skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was being a little tongue-in-cheek as far as predicting the 23rd century (the article was about the DS9 era of Star Trek).

My thesis is that people do care about privacy but are motivated to share in order to portray a certain image. They don't want all of the ugly stuff revealed. So I don't see how people will start caring less about privacy when they realize that they don't have any control over their image.
Let's be real, we all knew that Path was accessing our address books. That's the only way to do what they were doing. It's the same magic that happens when your phone magically knows that your friend has an iPhone with iMessage turned on(kinda). Yes they should have hashed them to keep us safe in case of a data breach, but I was never that worried. What are they going to find out, my mom's phone number and email address? Chances are they already have it.

Path's "private social network" was private because they didn't share your posts unless you mutually accepted someone. You can lock down posts so that you're the only one to see them as well. That's what Path means by private. It's a social network and you're uploading things to the internet. If you really had something you didn't want people to find, don't put it in your phone, don't upload it to a social network.
Great, will do! What address should I email feedback to?
Thank you.. Email is in my profile now
I think that's a good illustration of the quandaries of SOPA: the problem of figuring out these nuances of ownership without disrupting the flow of information. It's easy for a publication to determine whether they themselves are complying with fair use. Not so much with Google and it's automated high scale systems
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> or pull a high-level contact from some company we've been privately looking to acquire, you best pray that theft doesn't result in a leak of privileged business information.

Right, because the presence of some contacts at company B immediately implies "oh, we're going to acquire them."

What people really aren't mentioning is that people give out the information likely stored in your address book to pretty much any service that even looks to be interesting based on a screencast, or even a splash page. Do you read the terms of service and privacy policies of all random websites you sign up for? Do the people whose contact information you are protecting do so?
70841044 bytes (67.56 MB) by running it through "sort" first.

Bonus: it's in chronological order.
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That's actually a damn good reason to avoid remote control of passenger airplanes. All it takes is a nice worm in the network...

By comparison, maintaining physical cockpit security is extremely easy: lock the door, and shoot anyone who tries to force it.
Yeah, but you still have to store the hashes server side in the case where you want to notify people when their friends join (which is how Path was using the data).
This seems to apply -- as most of the episodes show earth citizens goofing off all day or working hobby jobs.
existing photos and videos (only accessible via apple-provided picker dialog)

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that the Asset Library framework (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Asset...) would allow one to build their own picker and thus access the existing photos and videos. But I didn't go far enough into iOS yet to try it and see what it really does…

That being said, I can't find an app that allows me to select multiple pictures at once. (you'd think the Facebook app would let you do that) Which is weird because I'm fairly certain that Picasa Web Albums allowed that at some point. (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/web-albums-a-picasa-photo/id3...) I remember because I specifically bought the app to upload a couple of folders at a time and I don't see myself choosing them one by one… In any case, while the description implies it can, the current version won't let me.
Who I keep in my phonebook is absolutely about me – it is also about other people and perhaps there's increased risk for them, but who I keep in my address book is still personal and private information.

My social/business network, particularly as contained in my address book is absolutely private data and it should be my choice whether or not it's shared.
Why is GumRoad getting more buzz than http://www.kout.me/? They seem to be very similar products.

Is Sahil very well networked?
Hi there - I'll throw our name into the hat :)

http://whatdoesyourstartupdo.com
Apple avoids the Vista like "ask for permission" on access design like android by requiring you to justify your needs to the app reviewer as an app developer. Not having an untrusted source of apps that can install on the device that is allowed on the iPhone means Apple can, in theory, improve user experience by not having as many of these dialogs bugging the user.

Apps, should just work.®

Constant permission prompts just train users in to muscle memory to accept these dialogs without thinking. Instead Apple sees it better make developers justify their needs to the APIs when they submit. Then Apple tests the app and looks for anything fishy. In the end, they reserve the right to pull them when they violate their terms.

The article is wrong in that the camera roll is secure. It's technically not. Through the asset library API you can get at it. See docs here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Asset...

One of the issues Android had up until recently was that you couldn't update all apps in one shot. The reason is that app update may have required permission changes from a pervious version. You would have to acknowledge each of these before installing the update. This was a crappy user experience and it's still the current experience when you install 3rd party APKs and update them.

The problems with these "list of permissions wanted" screens is they don't let the developers justify to the user why they need access to these different features inline with the request. The users see it at install or update often.

There are often very simple reasons why I need access to data on the device on Android in my app. I had people not install my app because I asked to send SMSs (which tells the user I can charge them money that way) in my music app, but it's only because I had a share button that is user invoked and clearly is sending a text message to user.

Sure, be clear with your intent with your users, but these permission models don't always scale for the everyday users.
it's in sort-of chronological order originally (partially ordered is the correct term, I guess?)

but not 100%
My point was that the one thing you can take issue with is very likely "fair use".

I also believe that if the author has a legitimate claim it doesn't take 30 paragraphs to make a case.

Did you read it through? It took me a few reads to figure out the specifics of what he was talking about.

I'm guessing that the view by people here is that the NYTimes took an the Article and published it standalone, by itself, as they would one of their owns, without attribution.

That wasn't the case.

The NYT wrote an article, referenced the one in the PDF, and provided a copy of the PDF (of an old black/white scan) as context/background.
Great job! I remember when you released it. Out of the many things that have been released on HN, Gumroad certainly stands out in my mind as one of the most unique and well executed so far.

Keep up the good work.
Indeed.

Read "A Logic Hamed Joe".

Think about the implications for Google, Facebook, Siri, etc.

Remember that "A Logic Named Joe" was written in the 1940s.
ALEKS is awesome, I used it 10 years ago to refresh on some math topics. I should try it again just to see how much has improved since then.
Yea, don't sweat it. The harmony of art and technology is definitely cool stuff and even though there may not be much practical uses for this right now, there may be potential down the line if utilized in the right context. Wish there was more of this sort of artsy hackery on HN, as I think there are great possibilities here.
It will take a major feat of cryptanalysis just to decipher the guy's handwriting, let alone the code parts.

Thanks for reminding me why I work with computers.
I'll be honest here. I worked on the same exact idea and ended up abandoning it when i discovered your app on techcrunch a few months back. Couldn't have done it better! Great job! I'm glad it's moving forward! My only question is how do you plan to deal with potential copyright infringements. This almost seems inevitable to me.
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It's just a placeholder layout that will be tossed in the next few days, once the proper design is ready.
I can't speak for everyone, but I know quite a few who prefer the SASS port over less-bootstrap-rails (bootstrap-sass)
Awesome idea. Not only does it open new markets that were previously too difficult to monetise, but also give sellers finer control over what they sell. eg. Users can buy one broker report without having to sign up with the stockbroker, read one article without having to sign up for a whole subscription.

Not sure this is in the works or not: affiliate codes will absolutely rock on this platform.
I stopped giving a shit what other people think of my computer when a pretty girl told me my NetBSD laptop was "not digital enough" and I needed to buy a Mac because it was "more digital".
> So what kind of social changes could possibly have the by-product of turning Baseball into a niche, amateur sport?

North America finally gains an interest in soccer? People's attention spans keep getting shorter?
I am not a copyright lawyer, but I suspect very strongly that copying and distributing an entire copyrighted document doesn't constitute fair use.

If they'd name checked it and used a quote or two, fine.
If I'm reading the license, which the README says is MIT but actually is a modified version of the MIT license, correctly it means anything you publish that is created using the software has to be published under the MIT license.

"You must publish your work as open source under the very same conditions."

https://github.com/javiereguiluz/easybook/blob/master/LICENS...
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> I suspect a homophonic one is more likely if the author knew anything about cryptography

How likely is it, that he had a deeper knowledge of cryptography in the 1860ies? But of course, if he had, it's still likely, that he used something more sophisticated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cryptography#Cryptog...

Given the fact, that "12345" is still a common password in 2012, I would at least give it a shot. ;)
I've been learning Rails from your tutorial (just finished Chapter 11), but realised a few days ago that I've been using the 3.0 version. It'd be great to see an appendix on "Transitioning to 3.2 for first edition readers" (probably like the one you've got for 3.0 -> 3.1, but I haven't got to reading that yet.)

And while I'm here, there is a bug in the 3.0 edition in section 11.3.4, listing 11.39. The link_to "delete" needs to reference 'feed_item', not 'micropost'. That took me a good half an hour to sort out - mainly because I assumed it was my fault, not yours! :-)

Thanks for all your efforts here; this is a fantastic resource.
I respect that you guys are not just trying to hype your tools but giving in these blog posts actually a very balanced portrait of them. Would love to see some postings on how you cope with the aspect that the data is somewhat always historic or how to overcome that problem.
> This gets very meta very quickly.

You're thinking legality, but I'm thinking efficiency. So we can now distribute 1.5 million torrents (of a total of several thousand TBs, no doubt) in a file 90MB big, in a torrent which itself has a magnet address that takes up...20 bytes?

The size savings as you go up the tree are incredible. I see no reason why you couldn't create an almost-entirely distributed torrent site in this way.

Think about: Torrent discovery could be done by regular distribution of index torrents, and the clients use that to find out what can be downloaded and where.

In fact, in the world of magnet addresses, "uploading" a torrent would be as simple as requesting that its URI be put in the day's index. So running a torrent site would be as simple as curating a list of magnet URIs each day into an index, then publishing that torrent's URI somewhere. Like Twitter. You could run a torrent site entirely from Twitter.
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Although one can argue that is a benefit. You can 'guess' how many you might sell, this tells you how many you will sell. So its a win in that perspective. If you spent $75K tooling up to make this thing and only sold a hundred, well you'd be putting the rest up on Woot! or something. This takes the risk out of it.
Ouch. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
We added Italy.spain, france and UK are up next!
Nobody seems to be talking about the obvious issue here: they are essentially asking us to trust them again when they tell us they have deleted everyone's contact info from their servers. "We fucked up. But we fixed it, trust us." Am I the only one that finds this odd?
Marcelo is the biggest idiot in the startup community. Just a clown who thinks he's something but not.
I completely agree. The engineers knew what they were doing when they design the app to upload all my info. This behavior should be illegal. I do not care what their BS press release says - they are just covering their a. I will never trust them ever again <\endrant>
You're using a subjective definition of "better" and waving off anyone with a different definition as being either old or a hipster. Body language, tone of voice, word emphasis, etc. is not about being able to predict what someone is thinking or feeling, but about communicating meta-text, for which the electronic stand-ins (lol, emoticons, caps, italics, etc.) are severely lacking and really quite lame. Talking to someone in person even just one time, so that you can hear their voice when you read their text adds a lot of richness to electronic communication. If electronic communication really is better in every way, as your first two paragraphs claim (pretty offensively - "Bullshit", "no grace", "cowardice", "vaccine"), then why wouldn't you want to propose marriage over SMS? In-person communication is good. Electronic communication is also good, but in different ways, and for different things. All this "BETTER" stuff is nonsense - if you have a short missive to fire off, use a text, if you haven't talked to a friend or loved one for awhile, pick up a phone or get on a plane!

Or maybe I'm just a hipster (I don't think I'm old yet...)
As said.
Looks nice! If you could make it generate nice-looking epub and mobipocket from the same source, you'd really have something excellent.
The thing is, new torrents are uploaded to Pirate Bay all the time, so one can only archive TPB in any given moment - which has to be, of course, before the creation of this torrent.

The archive is static, the TPB database is dynamic :)
edonkey has had distributed search for a long time. It's possible to maintain an keyword index of magnet links in a dht, and then you remove the need for the torrent site completely.

I think that requiring torrent files and trackers was a policy decision to deflect liability away from the client implementer to multiple third parties. That's why bit torrent is still around and Grokster isn't. There's no technical need for them.
Oops, you're right. That's actually a new bug, and has now been fixed.

As far as the transition goes, that's a great candidate for a blog post, but it's not as good a fit for a book. Plus, experience shows that starting from scratch often takes less time in the end.
What we really need is to find a way to stop patents from being granted for the implications of a technology. Connecting computers together into a network is hard, figuring out that once they are connected together, they might interact with each other is not. It is novel in that they couldn't interact that way before, and now they can, but that novel behavior isn't an invention its merely an implication enabled by the real work of doing the connecting. Its like patenting the idea of driving your car to Grandma's.

Letting trolls steal the implications from the inventors (and from society at large) with noting more inventive than little bits of paper with use cases on them is almost a crime against future humanity.

Of course the web is interactive, that's why the real inventors made the damn thing in the first place.
As good guesses as any. I remember my feeling when I watched the episode in question was that the decline of Baseball was not due to the rise of another sport, but I don't have any source on this and I don't think this was ever explicitly stated. From memory, the reason was chalked down to something non-specific like people becoming interested in 'other things'. It's been a long time since I watched this stuff.

And people's attention spans seem better in the future if anything, don't they?
The original "Show HN" submission:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614

Nice job turning a weekend project into $1.1m in investments! It seems like the payments industry will support new approaches into perpetuity.
No, I'd say that's clearly a scam. I don't believe that malice is involved in the app above, where it is obviously the case in the phony domain notice.

I've seen them myself, it's why I apply WhoisGuard to my domains.
Tim Berners-Lee's view of patents doesn't really seem to matter here (and it's surprising to me that the court/lawyers would entertain that as being important). What does matter is prior art, first-to-invent, novelty, uniqueness, and non-obviousness; all of which the Eolas patents seem to be lacking.

Long live the open web; it belongs to all of us.
On what basis is it the textbook case? I'm not a copyright lawyer (or a lawyer of any kind), but here's the relevant section of the USC:

1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such
use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational
purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation
to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value
of the copyrighted work.

Note in particular item 3.

Mind you, the list is not exhaustive and judges are able to give their own interpretation on questions of substantiality. But very small units of copyrighted material (a few hundred words from a book, a 1 second sample from a 4 minute song) can break fair use. So I don't see how copying the entire work passes the substantiality test.

Furthermore, the NYT could have tracked down the source. They got the copy from Booth, Booth wrote it for the Real Paper, and a bit of legwork of the kind journalists are meant to be good at would have revealed that the Real News had been subsumed by the Phoenix.

Even if it's not a slam dunk, it's still a blinding act of inconsistency.

(Again: IANAL, TINLA).
Completely agree, though LESS is nice, I think it would be best for people to be kept within rails "standards" (for want of a better term) which at the moment means SASS. There's also the whole "having to maintain a JS stack" that less necessitates as well, which would be better to leave well alone for beginners I think.
Yes, Facebook was just an arbitrary company/app to use as an example. Nice that they exercise some restraint, though.
Is it okay if I write an article in 40 years time about wizards, then scan in my Harry Potter hardback as context/background?
Actually, in the blog post by the guy who discovered that, he said he was able to read the data - meaning that it was transmitted NOT encrypted (please correct me if I am wrong).

Also, I hope that their "industry standard" firewall is better than their "industry best practices" data sharing practices.
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Hey you should get someone like Louis CK to use this to sell his next show. Win-Win for all!
Congrats! Giving the power to the creator. love it
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Thanks for the input. This is very helpful.
Speaking as someone who has never heard of path before today I have no idea what they are apologizing for, and I'm scanning the HN comments hoping someone will list some background.

For the benefit of anyone else who is confused: http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-...
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people give out the information likely stored in your address book to pretty much any service that even looks to be interesting

You're missing a "some" in that sentence, and the difference between "all people" and "some people" sort of renders your point moot.
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Well, you're right, it's not the best example: one steals money from the user, the other doesn't.

But why would anybody make an app called "<popular app> Fan App" if it's not to take advantage of its fame, confuse users and make quick money (with ads or affiliate links or whatever)?
The way I understand down voting, it is meant to help clean up the conversation by marginalizing useless posts. For the most part, it looks like it is used correctly for that purpose. However, I have noticed a few down voted posts that were expressing an on-topic point of view, in a civilized manner. And that does feel like mob-rule censorship.

The "seeing the haterz" proposal would only be introducing another form of censorship.

The "cost for down voting" idea, on the other hand, makes sense and has been proven. It does give some disproportionate power to users that have high karma (their perceived sacrifice cost of one point is lower), but I see that as a meritocracy (they should be the most valuable contributors to the community to earn all that karma).
Apple doesn't just allow this; it seems they do it (for Twitter's benefit) themselves, in the official iOS5 Twitter integration settings panel:

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2011/06/ios5twitter...

(It's possible they're scraping Twitter handles/photos in some way that doesn't link the 'email addresses and phone numbers' to the requester's Twitter handle... but almost any straightforward way of implementing this has the de facto effect of informing Twitter of all your contacts' emails and phone numbers.)

Everyone's at it.
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BitTorrent has torrent files and trackers because it was designed for non-infringing use-cases (e.g. distributing Knoppix images). The centralized elements substantially improve reliability (and, at the time, performance) in those use-cases.
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Two suggestions:

(1) Provide a trial mode where I can sell stuff (like real) for $0, so I can validate the whole experience.

(2) Provide an API where I can create new sellable objects dynamically and programmatically.
Yeah the license wording is very unclear but in the docs he tries to clarify. From the docs:

You must publish your work under the very same conditions. This means that other people could use and profit from your derived work.

In any case, you are the sole proprietor of the books published with easybook, including all the copyright and related rights applicable in your country of residence. You are not obliged to share these works in any way, even if you benefit from them financially.
the photo at the bottom, does not exactly evoke a 'i love humble pie' response