skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that there was an impending credit crisis was a "contrarian anecdote" in 2008.

The idea that the US Government conducted illegal eavesdropping/wiretapping operations against US Citizens was a "contrarian anecdote" in 2003.

This blog post condescendingly claims that HN readers are not sophisticated enough to balance out the sources that are input to their rational decision making process.

In reality, contrarian opinions sometimes turn out to be correct, and mainstream opinions sometimes turn out to be wrong. Often, the benefit of a contrarian opinion is that it causes people to ask more questions, which is rarely a bad thing.

People are sheeplike enough without having to be encouraged to follow the herd!

I suggest everyone find a few contrarian theories and imagine what it would be like if you rearranged your life as if you expected them to be totally true. Most people are unwilling to go that far, and yes, in that way contrarian stories can weaken rational processes.
Cool project. I've officially made an exception to my rule of never signing up for email lists ever ever ever. Looking forward to my first issue.
I'd doubt whether there'd be much money in it from an HFT perspective; traditional trading might benefit from it, however.

HFT shops co-locate, so they're running their code right there next to the exchange.

Edit: In case I've missed a point in the article, it wasn't intentional, it's banned at work so wasn't able to read it.
Nothing on him? He has stuff on them - namely, copyright infringement (which may or may not be covered by the DMCA safe harbor). And he didn't start a war with their lawyer, it was the other way around.
Ok, I'm with you on all your points. I suppose I over-reacted to the grandparent post - it felt like useless sensationalism and conspiracy-mongering.

Thanks for the useful counter-points...I'm now armed with some more anecdotes (hah!) on the other end of the "big pharma" spectrum.

=)
Elop killed this company basically. He should be fired by the board today, though it's probably too late already.

Should Android have been chosen, which is unlikely by someone just came out form Microsoft, Nokia might have tens of also-run products now, but at least Nokia will not die, or not die that fast.
Greece as Victim (Paul Krugman)
Requirements

Photon relies on the WebKitCSSMatrix object, so WebKit
is the only browser engine currently supported.

No idea what it's doing. I was clicking around for some time before I went to the 'Documentation' link, so maybe I can save others with the same issue (no Chrome) some time.
yikes - its true.
Anectodally I saw 1 person in Indonesia with a Blackberry - and she hated it. I saw hundreds of (local) iPhone users.
Hmm I've gotten a few errors come through with a blank user agent, perhaps that's it? What browser are you on?
Calendar -> Self-streaming -> Streaming site for others -> esports (Twitch)
I don't know, people make lots of things they want in their houses for purely practical reasons. Does that really make them art?

I guess you are only applying this rule in a negative way - if people DON'T want what they produce then it's not art to you?
Handle touch events in UIWebView
It's usable by both. Windows 7 was not. There were many times on my touch screen laptop I wished buttons were better for touch. People act like Windows 8 is only usable on a tablet, when it's not. It will install and work fine on your desktop.
On the other hand, Android that is put on devices by (some of the) manufacturers is a big piece of shit. And they don't intend to update it either. Honestly, I would rather have a phone with confusing UI than one that is slow and keeps crashing.

That being said, I own a phone I have to root in order to get a decent system only because of the app base. Even average non-tech user browses sites and stumbles upon mobile apps every day. There is always an iPhone app, most of the time Android one and very very occasionally a Windows Phone version.

So windows seems to be an obscure choice in mobile market nowadays. Even though it's probably superior to Android.
I met a Nokia developer evangelist at one of the events and asked him about some of the map features. The dude told me that he would get back but never bothered to. I'm not judging a company by one individual's behavior, but it surely gave me a negative impression about their developer evangelism.
Also being sued at the moment. I'm in the UK.

It's only pre-action at the moment, so there's a chance to still avoid full on action.

I'm well aware of how real and serious this is though. That it could bankrupt me if only the slightest thing goes wrong (for me).

This is when being a bootstrapped sole founder is no fun... there is no safety net, nothing to catch you. I can't even afford representation, so I'm representing myself (nightmare!). I'm spending more time reading and researching rather than coding.

What I've learned most of all, is that right and wrong don't really matter.

If it's going to go to court, if it involves a jury (the action I'm involved in definitely would)... then all bets are off.

And all the while life goes on hold and projects are put on pause.

From the outside everyone has their views and express them frequently. This is all detached and partisan though, the reality is that it really can bankrupt you, or takeaway your future, or drain your current assets and reserves. It demands being treated with respect even if you believe your position is sound and the case unfounded.

The hardest bit, as you rightly say, is the gut wrenching fear and stress. The way it affects your sleep. The way it's hard to work or relax because your thoughts are always on the legal action. It affects everything.
This one is semi-automated. I used the HNsearch API to populate each section, but have to do some manual fixes for broken/bad links. My other project, Hacker Newsletter, is curated by hand each week.
Exactly. In addition to seeing how long your posts are active and which post types perform the best, you can learn a lot about your competition (or any other public page you're interested in)
"For the average non-tech user, is the lack of third party apps really that big of an issue?"

Yes - http://paidcontent.org/2010/09/09/419-average-number-of-apps...
The death of consistency in UI design
"Trigger" is a better word than "exploit", in some ways, but it makes it sound like it's an accident: "sorry, I just fell over your cognitive bias, I had no idea it was there!". In fact I think people have a weak responsibility in good discourse to be aware of known cognitive biases and not to appeal to them. I'm comfortable downvoting people who appeal to emotion even if they're not setting out with the intent of doing it, simply because I think it leads to a worse discussion.

You distinguish between people who are sharing anecdotes and people who are making strawmen arguments in the usual way that you'd distinguish them - by tone, follow-ups, etc. But if your sole contribution to a thread is "me too" (or "actually, not me too"), maybe that contribution isn't particularly valuable in itself.
HTC One V vs Sony Xperia U
I disagree. Especially with art where I know the artist, I get where they are coming from. I can appreciate their intention, their insight, their craft.

That's distinct from the feeling, and just as valuable to me.
I sometimes `wget` the URLs in my spambox out of genuine curiosity as to what people are actually sending me, and there are a bunch of common patterns.

What's very surprising is the "obfuscated eval" statement -- some term which ultimately evaluates to 'window' is queried for something crazy like:

w[(typeof 3)[4] + "va" + (document.body + "")[17]]

which ultimately is 'eval'. This is often combined with some sort of self-decrypting almost-binary-looking payload hidden in a div somewhere and requested by div.innerHTML. Replacing the "eval" with "console.log" can give you the decrypted payload, usually a redirect to another redirect to something which runs a Flash script, which is where my analysis stops.

I am not sure why they do this. My first thought is "to prevent being automatically taken down by The Man", but The Man could afford to automatically dispose of a computer while monitoring its network traffic, rebooting from a fixed disk image like a LiveCD afterwards. So it shouldn't be too hard to automatically discover the domains, IPs, and malicious programs involved. I don't know why you'd obfuscate a redirection.
The old statues are more relevant to many people because it is so amazing that they have been preserved and it gives them a window into old things, and because old things achieve a sort of special-object status especially in connection with religion (relics...) Moreover, the old things have already been through ruthless filtering, and the things which remain tend to have more inherent interest than the average recently-created thing.
I think if he didn't draw the bear picture Carreon wouldn't have taken it personally. Right now this lawyer is representing himself on a rampage against the Oatmeal and charities.
The Pando author also seems to have forgotten that Android saved Motorola, took HTC to new heights and enabled Amazon and B&N to make tablet lines of their own.
It's like a QA report wrapped in the cloak of a research paper!
Perl without IRC
Chrome 19 on Windows 7. I shouldn't have a blank user agent, I wouldn't think.
This is REALLY bad. You should have given them at least a day to fix it before posting it here though, this is pretty bad etiquette. I understand you're excited you discovered such a stupid mistake but everyone can just pull up my payment details by entering the correct URL now.
There is already a C function interface for Common Lisp called CFFI: http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/
Do you have a link for that RFC? I may have missed it...
This is easily one of the worst pricing pages I have ever seen.

Your pricing scheme is extraordinarily complex and the page does the poorest possible job at explaining anything. Heck, it doesn't even mention that RAM is your discriminator - it simply implies it as if that was natural.

Moreover none of the terms are explained (what is "Vertical Scaling", what is "Proportional to application memory")...

There is not even a calculator/slider to get a rough idea of actual cost without engaging in Excel-gymnastics.

You should seriously get outside help for this.
"Cewebrity"? That made me think "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits" ;)
Outsourcing Birthdays and Flirting
There were a huge number of smaller pivots that didn't make the article. They didn't go into the period where JTV had its own internet talk show, for example. There was also a ton of strategic pivoting behind the scenes concerning the business model and revenue -- but that's not the sort of thing that's going to make a FastCompany article.

The most amazing thing about JTV is that everyone just kept going, even when the circumstances made you want to roll over. Twitch and SocialCam are an object lesson in tenacity.
The obfuscated C contest is very explicitly by and for C programmers - the layman isn't expected to know about it, much less have a positive opinion of it.
Because Apple's end game has always been to turn the computer into an appliance. This is not a new development. This strategy failed for decades until the PC became ubiquitous and mass market. When computers are no longer limited to the tech elite, Apple's strategy of dumb appliances make much more sense. It's automatic verus manual transmission.

As for me, I've never upgraded a computer in my life beyond adding RAM, because in 4-years time, my motherboard inevitably becomes incompatible with everything in the market anyway. In order to upgrade, I'd have to buy a new motherboard.

So in that case, if I end up having to build/buy a new computer every four years anyway, is upgrading really that important? I don't upgrade my microwave. I don't upgrade my toaster.
Nokia's Lumia 800 also borrowed the design from their N9 MeeGo phone, with some softkeys added
On one hand, I do see your point - at first glance it seems a bit unfair to ambush them like this. On the other hand, if the OP quietly submits it to Heroku and they fix it, then none of us find out. Posting about a vulnerability that has recently been fixed would not be likely to garner nearly as much attention as one that is an open issue.

This is the sort of thing that I, as a Heroku customer, really want to no about. Not because my personal information is at risk - no credit card #'s or anything are accessible - but because it changes my perspective on Heroku. This vulnerability is just plain sloppy on their part - I really though that the folks at Heroku were smarter than this.

If this leak provided access to any more sensitive data, like credit card #'s or SSN's I would 100% agree with you - notify Heroku and let them fix it first. But the only real harm I see coming from this being posted pre-fix is embarrassment for Heroku.
I've heard/read about that (drawing a gun) before alright, but find it genuinely difficult to equate it to getting my penis stuck in one of these contraptions.

I really don't think that, if in this situation, I'd be too concerned about what happens to the woman in question - I would absolutely be thinking about how on earth do I get out of this thing ASSOONASPOSSIBLE without inflicting any lasting damage.
I don't know if it is art. I have nice wallpaper and I look at nice advertisements. Are they art?
I wonder if at the same time markets still grow at an enourmous rate, so that even a declining market share could still be a net increase? Apparently it doesn't seem to be the case for Nokia atm, just saying that market share alone is maybe insufficient.
The thing is, I'm not sure that mobile is a separate market anymore. How many corporations are doing a BYOD initiative? Personally at the company I work for, all the salesmen (a few thousand) are getting tablets instead of laptops for the next refresh. It just makes sense. Likewise, instead of handing out corporate laptops, they'll be giving employees a stipend to buy whatever device they want as long as it fits their needs.

When corporations (even IBM) start adopting bring-your-own-device and that includes mobile, mobile is no longer a separate market. It's time for mobile to evolve, something it hasn't done since 2007.
I just switched to a WP (Titan II) last week. It may be new phone smell but I really like it. I wasn't a heavy app user though.

In showing the phone to my family/friends the biggest confusion I have found was the People pane. They thought in terms of the Facebook app and the Twitter app. Once I explained that those apps are all 'in' the people pane and linked to their phone profile things went smoothly. Overall I felt they really liked the look of the phone.

Personally I like the social media integration and the tile interface look. Rather than a feeling of reaching out to Twitter or Facebook those things are delivered to me. I don't have Joe on Facebook and Joe on Twitter, etc. I just have Joe and all his updates are delivered and grouped together in a nice way.
It appears that he wants to sue the charity because of the following logic:

1. Indiegogo is incorporated in California.

2. It appears that under Californian state law that to collect money for a charity you must register to do so.

3. The charities were informed of the fundraising efforts, and as no paperwork had been filed they have the authority to shutdown the fundraising efforts.

4. The charities have refused to do so, therefore for some reason they are liable for the campaign.

(Reasoning taken from here: http://www.ramblingbeachcat.com/2012/06/not-backing-down-ram...)
30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Days
> Reading this, it seems to imply that key exchange in TLS is an insecure process.

The key exchange in itself is an insecure process that may be attacked with a man in the middle attack. However, this is a known limitation of the key exchange protocol which is fixed by adding a public key signature to the key exchange messages so TLS is not vulnerable overall. </oversimplification>
It's probably because running a company usually means you have more resources and money available to use than just doing a project. I guess that it comes with a lot more constraints than a project though in some areas - you might have really good ideas that you want to try but if they're too big and too much of a gamble, you can't really just do it and risk your investor's money...
Three page loads to read minimal content and get served with maximal ads. Here's the print version to get all the content (badly formatted) and minimal ads:

http://blogs.csoonline.com/print/2226
I am not sure this solves anything. From their implementation details I could just mount mysql on a memory filesystem and have 100% of MySQL's feature. If I need near 100% assurance that the data will be saved, there is always block replication, transaction logs and regular replication. their transition module adds nearly nothing but overhead, since stored procedures are better, and if you have the need for ultra performance, there is always the ability to access mysql at the command level and bypass sql entirely.
I mean, how much more evidence do you need to see Lovecraft was spot on: Discovery of mysterious Antarctic mountains under ice, just as he described; mysterious sounds near the resting place of Cthulhu; what will be next, I wonder?
Run your own Gitorious server on AWS using BitNami
Motorola phones are running process that logs OS changes, sends them to Motorola
If Innman hasn't registered his work with the U.S. Copyright office, then he can't sue for copyright infringement damages. Not that he can't claim copyright, just can't litigate. Not sure if he can file after someone posts his copyrighted material and then claim damages though - here's hoping he can!
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm pretty sure our co-founder/designer Osman knows about this but anyways being unique is always better :)
I don't need to know the details to realize that this is a bad idea, considering the countries supporting this.
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Or you grow up yourself. People change.
If art required craft, that would not imply that art was reducible to craft. I don't even know where you get the premise that art and craft must be mutually exclusive.

I don't see why an engineer cannot be an artist, particularly if everything is art.
Heroku still seems to have the normal form of technical debt because every time it fails people are told they are to blame because they didn't set up redundancy, but that should be part of the reason you are paying so much.
Google translated:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&...
You can engineer at least the first two ... and then luck usually shows up
Precisely! One might suggest that good art is, in this case, also a good left wing hack: subtly influencing HN-geekdom toward extra-dimensional thought and philosophy is a pretty effective guerilla 'force multiplier' (to borrow a neologism from the right-wing militiarization pundits) against negative trends in modern society. Ideas are as objects; hold them in your mind, turn them and examine from all directions.
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However, we soon saw a number of shortcomings, and none of it was really the phone hardware or even Android itself.

Seems like there's a tremendous opportunity for the right group to prosper. I'm not sure that's Nokia.

Apple combines several factors:

- A culture of good programming that works well
- A culture of good design
- A company where the efforts of different parts are well aligned
- The ability to market

If Nokia can do all of the above, they would win. History has shown that they aren't this company.
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That "Protip:" thing is really condescending and irritating.

I don't understand how ordinary language can't give language to the soul so that it may speak. Especially if what the soul wants to say is something like "I am hungry."
The Brilliance of The Struggle
> Because if that's true then there is no standard to judge whether one model is "higher-fidelity" and in fact there is nothing for science to do at all. Do you really believe that?

Theoretically, there is a "universal truth", but for all intents and purposes, there isn't outside the realm of Math.

We judge science's fidelity by how well it correlates with repeatable experiments - which may be characterized by some "universal truth", but that's besides the point. In Newton's day and age, newtonian mechanics seemed to describe essentially everything. And then it turned out to be a crude approximation that only works in large scales.

In 1900, there was a Physics convention, in which the tone was basically: We have everything worked out, except for 3 minor things - Michelson Morley light aberration (solving this required developing the theory of relativity), Black body radiation (solving this required developing quantum theory), and the Photoelectric effect (which also requires quantum theory to explain properly).

> Do you really need to give up the idea that anything is actually true in order to dispute this blog post?

No. But you do need to give up the idea that you have certainty of knowledge about how true things are.

> You seem to think that science and knowledge are just some form of political orthodoxy.

In math, they aren't. In physics, they aren't.

In biology, it's not so clear.

In medicine, and nutrition, there's a ridiculous amount of political orthodoxy and "religious" beliefs -- and last I heard, they were considered sciences.
Yeah, like Steve Jobs making sure the NeXT factory looked pretty by painting the robots is an example of silliness because NeXT failed. Yet if Apple showed that off in a product video today, it would be held up as attention to detail.
Facebook sometimes shows the cached public page, so the data you are grabbing may jump around.

Example: http://www.dodaj.rs/f/2X/72/1YrHKUTF/edgekick.png

Maybe you can add some smoothing in the graph being shown. According to FB insights this page got 5 likes in the morning, and there are no unlikes. If you visit public page, it will show +/- 5, but when logged in to the FB insights dashboard it is consistent at the top value.
That's rather the poster's point: even if the claims are demonstrably false, it can be an enormous burden and risk to actually demonstrate that.
> Focus on “scaling” too early and you may well forget to focus on “building something people want”. Don’t make that mistake.

Couldn't have said it any better myself.
Redefining Android: a new UI for Sharp phones
Microsoft won't let them go under, they need quality WP phones that aren't an afterthought to their manufacturers. Worst case scenario, if/when Nokia is on the brink of bankruptcy, MS will take it over.

There was a story recently that Microsoft already had considered taking over Nokia but walked away from the deal after looking at their books, which may mean that MS is just waiting for an opportune moment to take over Nokia on the cheap.
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Like a young, coke-addicted Italian fashion model.
That seems high, but it's only about 540 or so requests, and Google+ has only just got going. Perhaps that is seen as quite a large jump, but I'm not entirely convinced.
Nobody is going to end up doing anything

Except that something has happened, as the lawyer has filed lawsuits.
Maren Kate Donovan (maren here on HN) founded http://Zirtual.com a startup that lets you outsource assignments to personal assistants in 15, 30, or 60 minute blocks.
I wouldn't say it's the worst, but it's pretty poor.

The page doesn't mention whether it's per day, month, or year for example, but they seem to be taking feedback from a couple of the other comments.

Not sure why you've been downvoted for this, seems a bit harsh.