skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it matters if it is right or wrong.

The part the government is interested in is if Apple allowed or even encouraged Agencies to set similar prices. It is like running a red light. We can all agree it is illegal. But is it illegal in the middle of the night when there is no traffic? Of course it is. Just because someone went through the red light and didn't violate anyone else's safety doesn't make what they did any less criminal. The law was written without prejudices, so their is no need to look for "mens rea". Sure, it got things going for the driver and helped commerce by allowing the driver to reach the destination faster, but it is still an illegal act.

If Apple got the Agencies to agree on a similar price just to get things going and then let the market decide, it doesn't mean that it is any less criminal of an activity to do the former.

Remember, the government is pursuing this matter to get fines from all accused parties after the fact and they are doing it on your behalf, if you are an American citizen, that is.
Why do browser vendors make our lives a misery. 
Can anyone tell me why designing a website is becoming more of a pain in the backside than ever.
I thought development was meant to get easier, cleaner and more intuitive as time and technology advances.
I am tired of my code growing and growing day by day instead of shrinking and getting cleaner.
With the advances in HTML, CSS and JavaScript allowing us to be ever more creative and innovative with our designs, why do the creators of browsers insist on making life ever more difficult for our designs to be slick across platforms.
They know the capabilities of these languages yet they seem to drag their heels when it comes to keeping up with said languages. Some browsers allow animations and transformations to work seamlessly using CSS, then you open your design in another browser and that animation/ transformation looks so ugly and glitches or doesn't work at all. ( I'm not naming names as we all know who they are )
I'm sure that I'm just beating the same drum that developers have been beating for year after year but surely it has reached a point for some kind of standardization among these companies.
I know these companies all want us to use their specific browser but to me that's not a reason to make designers/ developers life a misery and ultimately we all use different browsers for different things and reasons. They force us to write code that ends up so clogged up with browser specific code and even then these browser specific pre-fixes do not always work smoothly or even at all in some cases so we end up reverting to JavaScript to get a seamless experience for the consumer. I'd much rather have an effect work with a few lines of CSS than loading up yet another page of code for the JavaScript.
Ultimately we all want to write less code, have pages load as quickly as possible and have our site visitors to have the same experience on our sites regardless of device or browser.
Maybe i shouldn't use the word device as that throws up another favorite topic of mine. ( screen resolution ) :p
And now I have my answer. By standing on principle, and arguing for that principle, I've been down voted to negative one. When I responded, at length, with an explanation to someone who raised a vague disagreement, that was down voted as well.

Yet the people who have disagreed with me have not made arguments, mostly just drive by comments. Mostly assertion and characterization. And one person even admitted he was down voting me simply because he disagreed.

Hacker News is not a place where intelligent discussion can take place, and thus its a waste of time to participate here.

I'm tired of getting responses that aren't insightful disagreements, but vague unsupported assertions of partisanship. I'm tired of personal attacks when I make arguments and the fact that it seems most participants on HN are 20 something and very uneducated about the world. (which means you can't' refer to things that should be well known--like the fact that Apple got a license from Xerox for the inventions such as the mouse et al.)

Hacker News is a waste of time, and its getting blocked in my /etc/hosts file for now.
You obviously haven't worked in a real business.

Yes, I have.

You would NEVER disclose your internal processes or architecture, that's nuts, it's like drawing out your whole attack surface for your adversary.

Though it might not be a bad idea, I wasn't actually intentionally suggesting that you open-source all your code and make your internal processes completely transparent. I was suggesting that you maybe add a section in your whitepaper detailing the possible attacks, and that you reconsider phrases in your marketing copy like: "Who can see your data with PrivateSky™? No one, not even us." I find it misleading.

Nevertheless, someone asked a follow on question with these exact same points back on the thread; we have posted answers.

In the stack exchange thread, you talk about what would be needed to compromise the SkyPin authentication process. But I don't see how this is sufficient. Suppose there is an XSS vulnerability on the browser-based inbox on your site. What stops an attacker from inserting a single line of Javascript that opens up a message of his choice in my inbox, decrypts the contents, and sends the contents to the attacker? Suppose that your SSL private key is compromised. What stops the attacker from eavesdropping on my connection to PrivateSky, stealing my session cookie, and using that session cookie to open up my inbox in his browser? Maybe you have some defenses against these attacks, but you don't seem to address them anywhere (at least that I can find).

It also seems you are being a bit disingenuous. You've studied under Dan Boneh, the founder of our competitor. You know very well what these acronyms mean.

The point was that there is a lot of heavy-handed crypto thrown around and not enough discussion of the actual weakest links in your system.

Also, who said this is only going to be "browser based"?

Definitely not me. The current offering is browser-based, and the currently advertised guarantee is that no one can read your data, not even your company.
8-bit/Microsoft BASIC - many a programmer today can draw their roots back to BASIC. It was the languages that made significant inroads to elementary-high school programming education as well as self-taught programming education.
I was quite relieved to find that this iteration is actually semi-usable without JS. Still doesn't degrade as well as facebook mobile. Can't tell what the buttons are without the rollover, unless you have learnt them. Both Gmail and G+ rely on background images for buttons too, which leads to quite a bit of mystery meat navigation for me (I prefer to set my own background in my browser.)
I am happy that they did. More competition, cheaper eBooks are good for everyone in the long run.
Surprised to see Google advertising on the TV in the UK for G+, a week later they change the navigation - that's pretty bad timing for any new adopters.
Agreed, the codebase is a mess.

The ideas are nice, the implementation is absolutely horrible.
Downvotes with no comments. Proof positive that Hacker News is not a place where intelligent discussion can take place.

The votes only reflect how closely one adheres to the partisan political correctness of people who come to HN.

And HN is full of people who are not to well educated on a variety of subjects, but think they are experts.
"So where did I go wrong?"

hard to say without seeing the pull requests, but if you edit compiled code and call it a typo you're probably at risk of doing a lot of things wrong.

perhaps you just need to spend a little more time learning about a project before trying to push your changes. seems like all of the issues presented in the comic could have been avoided by paying more careful attention.
I just don't expect professional typography from the web yet. Can you give an example of a site that does it right?
Useless comment made only for karma whoring.

If you read the post you don't need the summary because you just read the post, which btw, ends with a summary.

If you didn't read the post yet and know nothing about the field, your summary won't teach them anything, and more importantly it won't tell them anything about the post. It won't tell them it's a great, catchy, read, it might only scare them away with hard, math stuff.

If you didn't read the post yet and know a lot about the field, your summary won't teach them anything because there's nothing to teach. All it can do is create a false impression about what the articles is about, but looking at your other posts in this thread I see this is your intention anyway.
The fact that the tech industry has given them the power to "make or break" startups is insane. These people are horrible writers, and the fact that anyone gives them the time of day is insane. Posts from TC, Pando, and the like, AND posts about them, shouldn't be allowed on HN.
Google+ Rolls Out Some Major Changes In Design
Gartner Projects Apple iPad to Dominate Tablets Through 2016
Clio searches for music, using music
The analogy with playing the lottery wasn't about creating a business, it was about going to the party.
Just in the time that I was watching the video and reading about it (and buying one) the funding went from around $67K to over $92K now! Amazing!!
I was talking about execution, not coding. Dynamically creating a page that's mostly static content doesn't really benefit from instant updates.

Consider that recently static site generators have been enjoying quite a popularity, as they enable you to have a very simple server-side system (static web server only, or something like Amazon's S3) and work well under load (being "slashdotted/reddited/HN'd"), without extensive caching.
The Calyx Institute: privacy over profits
First you need a galaxy to from. Then you need at least one generation of stars to live and die before plants can form. You then need to give those planets enough to to form and cool down before life can show up. That's the start of the window of opportunity for life to show up. However, life on earth is ~3.8 billion years at which time the window closes and such things become visitors vs seeders of life. And this is important, all this needs to take place outside of the center of the galaxy where things are a little to energetic for life to flourish.

Not to mention you need a lot of stars to die to have enough material to create a rocky planet. A single super nova is not enough because the material is ejected over such a large an area.

Now, having said all this means is you shrink the window the distance such things can travel. Earth could have been seeded by Mars no problem, but 1/2 the distance means 1/4th the stars. Ejecta just don't move vary fast so even with a 1 billion year window you need to be really close to earth to seed it. More importantly the window between when life could survive and when life showed up less than 1/10th as long as life has existed. So, if we where seeded then we have probably had many visitors after the fact which is what this guy was saying.

PS: Of course if life is common enough both could have happened and even ridiculously unlikely events can happen.
I have two such rotated displays on my work desk side-by-side to get a 21" x 23.5 combined screen. The problem I get is that viewing angle on average displays is pretty week in the vertical angle (great, so nudge it up or down an angle) - but if you put it in portrait mode, this acute viewing angle really hurts - just moving your chair from one part of the desk to another can expose it.

Unless you're going with IPS displays, the portrait mode of a monitor is somewhat compromised.

I still hate 16x9. Please give me back my 4:3.
Posts from TC/Pando/Anyone affiliated with either shouldn't be allowed on Hacker News. There has not been a single post from either site that is of any use to us here.

They are biased. They are cry babies. They want attention. Stop giving it to them. TC & Pando stories should be banned from HN.

Add.: Maybe it's my introverted nature, but it really seems that this industry is heading to a place where if you aren't a complete arrogant ass without shame who can strut around going "Look at me I'm so cool! Look what I do!", your project won't get any mainstream attention. It makes me sad.
> (I downvoted you because I strongly disagreed with you. Freedom of association is a poor defense for permitting discrimination, particularly where employment is concerned, IMO.)

Exactly, you don't wish to engage in intelligent discussion, you're punishing me for not being politically correct.

> Employers usually have significant power advantages

Unlike this and the other assertions you made, I actually made arguments to defend my position. What you've given here is the standard liberal ideological beliefs.

Don't worry, you're not the only one-- this is true of everyone else who responded to me.

You all chose convenience over principle, you all ignored my argument and you all gave me unintelligent answers.

Hacker News is not a place for intelligent discussion.
Wow, that reads like a pretty good slam dunk for the govt.
I'm interested but won't be back until next month!
I think a new stand-alone application has zero chance of successfully taking on Skype head to head. A web app, possibly embedded in a social setting, has a much better chance of success, if well executed.
This whole thing is pretty complex. I'd say the crux of the issue is Apple's non-compete clause on price. You can't list your ebook cheaper on Amazon than the price with Apple. But what if you don't have control over pricing at Amazon? That's where we'd be if Amazon was still using the wholesale model.

For this lawsuit, the problem is still the publishers since they insisted on the agency model with Amazon. The publishers are "price fixing," not Apple and not Amazon.
I picked up on the same point because the numbers just sounded too stupid low not to look into, I should have checked the comments here first.

I didn't pick up on the editor of Kernel and the author of the post being the same person - something that should be disclosed.

Explains why they didn't link to the posts!

Shame because in the previous thread about tech blogs The Kernel was mentioned as a good, new alternate source. Turns out they are not too different ..
Nothing. I've made several and made money on them. (Wikitravel, StatusNet). There are others who have done so, too -- WordPress.com being the classic. Probably the biggest place we're seeing this right now is in IaaS and PaaS efforts -- OpenStack, Nodester, CloudStack, OpenShift, CloudFoundry. Open Source all the way.
Perhaps you could show the ciphertext page and then have a script operate when the password (or button-click) is entered that alters the style of the ciphertext parts so that they use the key font instead. Extra marks if you use jQuery to fade through several font 'keys' before presenting the plaintext. Also preload the font files.

IMO that'd be cool.
No, actually it's not an opensource/public product providing the block storage.
ActiveRecord should have its own CLI, and so should your rubygem
44,000 radio antennas across Europe will connect to monitor distant galaxies
It might be a relieving feature for the insiders, but it unfortunately renders your post to "I highly recommend these closed doors".
I phrased it as a question because I don't know the answer either. I've heard that second life had a thriving economy of user-generated content and that some players "make a living" from the game; I've never seen hard numbers though.

I doubt the returns reach the proportions necessary to support a startup, especially with the low barriers for entry, competition from free alternatives, and piracy. Maybe it could support a single developer, though; more of a "lifestyle business."
A Spectacular Marketing Push for Nokia and Microsoft’s Lumia 900
It was simply spell bindingly spectacular! We are talking about a free Nicki Minaj concert held in Times Square on Friday, in order to push the Lumia 900 Smartphone into the market.
Ha! I was watching the example just now, and got a sudden grey screen http error -- "No data received"
Won't the epaper pixels wear out after a finite number of transitions? After all, a year has millions of seconds to display...
I reading the comments here it seems like a lot of people don't use a basic G+ technique: don't view All Circles at once unless you really want to spend a while (like 5 or 10 minutes) browsing everyone you follow.

For example, I have circles for Java, Clojure, AI, Ruby, Semantic Web, etc., etc., and near the top of the screen I'll switch from All Circles to just AI, for example.

Also: the red notification number in the upper right corner: I usually ignore this and look at them all just once a day.

I don't treat G+ as stuff that I have to read. If I read useful and/or fun information that is fine, but I don't get concerned about missing something.
New Google+ is simply more gorgeous than Facebook
hard to say without seeing the pull requests, but if you edit compiled code and call it a typo you're probably at risk of doing a lot of things wrong.

True - what you should do is submit a fix that takes compiled code out of the repo and replaces it with a build script.
No, it's a terrible analogy. In the analogy the output is different (escargot vs. PB sandwich); in the long post above the output is the same: "Hello world" printed to the browser.

Assembling something the hard way is for bragging rights, but what really matters is output.
Ah, my bad. I completely missed your point.

By that same token, we'd consider Wordpress overkill for a blog too, right?

From my understanding, Meteor's focus is in probably the opposite trajectory as you're suggesting, but I also don't see any reason you couldn't use it to generate a static blog.

There's no need for it to be coupled to Mongo, so uninstall that. Then just implement a JS markdown parser to build a static file.

Of course, there's no need to use Meteor for this at all, as you could do it in straight up Node -- the enhancements you get from Meteor don't make this process any easier.
Low level programming of PCs perhaps.

There is more embedded code and applications out there than ever before, and tons of mobile devices that need similarly low level code.
I think a lot of the Android fragmentation talk is just fear-mongering in all honesty. If you pick a few flagship Android devices - Galaxy Tab + Motorola Xoom (for tablets) and Samsung S2 + HTC Desire (for phones) - I think you'll be ok. Just make sure you specify which devices are specifically supported and add more as you get feedback. The Android store lets you specifically target certain hardware and over the many years of using an Android phone, I've only had 1 app not work on my phone. I had paid for it, so I refunded the purchase, the app was deleted - no issues :-)

Still, I appreciate the concerns and I also appreciate the desire to implement new features. Bug fixing is no fun. If you do release it for Android though, make sure to post on HN. :-D
One thing has always perplexed me: What is the very first thing that happens? The thing that tells the firmware to initialize? In other words, how does does the firmware "know" to initialize?
Fairly certain that they're playing off of [Comet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming))
Metasploit and Fake Firefox Addon(.xpi)
Notifications are pretty easily turned down. I only see notifications for things I'm tagged in, or when I've replied to a post previously. Maybe I'm just unpopular but I don't find that I'm being overwhelmed with notifications.

The navigation ribbon reminds me of the OSX dock in how it works. I don't think they gave up on the right solution, but rather the right solution is to allow people to decide what's important to them.
Modest Proposal for C#
So glad the specs of pro development/business machines like the aforementioned Dells and ThinkPads are being influenced by the $299 laptops at BestBuy.
Use Chef and Capistrano to deploy multiple Node.js versions
Unfortunately, just because you do hard work doesn't necessarily mean the world will need that work.

Look on the bright side and consider it practice. You may not have actually contributed to those projects in the end, but surely you learned something.
I think you can click on a circle you're not interested in hearing from (they're listed on the right-hand side in the current/old UI) and there will be a slider at the top of the stream from that circle that will allow you to completely mute that circle.

Then I guess you can add your own "topic alerts" by simply doing a search for haskell, lisp, scheme or whatever at the top and then click "Save this Search" to permanently add it below the "What's hot" button on the right (I don't think there's a way to limit that search to one of your circled though... maybe there is I'm not sure).

EDIT: You can limit a search to all your circles, but not to individual circles. Then again it is unlikely that your "Gardening" circle will have much to say about #haskell.
This article from February talks about the business model used by tech blogs: http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-wh...

Interesting discussion about that article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587730
That's not going to happen, because those sites are useful to YC companies.
Maybe she was referring to generated or combined code (common in JS projects).
Malware Encryption Efforts Mixed, But Getting Stronger
They are just trying to avoiding a class action lawsuit, like the one that happened over the iPhone 4 antenna problem. I'm sure their in house counsel came up with this brilliant idea.
We need more a GitHub-like website for the Code / Apps.
Click to add drama - Belgium Internet provider
It's built into the circuits.
Does it work natively with iOS, or does it require hacks like jailbreaking?

I bought one of the other programmable watches (forget the company name, I think it's a YC company?) that initially claimed iOS support, but the caveat was you had to jailbreak your phone and install some random stuff. Wasn't really feasible for my application.
When my WUXGA-screen Dell Lattitude failed I went looking for a replacement. But Dell decided to stop offering ~15" WUXGA screen laptops; it was all "wide screen" (aka "short screen") now, which meant the loss of a row of 200 pixels.

I ended up getting a Thinkpad W500 from a Lenovo outlet.

I should probably start looking for replacement parts now because when this one goes bad I'll again have to fight against whatever the media-consuming, non-developer market is being sold.
For what it's worth, just last night I was dicking around on Newegg looking at laptops and found that a Panasonic Toughbook appears to support 1900x1200 at 15", which is ~1.5 aspect ratio (4:3 = 1.333; 16:9 = ~1.8). The relevant term you want to search for is "WUXGA".
Someone saying "I decided today to become a life-long customer of company X!" does not mean that person will care at all about, or even remember, that claim five years from now.
This looks like yet another desperate attempt to push WinPhone into the market at any cost.

Fortunately, Microsoft is there in the back to make it possible. However, it makes one wonder if that might be anti-competitive behavior...
sorry, what distinction are you drawing between "generated" and "compiled"? even "combined", for all intents and purposes, doesn't discredit the point:

if she was editing the wrong files, the answer is to do a little more research before diving in.
Design Beyond Human Abilities [2007]
Can you tell me why I should move from geckoboard? (Not being snarky, I am not very happy with Geckoboard)
Carl H. Gibson wrote a paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1262v1) that could just possibly explain why DNA is almost universal. It reads a bit science-fictiony, but the essence is that DNA could have formed fairly early in the universe's life, when it was small, and spread along with the expansion of the universe itself.