skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new UI is temporary just like the previous ones have been. There have been at least 3 major redesigns of the UI so far. They change as needed to introduce new features. The current design is to make room for third party content & services. In this sense the current generation Apple TV is just a place-holder for a future product. Apple has said as much by referring to it as a hobby. What they are doing is laying the groundwork for this future product. AirPlay, iOS Remote, 1080P video, third party services with sign-up and payment, iCloud, etc. The current generation Apple TV is almost just a public beta test of these technologies. When they are ready to do the 'real' Apple TV they will introduce an entirely new UI to go with it.

This sort of public R&D isn't what Apple normally does but I think the challenge of building this product requires it. They need to soften the ground a bit. Of course other companies are working on the same things which helps too. People are comfortable with IPTV services. Current residential broadband can keep up fairly well with good 1080P video. The more SmartPhones and tablets sold the closer we are to ditching a dinky multi-button remote control in favor of multi-touch control. The integration with the cloud for re-downloading content and interconnecting different devices solves a ton of usability problems. Step by step each one of these changes are laying the groundwork for something bigger.
You can use your iPad / iPhone for text input -- but that isn't what this article is addressing. They moved from a text menu type selection system to a grid of applications type system.
I use a lower case "i". These days internet is just a common noun.
The Internet (the iPhone automatically capitalized it for me) is kind of like air - it's ubiquitous, and yet we don't see the word air capitalized.
Sorry I knew this was going to happen, but wanted to throw it up on here before I went to sleep. Now I have gotten such a huge response, that I am trying to fix it :)
That REsubmit button is a curse, always evolving :)
I hope no one stops employers from doing this - great way to figure out who not to work for.
yup- will likely do server side checks in the future, but this worked well for a hackathon. Thanks for pointing it out though!
Accused celebrity hacker to plead guilty
Come on Hackernews!
Is it hard to sort the list by number of voites?
Bootstrap is the new Photoshop Lens Flare.
> The only use that I can see for this is, as a system administrator, debugging issues that are user specific. So far, I have not needed it.

I use `sudo -i` daily, but when doing things that would require things to be in root's path (eg `service` on RHEL envs).
I just found an answer to this yesterday:

"An internet (lowercase “i”) is any collection of separate physical networks, interconnected by a common protocol, to form a single logical network. The Internet (uppercase “I”) is the worldwide collection of interconnected networks, which grew out of the original ARPANET, that uses Internet Protocol (IP) to link the various physical networks into a single logical network. In this book, both “internet” and “Internet” refer to networks that are interconnected by TCP/IP."

http://www.morninj.com/2012/03/internet-or-internet/
Gillmor Gang: Resisting the Obvious [video]
Sorry for the xss- knew it was a problem but thought I would fix it later after I got some sleep. I have done some basic sanitization for now, and will likely make it much better later. I have also increased the time limit to 2 minutes.
I get that pinterest has to get their legal mumbo jumbo in order so that they limit their liability, but practically speaking it's a total joke. Everyone knows that the majority of content "pinned" on the site is done without permission. Personally - I don't care as long as it's linking back to the source. Same as Google image search in my book. Legally speaking...eh, I don't care - I'll leave it to others to discuss that.
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The main point is that a successful product line was created. The product was shaped using a different approach than the in-house R&D team was using, and insights from Continuum's method led to the Swiffer concept. It's usually the case that when you actually watch users pursue their goals you learn things that cause you to pivot. The problem you thought you were trying to solve is fundamentally different than what you thought.
Jay Fulcher (Ooyala): One Screen To Rule Them All
PHP is not much good for security though for beginner developers. It does not help with XSS, CSRF, or SQL injection prevention. If anything it does actually encourage them if you do not know of the risks.
We may be capable of sequencing DNA cheaply enough for the average consumer, but what's the point? Issues like the missing heritability problem and an incomplete understanding of protein folding show we lack a full comprehension of the information DNA tells us. Cancer-killing bacteriophages are still years from being relevant as a treatment for the general public.

The Human Genome Project has yet to provide substantial medical advances. Genetic sequencing only seems useful to look for diseases with an explicit genetic link like Huntington's, and many people aren't going to want to know they have diseases like that. Otherwise genetic sequencing seems as useful as a full-body scan.
I work for a company in Kentucky that is currently working on developing a system (with cooperation from the Department of Health) that addresses this exact problem. Basically a multi-user application that records all aspects of each Provider's "encounter" with a given patient. A Provider could be a doctor, nurse, lab tech, etc... So at anytime the current provider for a patient has access to all previous "notes" and any other data recorded about the patient as well as who recorded that information. Though I must admit, when I first started on this project I was quite surprised that there really wasn't much out there for public healthcare providers that didn't already do this. Besides Kentucky, there are several other states showing interest as well ... I just thought I'd mention that so nobody thinks, "Oh backwards Kentucky, their doctors run around the hospital barefoot!" Apparently this is a widespread problem in the public healthcare system across the United States as well.
One of the main problems with the current system is that corporations (e.g. Disney) can monopolize culturally-significant works for decades after their creator’s death.

So? How is it a problem that Disney has a monopoly on Pocahontas or Aladdin?
I'm not sure about that. I saw articles about that on the front page of big news websites. Apple is a big deal, the press will report on them. Even worse: They will report about the scandal but likely not about steps someone takes to mitigate the problem or things that explain the problem. That way we here on HN might know very well every little detail about a scandal (including things that make the scandal less of a big deal) but the general public might not.
Bash? because it's just pure garbage?
Ah, I see what you mean.
In that case it's not even an American problem since Hollywood is doing quite well.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/piracy-once-...
I thought we stopped doing that in 1995.
That was me taking down the server for a few seconds. I have done some more sanitization for now, but will likely do a much more thorough sanitization when I get the chance later.
Twitter bootstrap is awesome. I wish I could justify redoing my site using it but right now too much else going on. If you are developing Facebook apps, also check out f-bootstrap. It's based on Twitter bootstrap, but the styles and colors are more similar to Facebook's: https://github.com/ckrack/fbootstrapp
I was responding to the parent of my comment, not to the article. Anyway, thanks for being a dick!
If this is really a serious problem, then they should send an informative email to every user, say once every week about spamming, phising, passwords, etc. Of course, it should be easy opt out.

Moreover, when I last used Windows (XP, 2008), executables could still masquerading as .doc files. This would be easy enough to solve for MS, I think.
"It's okay for me to urinate in someone's food as long as I'm doing it to make them a social pariah" is exactly the kind of uncritical self-serving rationalization that leads to "dumbass government".

Go look in the mirror before you act like your juvenile world view is beyond reproach.
Sorry for the problems- tried fixing some of them. Hope you enjoy it!
In California property taxes are 1% of the purchase price and can then only go up by 1-2% a year. In the house I currently rent the property taxes are $4,000 per year. If I bought the house then they would be around $7,500 per year. Everything else being equal that is a $300 per month saving by renting.

There are various rent versus buy calculators online. Below is the NYT one. Buying will make sense eventually but that is measured in years. Putting in the current figures for my house, buying will never make sense unless there is at least 5% increase in house price per year every year. Banking on certain rates of return is what turns it into an all eggs in one basket "investment".

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...
It's not, but I understand what you're trying to convey. It's spreading like a wild fire and everyone is starting to use it -- but the default look has become very stale and played out (much like the lens flare). There's a lot being done to give users alternate styles, from free color styles and editors to premium themes.
I use sudo su - <username> pretty regularly when I'm working on servers. I have a dev box where I do initial deploys of all of my apps, and each app has a different username with different configurations to run/debug the app.

sudo su - <username> takes me to the homefolder of the user and allows me to switch without remembering the password for all of the different users. If I need to do some system-level operation, I open a new tab and run the superuser there.
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What does this have to do with faults of the language? I can think of a lot of stupid things to do in any language; it doesn't mean the language is the problem.
Thanks.

Also this link for videos.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=855057
I've been looking for things to replace/compile-to JavaScript lately. I've been messing around with Dart, which was my first experience with any form of static typing. The typing, among other features of the language, I enjoyed. I'm not sure if it's developed enough at this point, though, to be used in larger apps. Maybe that's just me.

I just decided to check out CoffeeScript. I think its syntax is fantastic, so far. Maybe a bit too spoken-language like ("yes" is equivalent to "true"?), but I haven't really done anything with it yet.
With AirPlay Apple TV has apps right now.

http://firemint.com/2011/guide-to-setting-up-airplay-and-par...
RVM does help, deprecations...i dont know though. I have found that the language has gone through a lot of changes in a short period of time, which is great, but it hasnt been very convenient for apps that have not been very closely maintained.
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>Go has been criticized for "not paying attention to PL research", which might be true, but is already extremely useful and even before its first 'stable' release people already have used to build large systems used in production.

Is that a factor of being a better language (for some value of "better"), or of being marketed by famous people working for a famous company?

I really do mean this. Pike et al have Google behind them, and thus not only the Google publicity machine but a whole team of Googlers working actively on making Go work. BitC was a creature of, IIRC, 8 people working on research, and possibly their grad-students if that number doesn't include grad-students already.
Rovio Executive Says ‘Angry Birds Space’ Skips Windows Phone
I don't know what the state of Delphi is now, but I remember there was a good community around it 6-7 years ago, plenty of Open Source components that filled the gaps in the VCL.

And back in the day, when .net was awkward to use and Java was too slow, Delphi was the king of RAD. Unfortunately they didn't even try to keep up with .net/Java, for example, proper Unicode support wasn't added until Delphi 2009.
working on porn, in any respect, supposedly locks you into that industry. it makes no sense to me.

any thoughts on why?
> How is it a problem that Disney has a monopoly on Pocahontas or Aladdin?

Because both of those already existed long before Disney 'reinvented' them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin
Why the game outputs all the possible words in console?
Who needs a dongle for mobile payments?
I like this approach; "I can't access the Internet, my internet connection is down."
Beware online "filter bubbles"
I have always capitalized Internet and Web.
Related: http://edinburgh.pirateparty.org.uk/2012/03/22/a-free-clue-t...
Heck, the for the first order or two, the taco may just be a bonus feature until the novelty of seeing my neighborhood/city from a new perspective, in real-time, wore off.
Hard to say. I think Apple said they sold 3 million of them last year which would make it very successful within the tiny dedicated IPTV set top market. It's not really a finished product yet. The current Apple TV is like the Motorola Rockr. A hint of things to come but definitely not ready to make a big splash. It's interesting to note though that NetFlix says they stream more video to Apple TVs than iPads. So something is definitely starting to happen here but I think we're still a couple of years away from the Apple TV really being a mass market device.
Any claim that copyright infringement does not hurt copyright holders is dishonest, and people who make dishonest claims should not be admitted into serious discussions.

I'm responding to gitarr here, not the link itself.
I'd venture to say that 90% of the content is third party content used without permission. The only saving grace is that most of it is commercial images from ezines and retailers who will benefit from the traffic and so have no incentive to sue.

YouTube was 90% third-party content when it started out, and companies had a MUCH larger incentive to sue. YT made out fine, so I wonder if those repercussions will affect Pinterest in any way.
programmer happiness. end of story.
There's already Internet2. It's mostly for academics. My university is a member, so file transfers with some other universities will go REALLY fast.
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Was debugging during the hackathon and forgot to turn it off :)
At my company I feel like we have a pretty good system set in place for screening technical skills. The issue is that after 3-5 phone screens, and a day long in person plus a happy hour afterwards, there's still a significant cultural risk factor. This risk factors increases dramatically the more atypical of a company you are. So the biggest pain point for our company is the cultural unknown. We invest so much in the hiring process, and for a tiny company the risk of hiring the wrong personality is huge that makes us even more picky. There's room for something better.
I think properly-hinted fonts look better (or at least more readable) than OS X, and I did even when I used a MacBook as my primary machine from 2007-2010. It's not Stockholm syndrome, it's a different preference.

But to your "poetic justice" point, is this about revenge for perceived injustices, or about providing the best experience for users? Because the fact is that most sites are overwhelmingly viewed by Windows users. When it comes to professional work, you can't be making decisions with huge UX implications out of spite. Most people haven't even heard of ClearType, and shouldn't be caught in the crossfire of your bizarre crusade against it.

If you're unknowingly using fonts that look like shit in Windows because you're not testing, you're (at best) lazy and unprofessional. If you're knowingly using fonts that look like shit in Windows because you harbor a decade-old grudge, you're an childish asshole who should be out of work.
Apple always said it's a hobby. Not sure wether that's just rhetoric. At any case, Apple TV has been steadily improving and is selling more and more.
Chrome OS coming to ARM?
Yup, there's usually a primary exchange, but a stock can be traded on many exchanges. Years ago people could make money via arbitrage between exchanges. Essentially if stock ABC costed $50 at one exchange, but people were willing to buy ABC at $55 on another exchange, a quick trader could buy the stock at $50 on one exchange, and sell the equivalent on the other exchange for $55, making a "free" $5 without any change in their holdings. Now that we have computerized trading solutions the price difference between exchanges is essentially nil and cannot be taken advantage of unless you have ultrafast computers and access to fiber optic networks.
I find it interesting because for all of the hype about Apple's mindshare and marketing prowess a quickly expanding market exists where Apple is a niche player. Internet enabled TV's and boxes are ubiquitous and very popular yet Apple can't make a significant dent in that market despite being an early pioneer.
I couldn't open the Presentation. Don't have anything that can open .pptx so I uploaded to Google Docs.

Link here: http://tinyurl.com/7bckqm8

After going through the 32 slides, I think this is one of those presentations you really needed to be there for. The archiecture stack is by and large quite standard for high scale applications. The previous HN submission from YouPorn last month contained more descriptive information.
Upcoming Chrome OS “Daisy” device to feature ARM-based chipset?
Users take to iOS 5.1 surprisingly quickly
You're envisioning a future where you replace the middlemen you don't like with a set of ones you do like, that aren't up to the job anyway.

Marketplaces have existed for years in various forms - iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, TPB, MegaUpload etc ... their users are almost exclusively interested in Big Content stuff. Mininova highlights this - they went legit and right now 135 people are downloading their most popular video, 70 times fewer than the number of people currently downloading the 4th Mission Impossible rip which is pretty much the very definition of Big Content easy, safe fluff. Mininova was one of the most popular websites in the world before they went legitimate - this isn't people not knowing, this is people not caring.

Kickstarter-ish models for production is just surreal - it is the complete opposite of on demand and that's a critical component for the future.

The overall premise that the RIAA/MPAA are or have to die at all is pretty sketchy - the problem is they're predatory and not keeping up with technology and consumers, not that they're redundant.
I buy drm-free PDFs direct from authors whenever possible. Publishers second, other sources third.

Realistically, this means I buy from Amazon often because there is no source for a DRM-free pdf.

I am not happy with the kindle experience – if I am going to be giving up many of the freedoms (and the permanence) of a physical book, I want a bit more in return, for what is often the same price – or more in many cases (even more if used books are considered).
Although everything you say is true, there is a very clear benefit of genetic testing that exists today. Many drug interactions have a strong genetic link. Take the common blood thinning drug warfarin for example. It's considered a medical best practice to prescribe this drug to patient's with a variety of heart problems (irregular heartbeat, history of heart attack, etc). A single dosage has wildly different effects on different patients however. The same dosage can cause fatal bleeding in one patient, while in another patient have no effect at all. Without genetics, the proper dosage is a crap shoot. With genetics, it's an exact science (as it should be).

And this is just one single example. Research is revealing more genetic-drug links all the time with relatively small sample sizes. Genetic sequencing may not cure every disease like we were promised ~10 years ago, but it is saving lives and is essential to the advancement of medicine.
Javvad Malik on Infosec Mistakes
Putting aside income, I think tech/startup jobs are superior to medicine and law because the majority of doctors are simply analyzing symptoms and diagnosing using systems and books written by other people; the majority of lawyers are just interpreting laws written by other people. Whereas tech startups are creating and inventing solutions to problems that can improve the world. Don't get me wrong - I'm glad there are doctors out there (may not say the same for lawyers), but I'd rather be a creator/innovator than someone who is just interpreting things. Too many smart people get stuck in doctor/lawyer jobs for income/status reasons that could be having a bigger impact on the world if they were inventing new ideas and helping create a better world.
I wanted to, but believed I couldn't afford to, ask about the physical working environment.

I can get along with most any personality type. As long as my workspace allows me to concentrate (for me, is (very) quiet unless I choose to make it otherwise, is clean (allergies), and has some natural light).

I mean, I've worked (well) with widely acknowledged jerks. I've fostered genuinely careful and motivated people who were a bit slow to get the tasks at hand and so at risk. I've held my own with "the brightest". I've "networked" far beyond my "station".

But, in many work environments, for HR type issues, you "take what you're given". And workspace seems to fall predominantly into that mold.

In retrospect, I wish I'd blown off more of the "career" advice" that was heavily propagated, and just asked and insisted on knowing what the physical work environment was going to be like. I would have failed to gain some opportunities -- but I would have saved myself a lot of frustration and, ultimately, time in the process.

For some people, it really does matter. And I'm one of them.
Why should it lock you in?
This is purely conjecture but the industry might still face prejudice due to issues of "morality" based on peoples' religions or personal values. A person working in the industry is perhaps establishing a link between themselves and something "dirty" or unscrupulous, and so they appear to potential employers to be less than desirable for that reason sometimes?

It seems likely this is the case to me, but again it's all conjecture. Personally I don't think it matters either. Experience is experience.

(And I'm not sure your supposition is at all true to begin with. The above assumes your supposition has some truth value.)
Startups, Fix Your "From" Field
The Human Genome Project wrapped up in 2002-2003. Since it takes about ten years to get a new drug from benchtop research to the doctor's office, we should be only starting to see the first trickle of drugs reaching the market now.
The biopharmaceutical industry is mostly focussed on recombinant antibodies at the moment, but expect to see the first genetic and stem cell therapies gaining approval in the next 5-7 years.
> Kickstarter-ish models for production is just surreal - it is the complete opposite of on demand and that's a critical component for the future.

Tell that to these guys:

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/the-kickstarter-film-festiva...

I'd happily pay for Pat Metheny to produce his next album before I can get my hands on it with a mechanism in place that would revert the money if he never released it, and even without that mechanism I'd take the risk.
You should capture the backspace key so it doesn't trigger the back button on the browser. Just stopping the event would be nice.
Just because an activity has risk involved doesn't mean it should be thrown to the wolves.

You might also familiarize yourself with the Just World Fallacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis