skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to create a value proposition that works
Iran wouldn't have touched Tim since he is a UK citizen. That is just begging for the US to go 'special relatioship' on his ass. Linus is a finn, so he is properly also safe. I don't know the last one.
The primary goal of dart is speed.
I hope that the macro system he's working on bares some fruit. Personally, I've always liked explicit-renaming macros, as they provide you the benefits of both hygiene and (almost) the convenience of defmacro. But, the pattern language of syntax-rules makes it much easier to maintain macros, as you can actually see what it is you're matching without first interpreting the series of list operations... Hopefully the two will be married in some glorious way!
Apple Officially Drops 'Mac' Name from OS X Mountain Lion
At least 2 weeks ago I also was not seeing that behaivor. I had to unpaid my iPad because I was missing vital messages on my iPhone. Its possible that my iPhone was out of service at the time. But that shouldnt matternn
And is, again, instantly revokable. It'll be annoying if it's stolen, but you just revoke it, give the company the new one, and update the app in the app store (or your download, if you're not in the store). This is arguably far better than being unknowingly hit by malware.
the good thing is you can always use Windows or Linux.
Highcharts for the chart. Javascript for almost all the calculations.
Ocelot, Cougar, Lynx and Puddy tat, overlooking the fact that 'Mountain Lion', 'Cougar' and 'Puma' (which Apple used for 10.1) are pretty much the same thing.
Is this released under a license? I'm reluctant to use code which hasn't been.
I guess I forgot to mention we were using your non standard 100,000 ft long, 8 ft wide container for the excercise.
I liked the perspective on this one. The OS itself? Yadda yadda. That will be covered in excruciating detail through the next news cycle. The event, though, will probably be glossed over.

Describing things like this is a way of seeing into the machine and finding out how it works. This kind of event marks an interesting departure from previous WWDC-type promotions. It's an important thing in and of itself.
How to Evaluate a Paid iPhone App Idea (with data)
There's no reason you couldn't sign a DVD ripping app; all that code signing will do is ensure that you are who you say you are. Since you don't have to distribute apps through the Mac App Store, you could sign up for a dev account, build your custom app, and distribute it however you want.

For tools like that, this could actually be a big benefit - it lends a sense of credibility. You wouldn't be able to distribute modified (read: backdoored) binaries, and if you did people would know who you were (at least, to some extent, and Apple could revoke your credentials so no one else would inadvertently run your software).

As for pirated software: I haven't seen a lot of actual 'cracks' lately; mostly it seems to be 'put in this serial plus set these hosts entries so it can't phone home' sort of thing. For app-modifying cracks, you'd have to disable this, but I'm not sure how common that is lately.
And risk their entire business on some fragile and easily blocked scraping? (yahoo WOULD notice 1 million scrapes a day)

Yikes
What do you mean? There is only one definition and it links (the word terror) straight to the article explaining about Romney and the dog.
Bump 3.0 launches today, pared down to just two features
How do you store the videos?

I remember seeing YouTube storing videos using some sort of specialized hardware from NetApp or something and they still got hit by the limitation of Linux filesystem (number of nodes?)
I hope Google isn't going to solely rely on Chrome having a Dart VM to increase Dart performance. As it stands; no other browser is interested in the Dart VM, so your app will only benefit from the speed in Chrome while other browsers are at the mercy of the efficiency of the Dart->JS compiler. If the compiler can produce near-JS performance I wish them and Dart developers well, otherwise using Dart will only handicap you in other browsers. Chrome has a respectable market share on the desktop, but mobile will be dominated by Safari and Android's stock browsers for at least another year (Chrome-Android is ICS only); thus you're at a complete disadvantage on mobile.
Hey for some reason I can't add your Google Reader Frontend feed collections to my subscriptions. Clicking on the "Subscribe" buttons doesn't produce any result. Win XP and Chrome here.
Do you store the video using some sort of distributed file systems? specialized machine? SAN/NAS?

Or the good old' NFS?
I don't think it would be much different from him being born in Canada, being called John Doe and having completely swedish ancestry and one Canadian passport.
Exactly what is Homeland Security watching for on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube?
I just watched the introduction. It's much better than I expected. It's taught from an engineering perspective, so it's not only easy to follow without any pre-requisite law understanding. But it's also very relatable to our world. I specially loved when he said:
"Argument from authority, which is a logical fallacy in science. Is how things are done in law."

Which reminded me from a quote by Neil. D. Tyson:
"Eye witness testimony is the lowest form of authority in science. Which is sad, because it's the highest form of authority in a court of law."

This first video already cleared up a lot of misconceptions I had, and have read in the internet, including here in HN. I'm looking forward for finishing the course. I recommend this for any tech entrepreneur, and already shared it with my startup colleagues and friends.
Might be my favorite HN headline. I see what you did there.
Well you could hypothesize that that's where it's going, but at the moment, they're going to allow signed, non-app-store apps by default as well. All a dev needs to do now is to sign their binary when they build it and problem solved. I can't see why anyone actively maintaining an app wouldn't make the small change required.
I'm really not seeing the value in the app. Sure, the potential for revenue is huge through location-based advertising, but as an end user I can't see myself using this more than once or twice.

It's also kind of creepy. Granted, it's opt in, but given enough social pressure lots of people who would normally not use something like this will opt in reluctantly.

The "relay" system sound ingenious though. One project I worked on last year had to do with location based messaging. The problem that we had was with battery life and the fact that updating location passively is a huge battery drain. Although it was just a proof of concept app, we probably should have spent more time looking at the problem from another angle like these guys.
Thats a great way to handle it. In our case we had an, er, extensive legacy schema to preserve. Moral of the story: plan to scale early. You don't have to actually build that scaling infrastructure ... but keep its requirements in mind.
Their entire business is already quite fragile. And I know people who scrape Yahoo close to 1 million queries a day. They really are that ignorant or indifferent.
I would like AirPlay mirroring the other way around too -- let my iPad / iPhone cast to my Mac. Very useful for presentations and iOS product demos.
He really didn't want apps:

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/press-here/Steve-Jobs-Did...
All an echoed Official Condemnation will do is make the US more likely to invade Iran. It won't make Iran's behaviors less frequent. So I don't think an Official Condemnation by the country is a good thing, and I don't think it should happen unless we intend to start something; though others think this time will be different and we would be greeted as liberators if we invaded...
Well, yeah. The implication being that Apple doesn't want your filthy unexamined app to be touching iCloud's servers.
Search ebay for "53 led bicycle" or "56 led bicycle"

It's a $6 headlight that looks almost like a motorcycle headlight and is very bright. Uses 3-AA.

Most importantly it can easily clip on and off, so you can just take it with you instead of leaving it on the bike to be stolen.

Doubles as an awesome flashlight that can light up an entire room.

Put one on each side of your handlebars and I guarantee you will see the entire road in front of you in pitch dark while moving 20mph.
They were touching those American hikers for a couple years though, weren't they?
The little piece google shows is from the meta description (view source), not the body of the page.
RubyMine 4.0.1 Hotfix released -- deals with Debugger issues
That unfortunately won't turn out to be the ethical thing to do. Our government overthrew Iran's secular, parliamentary democracy and installed the Shah — and it's still threatening them. (They fail to have a sufficiently obedient tyranny.) This proposal you mention is tantamount to supporting more attacks.

Fortunately, there's a lot of room to really help out mideasterners — by getting our government off their backs and stop supporting their regimes.

And anyone in an ethical mood need look no further than their own country! The US jails far more of its own people than any other country. On Feb 20, you can participate in a nearby Occupy 4 Prisoners. (http://occupy4prisoners.org/actions/)
Is it specific to a compiler? I wonder if Perl's "unless" is prior art. It's not surprising that this was from back in the day when people at the USPTO couldn't use the internet to research patents.
As this event is rather unusual, I personally find the "feeling of the room" quite interesting. Though I must concede Gruber is rather poor when poetic.

Ps, if Schiller's presentation was as thorough as Gruber describes it, then I hardly see this as free marketing. Time is money, especially for a guy in Schiller's position. Also the coffee.
Xcode 4.3 Released
With Clik, Your Smartphone Can Control Screens Everywhere
If you look at the stated design goals for Dart:

http://www.dartlang.org/docs/technical-overview/index.html#g...

Performance is a design goal, but it is not given as the primary goal.

Of course, a cynical observer might say that the real primary goal of Dart is to give Chrome an artificial performance advantage over competing browsers, since that will be, at the very least, an initial effect if Google succeeds in promoting its adoption.
Agreed on all points. I think it's far likelier that this form of tiered app access will make its way over to iOS eventually.
The only real difference is that this light is uses a "secure" torx fastener on the assumption that a would-be thief doesn't have one. They are certainly not a "special screwdriver", being obtainable from any good hardware place.
To me, the most interesting difference in how Apple presented Mountain Lion was that the announcement appears to have been made on Eastern Time rather than Pacific Time or in the middle of the night through website changes.
Principle of Least Surprise, Bathroom Edition
Care to show your math?
I'm not sure that charging more is the solution, there's no shortage of people with more money than sense!

I don't see why Apple don't invite the developers of high-ranking iOS apps to an early-access program in order to keep their best apps up to date, and not invite anybody else to the beta.
Honestly I never found a briowser that didn't support multiple a record failover. Older versions of ie mostly. You do need to be aware that many nameservers will reorder a records by integer sort or delta to their own IP, which can make your traffic pattern uneven. There are various managed DNS products to handle that, and you can build it yourself with enough time.
FYI, Office for Mac doesn't include OneNote, which isn't available on Mac.
First, deleting iLife apps is as simple as dragging the particular app you don't want to the Trash and then emptying the trash, no significant uninstall process required. I'd hardly call that a significant issue to whine about.

Second, you claim you have an Air and that you're dropping in a restore CD. Does not compute.

Easy with the hyperbole.
I don't see why this comment is downvoted, it makes a valid point. The only problem with it is that it equates inaction (Google's) with deliberate intent, i.e. it may have been that nobody actually asked Google to remove these links.

That having been said, these two attempts at crude humor and the one for Michelle Obama are kind of different: In the Santorum case, it's nothing but a bit of high-school naughtiness, pretty juvenile stuff over a made-up word. I don't think it hurts him in any way. The Romney one is also juvenile but is much more damaging because it has a true story behind it that is quite damaging to Romney (you know, if you thought he was a warm, caring person before). In the Obama case, because of the racial connection the humor had deeply offensive harmonics.

People who +1 these should know that they're actually playing into the hands of the Rebuplicans, because for every casual +1 clicked with a smirk, you'll get 10 Rs who hate liberals' (their term) guts and totally believe in the Democratic bias in big media and Internet content companies.
At this point the W3C is in fact working on providing such a thing. "width: calc(50% - 20px)".

Works in Firefox and IE. At some point WebKit will catch up, I assume.
The magic of Mac is that it's BOTH a great developer / hacker machine (POSIX/BSD + GNU tools with great hardware, power mgmt, etc), and a great machine for people who don't know how to use computers.

It's inevitable that the layer for non-techies feels more and more integrated with iOS.

Will we ever lose access to the do-anything BSD box underneath? That will be a sad day for me - Windows+cygwin is an abomination.
I'm actually pretty interested in this, about to start a new project using webGL. Two questions:

How predictable is the output JavaScript. This is important of optimization, if I find that something is transforming improperly, I need to be able to change that.

How is DOM and native JS Interop? I need to be able to trivially call WebGL and do DOM manipulations, and perhaps anything else that can come up.

Examples will be appreciated.
Everybody I've talked to feels that faded overlays (#5 on this list) are super annoying from a user experience perspective. And I agree.

Everybody I've talked to says their data shows faded overlays are VERY effective at increasing email subscriber signups. And I agree based on my data.

Weird, isn't it? Heh.
TFA says the default security setting DOES run any signed app. The two non-default settings are tighter (App Store only) and looser (any app).
In the article is lists the definition as:
Romney v. 1) To defecate in terror. 2) Former Governor Mitt Romney.

Similarly, spreadingsantorum.com used to read:
Santorum n.
1. The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.
2. Former Senator Rick Santorum

But now spreading santorum has removed any reference to the person Santorum. I wonder if lawyers advised the people responsible for these websites to remove any explicit mention of the candidates.
BOSS queries are $0.80 per thousand queries, so $0.0008 per search. A web search site that uses a premium sponsored link feed should be able to generate about $0.04 per query (50% share of the $0.09 per query that Google makes). Thus the revenue generated could be about 50 times the cost of the raw materials (the BOSS search results). BOSS is cheap in that regard. If you extrapolate to an entire year, DDG could be making about $15 million per year in revenue if they chose to show ads aggressively.
Except the software industry is full of stories opposite of your expectations--startups with better ideas who unseat or out maneuver giants. Do you think Mint would have been better off keeping their ideas to themselves? How about Facebook? There are tons of these: Dropbox, Square, Heroku, Twilio, etc etc.

Good software is rewarded (even more so in today when there's instant distribution), don't worry about your competitors.
I think it has less to do with a concern over malware than it does with an opportunity to further control development for the platform.

I suspect Apple will retain the right to pull applications from user's computers for any TOS violation, not just those involving malware. Even when those TOS violations are due to a change in the TOS.
Facebook Testing New Featured Ad Format... Above the Newsfeed
FTA: "It’s a system whereby developers can sign up for free-of-charge Apple developer IDs which they can then use to cryptographically sign their applications."
>I don't know why HN people downvote comments like yours.

Because it's patently false!! He did not create porn sites, he created a piece of software which was later used by porn sites. Huge difference.
Check out http://github.com/dotcloud , there are quite a few of these skeletons and if you request one we'll happily add it!
Honestly im running rubymine on mac since it seems as a better web development tool than a windows machine, but considering that all you do with "deploying" rails apps in development mode is reload a browser and that Rubymine supports remote debugging quite well, I dont see why you wouldnt be able to edit your source tree in a mounted drive while running your server in the VM.

This way you dont have to deal with memory/hd swap implications of running a fairly memory hungry app inside a memory hungry virtualization layer.
Now that is a deliciously diabolical plot. Infiltrate the hub supplier in Shenzhen, coerce the people that oversee parts deliveries in the appropriate wing of the facilities at Pegatron into not reporting a thing to Apple or other integrator clients, and let the trojan hardware filter into the market. The hubs are inert until they have a driver installed surreptitiously from a compromised copy of Baidu Desktop Search or QQ. No one would be any the wiser.

I'd order a tinfoil hat at this point but I don't know who might have interfered between the aluminum refinery and the sheeting facility.
Inspiring Others, At All Costs.
Single quotes or double quotes in Ruby?
Iran's going to execute someone? It must be Thursday.
It was taken from the original article.
security by obscurity
Integration streamlines workflow.
Tablets for Presentations: A Tabula Rasa
Some Generalizing about Specializing
Yes exactly. It is this type of "I am cool and you are not" that runs rampant in this and everything else he writes. I use apple products and find it mildly interesting they are releasing a new OS version. I could care less that this asshat got free coffee.
I really wish people wouldn't use "secure" to mean "laden with broken DRM and other misfeatures that serve publishers by antagonizing users." That's not "secure," that "broken."
I guess it is meant to match 'leet'? I'm not sure why there's the option for 3 letters, though ….

EDIT: Ah, got it (I think). It's referring to being a polymath hacker: "Just another vim hacker", "Just another perl hacker", "Just another Unix hacker", etc.
When I restart an operating system, I expect it to do exactly that: bring my system back up in a state where nothing except the core os is running.
You're going to have to get focused on one and BRAND yourself as the expert and let the other two take on a hobby form.
>>> The Romney one is also juvenile but is much more damaging because it has a true story behind it that is quite damaging to Romney

Spreadingsantorum.com has a true story behind it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neo... Dan Savage started the campaign because of anti-gay comments Santorum made as a Senator.

While Romney clearly acted in a less than humane manner toward his dog, I think this re-definition of his name is trivial in comparison to how homophobic and anti-human rights Santorum's record is.
Android 5.0 'Jelly Bean' to Launch by June 2012
I think you mean 'without'
AirParrot - AirPlay your Mac's screen to AppleTV
Having an expensive-looking light bolted to your bike in such a way that it's not easily removable won't prevent your light from being stolen. All it will do is ensure that when it does get stolen, the bike goes with it.
I agree Gluster seems like a more reasonable choice if you're starting from scratch. But if you have an existing hadoop cluster and want your app to interact with it, a simple way to mount HDFS would be great.
But who is making the accusations? The person who got the downvote or someone else?
Libtorque - multithreaded event library designed for manycore future
Google compares Obama Budget to search trends
Did they do the same thing for the word "nigger"?
Here's a real example that just occurred. A Search for "jquery select visited anchor" on DDG returns the jquery selectors docs first (okay match) and jquery.com match second (useless). A search on google.com, the first 2 results are SO answers that answer exactly my question.

My point isn't specifically you rank SO lower than it should imo (although i do think this is the case) - its in general, for me, you return roots of homepages or brands at hte top when the query is clearly looking for something very specific.
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An Open Web
I thought the exact same thing! Disappointed in myself.
I seriously doubt that.

The Santorum site has existed since 2003 and was created by Dan Savage in response to a Santorum ad from that time. Wikipedia, as always, has an article on it.[1]

The source for each is noticeably different (well, as much as similar sites like these could reasonably be), and they're registered with different registrars. The Romney site also advertises a web design firm at the bottom of the page.

I think it's safe to say the Romney site is just a copycat trading on the popularity of the Santorum version.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_ne...

(Edit: I just realized that the OP actually names the guy running the Romney site. I should have just stopped at Dan Savage.)
You don't need to pay ANY money to write software for the Mac. Xcode is free. You don't need to pay any money to distribute software for the Mac. Distribute it through your own website. You need to pay to sell through the Mac App Store. I also presume you need to pay if you want it signed. Well that's a privilege. It helps you prove to potential customers your app is safe. You benefit from it so you should have to pay for it.

If you develop an app with the purpose of selling it on the Mac App Store for profit $100 should not be a problem for you.

If you want to distribute it yourself, go ahead. Apple is not charging you.
While these decisions all sound stupid in principle, when you actually think about it they make a great deal of sense. They all stem from one root requirement:

Regular websites should work with minimum problems on an iOS device.

This is a requirement that made sense when iOS came out years ago, and honestly still makes sense today. It's why browsing on an iOS device is so damn awesome.

That explains the different reported size. Once you have a different reported size, you enter the viewport and zoom issues. But at that point, all the decisions intertwine and make sense amongst themselves.

Now, why isn't there a 1px=1 physical pixel setting? That's a different question. By which I kind of mean, “the retina display is probably the reason there is no such setting”. Regardless, that's a missing feature. The ones that are there all make sense, and aren't nearly as foolish as they sound at first glance.
It is clear that Apple's current sandboxing is not perfect, but what could be done?

The goal is to create the most secure running environment that is possible. Allowing random apps to access/modify different files on the system (without user explicitly allowing that) kinda defeats the purpose of sandboxing (from user's point of view - from developers POV, sandboxing makes his app more secure and stable).

All I see is people ranting about sandboxing's limitations, without coming up with actual plans to improve it.