skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily agree with the perceived benefits highlighted in the article.

i) No need to enter username and password:
Yes, we won't have to enter those but the real problem is keeping track of multiple usernames/passwords, not entering them. Even if we implement certificate based authentication, we will probably need multiple of them. Single identity is unlikely to happen because of
(a) Privacy - You won't want to use the same identity (username or certificate) on facebook and a .xxx site.
(b) Security - Sites who care about security like banks would want stronger control on identity (e.g. by expiring passwords or certificates periodically) whereas other consumer facing sites would not.
Given these reasons, single identity is not going to happen anytime soon. If keeping track of multiple usernames/passwords is a problem, think how hard would it be to keep track of multiple certificates.

(ii) Two factor authentication:
Well, just storing certificates in the browser/computer doesn't make it two factor authentication. The second factor in 2-factor should include something which is outside your computer such as a hardware token or your mobile phone. If you store your certificate in your laptop, the same malware which steals your password would steal it too.

(iii) Delegation and revoking: OAuth already solves this problem. You don't give your facebook username/password to a third party site for it to access your profile. And you can revoke access anytime.

Certificate based authentication is useful if you store them on some 3rd device like Smart Card or USB keys. There are
a bunch of companies doing that but they mostly sell to enterprises. We don't want to carry multiple cards, right?
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It seems that the 'worldwide' claim a bit of a stretch. I can only search for an iTech in the US and the front page has a US map on it. (Though it seems you can sign up to be an iTech worldwide.)
>FTP is still the standard for file transfer in most large corporations.

Um, what large corporations? And on God's green earth, why?

>It is as secure as other methods.

No, no it absolutely isn't. In terms of highly available ways of sharing data, FTP is the least secure of all of them. And it's not even a close race.
The long-term goal is to make the API supported by the browser itself. Consider the JS more like a "proof of concept", I think.
Dropbox is valuable because it's a screwdriver, not a multi-tool
Seth Godin on product pricing
From OP: "makes a solid argument for why an iPad retina display must be pixel-doubled -- i.e. 2048×1536 -- and not some intermediate resolution (just as was the case for the iPhone 4 before it). Anything else means every single existing app either has to re-scale art assets -- resulting in a fuzzy display -- or let them appear at a different size on-screen -- resulting in usability problems as the tap targets are resized. This is because every single existing iPad app is hard-coded to run full screen in 1024×768."

Doesn't this suggest that Apple is getting bitten by backward compatibility to the mass of pre-existing apps, just like Microsoft got stuck with the mass of existing software running on Windows (and also actually users who get too used to existing UIs/UX)?
This is a great post. If an iPad 3 has the "retina" display with resolution 2048×1536, I still think that a similarly high-resolution display will follow soon after for the soon-to-be-unified MacBook Pro/MacBook Air lines. If these high-resolutions screens are available at 9.7" for the iPad, it's hardly a stretch to manufacture them at 13" with a slightly reduced DPI.
"never" is a strong word. I know at least one (fairly large in it's country) bank that does credit card based auth. And if there is one, there probably are others too.
The United States made a huge mistake in moving to an all-volunteer army in the 1970s.

My life is my own to live. It's not your right to dispose of it. The draft is a massive violation of individual rights.

If a nation cannot get enough paid volunteers to fight a war, that war is simply not worth fighting.

In my view, mandatory conscription is one of those first-class evils that we need to dismiss as a society---like genocide, slavery, and denying women the right to vote.

My father was drafted to Vietnam, and although he survived the war, I think it damaged him badly and in turn damaged me.

So please consider whether you really want to advocate the draft.
Yeah, I recognize that. All I was saying is I am not excited by it. Call me curmudgeon.
Or at this point, they simply don't care, given that:

1. an announcement has been made with a photo hinting at a Retina display

2. it is obvious that Apple is working on iOS 6.0
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Sam,
iFixit is great for people that want to repair their device themselves. iCracked offers an avenue for the other 90% of people that need their device fixed but have no desire to do it themselves. Think changing your oil yourself or dropping it off at Jiffy Lube. I imagine Jiffy Lube makes a lot of boring money as well.

We have some really cool ideas in the pipeline that will be released over the next few months. iPhone repair is just the beginning, not the end.

-AJ Forsythe
>The United States made a huge mistake in moving to an all-volunteer army in the 1970s. With a draft and mandatory conscription, everybody had the common experience of serving and perhaps doing really bad things in the line of duty. As it is now, the vast majority of civilians have absolutely no idea what military service is like, as the author points out.

The last time there was coerced/forced military service in the US, many people here were not alive. Imagine how the disproportionately-libertarian leaning crowd in places like HN would react to being compelled to serve in the military.
War is a part of society that the vast majority of that society likes to keep romanticized and far away from home. The idea that the "society tells you to go kill somebody" is a gross oversimplification.

And claiming that a society made you do something and therefore you can't be called sociopath for doing it is not exactly the soundest excuse, because you can ultimately blame everything on the society.
Stack Overflow has made the internet a better "place"

Experts-Exchange just got in my way when I googled for answers.
I wish they would make the "Scan for Repositories" easier to find. I didn't know this existed because it was hidden in settings; why can't it be as easy as "New Repository"?
Before he was a professor of psychology he was an NCO, a company commander ...

I thought 'different skillset' went without saying (smile).
I guess my real questions are: Are Macs the best tools available? If yes, will they remain the best tools available? Will the trend of development tools and communities targeting Mac OS continue?
To answer your question: not yet.

I've seen similar reports as mine but not that many. Athlon-xp is not exactly new and few people use it to even care to report problems (specially when random segfaults are mostly associated with hw).
On the other hand ruling out hw problems took me several weeks of rebuilds and before reporting I'd like to test also the vanilla sources (the ones from gentoo are patched)
In-app browsers and the 17+ rating
That's why I wrote Legit :)

http://kennethreitz.com/legit-the-sexy-git-cli.html
The Mongols may not have had cities (besides Karakorum, the capital). However, by the time Genghis Khan's conquests were under way they had a written alphabet, a very highly organized military structure, a complex legal code, freedom of religion, and a postal system that was unrivaled until the Pony Express was established in the US. They were generally far more sophisticated than you give them credit for and their system of warfare was more than just 'tribal'. Sure, they used hit and run tactics, but a great deal of logistics and organization is required to besiege cities.

Sacking cities and killing the inhabitants was nothing new. The Crusaders did it at the end of the siege of Acre during the 3rd crusade. Khan actually gave the cities he attacked a chance to surrender and be spared.

Also, the term "barbarian" is loose, vague, and sometimes downright irresponsible when talking about history. Different cultures have viewed others as barbarians throughout history. Unless we're talking about one of these specific cases (such as the Greeks calling those north of them barbarians, or the ancient Chinese calling everyone around them that) it's a meaningless term. Would you call tying peasants to the land and severely limiting their rights and freedom to even move around a barbaric practice? Or is it just cruel or unfair?
But no mention of game development that actually happened in the 80s? How odd.
> because if our receivers are set up in a different configuration than some potential sender might be, we'll never receive anything.

We'll receive it, but it may be hard to distinguish from noise. But this is already true, for example with spread spectrum - if the transmitters are using that we'll never known, it's almost indistinguishable from noise unless you match the same frequencies they use.
The Kinect-mapping quadrotor was the most interesting demo; that could be useful today. Imagine letting loose a swarm of quadrotors in a large building and having a complete map and textured 3D model of the interior and exterior within just a few hours.
Broadcasters don't like "tiny antennas," sue TV streaming startup
Also, I can specify whatever the hell source IP address I want on my packets.
My apologies, it had been fixed by time I got here. Frankly, I agreed with you that the title seemed off as per my other comment, I assumed you were referring to the same.
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Cgislason,
We have a GeoIP service on the site so when your in other countries, our iTechs show up for those specific countries. We are working on broader integrations as well, apart from expanding 4-5 new locations a week.

We also get a ton of mail in repairs from around the world in places we don't have iTechs yet. This has been very popular for US military abroad which we offer extremely discounted prices to get their devices up and working again. We are trying to expand as fast as possible now, so any referrals for iTechs are greatly appreciated!
It depends what you want. If you're trying to get a job, then yeah, it might actually help to seem more like the cool kids. Get a Mac, use RoR/Node.js, insist on NoSQL, and wear a Afghan scarf too for good measure.

In practical terms it doesn't matter at all. The web is cross-platform and if anything I'd say Linux has the advantage as a development environment. It allows you to create a local environment identical to your server environment.
That was a good podcast from an outsiders perspective. Did pick up Posh-git from there, which allows you to have the Git shell in Powershell with tab completion and some nice colors. Pretty good, except that it sometimes is slow, and Powershell doesn't seem to have command recall (up arrow scrolls, doesn't recall commands)
Apple: 514,000 US Jobs Created
Does {explain ideas} with both of {understandable by non-technical people}, {avoids losing essential meaning}
many times, it's not illegal but borderline socially unacceptable. Such as watching porn - not illegal but would you want your S.O or boss to find out? How about your name, and address being posted in a forum talks about abortion, or suicide?
Generic medicines aren't available until the 20-year patent period runs out. Some of the profits from the patent period go to more research to make new drugs and obtain new patent rights. (Pharma is one of the exceptional few fields in which patents promote innovation instead of taking their usual role of blocking it.)

The additional profits that come from lobbying after year 20 to keep out generics don't get reinvested into more research, they get reinvested into more lobbying.
Imperfections in the antenna, obstacles in the path of the signal, etc. From the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is...

My point is space is HUGE, and it would take a stupendous amount of effort and energy to create and send a signal which Earth can correctly receive. And that's even if you specifically focus it at us.

But why would anyone specifically focus it at us, if our own signals are not focused and quickly (quickly in term of universe distances) become indistinguishable from background radiation, how would they know we are here?

What I am ultimately claiming is that even if we have intelligent radio using alien life "near by" we still would never find each other. Because even if we both have a SETI equivalent, neither one of us would initiate the huge effort necessary to send a focused "Hello" signal which the other can receive.
Or Legit:

http://kennethreitz.com/legit-the-sexy-git-cli.html
Haven't we had enough of these kind incidents to realize how slippery the censorship slope is? Censorship is pointless. People who want to circumvent the censorship will do so regardless. This just goes to prove that (by accident or not) censorship will be abused.
I really don't see how it could be true that US citizens are "meh" about military action. We treat military casualties in the single digits as tragedies. We're somewhat less adverse to collateral damage, but compared to Vietnam, let alone the wholesale firebombings of WWII, even that is (and I hope everyone will pardon me for saying it) pretty minimal.

That's the essence of Pinker's point-- the more aware we become of each individual death, the less violent we become, but the more violent we feel. Violent video games are probably the pinnacle of expression of that: our culture is so safe and so risk averse that we become upset by 100% fictional violence which hurts literally no one.

And I feel the comparison between murder and rape is pretty much invalid, for the reason you state. We do have a very serious rape problem, and again, it is obviously not because of all the rape video games out there, or glorification of rape in our culture. It's because real men do not learn to respect real women in the real world.

Again, that's what we should be talking about.
I wouldn't worry about random down votes, they happen all the time and are eventually balanced out by a level head with a click to spare.
Still waiting for them to add the ability to view and manage issues for repos!
And, may I add, their support is great as well. I received great replies and feedback during the implementation of my app, shameless plug: http://worqshop.com
In my opinion outside of SV, the more progressive the metro in question is; the closer they are to SV's view (the inverse is also true). I think places like NY, Austin, and Boston are also like this. I'm sure there are more places in the US like this, though I wouldn't know: Atlanta (I used to live here but many things have changed) and Seattle come to mind.
Great introduction to Backbone.js + trigger. I've used Backbone.js and trigger for one of my projects and it works really well. Didn't know about the CSS reset tip, I'm going to check that out.
AJ,

I think I met you and your crew a while back (last st. patties?) you were with the girl whose dad founded Intuit I believe... (and your friends who had a wine business)...

Anyway - I think that this is a great business, and I wish you the best. If you are going to be the "Campus Helpdesk" then I am sure big things are in store for you.

Sorry I am not excited - I dont mean that to be a personal slant, I guess I am just old :)

Good Luck! and congrats!

Edit: I am the type that likes to fix my own phone. I have had 15 separate iPhones since the first one launched and I have replaced screens on almost every one of them. I have yet to break my iPhone 4 - but I have replaced them on the original, 3G and 3GS.
> assuming that an ET civilization has detected our planet (which they could do from across the galaxy)

The closest galaxy to ours is about 25,000 lightyears away, according to wolframalpha. In other words, we'll have to wait that number of years before an ET civilization from there might pick up on us. I think this makes the whole endeavor completely pointless.
Mailgun is probably my favorite service. I have never had a problem using them. Any perl devs that want to use it I started a wrapper here https://github.com/gtsafas/mailgun.perl . Havent had a chance to really finalize it yet but feel free to fork, its just using LWP::UserAgent.

But then again their api is so simple its almost not needed
Nope. CSS 2.1 specification says:

* pt: points — the points used by CSS are equal to 1/72nd of 1in.

* px: pixel units — 1px is equal to 0.75pt.
Generic constraints for enums and delegates
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Steve Jobs told Obama point blank that those jobs are never coming back. We're better off looking for alternatives.
I need user acquisition as a service before I can worry about user retention as a service. Got something for that?
Switching to iPads saves Vancouver City Council 50K pages a year
The pricing plan is very confusing, definitely should simplify that. Maybe use something like heroku pricing page
Mostly a good article and I agree with his main points, but I have two big disagreements.

- Viewing distances. I only sit about 16-18" away from my 13" MBP screen and only about 24" from my 24" display. This varies obviously as I don't sit in a locked position all day, but I think he's erring a bit too high on estimated view distance, which means his necessary resolution to reach "retina" level is too low.

- Screen size. Right now the 13" MBP I'm staring at has a very significant bezel that I would like to see mostly go away in an upcoming model refresh. The iPad's bezel makes sense since it's meant to be held in the hand. The MBP only needs enough bezel to fit the camera up top and needs none on the sides or bottom of the screen.

But yes, his overall point that Apple does not need to go so far as screen doubling on laptops and desktops to achieve pixels that are indistinguishable to the human eye is correct. I just think the resolution at which that point is reached on laptops and desktops is a bit higher than what he's calculated.
We've been using Mailgun for the last couple months at COLOURlovers to manage and analyze our weekly newsletter campaigns (400k+/week) and handle our transactional email. Easily worth every penny, and the support from Taylor and Ev has been fantastic.
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It's not just that the labour is cheap. The manufacturing in China is far more integrated and nimble than it is in America. China is winning on more than just price.

See this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...

Also, Apple isn't justifying its huge margins. Everyone who buys an Apple product is.
My point and shoot camera has an auto everything mode. It figures out what scene to use (eg night versus landscape versus portait), where to do metering and what to focus on. I've never had a problem nor needed any skill. You can press the shutter half way down and it will follow focus whatever is appropriate showing you what it is doing.

The replacement model even has a touchscreen so if you want you can simply touch whatever it is you wanted focussed. Again absolutely no skill needed.

Reflexes is a little more interesting. Digital pictures are essentially free so there isn't any harm in taking lots of them. Amongst the specs listed on comparison sites are times to first shot and burst modes, the combination of which means you are likely to get something good despite your reflexes. I can't find any mention of the lytro having a burst mode.

It doesn't look like the lytro has any benefit compared to a point and shoot for conventional picture taking including focus and reflexes. But as we all know from The Innovator's Dilemma that isn't what matters - look to where things are different. One thing that is immediately apparent is it can build a 3D map of the image as it knows the distance to every pixel.
Just a quick pet peeve. Your Twitter link text in the header says "@mailgun" but your twitter username is "@mail_gun".

:)
I often get asked by clients I get to use mailgun if you have any interfaces like YMLP does for managing lists / generating programmatic email templates. I know we can implement this on our end but do you have any plans to build something like this?
The Mac client has been useful keeping slightly-less-technical team members up to date on our codebase (git on the CLI has a few too many sharp edges for some)
Welp - that's what I get for browsing HN in a bad mood. My bad, deleting :)
The video embedded in the article is great. Steve jobs literally gets the crowd to cheer for "unbelievably low price" point of the ipad at 499. Brilliant
What's brilliant about this is it directly, but unmentioned, provides actual social interaction and communication with another person. Even just having a person you regularly get coffee with before work for long enough to have a real conversation would be a great interjection to the daily routine.
Game development that happened in the 80s (at least outside of Nintendo) is a beast so far removed from even what indie devs do today alone in a basement that I was fearing this was a retro-love-fest article about distilling game design or something. This article is spot on with great advice, and the cheesy 80s movie motivators work here because they're fun and actually motivating because they're not so serious.

For those still disappointed that there were no lessons from 80s game development, read this article instead; it might be what you want and at any rate it inspired me:

http://tevisthompson.com/saving-zelda/
It might even be worth buying an ad in the deployed Stars & Stripes (CENTCOM; I think you can buy Afghanistan + Kuwait + Qatar + Bahrain edition as a package, and it's not that expensive CPM). This is a perfect service for that market -- when I was overseas, we did this informally based on my purchases of bulk supplies and air force biomedical equipment techs with spare time. The only tricky part is the fee for service thing; it's fine to do cost recovery, but charging another soldier for service sometimes runs afoul of policy. Running the payments through your site might help with that, I'm not sure.
While I do agree with you in some regards, there is a very real policy impact involved in having a professional all-volunteer army.

When you have to draft chunks of your population in order to conduct warfare, public opinion is very much against you if your cause is not 'just'.

"If a nation cannot get enough paid volunteers to fight a war, that war is simply not worth fighting."

The flaw here is that there are always going to be people available to fight for a chance at gold. Additionally, and even more troubling for the United States, we are increasingly reliant on machines to do this work for us--there is increasingly no meaningful connection between the citizenry and the hawkish body politic.

If we do not have drafts, nor the possibility of drafts, then we find ourselves in a position where either:

1. We do not fight, for war is not worth fighting.

2. We continue to fight, and find ways of reducing the human requirement even further than it is already.

(2) is much more likely, given the history of man and the way our tech is evolving.

At best, this implies that one day we'll have robots blowing up other robots, all made by autonomous factories--this is merely a farcical misallocation of resources.

At anything less than best, this implies that we'll have robots blowing up lots of civilians or other troops. It doesn't matter whether the lives lost are ours or not, it matters only that things are worse off.

I'd suggest that the United States solely use draftees, and that we pursue national policies that don't require us to deploy widely to hostile areas.
that's great, but when Google has already indexed the original content and has it ranking high, you able to download the content is an empty victory. They already got the cash