skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a little abstract for me, so I'm not sure I understand the objection.

Their point is that we are being silly for caring where our personal data goes.

If we're being silly, here's an easy way to prove it. Show us how careless you are with your own personal data.

If there's a limit, something you won't do to show how casual you are about it, then we found something that we agree on.

My belief is they haven't thought it through, and are just being cute for the sake of being cute, about something that is very serious.

Actually trying to help them find a good place. Because where they are now, is not good.

Of course imho and ymmv.
No, you weren't unclear, you just completely missed my point.

Coding layouts in tables is more than just "coding towards appearance." It is misusing a non-appearance-related element, which is worse.

The problems I described don't come from "coding towards appearance," and they aren't encountered with DIVs named presentationally rather than semantically. You only get them with tables, because you're abusing the table element by using it in ways that are completely orthogonal to its purpose.

I'm not disagreeing that semantically-named DIVs are better than presentationally-named DIVs. What I'm saying is that presentationally-named DIVs are not equivalent to table-based layouts. Table-based layouts are worse than ANY DIV-based layout, regardless of how the DIVs are named.
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could they employ an organization such as the NSA

The NSA is a US Governmental organisation. I don't they are available for private tenders.

However there are loads of private security companies.
OS X doesn't cost $29.99. It costs $29.99 plus the cost of Apple hardware (the cheapest of which is the $600 Mini). Unless you go the Hackintosh route, you can't install OS X on non-Apple hardware.

Whereas you can install your $100 Windows license on your choice of hardware devices that support it.
>Most people have their choice made for them by their PC manufacturer //

It's a up-sell opportunity for PC sales staff too - people see the bottom price based on the MS Windows with all the decent functions removed. The sales staff will tell them they need to have MS Windows 8 Super-non-breaking-hacker-resistant-anti-mildew Edition instead ... oh and by the way now you've settled on that you'll need extra RAM otherwise it will run slow as anything.

The lack of knowledge about the different editions basically cripples a regular buyer's ability to decide for themselves.
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It's kind of annoying that I had to pay $30 for OSX 10.5 SP2.
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Nobody is saying "StackOverflow gives you a one-click tool to create their competitor sites!" They're just saying that 1) SO has made it impossible for themselves to set up a paywall around the content and 2) if they go evil, it's POSSIBLE to take your data and leave. The fact that they have open sourced some of their tools and that competing frameworks already exist make this easier, but no, still not easy.

But is that SO's fault? What more could SO do to earn your trust? And what alternative to SO do you propose?
Honestly? I'm not sure, especially when it comes to the tablets.

There are the obvious reasons for phones:

- Alice doesn't like Apple devices (whether those reasons are valid or prejudice doesn't matter). Phones are as much about personal preference as technical quality.

- Bob doesn't want to change carriers, and the only smartphones his carrier has are Android devices.

- Charlie just wants a phone and wants the cheapest device available. Until the 3GS was made available for $0 on contract, iPhones always cost more than $0 up front.

- Denise wants the cheapest phone off-contract. This is usually going to be an Android device.

- Eric is a specs junkie and buys things based on specs. He has to have the fastest, biggest, most capacious thing.

- Fran has been convinced over the years that specs matter, but she doesn't have the technical knowledge to be able to tell the difference between specs that matter and specs that don't. She's also the one who will buy a 15 megapixel pocket camera because she's been told time and again that megapixels matter.

- Gene genuinely prefers products by {HTC,Samsung,Motorola}. See the discussion about Alice.

- Harriet goes into the store and asks the salesperson what she should buy. The salesperson (Ian) directs her to his choice in phone—which might be based on the vig he gets, not on any particular benefit of the phone to the consumer. Ian may also have any of the reasons noted above, or he might listen to the customer's needs.

For tablets, the carriers don't matter. Price might matter, but most Android devices aren't doing so well on the matter of price: the top tier tablets are as much or more than the iPad, and the bottom tier Android tablets tend to be crap. The only exceptions to the bottom tier "tending to be crap" appear to be the Kindle Fire, Kobo Vox, and B&N Nook—and those aren't counted as "real" Android tablets in any case.

Personally, I'd only recommend an Android phone if there weren't any iPhones or WP7 phones on a person's carrier—and I'd seriously suggest changing carriers if they could reasonably do so. I can't think of a single reason that I'd ever recommend an Android tablet (or a Playbook) other than possibly the Vox, Fire, or Nook (and even there I'd make sure that the user really wanted a tablet and not just a reader, in which case I'd recommend an eink version). I keep watching and hoping that someone comes up with a good tablet that gives Apple some competition—but it isn't there yet, and I don't see anything happening in 2012 to change that.
This bug was apparently “not a bug”: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51672
Understood, but I'm merely saying expand the cast of your net & you may end up with someone techy nonetheless.
Exactly. And even if SO goes evil some day: one cannot point out the fact often enough how cool it was that SO shared the user generated data. We at TwoToReal.com benefit a lot from it (http://twotoreal.com/site/credits/)!
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Where do they find these mythical "confused" consumers ? This trope is really getting overused IMHO.

As far as I can tell, most consumers use the version of windows installed on their desktops/laptops/tablets. Enterprise users have their decisions made for them anyway by corporate IT. So that leaves a minority group who i) plan to upgrade ii) assemble their own boxes. The latter are sufficiently educated and the former usually consider a simple one-to-one mapping for their upgrade path ("I have windows 7 home, i upgrade to windows 8 home").

So, did I miss anything ?
I've done a this with helipad.me - instant websites for businesses with Facebook Pages. It has its own complications but the Graph API is quite good.

We should talk, Ed :) - joe [at] helipad.me
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"A threatened person lives in a threatening world. A scared person lives in a scary world. An untrustworthy person lives in an untrusting world. A trusting person lives in a trusting world."

plenty of gems in there, but this one takes the cake. I've been trying to verbalize this exact thought for a while. tnx.
>It's one of the first countries with a politically meaningful and rapidly growing movement for net neutrality

Although it does not use the term "net neutrality" (which I had never seen before about 5 years ago), the 1956 "Consent Decree" (a kind of court ruling), which resolved the second anti-trust suit against AT&T, imposed a version of net neutrality on the U.S. telephone network, and I have seen at least one writer credit that "Consent Decree" with enabling the growth of the internet beyond the purely government-operated stage (because the growth of the internet at that stage came from large organizations' leasing "dedicated copper" from AT&T Long Lines, which wanted to but was was unable to turn down requests for such leases because of the Consent Decree).

This version of net neutrality was restricted to large corporations (IBM was a very vocal advocate of this version of net neutrality) and the judicial system, and had almost nothing to do with popular opinion or electoral politics, but it was the law in the U.S.
I'm not sure I understand why it is so bad. Yes, it is in bad taste, and yes it is wrong to copy layouts (probably illegal to copy layouts). But copying the business model itself? what is wrong with that, especially when the 'original' companies they are copying from, are not operating in Germany (and other countries the samwers are expanding to)?
Is the generic model enough to fund actual R&D for new medicine? Eg, if generic were legalized everywhere, including the US, and it undercut pharmaceuticals so much that they went out of business, would new drug development cease?

Not that I'm a fan of intellectual property, but I do recognize that there are a few areas where the upfront investment to produce the product is so massive, and copying the final product so easy, that it might make sense to guarantee the profits for a period of time.

Does the pro-generic side have any data or counterpoint to that?
In my experience working on a US financial website, a bank would never consider using a VPS like Linode to store actual banking and customer data. It's not even close to Level 1 PCI compliant.
Don't believe everything you read in newspapers. US Left Wing newspapers & media will cherry pick countries and places which can imply that the EU is a paradise.

Reality is a bit more complicated and nuanced than that.
Well, it wasn't a bug. That was more of a feature request which is now implemented.
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e-gold was shut down by the government for running an unlicensed money service business. They were officially Nevis based, but actually run out of Melbourne, FL (where they started originally); criminal charges were involved. The main reason was a particularly motivated federal prosecutor and the specific uses e-Gold users found -- child porn, paying for stolen cc's, etc. It wasn't a general thing about PATRIOT/MSB laws.

osGold was just an internal fraud; digital currency, give me your (gold) and issue tokens -- then one day it disappeared, taking the original value with it.

There were hack attacks by third parties against some other gold currency systems at the time, but I don't remember the details.
Should I ever have kids -- and I'd like to! -- this would be the only thing in raising them that I wouldn't teach them like my parents taught me: failing is OK. There is always a way to continue and failing just means discovering a "way that didn't work".

My happiness and that of the people around me are the real concerns, everything else I do is just serving those goals.

Life is just another optimization problem.
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I don't have much to add to the excellent advice and discussion already given, but this is the first I heard of Upverter, and it looks awesome. Wish I had this when I was studying engineering in college.
A distilled TL;DR is, as you say, either useless or an indication that the article is unworthy.

I prefer the commentary form of TL;DR which is a pithy remark that allows people who are already familiar with the subject to learn what biases or novel facts this article displays. For example, consider the fictitious article:

Are Human Ears High Resolution Signal Detectors?

which discusses a study of microphones, digital audio recordings and double-blind human subjects trying to distinguish signal in high-noise environments.

A useful TL;DR might be:

Human ears suck.

which might be a useful indicator of whether you're going to learn anything new from reading it.
Not really. They segment the market pretty well, and few people buy the retail box and have to think about this stuff. Basically, it's cheap PC, or PC that does video for consumers.

The key difference is Apple has "computer offerings". Microsoft doesn't. With my enterprise hat on, I don't want to pay for video editors, etc. Likewise, the parent buying a laptop for a child doesn't want to pay for full disk encryption that is FIPS compliant.
True, that does bring up an interesting point.

I'll have to give it another look later, maybe I'll change my mind.
Not exactly. In order to spend bitcoins (transfer them to other wallets) you need them not encrypted.

So if you are a bitcoin business making bitcoin payments, at moment you cannot avoid the risk of having the wallet stolen if someone gains unauthorized access to your operating computer.
Enthusiastic SO user here. The fact that the data is available puts SO in the same category as open source software for me.

I use open source for all my tools of choice. My browser, editor, programming language, libraries, web framework, server operating system, etc etc are all open source. I get tens of thousands of dollars in value from open source.

In gratitude for that, and to keep the ball rolling, I do spend some effort contributing back to open source.

StackOverflow is no different, to me. The info on SO has saved me many hours of frustration and taught me lots of new things. Answering questions (and asking good ones) is my way of giving back.

And in both cases, it's partly selfish, too: whatever I contribute back to open source or to StackOverflow is not lost to me when I move to the next job.

Sure, I've given many hours to StackOverflow. But it's given many more hours to me in saved time. I want to keep that around.
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As odd as this sounds, I tend to believe everything works itself out naturally over time. IOW, if you ran a simulation of the earth over and over again, the timelines might be skewed, but we would eventually end up in the same place. Every advancement, whether it be inventions or discoveries about the physical universe, push the human race forward. But it always has to happen in such a way that it's two steps forward, one step back. If there's a hole or weakness in a system there is an opportunity to exploit it and you better believe it will be done. That's a good thing as it makes the system stronger; the sooner the better.

As was mentioned before on HN the wonderful BBC documentary "The Century of The Self" delves into how the 20th century US democracy began controlling by pandering to consumerism/irrationalism (ie. the tie between big business/media and government), while our communist adversaries began governing by increasingly abject force. They're like two sides of the same coin. Is it bad/evil or did this need to happen? Think about what's happened in that timeframe... the automobile, airplane, radio, the depression, nuclear energy/weapons, two world wars, the computer, television, the personal computer, the internet, and everything the internet is beginning to mobilize. The change to the world in one century is absolutely mesmerizing.

I believe through globalisation these two sides are both merging and dissolving at the same time - that's not necessarily a bad thing, it's the world trying to work out inefficiencies in these respective systems; inefficiencies which could be seen as bugs in a system that invite corruption. When bugs are exposed and fixes begin to emerge, the pockets of corruption are going to fight back - as they should, because that's their livelihood at stake.

Information is more free than ever, and that is what truly sets us free. So they made this mistake. And it's been exposed, quickly. Think about all the nefarious things that happened in the cold war that took decades to come to light. Think about what happened in the Middle East last year; governments toppled, quickly. They tried to sneak SOPA under the public radar and look what happened.
It all comes down to insurance. No one generally pays out of their pocket, they pay with insurance money. The reason you pay so much at a bank for a tiny box, where as, space wise, you pay a fraction for your appartment, or essentially change for a storage locker, is that the bank expects you to put valualbles in that space and so pays lots of that money to inssurance so if they do get robbed, they are covered and can pay you. The other places... dont. And usually have clauses in their contract saying as much: "We aren't insured for valueables, so don't store them here, it may not be safe and we won't (and can't) pay you back if they get stolen.

Linode falls into the second category, cheap, uninsurred storage space. You want storage space insurred against digital robbery, a) good luck b) expect to pay a lot more than $20 or $30 a month
>If this was the case, why couldn't every access to that wallet, which, assuming the above is true, necessarily occurs on other servers

From the sounds of it, this was that other server. All it did was operate on the wallet. And if they used other servers, then those would have been the target of the attack.

And, no matter how much damn encryption they have, they rooted the box that operates on the decrypted data, thats game over. The only attacker you would be able to thwart with more encryption would be the one who is able to root a linnode VPS, but unable to extract the key or decrypted wallet from from software running on that box. Sure, there is probably some number of attackers in that space, but security is a game of diminishing returns, and there are different security measures to take that are a much better investment of time than stopping that small slice of people.
"Render unto Caesar that which is due Caesar", etc. Most religions stress adherence to the laws of the land, except where those laws conflict with the edicts of the religion.
I have no idea why this is getting downvoted. The current political climate in the US is fucking abysmal, and bears little resemblance to a representative democracy.
Intel owns outright most of their fabs that produce their processors. Intel is the fab, hopefully they trust themselves.

AMD on the other hand, is going fab-less for at least some of their products. TSMC was mentioned in the past as being a partner. So you'd have to trust both AMD and TSMC.
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I've never seen sales staff try and upsell a Windows edition to someone who didn't need it (in the UK at least), not saying it doesn't happen of course and if your running a non server version are the hardware requirements any different?

AFAIK the only reason you'd need something other than Win7 Home is if you want to connect to an AD network or have legacy software you need to run.

You get features like encrypted folders etc in other versions but this can easily be replicated for free with software like truecrypt.
Does anyone have any past experience with this? How much did it cost you?

I'm creating an app that deals with real-time information and geo-location... It seems that patent trolls will be lurking everywhere.

As a young startup, we don't have the money to go out there and make an attempt at protecting ourselves.
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> The answer is clear: just have one 'consumer' edition and stop selling both Home and Home Premium. The rest- Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise, etc. are all fine.

If you think Microsoft has all those editions just-for-the hell-of-it, now you're overstating your case a little.

I'd assume they've done their homework and found that 6+ editions bring in more revenue than 1-3 editions long before I'd assume my own unfounded theories on the subject.

What's clear here is that consumers are willing to pay Microsoft more money when there are 6 versions to pick from.
It wasn't clear from the memo, but how did the attacker know which 8 specific accounts had 'references to bitcoin' if they didn't access other accounts too?
Amongst those editions: PreRelease Edition. Enterprise Eval Edition. Prerelease Arm Edition. Users won't be confused. They will buy their computer, and use what it comes with. They'll go to the store, and they'll have 3 editions: Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. And most people won't even bother buying it, they'll just buy a computer and use what comes with that.
Lets say you go to a dance club because people come there to hangout. Is the discotheque ripping you off by not paying for making their dance club better? Are you getting zero value for it? Are their expenses zero for taking the effort to make it a good experience?

And StackOverflow does not even charge an entry fee. I believe almost everyone on that site received more value from it than they put in. The amount of time saved by SO is ridiculous and was painfully obvious before the Panda update to Google which demoted the clones in the search results.

StackOverflow is the result of tons of hard work on both the technology and the community by the founders and employees. The site scales very well inspite of super heavy traffic and the UI/UX provide a great experience. In fact, the site and their blog posts serve as a poster child for .NET based startups while using OSS software like Redis.

Is it really the end of the world if they show an ad or two? The sense of entitlement in the article is just too much for me to bear. The author can take the CC licensed content and go build a Wikipedia style site for all SO cares and instantly get a free bootstrap of millions of quality questions and answers. I think they will actually be happy if it's a better place than SO, because they set out with the aim of making the status quo better for programmers all around the globe and succeeded wildly and raised the bar pretty high.
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I'm happy to change a server's content-type from application/json to application/vnd.my-adhoc-service+json, but that won't change the client's need to read my documentation and play with the service before they can figure out how to use it. That's true even if I move the documentation out to an RFC.

One real advantage I can see is to use the media type for versioning, but even that doesn't remove the need for a client to intervene if they want to upgrade their code to work with the newer API version.

So it's not really clear to me that a custom media type is significantly more useful for the client, even if it is more 'proper'. When a constraint feels ceremonial, I become suspicious that it exists to drive purity-for-its-own-sake rather than a real benefit.
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> neither manufacturers nor consumers need that many versions to choose from

And they don't.

> This is just Microsoft's way of nickle and diming their customers

No, it's not. Did you even look at the different versions? Eval versions? Prerelease Editions? Enterprise editions?

You'll see three on the shelf: Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. The confusion is made up.
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