skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been through it once before I even realized what was happening.

They didn't tell me "you are now being subjected to the new millimeter wave scanner" or offer me the choice of a pat-down, they just pointed and herded my fiancee and I through the machine without any mention of what it was or that I had a choice to not go through it.

It was only after that I realized it was the new scanner I had just gone through, and I only realized that because I read sites like HN.

So, to other travellers: when you've opted-out did you basically have to halt in your tracks and demand an opt-out? I guess I naively thought opting out would be more obvious... but I was wrong.
Flickr was profitable even before acquisition with a freemium model. The free version of Flickr is exactly like the paid version except with upload caps per month.

Dropbox has a freemium model and is probably profitable or on their way there.

One thing both have in common: they are basically giving away disk space. Storage costs are trivial -- we're approaching pennies per GB -- but giving away CPU time or bandwidth is a much riskier proposition.
To be fair, it's also probably a 90/10 situation. And whether or not it's easy to do, it's somewhat rare to see in the tools that most people use for non-static languages.

Even in Java and C#, arguably the best languages re: deep IDE integration, there are edge cases where the IDE can't know everything (reflection, for instance), but it still does the trick most of the time.
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But one can get a list of usernames from this site. One can then see which passwords are on a known password list, and then one has a list of usernames and passwords to try against other services.
Bagcheck doesn't seem to have a limit of the number of attempts you get to type the correct password, either, so one can run a full dictionary attack on the passwords too.

There's a reason no-one else does login like this.
The Software is Wrong, Not the People
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Not only that but if you hold it long enough you can make it clear a line with half of a 2 block
The desire of some people to look at others naked should come as a shock to no one. Plus, the abuse of the power of looking at people naked without retribution should surprise no one.

This cuts to the core of humanity: sexuality and power.
Good question, Joe. Not all apps that replace native iOS apps are the same nor use the same techniques.

Since our app uses the built-in iPod Music controller, we activate all the same features that the Music app does. So, your example of showing the album art on the lock screen does in fact work.

This is different than different category apps, like Safari replacements, that can't take advantage of all the built-in controls/features outside of the app.

(I work for szello)
This is fantastic and just what bootstrap needs to stop people complaining about all the bootstrap sites looking the same.. I hope this stays on the frontpage a while so more people can find out and contribute..
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I'll follow up by asking how a student is supposed to know all this?

And I'll ask, where were the professor and the school's legal counsel? If the student didn't know to go to the latter, the professor should have guided him in this matter.

The school should have served as an advocate for the student. They clearly failed.
Opa/OCaml?
I believe PaperCut Software have a system that fires foam rockets at any developers who fail unit tests[1]

[1] https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation
Unix also makes a great web based IDE.

http://servermonitoringhq.com/blog/the_ultimate_web_based_id...
I'm flying in April and plan to opt out (I don't fly often). I'm down to less than one eye. I don't really want to irradiate what's left.

I wanted to the last time I flew, but it was so crowded and TSA was being so rude to everyone and had already handled my baggage so roughly that they dropped my Macbook on the tile floor (Logan International), that I just went through the scanner rather than bothering with it and raising a bigger fuss.

I'd say a lot of people feel pressured into "just complying" because of long lines and mean looks.

On the other hand, I've been in airports where the agents are just as friendly as can be.
I use LastPass with the 2 factor-authentication. It doesn't have my email password in it (which also requires 2-factor authentication).
Cool. I work there and I have been thinking about server side scripting for a while now. Would love to talk to you more about it; shoot me at my first name at Parse.com

-Andrew
1. There is a focus on the design of the app. The App didn't change what To Do lists are. It implemented them with a fancy interface imitating a gradient metro style.

2. Dropbox is about simplicity and syncing. Simplicity, we are can argue. But where is the syncing? It syncs with what? How? I don't bother with an app that don't sync to the cloud. But don't compare to DropBox. Misleading title.

To-Do lists are broken. If many people have agreed (me included) that they don't work for them, so re-inventing them is useless. We need something different, focused more on the long term growth rather than killing tasks.

I'm using an Excel spreadsheet that records my performance as a Stock Index. I follow the stock and update with real values (perceived values of productivity and real work getting done). I'm looking for patterns to sync between perceived achievements and the stock indexes. I might work an App for that.
Go for it and let us know when you have something. Twitter: @jasonyfied
I used to try to work a bit on physics articles. That actually wasn't the problem there -- the problem is that there are so many cranks, and they (being cranks) are so insistent on their incorrect views that it becomes a constant, tiring battle preventing any real work from being done.

The only rational course is, once it has been established that you're dealing with a crank, to completely disengage and smack them down with the official policy. (They never have any reliable sources/citations to support their edits.) It's tempting (since they are usually provably, mathematically wrong) to try to convince them of their errors, but experience shows that never works. I saw a lot of people just burn themselves out doing that -- in this case, expertise was being driven away by reluctance to rely on policy.
Neither is neglecting to restrict the number of attempts to type the correct password.
I have never seen a Terms of Service agreement that would make gigya's behavior seem reasonable or justifiable in this case.

Even if their ToS reserved the right to start charging for the service at any time, and explicitly wrote in crazy terms that disclaim them from notification periods, methods of notification, etc., their odds of collecting actual dollars by force are infinitesimal.

Sadly, their odds of collecting actual dollars by threat of force might be pretty good. How sticky is their solution?
There is atleast half a dozen TODO apps on the store that are superior. TODO.txt Pocket Lists Wunderlist Producteev.. I am sure there are another 50 that I never heard off.
In particular, I'd like to find out from you what kind of manipulation you have been needing to do. This would help us define the scope of this feature.
Encrypted backups kept off the main machine help with that. Even if they're on the machine, keeping them encrypted and with hash stored somewhere, you can tell which ones were tampered with (not that you can change an encrypted image without corrupting it of course).
What's SOCA's policy on Data Protection? Since they're admitting they've taken my details don't they have to comply with UK law in that area? I came to it via the link on the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17039722
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I'm sure there's a lot of non Canadians here =) but please consider tweeting or facebooking this. Your Canadian friends may see the message.
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Any.DO is an excellent alternative with a similar UX-oriented approach. It also syncs with Google Tasks. iOS, Android and web.
Just saw your comment after posting mine. Agree.

Unfortunately, in my anecdotal experience schools not infrequently do not fulfill the role of advocate well. (Sometimes, they do, though.)

In a case like this, I think it can somewhat be "luck of the draw". With the initial/primary contact point with the school being the professor, some professors know what to do or at least will tackle the problem. Others are at a loss, or don't care. (I'm not saying that's the case, here; they did pass him, although leaving him without a thesis project.) Remember, you're dealing with an academic, when what you may need is a lawyer.
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D's design goals attempt to combine the performance of
compiled languages with the safety and expressive power
of modern dynamic languages. Idiomatic D code is
commonly as fast as equivalent C++ code, while being
shorter and memory-safe.

D seems to have similar goals with Go (golang). Has anybody here used both?

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_%28programming_language%29]
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There are two things to consider when thinking about freemium.

1. Can you monetize free users with your product? In many cases you can, using ads, affiliate links, search partnership, ...

2. Is it cheap for you to support free users? This have to be compared to conversion rate. If it is really cheap to support free users than you can have bad conversion rate.

In some specific cases the freemium model is the only model that works: products where interaction with other users is required for product to be usable. Only example I can think of right now are online games. You need players in order to attract more players, some of which may convert to be paying customers.
You know what else has administrative formalities and rigid deadlines? Running a business. Suggesting an entrepreneur avoids these things is rather silly.

IMHO the larger problem with universities is (in CS, at least) their subject matter largely provides theory and foundations without enough practical exercise.

I realize it's a place of higher learning but graduating students who have never written larger applications than a few hundred lines of code is a disservice to the students who will have trouble adapting to coding in the real world.
For one, the default app is horrible at browsing podcasts. Positively awful; can't see the full title of the individual podcasts, in any view; can't see all my synced podcasts in a single view; and as far as I know I can't browse other podcasts while listening to podcast.
How so? I haven't used VS since a couple of versions ago and never got to know it very well, so I based my above comment on the OPs description; if there's more to the feature than I could easily be wrong.
Interesting.

While this could've been (and probably was) just a manual price change to try and cash in on increased demand, I wonder Sony was testing out automatic price adjustment in response to increased social network activity.

That'd almost be smart - as long as you're sharp enough to detect when someone dies and avoid looking like a vulture.
This would be fascinating. It would be great if you did this.
Problem is I don't necessarily want a T shirt (if the band even sell them in the first place) not to mention that buying the T shirt might bring up other moral issues (overseas child labour etc).

It would make more sense for the artist to sell me the tracks I want in a convenient way (direct download, no DRM, standard format, easy payment) rather than for them to distribute their music in a DRM format that I don't want and to have it pirated and then buying T shirts to somehow make up for it.
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Talking about Dropbox, dropbox syncing would be good, no?
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Wikipedia has explicitly adopted the opposite policy, and they didn't do so arbitrarily.

In specific cases it might seem stupid, but I think in general it makes sense. It goes hand in hand with the "no original research" policy.

(Like everything in wikipedia that policy can be misapplied by small minded people, though.)
I know nothing about the historical case itself, but I do know that show trials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trial) can and do happen. In that case people can be tried and convicted without evidence. So what you consider trivially true, is trivially false. So we're back to a complex debate in which one person is questioning what they readily admit as the accepted version of events. That's all very noble, but I don't expect Wikipedia or anyone else to just roll over at the first sign of a "debunking" of a controversial event.
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This reeks of a team floundering trying to figure out how to keep a ship from sinking.

1. Our "Free" product is now $6000/year ($500/mo)
2. OR give us a link-back
3. OR prepare for a lawyering

While the response is inflammatory and wonderful for up-vote fodder, I can't imagine any calm, decent person ever taking this tact with a client.

There are 17 different emails they could have sent to SupportBee that would have been more constructive than this.

I wonder if the Gigya team is too young to know better or if they have back-breaking pressure on them from their investors to turn any sort of profit before they are all taken out to sea and shot.

Obviously a stupid response, but really seems to be a response out of pure desperation more than anything.
I'm a novice in this area, so looking past the somewhat sensationalist headline (or, perhaps, I'm missing the wit? "Now with 70x more performance!")...

Can someone who knows this stuff give a bit of an overview on the significance of this release?

I read the NoSQL stuff as Oracle/MySQL trying to compete (at least in terms of marketing-speak) with the wave of competition that's arrived in the DB market. Is there any meat to it?
Patent on rating programmers based on code commits by IBM
UPDATE: So I contacted the folks at JetBrains just to see what they'd say, and they pushed me through on the free upgrade!

Oh man.

> "Licensed Version: 3.0 and any new product release which is made generally available before 1 February 2012"

I missed the free upgrade by 14 days :( Oh well.

Congrats on the release, JetBrains!
Apologies motoford, we are currently building this thing and are opening it up to other people in phases. To make sure we are not just building yet another nice-to-have tool but something that actually improves the way people communicate, we wanted gather people's genuine feelings on this issue - not just collect email addresses.

Of course, I'm happy to remove you (and anyone who signed up by accident) from the mailing list - send me an email to ben at zeninbox dot com :)
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I think, without any proof to the matter, that some of those are sponsored advertisements, especially the ones from larger development groups.
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...which works great until you have to rename a field with the name 'value' in one particular highly-used class in a system with ten-thousand classes, many of which will also have fields named 'value'. That's where actual IDE knowledge of the language semantics is more or less required, to be able to track the actual object being referenced based on the particular imports, inheritance hierarchy, etc.
What is the Method to Your Madness
Down votes for pointing out that Google DNS is an enormous data mine? Why?
Yep, that made for tv movie has really ruined the debates on how the event actually unfolded. It was a pretty terrible movie in a lot of ways and it got a lot of facts wrong.
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Issues and discussions get lost and repeated in the discussion page. We need more structure like an issues page and pull requests.
A direct link to the icon: http://i.imgur.com/znn1i.png

It's a little better, but still kind of sucks.
Microsoft’s stores are Apple clones, but that’s a good thing
Google shares caught up in insider trading probe
You convinced me.

I got more time than money, and I am willing to spend that capital in exchange for a movie. A fair exchange (unless the movie sucks, in which case i want my time back, or in lieu of time, i am willing to get payed by the MPAA to watch crap movies.

Now that i realize I am actually giving the movie industry my most valuable assets, re my mind and attention, I feel Compelled not to give them my money, enough is enough.
They could, you know, turn off the widget so that people that don't pay won't have access. Shockingly high tech, but that's why they get paid the big bucks.
Rereading it, I see it's less clear how it applies to aggregated data.
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It still feels like a different country because it's happening globally. I just moved to London and there's a fucking Whole Foods around the corner! Closer in fact than it was when I lived in Mountain View, Santa Fe, or Minneapolis (all big Whole Foods markets).
I like it. Seems doable in HTML/js, I might work on a clone.
Hi,

I'm a competitor of yours (although I concentrate on server monitoring) and we both compete with PingDom who are the leader in this market.

I'm not sure sub 1 minute monitoring is that big a benefit and you'll need a key differentiator to attract clients.

I think you'll find it very tough to earn revenue in this space, there are plenty of free options out there already and Pingdom does 5 websites for $5 a month with 1 minute monitoring.

Good luck.
Never having used JetBrains IDEs before, i'd like to hear HN comments about it? Are they good? For NodeJS f.e.?
The vim command is doing a search and replace over all text - Rename in Visual Studio will restrict the change to class/method/.... name definitions and calls to them.
The Wikipedia editors now have a job that is identical to academic peer-review. I don't think that should be their job.

Then why have editors? God forbid that, if you take on the mantle of vetting articles, you actually exert some intellectual effort.
I think if I were an employer, I would be looking for an employee with more of a sense of humor!

Seriously though, I really think the atmosphere in a work place is really important. I can't imagine working with people who wouldn't consider this a neat hack and overall quite funny.
NFC Support Added to Yubikeys for OTP Auth on Mobile Devices
If you set things up correctly, you can even get most IDEs to automatically fill in method signatures by making guesses based on what's currently in scope. This can save a lot of typing when it works, and even when it doesn't, it doesn't usually waste any keystrokes.
Global search and replace casts a wide net, makes tons of mistakes, requires you to inspect every change to ensure it was correct; automated refactorings don't make any mistakes no matter the size of the code base. These two things are vastly different.
Big buttons are better, but this still replicates an incredibly annoying UI paradigm that kills me: << > >> or Back, Play [Pause], Forward

Whether it's an audiobook or music, I'm hitting the play and pause buttons all the time. I don't have particularly thick fingers, but my genius self still manages to accidentally hit the Back or Forward button's instead of Play or Pause about 2 times out of 10. In an audiobook, loosing your place and finding it again is a killer, especially if the book is split into very long segments of audio.

Minor nitpick on a device with such large buttons, but I just find that idea annoying. Could be just me and my obviously adroit digits though :p
Nice work. thanks!
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I usually try to play it cool until the moment the point me toward the radiation machine. Then I say "I'd like to opt-out". They are always very professional about it, and have a procedure (different in different airports) where you basically stand there and watch other poor suckers go through the machine, until they find someone to pat you down.

The reason I play it cool is because about 1/3 of the time they end up pointing me toward the regular metal detector at the last minute (I guess I'm not a cute girl...)
Uhmm... what were the lawsuits about before he dropped his insurance? Parachute not opening?
Anyone out there who's tried it able to provide a mini review on this? This seems like a nice update.
I'm using an Excel spreadsheet that records my performance as a Stock Index. I follow the stock and update with real values (perceived values of productivity and real work getting done). I'm looking for patterns to sync between perceived achievements and the stock indexes. I might work an App for that.

That's a cool idea :) You should give it a shot! Or at least prototype it and let us hounds feast on it a bit and give feedback.

Thoughts: Don't make it too complicated for the user. Let us prioritize to-do items in terms of productivity value (low, medium, high) and time value (urgent, non-urgent) and let your app assign a "value" to those to give our personal stock price. It could be fun...
See the little up arrow next to the original post? Use that please.
That's great news, thanks.
Good examples, but I can't help feeling that there a lot of assumptions about profitability. Dropbox, for example, is a great service, I really like it. Every tech-savvy person I know uses it, but no one I know pays for it. I know this doesn't prove anything, but it makes me wonder if they are making money. Even if disk space is dirt cheap, it's still not free for them. I wonder how many paying users they need to cover the cost of all those free users.
The "no original research" policy is fine when it prevents self-citation, but when it prevents citation of little-read but thoroughly credible third-party sources such as court transcripts that's a different matter.
Copyright enforcement and the Internet: we just haven't tried hard enough?
Bad idea posting to HN with only 1 dyno, I cached the default color scheme so homepage should load a lot faster now.
Interesting, how often can we expect to see new articles?
Actually, I don't think it's minimalist. It only looks minimalist, which is a quite common situation. I can't find it now, but long ago I read an article about a housing project that included a comment on how many "minimalist" project actually required more effort both to build and maintain. And that's how this app feels — it has replaced a lot of standard navigation, I need to use two fingers more often than not, I need to learn a lot of gestures, and one of the most common gestures tends to clash with the notification center drop-down. Ah, and it hides the status bar, so I don't even see the time. This is not the minimalism I signed up for. The standard reminder app — or Wunderlist — may have more visible interface elements, but both are more minimal in how they actually work.