skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While remembering usernames and passwords suck, so does having to wait for a text/email and going through another hoop. Any kind of friction in a sign up process is undesirable.

We have a similar-ish solution for a product we are building (empiric.al), except we don't even have the text/email. We server-side generate the device id & challenge when you connect the first time. That way the user is instantly in the app without any sign up.

Linking devices then becomes a secondary issue (similarly over email/sms, or optionally oauth) rather than a primary. Yes it is easier to abuse the system generating many empty sign ups, but it's just one of many ways people can abuse you. You still need something checking for abuse regardless.
Obsolete in 2-3 years? No, those would be Android devices, where a phone 12 months old often can't run or doesn't have an upgraded version of Android OS. However, the iPhone 3GS, released 3+ years ago, will run iOS 6.
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I'm still going to buy the new Retina MacBook Pro, but I can currently afford to upgrade my laptop every year and gift away the old one. Plus I personally don't care much about recycling/the environment.

That doesn't mean it's not an environmentally unfriendly design.
> Vimscript is not a general purpose programming language, but does the job of extending vim fine.

If you have the chance to choose to invest time in learning either a language to extend your editor or a general purpose language which you can use to extend your editor, which would be your best bet?
Maybe Apple can take this algorithm and use it as the scaling algorithm for low res images on retina displays.
It depends on what you're scripting, some things really are expressed best in the shell.

But tools like perl, python and ruby aren't nearly as universal as you'd like them to be. Obviously if you maintain the box and are deploying an app, they're trivially available. But if you're shipping software to be installed on end user boxes of unknown configuration, they're a dependency that can bite you. That's why things like self-extracting archives and shell-based initscripts persist, even though they look ugly to modern eyes. They do what they need to do very well, and they do it universally.
If you're not in charge of their life, they're in charge of yours

No. Money does not give you control of my life.

Bill Gates can have all the money he wants, but it doesn't mean that he chooses where I can go to school, whether or not I want to risk having health insurance, whether or not I can fill a ditch on my property, whether or not I can marry my same-sex domestic partner, or even whether or not I have to use Windows8.

Government, however, controls all those things and much more. In the context of this thread, the pejorative use of the word "elites" typically refers to those who approve of using government-like power to control the lives of others. Usually, because they are members of the ruling class that has influence with the government and/or because they have plenty enough money to circumvent many of the ways that the government can control their lives.
This is definitely not an edge case. How many kids do you see at the grocery store with their noses in an iPhone will their parent(s) shop?

That said, it would be nice to have the option of telling the app to cache your credentials.
There's more to it than that. You're not allowed to use their logo in a link, true. However, you're also not allowed make them look bad with any such link. "You may not use any link to the Site as a method of creating an unauthorised association..., and agree that no such link shall portray us... in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner."

(Sorry for the snipping, but it was pretty long otherwise. I don't believe I've removed anything that changes the fundamental meaning.)
by this logic nearly all startups are delusional. I don't think I'd frame it this way.
Yeah, now that I think about it, username/password combos pose the same risk as this when it comes to sniffing.

Does it just use an easily obtained device id though? so could a potentially malicious app that the user installs also grab the device ID and then forward it?

Even if an app 'saves' a username/password combo, (I hope at least) it does it in a secure way, where other apps can't access the saved info.

If all this system does is use a device id, its still not as secure. The article didn't mention whether or not it did this, but it would be better if, in addition to a device id, the app also randomly generated a key and stored it in a place that other apps couldn't access it. If it used that in addition to the device id for authentication, it would at least be as secure as other apps that 'remember' your username/password.
Last time I needed to replace a screen in my laptop, I got one from ebay. They shipped it to my apartment.
The version of JavaScriptCore (and the rest of WebKit) available from svn.webkit.org is exactly what is shipped in Safari on OS X.
That is where reddit shines... they can splinter off to subreddits.
2006 - You're totally right. My mistake.
Show HN: Collections, a fast multiple-account Google Docs client for Mac
Ok James Madison, but we have 200 years of economic data and reasons for the fiat money. You're hand waving and claiming that it's an evil without acknowledging that it solves some pretty fundamental problems. People aren't poor now because their vast wealth has been decimated by inflation. It's because we are doing more with less and commoditizing the types of work they were doing.
It's sexist whenever you have a big disparity that people exploit as an excuse for sexual harassment, whether a small number of women in a crowd of men or a small number of men in a big crowd of women. I purposely omitted any mention of gender in the grandparent comment.
It's not about the device, it's about the service. Amazon could grab 30 million customers instantly with this plan: If you take these ideas to their logical conclusion, it's not hard to imagine Amazon pulling the biggest move of all: giving away a pretty good smartphone, along with unlimited voice + data, completely free.
If by "niche" you mean high quality, in depth content that takes effort to digest, as opposed to brain candy that makes you feel like you're in a special club when you're not, and that you're thinking when you're not, then I would very much prefer the "niche".
According to the article, this guy is only expecting about 70% of his costs to be covered in the end. He said he was expecting to be out around 10,000 pounds.
Google News? Never. Reddit. Yes. I actually do get most of my news from a combo of HN and various subreddits.
Managing Shopping within Projects, Trips, Events on the iPad
Apple engineers contributed "Nitro" to the WebKit SVN repository before it even gained that name.
This algorithm is likely very slow. In fact, the authors didn't mention runtime at all.
Edge case was perhaps the wrong term. It certainly is not a majority case. As I said- make it an option, everyone is happy.
Well, in this case there's no jailbreaks involved, so no code modification or patching. Obviously if you have root access on the device you can do "anything"; the "non-JB-ness" of this hack is what was particularly intriguing.

(also, if the ipa contains all data required for the IAP to work, a jailbroken device stands no chance -- any server checks could simply be NOP'ed out)
Are planes in the habit of carrying much more fuel than they need, just in case they will weigh too much when landing, in which case they dump the fuel? No. In the inverse example, we don't put extra load on servers in anticipation that load goes up, just so we can dump the extra load and put it back to where it would have been had we not had extra load. The idea is moronic. It is literally the same as putting lead in your servers until you have to dump it, just because you can. Real admins have alerts on their servers to tell them when they will need additional capacity.

Incidentally, fuel dump systems were initially added due to a rule by the FAA that a plane's structural landing weight not be exceeded by its takeoff weight. Many commercial planes never had this problem, so dumping systems were not installed. As a result, most planes just circle until they've burned up enough fuel, or land anyway overweight. You could dump fuel to lessen the chance of explosion, but only if your plane is equipped with a fuel dump system, and such incidents are so rare it's not even a safety consideration.
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It's even beyond using a duplicate password which as you point out is ignorant. They were so unclear on the concept that they used a password that was written down into their source code, and once that source code was stolen they didn't change that password!

They also failed to utilize the two different free multi-factor options LastPass offers (not to mention the premium ones).

LastPass tries to educate people and push them on not utilizing the same password anywhere with a security challenge, but that clearly didn't teach the concept here.

Their last breach involved losing access to their email: info@bitcoinica.com -- so what email did they use here with LastPass? info@bitcoinica.com They didn't utilize the security email either.

It is all unbelievable.

How do we drag this out of cargo cult security?

I see some are pushing certifications; If I made a free LastPass certification that both proves you understand the concepts, and that you're currently putting them into practice by showing that you/your company has multi-factor enabled would people demanded it?
I don't know of a single product Apple makes that's obsolete in a year: obsolete doesn't mean "doesn't have latest and greatest features". 3GS phones run pretty much all the apps a 4S runs; ditto on the original iPad compared to a new one.
this is my latest project: grow better food and share with your friends. farmville, but in the real world:)
This doesn't actually add information, it just creates a magnified image that looks nicer than bicubic.
I was asked to look into some of the data from the BBC Correspondent's site earlier this week and was made an administrator to do so. I'm a member here, but am using a throwaway ID - because I'm sure there'll be a backlash to what I am going to reveal.

Now I want to state for the record, I actually like Facebook, I don't have an axe to grind, and I really believe that MZ's intentions are truly honorable. I would like to believe he knows nothing about this, but I'm not naïve - he owns 57%, and he's a very very clever man. But I am disappointed.

So to explain...

Because the BBC has a wide non-tech audience some of what was found was not fully revealed mainly because it's so difficult to explain to the general public the tech behind this issues raised.

The main point was missed both by TechCrunch, and many commentators on Twitter etc. and I guess general fans of Facebook. The point being that at first the ads were targeted to UK and US people. Hardly any clicks were reported meaning that advertising with this targeted criteria is pointless, and in fact more pointless than expanding the reach to countries that will artificially boost your return. The clicks/likes though high in number will never bear fruit, that much is not disputed by the BBC. But it begs the question if both "settings" are useless then what's the point in spending any money at all with Facebook?

Before I get a barrage of hate mail remember I had access to the real data. The BBC describes exactly how you can replicate the experiment for yourself, and I guarantee you'll find the same results. What's more you'll discover the same profiles are liking your fake page the same as they liked the BBCs virtualbagel. Take it from me.

What's more the list of Likers contained people who appear to spend their lives clicking likes. These people are clicking between 50-100 likes per day, all day, every day. In the 10 or so days in July many had racked up literally 300-1500 clicks. It doesn't take a genius to work out these people are being paid to click on ads.

Remember we're talking third world countries where it makes economic sense to pay someone a-dollar-a-day to click on ads all day, when the return is so massive.

The question is who is paying? Who really stands to benefit? Logically it just can't be a third party. This is out-and-out click-fraud.

In addition to all this, and I can't reveal too much (because it's still being investigated for later publication) is that there appears to be evidence that the process is also subject to some automation from within Facebook. We have comparative evidence that shows how click automation would look if it was carried out by a third party and how it would look if it was carried out inside Facebook. Unfortunately for Facebook the evidence is showing that again it's driven from the inside.

I'm actually quite sad, because it doesn't have to be this way, but from what I have analysed it is, what it is. If you don't believe me do the same exercise and look at the data.
That totally explains something I've noticed since I started posting here but couldn't put to words.
>For the glass steagal bit, sorry but right now your aim to be above the debate is making you take a stand based on what you think is a talking point.

Either I've been unclear or you seem to have misinterpreted what I said. When you say "It isn't a theory propagated during the crisis, it's a theory substantiated by the crisis," I can see why you think that. It doesn't mean I don't think you're wrong. I do. And I do think it's a talking point - you write as if this was all settled, and it's not.

And my point about economics as a pseudo science was really a long winded way of saying your assertion that "my dyed in the wool republican finance teacher/boss spoke about how glass steagal was grudgingly useful, before the crisis hit" carries the same intellectual weight as "The guy who runs the local sandwich shop has a sister whose brick-layer husband think glass steagal is useful"
We are criticizing the way the company does business. Ending the conversation with "Don't do business with the company" is a lousy cop-out.
App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform
> Go explore :).

Thanks for the encouragement :).

Of course TED is not a knowledge compendium, it's a starting point - to get excited about some idea, technology or solution, or to start a deep discussion about a particular topic. I always treated it as a "high-level overview"; in cases of topics one knows a bit about it is easy to see how those talks show only surface layer of the topics.
Best 404 Error Ever...
Which safari on iOS doesn't do. Nor does the AppStore app. Obviously. Otherwise, this site wouldn't work
Amazon Add-on Program for Shipping Small Items
Yes, the internal representation of Bitcoins is the 64-bit unsigned INT, but I'm talking about storing customer account balances, trade prices, etc. I would not use DECIMAL if I were writing an alternative client for Bitcoin or for some other software that must create network transactions at a low level.

Even the RPC protocol for the main Bitcoin client returns fixed-point numbers and expects non-integers for input arguments [1].

But I think we can all agree that using FLOAT for this kind of thing is just plain wrong.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls...
I agree, I stopped to care during the last winter Olympic in Vancouver.
DIY B&B
Meteor 0.3.8 released
Yes, there are other high performance candidates that work well with line art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hq3x
My point was mostly that it won't effect apple as much as the article (headline) seemed to think. I'll still be buying the best equipment, not the cheapest.
Easter egg in the page source for BarackObama.com
I don't see a single piece of news on that website anywhere. All I see is a signup page.
What's wrong with Malcolm Gladwell?
Nice work on this! The illustrations are superb -- Sort of reminds me of the "Fake steve jobs", "Fake Grimlock" and that whole set of cool meme-generating twitter feeds.

Seems a bit overdesigned/overengineered though right? Do you really need the adlib typeahead? Or did you realize that people needed more constraints than just being able to type whatever they wanted into a box?

Seems like you could have an entire conversation between a few famous celebrities (alive or deceased) and then take that conversation page and make it atomic and shareable... and I feel like that would get traction.

Just my 2 cents.
WxPython: Creating Your Own Cross Platform Process Monitor with psutil
In addition to AFIncrementalStore and the other suggestions in this thread, you should check out Simperium (http://simperium.com). Our iOS/OSX library watches your existing Core Data context and handles syncing transparently, with full support for offline use. Unlike other solutions, we use persistent connections and operational transforms to send only the data that changes, allowing many conflicts to be resolved automatically.

We've already been down the path of using a more traditional RESTful approach to syncing data with earlier versions of our app Simplenote. I agree it seems like it should be easy to just cache some offline data locally and send it up to a server at first opportunity. And you can write a prototype of that system pretty quickly. But in our experience at least, conflicts, errors, duplicates, etc. arise a lot more often than you might think and it's very hard to make a system like that reliable, not to mention scaling and maintaining it.
What is the justification for CoffeeScript?
Ask HN: what's your take on 99Designs?
Ok, I just finished perusing through the "why would a YC Company use 99Designs" post, and it got me wondering how everyone percieves the service they offer? Back when 99Designs came out, the idea seemed innovative but at the same time somehow abusive of Designers (without meaning any offense to the 99Design guys, who had an idea and got it going). Now after so much time has passed I'm wondering how they're perceived by both designers and those looking for them.
+! for Paul Hegarty's iOS course from Stanford found here:
http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-dev...

Seriously can't go wrong with it. He's ex-apple I believe and was something like the 10th employee or something. IE: One of the makers of Obj-C.

Great lectures packed with tons of demos to get you coding as he talks.

He doesn't do any Cocoas2D stuff though; so if you're looking for games I would go somewhere else.

Ray Wenderlich's site is also a really good resource here: http://www.raywenderlich.com/
Assuming what the author says actually ends up being Amazon's strategy, I think bringing in a dirt-cheap smartphone option and thereby accelerating the movement of another class of consumers (many of whom are probably still using feature phones) onto the mobile web is pretty disruptive, if only because it accelerates the adoption of the mobile web. The means -- forced adverts/consumerism -- isn't where the value is, the end -- more mobile web users -- is.
I disagree strongly.

The reason that bank runs and failures are so destructive is because of the state build cartel, driven by central banking. That was built in order to prevent competition and to let fractional reserve(which is in essence fraud) to run wild.

The only reliable way to ensure stability in banking is to separate it from the state and let the free market do what it does in every industry known to man, weed out stupidity and fraud.
Faye is an alternative: http://faye.jcoglan.com/
NBC doesn't play anywhere near all the events.
Petition the Whitehouse to decriminalize marijuana
A petition on the Whitehouse's website asking that recreational use of marijuana be legalized, regulated, and taxed.
Accurate whole-genome sequencing and haplotyping
Super nice, but I worry about the slower webkit in webview. If it is much slower, you would get a better experience in the browser, despite the nice UI additions in this app.
Right, as long as I only want to watch events where the US is predicted to win gold.
> Average it out and it's the same.

Nope. It appears that way if you test people under the age of 25, because women reach maturity much earlier than men do. If you only test people who are at least 25, the male average is 3-5 points higher than the female average.
I just do something that wakes me up when I get home and make sure I get a good night's rest (7-8 hours) each and every night.

For me, competitive Starcraft 2 really wakes me up (better than espresso).
http://www.butdoesitfloat.com/ is my favorite site when im stuck for inspiration.
Facebook, Twitter, Reddit didn't kill Digg. Digg killed Digg.

Kevin got caught in a situation where he had to please investors and they were looking at what other people were doing and he stop innovating and started copying.

That's what killed Digg. Nothing else.
I'm so sick of people like you on HN. Open the link, look for a tiny snippet of text which looks like it's contrary to what the submitter's point is, and then bash them in the comments.

> no such link shall portray us or any other official London 2012 organisations (or our or their activities, products or services) in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner
Not quite.

Digg was viable previously. Hence the Icarus problem. They tried to fly too high.

Most startups are stillborn. That's a different Greek myth.
The private panopticon is already here and it is leaking into the public one rather quickly.
If Amazon uses the open source part of Android without actually joining whatever program Google has for manufacturers, then it's not clear how it would be good for Google.

(Such a scenario would probably also prevent Amazon from advertising it as an "Android phone".)
Again, the article stresses the "good enough security" . However, udid itself can be sniffed and read by other apps, so it's not good to rely only on it but in a combination with some kind of a "salt".
I think this hero worship is a side effect of having a celebrity CEO. Many leaders choose to shun the spotlight, which goes a long way to ensuring that the whole company gets credit for the work(eg. Spotify). Some leaders feel it's important that they be seen as the face of the company, selling the dream.
Android still sucks but I’m impressed by Google
Lehman Comes Back From the Dead
Hacking stubborn APIs: getting paginated results when there’s no paging option
I was referring to the browser sniffing webmail. Is the appstore a browser? I thought it was an application.
I'm 20 minutes into it and enjoying it. Adam Lashinsky does have some interesting observations.
Did you know programming started as a mainly female profession
> Having a cd is just going to be obsolete by the time you get home.

I'm guessing the CD doesn't actually contain Chrome - just some code to download it. It's like how the Chrome download on Google's site is actually for an installer that will itself download the latest version of Chrome.
Hey, email me at pambron[at]brandyourself[dot]com. I'll figure out why you can't log in
That's what I told my coworker when her car was in the shop.

She can have the transmission in her Honda replaced for about $3300 (10% of the sticker price), or do it herself.

Silly girl, she must have forgotten.
John Gruber wrote on his blog that all federal US agencies require EPEAT for computer purchases. While government business is probably not that crucial for Apple, it was still stupid to withdraw all products from registration and explains the reversal of that decision.
Dalton Caldwell: Announcing an audacious proposal
I think `indexoncensorship.org' just violated these ToS, since they linked to the Olympics' ToS in a "derogatory... manner" (they criticized the contents).
I do think there is a big business there, but it's also crowded and more complicated. People don't realize how big the individual market is, and we want to be the ones who own it. But reach out to me, I'd be happy to show you how to use the product, and give you some additional tips for the business front--pambron[at]brandyourself[dot]com
Age and the entrepreneur [2009]
Could this be a paid leak?