skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An article like this coming from a site that has not updated it's UI in what looks like 6 or 7 years rings alarm bells for me. The UI of the blog is literally looking like a sore thumb, my eyes almost jumped at how different and compressed it looked.

I really disagree with this guys thoughts. When I'm in Twitter, I want it to look like 'Twitter'. I want to know I'm in Instagram, or Facebook, and see the difference. Imagine if all apps used the exact same UI solutions. How would innovation happen? It just doesn't make sense on so many levels. Diversity is a good thing.
Let the Facebook acquisition-as-innovation begin!
>> Javascript is not an essential part of web development.

This is a very strong statement and I probably disagree. I am not talking about client-side applications here, but all those Google Analytics snippets, Facebook Like buttons, Discus comments etc. The script block essentially became a standard way to include third party functionality into the web page. And without it this tool is less useful than it could be.
Probably near closing time and failing to meet quota...

I mean, with the number of apps they have to check, it must be a sweatshop.
:shudder: Good point.
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Yeah, they deliberately made the in-app interface look like a mobile word processor. Which is really, really deceitful.
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No mention of Mikrotik? I picked up a RB750GL last week, and so far, it's everything DD-WRT/Tomato/etc wish they could be. It works as a basic plug-and-play router, but it's incredibly flexible beyond that.

Check out http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:RouterOS_features if you're interested. You can download the OS and run it in a VM if you want to give it a try before purchasing.
Scientists' use of statistics is often problematic, but that doesn't mean that its valid to counter statistics with anecdote unless you have some larger argument.
Already implemented by the Rochester guys (well the messaging part, not the HFT part)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3705953

Its an interesting application of the potential.
No. It's so Apple can protect you from malware.

Not choosing and buying crapware is still on you.
You nailed it.

"Except for there is no law being broken here."

Sounds very black & white, doesn't it? The thing is, it doesn't matter. The actual determination of whether or not you've broken the law occurs very late in civil proceedings. A judge doesn't rule on whether or not you've broken the law, a jury does. The judge can only rule that the claim made against you does or doesn't past certain "tests". I can assure you that if a lawyer digs deep enough, he will find some circumstance under which these tests will pass and you will end up sued.
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I had said "bought it", but I did not indicate the price: $0.99.
Applets will win the day yet! Everything should be Java and subclass component. Funny, Applets would have nicely filled the gap between java and HTML if they had been UI optional and better integrated with the DOM.
Don't know why you're being downvoted, dude. Your comment (and your clarifying comments above/below) are accurate.

Copyright is automatic, but the right to actually litigate a copyright is dependent on manually registering a work. If you register prior to infringement, you are eligible for very generous "statutory damages", which are roughly $100k per act of infringement. If you register after the infringement, you are only eligible for the actual damages (i.e., lost sales or the defendant's ill-gotten earnings from the infringing uses) that you prove in court.
GPLv3 which requires handing over the keys, yes. GPL(v2), no.
Who on earth is Wayra?
You're right the math is wrong on that one, but it isn't the only thing wrong. SSL is 160MB not 128MB. We will double check the numbers and fix it.

Thanks for pointing that out.
Well, FaceBook is trying to develop a FB phone...so the FaceNook isn't as crazy as it may sound.
There are depressed people who don't use the internet at all. Your symptoms would just fall into something like "IRL symptoms". I think the the study is trying to point out a detection mechanism for depressives who use internet. It wouldn't be a holistic diagnosis. That said I'm not sure corelation and causation in this study. I feel like people can use the internet for "escape" and "entertainment" and still lead perfectly fulfilling lives.
I do exactly this using a Soekris box running pfSense. It's a godsend. Seriously.

Perhaps I should blog about the setup as some point.
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Amazing even in this modern era how much of culture revolves around mythology and provincialism. If we skipped the flag waving and the mod365 business, not to mention the time wasted bothering the deities (in triplicate) we might actually emerge from this age of mythology with some real progress.
Sounds great. Now where are the Who's Hiring posts/comments for St. Louis?
Why is Captain Kirk climbing the mountain?
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I think it's more correct to say that in almost all cases, the purpose of academic research is to advance human knowledge, not produce a commercial product. Academia is not industry, nor should it be. What drives an academic scientist is the pursuit of knowledge, the recognition from peers that he/she was the one who formulated the new theorem, found the new approach. Going from proof of concept to polished product is not academically interesting and, as pointed out, not valuable to the degree granting or tenure process.

Many universities realize that there may be valuable technologies that need to be extracted and developed. Business schools try to match MBA students with Engineering students, offices of tech transfer try to offer some support in this area as well. Schools are offering specific advanced programs in commercialization of academic research (e.g. Notre Dame's ESTEEM program http://esteem.nd.edu/). Even some companies are trying to help this process, like TandemLaunch (http://www.tandemlaunchtech.com/).
Nice headline Nate. Well played.
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Why would you want to? Startup is a process, religion isn't.

Now if you were to replace religion with life, we might have something...
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Here's a non-exhaustive list of things we take care of for you:

- We curate a configuration of each service that "just works", and we maintain it over time for upgrades and security patches.

- We implement scaling and reliability best practices for each service: load-balancing, deployment across multiple datacenters, database replication and failover, hot deploy, strict change management, etc. We do this in production at a very large scale, so even for a very small application you benefit from the equivalent of a 20-people ops team serving tens of millions of uniques.

- We actively monitor and support everything we deploy, and are on call 24/7 to fix things when they break. This is important because 100% automation never happens in the real world. When things break we fix them, or help you fix them. We've been known to fix bugs in our customer's code, but don't tell anybody :)

Our job is to be a provider you can trust to run your stuff in the long run. That's what PaaS is supposed to be.
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A lot of people must read Hacker News. My hit rate went up ten-fold and most seem to have come from here, so thanks derleth

I certainly didn't want to offend philosophers. I was merely pointing out that most scientists don't find their ideas very useful in practice. The piece arose as a postscript to a piece "In praise of randomisation". It was in the course of writing that that I discovered the a small (I hope) number of philosophers denied this idea. That does active harm.
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A twitter user, @shanemuk, sent this today. Sums it up nicely.

"What you need to know about #Science, #Philosophy and #Sausages @david_colquhoun - answersingenes.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/show-m…
Never be 100% successful != never work.
Is this a case of the app getting approved as something else and then the developer turns around and changes something in the meta that doesn't require approval?
Realistically, you'd be looking at a soho (small office/home office) load balancing router, specifically a dual-wan router. Cisco offers some [1] as well as Peplink [2]. I don't have a lot of experience with them (did some research on it a few years ago but never pulled the trigger), so YMMV when it comes to custom firmware etc. Doing a google search on "dual wan router" would give you a good feel for the environment. It's possible to find them under $200USD. $350 isn't entirely out of the question depending on the features you're looking for.

If you're outside of the US (I'm guessing, based on the speed of your link), some products are export-restricted. You'd have to check on support for your locale. Another option if you're in a DIY mood is making a custom Linux box using split access features of iptables [3].

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124...

[2] http://www.peplink.com/

[3] http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html
Keep telling yourself that. When was the last time you used a Nokia phone? When was the last time you saw a Nokia UI?

I have an N810 Internet Tablet and the UI is beautiful and easy to use, despite the hardware having drawbacks. (Resistive touchscreen, CPU a bit too slow.)

The N900 and later N9, based on the same Maemo codebase, fixed these problems and reportedly have beautiful, easy, fast UIs.

So no I won't "take your word for it" when the data suggest otherwise. Symbian was fucked to begin with. If it's a pain in the ass to develop for, nobody but NOBODY is going to put in the requisite UI polish.
As a college student and St. Louis native, this really excites me. I wish all the startups in these programs the best of luck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Sure, if you somehow get the salt but not the hash, and expect to get the hash in the future. Then, precomputing things makes sense while you wait.

Otherwise, it's silly - building a rainbow table means 1) using a large amount of storage to store the results, and 2) waisting cycles organizing your data in that space to ensure efficient lookup. Doing this makes no sense if you already have the one hash you're going to check against - just do a regular brute-force attack.
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Is this the end of the battery? wearable power generation
I am pretty certain that would not hold up in court: because they do very specific curation of their App Store (including reading the descriptions for content and vetoing certain forms of text), they are legally liable for all of the content displayed in their catalog.

In fact, due to the way the American legal system works (with our concept of "joint and several liability"), Apple would probably end up paying any and all trademark damages, and would then have to go after the developer to recover as much as they could themselves.
Impossible is a strong word.
I love these reviews of F1 Birdie Driver:

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Wow! by {{{Indie_John}}} (Five Stars)

Surprising control system! It's cool, that you can steer.

Birds! by david35689 (Five Stars)

It's so cool, that birds are in racing game now!

Worthless by Jim hannoonen (One Star)

Horrible game! Total waste of money.

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Someone should release a game called "Spot The Fake Review".
What you say is true, but I don't think this article is demanding access to Netflix data. They've noted rather dispassionately that Netflix is making technical and legal changes, analyzed its impact on Netflix users and third party developers, and concluded that this will be a net loss for user, third party developers and probably Netflix its self.

That sounds about right to me. I'm sure Netflix expects the net effect of this change to be beneficial to the company, and they may be right, but they are going to loose the benefits of the ecosystem that exists today. I certainly don't see any whining, complaining or demanding. It's more of a heads up to everyone involved in the Netflix ecosystem that this is an important change with significant consequences.

AFAICT, goodfil.ms is informing and preparing it's community for changes they're going to have to make. Surely you don't expect them to protect Netflix from the negative PR that this move will generate?
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Yup, this is very likely to happen - just like the confusion of hacker/cracker got cleared up ;)
Apple does respond to complaints from trademark holders. It's not Apple's job to determine trademark infringement; it's the job of the trademark holder to protect their marks. When Microsoft files a complaint, Apple will take down the offending app, assuming the violation can be proven. The burden of proof (as in the courts) is on the trademark holder, not the seller.
They usually do catch or question or flag apps that can't provide license to use trademarks. We publish apps using well known apps and they sometimes get rejected until we can prove we have permission by the mark holders.
I don't think it's necessarily game over for Nokia, but they've got to drastically rethink their game plan.

Flash their back catalogue of 800s with stock ICS, call it the Nokia Lumia A, sell them for $200 a pop (sans contract). That'll stem the bleeding and give them time to come up with their real Galaxy-killer.
Give it more context - do you mean paying the bills before deadline or overlooking SQL injection in your site or not forgetting the 1/7 case for a switch statement?

They all involve dotting the i but with massively different consequences. They require different kind of effort to be put it.
You could just stop developing for Apple. I hear Android is an "open" platform.
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The newer ASUS (RT-N12/16+) use a 2.6.x kernel (and actually don't work with the old 2.4.x kernel) on tomato, and given now, I'd get the RT-N16 running tomato. My RT-N12 (I couldn't afford the more expensive RT-N16 at the time) is fine but only has 4MB of flash, so I can't put the "full" tomato on it, instead I compile it from source for a thinned out build that gets rid of a number of things yet keeps both IPv6 & OpenVPN.

I haven't tried either of the Buffalo routers, but my budget ASUS has been rocksolid and works very well.

A word of advice about tomato though, the development has stalled somewhat and led to the continuing development of a number of "modifications"(1) developed by different people, where each goes its own ways (e.g. Shibby, Toastman etc.). They can be found via the sub-forum and continuously add new features, improve existing ones and also fix some bugs etc.

(I am using Toastman's tomato no-usb mod)

(1): http://tomatousb.org/mods
Facebook (De) Friend Awkwardness
So I've noticed recently that a few people that I've been Facebook friends with are no longer friends. These are people that I'm not real good friends with but actually do hang out with from time to time via mutual friends. Every time I see one of them, I feel a mutual awkwardness.

I've read stories of FB friends disappearing due to the lack of db reliability and such so I'm not sure if either party actually de-friended the other.

Anyone else encounter this weird situation or have any insight about it? I can't think of any reason why any of these people would de-friend me.
I think Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation are trying to bring some of that consistency back into the Web. Even completely unique applications with their own design and functionality are easy to navigate when they start with these frameworks.

For example, Roll20 [http://roll20.net/], an online RPG tabletop, is a full-featured web app that is easy to use even though it's quite complex, partly because they worried about designing a custom UI on the macro scale, leaving the micro scale (buttons, form elements, etc.) to Twitter Bootstrap.
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"Domain squatting is such a big deal that squatters purchase unresolved domain reports from ISPs, meaning that your phone's carrier is likely selling a list of all the domains that aren't registered that people are searching for. If you hesitate at all on acquisition, the domain might get scooped out from under you."

Minor chance of that. Besides even after you run a WHOIS you would typically visit the site to see if it's parked or being used or to simply gather further info.

"Also, check to ensure that the whois provider doesn't sell.."

You can run a whois right from your command shell. (You have no control of course over the registrar who has the whois server running of course no matter what client you use.)

"when registering, many of the registrars do the same thing"

In general if you are brainstorming about names it is necessary to do several things that might tip someone off.

I've been doing this since 1996 every day and personally have never had this problem.

(By the way as an aside you might want to register the obvious typo of your domain name.)
Alternatively, the preferred solution by most states and retailers is to simply end the subsidy for online retailers and require them to collect sales tax.

Before computers and databases, it was a valid excuse to say that merely calculating sales tax was burdensome for a retailer. Today, calculating and collecting sales tax is trivial--there are dozen of SaaS providers for online retailers, including Amazon itself.
It was much easier to get this working than I thought it would be! Does anyone know when this will be part of an official release?
here are some "tech news" sites who took the Flurry report serious:

MacRumors,
Marketing Land,
The Next Web,
9to5Google,
9to5Mac,
Business Insider,
TechCrunch,
PadGadget,
IntoMobile,
Appolicious Advisor,
Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News,
memeburn,
Gruber,
Siegler.
You feel that Apple should reject "every single shitty app"? Really? You do realize that such things are subjective, right?
Note, I didn't say just use the web.

I told you what I do which is what everyone else will do. I don't need to tell them, it will happen on its on.

The vast majority of people who can afford smart phones live in areas where there is consistent internet.

In heavily populated areas the trend toward improving internet connectivity will continue. Eventually the productivity gains from creating apps will only be useful in specific situations.

Areas now that are still hard to use internet are improving in most cities. Places like metros, basements, etc will all have internet some day.

If you are stuck somewhere very rural, you will be increasingly fustrated.
Good point, I missed the calendar app.
I've been doing this for years as well. I use PCengines ALIX boards to build new ones for friends and family now as they seem to have the same specs for half the price.
When Britain was weeks away from losing the war, when it had only two weeks' worth of food left, Turing cracked the Enigma code. German U-boat blockade was broken by effective interceptions and the rest is history.

What would very likely have happened if Turing did not step in? Britain, like so many brave castles of earlier times, would have fallen, starved to submission. Rommel would have rolled on unopposed to rule the Middle East and its oil. Soviet Union would not have received vast shipments of free hardware on which to roll westwards. The US would have been quite unable to intervene in Europe without its 'offshore aircraft carrier'. Not that it even wanted to.

At the very least Hitler would have bought himself plenty of time to develop nuclear weapons. He already had the only effective rocket delivery system and jet aeroplanes.

Isn't it ironical that the man who did more than anyone to save the world from an opressive and intolerant regime was himself castrated under the threat of imprisonment for being a homosexual? Was denied further government work for being a 'criminal' security risk and thus professionally ruined? Was driven to suicide, if that is what it was?
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Grading knowledge workers based on ass-in-seat time is like grading programs based on lines of code. Which, as Bill Gates once famously said, is like grading aircrafts by weight. Time, lines, and weight aren't the goals of their respective domains, they're resources that are utilized to accomplish the goal. Judging solely by resource consumption penalizes efficiency.

I think part of the problem, at least in the States, is that we have this ideal of hard work and determination paying off, and lionizing work ethic above talent, skill, education, intelligence, etc. While it's certainly true that work ethic can overcome lack of any of the above, the idea that work == success is just as fallacious as the idea that, say, education == success. A little cleverness, plus a little laziness, can make often make the same amount of labor go a lot further, so judging just effort is missing a big part of the picture.
To quickly follow up on your aside regarding how this might work for copyright issues (as opposed to for trademarks): the DMCA procedures do not apply to Apple due to their specific curation: they have forfeited any possible safe harbor protections, and the procedure for dealing with them is not simply a take down notice.

Thereby, if you have an issue with an app in the App Store, you can and probably should (as in, the American legal system will, in the end, fail to work correctly for you if you don't) directly sue Apple for any copyright infringement that occurs in their App Store. (Of course, most directly, what you should do is talk to your lawyer. ;P)

(I am not a lawyer, but I do run Cydia, the alternative to the app store that distributes substrate extensions for jailbroken devices, and have in the past run other systems such as Cyrket. I thereby have received a fair number of C&D's myself, and have had my own lawyers brief me on these matters.)

(That said, Cyrket had DMCA safe harbor and for Cydia I only host my own work, so I can easily and often be fuzzy about details as they might apply to companies like Apple. It is interesting, though, to hear at conferences from people at Google about the balance the Android Market must keep to maintain their DMCA safe harbor.)
Contrarian opinion is often correct, but contrarian anecdote in the face of statistical evidence seldom is. The article was about the later, not the former.
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pfSense is way to go. Though I'm not sure if Soekris has sufficient juice to handle the load in his case.
The death of the cover letter
It's really hard to answer this question generally. The approach depends totally on the name and what you are willing to spend and if you have a plan b etc.

"owned by a man from India "

Generally speaking that's actually a good sign from my experience.
my first thought exactly. Why would they build a texteditor with a proportional font? It looks horrible.
I totally agree. The whole idea of responsive design that those types of frameworks promote is exactly the type of defacto standards that arise out of the mishmash of web UI/UX.
Of course! Sorry, I might have been unclear. I'm talking about the service of repairing my shoes. Not for every step I took in the shoes... that would indeed be absurd :-)

Edit: OMG, I really did write "every step I take"! That was a total brain fart, and not in any way what I meant to say. I have no idea why I wrote that :( A little embarassed now!
Prometheus seem to be that kind of movie you need to see several times to understand it.