skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the biggest problem with the article - if you're using GitHub as a reason to argue that Git is bad, then you don't know enough about what Git really is to make that judgement.

The fact that Git is a DVCS has nothing to do with the fact that the Rails developers failed to fix a bug on their platform (Rails), which the service that you happen to use to host Git (GitHub) happens to use as well.

Sure, you could use this as an argument to switch to another Git hosting solution (BitBucket, self-hosted), but this could just as easily have happened with a SVN host using Rails....
New iPad Third Genration Already Jailbroken [Picture]
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Limited liability and credibility (people DO read legal mentions!)
What sort of experience have you had with Pusher and iOS, particularly in 3G environments?
According to Oink's twitter account, "All of the data is and was publicly available."

https://twitter.com/#!/oinkapp/status/179981032416755712
from http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/ieconomy/acclaimed-ap...:

I pressed Cathy to confirm other key details that Daisey reported. Did the guards have guns when you came here with Mike Daisey? With each question I got the same answer from Lee. “No,” or “This is not true.”

Daisey claims he met underage workers at Foxconn. He says he talked to a man whose hand was twisted into a claw from making iPads. He describes visiting factory dorm rooms with beds stacked to the ceiling. But Cathy says none of this happened.

I must say that while listening to the story some things seemed a little exaggerated, and the his whole style didn't seem very objective. But I didn't suspect that he made things up from whole cloth.
But Chrome is open sourced, so that isn't really closing down the open web... G+ is a different beast!
Show HN: A html5 offline client for Google tasks (chrome app)
Show HN: Antiqua, a way to securely archive private, unused Github repositories
My wife is a teacher, and is fairly good at detecting vocal sarcasm. She said he sounded earnest in his statement. I've heard similar things throughout the years said by Americans.

You're right: America has many problems, some of which will be unsolvable in any reasonable amount of time. Given that America prides itself on being an immigrant nation, I would suggest that ICE attitudes are fairly important. Fortunately, these problems aren't either/or problems, but often both/and. Improve the ICE experience (and other immigration-related problems) and you might find it easier to have someone come in who can meaningfully help solve problems like American poverty and healthcare.

I don't have to deal with America's healthcare insanity—I have quality healthcare here in Canada. I don't have to deal with America's poverty problem—I am more worried about Canada's aboriginal poverty problem. The way that my life intersects with America these days is primarily ICE and related agencies. It's not a surprise that my worries about America would be in the areas where it affects my life directly.
Any doubts now about why Amazon is pushing the Kindle Fire for all its worth?

The OP jokes about giving all their customers an iPad - Bezos is actually taking a Billion dollar bet and doing just that...
This sort of thing is already being done.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3003
Ah, sure. But in that case it's not a huge deal, you just wait, or you work out a deal with your landlord. Most of the time if you talk to them they'll be ok with working with you to sublet your apartment for the balance of your lease.
I believe GitHub was able to tell which public keys had been added using this exploit (because with this vulnerability, the log files should still be intact). So we/they can safely say that this vulnerability was not exploited maliciously.

Sure, there may be others we haven't heard of, but that's potentially true about any service.
Wasting your talent and time, just use bitbucket.

Life is short.
it was public on the site, not browseable. you needed to know the explicit url to your profile. there simply was no structure for it.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/urbanspoon-for-ipad/id3692674...

I'm not surprised Jobs said that. Looks like someone hit it with the ugly stick^H^H spoon.
If you think that the Social Security system works like some sort of bank, I've got a few surprises for you.
I attended my first Hackathon last year (in fact, the first Hackathon I attended was one that I hosted!). It was a really incredible experience. So many more people turned out than I expected, and the quality of the work was really impressive. Most people who showed up were University kids, and they really killed it. In the course of 5 or 6 hours we created 15 or more three.js based browser games (there were close to 50 people there).

My only regret has been that I've been too darn busy to host another!
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Au contraire, founder disputes are something very few entrepreneurs write about, especially YC-caliber entrepreneurs; and yet anecdotally, they happen rather frequently. I stand by my assertion that writing a blog post about it would be good; please consider doing so, especially if you have insight on how to avoid or prevent it from happening.
For the most part Pusher has been great on iOS, however 3G can be really flaky and at that point it's not really Pusher that is at fault for a lost connection. libPusher by Luke Redpath is a solid Obj-C Pusher client but there are some connection edge cases we still need to work around.
Marketplace, which uncovered the discrepancies and is linked to above, is an awesome little 30 minute show broadcast in the evenings on public radio.

Although it is rooted in finance news, they end up covering all sorts of interesting business stories.
There was not a rails bug! It is that way by design. Now, it is a terrible default but it was not a bug.
If you want to make this easy, use https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream. Great progress is being made on the 0.3 version and it makes pub/sub broadcasting and message pushing very easy. You wouldn't be the first person to make a live multiplayer HTML5 game with it: https://github.com/alz/socketracer.
I've been involved indirectly in the self catering accommodation industry for about 3 decades. (I grew up working in my mom's holiday letting agency in cape town) The percentage of revenue spent on marketing in the industry is staggering. 20% to 50% is common here in France and in South Africa in Cape Town which is highly competitive. Much of this goes to adwords these days. It's a very cash rich space so an amazing opportunity. Best of luck Adam and team!!
It's pretty much seattle weather then.
You can also follow along w/ development and progress here: http://antiqua-io.tumblr.com/
"They are a national phenomenon."

They are an international phenomenon. I see them, along with startup culture, happening in pretty much every Europe centre too.
Outstanding image! Great work.

For somebody unfamiliar, where does one go on the Internet to find the beSt list of similar events near by?
The follow-up airing this weekend sounds more interesting than the original piece, which I didn't even finish. Daisey's whole approach just struck me as slapdash and self-indulgent. I find the Planet Money team's approach (whose stories are often featured on This American Life) much more insightful.
This is certainly going to turn out in an interesting way. So far, the main thing being questioned is apparently the people he met, and while that is important to his integrity, it doesn't affect the story of the factory workers.

I'm going to listen very intently to this episode. Is he telling what could be true, or is he the worst kind of liar, manufacturing controversy?
This depends hugely on where you live. Good luck trying this approach with an apartment complex in Dallas, TX, for instance. (We did. We failed. We paid.)

(Some more context - I was long past college when this happened, and got a job offer in New York where I live now.)
'This American Life' retracts episode about Foxconn's iPad factories
Point 7 is dangerously wrong. The vulnerability allowed a malicious user to commit code under the identity of a a friendly user. The attacker could not have altered history, but he could have pushed his exploit on top. Chances are that it might have passed as a legitimate commit by that person.
the last time I heard a similar line was from Ben Mezrich, the guy who wrote 'accidental billionares' about Facebook.
I'm not sure why you're replying to someone who argues by calling people who disagree with him names.
The painful part of the whole entering the US thing is not the bureaucracy or the security theater. It's the people.

The whole system seems to be filled with people that are trained to make entering the US an unpleasant experience. Even when everything goes smoothly, rarely are people at the border being nice, polite and helpful as they are in most other countries.

This is all the more remarkable since it is so distinctively un-American. Americans are probably the most friendly and open people in the Western world. Once you get past the border, it's a breath of fresh air compared to most European countries.

So regardless whether or not the entire process is really justified, my main question is: what the fuck is wrong with these people?
I saw that mobile users "purchased more then 2x faster", can you share the average transaction time for mobile, ipad & web? (Fab push notification goes off that my cart is expiring in 2 minutes).
Why "used to"? Sounds like a cool place to work
When you graduate I am confident there'll be plenty of opportunities to do so. If no, give me a shout and I'll help you find one[1]

[1] Assuming you're good.
In order to make a major move, you have to feel that the opportunities in the new place are worth the cost of uprooting yourself and leaving your friends and family behind. You also have to be willing to put yourself into a sink or swim situation - when you're in a new place where you don't know anyone, your ability to fallback and rely on someone is pretty much nonexistent.

Personally, I've made 4 major moves: first from my hometown in Washington State to Chicago, then to Raleigh, on to London, and now I'm in Oslo. Each time I decided to move, it was because I felt that the new location would yield better opportunities in the long run. --Even Raleigh, despite being too southern for my tastes.

Major moves aren't easy, but for me they've always been worth it in the long run (I never want to live in Raleigh again, but if I hadn't decided to try it out, I probably wouldn't have made it to Europe). I'd recommend that people take the chance.
10 years in jail for using a spycam?
Having worked at Fog Creek, I thought the total compensation was fair. Here, total compensation includes things like never working weekends, never working late, never getting yelled at, never getting phones thrown at you, and all sorts of other perks that probably equate to different dollar amounts for different people. ymmv.
I use ps3 media server on my desktop and then use either my ps3 or google tv (two different tv's) with their built in media players to read from ps3 media server.
It's the Jon Stewart defense, except that he's not a comedian!
Mobile First Design: Why It's Great and Why It Sucks
He doesn't downplay the importance of ideas. He points at the next step which is to turn the idea into something real and concrete. Some people fail to even start the next step. The concluding advice is to go for the next step and make your idea/dream come trough.
Completely agree with your statement "Take a general...". Most often though, people run off to build a product even before they spoken to anyone ourside of their close family even excluding friends sometimes. Then you have a product and no users let alone customers.
Jobs responded: “I think the UI isn’t so good.”
trashed!!?? really
Psychology’s Woes and a Partial Cure: The Value of Replication
Ah. By faster I meant faster time in days to first purchase and faster conversion of users overall to purchasers. We don't track speed of cart to placing order.
I am not tryimg to sell here so I didnt put any about the site.

The site was my hobby but became more like the real deal and I dont have the time to spare anymore.
It still generates some money but it can be very strong and useful for the right company/person ho has budget or time.
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It also undermines his point. If getting people to believe what you want them to believe and do what you want them to do requires you to pump up the truth, maybe people were justified in their original opinions and actions after all if the mere truth wouldn't change their minds.

There is no sane interpretation in which he did not knowingly and with gusto embrace the misunderstandings his shading of the truth created. I can't respect that.
Sometimes they want to leave their options open. That's fine with us. An outstanding offer from Fog Creek ensures that the first time they have to wake up at 8 a.m. and put on a suit for a high-pressure interview with Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) --well, when the alarm goes off, there's a good chance they'll say to themselves, why the heck am I getting up when I already have an excellent job waiting for me at Fog Creek? My hope is they won't even bother going to that interview.

This doesn't seem like a healthy opinion to have about your employees, especially interns. Maybe I'm just biased, but every place I worked at during college encouraged me to interview elsewhere even if they were planning to give me an offer.
I wonder what iPhone ownership is like in Microsoft's turf (Redmond WA)?
An interesting coincidence - NPR is underwritten by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I wonder if Gates helped fund this show in particular?
You can't dump arbitrary memory with that bug. If you're very lucky and backend server already hacked or have holes, you can get some random part of previously send responce.
Python 3.3 reintroduces explicit Unicode literals to ease porting
I can only speak of my own experience based on where I live which is a post industrial town in England.

Basically as manufacturing declined the government stepped in and opened up many of their bureaucratic departments here. I think something like 60%+ of the jobs around here are for government of some form (either local or national).

We also have one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe. Combined with the fact that there is not really much of a tech scene here (most people have few qualifications at all) it is quite difficult to land development work.

My point is more that relocating or starting a business would require more resources than a typical recent college is likely to have access to.
I'm the dev behind cc - would love to hear all of your thoughts on what I've built so far!
ARC has gotten rid of retain/release/autorelease.
It also conflates DVCS (specifically, git) with the attack at Github. The security incident at Github had zero to do with DVCS in any way, shape, or form. Were Github to have been SVNHub, built on Rails, and lacking mass assignment controls, the same attack could have occurred.
It's a good question, but I would suggest it's just that robosigning as a topic never much caught on with the wider public. (tragically)

And if we're still talking about possible evidence of concerted press collusion, it's worth noting that Taibbi has been pounding on the robosigning drum far louder and longer than any 'traditional' news organization. So surely we can't consider his coverage of Goldman to be evidence of a concerted 'blitz' and yet discount his coverage of robosigning in making an argument of coverup.
I was talking about private insurance, not COBRA (which is crazy expensive). This was the single largest factor keeping me from quitting the corporate world for my own business, but only due to my own ignorance. Once I looked for a high deductible catastrophic plan for my family, I discovered how easy and affordable it was. HR departments do a good job of brainwashing us into thinking that they are the gatekeepers to the doctor's office, when that's not even close to the truth.

Anecdote time.

Last month I called up a dentist's office who I had never visited before. The conversation went as such.

Me: Hi, I'm a new patient. I'd like to make an appointment.

She: What insurance company are you with? If it's backed by, or affiliated with, the state we aren't accepting any new patients at this time.

Me: I'll be paying cash.

She: How does tomorrow at noon sound?

They happily gave me breakdowns of all costs, made decisions based on price (oh, we could give you this other xray but you don't really need it), and pretty much bent over backwards to make me happy. This isn't abnormal. The same thing happens at the doctor. I pay through an HSA for tax purposes, keep the insurance for major issues, save money in the process, and generally get better service.
Lower then it is in the bay area, just from observation.
Corey from Custora here. Happy to answer any questions about how our product works and how we helped Fab discover these insights.
Also, A solid legal system. (which recently stopped 3 strikes rule from happening)
Applying the Lean Startup to Mobile: Tips from Instagram & Foursquare
TL;DR: In Python 3.3, the string 'hello, world!' is synonymous with the string u'hello, world!' to more easily conform to the Python 2.X paradigm. It is not intended for use with new code. It is possible/expected that this feature will be deprecated and dropped in future releases of Python.
Moving to the bay area from Detroit. The first thing I noticed was the lack of American cars.
Fire everyone in DC and move the capital to Palo Alto.

Is it that we don't need to do this, or that we can't? If we can't, the hypothesis is confirmed and we really need to. If we don't need to... come on, man.

I've never worked in DC as an adult. But I grew up there as a bureaucrat's brat. And all I can say is... neighbor, you have no idea.

(Professor Lessig certainly has an idea. But he won't share it with you - because the source of his power is the dark crystal under the Capitol. Ie, he's important because of his connections, direct or indirect, personal or institutional, to the permanent government. He matters because he teaches at Harvard, an institution unconditionally trusted by... you get it. Certainly if he was just some random neighbor on the Internets, like me, he'd have a much tougher time being taken seriously.)
The most important decision a startup makes is to choose your customer definition.

It looks to me like you have chosen "anyone who sells anything on ebay" as your customer. The problem is, even if you could personally meet with each one of them, they'd probably still choose to list items on ebay because there are more buyers on ebay and they are likely to get a higher price.

There are lots of ways you can go. None of these are particularly good ideas, but hopefully they can help you think of a great idea based on your strenghts:

- You could choose a specific category that Ebay does poorly. Ebay has vacation lodging, but AirBNB is kicking their ass in that area. Ebay has arts and crafts, but Etsy is doing crazy well.

- If your advantage is an easier UI, maybe you can build an easier-to-use front end to list or find items on Ebay. Even for this, you might choose some specific target customer. Maybe old people who are nontechnical. Maybe young people who think Ebay is uncool.

- Here's a question, how can sites like policeauctions.com and propertyroom.com exist? wouldn't it be smarter to list all those items on ebay where you can get a higher price? Steal their customers and do something easier, list the items on ebay.

Whatever you do, dont try to compete head-on with Ebay. Ebay will always be a better Ebay than you. Choose one thing they are doing poorly, and do it great. Imagine if Etsy or Airbnb tried to expand to do everything ebay did. That would obviously suck. So be more like them.

Happy to brainstorm.
The new iPad in market to hit a new record in 4G-ready tablet computer
On Pie Chart Diversity at Technical Conferences
What's really tragic here is that the truth in Mr. Daisey's story will get dragged down by the weight of his lies.

Chinese factory conditions are often horrible, and there's often a blatant disregard for human life and dignity. Mr. Daisey did a pretty good job of conveying these ideas in a way that well-heeled westerners could understand at a gut level.

However, his pursuit of storytelling over journalism is going to destroy all that. People are going to (rightfully) pitch the fact out along with the fiction, because there's no way to distinguish the two.

It just makes me sad.
Review of Been Verified (online background check)
I wrote a script awhile back to simplify this workflow: https://github.com/rpetrich/git-dropbox
looks great man, congrats
Facebook uses their social graph to figure out what sort of needs you have. Maybe Google could try the reverse process; that is figuring out your social graph using their knowledge of what web content you need. Kinda evil though.
I buy American cars for several reasons:

1. Most American cars are NOT world cars, I'm a big guy, 6'3 300 lbs, I dont fit well in a world car, so I'm always looking at vehicles designed for the North American market, plus I do a whole lot of long distance driving.

2. Less intensive maintenance schedule, my town car will never need its timing belt changed, nor a valve adjustment, the primary services done, are simply to change fluids.

3. While is sounds jingoistic, its patriotic, I prefer to buy something made here.
High five to google for a green solution!
I agree, this smells a lot like late '00s legal recruiting - throw money, parties, and interesting work at summer associates, giving them and the firm almost no information about the actual long-term fit.
Apple's New Retina Display: Do All Those Pixels Matter?
> Try to predict election results and then try to influence them. Not exactly "Do no evil" I'll admit.

Depends on who they're backing, right?

But even then, that's subjective. What's more evil, abortion or forced transvaginal ultrasound? Pollution, or unemployment? Kang or Kodos?
Ira Glass: Playwright Mike Daisey lied to me about his Apple monologue
I haven't listened to this episode yet (I am about 40 behind) but it seems that a lot of these claims could have been debunked with a few emails to people on the ground in Shenzen.

It would be interesting if TAL (or others) would gather together a group of experts who are connected in various industries and bounce stories off of them before publishing.

This could even be a startup idea - a marketplace of experts and connected people for the purpose of fact checking. We live in a super-connected society where 'stories from China' should be easy to debunk.
The skeuomorphism is failry subtle. Maybe if squeak / etoys had this interface it would have gained wider adoption?
from __past__ import unicode_literals
I thought some weird cache from Oink's Pink Palace was found! Hadn't heard of this Oink until now.
Sprint Cancels LightSquared LTE Deal
Good point... it's not even clear that donating the book is legal, unless O'Reilly wrote it off as a donation, and paid the royalty.
Two people can live incredibly comfortably for $60,000 a year total. Just live in a studio in cheaper Manhattan or a one bedroom in queens. The median family income for nyc is about 54000.
> People already do social network spamming. There are plenty of sites where you can pay for a certain number of +1's or likes.

Not all +1's are created equal. A +1 from a close friend, or a respected public figure is worth a lot more than ten thousand +1's from accounts created in the past 48 hours from a Bangalore IP address.