skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do find it an invasion of privacy. I just take issue with this statement:

they effectively took it upon themselves to disclose
to her father that she was pregnant

Mostly with the 'took it upon themselves.' I'm pretty sure that this was an unintended consequence. It just goes to show you that when you do these things you're really playing with fire, and you can't be so cavalier.
http://stylate.com/ has been doing a sort of similar thing for a few months now.

Between that and things like www.leandomainsearch.com I'm not really sure if an opportunity exists.
If JotForm is guilty, so is Google.
I say this because today I received another phishing attempt that reached my inbox. It wasn't hosted from JotForm, it was hosted from Google Docs. I see it often in my mailbox. I'm always pretty careful where I post my address so it's strange I get spam in the first place.
But anyhow I often see links and forms hosted from google docs. Sophos wrote about this last year. And again this year.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/16/google-docs-a-full-featured-full-service-phishing-facility/

Why didn't the authorities take down google.com? Is Google not guilty of the same offense? What the hell is going on in the USA?
Clik turns your phone into a remote for YouTube parties
How so? My loyalty card is not linked to my preferred form of payment (atm).
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You're right. (Though I will add that there has been recent discussion of raising COPPA's age limit. [0]) But regardless of the age of the girl who is the subject of this article, my general point still stands.

0. https://www.privacyassociation.org/publications/subcommittee...
Does it? Without strongly worded messaging, users would be apt to blindly forge ahead and run untrusted binaries, wouldn't they?

It's exceptionally frustrating to see this situation playing out. I really, fundamentally, do not trust Apple, but at the same time, this sort of pervasive code signing is an enormous boon to the majority of their users. And I think fear-mongering dialogs may be an important part of actually making that work.
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http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/16/google-docs-a-ful...
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Good luck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
I still haven't figured out how to get my phone to tether over USB on my friend's Mac. Works flawlessly on my Debian machine though. It's not like OS X is seamless.
RSA brushes off crypto research findings that RSA algorithm is flawed
Check out http://www.amazon.com/gp/history/ and https://www.amazon.com/gp/yourstore/iyr where you can delete stuff that Amazon knows; this may fix recommendation problems.
I found xcodebuild broken after installing Xcode 4.3 and the CLT. If you find yourself in a similar situation, run `sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer` to fix the newfound lack of a /Developer directory.
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What the hell is going on in the USA?

The USA Feds learned a lesson from the Chinese: "One eye open, one eye shut". See http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/051208-china-internet.... That kind of ambiguous policy conditions people to censor themselves.
"racing back and forth about twice as frantically" -- I need a font to be a certain size in order to be legible, be it letters or dots. If anything, a wider font means my saccades need be less accurate.

What do you mean by "proportional shortcomings"? If it's a comment about varying letter widths, that's a straw man, because humans don't read letter by letter but rather word by word.
I don't see how buying something is "publishing data". I'm sure most people realize that their purchasing habits are being "collected", but I don't think people expect that that information is going to be casually leaked to people around you like this was.

It seems to me that this is somewhat analogous to Facebook posting on my wall, "Hey, jgw, would you be interested in buying some of this special topical cream that is remarkably effective on certain types of rashes? Nudge, nudge."

Or Google sending me targeted advertising for anatomical adjustments by email - and casually CC a few of my friends in my address book.
I'm just not convinced that single dots work well without gridlines showing their relative position on the page. Maybe it needs a better demonstration, or maybe I'm just not getting it. I don't want to take away from your accomplishment, I can tell a lot of thought went into it. But, like Dvorak, it might be better, but is it better enough to put in the effort to switch?
There won't be J-school in twenty years if this continues.
Here's my feedback after playing with the demo tree that's on your front page. The demo looks very nice. It's attractive and makes me want to interact with the page. That's great.

The one time I built a family tree graphically was when my kids had a school project to do. We wanted to print a nicely organized diagram but couldn't do it with the tools we found online. We ended up printing out the information from a text file and organizing it ourselves on a sheet of paper. I don't know if I'd have paid for something or not at the time. It definitely would have been a one time use, though.

Overall I expected the interaction to be more like a modern maps interface (think Google maps) - zoomable with scroll wheel, click and drag to pan, etc.

The click to navigate seemed outdated. If I want to move up and to the right. Click the button on the right, now click the button on the top, now to the right a few more times...

Same feedback for the time line. It's a neat idea but I expected to be able to navigate by dragging it around.

Also, the zoom +- would be easier to use if they stayed in a fixed location. Having them centered based on the size of the zoom scale meant they kept jumping around. Really hard to click, click, click to zoom in.

If navigation were a little easier and more fluid I could see using something like this to create hierarchical diagrams. Right now it was too frustrating to examine larger trees.

I hope the feedback helps.
I don't think the issue is with the fact that they are data-mining purchasing habits. I think it's the way they acted on it without any subtlety.

> they're choosing to publish the data (their purchasing habits)
> simply by making the purchases

I would not call it 'publishing.' In this case, the girl's purchasing habits were really only between her and Target. Target then inadvertently disclosed them to her father.

> Similarly, Google and Facebook track you to show
> you more relevant ads, and thus increase conversions.

Google/Facebook would be wise not to fill your browser with ads about herpes medication just because they think that you have herpes... Just sayin'.

> if the data is obviously collectible, you
> should assume it's being collected.

This isn't free license to say that data collecting is good or bad though. If you walk through the 'bad part of town' wearing expensive jewelry, you'll probably be robbed. That doesn't make robbery acceptable.
Because as soon as you pay with a debit/credit card they don't even need a loyalty card to track your habits.
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Amazingly enough, I am doing neither of those things.

And try to make your mind up: does speaking out work too well, or not well enough?

You are exhibiting classic signs of "us vs. them" syndrome.
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So apparently Obama hurt entrepreneurs by funding Solyndra because every entrepreneur gives up when they see the government funds their competitor.

Apparently all entrepreneurs quit whenever their competitors raise more money than them. I'm glad an expert in private equity like Mitt Romney could clear that up for us.
Google's iPhone Tracking bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy
I don't think the fear is entirely unjustified. I always wonder, in the back of my mind, if the thing I'm downloading from a developer's site is the real thing or some kind of trojan impostor that's been shunted into place.

We depend on the "take one for the herd" principle where the first few people to get stung by the trojan will alert others and the app can be taken down. Usually this is quick enough to make the viability of this kind of attack limited, but can we truly depend on that?

Code signing not for DRM purposes but for identifying the vendor is a big deal. Most Linux distributions make a point of validating the MD5 or SHA1 hash of the contents, yet on OS X most just download and open without really thinking.

The "liberty" you complain about sacrificing is only one click away.
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1) Give users the option of posting it to their walls anyhow. Suffice it to say that I think you've thought this one a step or two farther than a significant portion of your users have. More broadly, very few social plays have failed because their users were just too darned smart.

2) If you don't want to have the difficulties associated with getting immature introverts dates, could I suggest doing something more important than getting immature introverts dates? I say this as exactly your target user for this, just older and (hopefully) wiser. If you're committed to doing social software, how about making something which people are proud to say they use or where the viral channel is built into the core experience of using the application? If you're flexible on what you're going to spend the next period of your life building, how about something which makes the world substantially better?

P.S. If you care, more than anything else, about doing right by the users of this application, you should say: "OK, here's what you should do: TELL HER YOU LIKE HER. We're not going to do the allow-you-to-wistfully-stare-out-window-while-avoiding-rejection thing because, honestly, we'd be selling you a fantasy which is directly against your interests. TELL HER YOU LIKE HER. You know how many people get dates because they use crush apps? Almost no one. Seriously, we could show you numbers. They're pathetic. Almost everyone who gets dates gets dates because they ASKED SOMEONE OUT ON A DATE."
Here's the tech used by ycombinator companies: http://trends.builtwith.com/tech-usage/Y-Combinator
For anyone who manages "IT" for their relatives, I'm sure they'll upgrade to Mountain Lion and lock down the application execution to "App Store and Signed Only" right away.

Some people have a talent for getting malware on anything.
Yes, you're right - I concede your point.

"They effectively disclosed to her father that she was pregnant"
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A close button on the top right of the sheets would be nice. Its a common metaphor these days.

Otherwise the UI looks great.
There is an option to 'proceed anyway' by right clicking on the app.
Ask HN: Any science fair alums out there?
I'm a current high school senior, heavily involved in science fair (comp sci and behavioral) up to the International level for the past 7 years. I know at these fairs, there's always a huge emphasis on the next "Nobel Prize winners", and not as large an emphasis on starting companies.

I know there're some fundamental differences in research that goes on to academia vs commercialized into a company... but any thoughts on what we should do to encourage entrepreneurship along with research?
My imagination doesn't seem to be good enough. How should I write "Doña Ana, New Mexico is one of the few US place names with the letter 'ñ' in its official name."?

I can't just drop the tilde in both cases because then it doesn't make sense. The best I can come up with is (transliterated) "Dona Ana New Mexico where the first n has a tilde over it is one of the few US place names with a tilde in its official name."

That's cumbersome.

Without punctuation, how do you express "eats shoots and leaves" as being different from "eats, shoots and leaves"; that being the punchline to the joke ending "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves." (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves )
I think a more important question is: how do you monetize? I'd figure that one out first and then plan marketing efforts towards that.
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Thanks, I didn't see that initially but it's mentioned in the Macworld article.
> I think we should get rid of the 9-5 and have staggered times. Different companies start different times of the day... I'm fairly sure theres a group of who like to start at 10, and go home 6, or maybe start at 11.

It's worth remembering that companies are free to do this already. Most don't, however, because they want to maximise the amount of overlap with other businesses they need to interact with. It also conveniently fits in with other things in family life, such as the kids going to school, or sports, etc.
Twitter sued for defamation committed by a user
Just keep in mind that Your Product is NOT “The Product”[1]
and that MVP is a deceptive concept[2].

[1] http://www.ashmaurya.com/2011/06/your-product-is-not-the-pro...

[2] http://johnnyholland.org/2012/02/making-sense-of-minimum-via...
I think some of the "features" windows is "borrowing" are pretty suspect:

native USB 3.0 support is almost laughable. Does anyone actually think Microsoft wasn't going to natively support USB 3 until they saw it was on linux?

I also don't think it's fair to say that cloud integration borrows from linux when both are really just an integrated dropbox clone.
Maybe because Jotform is using Godaddy and Google isn't?

ETA: Apparently Google uses MarkMonitor as their registrar. This service claims to have around half of the Fortune 100 companies as their customers. I'm sure MarkMonitor handles complaints against their custommers far differently than Godaddy handles their approx $10 / year customers.
I like the concept. A lot.

It would be 100x more useful if you added a set of tools at the right that emulate Skitch, so you could mark up a screenshot and then merge the edits into a new image. I would probably stop using Skitch immediately.

Also - if you're going to use KISSinsights to ask your users questions, ask a meaningful question. The current question is pretty obnoxious. Just my $.02
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I wonder how well this works with Bootstrap?
It is the Apple newest OS, which will blur the line between MacOSX and iOS, between desktop and mobile.
Well, first the jotform.com domain is still at godaddy as of 11:07 EST.

Domain Name: JOTFORM.COM

Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC

Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com

Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com

Name Server: JAY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

Name Server: LEAH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

Status: ok

Updated Date: 16-feb-2012

Creation Date: 09-nov-2005

Expiration Date: 09-nov-2020

>>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:03:43 UTC <<<

Second, as a registrar, we can transfer a domain same day if we have the Auth code and the other registrar provides a way to "ack" the request.

On transfer away, if we give someone an auth code we can have the domain released as soon as we are notified that the other registrar has input the auth code. Even if we aren't notified we can check manually and see if the code was entered.

So, in general it can be done pretty quickly depending on the two registrars involved. Quicker than it took me to write this reply.
If true, didn't Microsoft do that a long time ago... with Internet Exporer?
> Or that not all developers are as overly dramatic and full of shit as you are, but whatever.

I'm redeemed in that I don't hoard all of the shit, it seems.

> Right. So in other words, on the default setting a user can easily install compromised software via a social engineering attack, or with a compromised USB key or other removable media? Great job, you've improved nothing and solved nothing.

I disagree. Signed repositories, warnings and disabling downloaded binaries are good measures for protecting against trojans and worms, while not scaremongering your users or sullying the image of the developers. I'm not sure about the removable media, but you may have a point there. Yet you speak as if this system were immune against social engineering. It will only be if and when Apple decides to remove the option to run any foreign unsigned programs.

> Go figure. I doubt the Hacker News community could identify improved user interaction/reduced user anxiety if it bit them in the ass.

You call a "Your computer is under siege!" message an 'improved user interaction' that will 'reduce user anxiety'?

> We'll make a deal then. Apple will do this, and sell more Macs than ever before. You'll insist they'll should do otherwise, throw a fit when they don't, insist users are idiots when it works perfectly and sells like gangbusters, and then act like it didn't change anything and was no big deal when eventually this is how all desktop operating systems work.

Have you considered a position in Smashing Magazine?
Ask HN: Govt regulation regarding applications for software jobs?
Got an email from an M$ recruiter about a position. Contained the usual drivel, however one sentence jumped out.

"It is a government regulation that every candidate interested in a position at MS, is required to apply."

It sounds like an invented 'regulation', however I was wondering if this is a fallout of the investigation into the hiring practices at the big three software companies.

If not, I'm wondering why would a recruiter be dumb enough to add an extra step in the hiring process and further reduce the chances of getting good talent by making them jump through another hoop ?
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A summary of the summary is that it encrypts and authenticates all communication with DNS servers that support the protocol, and does so with very little overhead, in a way that can be rolled out incrementally.
Maybe he edited the submission URL afterwards.
America, if there's anything that's going to send bolts of lightning through your economy, it's this.
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COPPA basically made it illegal for people under 13 to be on the Internet. (Not that they weren't anyway, but it's the precedent and expectation that counts.) Making this situation worse doesn't strike me as a particularly good idea.

The "Minors aren't people." meme ranks somewhere at the top of my list of annoying beliefs.
I wouldnt have called whoever it was the guy in the article was quoted as callin multiple times until she sounded irritated. Yeah the government appears to be at fault but regardless this is not the time to be irritating in such a way. Having a lawyer who is golf buddies with that lady's boss would probably make a bigger impression, not that the jotform guy would have known that at the time, but nonetheless. Reminds me of the old maxim "keep your friends close and your enemies closer." anywayz this whole debacle is frustrating but hopefully it will illuminate some of the gov't's tactics to those of us who were still in the dark
I'm disappointed.

The single view idea is used by many project management tools and requires a user to do the parsing. Clicks are still required to gain access to the project meat. This means quite a bit of both scrolling and clicking.

The design itself doesn't lend itself well to either behavior. Menus don't scroll with you, click targets look to be fairly small.

I'll reserve judgement until I try it myself, and 37signals need simply release this and it will be accepted with acclaim, but I'm not seeing what benefits these changes bring. That said, it is crazy fast for an early build!
Hey wow thanks for the feedback, appreciate that a lot. Hacker News folk just rock!

Interesting idea RE: skitch, certainly worth some consideration - I had considered annotations at least, and will take the idea very seriously.

RE: KISSinsights, I’m a bit of an amateur really so I just used the recommended free questions to get started with. But point taken :-)
If you give the option for people to post it to their walls--maybe the people they've selected, but just that they've used the program, I think many people would end up doing this. If a kid wants his friends to use it (to see if his matches pan out) this should be made as easy as possible.
I've always felt 10.10, 10.11, etc. would be horrible for marketing.

But you are absolutely correct, there is no reason to assume it won't happen.

Interestingly, the Engadget article mentions more than once they thought 10.7 would be the last 10 before the jump to 11.
In my EE work, I tend to use formal analogies in my thought processes, sometimes unconsciously. For example, water and electricity behave in same way [1]. You don't design the whole circuit in the water domain, but you might temporarily flip over to water to understand a particular aspect, then flip back to electrical. Typically I won't write anything down in the alternative domain, using it just enough to clarify my thinking in the electrical domain, then recording things in electrical terms. There's all sorts of other domains too: acoustics, mechanics, pneumatics, ... Pick the one you are most comfortable with in the situation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy
Nope, don't try to shift the issue. We're talking about simply allowing others to compile code for PPC — not releasing brand new operating systems. Apple isn't merely ignoring it — they're going out of their way to prevent even third-parties from supporting it.
Is it possible to have 100% accuracy on it?
I haven't heard of the Web Audio API, so forgive me if this sounds ignorant, but isn't this the kind of thing that should piss off anyone who's interested in consistent web-standards across all browsers?

Aren't browser specific API's the kind of thing that led to IE becoming such a hated piece of software?
Privacy plugin keeps Facebook from reading your updates
Unrelated, if driverless cars are efficient enough, then traffic lights won't be needed and traffic will merge continuously.

Does that mean pedestrians can confidently stride out to cross the road and the traffic will effortlessly stream around them?
How many connections has your site made possible?
For me, the benefit of abandoning (or, at least, not focusing on) Windows, is that you aren't constrained in terms of tools and toys. Things like memcached, varnish, nginx, redis, mongodb, node, (etc, etc, etc) either only work on NIX, work considerably better on NIX, or come out much earlier for NIX. Microsoft and its [mostly commercial] partners are significantly out-paced/innovated by the OSS world.

I don't want to go over each of your points, but I think some of them are silly. Abandon Windows because "if Microsof goes down"..come on. Or, talking about the open philosophy of Unix, and then lumping Apple into Unix on hardware? Apple != Unix.

For your product, you should pick the solution that makes sense. And there might be more than one. Cost should probably be a factor, so should funness.

Do what feels right, learn from mistake, iterate.
Reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3513165