skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook Camera app really, really wants to know your location
'The Demise of Guys': How video games and porn are ruining a generation
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It's pretty likely that the moment sideloading is "available but off by default" is the moment phishing messages take off seriously. "Just go to settings, then enable sideloading!". Most people won't know what it means, but will use it if told to.

That's not something I can cite peer reviewed evidence for, but from the number of people with unwanted toolbars and junkware on desktops, it seems likely.

So I disagree that it has "nothing to do with a good experience for users".

the walled garden approach is frighteningly dangerous for computing in general.

It has made something widely regarded as the best non-technical computing experience of the decade. It's not 'frighteningly dangerous' while there are still lots of ways to get computation you want done, done. (Albeit not as slickly).
I have successfully done this between disparate virtualization providers, and Xen to dedicated.

I'm betting you were running Xen/HVM then. (Most people do, these days.)
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You know what? Good. A stock that explodes after the IPO means it was priced too low, and the company didn't raise a fair amount of capital.

Facebook is obviously smart enough to think for the long term. I don't trust the financial machinery to do that.
Be warned: I've been listening for ~23 minutes, and they're still beating around the bush to get any non-rambling explanation.

The irony is that if Benjamin was cohosting, they would have wrapped up the issue within the first 5 minutes of the podcast.
Show HN: Built virtual social currency [trying to become an engineer]
Or, the first thing I thought of (didn't even think recursion), was evil-y eval JavaScript:

eval(Array(101).join('console.log("hello world");'));
The idea seems fun enough, but I'd like to see the same languages used on either side. Comparisons between different languages are a bit harder for me, especially since I'm not proficient in most languages (Java, .NET, Objective-C, Basic and C are my most used languages).
A 16% drop hardly qualifies as the "worst performing IPO of the decade".
I like that bad namespacing is what you find disturbing here.
No it's not. FTA:

"The IPO produced the worst five-day return among the largest U.S. deals of the past decade."

That's an extremely qualified factoid. Please retitle this post.
That is exactly what they are considering...

"The IPO produced the worst five-day return among the largest U.S. deals of the past decade."
What? A politician being disingenuous? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!
Just seemed fishy. First two accounts that commented have been created recently, and then your over the top excitement.
Are you really asking why a developer tasked with creating something intentionally deceptive didn't use best practices? I'm thinking not a lot of care or attention to anything was paid that day.
The project was written at #hackNmatch hackathon in Stockholm in 2 hours. The DNS might not have been propagated yet...
I use opera mini on dual core 1.2Ghz Android with 4" screen because pages load faster on edge mini than on uncompressed 3g. and mini is very good at saving battery for you, which is very important on Android, unless you have a pocket nuclear reactor. and don't forget crappy internet speeds on AT&T because there are too many iphones. so much for real life usability of expensive smartphone in a developed country.
Pretty amusing. Google actually does something similar on the Gmail homepage to indicate the amount of free storage but they're doing an actual estimate using linear interpolation. You can view the source on the gmail home page and look at the updateQuota method.
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Also funny: "We ran a strong race and practiced fiscal discipline."

For a fundraising drive to fix their debt problems.
It is neither a scientific nor a societal accomplishment, it showcases neither innovation nor courage. It's just - something that happened.

While governments are cutting down their budgets for scientific research and basically accepting the status quo regarding the spaceflight, there's this guy from Africa doing something extraordinary and you see no innovation or courage?

If you describe what happened today as "there was this thing that came close to some robotic arm or something, and then the arm slowly captured it, and ... that's about it.", then I agree with you - that is boring. But, that's not what happened today.

Today we saw one guy's insane vision becoming reality. And if that is not something I don't know what is. And what's even more exciting about it is that this is just the beginning.

Governments can, with care, be kept under control. However bad corruption gets, democratic governments will always be bound to the electorate. Corporations - no.

Aren't corporations regulated by the laws made by the governments elected by the electorate?
I feel like I should point out that if a script to recognize and fix those common patterns is that simple to create - its just as simple for a spammer/scraper to create. This implies its probably not worth obfuscating your email in the first place....
Is there one that is worse that they missed? Article seems to suggest that MF Global Holdings Inc. had the second worst opening week.
Aren't there rules about political candidates disclosing donations? And doesn't this violate those rules?
Surely there should be a middle road between FB's IPO and "exploding". Perhaps 'preforming as expected'?
Probably wanted to make it more readable, it's not even minified.
It's a common trope, and has been around forever:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=...

Also, People vs Larry Flint: http://i.minus.com/ibfNdJy39bLELF.jpg

Interestingly, most of the items on that ISERP are internet-related.
Ahhh, no sorry, I have been reading for a long time, I only signed up last night to post and I found it rather addictive, if you need proof of my existence I can point you to an MSN, a twitter and a facebook, as well as a hosted website bearing my name :)
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Is he technically still a candidate? Maybe he's getting around those rules by not being a candidate anymore.
I find the 8 space indentation most disturbing.
Agreed. It's better to use something like reCAPTCHA Mailhide (http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/) to protect your email address.
I was working through this quite quickly until I got hung up on meta-implication. I'll have to come back to it later :(
I don't want to be mean, but do you really feel the need to update us with who you've shown this to, and who liked whose tweet, every 5 minutes? The signal to noise ratio in your comment is pretty low... In future could you keep it a little more concise, and less update-happy? Thanks.
Well third party javascript makes a lot of people money how do you propose we get around their buying power?

Also what would the limits be of third party javascript be? Would it be allowed on the domain level so people could still use CDN's and other things easily such as cdn1.example.com, etc... if so It probably could be okay then people could use CNAME or A records to link to their legitimate third party javascript like analytics and ads and it could take away a lot of the possibility of malicious third party javascript.

The web however would probably have to change a bit because a lot of websites use third party javascript depending on your definition of it such as google's 1e100 domain and other such cdn measures that aren't necessarily served from a domain record.
wait, did anybody actually think those donation counters were real?
Business Idea:

Instead of the government doing this (and being self-funded), why not do it commercially? Just set up thousands of personal phone numbers (honeypots) and just wait for the calls to roll in.

Naturally issues like tracking down the callers and filing mass lawsuits would generate problems the startup would have to overcome, but you'd be at an advantage because you'd have plenty of data at your disposal. Eventually you'd learn more about the branch of law that deals with these infractions and how different jurisdictions handle the cases.

What are the ethical side effects?

1. If your business became large enough, and it became a realistic outcome that telemarketers who use illegal tactics would have to pay damages like the 4k one in this article, the ROI for telemarketing may decrease to the point that it's not used any more.
I don't think a JSLint-compliant, file-minifying developer would need to resort to this kind of work.
Six Months With Rogers
"Average" users have been taught to use strong passwords for a long time now.
Mark-to-market accounting, or window-dressing as the accountants refer to it.
They only lost it if the stock doesn't recover. And...it's been less than a week.

Everybody, everywhere, just needs to take a goddamn breath.
If they needed the chair he was in, they would have just said, "Hey, who are you?" Opportunity cost was zero. Wear and tear would be negligible, and there is no way on earth AOL had to renegotiate their office bandwidth contract because one more person was coding there.

I suspect the AOL PR people are throwing a party that somebody managed to use "young" or "entrepreneur" in the same article with the word "AOL".

Also, degree of harm is certainly relevant. E.g. "No harm, no foul."

I'm not saying it was morally flawless, by the way. It was definitely somewhere between scrappy and duplicitous. And it was probably criminal if AOL really cared. I'm just saying that they don't actually care.

As a way to check, note that AOL opened these offices to other startups for free: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_14/b42220432...
Can Facebook achieve a Synthesis between Instagram and their own App?
I believe that Facebook will attempt to grow both apps in such a way that an synthesis will occur taking the best of both. My guess would be Facebooks User base and Instagrams culture and feel.

What would you take from both if you had to mix them together and what is the best strategy?
It's the Tab character.
Understood, my apologies :) I shall keep my enthusiasm to a lower tone from now on, thank you :)
They have to accurately disclose itemized contributions to the FEC, but a public website counter ain't the FEC.
Honestly in other cases they are. I had personal experience developing tools used for Howard Dean's 2004 primary campaign (as a volunteer not staff) and in that case it was certainly real.

I'd be very, very surprised if the ones used by Ron Paul and Obama weren't real. They have good engineering talent there, and (in the case of Obama at least) good political talent. This runs contrary to both.
Zuckerberg's Marriage: A Shareholder's Perspective
I can't help it. It's just the way I'm wired.
Agreed, there should be more news about how awesome of a job the underwriters did!
Well, yeah, but it's the filesystem, not the virtualization tech. You could rsync a dedicated to a dedicated and it'd be fine.
It wouldn't be impossible to implement. Maybe it would only reflect online donations but still...
The New Trial of Socrates
I'm not 100% certain I agree with this. Clearly, you can go too far with abstractions. I mean, I'm really annoyed by Java's "Let's just fix this with another layer of abstraction" strategy. But at the same time, it's fairly frequent that you need a couple of levels of abstractions to do something complex.
I don't think there's anything wrong, in principle, with this approach, so long as the simulated rate is calibrated frequently to the actual average donation rate.

Having it all wired up properly would require a whole lot of infrastructure, particularly for donation mechanisms that aren't online and aren't all tied in to a single system.
I'd like to see the dependence on PV-Grub lifted.

Maybe Amzn is just not too skilled working with various bootloaders?
Panic really needs to keep its mouth shut about MVP.

It is not some tiny startup. They are one of the leading 'shareware' makers on the Mac platform. And the fact is that Coda 2 is a buggy mess with many of its key features completely unusable. I fail to see how with this sort of approach it is going to ever build customer loyalty.
How does one tell when a politician is lying...
Ah, so it is. Then I'm disturbed that browsers render a tab as 8 spaces.
Seems like it might be tough to maintain an app with so many external dependencies
Beating the Anxiety of Online Reading
NICE! Looks like he's giving back - http://imgur.com/PeVdv
Ask HN: Rate my Kickstarter project - KOTHpoker
So my team and I have been bootstrapping the development of our site http://kothpoker.com and we decided that Kickstarter would be the best way to raise a small amount of funding. Any advice/comments/concerns are greatly appreciated!

Here's the link- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kothpoker/king-of-the-hill-poker-kothpoker
I would assume his mouth was ajar?
Clickable - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kothpoker/king-of-the-hi...
I was excited until I found out that its currently only Windows is supported :(
Thank you for properly countering my post.

First, I'd like to address this:

"Go ahead and keep doing it if that's your thing."

This hurt me a bit. I was merely quoting and defending the words in this context. I can't recollect having used them myself either when speaking or writing before, ever. I am pretty reserved when it comes to using these kinds of words, even though I am surrounded by people using them every day.

Same thing with "But I think that's because people are mostly fine with casual sexism, as long as it's not too obvious". I am, for example, bothered at times when I hear male classmates saying "Get back in the kitchen." to female ones. It's meant as a joke, it always is, but that doesn't sit right with me.

I look at the individual, not the sex of a person. I consider "bitch" to be a word free from association to the female sex, today. One thing that may be influencing me is that nearly all of my classmates are male, which means that the times I do hear "bitch" it's used with a male... and certainly not in the way you suggest, except for the last one. Which brings me to the point I was trying to make:

It's an expression for "being a pain in the ass", something which both men and women (and all in-between) can be. Leaving the gender fully out of it is a good thing, as someone else has said, the meaning of words can change.

Finally, perhaps there are a few cultural differences. I grew up and live in Sweden, and while we borrow many words from English perhaps not all their meaning, and in particular, the history behind their usage is brought along with them. The old fashioned use of bitch may be more alive in other places, I suppose.

In short, I do not appreciate words and expressions where the downgrading of women is obvious, but I do not consider bitch being one of these words. If you do find someone using it to downgrade women, teach him (or her) a lesson. When I read "And yet, why don't we hear the people who always bitch about Google complaining about Microsoft?", I didn't get an image of "women in their right place" in my head, but one of raging nerds.
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Whats interesting about this though is your average person doesn't have that perspective.

These companies (most companies not just tech companies or just facebook) are largely black boxes to them.

They aren't thinking about how there are lots of hardworking people at them who deserve to be rewarded for their work.

I've been thinking a lot recently about this. How even myself I didn't really have a good perspective on how a company's stock price / ipo relates to them.

But with facebook its different though. I've known about facebook since I joined it in 2006 as a senior in high school.

And now I know people who work there. I even have a friend who works for Morgan Stanley.

So now im in a unique position to really understand where these numbers come from and the value they do or don't represent.

If you never learn that kind of stuff; either on your own, from others who have seen it, or don't have the benefit of the collective knowledge of a community like hacker news.

All you would have is:

"High stock price good, low stock price bad"

And the rabbit hole is actually much deeper than that.

Like in this instance even though the stock price didn't rise greatly it was actually good for the company. Because that's what an intial public offering is supposed to be about. A way for the company to raise capital. If the stock price doubles after that its all well and good but the company itself doesn't get to benefit from that aside from good press.

And I think a lot of people keep taking for granted that facebook is not public now because it wants to be but because it has to be, but thats a whole other conversation
And after that "okay, this was a great sim. now to turn it around and do it for real".
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I hope anyone who is building a startup never listens to your advice.

Putting the minimum effort in and building effectively mediocre features is not how you build customer loyalty and excitement in the market place. And it makes it very easy for competitors to go after you. Sure you should keep the scope tight but you should try and at least make it highly usable. Even if its just so you can sleep at night knowing you made something great.
For comparison, does someone want to post the source code to GMail's meter:

"Over 10250.602608 megabytes (and counting) of free storage."
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I think Facebook will let them compete. They both cater to different needs: public (Instagram) and private (Facebook). This is good for Facebook as privacy conscious users can safely share using the Facebook Camera app and as long as their default settings are correct they don't need to worry about accidentally sharing publicly.
The real travesty is that those kids are still playing Nintendo 64
It would be a great ending for a brave little company. For the company, not its users.
Or if your tests are slow from loading Rails each time you can use Spork:

https://github.com/sporkrb/spork
https://github.com/sporkrb/spork-rails
I've never seen so many specious generalizations in a single article.
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There are (several) guidelines that abolish certain abbreviations because misinterpretation can kill, for example http://www.ismp.org/Tools/errorproneabbreviations.pdf

I cannot find a guideline w.r.t. Mg, but it can easily be confused with milligram and microgram. That may be the reason to use this weird construct ('ton' seems a better term, but it is ambiguous, too)
I think "web applications" are themselves an abstraction.

Why not just run the application from your own machine?

Same interface, same commands, superior performance and security.

How about letting users add abstraction if they want, but not forcing it on them?
Not that insane. Everyone knew it could be done (since the 60s), and the guy was already insanely rich, so the means were available. All that was lacking was the will to do it.

Cute, but as a feel-good human interesting TV story, not life outlook-changing.
Google+ versus Facebook: It’s the apps, stupid
Unbelievable alarmist crap we've been hearing forever. Is it even newsworthy that CNN is pedaling this junk? Also kind of sexist. Girls can play video games and watch porn too. Why are "guys" so special and only their demise news worthy? This article could just as easily read "The demise of people".

Replace "Video games and porn" with X where X has been:
Rap, D&D, Rock and roll, premarital sex, alcohol, drink fountains, teenage necking (kissing), dancing etc
Great piece, but I feel like I've read it before.
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Most Americans simply don't have the time or expertise to puzzle out educated positions on various specialized topics. [1]

The vast majority must inevitably defer to trusted intermediaries to summarize, weigh arguments and state positions. Historically, these would be the press and popular community and national public figures.

The problem today is that those intermediaries are busy leveraging that trust for personal financial gain, feeling no obligation to perform the actual duty being entrusted to them. [2]

To remotely "pay attention" to the breadth of political discourse absent trustworthy filters and intermediaries is beyond a full time job.

Not to mention that it's generally a first-class ticket to becoming disaffected, as one discovers that the issues worth talking about are largely ignored and in many cases there are simply no alternative positions being offered by our political parties.

[1] A person with no training in economics simply cannot make an educated position on any but trivial economic policy short of actually studying economics. And Dunning-Kruger doesn't paint an optimistic picture of anyones ability to fairly weight the various arguments while they're still coming up to speed on these topics in a highly polarized, highly politicized environment.

And to 'pay attention' one must not only do this with economics, but criminal justice, property rights, the health care industry, international politics, business operation, lobbying rules and restrictions, etc.
I agree - at first it was novel and interesting that some companies would give you a puzzle to solve. As I've gotten older, and as my time has increased in value, I'm not as interested in solving a problem just because someone gives it to me. I like to create value, not merely create code.
If anyone's not sure of the advantages of a text processor, like TeX or troff, over a WYSIWYG (or WYSI-all-YG, as Kernighan said) application, then http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-02.html may help.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/tab-size was just implemented in the newest browsers, for all your tab-sizing needs :)
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You're right, it's important to gauge these things, and there's been a lot of things going on this past week, and people tend to assume because the facebook IPO didn't behave the exact same way as the linkedIn IPO that it has somehow failed... but it's the stock market. It's unpredictable, and so many things affect the price of a stock. There were trading glitches, largely affecting daytraders and companies who had no desire to hold the stock long term in the first place. And there's also been a lot of back and forth on the European debt crisis this past week and general volatility over all tech stocks, not just facebook, but facebook is in the spotlight right now.

I don't think facebook's IPO has any real bearing on the industry at hand. Other recent tech IPOs like LinkedIn and Jive have varied by more than 10% in the past week.
While I agree that the balance of soft/hardware in a rocket is shifted more to hardware side, I don't think their software is trivial. For instance, some of the delays to this last SpaceX launch due to software validation problems [1].

And then, yes, there's always manufacturing and planning - CAD programs, flight planning (maths/astronomy). Robotic rovers are also part of the industry - that's AI, control systems, computer vision and image recognition etc.

[1]: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/05/spacexs-dragon-debut-...
The workflow actually doesn't help in typical usage either.

- Edit a file remotely. You make a change and save it. It auto publishes that file. Makes sense, right ?

- Now you want to have those remote files also in Git. So you copy the remote files locally. However you make a change and there is no way to auto publish. And no way for it to be changes to be automatically added or committed to Git. And the add/commit UI behaviour is clunky. Meaning it is in fact quicker to use the command line defeating the whole purpose of Coda.