skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This actually tripped up a friend of mine a couple of years ago. She left a comment on a photo of someone holding a toy gun saying "You look like <insert-name-of-well-known-terrorist>" followed by a smiley. Within hours, she got a message and a phone call from someone claiming to be working for FB's security who asked her some basic questions on why she left that comment. The whole experience scared her from using FB for a long time.

I thought the whole thing was adhoc and confusing. Anyone who saw the comment could easily see that it was a joke. Also, if it wasn't a joke, why is FB calling her and not someone from law enforcement?

Would love it if someone from FB here on HN could comment.
Hi Paul,
I'm a researcher who uses arxiv daily and I love it. I love it to the point that I sometimes wonder if it could become more than it is. Did anyone involved with arxiv ever toy with the idea of attaching message boards to papers in which the papers could be discussed? i.e. One of the links from the abstract page could be to a message board specifically for discussing that paper.

One of the worst things about the peer review process at journals is the lag and one-way nature of communication between authors and referees. It is tremendously frustrating to have one referee torpedo the whole process because he/she has interpreted the paper incorrectly. I'd love to see somebody try to replace the traditional referee process with something like an invitation-only forum so that authors and referees can interact in a timely basis with anonymity preserved. Arxiv could do a variation of this by creating a forum open to users who have published papers on the arxiv (just to weed out spammers). This could provide rapid feedback to strengthen papers as well as a place to collect answers to questions from readers.

Cheers!
This should be a film, the story has everything: business press coverage, the BluRay code event, death threats to the founder, a near-deal with Google, the exit of the CEO, the 4.0 debacle, the company downsizes, the founder leaves, the company struggles, then the company sells it's shell.

I hope BusinessWeek does a piece on this.
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I'd love to implement this instead of a WYSIWYG into our platform, but the problem is our users (non-technical) are not going to take the time to learn markdown. Even if we had a guide on the right I have a hunch they would still be super confused.

Idea: Add buttons to the top (optional) that LOOK like a WYSIWYG (something they are familiar with), that simply apply markdown around text.

I think you'd see such much wider adoption with that addition, which is something I'd love to happen, because WYSIWYG's do indeed suck.
That's actually a pretty decent analogy. Obviously the focus on posting links and ranking and such is different, but the user experience of someone totally new is similar. As is the searching for tiny pockets of awesome in a sea of idiocy.
> That's assuming the contest is a mutually exclusive OSX vs iOS game and not OSX vs Windows. If you assume the latter, OSX is also a proven consumer OS for Apple along with iOS.

While that is imminently rational, the problem in many organizations is due to internal political struggles. Apple might be experiencing this, as iOS starts to vastly eclipse OSX in terms of installed base and profits.

Microsoft has definitely lived this for decades (and even explicitly enshrined it in their values by Gates, Ballmer, etc "don't threaten Windows") and IMHO, it has led to their stagnation.

Apple before has admitted to moving devs before between OS projects, as they share a LOT of common frameworks/codebase.
Only if you use a key the size of your data, which is not commonly done.
Currently, it loads the onscreen images when the scrolling stops (which is a non-aggressive loading behavior). If you wish to be more aggressive about loading the images, i.e. loads the images when the scrolling starts to decelerate, or loads the images as soon as the table scrolls (very aggressive), you can fine control the loading behavior via the loadInBackground method in PFImageView (the PFTableViewCell has a PFImageView as its imageView property).

In designing the API, I debated whether I should introduce a property that lets developer specify a loading behavior from a default set. I chose not to expose it for now and wait for some feedback; if this is a commonly asked feature, I can always introduce it later. I find, in the personal apps I build, this loading behavior is sufficient for 90% of them. Would love to hear others' feedback, though.
> You don't get the analogy do you?

No, but you don't get my application of it. Nice talking down to somebody while you clearly didn't consider what was said.

> odds are it wont beat the X360, but if it doesn't make enough money then how is it going to survive?

Something is broken in your logic here. Local/regional restaurants don't have to "beat" Applebee's in marketing expenditure, selection, serving sizes, or price. They don't even necessarily have entirely the same customer base. Why are you equating beating the 360 with making enough money? Their kind of operation doesn't need nearly as much money to survive.
What I find interesting is, that now the but think of the innocent children argument is also getting adapted by the corporate world to justify incredible privacy invasions.

Facebook's mass wiretapping and analysis of its users private communication seems almost like the post office scanning each and ever letter and postcard in the vague hope of finding some keywords related to bomb, terror and of cause "children". I wonder how long it is going to take until Google is going to send automated notifications to my local police station when I'm going to start googeling some water bomb tutorials for the summer.
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And the release announcement:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-July/002087...
> Fullscreen is meant to focus you on one app.

My common use case is opening text editor in fullscreen on main display and terminal with tests and tail -f log on the secondary one. Using Lion's fullscreen mode could help me get some extra screen estate for the editor, were it done right.

Also, why force turning off the displays? After all, one can press the power button or dim it using brightness settings, if the need arises.
The OP is fine. You're being overly pedantic. People have been using the word this way for (literally) hundreds of years.

Moreover, the truly literal definition of the word is from the Latin for "letter" and means something like "letter-for-letter truth." So using this word to describe anything other than a written document is "wrong" on some level. But language doesn't really work that way.
>The new corner restaurant you mention is not going to beat Applebees, but is not going to stick around for too long if nobody goes there to eat either.

See:

>Since they're building on the Android base, their "success" or "failure" won't look like a conventional console. If the entire thing is a miserable failure, games will still be made for it, because there doesn't need to be Ouya-specific games. If the company ships hardware, then blows up, it'll probably still have games coming out for it, if for no other reason than the fact you can probably root it. Conventional consoles don't have that characteristic. It changes things a lot.

I and others have already ordered this that have no intention of ever using it for gaming. But then again, there's also the raspberry PI, Cubox, ODROID-X. This is easily the most consumer friendly so far.
Sure, but that's becoming par for the course. You could easily blame the backers as much as you could the creators. I've backed many projects that were much simpler and still had huge delays...Pogo's Tibet remix as an example.
For example:

http://www.domainnamenews.com/domain-sales/diggcom-acquires-...
Existence?
It could also be a "friend" who saw the status update and had a sick sense of humor...
Sunsu, thanks for the awesome feedback. We do think this is a great addition. After all, PFQueryTableViewController is about loading data stored on Parse; and if a developer has images stored on Parse, we should be able to load them and display them in the controller.
Let me know what other things would be great to have!
I mean no lack of respect for Kevin Rose but I've got to sit and reflect on the differences between Digg and Reddit now that we know who won. I remember one of the Reddit founders saying once not to focus on your competitors but to just put your shoulder down and go.

So I have to contrast this Business Week cover:

http://valleywag.com/assets/resources/2006/08/kevin-cover-bu...

To this early 2005 interview with the founders of Reddit. They were so humble (it wasn't even our idea) and how they lived and breathed the site, even waking up every two hours to check it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZ8f3Bx6Po

Kudos to the Reddit founders but the real lesson is that their sacrifice built a better, stronger community.
The Dreamcast went as low as $50 and even that didn't save it, price isn't everything when it comes to consoles.

And casual gamers are already migrating away from consoles because they can play those social games on the smartphones and tablets they already own, why would they buy another console that plays the same games?
There are multiple variables in your equation. You may be altering the wrong one.
Great post, but this part scares me a bit...

I think a lot of services (even banks!) have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. So figure it out if it really is important to you (are you worth hacking? do you actually care if you’re hacked? is it worth the engineering or product cost?) before you go and lock down everything.

Just because you can "afford" to be hacked, doesn't mean you shouldn't take all the steps necessary to proactively protect your data. In the end, security is not about you, it is about your users. This is exactly the type of attitude that leads to all the massive breaches we have been seeing recently. Sure your company is "hurt" with bad PR, but really your users are the ones who are the real victims. You should consider their risk (especially with something as sensitive as people's files!) before you consider your own company's well being.

Edit: formatting
the post discusses funding for science-related startups broadly... including examples referring to academia.edu etc. i am responding to the contents of the post not just the title.
It makes me really angry seeing protests about laws which have already passed! It seems to be lazy journalism - after Liberty et al have done the hard work while the bill passes through parliamentary stages, once it's passed, traditional media and others pick up on it and start complaining.

Prevention is better than ranting after it's set in stone.
The idea of running extra load - it sounds good in theory but I can't help thinking that it's a bit like setting your watch forwards to try and stop being late for things. Eventually you know your watch is 5 minutes fast so start compensating for it. I wonder if this strategy starts to have the same effect - putting fixes off because you know you can pull the extra load before it becomes critical. In the same way you leave for the train a couple of minutes later because you know your watch is actually running fast.
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Cool, thanks for the info, makes sense. I also prefer to do non-aggressive loading as a dev, but for some of my apps I got lots of feedback from users that loading images that way "felt slow and laggy" since they are used to aggressive loading in other apps...
This deserves a much longer response than I have time for at the moment. Ultimately the core answer is this: the long tail. That's why we shouldn't fear amazon overly much as if it were just an online walmart. The book and music selection at amazon is better than at any physical store and that's true for almost all variety of goods there as well.

However, there's more. Retail isn't solely defined by low margin businesses like buying canned food and imported low-grade durable consumer goods (e.g. the walmart/target scenario). In many parts of the country there is a trend toward high-end "boutique" shops of various sorts. In my town, Seattle, there has been an explosion of neighborhood butchers offering organic, grass-fed beef et al. But the same sort of principles apply to lots of different businesses.

If your core business is about getting interchangeable mass produced goods into people's hands you are going to lose out to the big boxes and to the amazons. If your core business involves a lot of customer interaction or requires special skillsets or can be decommoditized in some way then perhaps you'll do ok, both online and off.

Trying to compete on amazon's playing field is a non-starter, so the trick is playing on a different field.
I would be honoured with any feedback on this concept.
So what happens if Facebook's system flags a message, it is reviewed by their staff and then dismissed as non-actionable, but turns out to be the precursor to a severe criminal act? Does the blame come back on Facebook for failing to prevent this crime?
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Ask HN: What are the most innovative VC/Angel funds out there?
I've been looking at several VC portfolio and public statements they give and something about them just strikes the wrong nerve with me. I don't know how to explain it except with this analogy.

Before the iPhone came out, the world of cell phones was a mishmash disaster. Once the iPhone came out, you could definitely see what a smartphone was suppose to be. It was clear, Apple was a leader in this. So, what did all the other phone manufacturers do during this time? Ya.... Now imagine if Google didn't develop Android. Now imagine the competition....

When I'm looking at the VC/Angel field today, I'm getting the same feeling I did during the iPhone reveal. Some funds are like Apple but the vast majority seem to just want to copy however the top fund made it's money while faking it's investors like they are some major source of financial innovation. Or worse, hide old worthless techniques as new "venture" funds.

I can think of the obvious lilke Ron Conway's and Sequoia Capital, but who else is out there?
But how can you decide whether a product is a good trade-off when you don't know what the best is? I think that leaving the decision to trustworthy experts is the most viable solution.

EDIT: Actually, your best long term investment could be learning how to spot trustworthy expert advice.
Jaw-dropping for the wrong reasons IMO. Reinventing the virtual machine poorly in a web browser is an impressive feat given the technical limitations but what does that actually prove? The demoscene is far more impressive in that regard.
This looks cool, but unfortunately does not work well on touch devices. It looks like the preview and maximize buttons depend on the hover event.
Sad thing is that whilst alot of people would love for something like this to be available and have the games available to for it to do well. Well its too easy to point out the mistakes or the worst case situations and play of on those gaming more hits and adverts on a article and that maybe why the title of the article is all doom and the content a little more pragmatic and mindful.

If the article had the title "The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative - a new hope" then people would read it in a different vain. Sadly that is not the case.

Sure it's in all effect the same specs as the nexus tablet witht he added bluetooth controller and no dsplay in many respects but thats not all what its about.

Even if it fails, it has the potentual to create a niche android gaming market/portal.

Good luck to them
Says an ex "Product Manager at Dropbox".

Edit: Thanks for the downvotes. My point is, just make it unambiguous to everyone in your comment so we don't have to click through your profile. Context matters. e.g.:

"I was Product Manager at Dropbox and worked with Rajiv (the OP). He's awesome, you should listen to him."

Much better.
Oh, someone else wants to hate on academia?
The Mashable article seems to be sources from a Reuters article.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/us-usa-internet-pr... The program does appear to focus on sexual predators.

Mashable quotes Facebook as stating “where appropriate and to the extent required by law to ensure the safety of the people who use Facebook"

Can anyone speak to whether or not proactive scanning could possible be required by law? It seems entirely unlikely, but IANAL.
This looks like it's mostly targeted at sex predators, but I wonder if the system is also activated if you jokingly tell a friend that they are "smoking crack".
How could the friend even find a way of contacting someone at facebook. That is near impossible.
> have odd names that depart wildly from industry standard language

Err... what? You want map, use map.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.array-map.php
http://vimeo.com/928615 - I think this video from Digg sums it up well.
I have a really healthy RES filter list that makes reddit better for me.

I browse /r/all all the time with this filter on and get good content. Reddit is hell without it. I wish though that I could ban rage comics all together.

Another thing that would make reddit better would be to allow karma growth on self posts. If you id, there would be less imagifying of text for posting to IMGUR so the karma counts.

Some times though, it helps to filter out imgur.com completely and you get a nice view...
Ha. You are telling the truth.
Did you even bother to read jerf's original post?

No, that new corner restaurant going in downtown probably isn't going to threaten Applebee's... but... so?

And it doesn't needs to beat the X360 or any big consoles, but if it doesn't makes enough money to at least cover the expenses of the company behind it then what?
I definitely save this article not for the awesome main post but for the useful comments and replies.

Thanks all.
What Reddit and Hipmunk's Alexis Ohanian On How The Internet Really Works
Exactly. To be aggressive in loading is kind of risky since doing it poorly can lead to a non-responsive behavior in the app. App developers can always choose to be more aggressive if the default behavior is not aggressive enough, but if the framework chooses to be overly aggressive, it prohibits some apps from adopting the framework.
South London NHS Trust put into administration (First in UK)
Yeah, I found that bit quite vague. Are they using SQLAlchemy's object layer, but just not the high level query stuff? Or are they using only the low-level query stuff and nothing else?

I'd love to know more about how their system works, if they are indeed not using an ORM.

Every time I've tried to build something without an ORM, I just end up writing my own shitty one accidentally.
it actually has a plethora of ports, they're just all in that one 50 pin header. GPIO, SPI, I2C, UART, etc...
I don't think piracy will be a problem at all. Price points are going to be more like iOS ($1-10) than console ($40+). Comparisons to Dreamcast, et al are irrelevant.
You look for r/TrueReddit
This is a sincere question: Why would you think Facebook chat would be "private communication"?
I think creating and selling a smart phone is much harder than making an open game console with cheap hardware and a working OS / platform. Ouya doesn't have to deal with carriers.
I noticed that a particular “FUUUCCKKKKKasdjkfnff” wasn’t getting printed where it should have

Why not take the extra half a second to make those random strings meaningful and hidden behind a DEBUG log level?
There's almost always been some form of 'flag'/'report as inappropriate' button.
Whilst FB have legal obligations in many countries I must say when I read "phrases that signal something might be amiss, such as an exchange of personal information or vulgar language" then the first thing that sprang to mind was nothing to do with crime. People swear, people exchange details. SO I guess alot gets flagged up to there staff.

Question is, do they warn you that your private conversation is not private and do they comply with the data protection acts the various countries have and more importantly who monitors FB? So many things can be taken out of context and acted upon in good faith at the detrement of innocent parties, this is concerning. But I don't do FB, nor do I have any immediate plans either. That has nothing to do with this, but more todo with concerns in general about there privacy and policeys they act out.
SDWebImage provides a nifty category extension UIImageView+WebCache which provides a setImageWithURL:placeholderImage: method on UIImageViews and uses the SDWebImageCache to cache the images locally for you. It is excellent and I use it everywhere.

AFNetworking provides a similar category extension, but there is no obvious way to make it use an ondisk cache that survives app restarts, so its caching is not as useful as SDWebImage's.
I personally think 'disaster market' is a terrible way to refer to people in need. I realize that business is business, but they could also release it as open-source, or set up something like the Raspberry Pi non-profit.
Some people do want to help the world, even if there's little to no money available.
Probably followed by applied medical research.
I know it seems a little off topic but this is the tip of a big iceberg in the UK - a large % of this Trusts problems are down to how the hospitals were financed - basically off balance sheet borrowing by the govt. And they built a lot of schools and hospitals that way.

All the drchrono style apps will not save a hospital that owes 15% or more turnover in interest.
Ask HN: How would you reach to your first 1000 users if you were quora/reddit
How does website like quora or reddit would get their first 1000 or 10k users. Quora at least have features, where friends invite other friends, so it may have ripple effect. However reddit even doesn't have that. So how and where will these guys advertise.

I have been told that a good way reach users is to first identify them, see what websites they visit and then reach out to them though those websites. However its unclear to me that how would you reach user through other websites. Would you write link to you websites in comments of other website? Wouldn't that generate negative PR. E.g. quora knows that their users go to ask.com or yahoo/google answers, how would quora attract user from them to their website.

I also have some startup idea where user users generate some content and other discuss it. However its extremely unclear to me that how I would reach my first few users.
It's not that individual commands are intuitive. Yes, you need to learn the verb for copying is y (and is called yank), the verb for deleting is d. The "intuitive" part comes once you have a basic vocabulary. You can then learn a new action and already "intuitively" know advanced ways to use it.

If I learn the new verb c, which deletes and puts me in insert mode, I already know that I can type c3w to change 3 words, or ci" to change the phrase inside quotation marks.

Because all verbs work on the same set of nouns and adjectives I can intuitively know what many commands do - even though I've never tried them - as long as I understand the parts that make up the command.
We seem pretty close on the issues but I am more (or is that less?) skeptical about the corrupting influence of money. There is a ton of evidence that people's beliefs are malleable and that money is just the thing to malleate them. No doubt our massaged beliefs are just as sincere as their predecessors; we're terrible judges of ourselves.

It's a bit tangential but Dan Ariely had a brilliant post the other day about how, in conflict-of-interest situations, disclosure not only isn't a solution but actually makes the problem worse. Outsiders have little idea how to interpret what's being disclosed, and insiders feel that they've fulfilled their entire duty by disclosing and proceed to do as they please.