skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a pocket full of credit cards, debit cards, and loyalty point cards. Every air mile you get is paid for by someone selling your purchase history to another company for marketing purposes.

It's not public for anyone to grab. You have to pay for access to the data. But if you can pay, you can get the data.
I think that as long as Apple stays impartial, verifies the identities of developers, and fights attempts by governments to abuse revocation, this is actually a development we should welcome and encourage.

Imagine if by default, all software most users install on their Macs will be traceable to a real entity - be it a person or company. This entity can be held responsible for the behavior of the software it distributes. If the distributed software is malicious, it's possible to immediately revoke the entity's certificate, stopping the software from running on future, and possibly even current machines. Legitimate entities that don't distribute malware are only mildly inconvenienced whenever they register or renew their Mac Developer Program membership.

In fact, a system like this only has value if it's difficult to opt-out. For an example of how useless signing is without a mandate, look at Windows: Unsigned apps run just fine, and most malware has no certificate to revoke - it keeps working long after it's discovered.

Even better, if all applications are required to be signed, it's now possible to verify the signature of everything on the system. You can prove that nothing has been tampered with, and in the event tampering has occurred, you potentially know what to replace to return to a known good state. I think this alone is awesome!

Now, could Apple use this to stifle competition? Maybe. Does it raise the bar to distribute an app on the Mac? Sure (but I'm not sure that's a bad thing). As long as disabling the signature mandate is an option, power users are free to do whatever they want, and most other users will be much better off.
What constitutes research? Standing in a lab in a white jacket? The best research for testing the readability of something is to read it. Help out by giving it a try yourself. How would Arabic look if you hadn't encountered it before?
We used to have it clickable, but we found it was fairly easy to click by accident so we turned it off. We may bring it back down the road once we have a little more time to focus on that interaction.
That's actually exceeding the requirements of the license, since Growl uses the BSD license: http://code.google.com/p/growl/source/browse/License.txt?nam...
Not arguing that they won't do it. Just that it's worse than never allowing something.
Amazon's been annoying me lately because it somehow got convinced that I'm a 30 year old woman and won't stop showing me dresses and jewelry on the front page, neither of which I have ever bought. What can you even do when their core profile of you is completely off-base?

Amazon at least lets you fine-tune a little bit, but not enough to say, "no you're completely wrong" short of starting over with a new account. Which is a lot harder with physical stores...
we’re searching for a rockstar win32 hacker to build a Windows release

Cool, just noticed that I haven't seen the term "rockstar hacker" in job ads in a long time. Can't say I miss it.
I see it, but I also see one man's answer to that ages old philosophy question, "Would you kill one child to save the majority?"

In his eyes, his entire business was marooned with little hope of recovery due to the limited amount of information he was working with. He was fully in bargaining mode at that point, and if they could just identify to him what the problem was, he would resolve it -- by any means necessary -- for the sake of the rest of his users and revenue.

I'm not saying that makes it different, or if it's wrong or right. I am saying I understand.
You're replying to the creator (or so he is leading me to believe through his comments), so you can straight up ask him if it's art for the sake of art.
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Yeah, I've had this more or less happen to me.

A telemarketer from the bank I used to be with called me on the day of my brother's funeral to try and sell me life insurance.

Terribly bad timing as at the time I was waiting for the car to pick my mother and myself up to lay him to rest.

I'd like to say I handled it well, but I didn't. I vaguely recall some hefty swearing on my part the next day as I closed my account with them.
Don't neglect the fact that advancements in our technology do have an impact on the socio-economical and cultural elements of our society. The way twitter played a huge role in the revolutions around the world show that. The internet has given each person with access an unparalleled source of information right at our finger tips, and has helped push forward globalization.

I agree that there are many problems that are cultural and psychological, however technology can be part of the solution.
I am an electrical engineer. I used this site as a reference all throughout my schooling. Yes, it's incomplete, but it's a great resource nonetheless.
A good point, but try it in practice and you'll encounter these situations very infrequently. The adjacent words serve as a sufficient context. If the text is by itself, a small line will suffice for a baseline.
It matters if your goal is simply to correct a statement that was stated as if it were a hard fact. That's all tlb seems to be doing in my reading of the comment.

If your goal is only to figure out who's in the right I agree it doesn't matter.
Itching to buy Skiena's book for the practical examples (after perusing what amazon would show me of it)! Another very accessible algorithms book I highly recommend is: http://hetland.org/writing/python-algorithms/
The problem with using the dots as a denotation for vowels is that that kills of any way to deal with diacritics, let alone any of the latin-1 supplement characters necessary for languages other than english.

That all not considering the lack of baseline etc. Also, why is "z" the only letter with a 2-dot-width?
They also did that to me a few years ago, golden rule #1 don't host any domain of value with godaddy
hmm, z is indistinguishable from py. (at least on my screen).
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The trouble with services like this is that in order to "beat the market", i.e. be above average, you have to have information before other market participants. As soon as information becomes public, you can no longer make "more than average" returns with it, because everyone would be trading off it.

This usually means that if the information is any good for profitable trading, it will be quietly used to make a profit and won't be shared with general public.
Don't miss the forest for the trees. If the letters are next to other words, it's easy enough. If they're on their own it is more difficult, but this is rare and there are simple ways to compensate.
from the article:
Grant Viklund, who is married to board member Sophia Viklund and
serves as a volunteer mentor, says PyLadies matters not because
its members are women but because getting more people into programming
is a good thing overall.

[...]

Still, if you ask Viklund, 37, to conjure up an imaginary computer
programmer, he admits that he sees "a big, fat guy with a beard,
who might smell" -- the kind of "classic Linux nerd" who might have
trouble socializing but who loved computers long before geek became chic.

It's strange that someone who actively helps a group that exists to help women be comfortable and draw women into programming trades in such nasty stereotypes of male programmers.
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The problem is with the hypothesis that Apple would stay impartial and fight attempts by government to abuse revocation. This is highly unrealistic, and we've already seen Apple use the App Store policies to keep competitors' apps out (Google voice for a long time, 3rd party browsers, ...), calling them "redundant functionality".
Just a heads up, look in to using the Web Audio API on Chrome instead of the <audio> tag. It's far better and pretty bulletproof in my experience, if missing one or two features <audio> had.
> letter frequency is not taken into account.
False.

Considering the progression of pattern through the A-Z alphabet, it's extraordinarily unlikely this has anything to do with letter frequency. It's instead quite clear that if the alphabet happened to be recited in a different order, these dots would have the same progression but assigned to different letters.

Have a look at the research behind the "fitaly" stylus keyboard for what goes into "taking letter frequency into account".
Really... didn't pg himself do exactly that RE: TechCrunch and Curebit ripping off 37signals (among others) designs.

Seems like just a reality of the tech world, everyone just discredits everyone else in the hope of increasing the value of their own portfolio/brand/whatever.
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Ah, I wasn't aware. I wouldn't necessarily trust him to give an honest answer if it were art, though. As I said, I've seen stranger.
No, you're looking at it the wrong way. What you call the paper's margin is actually the paper's padding. Or better yet, when you are setting the margin of a document you are actually setting the margin of all the text on the document to the defined width.
An interesting aspect of this story that no one's mentioned yet is that collecting this sort of information about a minor is illegal under COPPA [0] when it happens online. It should have been apparent for some time now that customer/user tracking and the accompanying privacy issues apply offline as much as online, but our laws have not caught up.

Legislation like COPPA that proscribes behavior/activities solely online will only become more obviously non-sensical as the line between online and offline activities continues to blur.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrens_Online_Privacy_Protec...
I hate to be that guy, but I really don't see Dart going anywhere (at least inside a browser). Microsoft will probably never support it. For the same reason, it's not looking good in any other browsers either. Even if it did get immediate and full-spectrum support, it would be years before you can do anything with it (without compiling down to JS in order to support older browsers which makes using it kind of useless anyway).

If I really wanted to write in a new language just to compile to JavaScript, I'd be using CoffeeScript already.
It might not have been a credit card; she may have used a debit card or a store loyalty card they could track her with.
> the strength of the human visual system is in "chunking" shapes

Which is the main strong-point of dotsies. Words are more chunked together, and appear as recognizable shapes.

> and making letters into clouds of disconnected dots

They're not disconnected. That can be easily seen by a cursory glance at dotsies.org.
1024 meters would be a "kibimeter", abbreviated "Kim".

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte)
And the corresponding HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598558
Must've forgotten the "absent any other evidence" part.
I'd like to hope that the design was influenced and informed by research in cogniotive science, HCI and so forth. And yes real research is in a lab with a white jacket and controlled tests, with hypothesis and broad sample size and statistical signifigance.

20+ years of progress with unicode and thid happens...
The New York Times article this was taken from was submitted earlier to HN, but only shows up for me when I go directly to news.ycombinator.com. It does not show up the RSS feed on Google Reader.

What determines what HN submissions show up in the RSS fed?
That all sounded really thoughtful and was pacifying me until that very last bit ("One worrisome rift"). If Apple is going to make non-App Store apps begin to look inferior, then eventually they will want every one to move to their distribution network.
I'm sorry, did you really criticize my logic on the grounds that it would not fit into a dialog box? The fact is, the dialog box is intentionally deceptive.

"This is the way forward people." Actually, the way forward is the direction we've already been going on; where there are no gatekeepers interrupting their collection of punitive tolls on software only long enough to lie about the software they don't collect their 30% from.
It's not change but in the case of Launchpad poor implementation. No control over what gets added without a 3rd party utility, no admin interface for serious arranging and even if you do wipe the database and manually add icons, it still winds up reseting once you install an application after the fact. Try installing Adobe CS to see how badly messed up it can get.
I wonder if this is a glimpse of what it's like to not have SJ being around to say "this is shit!" and make them do it better.

On inverted scroll, it's great until you have to use someone else's mac or a PC then it just gets painful.
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Credit checks are slowly being outlawed in various states and jurisdictions. Watch your social media tracks start to get scraped instead.

Bet you'll think twice before clicking Like on that next web page.
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If you haven't studied signal analysis, I would recommend it. As a BME it was especially important to convert sensor analog signals to a desired digital signal for processing. It opens up a huge area that allows creation of black boxes that get the desired job done. It may be a little much if just for a hobby, but it is a great super power.
True, but it's very rare that you see "be" and "ad" floating out in space by themselves. They are usually next to other words, which give them plenty of context. If they are by themselves, a dash or box can be added for context.
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We're limiting the release for now, though I wouldn't expect to see anything like that pre-scale.
DNSCrypt / DNSCurve will be great for security of DNS and the internet in general. I hope this helps it reaches wide deployment.

For background, it is the first implementation of DNSCurve designed by DJB (qmail, tinydns, daemontools, etc). See http://dnscurve.org/ or the excerpt below.

DNSCurve uses high-speed high-security elliptic-curve cryptography to drastically improve every dimension of DNS security:

Confidentiality: DNS requests and responses today are completely unencrypted and are broadcast to any attacker who cares to look. DNSCurve encrypts all DNS packets.

Integrity: DNS today uses "UDP source-port randomization" and "TXID randomization" to create some speed bumps for blind attackers, but patient attackers and sniffing attackers can easily forge DNS records. DNSCurve cryptographically authenticates all DNS responses, eliminating forged DNS packets.

Availability: DNS today has no protection against denial of service. A sniffing attacker can disable all of your DNS lookups by sending just a few forged packets per second. DNSCurve very quickly recognizes and discards forged packets, so attackers have much more trouble preventing DNS data from getting through. Protection is also needed for SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, etc., but protecting DNS is the first step.

Despite its extremely high level of security, DNSCurve is very easy for software authors to implement, and very easy for administrators to deploy.

DNSCurve is part of a larger project to encrypt and authenticate all Internet packets. The techniques used in DNSCurve are easily adapted to other Internet protocols.
well by the looks of it i don't think the hippies mind too much
there's a problem with your font....
take 'a' with twice the pixel size with 'ff'
the letters will look exactly the same.....
I think that even if you add up all of Apple's indiscretions so far (and I agree with you they've made mistakes), you'd find the number to be small, and the number still outstanding even smaller. It's not going to be a perfectly smooth ride, but as long as disabling signature verification is an option users will be able to work around Apple's obtuseness in situations like this until they're resolved.
True, but what other registrar has publicly stated that they won't do what GoDaddy is currently doing? Because until I can find the registrar that makes that promise (all the alternatives I've found are just customers making that claim on behalf of the company), this seems more like a demonstration of the problem of all .com registrars and GoDaddy is just the biggest so they get all the spotlight.
Arabic, Sanskrit, and Idu are distinctly non Latin but incredibly easy to discern even to a first time viewer. Like Latin characters, they evolved.

Your sample paragraph of simplistic un-anchored dots is to the human visual system as line noise is to speech. Which is to say, just because some geeks can sync over the phone with a 300 baud modem doesn't mean a whole lot of useful communication will result.
Or maybe the information is out there, in plain sight, and no one has yet figured out how to correctly use it. I'm not saying this company has deciphered social media for investing, but it's theoretically possible that mining social media could reveal certain patterns that would be of use in financial markets -- the more sophisticated private equity firms are already using such methods.
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It has characteristics of both. The words are is still made up of letters.
You actually don't know of a OS that does that.

Windows Vista's UAC was to ask "Are you sure?" for everything, not just running applications. There was no whitelist of secure apps short of what was installed with Windows.

The major difference with Mountain Lion is Apple actually has an App Store which 99% of the people who need this feature will use by default.

Everyone else will turn of(or turn down) this feature just like they did with UAC.

Changing one setting so I don't get emails from my mother saying she ran virus.app and now her computer is acting funny is worth it to me.
Anecdote does not equal evidence.
You're kidding, right? It sounds like you don't know how the GPL applies to them or you think Apple is really dumb.

There is absolutely no reason to move those apps. They're binaries. The GPL only threatens them if the use free code in a nonfree program and don't distribute the source.

The only other option is Apple doing it out of spite, which would be stupid on all accounts.
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Even if you forget the usage based billing issue... which you shouldn't. It should be absolutely against the law to advertise "unlimited" when it is, in fact, limited.
COPPA applies to children under 13 years of age, not minors who are under 18 years of age.
I challenge you to try it before judging. Ironically, as you read this your human eye is racing back and forth about twice as frantically as is necessary. Accents can easily be added. Braille has the same proportional shortcomings as normal text.
They effectively did, because step 2 was really:

"2. Based on girl's purchases, company sends flyers - not private mail - addressed to girl by name, advertising specific types of products directly to her."

That her father didn't immediately put 2 and 2 together is besides the point. I think in his position, I might well have figured it out.

Perhaps its a function of age (I'm 37), but I am genuinely surprised at someone not finding this a clear violation of privacy.

[EDIT: Afterthought - it might be quite interesting to plot HN's attitude towards this against age. Would the younger people be less uncomfortable with it because this is the world they've grown up in?]
Surprising conclusion at the end: "I’ll consider development in Lua in the future." Interesting.
It's the way you completely stonewall people who are trying to fix their accounts. If you give each person a clear statement of what the problem with their account is, and show some willingness to work with them to get it back to normal, it would solve 95% of your PR problem.

This article is a very good summary of some high-profile people you've hurt, and specific steps you should take to fix your reputation. http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/06/paypal-account-freeze/

Oh and this is just unreasonable: http://christianowens.com/post/15771850658/my-recent-experie...
It's common courtesy to announce when one's surrendering an argument and starting a new one.

"If the app store can truly compete with an open marketplace"

As it turns out there is an open market for iOS apps and an open alternative to iOS and Apple's walled garden is competitive with both.

"why won't apple let me install arbitrary software on my iDevice?"

Aren't the reasons obvious? Simplicity, profit, security?

You might as well be asking why your Macy's card doesn't work at Sears or why you can't make a copy of your building key at Sears or why.. hey just what does Sears have against freedom anyway?
Um no one is giving up any liberty. Apple is sheltering the uneducated until they are more learned. That is all.

If in five years I can only run apps on my Mac that come from the App Store then I'll eat crow but I'd bet everything I have on that not happening which is why I am a iOS and Mac developer.
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Which commercial browsers? You mean the ones that Apple vetted and allowed on the App Store?
Blu-Ray tops out at 48Mbit, and ATSC is less than half that. Your friend was most likely having signal quality issues, not bandwidth issues.