay to play. Further, 70% of Zynga's annual $800 million in revenue comes from only 680,000 of these paying customers.

>In other words ... 70% of Zynga's annual revenue comes from less than one-half of 1 percent of its customers.

Just curious... why is this regarded as a bad thing? It seems like a pretty meaningless statistic to me - if you redefine "customer" to mean "people who pay", the statistic goes away completely. It's just a freemium model.

Is it supposed to uncover some risk I'm not aware of?
> IF you go back and watch these, can you find a single lie?

Jobs said iPhone was the first phone with a full web browser.

Opera had mobile browser using proper "desktop" rendering engine (Opera Mobile, not Mini) on mobile phones before the iPhone.

Of course iPhone was the first to add capacitative touch screen and multi-touch gestures to the mix (rather than have click-to-zoom with a stylus) and that blurry line between stated "first full mobile browser" and meant "first full mobile browser that we think is really cool" is the RDF.
Have you seen "Blindsearch"?

(http://blindsearch.fejus.com/)
Even if the video is highly pirated, I wonder if he will make more with his $5 per distribution then with the $0.XX he would get otherwise. People say that the internet will destroy creative enterprise, but I think just the opposite. I think artists will be more empowered once they embrace the opportunities of this new medium and learn to cut out the middlemen.
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Thanks Thomas, this is great. Really wanted to customize bootstrap for a demo site for a project I'm working on and your Spacelab swatch is perfect, saved me loads of time. I'll drop you a mail for a peak when it's live, should be in the next week or so.
St. Crispin's day speech. For startups.
Before I migrated my entire library to my computer, I sometimes made carbon copies and cut the theorems out just to reach this sort of effect. Then I could reshuffle and have what I want in front of me instead of flipping around in a book (or across several books) which I hated for the sheer physicality of it.

Nowadays, when I read mostly papers in PDF or books I have scanned in or ebooks, I do screenshots and copy/paste to OmniOutliner, an outliner program.

It's all still a hack though. I'm still waiting for a clean way from within standard ebook reading apps. For example, an API by iBooks that would allow any 3rd party flashcard app to interact with my notes/highlights.

I used to think this use case is so obvious that it'd be a matter of months that someone would come up with a way to make it more easy to both read and write/organize content this way. As it is, now I'm increasingly asking myself whether I'm an exception or whether this is not the way non-literary books _should_ be read after all.
We use rubymine but I never have been comfortable using it as my #1 developer tool. Part of the problem may be that I am running it in a linux VM (albeit on a box with tons of memory). Rubymine seems very slow and uses a ton of memory (Java??). Rubymine has a ton of features and I use it when I need a good visual tool (e.g: source control, source exploration)

I tried using it more aggressively but I keep falling back to emacs / rails console / rails db / grep. At the end of the day RM just feels too sluggish.
What really improved the usability and experience for people was the hardware, to be exact the touch.

By removing the abstraction that normally exist from having to covert mouse movement with the hand to mouse movement on the screen, who ever invented that is the real hero.
To answer your question, probably less than 1%.

I like the practice of emailing a link to a page where the user can set their password for the first time.
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Sorry, it wasn't meant as an attack and for most of the time, it is perfectly usable. That having been said, Lion has removed environment variables, such that variables set via plists or .bash_profile/.bashrc are not propagated to apps launched via Finder. This means that I have to manually launch SublimeText2 or Vim so that the rest of my tools work.

For example, find articles on how to build Android in Snow Leopard and Lion. Besides the tool (which one escapes me at the moment) that simply shipped buggy and broke builds for many projects, the steps for getting up and running with an Android build are far more drawn out than in any Linux environment. Much of that is due to getting Xcode, or the things that Apple only ships via Xcode, git, etc.
Gumroad is a new payment service that works in over 190 countries.
Playfic - a platform for writing and playing interactive fiction.
Yes or no. Static code transformation with well defined equilivency is many orders of magnitude more reliable than the error finding rate of a code reviewer.

You still review to make sure it was an improvement, and to make sure that the person making the changes didn't make the mistake. But you don't review the correctness of the transformation itself, at least not any more than you need to review the original code.
Don't understand your point. Should we say to women: "you have no right to feel violated because the blurry outline of your breasts and vagina looks very similar to the blurry outline of that woman behind you (trust me I've seen a lot of blurry vaginas)"?

as an aside, I have to say I felt pretty uncomfortable seeing a man send my SO through the scanner; we weren't expecting it at our airport and she didn't really know what it was until she was already through. The power dynamic was a big part of this.
Why, thanks! There's a surprisingly complete set of hard science curriculum there, something I'd been wishing for.
There are NO technological solutions. It is mathematically impossible to restrict communication of certain kinds of information, while still allowing information exchanges to take place.

This is why there are no legal, political, or economic solutions to the general problem of copyright, either. The only solutions that are even theoretically possible rely almost entirely on ideology backed up by a massive coercive force.
Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to address books
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Check out Madison, WI.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/24/wisconsin-land-of-beer-chee...

As one comment summed up:
"As the founder of a 5 strong semi-stealth Madison startup I can definitely attest to our fair city's startup culture. Great university, great lifestyle options and create urban and natural environments. It's hard to beat our live-work-play stats outside of Europe. We've been rated the best place to live in the US, raise a family, bike, and other various accolades from major orgs/mags over the years."
I'm amazed at the general support among comments here so far for the 'tertiary source' argument. Encyclopedias have always been written by experts -- usually one expert per article. Wikipedia itself has a template, 'This article is in need of input from an expert on the subject'.

But this isn't even right, because Wikipedia is a not an encyclopedia. It's like Johnson & Johnson saying Q-tips are for applying makeup or detailing cars and shouldn't be put in the ear. 99% of people who buy Q-tips put them in their ears. 99% of true claims on Wikipedia are contributed by experts and are either unreferenced, cite a source that doesn't really support them, a source at the other end of a broken link that nobody's read, or a source that doesn't meet the guidelines this historian was held to. Career editors spend more time checking for citations than checking citations. And they spend more time checking for citations when they personally don't believe a claim. The policies are applied hypocritically, with the result that opinions of non-experts outweigh the opinions of experts. The only thing limiting the damage has been the relatively small number of career editors. With massive decline in casual participation in recent years, this balance is starting to shift. I just noticed recently that career editors have started to tag mathematics articles.

We should be honest that the encyclopedia contrivance is really just a way to avoid flame wars, and is an imperfect one, especially when editors 'merge with their cover story' and blindly enforce it. Wikipedia will be its best when it is recognized for what it is: a truth engine, a first source, and a very important public good.

Editing Wikipedia needs to be about more than writing long policy documents and bludgeoning contributors with them. It is an important form of scholarship. The project could benefit greatly by a reputation model more subtle than "barnstars", such as [1]. But a fancy reputation model alone isn't enough. The culture of Wikipedia is in trouble and needs to be revitalized.

[1] http://www2007.org/papers/paper692.pdf
Excellent. Thanks.

I know I've got a lot to figure out, but I just hit a wall.

Having never done something like this I'll take all the advice I can get!
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I'm sure there was some spike in downloads because of the feature, however, it wouldn't be more than a few thousand. This isn't very significant considering that Halftone probably has over 100K downloads (extrapolating from the assumption that 1% of downloaders submit a review). Of course this is a very rough estimation, but I think it puts Halftone's traction into perspective.
http://allthingsd.com/20120215/apple-app-access-to-contact-d...
Is HN so brainwashed that criminalizing innovation sounds like a good idea? That just goes to show entrepreneurs are a minority on this site. Just a bunch of posers trying to earn geek cred.

It's a pattern. Established corporate interests are threatened by disruptive innovation. Said interest then lobby for regulation to criminalize disruptive innovation. Rinse repeat.

Anyone calling themselves an entrepreneur should be pissed. We ARE the disruptive force bringing about change in the marketplace. This is how we make our livelihood. When change becomes criminal - innovation and entrepreneurship become impossible.
That's a nitpick really. Every major OS from windows 95 onwards (BSD included) could/can do software mixing on cards that didn't have hardware mixing, except for linux/OSS.
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Hey, I made this! It's a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka "text adventures") entirely from your browser, using a "natural language"-inspired language called Inform 7.

Inform 7, if you're not familiar with it, is a bizarre world-modeling language that's modeled on declarative English sentences. You can view the game source to see what I mean, or look at examples in the recipe book: http://inform7.com/learn/man/Rchap3.html

I wrote more about the site, along with some screenshots, over here: http://waxy.org/2012/02/introducing_playfic/
Steal in that context is a powerful word as it blatantly suggests he already accused all customers of being a thief of some sort. Not only that, he is trying to guilt people into buying his product with the follow up sentence, "why would you steal from a vet".

He is doing it wrong.
> I think it just means the app can fetch those contacts in a widget, or a SMS app, or something, but definitely not sending it to their servers.

How could you give the app access to your contacts list and prevent it from sending the data somewhere else?

Besides, the description on the Android Market says: “READ CONTACT DATA
Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.”
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I read on HN once that for products that there's an inverse relationship in play here.

The more you need a product the less it's design matters.
The less you need a product the more it's design matters.

This is why de-facto standard utilities like Amazon, Craigslist, eBay do not need to be "beautiful"
Just one problem with this view: The quality of Wikipedia is far higher than any mass-media or print source, or even collection of sources, can explain. By quality I mean not only breadth, but also depth and accuracy of coverage. The policies of wikipedia, rigorously applied from the start, could never have produced it.
For most of your users creating a new password will be much less secure than giving them a password.

> B. Minimum password length/complexity. It's not hard to do.

It is hard to do. That's why so many people reuse passwords, or have hopelessly weak passwords. (Some word with a few vowels swapped for digits, or some word with two digits tacked on the end.)

I agree that sending passwords over email is sub-optimal, but the solution is not to surprise users with a password creation screen.
I'm very interested in how this turns out. I personally have never heard of Jim Gaffigan and Louis CK has steadily been gaining mainstream popularity. When music artists did this, didn't their popularity have a significant part of their success?
This seems to be very personal: some people are "moderators" while others are "abstainers". If you want to change a habit, any habit, it helps to know which category you belong to. http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2009/01/q...
This makes me wonder if there are any major products out there that succeed despite terribad UX. In my mind I have a bunch of enterprise-y web apps but none really stand out.
No, and thank you, that's totally cool. It kind of illustrates the value of having an extension that does this with omnibox queries. Without the 'blind test' aspect, obviously.
Will a standardized system for verifying Web identity ever catch on?
Apple says iOS access to contact info will require explicit user permission
Just don't forget their brand, names, CSSs and images are not licensed under the GPL. The PHP part of themes, due to the way it connects to the rest of Wordpress, has to be GPL, but the rest doesn't.
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Navigation menu is one such part of the subject related to web designing. Designers put a lot of effort to make a website beautiful and attractive to the viewers.
Updated. Eileen and Mark are particularly aware of the situation and frequently argued that it was just me that had a problem with the law.
Minecraft's success had very little to do with the model of "pre-ordering PC games", and very much to do with being an amazing product (even in it's pre-release state).

Delivery novelty may account for a fraction of the overall effect - it's certainly not the central reason for a commercial success.
or maybe Jobs was a control freak and didn't want to give them, and wanted to get everyone to read a somewhat shallow historical treatment and suck all the air out of the mass market for books about him, before someone wrote something more serious.
> So this was an escalation on the part of Gigya from "We've
> changed our pricing, we don't offer a free version any more
> so you have to choose a new option." To "You ignored our
> previous response, let's be perfectly clear about what your
> choices are."

Exactly right.

> I can't find a lot of fault on Gigya's part here. That it
> caught SupportBee by surprise seems to be because the
> author didn't read their mail.

Again, no argument from me (or I think anyone else?) -- the hub-bub is just over the tact Gigya took.

As you pointed out above and I mentioned in my comment, there are innumerable better ways to state what they were trying to get across and they chose one of the poorer ones.

So no problem with what they did, just how they did it.

I also can't help but wonder why they didn't just disable the widget for that client after the 1st or 2nd notice, let the client come to them and then start a peaceful up-sell discussion where a well-informed decision could be made (exactly the way you stated w.r.t. to the worth of the widget/vs first-page linking for SupportBee).

Net-net, nothing to see here, just some people being more rude than expected.

Why so rude? My guess is financial pressure is causing them to act more aggressively to secure income; as you put it, a shrinking runway.
I totally know what you mean, I appreciate the craftsmanship too that went into such gems. It's like knowing you are in "good hands" ;-)

Still, I would appreciate if the form would give me the option to "mess" with it sometimes, e.g. suppressing some stuff that I may or may not come back to later after a first glance; or generating quick links between passages (for example, a proof uses a previous result, can I quickly link back to it); or when I point at a technical term, can I see the formal definition from the text. etc etc. That would be amazing.
Those are not the old methods - were they ever portable beyond debian? The old method is ifconfig. I don't care about linux any more, but on FreeBSD ifconfig still works, as it has for at least 20 years. If it becomes impossible to use KDE programs without using networkmanager, that will be a real irritation for me.
Jim Gaffigan is a fairly well known comedian. Almost a million followers on Twitter, 11.5M views on his YouTube channel, Comedy Central specials, etc.
I saw this the first time I ran RM version 4 this morning. This spike is caused by re-indexing your project(s).

I didn't see this the second time I started RM 4.
Agreed.

Requirements for any todo app I'd use:

* Sync across all devices and computers

* Desktop version
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Was it that Mozilla thing? Vaguely recall seeing a video about it.

Nevermind, found it.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-browserid-and-how-...
True to multi-tasking, I left my previously typed comments in still, hah!
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Somehow this site has replaced Slashdot for me. The conversations are just as good if not a bit more neutral in tone. Also the articles are much fresher over here.
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Start pulling the string on this, and it looks like there's a potentially borderline admin, Gwen Gale,(1-3) at the heart of this, and the Chronicle article is just what boiled over into the slightly more real world of academia. It appears the bureaucrats at the Foundation have take notice.(4) I'm a little disappointed they haven't caught onto the involvement of the admin in question, and especially by Tim Starling's somewhat euphemistic allusion to the problem as "inertia".

This "inertia" is nicely described by the histogram of new admins. Those who seized power in the middle of the last decade are running with it. (5)

(1) http://gwen-gale-heidi-wyss-tinpot-auteur.blogspot.com/

(2) http://english.sxu.edu/sites/kirstein/archives/1443

(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gwen_Gale

(4) http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271257

(5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Successful_requests_f...
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In the US, the backscatter x-ray machines are two giant ugly blue boxes that you stand between. The mm wave machines are more futuristic-looking, white cylinders that you stand inside of. (photos here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/practical-travel-safety-issue...)

The technology deployment is airport-specific, so you will only find one or the other at any given airport, e.g. O'Hare uses Backscatter, Midway uses mm wave.

La Guardia is the one airport serving a major US city that does not have any of the new scanners, which can be nice if you typically opt-out.
I remember in The 4-Hour Workweek Tim Ferriss mentioned about making your business appear to be big by not taking the title of CEO (among other tips, of course). I will try to find that page and see what was the suggestion, though.
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The UI is much better on RubyMine 4. it has fullscreen Lion support and it feels like your typical mac application now. :-)
I can in no way substantiate this, but the xray ones are usually two large (maybe always blue?) mostly rectangular blocks that you stand in between. The millimeter machines are usually rounder and have clear bits. The illustrations here might help: http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/1/5/163631/3181/travel/Ful...

edit: never mind, the flyer talk pics are much better.
The only economic question here is what economic value does SupportBee put on a paidlink on their site? If it were less than $6,000 then they win by giving the link to Gigya, if its more then they should just pay the $6,000/yr. (or use a different service).

I think this is almost the right question. The real one would compare the cost of having a paid link on their homepage, the cost of the service ($6000) and the value of the service. If the service isn't worth the cost of the paid link or of outright purchase, then dropping the service is the right decision.
His post seemed a bit off to me. I got the feeling that he's doing this because "Oh look, Louis CK made metric ton of money this way, lets see if I can emulate his success" rather than actually understanding the motivations for why consumers want a 5 dollar, drm free comedy special.

It also seemed strange that he is pre-announcing this release. I think this initial post will be his biggest shot at publicity, and it is peculiar to have no call-to-action (i.e. check out my related comedy if you've never heard of me, go ahead and pre-order it now, etc.). Right now there is nowhere for the reader to go after finishing the post (his "videos" tab isn't representative of his standup comedy) and there is very little for a reader to share about this story besides "Somebody is planning on doing something like Louis CK did."

I'll be impressed if I remember or hear about this again in April, when the special is actually released.
IOS to require explicit permission for contact data in 'future software release'
I assumed the same and killed RM 4, reopened, and got the same behavior.

At the risk of being called insane, I did the same steps 3 times over and got he same result.