skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, avoid all Onswipe sites. Lost a couple of good blogs that way.

The only thing that's less explicable than Onswipe is its adoption by Automattic for Wordpress.com blogs (WARNING: The following link crashed my iPad 1, what a surprise!)

http://blog.onswipe.com/#!/entry/onswipe-partners-with-autom...

Everyone makes mistakes, and anyone who invents furiously enough will one day design The Doom Device by accident, but who is dumb enough to voluntarily clasp the resulting doom device to their bosom and start putting copies of it in customers' breakfast cereal?

I've said it before, and I wish I was sure I was joking: A big part of the success of iOS apps is that they are generally guaranteed to have been launched more than three times by an actual developer using an actual iOS device.
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Better still, look for big enough and relatively accessible markets that are in need for better solutions and then simply develop those solutions. Let the markets give you an idea, rather than you come up with an idea and then try to find a market for you. I'm a big believer in market-based approach for (most) startups.
> Learn to sell.

How?
This was indeed the idea of the W3C when they wrote this. The page he links to even says that:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/
"Among the media features that can be used in media queries are ‘width’, ‘height’, and ‘color’. By using media queries, presentations can be tailored to a specific range of output devices without changing the content itself."

The part "without changing the content itself" is pretty clearly not what he is doing here. Like dozens of others have said, just an interesting idea but not something that should be used like this in practice.
Are you ready for slow reading?
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oh yes! i just want to set a list of departure locations, a range of days (3-6) and a maximum cost. i dont care if i use the train a plane, a ferry or even a bus just get me somewhere interesting! :)
Yup. I consider OnSwipe to be sort of a game. Can I recognize the page as an OnSwipe site and successfully click back out before it crashes Safari?
Is there a site (or sites) where I can purchase content and the money goes entirely to human creators of that content? I love standup, I love the little guys, but catching them on the day they may be in my city is very inconvenient. It is too bad all those comics can not have a central site to catch their acts, and they can be paid (even if some money gets funneled to that site for costs).
As a user, I like to remain in control of whether it should open on a new tab or not. I hate sites that decide for me.
I like how Mr. Topolsky's dream setup would be something even more minimal. I wish I could be fully productive with just an iPad (arguably the most minimal device).
iOS is not quite there yet, but it's getting closer every year.
The security of Flash video is a myth, as rtmpdump has had RTMPE support for a long time (though Flash has been ahead of the cat and mouse game for temporary periods), and Replay Video Catcher provides a more general solution. "Securing" HTML5 video would be a shameful waste of time, as it would inevitably mess up Linux etc. with no actual benefit to publishers.
Hopefully someone from YouPorn is reading this:

YouPorn totally stopped working on my Android about two weeks ago. I used to "monitor" that site daily, and it suddenly stopped working. I wouldn't doubt if it coincided with this change.

I can see "still pictures" of the videos, but can't play them. This is true for the Android Motorola Droid 2 and the Kindle Fire.

So I've had to monitor other sites since then.
Here is the Pingit for Business link:

http://www.barclays.co.uk/Mobile/BarclaysPingitforBusiness/P...

But I agree, it doesn't make it clear what the charges are. It also claims there will be a limit of £5k for receiving funds. In the T&C's it states:

4. Charges

We do not charge you for sending payments through Barclays
Pingit (network charges may apply for using the app). If
you are a business customer, you may incur standard
charges for making payments as set out in your tariff.
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How is that 140b? I see serveral hundred bytes of "contoller and display" logic
Consequently, Apple should provide a secure way for outfits like 60 Minutes to publish video to iPads without the outfit having to have an iPad app.
Onswipe seduced me too at first but it really is impossible to update or troubleshoot ( God forbid tweak the design...) when it hardly ever works on any of my devices. I didn't realize others felt the same..this discussion has really articulated a lot of my frustration with feeling like there are 8 different internets depending on the device and how recently it was updated
Google Busted
While I liked the opportunity to tweak my configuration:

A tool that doesn't support SNI (at least it complains about getting the wrong certificate for one of my domains, something that doesn't happen in any browser I tested) is - restricted.
Presumably by telling non-English speakers to go piss up a rope.
It should have a 24hour version as well for the europeans :)
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Google may launch Android 5.0 (Jelly Bean) in 2Q12, say Taiwan makers
Why not Hadoop?
More Links : http://www.droidmatters.com/news/rumor-google-could-launch-a...
http://www.slashgear.com/android-5-0-jelly-bean-tipped-for-q...
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I didn't even know this existed, Anyone know who founded this org?
>Why is it not the most important moment of his career?

is not a serious question, esp. in light of tptacek's laundry list which you are replying to - it's really up to you to make a positive case rather than up to the universe to make a negative one; and:

>how many [of the thousands and thousands of CK-level entertainers over a hundred years] have done anything resembling this recent special?

is not a serious argument, though it seems to be a declaration that selling his own movie has made him the greatest entertainer (at his level) in history, which is funny.
The point of the usesthis.com site is to show what tools people use to really get things done. Josh's post (and some others on the site) proves that you don't need massive or custom setups to get ridiculous amounts of work done.
Moving to the TypePad sign in page not good:(
All Content Posters Should Start Writing Headlines That Don't Remind Me Of Reddit.
Same problem for me: SNI seems to be broken, it always falls back to my default cert.
Since it came up on twitter, here's how you'd implement the `$` module I describe above:

export function ajax(...) { ... };

// NB: not how jQuery actually works ;)
export this(query) { return document.find(query); };

The `export this` syntax specifies how the module instance object behaves when called as a function.
Let me know what you think. Here to answer questions.
I understand where you are coming from and I see your point. However, I'm not saying it would be "easy" just "relatively easy", as compared to the work and cost involved in legislation, investigation, and enforcement of the act which has been proposed.

Setting up a new system would not be without hurdles, of course, however if the initiative is properly funded and is pushed from the cabinet-level (i.e. US DOE) down and the use of the new system is tied to federal funding for universities, then it will gain traction and prestige.

It might take a generation for the old guard to fall away but eventually we'd have a better, more transparent, fairer system.
Google missed an opportunity here - having YouTube and not YouPorn. Porn is huge.
Yes, I believe you made that point in a post which I linked to. Ah, here it is: http://swombat.com/2011/1/10/make-money-from-your-web-applic...

I don't think the points are in contradiction. Opportunities are mostly found via markets. Without a market, there is no opportunity, just an infertile idea...
Pinterest's right of passage- Huge traffic, no revenue
Is there any way to change the user agent on the iPhone or iPad? Maybe someone could start a proxy for iPhones that could do this?
It doesn't have to be 100% secure, it just has to be more secure than right click -> save as. Torrent sites aren't getting their content from Hulu or Netflix.

Securing HTML5 video is the only way we're going to have Hollywood content stream over the web again. That's just reality. But it's looking more and more like these types of appwalls are what the future holds for the web.
For clarity: The upper house (the House of Lords) is appointed, rather than elected. The instant runoff voting was used to select which hereditory peers would be allowed to remain sitting in the house after the number of sitting hereditory peers was reduced to 90 in 1999, with the electorate being other members of the house.
iPhone and mirror turned into DIY monkeycam
Porn industry is generally among the first to adopt new technologies and promising architectures.

Among other things, this indicates Redis' impending adoption as a standard infrastructure component across the industry in general and as a replacement to standard databases in some of those places.
You know what else bothers me on mobile browsing. There are some websites where I can't zoom in on the iPhone. I've tried researching it so I could make a bookmarklett or something to disable that, but I can't find what's causing it. Does anyone know?
I'll get to that in a later post. There are many ways to do so. Some quick ideas:

- Buy things and sell them back. E.g. buy an item on eBay and sell it. Keep doing that over and over again until you figure out how to make a profit in the process.

- Sell your time (directly, not via a regular job). Almost everyone has something they're good at. Do that again and again until you're good at it, then see if you can sell someone else's time.
I agree. But even by following the MVP methodology we still need to pick an idea to start with. Regardless the belief that execution is the key and idea worth nothing, I would still pick the one which satisfies most of the points.
"Conspiracy"? I don't recall saying that. But if we take the literal definition of the root word (conspire) then every legislative act would fall into that far too broad category.

Conspiracy theory aside, you have to realize that no law ever gets passed, or even makes it to a full vote, unless multiple parties are successfully convinced that they, their constituents, and their campaign contributors will benefit from the proposed bill.

No muddying of the waters intended. And you're right, I don't know exactly what the real motivations behind this are - however I am sure that there is more than simply the profit margins of publishers at stake here.
Is this just a standard/common practice in America? I have yet to see it used anywhere else but then I am primarily exposed to UK/European news sources.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag
Sure, but the sharing is what makes it hard - as soon as your pages are per-user it gets interesting. For youporn, each video page is essentially static (maybe there are comments? Even if there are, I doubt they display a different set of comments to each /viewer/). So video pages are easy to cache, the database layout is simple, and sure there's some effort involved in scaling up but it's nowhere near as hard as e.g. tumblr's architecture that was featured recently (where every viewer sees a page with all the posts from everyone they're following, and so everyone's page is different)

/briefly worked at last.fm
You should try http://adioso.com/
... or perhaps those questions are indications that someone hasn't arrived at a mature stage yet. It often takes me quite a while to formulate a good question about anything.

Whether they are willing to work hard or not probably is better seen by looking at the kinds of questions they ask a year apart.
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Any relationship to StartUpHustlaz? ^_^
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Go to cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile or goo.gl/6Qx19
Have you seen http://www.kayak.com/explore/ ?
My main gripe about the vast majority of travel websites is the complete lack of an "anywhere" option in the destination field. Sometimes I have a week off work, a set amount of cash and don't necessarily care where I go.

A "first world problem" if I ever saw one...
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Response to #1: I don't know any more about it than you do, with any degree of certitude. But I do know there's more at stake than protecting publishers.

Response to #2: Good points. But don't forget that the government has the "Power of the Purse". If they tie funding to open access to papers, then some amazing things will start to happen.
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Actually, it was basically 2-Legged OAuth 1. I was shaking my head all the way through the article, having gone through the same process about a year and a half ago.

We (developers) do love re-inventing wheels.
As you hint in your own response, it's a personal preference (and some browsers will even let you set it). I think it's a good convention that clicking a link replaces the current page, since it was established in the pre-tab/pre-multiple window era and thus follows the principle of least surprise. Besides, you'd be amazed at the number of users that don't know how to close tabs, so it's a bit more resource-friendly to abandon the last page (especially on tablets).

That said, I tend to middle-click links so they open in new tabs if I don't want to lose my place (especially here on HN), and I'm happy to have that option. I have no idea what tablet users can do in that situation. On my Android phone, I make heavier use of the back button, history and bookmarks compared to my desktop surfing.
My response was designed to highlight the equally offensive suggestion that "all the Indians" were metric geniuses, while American students were all slow and ignorant of the metric system.
Which is why you don't need MPW anymore, but in the days of System 7…
Another article kind of assuming that cousciousness is a subproduct of the brain.

Our current Physics' models are fundamentally excluding Consciousness. That's what's creating the fundamental problem.

Check Rober Penrose ideas for more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose
If it's too complicated with Cookie Monster, I open another browser (my trash browser, I use it for sites requiring Flash).
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border-box is the only sane way to work with boxes... it's the way things should have been from the start. The mental gymnastics involved in box layout is so unnecessary :(
The article lacks substance and makes a few logical blunders. I was expecting a good read given the title, but was disappointed.

"For example, is an earthworm conscious? Even this is hard question to ask but it's probably quite safe to assume it doesn't."
There is no basis for this assumption and the first part of the article relies on it being true.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#2

The author then goes on to contradict himself by concluding - "One of the most fascinating things about consciousness is that we don't have any way of telling if anyone else is really conscious. For all we know everyone around us could just be acting unknowingly on inputs they're receiving from their sensory inputs. If we ever did create a conscious robot we would never really know if it was truly conscious or just acting in a way that made it seem conscious. Being able to merely say you're conscious doesn't make it so."

So why then did u assume that the earthworm doesn't have consciousness?
> Pretty standard/common practice.

It's a common practise, but it's not a standard AFAIK. It's from latin mille which means 1000, so M=1000, and MM=1000000.

Unfortunately there is also a much more widely used international standard where k=1000 and M=1000000, so the M/MM forms are to say the least, confusing, and ought to be scrapped.
It provides an additional layer of security over HTTPS/BasicAuth, so if your SSL certificate or even the CA is compromised, you retain a degree of security.

On the other hand, it makes it more difficult for developers to access your API; you can't just send requests over Curl, for instance.
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On my rooted Android it detected that I had root and prevented me from using the app. Lloyds Bank mobile banking doesn't have any similar scruples.
I'd be very uncomfortable downloading an app on a foreign network simply because a single web page told me to do so. I'm sure I'm more paranoid than most, but that's an easy way to get phished. I'm surprised the author didn't cite that as a reason.
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How about Chief Hustler or just Hustler.
Look at "About FairSearch.org". It's the travel companies that are annoyed about Google Flight Search, and of course Microsoft (who'd expected that...).
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Who founded? I don't know, but, if you look at http://www.fairsearch.org/about-fairsearch/, it may give you more clues as to who's behind them, in special after you check who owns their stock and who sits on their boards.
It's an alliance of travel industry oligopolists who fear the challenge that Google may present to their dominance.
It might also be a really bad idea because you constantly force people to make conscious decisions about which parts they want you to elaborate.
You realize that hashing the password and sending the hash over the wire in lieu of the plain-text password still gives people sniffing at least the username for the account and a hash of the password that could (in a disturbing number of cases) be looked up in a Rainbow Table.

No. Getting the username and cracking the hash is the least of your concerns. The problem of just hashing the password and sending it over an unsecured channel is that you're vulnerable to replay attacks: the attacker doesn't need to crack it, just re-send the hash. Essentially, the hash becomes a plain-text password.
Wow, the list of issues really highlights how much polish had to go into the product to get rid of edge cases.

They care about stuff like:
"The Galaxy Nexus takes a lot of time to connect on OS X because it likes to pretend that every image on the device is a photograph. We now estimate how long it's going to take and show you that in the progress bar but it's usually in the order of minutes. We're working to see if this can be improved".

That's some serious dedication to a good user experience.
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Next-Generation Java PaaS Jelastic announces commercial availability
I mostly concur with this sentiment. I jumped straight into Python 3, and the amount of incompatibility was almost frustrating enough to make me drop the language entirely.

However, if you're stubborn enough to power through (and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and manually correct any errors you encounter (which is actually quite a good way to learn the nuances of a new language)) your reward is a language that is more forward-thinking and consistent. Sometimes it's worth the frustration (but only sometimes :) ).
Well done to Gabriel. I love the clean design and customisability of DDG and the privacy policy. However I wonder if he's figured out a way to monetise it without sacrificing user experience [1] to keep it viable into the future.

[1] https://duck.co/topic/financing-model
More posts about Rails internals ??
Totally off-topic, but why do some people write 'mm' when they mean (I presume) million? From the subject line I initially thought Duck Duck Go had passed 1 millimetre of searches per day.
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Reading the article again, the issue seems to be not very subtle semantics. The student asks how the trial could have happened "without evidence" full stop, Wikipedia made the much weaker claim that there was no "evidence connecting any of the defendants with the bombing". They apparently got convicted for "not preventing" the bombing while being organizers of the rally, which you could easily do without being connected to it, and so no proof of that was required. (You could also read the sentence as meaning presenting no convincing evidence, but that amount of weaseling isn't even needed).
Is there a particular performance issue that has lead you to ask this question?

It's generally good practice to consolidate and minify your js files, but don't waste time planning how you do that during your development phases.

The reason I ask if you are having performance problems or page loading performance problems is that generally people get hung up this, and often the code files are the least of your worries. Badly created images and many of them can be a killer - try to look at what you can do here first.
You want to use Python 2.X for now. There has been a lot of concern about the backwards compatibility between old libraries and the new python.

Feel free to use 3.X, but don't expect a lot of the python libs that make it such a great language to hit the ground running in to work.
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That is annoying. And from the market comments it seems jailbroken iphones are the same.

However, my assumption is that it's a security measure. They are presumably trying to stop malicious applications sending payments without user notification, and I guess that makes sense.

As a bank, they may be being overly precautious, but is there a fallback of a web app?
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here we go again :) http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=mm++m&s...
https://github.com/astronoob/NoDaddy
Here is a chrome extension that notifies you if the domain you're on is registered through GoDaddy. Looks like it does an XHR request to who.is and then matches on:
new RegExp("/(registrar\.godaddy\.com|whois\.godaddy.com)/")
I wonder how much of those come from mint installs, anyone have this information?
What kind of error do you get? It's probably related to the certificate that gets served when it makes a request to the bare IP address without a Host: header. In most cases, that's only going to match one or two of the domains you enter, unless you're using a wildcard certificate or one that includes all the DNS alternative names. Did it affect your score much?
And the "security" that they desired lost them tablet users on the dominant tablet platform...brilliant!
As another commenter mentioned, this is exactly what we're building at Adioso (YC W09).

It turns out it's very hard to do for reasons mostly to do with decades-old technology and business conventions in the travel industry. This is why it still barely exists, even though so many travellers want it.

But we're making good progress. Stay tuned.
Well.. Good to Know that :)