skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a flawed analogy, I think. What dcurtis did is more analogous to developing an algorithm, and then saying that only the smartest programmers doing the best work can use it.

Let's be honest here - there is nothing inherently special about the application except the hype and branding surrounding it. It's a blog. The design is good but it's just some text and a couple of buttons.

I don't think Obtvse should have used the same visual styling as Svbtle but this whole situation is clearly about more than just the application. Obtvse is a form of rebellion against egotism and exclusivity in a community founded on openness and transparency. When viewed in this light, I think the entire 'copied or not copied' debate is kind of meaningless.
Yup. It makes following the thread really tricky and can even make some of the replies seem out-of-context.
A similar idea, but executed in an even more interesting way can be found in the typeface Priori Acute, designed by Jonathan Barnbrook and released by Emigré in 2010. I urge you to check it out: http://www.virusfonts.com/fonts/priori-acute
I like doing codegolf in Python because it just feels so perverse. My golfed BF interpreter was way shorter than his :)
But, my-hacker-site.com could, instead of including an iframe to my-banking-site.com, simply do a server-side proxy of your bank and execute a pretty effective phishing attack.

The advice I've seen re:phishing is usually to check the URL. That doesn't help here.
It's related. DOI is basically a universal identifier that acts as a "domain name" for academic literature. This is to prevent broken links over time.

The big providers (Elsevier, etc) are obligated to maintain the DOI no matter what happens on their end. E.g they may completely change their site architecture, or change domain name, but as long as they keep the DOI updated with the current location of the paper nothing goes wrong. DOI's all around the internet will still continue to point at the paper.

It's a lot more robust than directly linking to the paper itself.

COINS is a way to embed bibliographic meta-data into a webpage. There are a number of plugins/extensions that will grab this metadata and do useful things. One example is an extension which automatically redirects links through your library's link resolver so you get the paper and not the paywall page.
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They are legal certainly in the UK , perhaps less common.
Credit checks are fairly common though, especially for finance type institutions

Drug testing is uncommon outside the military however I did work for an IT outsourcing company who were threatening to bring it in at one point as it was standard practice in their US offices.

Never did it while I was there though, if they had they would have lost about 50% of their staff.
That's sort of like saying that any RISC machine becomes a CISC machine at soon as you install the JVM on it (With the caveats that I don't know if the JVM has a CISC instruction set)
Completely agree.

@Droob : Yes and no, for sure, if you look at the BSD license or the MIT or whatever, there is not reciprocity implied, but if you look at the GPL, there is. If you look at that piece (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html) for example, it's pretty obvious there is a certain "brotherhood" mind implied.

But I think that even if there were no reciprocity implied, giving is more or less morally mandatory (for the bandwidth, hosting cost, etc) ...
I was wondering the exact same thing. I'd love to use it for the name of http://impossiblethoughts.com/
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Am I wrong in thinking the only thing this does is protect Facebook's financial interests? Don't they profit from the proper app and ad based mining and selling of this information anyway? There are so many references to the underground background checking methods employed by legal abuses of social networking, wouldn't it take a huge chunk out of their business model to have individuals simply show the information directly to employers, free of charge?
Yeah, I was using an iPad (new), and the presentation was approximately thumb-sized, so left/right of the presentation made less sense to me.
A thing to keep in mind - dcurtis is building a business.

A high-profile high-traffic no-nonsense blogging site is a very valuable asset - be it for the purpose of direct advertisement, product placements/mentions or as an acquisition target. Positioning it as exclusive and coming across as arrogant is actually a sensible marketing approach. The design is only a part of the deal, but it's the content that really matters. Cloning the design is surely not without consequences, but in a larger picture it's not that big of deal.
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When writing important things: LIFO
Well, it's nice and all but some privacy policy isn't legally binding in any sense whatsoever in most countries.
Again, Google doesn’t let you delete your search or browsing history. I’d argue this is, by far, the most personal info they collect about you.

Google doesn’t even mention either in the two links you gave.
My guess was the keyless entry remote, which I expect is now very close to 100% penetration in the US. I wonder if that was one considered for the chart.
"Tortious interference with contract rights can occur where the tortfeasor convinces a party to breach the contract against the plaintiff..." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference)

In other words, if the employer (Tortfeasor, Inc.) asks you to reveal your password, they're asking you to violate Facebook's TOS, which could be considered a contract you've entered into with Facebook, so Facebook could have grounds to sue the employer.

You'd have to ask a lawyer about the odds of Facebook winning such a suit, and what the damages might be. I'm just a programmer who gets his legal knowledge from Wikipedia.
> Michael Porter's "strategy is about the things you choose not to do"

Steve Jobs went on at some length about this as well.

I recall reading that he said to the CEO of Nike something like "You make a lot of good products, and a lot of crap. Get rid of the crap."
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By providing at least token resistance?

People shouldn't be getting roped in by the law because law enforcement has free reign to peruse profiles. As well, infiltrating profiles by 'social hacking' (aka asking to friend someone by having a profile with breasts on it) shouldn't be allowed by law enforcement doing fishing operations.

In other words, communications on Facebook should be considered as private communication. Monetization by anonymous advertising akin to Google's model should be the accepted quid pro quo for usage.
One wonders exactly what constitutes a 'boombox'. Would my bakelite wireless count? Or must the device have a fade-sporting b-boy attached to it's base to qualify?
Hi Mike, if you have the time and access to an iPhone, I'd love to know what you think of our new app called "Gauss - The People Magnet" on the AppStore and give us your advice on what you think we should change or improve in the next iteration. As we're a bootstrapped startup, we have to focus our time and resources and can't do every thing we'd like at once. Your opinion and advice would be very valuable to us! Thanks! Best Regards, Vidar
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Modern browsers have begun deprecating the a:visited because of the privacy problems that allowing it exposed. (More details on http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-com..., but essentially I could have the CSS set your visited link to a color, check that color in javascript and know if you'd been to that site.)
Sometimes pieces of government are unaware of laws they are breaking until a well-funded challenger can use the courts to educate it.
I have two 20" 4:3 monitors: one for my code editor and one for my browser. Works pretty well.
Posterous + Twitter vs. Tumblr?
Ask HN: Crowdfunding for startups
Given that it looks like the JOBS Act will become law and allow crowdfunding in exchange for equity, what would you look for in a platform to raise capital for your startup? What would you look foras an investor?
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So I have now added Ghostry and disconnect.me to my single must have add-on (Adblock). I'd still prefer one add-on over three, but going to give this a try (disconnect.me has no options whatsoever and I can't tell what's it doing in the background).
The problem is not the ability to start threads - it's enabling the programmer to express the problems in concurrent form.
Your cynicism is somewhat warranted, but slightly misplaced.

Facebook is doing this because not doing so would be really bad for business: i.e., it would threaten the user experience of the site. People would either quit Facebook, spend less time on it, severely tone down or alter their usage of it, or create fake profiles for work. Any or all of those things would be a big detriment to Facebook. So taking a stand on this issue is both good for business and good for PR.
That is why I have a dummy facebook account.
Seriously, when I give someone else access to my account they can then also peer into the lives of my family and friends many of whom only post with security settings that share only with Friends or just Family. I've then given away their right to privacy as well. Uggg....
Oh, I know that wildcard subdomains are valid, but it's simply not possible for people to type these subdomains (http://jsbin.com/upamof/edit#html,live) by accident.

My opinion is that they're trying to use technically-allowable but questionable methods to bypass the fact that people are 'blocking' them from search results.
I think I get your point but I don't think it entirely matches the graph. Is an answering machine more technologically advanced than a portable CD player?

Edit: What I'm really trying to get at is that there are so many factors that go into adoption. Trying to sum it up by how 'advanced' the tech may be is a gross oversimplification
No; in much the same way as if the Russian Mafia held you at gun point to hand over the password :)
I showed this to a friend of a friend and he attested it to be amazingly accurate. Also it would make an awesome app if you could apply these transformations to a videostream of your phone, augmented reality style. So you can experience the visual aspect of consuming hallucinogens without any drawbacks.
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How about attacks on privacy that use other channels? I dont quite understand the idea tat if you want to protect your privacy, you should stay away from the internet. This, 1) gives other privacy invaders a free pass, and 2) makes the internet look like a platform incapable of crafting its own laws.
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It can be a lot more selfish than that though. I contribute to projects because I want to get a better product as a result - even if it's just to test something or document an issue, or providing answers to the community.
The home button sends an intent that this application would just act as the default receiver for (just like the Amazon Fire tablet does for its custom homescreen), though if they are still giving access to the Market, a kid could install another launcher that responds to that intent and switch out of this app.
yes! when I close my eyes I usually see something like a checkerbord spiral, only not rotating, and there are several of them centered around different points and intersecting.
With the wife and boys out of town for a few nights, I took one afternoon to see what I could make in 4 hours. I was really pleased with aspects of the language and libraries that, compared to my language of trade (C/C++), enabled me to add features almost as quickly as I could think of them. A+ would use again, especially if they could figure out mobile platforms.
Idea: Facebook could add an alternate password feature that, if entered only shows content you can manage in your privacy settings. So just like you could hide an album from certain friends, you could hide other content (from yourself) if your alt password is entered. Kind of like plausible deniability in TrueCrypt.
It's embarrassing that I missed this crucially important factor.

The only caveat I'd add is that a problem can be interesting, challenging and a dead end.

Few things boost morale better than seeing your hard work pay off in a meaningful way.
I love dark knight, inception and memento, but found the prestige to be a little bland. Did i miss something with that one? I really didn't rate it, so to see someone put it above memento makes me wonder if i just wasn't giving it my full attention
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I've heard Israel does that sometime in the immigration controls.
The release notes can be found here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/releases/1.4/
Developers beware: The mobile gaming bubble is primed to burst
Sure, it's traditional if you are unable to meet accreditation standards on your own and have a spare $10mil in the bank. We can meet those standards on our own, however, we don't have a spare $10mil in the bank.
This is an excellent point! Design is supplementary to a good product. But theres so much more to a good product than design.

If Obtvse is more popular than Svbtle in the long run, it will be because Dustin himself failed, not because the design was copied.

He's already made the wrong decision at every major point imo.
I am always shocked by the fact that people equate a negative view of Roma/Gitanos with racism.

Disliking a parasitic culture that fosters the notion that it is okay to steal from "others" is not racism since it a) has nothing to do with race but culture, and b) it's based on fact, not prejudice.
I'm a CS major at MIT.

Single Variable Calc (required for everyone at MIT)
Multi Variable Calc (required for everyone at MIT)
Math for CS (this class)
Diff eq OR linear algebra

You might count the algorithm analysis class as math since it's in both the math and eecs department.
Lots of people take both diff eq and linear algebra, and everyone I know also took one statistics class.

http://web.mit.edu/catalog/degre.engin.ch6.html#
Taking a look at the timeline.

In November they fired a key employee, then the CEO demanded a loyalty oath of all remaining members that they would stay for 6 months or get out. They had 48 hours to accept the loyalty oath or leave. All accepted.

It seems it was then that they began the total rewrite of the front and back end of the system.

On this last Monday, after 5 months of an unpaid overtime, they finished that complete rewrite death march. On Tuesday they had a token pizza party.

There is no other reward for completion of this death march or the roughly six months of loyalty.

On Wednesday they are back to the grind. A co-founder, having fulfilled his vow to stay through the six month rewrite, resigns. The rest of the employees are told by the CEO they must take another loyalty oath and this time be willing to work without pay because there is no income. This time they get 24 hours not 48 to answer. The entire team chooses to reject the new loyalty oath and thus "resigns", but it is also possible they were basically forced out for refusing the oath.

Even without the oath, mass resignations are quite common at the end of a death march. So far this story is straight predictable right out of Edward Yourdon. Yourdon is also correct that death marches are the rule not the exception with start ups. Given how many products and start ups are destroyed because of management driving death marches, they may in fact even be responsible for the largest waste of capital in the industry today. Business as usual though.

Now we get to the strange parts of the story.

During all this going on, the same CEO only the week before was emailing journalists and telling them that the company was doing well and picking up several hundred new customers per week.

The CEO then writes a letter to investors blaming the co-founder for not being loyal, doesn't mention the new loyalty oath, and goes on to say the company is in excellent shape with new customers coming in every day.

This is all quite strange with a number of unaddressed questions. Among them:

With all these new customers why was the team told to accept no pay or get out?

The team spent the last six months sacrificing their lives and successfully rebuilt the entire product. They succeeded. The CEO during that time period has successfully extracted only 50% of the loyalty oaths he demanded. This seems his major accomplishment. He completely failed to secure financing needed to keep the company afloat. What exactly has he been doing during this time while others sacrificed? It is clear what the developers have been doing, but him not so much.
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On Firefox? We’ve been working on more obvious UI for Firefox, which isn’t in Disconnect yet but you can get in our newer add-ons (Facebook Disconnect, Google Disconnect, and Twitter Disconnect) now:

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I doubt that many of them will accept any scientific proof which disproves mind-matter dualism, and thus this one woudn't be breaking news for them neither.
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For the record, I think I was at about 561 before I tested it. (Maybe 541, am not sure.)
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I agree with you. For two other categories of employment, the risks, rewards, and promises are clearly laid out.

Founders: take on risk (no salary pre-seed, zero job security) but get a massive payout if it works.

Big-company employees: no risk, high job security, guaranteed payout.

For startup employees, the bargain is murky and implicit. These employees take some risk and stress (not as much as founders, but probably 30-40% as much) in exchange not for a huge payout, but for the promise of a leadership position when the company gets big. That's the (implicit) contract. It's not, "Get $100 million when this thing exits" but "Get a VP-level position, that might help you along to something else, when we hit 500 people".

The implicit nature of that bargain makes it problematic. A founder with 5% in equity is always going to have those shares of stock. (His percentage can be diluted, but he has legal recourse if it's done improperly.) Even if he's fired, he has whatever equity he has vested. The early employee (whose equity amount is small) who worked his ass off to get a leadership position in the company as it grew can be denied that opportunity at any time for any reason.

There isn't an easy solution, because some early employees don't deserve the leadership positions they want, but they usually aren't bad enough to be fired either. My solution would be to give them very small-scale leadership, or even autonomous contributor status (they can work on whatever they want, but can only pull other people to their projects if someone else thinks it's a good idea) as a token of appreciation. Perhaps that's because I think there are few truly incompetent people; some just don;'t grow as fast, for whatever reason.

There's another dynamic that hits this whole thing in the side: as startups grow, they start wanting "The Best" hires, which often means that they have to hire people into positions of some status. But if your older employees feel promised leadership positions, and those opportunities are bargained away to new employees in order to make the best hires, you can end up with a conflict.
"Father of the internet" looks a lot like the architect in the last Matrix movie.
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> (Note: I define "serious development" as rock solid, enterprise quality software)

This guy must be right. I don't see why my opinions should matter because, according to him, I haven't done any rock solid enterprise quality software since 2002 or so. I sure must warn my clients my software isn't up to the current standards of quality, for they rely on my "lesser" solutions.

Am I the only one who is sick of this kind of arrogance?
Hello Mike,
I need advice on how to move my idea forward. This idea has been keeping me up at night constantly. Obviously, I lack the technical skills needed to personally build my idea. Even though I am proud of creating a Firework's click-through prototype! I am currently learning to code with Codeyear, but it's safe to assume that it would take a long time for me reach a level where I can build it myself. I have personal money (50k) that I am willing to invest to start the build. Don't want to burn through those funds by hiring the wrong freelancers or company. Not to mention, I lack the technical savvy and experience to find a quality person or company to hire. It is better to pay to have it built, try to learn to code, or hope that I can find a technical co-founder?

Thanks for any advice!
Successfully protecting user data from the government isn't an either/or zero-sum situation, it's a game of inches. They should protect it up to the point at which they are most unable, and not a minute nor filing before.
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It depends on what considers to be a boombox.

A strong case could be made for the Panasonic Dynamite 8-track player from the early/mid 1970's.

[http://lh6.ggpht.com/-6pUpoW8QOVY/TyVslmmS4gI/AAAAAAAAI2k/HP...]

I don't recall seventy percent adoption of boomboxes in 1982.
What vote hack?
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Always hiding somewhere
See my other reply to you.
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You can still use :visited to change the link color, that's still supported, and it's the most common way a visited link is styled differently from an unvisited link. This way nothing gets positioned differently because a link has been visited, and javascript can lie about a link's colour.

So this sounds like a deliberate design decision, or at least a genuine design trend.
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We'd love some design/product critique. Thanks!
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While apparently successful in this case, that would appear to be a gross misuse of copyright and this layman would say that Blizzard got lucky and the judgement as precedent sounds fragile.
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I feel like this is a tech-problem that will have a tech-solution. No idea how that fits into an "International Trade Partner Conference".

That said, you can't outsource your complete manufacturing process only to come back later and wish for "virtual IDM" partnerships. Thats all of the benefits and none of the risk.
The overwhelming majority of people accept that drugs can temporarily alter someones personality and brain trauma can interfere with memory and or function. The fact that many of these same people also believe in a soul setups an odd sort of cognitive dissonance.

Anyway, for most neuroscientists results like this are far closer to conformation using an interesting technique than truly groundbreaking research.
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