skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you start at 12 or higher, you'll usually lose, since the computer will try to get you to 6.

Ah, but you can also try to get the computer to 6 ;).
Why two heads are better than one
>Tim Cook is running Apple into the ground by removing Apple's user experience differentiation. He is creating beige boxes. Samsung can do that. Asus can do that. He needs to take a look at what the fuck Apple even is.

Are we thinking of the same Apple? Because the iPad 3 and the retina Macbook Pro don't really conjure up images of beige boxes for me.
Here's my piece of insight: I find paying for comments pathetic, distasteful and disrespectful to HN.
IMHO, interoperability between apps is the main benefit of Android against iOS (see Intents in Android).

I can take any photo, URL or file and open/share it in/to another app. The OS and app developers take care of which apps support which resources, so as a user I'm always presented with a sensible list of apps currently available on my device.

I'd say the notion of a file with a specific file type is too abstract and technical for most use cases for casual users. The UI should group pieces of data as human-understandable resources (i.e. a "picture" can be a .jpg, .png etc.). With this level of abstraction, a user can be expected to understand when presented with a list of apps:

OS: "What do you want to do with this URL?"

User: "Share to Twitter/Facebook/My other browser"
I assume what is meant that deposits will be stored in wallets that are not online.
Good read. Nothing will make me happier than creating a profitable bootstrapped business that sells a product. Once and if I am through that, may be I will work on the next big viral idea which is not a bad thing to think about but not for my first shot at webpreneurship.
Thanks for doing this. I sent you an email, if that wasn't too, if I may. Again, thanks.
Sez lezlow,try's 2 B a truth channel
There are two different us-west regions. One in Oregon (priced the same as us-east) and one in California.
I haven't found so far how to import my own Bitcoin wallet...
> Should we digitally sign HTML5 apps?

Yes. That's better than nothing.
This isn't lazy so much as efficient, you are swapping manual effort for mental effort.

Unfortunately, not everyone sees that distinction.
Look at my two line long keylogger!

import cocoa_keypress_monitor.py
cocoa_keypress_monitor.main()
Python threads are not what you are used to. That's pretty much TL;DR of your comment.

Correct. I am used to programming language threads that work the way computer scientists and programmers have typically described them -- for example, as in this (I hope uncontroversial) Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computer_science)

When I say "standard model of threading", I am not talking about nuances of call conventions to the underlying OS thread primitives. I am talking simply about running multiple streams of instructions, bytecodes, or other units of computation in parallel, within a single OS process.
I was able to get in to the program; it wasn't too difficult (this is a couple years ago now), though it seems things have changed (credit review was not required at the time). That being said, if there is any way for you to make your accessory work via WiFi or Bluetooth Low Energy I'd go that route.
I think that flexibility is absolutely needed for reliable failure detection.
Must be more shocking for unix-like os user if the "malware window" displayed as plain x11 window, with error message there.
I don't think that funding coinbase constitutes PG's endorsement [of bitcoin].
The goal is to help spread usage of the YC startup and indirectly bitcoin.
The Oregon (us-west-2) region is the same price as the Virginia (us-east-1) region.
...and it makes you wonder what they will do to not do something.
Vital Signs
Once you've actually infected a computer with malware it's a heck of a lot easier to convince the person to pay money to get rid of it.
Tagstand Hits 1M Actions, Launches New Tag Writer To Bring NFC To The Mainstream
Bitcoin currently lacks legitimacy and security. Paul Graham helps with the former, time will tell about the latter.
Really like the design of the landing page. looks clean and even works in IE7 :).
I've been using Thinkpad (T series) on Ubuntu for 3 years now. Faced absolutely no problem whatsoever. Also like their keyboards.
I think ycombinator has been interested in the space of online payments for a while now (they funded WePay in 2009, and Stripe last year), and bitcoins could very well be a game changer in that respect. This might not be a new endorsement, just a continuation of their strategy in that respect.

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How about his indirect endorsement?
(Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap)
Yes, this worries me: "in the coming weeks, we will be introducing stricter guidelines around how the Twitter API is used".

It's the start of them inserting points of control in their system to allow them to deliver inline advertising that clients apps can't strip out.
I don't believe it would be the possible to do the former with Bitcoin, short of telling them your private keys and erasing them from your storage I guess?
The specific project I'm vaguely referring to here is described in a little more detail as 1) here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4178070

No, I didn't try Jython. The choice of CPython was made before I took over the project, and there are also a dozen or so dependencies which I don't think are compatible with Jython.
I suspect that this problem will be resolved by using black lists to sites serving the js to create those ads. Just bocking those sites (the way we can black porn at work) would serve the purpose.
This is a Ycombinator startup founded by a former AirBnB employee.
BlueStacks brings Android apps to OS X
If Joe Blow rents a $20/mo. VPN and opens up the "First Federated Bank of Joblovia", chances are he isn't going to be able to take a whole lot of wire transfers to his Bank of America account before the feds move in and shut him down. In fact this is basically what happened to some of the earliest Bitcoin exchanges who were less sophisticated with how they moved currency in and out; guys like Jered from Tradehill used their personal bank accounts to take money from people, and gave them Bitcoins online. The cashflow problems and subsequent collapse stemmed more from the constant shutdown of bank accounts than from the "misunderstanding" with Dwolla as to the nature of Dwolla's chargeback policy. I think.

In any case, Bitcoin offers the ability to do exactly this: Open a completely unregulated financial institution with no accountability. Looking at this site, the first question in my head was "Where are your coins stored?" Second was, "What are the limits, and how, exactly, do you guarantee funds will transmit since every country in the world has different limits, regulations and KYC disclosures required to make that possible?"

The answer for Bitcoin businesses thus far has mostly been "don't worry about it". In Bitcoin that's slang for "I'm using my bank account, my buddy's bank account, my girlfriend's bank account...and I swear you'll get your money on time until you don't, and I'm gone, and you're fucked."

This looks to be yet another one. No news here.
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HP won't offer an ARM-based Windows 8 tablet this year
Great story headline, extremely poor content. He reveals very little about how he came up with his guess. All you are left with are just obvious statements:

Here, my costs were negative—it was an interesting and fun problem to consider and even small projects are opportunities to teach and improve—and the upside was positive. Why not make a bet?

I'm really not interested in learning when you should make a prediction; I'm more interested in learning how you make the best prediction. In the end, I am left disappointed.

In absence of much explanation about how you reached your predictions, it sounds like you just picked a number off your gut since you had nothing to lose.
That's a pretty good chicken little, there.

I'll tell you a story about my first time with an Android device.

I went to the store to download an app. And it failed.

Over. And over. And over again. The device emitted a cryptic error message which, thankfully, was easily Googled. The troubleshooting steps required diving into the settings application and manipulating some controls to reset a data store in a low-level component in Android's OS.

Contrast that with an iPhone, which just works.

Apple's value, is, and shall remain, their airtight integration and reliable user experience. Putting Chrome on there touches none of that. None of my non-technical friends or family will ever touch it.

It's healthy for Apple to let third parties write whatever apps they want, so long as those apps don't impact system stability or security. Apple's industrial design makes hardware that's very difficult to successfully imitate, their content ecosystem is complete and richly integrated into their products. Their software and hardware are built in tandem.

No one is positioned to handle the whole enchilada as they are. When that changes, that will be the moment to worry. Meanwhile, they're in good shape.
Spending a bunch of time to make my environment work great (and keep it working great) is the opposite of what I'd consider "fantastic".

This is why I dropped Linux/BSD on the desktop over a decade ago, and switched to something I don't have to think about, and instead I can simply use to get my actual job done.
I recently switched to using MiniKeepass on my iPhone. I have my encrypted KeePass file on Dropbox. To get it into MiniKeepass, I just went to the iOS Dropbox app and clicked on my key database file. MiniKeepass was registered as an app for the corresponding MIME type, and the file opened. Easy.

That worked great for me. What else is needed?
In the early part of this century, PHP was basically still the free language for writing dynamic web content.

The second place choice was probably perl (via cgi or mod_perl).

I guess Tomcat was around too.

Both Django and Rails were released after facebook.
I'm telling you what happens if Apple allows Firefox to dominate the iOS ecosystem. It's easier to target, it's easier to get right as a single app on an android device, and it crushes Apple's ecosystem and differnetiation. They've fucked up letting chrome in and they need to remove it to set things right. It's that simple.
Number of Serious Web Vulnerabilities Dropped in 2011
"but in every OS there needs to be at least some user-facing notion of a file, some system-wide agreed upon way to package content and send it between applications."

This is what the world wide web does. DNS, HTTP, and MIME types solve these problems. The problem is that it is still to difficult to make things on a device into URLs.
Vivek,
Cannot access at the bank.
Contacted friends at other banks. Same story :(
So some 1 million plus corporate programmers don't have access to your website. Here's the message I get on Internet Explorer.

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403 Forbidden

This Web site is blocked: http://hackerrank.com/
As part of our ongoing effort to protect the bank and its information, the Web site you are trying to reach is blocked because it is classified in a category the bank considers to have certain risks. The bank blocks access to a number of Web site classifications including but not limited to Web mail sites, Personal Network Storage, and other categories to comply with regulations, protect customer and company information, and to be consistent with industry standards and practices.

This Web site is categorized as Games.
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Betting On The Gold Standard? Odds Are Still Long
Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’
I most certainly enjoyed that!
Was nice to find the apply command after poking around in the help.

== apply: Apply to join our awesome team.
Usage: apply <a profile url> <why do you want to apply>

Does it have anything to do with my mad skillz in solving the puzzle perhaps? ;-)
Evernote? Dropbox? Google Docs? Yes. A new way to manage notes and files.
Barmstrong,

I asked the following downthread but I'm afraid its going to get buried in the muck:

"Zero Transaction Fees"???

Are you refunding the bitcoin transaction fees that are builtin to the protocol[1]? If you are going to eat that cost you should say so, it seems like a good marketing point.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
I made the same moves and it said I won.
"Apple won't be Apple for much longer, and it has given up on all premium differentiation by being idiots."

That's some hilarious armchair analysis. Got any polls, statistics or.... anything... to back that up?

Or just stereotypical Apple-is-going-to-fail bs that people have parroted for the past two decades straight?
Lazy people sit on their asses and do nothing. It is the smart people who innovate. Please do not promote the culture of laziness.
But even on the web there is limited ability for applications to share data without explicitly working with the apis. A central filesystem allows for "star network" integration rather than point-to-point
> it has given up on all premium differentiation by being idiots.

Elaborate?
Thanks for the feedback. That's actually the exact problem I've been having with my first customers. I end up consulting with them via email (until the pitch is perfect) anyway, so I might as well build the site around it. A 30-minute consultation is a great idea too.

Thanks again.
Even more fun are the sites which don't let you change your password (!!!).
Also note that Symantec doesn't have an "ignore" option anymore!
Path, Nike and the benefits of a private API
Don't you see the problem with this? By allowing the app, rather than the user or the system, to own the file you wind up with multiple copies.

App A shares data with App B. The user makes some changes and App B saves its new copy. It doesn't send the data back to the originating app. It could, but then the user would have to manually do that and save it in App A again.

This is horrendous! People are confusing the poor UI that we have for files (file pickers) with thinking that files themselves are a bad abstraction.
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hey passwords are being sent plaintext (https://gist.github.com/3020091/). be careful if you signup/when you log in. use a password you don't care about, or use a throwaway.
Well, then there's the file metadata (inode in Linux: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8658/). It is a very useful chunk of properties attached to the memory unit and provides a base for ton of essential facilities that make life easier.
WoW gold is a multi bullion dollar economy with daily transactions worth around around 10-100 times what BitCoin is currently doing depending on how and what you count.
wow that is a very heartfelt letter, I love the slight humor at the very end.
So let's purposely write bugs in FLOSS because all of it can be used for evil. For well written comments of the sort you write they can't be any more insulting. This deserves an explanation so let me put it this way: I appreciate that you're voicing your concern but these kind of ideas are detrimental to progress and the prose by which you convey them is orthogonal to my comfort zone. For instance: the guy whose job is to design a military-grade drone is arguably making the world a safer place then the guy whose job is to implement new features in Linux, depending on how they're used. Yet somehow you're biased to assume the worst, which strikes me as a bit naive. Programmers shouldn't be more aware of anything, especially not politics. That's just distracting and unproductive. You choose not to contribute, fine. But it doesn't make you morally superior either way. The constraints you've set for yourself are entirely arbitrary, much like theists construe their own set of restrictions for religious reasons.
HN doesn't even force https for login. (Heh, based on the direction of the whole thread, I should clarify) I'm not defending using non-HTTPS logins, just pointing out that lots of sites haven't decided to force HTTPS.
I remember the Palm Pilot didn't use files. I think I was using the Palm IIIxe may be. Developers, perhaps a little freaked out by the idea of no files, actually created an api to make it look like there were files. I thought it was pretty funny at the time.
Deploying VMs to an external cloud provider for the simple task of testing a browser is very heavy handed.
Exactly, but that's the easiest way to start learning. That's how everybody got their feet wet in web development. Then you jump to MVC and best practices.

My point is, the language has to be designed as a web framework from the get go, routers, templates, models, everything should be right there so noobs feel confident from day one. That's the only way to conquer the world.
Hmm. Homescreens seem to work well enough for organisation of apps, better than start menu folders anyway. Perhaps file "grids" instead of the traditional hierarchy of folders might work better.
Yup, also you can use a css background-image rather than an html img tag.
Storing BTC balances as floats is something a few services have done in the past so it makes sense to ask/bring up. Since BTC have 8 decimal precision, rounding can become noticeable very quickly even in addition and subtraction even though in real, today's value, it's not such a big deal.
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Anti-apple fanboys are rabid in this thread, today. But as anyone who deals with the anti-fanboys on a regular basis can tell you: haters gonna' hate.
Reading through your responses, I'm curious about how much experience you actually have in our industry. Most of what you claim is easily falsifiable.

The idea that C10K doesn't matter is definitively untrue. I've worked with numerous large systems (games, content) where Apache was the problem, and swapping it out was the solution to making maximal use of the hardware and the (gigE+) pipes.

Even outside of saturation, there are large-scale systems that benefit from being able to park an open socket and provide asynchronous notifications over that socket (in web terms, think websockets). If you're paying for a thread or process for every socket, this becomes prohibitively expensive very quickly.

It's also not an unusual use case outside of traditional web development, and now with websockets, this kind of architecture is likely to see considerably more use. This approach provides numerous advantages to legacy polling approaches, but does not work on traditional short-lived connection software architectures.

In addition to the above, your discussion of robustness really has no bearing on Apache's architectural suitability in production use-cases.

Auto-restart functionality exists for other architectures, and in addition to that, it's standard practice to deploy multiple servers with automatic failover behind a load balancer -- in addition to the server process itself, the OS can crash, disk drives can fail, power supplies can blow, etc.

Additionally, you shouldn't have production processes crashing regularly, and shouldn't be making significantly performance-impacting architectural choices on the basis of Apache's ability to restart a child process. Software crashes in production are a worst-case failure, akin to a drive failing, and should never be so common as to justify Apache's performance costs/constraints.
Charles - Web Debugging Proxy Application
We'll add https in a day. Sorry.
Because that's how arms race's work. It's how all competition everywhere works.
The 7 deadly sins of software development
You can use Amazon Mechanical Turk [1] or TryMyUI.com [2] (I even wrote a review about them [3]).

[1] - https://www.mturk.com/

[2] - http://www.trymyui.com/

[3] - http://www.dailywebapps.com/trymyui-com-remote-usability-tes...
I don't know how these guys stay afloat and continue to get companies to use them. I don't like any of the challenges on there, and I don't see a need to `centralize` the whole process.

EDIT: Not to mention how poorly this site is set up already. The only "challenge" I see on there right now is to type candies <N> to start playing a game where you and a CPU take turns taking between 1-5 candies (you go first). The person who takes the last piece of candy wins.

So, type candies 5. Then choose to take 5 candies. You win.
You get that iOS Chrome is running the exact same WebKit as Mobile Safari, right? There's no fragmentation risk there.
Do not pretend this is anything but political. The only way to get a page that is both writable and executable is by specifically requesting one. So no, no loops becoming sentient any time soon.
It's also a lot easier for large organizations to examine issues of a less sensitive nature. AKA missile detonates in the middle of a field vs school.
The problem is that good data is often tightly locked up.
>No idea how people are winning 20+ games.

I won over 20 games by just spending a few minutes manually running the algorithm described elsewhere here and I imagine anyone who hasn't won hundreds or thousands of games probably did the same. (If you're going to write a bot, might as well let it run for awhile and see if you can max out the leaderboard.)
(Oops, the first two basic-geometry exercises aren't available publicly yet.)
You lose your premium sheen when you start giving away your products (iPhone 3GS for free).
1) Yes. Our user experience, look and feel, and "funness" is part of the brand experience that we can't compromise. Does Apple compromise?

2) Nothing is free if you are buying more hardware. Considering the costs of supporting Chrome/Firefox are very incremental, doing anything other than running the browser natively increases time and cost.

3) Cheap yes, but you have to do it, and its not like buying one piece of hardware. You have to do it for every person. Better, but not great. No one likes running VMs on their boxes because it still crawls, even with 2 cores and 8GB ram.

4) Don't disagree with you at all. I was against this design decision from the beginning but lost that battle. It doesn't change the fact that we need to test all of it.
Blackberry now ships with WebKit [2010]
Hey, it's no big deal. I fully understand product launches :-)

I just wanted a warning out there for people so they don't use real passwords.

I am still of the opinion that you should put a red warning on the web site, or disable signups/logins.
This is a completely new product. It's not linked to jobs/companies.
> PHP is amazing at letting you write something fast and rewrite it into something more manageable later.

From experience, the mountain of technical debt organizations acquire when starting with PHP can make it near impossible to rewrite it into something more manageable later, and it's a false dichotomy to claim PHP lets you write something fast while the alternatives do not.
The term would be trusted path.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_path

EDIT: Also: spot on! I thought browser induced popups would have a clear signature of where they came from. Obviously this is not the case any more.
That's a whole lot of stupid you're spitting out there, but honestly the part that is bugging me the worst is you keep confusing Chrome with Firefox.
Perhaps the tolerance is only propped up because there's no viable alternative. GIMP is nice, but it's not Photoshop. Likewise, Inkscape is nice, but it too is not Illustrator.

Tolerance for BS decreases as the number of perceived choices increases. This seems to be true across the board, from software to relationships.