skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on filesize and Last-Modified or Etag (which ever will be available) i'll determine wether or not the file has to be re-downloaded. Then i use (additionally) md5_file in php to see if it's changed in comparison with our last copy of the file.

(This is actually part of a matroesjka doll / onion like mechanism i've built to synchronize data from our servers to mobile devices. Based on global/group/user rights. I'll be publishing a blog post on that later)
Clutch has nothing to do with this though. It's ALWAYS been possible to throw a UIWebView into your app, load a screen from a web server that you control, and replace it with porn after it's approved. Clutch simply adds a few tools on top of that to better integrate the UIWebView into your app.
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This is cool and all but I have some concerns about his long term exposure to formaldehyde from the building materials.

Per EPA website:

"In homes, the most significant sources of formaldehyde are likely to be pressed wood products made using adhesives that contain urea-formaldehyde (UF) resins.

Formaldehyde, a colorless, pungent-smelling gas, can cause watery eyes, burning sensations in the eyes and throat, nausea, and difficulty in breathing in some humans exposed at elevated levels (above 0.1 parts per million). High concentrations may trigger attacks in people with asthma. There is evidence that some people can develop a sensitivity to formaldehyde. It has also been shown to cause cancer in animals and may cause cancer in humans. Health effects include eye, nose, and throat irritation; wheezing and coughing; fatigue; skin rash; severe allergic reactions. May cause cancer."

source: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/formalde.html
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To me this just feels reaching. Sure, he does a good job of highlighting a problem but doesn't really offer any vision for a solution. But why go to Microsoft? GOOG 635.15, MSFT 31.21
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How about tweaking the algorithm so that the popularity of a website counts against a submission? I don't mean that the article should be buried if it's from something like nytimes.com but it should have to work harder to make it to the front page.
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The boldness of future videos in terms of style seems to have increased quite a bit since the invention of CGI.
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There should be a scientific journal for this sort of thing.
Yes, Danish people are happy with them. Don't know for how long though. The population of Denmark is aging rapidly and already a very small minority of working people is paying for everyone. But because they are a minority it's like 2 wolfs and a sheep 'voting' what's for dinner...

<Quote> Denmark has an entire population of 5,350,000 people. Of them, 1,150,000 are below 18 years old. Of the remaining 4,200,000 people, 2,214,000 people receive government transfer payments (not counting 260,000 students that receive public scholarships of $550 per month).

From taxing their citizens into poverty to forcing them to endure the highest electricity rates in the world due to the cult like obsession with lowering carbon emissions (god forbid it actually warms up a bit in Denmark!), the Danish State takes top marks for keeping the prisoners down.

I thought I might share with you a few of the observations and thoughts I had on the worker’s paradise of Denmark.
http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2012/3/21/denmark-social...

</quote>
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I know! :( It was definitely a learning experience.

And in regards to your comment on mobile: Agreed! Not only is getting a slick mobile client a much more important use of resources that stuffing around with progressive enhancement, but a good JSON/REST API is really really helpful when it comes time to get a mobile app working.

Thinking of webapps as client-server applications communicating via a JSON API is really helpful at the moment, I think.
Well, for one, the Java vulnerability discussed in linked article is actively being exploited on Windows to install that obnoxious fake "Antivirus 2012" malware.
Seems that way to me, too. Have 000 data to support that assertion, however.

I post rarely, sometimes from NYT, and try to contribute articles that are germane, inspiring - not retellings or layman's gee-whiz reporting.

Overall, I don't think this is an important problem for HN - if a problem at all. And of course, we can change it ourselves at any time.
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Is that kind of thing allowed on iOS by now? I thought it wouldn't be.
Notch should just put the game as a project on github and watch everyone else make it.

Edit: Holy shit, is it just me or is this an amazing idea? It would take someone with a lot of sway to do a project like this (like Notch), but he could literally plan out what parts of the game need to be done and have other people do them. He could then give a piece of the profits back to the developers once the game started selling.
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There's a big difference between "he doesn't want to be contactable 24/7, how odd" and "that's suspicious behaviour", though.
Bottle service. Buy a few bottles of vodka etc for $100-200 each, and you get a table to sit at and get the VIP treatment.
I'd love to see one made using discrete logic. It's a pretty simple CPU so it looks to me like you could pretty easily build it out of 74 series.
Is this the "right" way to be doing this?

This is a subjective question and there is a lot of dogma surrounding the question. I tend to answer my questions with dollars as in are the dollars there to chase that market and would the money to chase that market be better spent chasing a larger market? My second question to myself if which is less costly to develop and maintain? Finally a little more hard to quantify but which can I make better conversions with?

The first one is pretty easy, for a good deal of sites the percentage of browsers that do not support or have JavaScript turned off is usually less than 1% I have seen numbers as high as 2% either way, it is below niche at best. It is pretty easy to make the statement that the money would be better spent chasing mobile or even in advertising for the 99% than it would be to chase the 1%.

The second one is a little more subjective but I have found for me and my team that writing UI's 100% in JavaScript/HTML/CSS simplifies the architecture and increases our time to market. I personally feel the worst solution is to sprinkle JavaScript into a server side solution such as PHP, ASP, or JSP it creates a more complex stack and complicates the solution requiring more layers and more specializations. With the UI being in all client side technologies, it becomes very easy to stub JSON messages and use those as the contract between front end and back end teams. I actually prefer the modern way of developing web application over the old server side model.

Finally I feel that the flexibility of JavaScript solutions and there rapid development model give them the edge on building UI's for conversion, simple tweaks can be made to the UI and delivered without the need for a full deployment of back end services. As well their are UI metaphors that just cannot be done in page-post. While I will be the first to note that this is subjective it works well for myself and my team and we have delivered some very large, adaptable, yet maintainable applications in JavaScript.
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> But why go to Microsoft? GOOG 635.15, MSFT 31.21

Share prices are not directly comparable. Market cap is, where MSFT is beating GOOG.
I've had new Mac users insist that I recommend an antivirus for them. Users who had very safe habits, didn't download basically any software or visit warez sites. They simply - and very sadly IMO - cannot reconcile the idea of a world where AV software is not completely necessary.

They'd only make their computer slower but hey, it's their choice.
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Yes many people make that leap after a first iteration, but once you do the pattern becomes very clear and very powerful. Looking at your back-end as a platform for all future clients really helps as well.
This is the best comment. OP should buy and read "Desperate Buyers Only".
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Just read this excelent and very easy tutorial from Scott Guthrie: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/18/building-a...
Ah yes, "taxing their citizens into poverty". Have you looked up what a typical after-tax income is in Denmark? It is a very well-off kind of poverty, if it's poverty!

More generally I'd suggest that 30 seconds of Googling and some quotes from a blog run by gold-bugs doesn't really constitute an educated opinion about Denmark...
No, the idea is to make money. Everything else is just a Press Release.
Some background on the situation in China, a commentary article "Chinese leaders cling to an illusion of stability"

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/146187235.ht...

by Joel Brinkley, Hearst Visiting Professional in Residence in the Department of Communication at Stanford University.
Seems neat. Why not put the bed on a lift-suspension system. I've seen some ads in the Paris metro for a motorized bed. Push a buttom bed goes to the ceiling, push again and bed comes back down.
This was a great article covering a well-observed trend in startups - many heirs to "old money" families are getting into the tech space. Do you think it will last, or is it just a way to have fun for a few years before taking over the family business?
Even better, if we can get speculative patents now on all sorts of future technology that will take at least 20 years to develop later, the patents will all be expired by the time the tech is ready.
The problem with Internet search is that being stupid about it is profitable. The more ugly blue links you serve up, the more time users have to click on ads. Serve up bad results and the user must search again and this doubles the number of sponsored links you get paid for. Why be part of the solution when being part of the problem pays so damn well?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when google started out, wasn't one of its core philosophies to reduce the number of times that users had to redo a search? And that they refused an offer from Excite because the Excite CEO complained that Google results were so good that users were NOT staying long enough to read the ads? Is the OP saying that this part of Google's history is a lie?
Microsoft failed, miserably, at search. So search doesn't matter. Right?

It is impossible to read this piece without getting coated with the dripping venom of regret. It's hearing an adolescent tell you why they really, really didn't want something that they didn't get and now envy.

What really gets me is this claim: "There's no more reason to expect search breakthroughs from Google than there is to expect electric car batteries to be made by Exxon."

Yet Google has overwhelmingly been responsible for the breakthroughs that essentially reduce our usage of their own product. Google themselves are trying to reduce our use of search. Over the past year they've added semantic canonical answers for many questions.

Years ago we really did have to go through pages of search. Now you seldom have to go past the first link, if you even need that.

It's also a bit laughable that he mentions Siri, betraying the gross agenda of the piece. Siri is a basic text parser that, if it fails at that, does a web search. It isn't some semantic knowledge engine, and in many of the scenarios in their own commercial, does a bog standard web search, relying upon all of the old tactics to give an answer. If Siri is the revolution, someone is misunderstanding how it works.

EDIT: 4 downvotes and not a single comment as to why. It is somewhat ridiculous how desperately so many on HN are to promote any vapid anti-Google screed, even when it comes from Microsoft of all places.
I read that it also aborts and removes itself if Little Snitch is installed.

I take requests from LS pretty seriously so it makes sense that they would do it. I would google the process and port if a random request occured.
Exactly, robots aren't constrained by a need for sleep; and is likely more aware of it's surroundings vs. a human facing the same conditions. A driverless car can "see" in infrared or radar just as easily as it can visible light (potentially better).
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I can't think with 60 or 100 other people in the same room, so if you want the job done, give me my own office or give me my home office or give me head!
Is there a reason why it's not available in the Republic of Ireland, or is it just that app releases take time to percolate through App Store territories?
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More important: Who will be the first one to code Minecraft on a DCPU16 computer?
Well I enjoyed the discussion but I don't think I'm making the point especially well anymore, its not about picking fakes, its about reliably saying something about the numbers return by a mathematical function on an image. It needs more study and less experts making consulting money from their special magic.
Cool! Another way to build crappy iPhone apps with HTML!

App Store rules exist for a reason. There is better ways to make them reduce the approval time by not creating workarounds to build your app with limited HTML.
it takes a while for carfax to receive info...so you flip it the moment you get it out of the body shop, you shouldn't be affected by it

but a lot of times the crashes don't affect the value that much...not many people actually use carfax.
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Seems a bit idealistic to me.

There have been a few ex-googlers who are upset about Google being an advertising company. Maybe they where sold into a dream that never materilised.

Lets say you own a company employing thousands and you discover the perfect way to improve your clients user experiance, the only problem is it disrupts the market so much your company is no longer profitable, so all your share holder and employees go without ? would you still do it?

Siri is a value add to a company that makes money out of its products. You have to own a 600$ piece of metal to have the privelege of using it.

And i much prefer googling - "Pet shop in dubai" for free.
Weirdly - companies that do avertise have it much more together. If there paying for a dollar for my click, there definitly going to be open and have the products i want.
If they opened up an API for this you could have a lot of fun:
- P2P payments
- Add as friend on FB/follow on Twitter
- See friends in common/shared network
What's got to stop is the endless summary posts from Mashable (who often don't even link to the original content), TechCrunch, TheNextWeb, PandoDaily, and other affiliate linkfarms. Just link directly to the content, thank you very much.
I believe that starting with testing of the assumptions about the problem is beneficial. You can check: how many people have it, how painful it is for them, what is the actual nature of the problem? Especially the last question might be very inspiring and lead you to the new features. You can check these assumptions both online with a survey as well as by talking to some friends/colleagues to get more in-depth info. And naturally in the meantime you can build the mockup/MVP of solution and then test it again. This 2nd test should provide more valuable results (when compared to your current survey) because people will already see how your product will look like and work. Now they have to imagine it and the results might be misleading.
And who will implement Conway's game of life on top of that?

(I'm psychic: the next comment will ask who will implement a DCPU16 in Conway's game of life.)
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Also: Cost of human labor in logistics. Driverless cars don't need sleep.
No, it isn't. As organizer of http://scaleconf.org/ I can tell you that almost all of the money goes towards venue hire, lunch/coffee/daytime refreshments, internet and AV equipment, and depending on the conference, flying speakers in.

Then, at the end, you've got a couple of thousand dollars left over, and that goes on the bar tab.

Think about how many dollars worth of alcohol you would drink during a two day conference, then drop the amount because there's a lot of buying in bulk and people who don't go to the parties or drink. It doesn't come anywhere near "most part of a $650 conf ticket".
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Or rather you contact them. Then they ban you and possibly send the FBI after you for "illegally accessing a remote computer system" or other such crime and then you are punished for all your work. If you tell them you will disclose your research on a certain date they'll go after you for extortion.

I wrote this before and I'll say it again. I don't believe in "White Hacker" as a label. Corporations do not do well when their vulnerabilities are exposed. They don't have a way to handle "White Hackers" unless they are the ones hiring them. Most will strike back and punch you in the face no matter how good your intentions are. So if you already spent the time researching and finding the vulnerability, just disclose on a security forum or if you want to profit, sell on a black market.
From what I recall its essentially how people do business. Everything from technical support with adult oriented hosting companies to making deals to sell sites/traffic/etc or talking to sponsors about promotions/etc. Plus a great deal of just general bs-ing. You have to remember outside of maybe a dozen large companies, most adult sites are just run by 1 or 2 guys so its their form of talking at the water cooler.
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I didn't, and I installed the JAVA stuff to install CS5.
yip we started building this but ran out of resources and had to focus on Roomify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fms9qM7QG9g

Others have tried (eg edufire.com) but using Flash video chat, which is not great. If people are paying for someone's knowledge/expertise it needs to be delivered perfectly.

Roomify is a more generic version. It is a tool rather than a marketplace. In the future we could do something similar to the above and create a marketplace with in Roomify.
The general rule in the US patent system is that mathematical formulas are not patentable, and so neither are algorithms. But a device or system that uses an algorithm is patentable. So they don't patent the algorithm itself, but "a method and system". In other words they're patenting the idea of running the algorithm on a computer.

Insane, yes, but upheld by current precedent.
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The cultural difference lies in that US academics are more used to selling (or if you'd like it a little less harsh: advertising) themselves.

Let me illustrate:

A big British university that offers a variety of funding, two of the funding schemes are US-backed/US-based.

British: "Awards are made based on academic excellence and potential across all subject areas...". They don't care if you are social, if you do things outside university, what your family does etc etc. You need a research proposal, your CV and 3 recommendation letters from former professors. They focus purely on academic merit and don't care whether you are outgoing or an introvert shut-in.

US #1: We "aim to nurture leaders for the world's future who are committed to service, and to promote international understanding and peace." You have to have good marks (of course), but do tell us about how many kittens, children and people you save in your free time (while being academically excellent), how many NGOs you help out, what your hobbies are, what your family is like and how many wars you have prevented. This scholarship needs you to portray yourself not just as a potentially brilliant researcher or scholar, it wants you to be a leader.

US #2: The other scholarship asked you: "Please explain how the degree for which you have applied will prepare you to make a contribution to society." Again of course they require academic excellence, but they want to know how your research "makes a contribution to society". This is a scholarship for the Humanities only. The usual answer is always: It won't. However, please do make up some moderately respectable reason why your highly specific research will have an effect on society as a whole...

I am by no means saying Americans are academically inferior, but you can see in these hand-picked examples a certain strive for grandeur, it's not enough to be an outstanding scholar, you need to be a leader, you need to change society, at the very least. Truth is, most people's research will never, ever have a profound effect on society as such. What this line of inquiry conditions you to do though is to always make yourself appear larger than life. Your research is of course groundbreaking, you are a leader, the best of the best, you know everything, cannot fail and you have to convey that with every fiber of your being.

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The above is spiked with hyperbole, but the core remains true. Many other countries don't have a culture where you advertise yourself and where everything you have to do has to be perceived as earthshattering. And that is the point really, it's about perception. The question here would be, were they also actually better, or did they just portray themselves better?

It's the same mentality that you can see on Hacker News every day: "THIS PRODUCT WILL CHANGE YOUR WORLD!!!". "WE WILL REVOLUTIONISE THE WAY YOU THINK/TALK/ACT/TYPE/SLEEP!!!".
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"Coming to asking people forcefully shorten their code blocks. It's none of language's business to dictate its style on me and steal my freedom. A language is supposed to behave the way I want. That's its very purpose."

if True:
x = 1
[copy the above line, paste it 999,998 times]
x = 1

print x

Python runs that and doesn't say anything about by block length; it just behaves the way I want and prints x (after a short pause). What are you talking about?