skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not. Spreadingsantorum.com was part of Dan Savage's campaign after anti-gay comments made by Santorum. (From the article) this Romney website was created by someone named Jack Shepler.
Open webOS Governance Model
> They removed the Michelle Obama thing, but pretty quickly put it back when they got called out on how it was a clear violation of search trust.

I don't remember the "put it back" part and I can't find the infamous photo any more on Google images unless I add "monkey" as a keyword. But I don't get the point of all this to begin with. Why not focus on real policy differences rather than name calling?

As one of those independent voters they're allegedly after, this doesn't help anyone's campaign. I'm going to decide based on what vote does the most good or causes the least harm both in this election and in the future, not based on someone's skill at manipulating Google into accepting slanderous definitions. They're much better off making the case that Romney's position on the issues is untenable, rather than pulling stunts like this.
>"Compliance does not excuse them from responsibility"
Please read about how DMCA Safe Harbor works. If we don't comply with it, we are held responsible for the "violations" of our clients.

https://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512c/

Because we're in the US, it's critical that we comply with all the DMCA crap, otherwise DHS/FBI/CIA/whatever will come in and seize our equipment. They've actually done it before when we SWIP'd some stuff for a client, so we didn't get the abuse mail. They just ignored it, and one day some people showed up with a court order and we had to hand over their server (it was a colo.)

I see now that this JotForm issue might not be due to DMCA, which is pretty appalling, but to put it lightly, "they [gov't] have ways of making you comply".

From this article: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/02/16/online-form-buildin...

"GoDaddy had complied with a Secret Service request to take down the domain"
Are you suggesting that service providers should say "no" to the secret service? Real talk: I really don't think that telling the secret service to get stuffed would turn out well. In fact, since ATT is so in bed with gov't at this point, they'd probably just have our uplink shut off if we tried to pull that.
MM, correct or not, is finance lingo for million (1000*1000).

Just like 1 KB is 1024 bytes, not 1000. ;)
Word from LFGSS ( http://www.lfgss.com/ ) is that this is useless.

It's too low powered (40 lumens), and no-one suffers stolen lights (they're all removable in an instant). Equally powerful lights are incredibly small and can be fitted and removed in literally a few seconds.

None of us believe we are experiencing the problem that this solves, none of us get lights stolen.

What we do suffer is stolen saddles (detached from seat posts), and stolen hubs (bolt-cut the spokes of and steal the hubs).

But for those problems, this startup ( http://atomic22.co.uk/ ) are almost there at bringing to market a total bike security product in which every bolt on the bike is part of the same security system.
Site now says: "Tested down to Firefox 3.6 and IE7. Extensive support details to come"
How Drupal Went from Dorm Room Project to Global Phenomonon
Speakergram: How Does A Startup With Everything End Up In The Dead Pool?
I've been using OS X for years as my main OS, and I do occasionally use launchpad. I've got a boatload of stuff installed and I don't always remember what I have. Launchpad provides a nice way of viewing all the apps.

I don't use it everytime I launch somthing (I use alfred for that), but to refresh my memory every now and then.

It doesn't work exactly like I would like it too, but it's not bad, and it's very out of the way if you don't like it.
Yes, as I noted in my edit, there seems to be some confusion about this in the media. Some sources are saying that you will have to be a member of the Mac Developer Program (which costs $99/year), while others are saying the signing service is free of charge.

Here's Apple's own page on the matter: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html

> Apple wants to help you steer clear of malware even when you download applications from places other than the Mac App Store. That’s why Apple created the Developer ID. As part of the Mac Developer Program, Apple gives developers a unique Developer ID for signing their apps.

This seems strongly to imply that a Mac Developer Program membership is required for code signing.

I very much hope that their phrasing is merely imprecise, and if not, that they will change their minds and provide free signing. I love OS X as a development program, but I will leave it behind if they start down this path.
I'm feeling the same malaise. I want to blame it on the Mac App Store, XCode dropping GNU GCC, Gatekeeper, etc. feeling like a slowly tightening noose, but honestly, I don't think that's it. After all, I'm willing to put up with the same sort of signed software model on Android.

Still, if someone can point me to a hassle-free Linux laptop in a MacBook Air form factor, I'll jump ship in a heartbeat.
It Felt Like My Friends - Marketing Implications of Apple's Announcement
Dev tools don't really have a place in managed environments IMO - they just need too low level of access to a system to be able to do their work.

Now, say a game or web browser that runs potentially malicious content, sure, sandbox it. But other things like code interpreters, low level Unix tools, or inter process tools like AppleScript, they're still open to (mis)use by anyone.

I'm going to guess that most malware for OS X will soon become non-compiled scripts. Sure, the interpreter would be signed, but what it runs is totally arbitrary.
The OP actually addresses this. They're doing some form of clustering and had to add more nodes due to network saturation.
Puzzle play helps boost learning math-related skills
Hmm, I got the idea he understood what this was about from this paragraph:

"This is an awful lot of effort and attention in order to brief what I’m guessing is a list of a dozen or two writers and journalists. It’s Phil Schiller, spending an entire week on the East Coast, repeating this presentation over and over to a series of audiences of one."

(emphasis mine)
I may be completely off-base but has anyone tried emails with NO images vs emails with images, and see what the difference is? Whenever I get an email from a company initially, I see blank images, especially on top of the fold, and in the body. That turns me off, so I just delete the email, or glance over it and delete it... It's just plain ugly.

However, if I am able to start reading the content right away, that gives me a chance to click through. Now, of course some emails need images, like Groupon. But I'm talking about unnecessary stuff like your huge logo.. I don't need to see that in every single email you send.
Inporia (YC W11) Launches Kaleidoscope, Takes You from Photo to Purchase
Which is really too bad. OneNote is among the few windows apps I really like.
Initial Impressions, before 3.0 becomes available:

Crap. My 'improvements to Bump' cover letter for their iOS internship is now completely irrelevant. It'd be my guess that 3.0 will still feature an overlay prompting first-time users to enable location sharing (I really like this idea), but not the second screen showing what the user can do now that the app's been streamlined to less features. That screen had major usability issues based on the people I tested it with--people were frustrated to find what they tapped on was not a button.

Based on what I've read of their iOS reviews, this could really help their ratings. Lots of 1-star reviews about only sharing samples of music, having to buy apps someone 'shared' to you, etc. This is probably fair--Bump atleast gave the impression of promising those things.

Their new video is much better than their old one; I can't find the old one, but it was narrated poorly, whereas the new video feels much more professional and helps communicate their use-cases better, even though its still a little hard for me to see two people wordlessly Bumping than sharing a phone number.

The new FAQ is really hard to read because the section headings (General,iOS, Android) blend right in with the Qs.

I think the larger question though is where does this leave Bump's revenue model? Bump's been experimenting with 'BumpStations' [1] and has prototypes in their office. But does this streamlined feature set coordinate well with expanding to NFC merchant stations, etc.?

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-is-Bumps-business-model
What about a cycling equivalent of this snowboarding outfit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIX3ntiTV-g

:-)
Wow, yeah. For years I've been using the container-div idiom, where the outer one sets the width, and the inner one imposes border and padding against a width: auto.

This may take some getting used to.
UX Designer or Engineer? Ridejoy's hiring. Now with extra joy. (YC S11)
They're trying to take take take everything away from the user. Soon there will be no filesystem.
Inspired by, but not the same person. The whois entries are completely different. spreadingromney.com is registered by Ayokay, LLC in Indianapolis, whereas spreadingsantorum.com is registered by Index Publishing in Seattle. Also, no one person google-bombed Santorum. They were inspired by Dan Savage, but he hardly was responsible for the thousands of people linking to spreadingsantorum.com.
Same. It seems possible explanations are that 1) It is the vocal minority that are annoyed by these or 2) While perhaps effective once for capturing an email address, if you did a longitudinal study you'd find it results in less engagement over time (I remember reading somewhere that slow webpage speeds don't effect engagement during a given session, but rather cause people to not come back over time).
Wow! a lot of changes...

- The Xcode 4.3 Toolset Is Repackaged as a Single App

- Command-Line Tools Are Optional

- /Developer No Longer Exists

- Auto Layout Is Now the Default for All New Cocoa Projects
Death To Feature Creep. Bump 3.0 Dumps All But Contacts and Photo Sharing
I mostly agree, with one exception:
"SSH keys and agent configuration are automatically picked up, so access to remotes over SSH ‘just works’"

Um, no. If there's one thing that's more private than my address book, it's my ssh keys. The fact that they aren't available to your application by default is a feature. If you need a key, ask me for it. If I want to give you the access, I'll do that.
It's silly to pretend that Apple didn't pick and choose which capabilities they would support in the sandbox.

It's very similar to their support for "multitasking" on iOS. Handle the common cases well, most others will find some way to make it work, and the rest are out of luck.
That depends entirely on your boss.

Mine would probably hear the reasoning out ... then ask for a less "unsavory" example he can use when talking with everyone else.
Are you sure about that? The introductory video explicitly says, "...and even notifications from third-party apps." [1] But that could be limited to apps in the App Store. Do you have a citation for that?

[1] http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#vide...
He's a good blogger, but I can only ever read a few of his posts at a time without needing a break.
The US won't invade Iran. They might bomb it, but never invade. Too many people, terrain too difficult. 2.5 times more people than Iraq, and 10 times more rugged terrain. Also, they've never been there before, so operationally it's a far more daunting prospect even without considering the already huge challenges.

People might think "oh it could just turn into another Iraq." But, really, it can't. Not that pushing back isn't a bad idea. But, really, it can't. If anything happens, it'll be all bombs.
Ahh, Gotcha. When that ("frivolous legal threats")happen to us, we just don't even reply to the person reporting it in most cases. If they're persistent, we say in so many words "get a court order, then we'll talk".

We've had India law firms call us screaming at 6PM on a friday, and we told them:
- we require that they submit all abuse matters to our abuse@ e-mail address per RFC 2142 (kinda, but this sounds official when you say it to some law intern chump)
- they can scream all they want; we're not taking it down unless they submit a "valid legal order" to us (I don't even mention DMCA because I don't want to give them ideas)
- we're not responsible for the content of our clients, so they need to take it up with them

>"We had an obvious path for handling abuse that both the accusers and SL could have used."
They (accusers) don't, and they do this on purpose. They don't really want the content just gone, they want collateral damage as revenge for your "violation".

>"After some negotiation I think we were able to convince them to just forward abuse emails to our address--but it took some doing."

Sorry that that even required negotiation. We forward all abuse e-mail besides spam complaints for managed services. With anything like this, we try our best to do as little damage as possible to our clients.
Downvote me more! I love it!
The worst is the complete removal of "all windows" Exposé in Snow Leopard. You can still see all app windows, but never all windows spread across the screen with no bundling.
How to fight cheating by promoting authentic learning
Good points. I am concerned about this coming sandboxing. I don't use the Mac app store, but the sandboxing seems to be too restrictive, and I'd hate to see apps giving up functionality just to stay in the store. I think long-term Apple will get this sorted out, but it would be a shame for app functionality to regress in the meantime.
No they did not specifically fix this. What they did was fix the general problem that Google-bombs exploited by changing ranking to not be so easily influenced.

Source: http://searchengineland.com/google-kills-bushs-miserable-fai...
Rule 0: If you want my eyeballs, don't stealth subscribe me to anything. Just because I bought one widget from you does _not_ mean I want to start getting recurring e-mails from you. Violate this, even once, and you've lost my business.
I agree, the Game Center screen looks jarring every time I open it in iOS, and no better in OSX.
I'm curious how many patents there are for devices that are impossible to actually build. You know, fun stuff like warp drives and time machines.
The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)
Next thing you know, there will be no keyboard, just a featureless ball. It would roll down from slippery slopes real well.
Well, Unix anyway, meaning a useful command line. The GUI I could take or leave.
Thanks pg & jessica for getting me out to NY for YCNYC. It's been onwards and upwards since then :)
Look at the post.

>Malekpour created porn websites.

Completely and totally false.
I got a wrong certificate warning and a 403. Does anyone have a mirror?
Mountain Lion and Windows 8’s Common Aim: Make Desktop More Like Mobile
Why 50-50 equity splits between co-founders are extremely dangerous
Kendo UI, MVVM, and KnockoutJS
A machine that can dream (Live demo)
Google doesn't care if Chrome is perceived as faster. They want the entire web to be faster. They use Chrome to push the envelope.
And yet a significant amount of money is being made by services whose natural market maps directly onto the porn site viewing market.

reviews, 'discreet' dating sites, sugar-daddy match-making sites, etc.
StatSheet is going to Automate ESPN Digital
Nice! I've got to get on learning responsive design. I really like how it's laid out both on desktop browser and on the phone. Good work.

The only comment I have is a stupid nitpicky one. The logo and search bar seem to be placed too far to the right (desktop browser) and it seems to have pushed the search button beneath the search box. I guess this could have been intentional, but it looks a bit off. If you can pull the logo and search box left to fit the search button, I think it'd look cleaner.

Anyway, how do you like Binghamton btw?
(I graduated in 2 years back. I wish I was still there!)
The odd thing about their refusal is that Google does now have a policy concerning for removing sites from the index where "My full name or the name of my business appears on an adult content site that's spamming Google's search results"

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/request.py?hl=en&...

I guess the question there is one of "spamming." Googlebombs have previously been considered to be spam, but that line is really blurry.

The real problem with the Santorum thing is that it draws attention away from the issue of how Santorum treats homosexuals and turns it into a juvenile prank. People don't mind that because they hate him, but it's a bad way to win over people who don't already hate him. The people disgusted by the term are going to want to vote for him, not against. That's not really what you want.
Ctrl Alt Compete - A Startup Documentary
While I don't think Dart is the most interesting language I've seen (optional types and mirrors aside), CoffeeScript doesn't try to solve any of the problems that Dart is attempting to address.
Which stands for kilo and is correct.
Sometimes the best iteration is removing most of your features. Kudos for overcoming feature creep.
Unless the court extends that order [..]

Which it will. Nothing to see here, apart from a linkbait title. Please move along.
In that case, it was clear that the Americans committed some sort of crime (straying across an international border), and so it was Iran's right to do whatever they wanted (to extract as much political value from the event as possible).

Someone visiting the country on a valid visa and facing execution because of their positive contributions to society in their home country is a whole other issue. I'm guessing that Iran, in that case, would have a lot less precedent to stand on, so they might not play the same political games.
>Soon there will be no filesystem.

Is that a bad thing?
I'm not saying it will happen soon, or that those of us long in the tooth will go easily, but I honestly think it's the future.

Think about young teenagers who will soon be "in charge". They snap a pic on their phone and send it to someone else. Nobody cares where it is in the filesystem, or even what the filename is. I used to meticulously name, tag and organize my mp3 collection into folders and sub-folders. Now I don't even know where they are on my hard drive - because I just don't care.

Those are old concepts we used to rely on to find and use information stored inside the computer, but I honestly don't see the need for the in the future. We can stop focusing on the "how" of the computer, and focus on the doing.

I will add that "power" users like developers will require these kind of concepts for a lot longer than your average Joe, but I still see it becoming less and less important.
HP releases Android kernel source for the HP Touchpad
Thanks so much for sharing this. What an amazing story, and a refreshing post with a balanced outlook on this insane startup work. Thank you.
If you feel that sex is obscene, perhaps.

Edit: Otherwise I don't see what the goal does to make the butchery of your fellow man any more or less obscene than it inherently is.
I can't imagine Apple ever removing the open Unix access in its OS X server due to so many customers relying on it (though I can't really imagine them removing it in the normal OS X either, but who knows). Maybe power users will just have to upgrade to OS X server on their laptops, like Windows NT Workstation.
Those are innovative products yes, but in new/weak competition spaces. It's a different situation entirely when going head on against a huge competitive with an innovative product.

For example, a new, innovative, OS going against Windows. In this case and without software patents, Microsoft would just copy the features that make it special, leaving the R&D investment as a waste, unless software patents are available of course.

Edit: Looks like I'm getting downvoted for no reason. Good luck with your collective circlejerk HN. I'm out.
I definitely see a difference with santorum, at least. Initially it was just a googlebomb, but now it's actually in common use as the term for the er, "frothy mix". I would not be at all surprised if some folks have only heard of that definition, and never of the man behind it.

Not sure what that means Google should do with the romney definition.
http://blogs.atlassian.com.nyud.net/2012/02/between-a-rock-a...
Tomjen3 that's the reason the Canadian gov't isn't able to get him out of Iran.

Hopefully Iran doesn't execute people for being in Canada. Although Saeed's case is so nonsensical that it almost seems that way.
The government is accusing him of having worked on porn sites, but all he did was write generic uploader code and make it available for any other site to use. It just so happens that the porn site used his code, but the author wasn't aware of it.

It would be akin to a kitchen knife manufacturer being charged for murder because someone was used their knives in a stabbing.
This strikes me as more of a transition period. Eventually mac sales will be controlled completely via the app store and its highly structured sand boxed environment. Gatekeeper allows runtime control. Icloud replaces the local file system. The style guide moves to the ipad side. And in a few years the mac just fades away...
Democracies have the death penalty, too. This is another example of why the death penalty is never an acceptable punishment for a crime; this guy hasn't even had a chance to appeal properly, and they're already planning to execute him. That's not justice, that's barbaric.
The impression I got from the article was that these patents obtained on existing software would leave the original creators at risk of litigation without as much to defend themselves.

IANAL, but I do believe you're correct about prior art. I think the risk is that in the messy world of "12 people who couldn't get our of jury duty in an east texas jurisdiction", you want as much legal weaponry as you can possibly muster, and relying on prior art without a patent of your own could leave you at grave risk.

I really do hate this game, I'll give you that. But I worry that refusing to play could lead to a blowout loss. Reform is so badly needed.
The Truth About Online Privacy: Who Cares?
My energy level problems stem from something else, because I've not had any of it since I was 12. Still trying to find the cause.
I'm not trying to defend either googlebomb. I just wanted to point out that there is a true story behind Santorum's site, and that this story is probably more telling of a candidates true nature than one anecdote about Romney and his dog.
Teenagers aren't going to go on making careers out of tagging photos and checking into places.
Fair enough. I heard Rich Hickey (I think) refer to as extending Clojure into the browser, which made me think of it as an "extension" rather than a full implementation. If the goal is a full implementation, that's awesome.

I'm really interested to watch ClojureScript develop, and it already has an amazing community (and surprising awareness among devs). I probably need to hack on the source before I make assumptions about it.

I'm enjoying the freedom of building a new language though, and things like compiling to Lua and debugging aren't as nearly overwhelming because I'm doing it from the ground up. Who knows though, if I get comfortable with ClojureScript I could eventually just contribute to that.
Ohhhh, in public-public. Like, on the street. Yeah, that's only legal in a handful of places in the US.

I misunderstood and thought they were talking about drinking at a restaurant or something. I figured the likely cultural miscommunication was over the European position on having a beer with lunch.
Where do we draw the line? Some people feel uncomfortable when they aren't carrying a gun. Should we let those people carry guns onto planes?
Yawn. A whole OS upgrade to move a few iPad apps to the desktop? Apps I don't even use on my iPad. Hopefully there will be more than this.