skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine that Verizon regrets walking away from being the original exclusive iPhone carrier. AT&T surely made a lot of money on that deal, despite Apple's unprecedented demands.
I'll be surprised if a widely adopted single sign-on solution emerges from a standards body. Standards should be formed from working code, not the other way around.

Also, I'm not sure what standard you are talking about. They have a very nice spec here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/BrowserID But this is not a standard.

Mozilla's contribution to this space is obviously going to carry more weight than foamicate, but I say let the best solution win and let's see what else we can come up with. Don't shoot this down by saying it's not a standard.
I agree, name isn't great, and I think the description of what it is/how it works needs work if this is going to take off. If you don't know what RSA/public key cryptography is already, you're going to have a hard time digesting the text on this site.
Would that really help? If you're going that far couldn't you just make all of your sockpuppets follow each other?
I believe if you are making some new application solving problem which has existing solution you should at least provide some clues why it was done.
I means they wanted you on the team. We also do the same and accept custom requests because we want the people to join our company. We are not indifferent to people. Fo some companies, though, especially those more focused on financial engineering than creating customer value prefer the my way or the highway approach. As I said in another comment for hem you are just a number.
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There actually is a "skip watching" button, but it is white on white until the other player colors into that corner. I believe it is in the top left corner.
Is that not already the case? Perhaps you're right. Seems like splitting hairs though.
Were there times when you considered giving up 'being the robot?'

And looking back, do you feel that it was all worth it?
Or would you make different decisions if you knew then what you know now?
We have yet to see this problem. The switch to FCPX was the first version in the app store. There hasn't been a high priced Apple app that has received a major upgrade via the Mac App Store.

You may be right that they are going to stay at low initial / full price upgrade... I see two issues with that (for Apple).

One, if the upgrade is not major enough to convince people to shell out for it. This fragments their apps ecosystem, and increases the support headache.

Two, how do you carry people forward to the new version. If it's a separate purchase, that means it's a separate bundle, and won't show up as an update when you check for updates in the mac app store. Again causing confusion and fragmentation (you now have FCPX and FCPX.1 on your machine, which one opens that project file?).

Again, I could be wrong, but Apple's current strategy look unsustainable to me.
My car has a steering wheel push button to do make a call; I should test how it works with an iPhone 4s and Siri.

I wonder if a bluetooth 4.0 low energy steering wheel slipcover would make sense. You could have a bunch of buttons to do chorded input.

The main problem I have now is that my iPhone locks after a few minutes, even in the dock. I want my phone to remain unlocked while in the car, since entering a long pass phrase on the screen is quite unsafe.
Hmmm that would not prevent every attemps (someone really motivated could always game the system) but at least prevent someone losing 30minutes to creates dummy accounts and easily obtain one of the first fames (when going with 100 000 users it will be harder).
And making fake accounts all following each other can be detected easily, especially if they all join the lottery
Zynga Tried To Kill A Cute iOS Game One Ex-OMGPOP Dev Made For His Wife [Evil]
Do you manually repoint the panels based on season (for elevation)?

How far north are you?
The best approach for the hackers now is to start releasing fake exploit videos for every single game out there.

Once Sony cuts off enough games, the public outcry will be massive. And if they don't cut them off, they'll potentially be leaving holes behind.
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Honestly, I read this headline bleary-eyed from a nap.. and that's what I saw until I did a double-take.

It's not the fact that it's a one-letter change, it's the fact that rn is m minus a pixel here and there.
The thing that bothers me the most is that Sonys decisions often reflect what's good for them and not what's good for their customers. All piracy aside, custom firmware made the original PSP a much better device for the user in general. You probably haven't followed this so here are some examples. The biggest advantage was you could put all your games on the memorystick instead of using the little CD-ROM drive, which meant a) loading times where much faster, because you're reading of flash b) battery life was better, since no spinning optical drive is running and c) you didn't have to carry anything besides the device!

Another funny thing, the PSP shipped with a Sony-made Playstation 1 emulator on it, which meant you theoretically could play the whole PS1 library on this thing. Now instead of letting people use it, it just sat there inaccesible. People where actually quite surprised to find it there after the PSP was hacked, and finally allowed everyone to use it.

Then there where cool little tweaks & tools - there was a really cool savegame system, which allowed you to save at any time during a game by taking memory snapshots, which is very useful on a portable system. And another cool tool let you transfer files from your PC wirelessly over your WiFi.

Well the point is, it really unleashed the device and made it much more capable then in its locked down state, in effect providing greater value for the customer. You'd think that after a while Sony would get some insight and reconsider their decisions, instead they lock down even more and start suing people!! What the hell, I think a lot of companies, who blame their problems on piracy and whatnot are slowly scaring of their customers away without even noticing, which then of course gets blamed on piracy again...
Here's the upside: people will stop asking how your start up will compete with google.
Interesting concept with an unfortunate name. Foarnicate? Foarnicator? With just the right font and kerning, "m" becomes indistinguishable from "rn".

Also, a common problem with all browser-based authentication systems seems to be what happens when the user loses the browser. (Hard drive failure, theft, etc.)

With LastPass, I can retrieve my passwords by reinstalling the add-on and entering my master password, because all the data is kept on their servers. With browser-based authentication schemes without a central server, once you lose your browser, it's gone. It's also virtually impossible to remember a randomly generated private key, unlike even a 10-word passphrase. So I'll only ever be able to use this with unimportant sites, not e-mail or banking. I see that this problem is mentioned in the "technical limitations" section, but any good idea to fix this without asking users to trust a central server?
It tends to acquire bugs because ideas of what it should do change over time, and so what used to be correct behavior is no longer.

Which also gives you useful guidelines for deciding when to rewrite. Identify the design assumptions of the system. Identify which ones of them no longer hold. If you can't identify these, leave it be - there's probably something important in there that you don't understand. If you can identify them but there are ways of making the existing system meet the new requirements, refactor, don't rewrite. Only rewrite if the fundamental assumptions of the system, ones that permeate the whole system design, have changed.
I mostly agree with your larger point, but a nice new Android phone is more like 500 euros, no?

I think far fewer Americans would own smartphones if they had to pay the full, unsubsidized cost up front.
Why, god, I ask Why?
Your first 4 points apply to virtually every other country I know, to varying degrees. As for jailing the guy, it might sound surprising, but it is only so because a lot of people dont know how advanced the US is in terms of freedom of speech. You can say almost anything and get away with it. Some other countries are moving to that directions, albeit slower that expected. Slamming the UK alone for this ignores general developments across the globe.
Obvious hyperbole is obvious. IMO, the analogy stands. I'm not the only one who thinks so http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/serving-at-the-plea...
Thanks! TokBox provides the video platform, but the OnTheAir team is a small, super-smart group which is tightly focused on nailing the end-user experience. The stuff they think about - everything from testing how to promote shows to where the users' eye-level is - has been incredibly thorough and thoughtful. We've been really impressed with them.
Did I? Perhaps you could elaborate for my benefit then.
A quick tutorial for UK/American readers:

The UK has an official state religion - but nobody (including it's bishops) mentions God because people would think they were mad.
The US bans all links between the state and religion - so all politicians must mention God at all times or people would think they are mad.

In the UK "conservatives" are a moderately right of centre party that believe in lower taxes and lower spending. In the US "conservatives" are people who don't believe in electricity.
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That's... cute.

But wouldn't that get a lot of people's accounts banned? If I remember right (from some time ago) you couldn't follow/unfollow too many people all the time, or you'd get banned.
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The PS3 didn't have a piracy problem for a long time because of Blu-Rays. For a couple of years after the initial hardware release, BR burners were prohibitively expensive, and the bandwidth required to download a single disc in a reasonable amount of time was also expensive.

There were several high profile hacks on the PS3 that allowed pirated games for a while, even before they removed the OtherOS feature(IIRC, one was a rather ingenious hack that involved tricking the USB handler in order to do a code injection).

The real reason that the PS3 has such a big problem now is because, as we found out with the GeoHotz stuff, Sony didn't actually use any real security for the PS3.

MS and Nintendo took hardware security very seriously. MS has basically made the 360 unhackable without a mod chip at this point through a lot of creative Hypervisor tricks. Nintendo had a similar level of security as Sony(lots of OS holes that have been patched up over the years), but they also use a non-standard disc encoding format, which makes traditional "download the ISO and burn it on a DVD" piracy a lot more difficult because very few DVD drives can actually read the discs to rip them.
Silly but it isn't as if mass attention is logically or productively focused. Why not just go randomly? ;)
I actually agree with the comment, but for entirely different reasons.

For me learning Python first (Well, not first, but it was the first language I learned that wasn't like...qbasic or pascal or something nasty and dos-y like that - I started using Python circa 1.5.2 on an early G3 Mac) ruined just about every other language for me because, well, they're just all so much work. Python just stays out of your way so well 99% of the time, and it has the nicest (Not necessarily LARGEST, but best curated/most coherent) standard library of any language I've used.

That said, Scala (and Lift in particular) have been catching my eye lately - not quite as elegant (but with a few new tricks too...), but the performance characteristics are certainly appealing, which is the one area where python is...lacking.
Did you miss this?

outside of obscenity, defamation, incitement to riot, and fighting words.
Not yet.

There's a feature request from a year ago:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84510
It's Google. They'll be free. To make up the cost, they will just slow down near Google billboards.
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In the same vein, I recently started using EtchJS[1] to do lightweight WYSIWYG editing. It doesn't do Markdown, just HTML, but it's very simple and straightforward, and takes advantage of the contentEditable property to be lightweight. It's also designed to be used with BackboneJS.

[1] http://etchjs.com/
Ask HN: Understanding HN?
I am a freshman computer science major that frequents this site and has trouble understanding a lot of the posts, especially the ones that link / discuss github, opensource projects, HTML5, and the like. The posts I enjoy the most are blog posts and reviews. I know the reason for this is my lack of experience and knowledge. Besides my courses, I am learning python and have a plan to start learning PHP/MySQL and JavaScript. I already have the fundamentals of programming down from my courses. Is there anything else I can/ should be doing?
Gmail was launched on April first so I wouldn't put it past Google.
From my experience, in France, having someone savvy to enter it's credit card data on a website that is not Paypal or a known bank is hard. Trust issues.
you only follow 1 person/day, and then unfollow 1 person/day. no technical issues w/API.
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No they did not: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga_Why...

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- I was not directly asked to give up control of my indie game. I was only asked to sign a job offer -- which might have that legal consequence. (If this seems like a flimsy point over which to worry so much, ask yourself: if you were asked to sign a document that might mean that you lost custody of your child, with no assurances otherwise -- would you do so? I don't have a child, I have Connectrode.)
The Google phone with no network
Dear Hackernews,

I am a developer who uses Android as my primary connection to the Internet when roaming... which is often. Unfortunately I can't keep a network connection with this phone and I am not the only one.

It seems that Android ICS (v.4) cannot maintain a connection when switching between types of network. Whether that be Wifi back to 3G or even HSPA+ to 3G to Edge and vise versa.

Can we get a little HackerNews bump on this issue so that Google will take a look? I've posted to Google's help forums and even aggregated a few of the related issue threads though they seem to be very slow to respond.

Just in case you're wondering, yes I have talked to my carrier and they gave me the usual dumb trial and error responses, none of which work. They say they get 12-15 calls a day from Toronto on this issue (not sure if that is one rep or the entire office). They were very happy to get some debugging info from me.

Know someone at Google? Tap them on the shoulder if you don't mind doing so. I am at the point where I'm ready to replace my two-month-old phone because of this obvious defect.

Many thanks.
All of those are a subset of hate speech. Inciting violence is not necessarily under fighting words, it's a category of its own.

Here's the Wikipedia article on US hate speech, they call out specific forms of hate speech which are illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States
that reaction is why
What's the difference between this and just storing a long session ID in cookies?
Google tends to reserve April Fools' Day for more amusing things. You'll have no idea if it will still be around on April 2.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2011/04/google-april-fools-d...
Creating chat roulette on iOS with node.js, socket.io, and OpenTok
totally. the fun is watching what the winner does
With Googles new push to have all products making money it is unlikely that Google will sink too much money into offering free Drive space.
Page not found :/ Does anyone have a cache of the article's text?
The Browser is a massive step forward in four key areas:

1) Zero-pain installation (no steps, no wait to download)

2) Zero-friction sharing (paste a url to any resource within the app/game)

3) Zero-friction upgrading (happens automatically. depending on architecture, no need to even reload the app)

4) Largest install base of any platform

It's a classic disruptive technology. Yeah the graphics suck. Yeah it's slow. But those things are improving, and will get to the point where they're "good enough" for a big swath of uses. Whereas the four properties above are much more challenging to fit into an Xbox or iOS architecture.
Finally expertsexchange.com has competition.
Yep. The Sonalight founders are seriously awesome so I'm confident they'll figure something out on iOS and kill it - I'm just speculating as to why they've been focusing on Android up until now. Controlling the whole app without touching your phone makes for an awesome demo.
The UK has no criminal law about copyright. Whatsoever. The US is attempting to extradite this guy for the crime of linking to copyrighted material: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jun/17/student-file-shari...

I've been trying to find a case where the US extradited someone to a jurisdiction where they were accused of committing a crime not on US books. I can't.
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Gotcha. =) I have a knee-jerk reaction when someone starts promoting Canada over US healthcare. I blame Canada for that, not the person.

As for the health care in the US, a lot of that is based on your carrier. Shop around! You aren't stuck with a single health care provider, and you can choose your doctors. My wife was amazed that after she went to one doctor, she was asked if she wanted to continue to see that doctor, or wanted to try someone else.

She's the one that deals with this on a day to day basis, so I trust her in this department. She also mentioned that here, people are so much more willing to help with any paperwork that might arise. And considering all the paperwork she's done to get my son the care he needs, she knows what she's talking about.

That's not to say things couldn't be easier.

> I was just totally blind as I was choosing which insurance to get.

So many choices! Yep. It can be overwhelming. My wife abused the help line of our insurance provider, and our companies rep the first few months. She'd call at least once a week with questions. However, she found that generally, they were more than willing to walk her through everything, and in some cases, did it right over the phone on her behalf.
You can already do that with Google Docs.

https://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
The constant expansion model works for some apps, but not for all of them.

I appreciate the free upgrades as much as the next guy, but without the paid-upgrade option niche products will suffer.
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There are so many resources out there for people who want to code. Start doing a project, search for specific problems, you should be able to build something so quickly
I'm in the department that handles the layout of the store's major hardware fixtures. Not quite merchandise-level, but some of our projects overlap projects that deal with this from time to time.

I know we've researched the RFID solution extensively, and last I heard it would require installation of high-powered RFID readers throughout all the stores, as well as buy-in from all our suppliers to include RFID in their product packaging, so it wasn't quite viable.

I think currently the plan is to "number" all the aisles (departments other than grocery get letter-number labels) and then have the store employees scan in all the items for each aisle. Last time I was in Store 100 in Bentonville they seemed to be piloting that.
Also, see frission or "cold chill"[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_chill
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This reminded me a bit of this thread:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c38
I think it's genius way to get people to follow you, they will rack up followers with this over time.
What you want is called wavedeck, and it's awesome, and live in the AppStore now.
The corollary: All human knowledge can be known.
The world is full of real people
None at all, I was talking about watching full-length movies on a desktop monitor / laptop screen. Sorry for the confusion.
Kinda ring true, Peanuts by Bukowski didn't surface on those sites but I ended up seeing it on Tumblr a few years back.

Interesting how good content ripple through the online communities.
You have no idea how valuable your responses are to me, I consider it a priviledge that you took the time to answer my questions, thank you very much!
I like the idea also of going Sinatra, use Rails functionality if needed but otherwise keeping it simpler, there is always the chance to go with the full-blown version (Rails). Thanks again for sharing and taking the time!
> fearing very much the Broken Window effect from all the glass scattered in the ground around PHP all the time.

You can't program if you use a broken window as a measure of whether you use the language or not. I do not know of a language without issues, ugliness, or mistakes.
Why not, I added it on my list of things to write about. Thank you.
If legislation is the major obstacle, then what does it matter how long it takes Google? This is everyone's problem.
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This doesn't even seem to generate actual PHRASES... Let alone "fake comments"

The "comments" I got reloading it 4 times:

"Sal and make it",

"this in a strong visceral 'no time reading up'",

"essentially a lot, and disabled",

"com/The+Starter+the+Architect+the+Deb. Advogato."
I know; obviously I meant that it doesn't work (either at all, or without a very expensive carrier upgrade). Rooted phones can simply install a wifi hotspot app from the market; that's probably the single biggest driver of phone rooting.

Yes, there are issues about carrier licensing. Let's not get into that. I'm simply talking about why people root their phones.
Sorry, link: http://www.wavedeck.com/
Sorry, I was referring to the data, not the HTML output. Even still, you could cache components of that page. Your feed might update often, but their are many things that don't change on ever page load, and they can be cached for a long time.
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I've been using ruby for about 5 years now and there is no championing of the language. There is however some sort of deep resentment towards anything ruby on most social news sites (hn not included) due to said perceived notation - this I don't understand I personally use what tool works best in a given situation.
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Sure, but to respond to the question in the headline, helping people cheat their carrier out of expensive plan upgrades is probably not actually a brilliant business move for Google.
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I've been checking Memepool every eight months. You deserve the Internet Award or something. Truly.
Hi Solomon, thank you for your nice comments. Bombela very nicely explained the whys HAProxy, with his explanations everything fall in place nicely (and I must say, I will test drive HAProxy with ZMQ).