skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google does allow you to delete some stored data. They don't offer easy options to delete everything (though they do give advice on how to remove information from third-party sites), but it's better than nothing.

https://www.google.com/dashboard

They also tell you what cannot be removed through the dashboard, and give a list of things that are not deletable (but also not tied to your account).

https://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
How is Obtvse, in any way, an improvement upon or alteration of Svbtle?

As far as I can tell, it's a 1:1 clone, but "open".
Since you're opening a new window from another domain and writing arbitrary HTML into it, I wonder if this vulnerability could be used to bypass cross-domain restrictions...
I was hoping at least one comment would point out how the message and the form of the web site are integrated.
This is inevitable of course. However, Apple has a strong history of continually disrupting itself.
It really is a testament to their marketing prowess when people un-ironically title their brand love letters with the brand's marketing slogan.
A replacement for MemoryStream
Use your iPad as coffee warming pad
The data doesn't warrant the title of this post. Even if a single neuron is responsible for triggering a memory (which is hard to say based on mice in the first place), it doesn't follow that the information is stored in the neuron. As an analogy, if we erase a specific bit in memory, whole parts can become unreadable. For example imagine changing a bit in a pointer. That doesn't mean that all of the information was stored in that bit.
Invest in your own startup, what else? :)
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They obviously controlled for that.
"The market doesn't pay for effort, it pays for things people want."

The problem is that people still want the the product as much as they ever did, but they've discovered that they can always get it without paying a penny. The producer produces and the consumer consumes but the producer is not compensated. That's not a market.
This is a silly post.

Please do not respond - rather flag it.
Yes, Apple products are not hand-crafted by gnomes, but they do represent a set of priorities that are rare in the world of manufacturing. I think it is more than a marketing gimmick; there is truly a desire to produce a quality product rather than only maximizing profit. I'm sure there were many times where Jobs vetoed a design decision where a little money could be saved at the expense of quality. I hope that the future leadership of Apple continues to have that courage.
I always was under impression that there are no memories as we think about photographs, but rather state of the brain is one whole memory system, which react to external signals accordingly to previously "memorized" signals.

As I understand, that they just found a way to excite particular small part of the brain which triggered reaction without external signaling. I.e. bypassing all intermediate parts (external sensors, nerves, other neurons, etc). I.e. it is more like to directly feed engine with gas and electricity to create a spark to make it revolve completely skipping engine control unit, ignition key, clutch pedal, fuel pump.

And when they refer to memory loss due dying neuron, this is more like part of circuit is removed which supposed to give certain reaction to certain signals, not like "rm /home/user/file.txt" with the rest left in place. So I do not believe thing similar to MiB is possible with this knowledge.
Imitating something that already exists is nowhere near as difficult as creating something truly unique. To create some that's never existed before requires different skills. If know the exact storyboard, functionality, and design should work, then you don't even have to stop and think about anything while implementing it. You don't even need any trial error because someone else did that work already.

Carbon copying for vanity just doesn't my respect.
It is not an improvement. It is far less witty and intelligent.
I think algoshift brought up some very valid concerns in his post. The government and its bureaucrats have legitimate reasons to put in safety regulations surrounding unmanned commercial aircraft before allowing for their widespread use.
There's an obligatory Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind reference to be made here...
Open Source is a long race.
I believe Dustin cares more about HIS creation than some guy who blatantly ripped it off.

To keep contributing to the open source, you need to care beyond "oh, I'm just going to rip off this guy's design because I failed to ask him if he's actually going to open source it, in the first place'.

This whole thing seems like terribly short-sighted thing to do.

So, Keep Calm and Carry On. The race is long.
Those who are talking about this as if the design and concept are just being stolen are acting, well, obtuse.

Wienert is not trying to pass this off as his own work. He's not selling it.

It's a few things, all at once: first, and foremost, it's a parody, skewering the absurd arrogance of the original presentation; it's a generic drug, making something which sure seems to be exclusive for bad reasons and making it accesible; and it's a good example of someone taking matters into their own hands.

Wienert was told something wasn't available to him because he's not witty enough, so he went and built it for himself. To compare this to someone stealing someone's intellectual property malevolently for personal gain is missing the point.
yes, this is the geek style :).
then that's where the confusion comes from!

drewblaisdell said (to Dustin):

> How different would you say his parody of your site is than your site is of http://drawar.com/ ?

I said I don't see how Svbtle is a copy of drawar.com:

> I don't see it; the whole workflow - draft to publish columns and such - is the same at drawar, or?

So I do not think that Svbtle is a rip-off of drawar.com.

Now if there's anything unique about Svbtle compared to the blogging systems I've personally used, its the draft thing (as explained in the Svbtle article we all read here on HN a few hours before this one).

My tumblr has drafts; but its not this trello-like list organising thing. As Dustin says, it helps make stories happen and posts get written.
I am also an Indian, also from Bangalore.

India and other poor nations account for a larger share of piracy worldwide. Here's a somewhat old study but it still serves to prove my point. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-soft...

Almost all the auto drivers here use the meters that come with the auto. Newer 4-stroke autos have better mileage so auto drivers or auto lending firms buy them and they come with digital meters by default so more autos are starting to get them. I don't know about taxies because I don't use them.

Most temples, churches and mosques here don't.

Buying a glucometer saves a trip to the doctor just for that. It is a reduction of cost and there is no cheaper way to do it. In the case of software however, piracy or a cheaper option is almost always available.

Of course you can go on and on but you have proven nothing. You have chosen to speak of a minority who do understand the value of technology and pay for it. I can also show you people/businesses who use FOSS or legally purchased software in Bangalore. Would that mean piracy doesn't exist here or that it is not prevalent?
There is always the outlier class in any society. You cannot depend on them for a viable business in most cases.
Opera TV browser
It's features include pink buttons and smooth jazz videos.
I can't help but think that what they've discovered is some meatspace equivalent to the hash key or an index key to a memory. By "turning it on or off" you can lose or find a whole table row or hash value, but surely a "single neuron" can't "store" a generalised "memory".
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Just trying to share some experience here since I used to do retail pricing analytics. The $15 prices will come back, if not lower (though perhaps through alternate offline discount-store channels).

If you look at how the price continues to fall after October through Christmas shopping season by one inventory holder (1saleaday, probably has 10k+ pieces to liquidate) and how poorly the deal has been moving even with guerilla marketing (see: views on each thread, as well as thumbs-up)... all I'm saying is that this deal's been a dog in retail.
Which Programming Language Should You Learn To Make Money?
Dumb technical question: What's the purpose of the "Aside" flag in Obtvse? I can see that it sets a class for CSS, can't see an equivalent in the Svbtle UI.
And complete anonymity. Most people don't care about this, but some of us do, sometimes. You buy a pay as you go sim card for £10, pay with cash, and toss it a week or month later.
I've seen the TED presentation about this and there is one thing I particularly disliked: all the energy and effort spent molding the plastic enclosure. I think it wasn't faithful to the concept of "recreating civilization from basic premises" that appeals more to me.
God of manong!
Cheap web-developers do shoddy work.

Why are you pulling groupon into this? Businesses offer discounts through groupon. The business itself may be among the worst of its kind or among the best. So the quality of product/service received depends on the business offering discount. If you are hiring the cheapest web-developer in the market however, I can guarantee you that you will end up with somebody incompetent.
I kind-of agree. If someones got a thing where part of their value proposition is "invite only" curation - then that same idea with different or no curators seems to be fair game…
There was a Ted talk some time ago about the work on optogenetics (in fruit flies I think) http://www.ted.com/talks/gero_miesenboeck.html
While backend caching isn't what the article is about, you're absolutely right that an opcode cache such as APC significantly improves backend performance. It's one of the first things I check for when I'm optimizing a client's PHP site.
I take it you haven't been on Hacker News for very long. I am a designer; one of my pet projects went viral after hitting the top of Hacker News. I've also closed a few blogs after my rants there hit the front page; it seemed to me that garnering hundreds of thousands of views for my eighteen-year-old hissy fits might not be the smartest way to make a name for myself.

Dustin's got a flare for minimalist design: he's good at making things simultaneously simple enough that you can grasp them and loud enough that they stand out. Sometimes I come close to admiring him, but he's so smug for so little reason that I can't appreciate him for his talents. Tim van Damme did the superhero thing first and with a tenth the ego; his http://timvandamme.com/ is better-made than anything Dustin's ever touched, spread further than anything Dustin's ever designed, and he never let it go to his head. He's also capable of designing a web site with more than five elements on it at once.

Simple is nice; elegant is better. Dustin seemingly doesn't aspire to elegance and he's content with simply being popular. I don't begrudge wanting popularity, it was hard for me to stop lusting after, but I do begrudge conflating "people like my style" with "I am a great person who makes great things". I love cocky artists, can't get enough of the Dadaists and Philippe Gaulier and jackass Zen tutors who smack you for saying stupid things; but it's got to be earned.

Dustin recently wrote a post that made the rounds which I admired because he seemed to be saying, "I'm not satisfied with how good I am; I want to be better, and do something worthwhile." He strikes me as a guy trying to do the right thing and going about it the wrong way, and I sympathize with him a whole lot. But his ego is hilarious and way out of proportion with the rest of his work, and I find it endlessly amusing how bad he is at handling criticism, endlessly irritating how certain he is that he doesn't deserve it.
Ask HN: What happens when your startup fails
What are some of the usual outcomes for the engineers when a startup fails?

I have worked at a startup that failed just once. When this happened the employees were not paid, and excuses were given. Sometimes we would be paid, and sometimes we would go for months without . At the end i was mostly paid back and found another job.

I realize that my story is probably not the most common outcome of a startup failing. Can you share yours?
As far as whitespace/color goes, both apps look similar (at least to my non-designer eyes) to Byword and Textroom:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/byword/id420212497?mt=12&...

http://textroom.sourceforge.net/images/odtexport1.png

The fonts are not the same the relative font sizes are a bit different (Dustin's has bigger text).
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I think this has been overhyped just a bit. I realize that a discovery of this nature is a big deal, but it's not what journalists are making it out to be.
If Chad and Eric were out, we wouldn’t be able to raise funds, and that’s that.

On the other hand, he also said the company has a rebuilt product and is signing up hundreds of new companies every week. Is it entirely a lost cause?
And Tumblr, too. I don't see what the big deal is, except that it's an official Dustin Curtis™ design.
I bet Steve excluded files that didn't have these 3 headers.
But the websites' free speech would be heard, it's just the issue is punishing people for hearing it after the fact. If we were talking about shutting down the sites to prevent people from hearing it then I would agree. An example would be you standing on the corner denouncing the government and the people walking by that heard your speech being arrested simply for hearing it, while you are left alone to continue your speech.

Granted, the original statement is an idiotic one and a good indicator of the thought process of power-hungry fools who don't understand the purpose of law intended for the protection of the people.
There was an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind reference in the article. You should have read it.
I'm afraid the author of this blog post doesn't know what a SIM card is.

First of all, it's a secure element: it allows authentication of the user's credentials with the cell phone. SIMs and smart cards in general provide security at the hardware level as well as the software level (using Triple DES encryption).

Also, they are essential in NFC: that standard is developed around the SIM card and the ISO 14443 standard.

Recent technology also allows the development of Java programs WITHIN the SIM card (it's called a JavaCard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card ) and allows to use a single SIM for multiple applications. For instance, you could use your phone's SIM as a mobile wallet, a metro pass, etc...

Of course, as many others have noted in this thread, removing the SIM card would just add the vendor lock-in inside the phone.

Where I live (France), most phones can be legally (or illegally) unlocked to accept different SIM cards.
Reading your comment, I think I could be giving the business caricature too much credit; I've certainly heard the "ivory-tower wankery" line.

I guess I always interpreted it as a dismissive (rather than hostile) attitude, but you make a good point. There's a strong case to be made that deep in its soul business believes it does all the "real work" whereas academics merely speculate about what work someone might do some day.
Going out on a limb here, but

Didn't the original GSM phones work in a similar way, with no SIM and some sort of mapping to a phone number at the carrier end?

As far as I know (and recall), SIM was always part of the GSM specifications.

The first SIMs where credit card sized. Later generations where still credit card sized, but with a perforated breakout for the SIM as we know it (mostly).

The predecessor system (analogue mobile) didn't use SIM.
I take it you are?
Without addressing the merits of either copyright or patent protection, I believe you're confusing the two. Folks around here tend to believe that software patents are bad; the view that copyright is bad is less widely shared. In fact, open source licenses /rely/ on the protections afforded by copyright law.
Omnicopter used as a camera platform
While Python is my language of choice, I'm happy Waterloo starts off with Racket (Scheme/Lisp family language). Very little syntax to learn and great for recursion. I'm not really qualified to comment whats best, I just know I enjoyed it.
Samsung design boss responds to Apple’s copycat claims
Oh, sorry about that.
Doyllstown hardscape
That title made it sound like a startup profitably fell apart. As in, the team dissolved, but they all made a lot of money doing it.
not clients, free users.
You make me wanna hover my mouse over you!

Good insights though.
Look into graphite and statsd
Something doesn't have to be illegal to be morally reprehensible. It's perfectly alright to think that copying a design should be legal and to still believe that it is morally wrong.

I'm not sure where the idea comes from that when someone displays displeasure with something, they want it to be illegal. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's good.Just because it's not good doesn't mean it should be illegal.
In the EU in general you can unlock your phone for a price, even if you're under contract.

The last time I checked Orange was charging something like 70 EUR for unlocking iPhones under contract, which is really not bad, considering you get the freedom to put any SIM in it after that.

Also, my own mobile carrier (Cosmote) sells subsidized unlocked iPhones. Basically for them the contract is enough to keep you "locked" as if you terminate early, you have to give back the subsidy you received for the remaining time, which is fair to both consumers and the mobile carrier.

It's crazy how better the mobile carriers are in Europe, versus the US.
Whether or not you or I agree, you've completely missed the point the author makes.

"For tech savvy smartphone users, committing to a two-year contract is brutal. Mobile technology moves so fast that smartphones can seem outdated just months after they launch. While this trend is bound to continue, the degree to which new generations of Android phones outdo their predecessors will always ebb and flow. Handsets have been improving at a somewhat modest pace for the past year or so, but the next crop of smartphones to hit store shelves will represent a huge leap forward rather than a few short steps."

His position is that while next-gen will always surpass current-gen, the upcoming handsets he covers will be a more substantial leap than generations past, and subsequent devices over the next 6-9 months will be playing catch-up rather than continuing to leapfrog.
I think he was trying to explain the other employee's reasoning for leaving, not conveying his own feelings.
Its like when my pub raft-racing team called itself "In First Place" just to wind the commentators up.

Later we called our raft "two pints of lager and a packet of crisps please". Such is English humour.
Your post only proves my point(That people build things without knowing what value they add). Do you know how much metering for an auto costs? Do you know how much Taxi Dispatch system for a taxi costs? And neither the meter or the TDS comes with the Auto/Taxi. They have to pay for it from their pockets. I know this as a my father is a Taxi Driver.

Do you know how much booking for taxis happens through emails/SMS and other online systems. The number is enormous.
Those who sell, sell. Those who whine, whine.

Coming to your point about Glucometers, again, people buy them because they need them regularly. So they pay for value. Why shouldn't they? I know at least 3 homes around me, and I live deep in Bangalore, not in BTM and Jayanagar types where only rich people live. People in those 3 homes have Nebulizers. They are ordinary middle class people who earn less than me.

Your problem is simple, You refuse to learn from failures. And you believe the problem is with people around not with you. If you have the same attitude you will never succeed in business. Business requires learning a lot from feedback.

Piracy is a global problem, Not just in India.

Your assumption that Piracy is an Indian monopoly is ridiculous to say at the least.

You say viable business cannot be set up in India. From where do you think crores of Indians derive their livelihood from? Have you heard of Jamshedpur an entire city set up by Tata's?

Again as I said, those who know how to do buisiness in India do it by building value. Those who can't just whine.

Lastly code is not the answer to all the problems in world/India. And business success doesn't depend on code alone. It depends on understanding people's problems and solving them. People pay if there is value, not just because its built.
Is Codecademy broken?
Can't start a lesson - ReferenceError: codecademy_lib is not defined
And for those of us who are interested in code, it's the least interesting thing on the planet.
I wonder how much this was directly influenced by Phil Haack (@haacked) leaving Microsoft to go work at Github.
From what I could gather there, it seems that, while they're signing up people, they need more investment to keep going, and no one believes that they'll be able to raise more investment any time soon. And it might be true. Signing up 200 free accounts per week may translate in to $0/month revenue (or -$x/month if you count expenses), so 'signups per week' isn't a great metric to judge on, although it's the only one we've been given.
Free users are still users, and 1k users per week is nothing to scoff at when you're dealing with the B2B arena.
Exactly - so, to me, stories about choosing co-founders are off-topic, as they are not of interest intellectually whatsoever.
Yea -- sorry, I mention later that it's a cluster, but I will update the first paragraph to mention that it's a cluster, not single neurons.
Not revolutionary? It's a relatively small step from here to mapping out the neural pathways which trigger specific memories. If we can figure out those underlying structures, we can hopefully learn how to read and modify them.

I need my Matrix-style brain downloads!
A blogger discover "drafts". He shares the idea only with VIPs. I'll use Gmail drafts.
Underscore – _.reduce()
That is the barrier to entry. Take Tumblr for instance: mediocre tech (just going from experience as a user), but it has a massive community invested in it. That is the barrier to entry; anyone attempting to go up against Tumblr has to figure out how to build that community.
A Burger, an Order of Fries, and Your Credit Card Number
I saw it several months ago
Isn't there an app for that?
I'd see it as the keycode / directions / a path to connecting all of the pieces; At what level all of the pieces are stored at (biological/physical in brain, in subtle energies, other?), who knows?
>MIT researchers have shown, for the first time ever, that memories are stored in specific brain cells. By triggering a single neuron, the researchers were able to force the subject to recall a specific memory. By removing this neuron, the subject would lose that memory.

That's incredibly poor reasoning. Using the same logic, I can "show, for the first time ever" that C structures are stored in individual memory pointers.