skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is like you say, it sounds a bit overboard to shut down everything. Maybe with some effort they could come up with regulation to solve those complaints while keeping the good renters legal.
Don't forget Pipp (PHP for the Parrot/Rakudo VM)
Have you seen the Yubikey NEO yet? http://www.yubico.com/yubikey-neo
You need to be way more transparent about what you're storing and why - a native client app implies nothing in the middle.
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I haven't lied if I say it's one of the sweetest things I've found in iOS 6.
Ha, my team in Seattle was going to get a new developer last week until he backed out at the last minute. That wasn't you, was it?
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So am I. But times change.
It's disappointing that these guys didn't work with VeriFone before publicizing the attack.

This is FUD, just with different actors.
Github didn't crowdfund $500,000 before having a paid tier and being profitable.
Wow, Scott Aaronson's blog must be really good to add it to a list that already includes it!
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I never cared about Olympics.
The line between contractors and regular employees is virtually nil, at least in technical jobs. In at-will states you have no protection at all, the only difference is who pays the taxes and benefits from the employer side.
Right now, as we speak, Bitcoin users are entrusting their money to an investment scheme that has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi[1]. We're talking 9% monthly interest if you invest enough bitcoins, utterly implausible explanations as to what the money's being invested in, a seemingly limitless capacity to swallow up new funds, and probably a whole bunch of other things I've forgotten. As far as anyone can tell, there's at least 32 thousand Bitcoins (about $240k at current exchange rates) invested in this scheme[2], possibly much more.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91655.0
[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91653.0
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What pain point exactly is this trying to solve?
That twitter is ad-spammed? I'll admit I rarely use twitter, but I can't recall ever seeing ads on it. (I can, as a side note, recall how /slow/ twitter pages load.)
That twitter changes its API frequently and doesn't give adequate notice to the people who develop for it?
How exactly does a user interact with app.net? I signed up for a twitter account because I wanted to hear a lot about a beta for a video game. How does this work with app.net? Are only broadcasters paying members?

Kudos for taking on the big dogs, though.
Sorry, could you clarify what you mean about the eye chart image? I'm amazed at the last line of the chart too. What are you suggesting they did to get that clarity?
Though the article is full of hyperbole and superficial sound-bites but it does raise a serious question. What is the responsibilities of a tech company towards free speech and it's not as straight forward as you may think. What if the app was aimed against the American government or what if it was derogatory towards the American people. It could have seriously harmed their business to allow such apps. Should Apple have allowed this app in the name of free speech?

Traditionally, the courts have ruled that private corporations have no responsibility towards free speech. But in the world of the internet most online forums are owned by private firms unlike the off-line world where you are protest on any street and be reasonably sure that your rights to free speech are protected by the constitution.

As more and more activism moves online we see a definite need for corporations to have some tolerance towards free speech if not legally than morally.

I think what we need is a charter that tech companies sign that say that they will support free speech to a reasonable degree and defines what the limitations will be.
...the hotel industry took its cause to city officials, who, in turn, lobbied Democrats in the state legislature. In 2010 New York passed a law..

Wow this is just plain wrong. The laws were meant to be made for citizens not for any one industry. As was the case with SOPA, PIPA and other bills, the law making process in USA is clearly broken and needs to be changed. It is a problem you (Americans) need to fix.
Airbnb is a future threat to the hotel industry. I'm sure they recognize that. Most people are potential "hotels". This will keep rates low AND attract new entrants (because some money is better than no money).

Airbnb rooms are usually more pleasant than the lower quality hotels a lot of businesses book.

Once it becomes socially normal in larger corporations, a lot of employees will ask to be booked with airbnb.
Where did you get that from? From the article:

"Karsten Nohl and Thomas Roth, of Security Research Labs, say that they have been in touch with VeriFone for six months and have provided technical aid to the company and a German government agency. They are now coming forward to put more pressure on the company—and to raise awareness, “preferably before any criminal can reinvent these attacks.”"
Would be cool to allow people to have themselves added + feeding the site text written by them. Oh, and you need Gandhi on there.
I'm not sure either, but apparently the person running the scheme has a 32,000 BTC ($250k USD) wallet so I'm guessing a lot of people must've bought in enough to send him a lot of money:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91653.0
"Adding information" in this context means providing accurate data that was not previously there. The guesses that the algorithm makes are approximations, but there are many original signals that could produce those same approximations, so the information is not accurate.
And I would credit /r/askscience for it. They have shown how wonderful banhammer is, with mods that don't hesitate to use it.
He's an unusual combination of incredibly intelligent (among a handful in the world), but also incredibly boastful and supercilious. Unlike in basketball, where the biggest trash talkers are often the top players, among intellectuals, the biggest boasters are usually complete phonies. Wolfram is the exception -- he is indisputably the "real deal" while also sparing no opportunity to rub everyone's face in it.

His work is brilliant and insightful -- just treat it as work on its own merits and try not to think too much about the sanctimonious tone behind it.
The Long Now Foundation podcast

http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/
Pretty interesting talk, though he paints Apple in a glamorous way. However, in the Q&A he does address the real culture of Apple. Apple is a culture of work. You put in long hours, you don't get very flexible vacation, you don't really have a work-life balance, and if you work on a major product you'll be sent to China to suffer in a factory for 3 weeks every other month. I've heard the burnout rate is high and the average number of divorces amongst its employees who have stayed longer than 5 years is 3. Also, Apple isn't an angel abroad. They put their vendors in tough positions and exert their power of scale and cash where it can benefit them most.
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Big up vote from me. Also put r/askhistorians on your list.
Well, I am coming from the netherlands ;) San Francisco and New York are definitely nice cycling cities from what I've heard (and also don't have many of the other issues I listed). However, I was under the (perhaps wrong) impression that in a substantial area of the US, drivers are either inattentive of or actively against cyclists? But probably only the bad news gets out.

You seem quite knowledgeable about these issues. If you have time, I'd love to get your perspective and advice about U.S. cities (though this might not be the appropriate place, I put my email in my profile in case you have time).
flamewars are the favorite pastime of the internet. it's been like that since before i was alive, or so i'm told by the grey beards.
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A 50% conversion rate is an outstanding result, great work guys - must've been the mother of all pitches!
The central pixel in the O is a lighter grey than its four nearest neighbours. That alone could be a reasonable cue for the 'hole', without cues from larger characters.
How does that last statistic work? If I work there longer than 5 years, I'm likely to have 3 divorces in my lifetime?
Livery companies. They're a thing in England, N.B. The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livery_Company
I wouldn't call this a "news aggregator" but they have hand-picked, curated editorials and news.

http://thetechblock.com
Since you are framing in the login with webkit, why not show the URL as well? User's need to see htts://google.com or they'll assume it's a phishing attack.
Fair point; I think I get what the OP was saying now.

But, from what I understood, with the current crowdfunding scheme you're basically pre-ordering membership.

NB: I'm not really sold on the product idea myself, just trying to understand the objections to the business model.
hardly. al jazeera tries to be objective, a lot of people from bbc work there now.
Its not a fact, obviously. I was semi-joking. I'm just saying I've heard anecdotal evidence of people's marriages falling apart while working at Apple for long periods of time.
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Seconding this, except I learned the hard way that (1) there is a world of difference between books, such that reading the best ones may end up being one the greatest things to ever happen to you, and reading some of the less good ones can arguably make you less smart than you were before you started reading, that (2) someone else's opinion is not always the best way to determine which book is good, and that (3) the selection one reads while in school is often biased to fulfill pedagogic purposes, so one has to do some independent searching.
Conflating app curation with supporting Assad's regime is just hyperbole. This dev has no more "right" to have his app published than I do to go into inside a private business and yell at the owner.
Will there be a free tier?
5% of 'the market' does not translate to 5% of users on your site.

Depending on the site's demographic, as a developer, I see approx 15% Mac users making up traffic. Not to mention an ADDITIONAL 25% iPhone users. That's an average of 40% of apple traffic on the sites I work on. Some of which are getting 30k - 60k hits a month. Obviously this isnt the same stats across the board on all websites... but It is by no means FIVE percent.
That sounds like a completely different product. He would need to maintain infrastructure and an entire software stack under his deblurring program, design an API and/or security-hardened web interface to upload and retrieve photos, and consider bandwidth costs for every photo uploaded and downloaded.
The original submitted headline was more representative of the article's content.

I used to understand headline corrections on HN, especially when they made changes away from blatantly abusive headlines. Now it seems they're done indiscriminately.
The tipping point, IMHO, was when Digg banned people from typing the following number: "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0."

As soon as that happened, Digg lost the alpha nerds. The rest was destiny played out over time.
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D Caldwell’s “Alt to Advertising Hell”: Actual Payment for Web Service
There's no real problem being solved here. What is he specifically helping you with?

All he cares about is hammering on about advertising, how other services don't live up to his expectations and his ego. "I'm responsible for this", "2.0", "advertising", "I'm responsible for this", "other people agree with me"... it gets very annoying within two minutes, let alone 7.
ORMs aren't about saving one the need to know how to write SQL, they are about automating the task of constructing all the redundant SQL needed to marshal data to and from domain objects, as well as all the redundant automation involved in the actual marshaling of data from database client libraries into domain objects.

I think you are exaggerating quite a bit when you refer to SQLAlchemy's patterns adding "mind-bending complexity". Object relational mapping is a complex affair to start with. Have you much experience with modern versions of SQLAlchemy directly (and if not, how fair are comments like that) ?
In this day and age I really don't see user serviceability for tired argument, it is a fact that lack of it is prejudicial and that is important to people both on and off HN. If it isn't there is something wrong.

I also don't understand how alienating the implications of how apple manages to get to this poor state of pissing on everyone and just going with shallow statements like this, erodes to: "The only group this really isn't good for is the third-party repair companies.". That is really past the point of this whitewash of a public relations exercise and a further non important apologetic unrelated point by itself.

You responded to a poster that takes the spin out of the statement and all you have is; you don't care it isn't done properly. You don't mind glued batts, say it. Let us not further this pathetic marketing spinfest. That, is very tiring and at this point really see through when it comes to speaking about apple like if any negative view on this brand is to be squashed by people that never even seen a spinning beachball while waiting for their computer to catch up... please.
You have to only infringe a single valid claim to infringe a patent. But some claims include all the limitations of other claims.

Ps i have to say that this is not legal advice and if you are asking this in relation to a real case, i strongly suggest you contact an attorney.
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With 3 in 1,000 people clicking an ad on Facebook this is almost a non issue. What has unobtrusive advertising such as the adverts on facebook ever done to offend you?
The way those patents are worded, they could equaly apply to TCP/IP, switch's/routers, any HA system and many more previously used technologies out there predating this drivil. There a load of bollocks and how they got allocated patents is in itself a case for the aformentioned companies havinga right to sue the patent office for incompetance.
Right but why trust them anymore than the others.
How not watching four hours of television a day put me out out of touch and was really awesome.
Part of their algorithm finds areas of the image that are close matches but have different sizes, and uses the larger areas to create high-resolution replacements for the matching smaller areas. Of course this produces especially good-looking output for images like the eye chart (and also the final image on the page) that have many similar elements repeated at different scales.

Essentially it is looking at the large letters (or pieces of them) to guess how the small letters should look.

And as JTxt notes above, sometimes it chooses the wrong large letter. Even on the third-to-last line it couldn't get one of the letters correct. The output looks like "HKO" while the actual chart has "HKG" -- but since there is no larger "G" for the algorithm to use as an example, it ended up with a different but similar shape. This could probably be improved by the other SR techniques they mention that use libraries of sample images.
So, as investors and backers and owners, do we get a breakdown of what the hell you're doing with a HALF MILLION dollars? Thanks!
I really like this quote from Vinod Khosla:

In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
You know, the great thing about learning is that everything you learn turns out wrong. And after that the next thing will be that you learn that it's wrong that it's wrong. And so on.

So guess what, you will probably learn next that quick and dirty is an amazing thing. Sometimes the morbid, buggy stuff is exactly what's needed and a well designed solution wouldn't scale to it's task or wouldn't be used because it's so clean.
It doesn't change the fact that you're taking his words out of context. And you can't start a company to stop another. I still don't know what it is you're actually building or why it's worth a half million dollars. This isn't public funding when your "backers" don't get to own a piece of the business. This is just a well-orchestrated (?) pre-order.
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If insurance companies can charge me quadruple premiums for the rest of my life for a trivial "existing condition", or prevent me from insuring my home because I once filed a flood claim, I think tech companies can find a way to freeze out trolls. We just need a CLUE database for trolls.
I can't see exactly where this project would be prohibited.

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines
And more do not.
Ah, that's incredibly clever, but that must be incredibly expensive. For every pixel window you're trying to resolve, you have to look at (and generate smaller versions) of every other possible pixel windows, right?
It is a configurable option (Settings -> General -> Restrictions)
I'm unfamiliar with many of these certificates, but is there any reason such 'scamware' woudln't be able to get one even though it costs money? Because, if they still can, they the whole certification business definitely seems like a big scam to me.
How is this actually any more secure? It's pretty easy to display a legit (but "fake") URL while your phishing form is displayed in the webview.
You know, I swear I looked at this a few weeks ago and had a few problems with it, but I guess it seems like this could be workable. Not as robust as proper PKI as I'd like it, but I'm having a hard time remembering why I didn't like this before when I looked at it... Thanks for the link, I'll think about it more.
Or, if you're a little cynical, you might think Apple orchestrated this whole thing as a little free PR.
So what's better? The App Store model, where you pay 30% + $99/year to sell your apps? Or paying for a certificate to prove your software's originator identity? Even OSX will likely soon make buying outside the Mac App Store cumbersome. About the only "free" market is Android or the Web.

I suppose if you're selling to the Windows market, the App Store will be required in a few years as Metro becomes the dominant Windows UI (and Metro apps have to be sold in the Microsoft App Store).
This is awesome. Navigating Google Docs is the worst. But PLEASE do away with the preview mode. I don't want to have to click edit all the time, and I don't really lose anything by just always having the web view.

That and get a nicer app icon :p (seriously)
Some music and visuals would go a long way towards selling the product. I think we've all been spoiled by Kickstarter, but it's 2012, and we've come to expect incredible experiences when we watch videos of people asking us for money: just having an HD camera doesn't do it anymore.

As it is, I watched the first minute, and I still had no idea what benefit this would provide me as a developer or a user (only that Dalton clearly doesn't like Facebook), so I went back to my own coding.
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At least for spreadsheets get rid of it. I could see it being nice to remove all the junk chrome that Google puts around docs though. But if I'm viewing a spreadsheet, not being able to add to cells is useless.
I've been not carrying a phone with me lately, not because of tracking fears, but out of a sort of experiment to see if I really need to be connected in the relatively short distances between my laptop having a wifi connection (which it has at home, at the office, in coffee shops, on trains, etc.). I suppose avoiding this dragnet is a nice bonus, but I wonder how long it'll be until not carrying a phone gets registered as somehow suspicious in itself.
There are also other reasons for going to war that go beyond personal gain, that have to do with the context of the time:

* A desire to focus people's ire and attention at a specific target
* The unity of purpose that creating such a target can bring
* It also aligns with the Republican party's political strategy of causing division to support their agenda: "Are you saying you don't support the troops?"

I find it telling that many people criticizing the war felt compelled to pre-face their statements with "I support the troops, but...". Having a Us vs Them dichotomy strongly favors certain groups, and the Republicans have always had strong ties with the military establishment.

It need not stretch into a specific Cheney wants to profit from Haliburton scenario. It's just as simple to say that their ideology supports and favors military intervention, their preferred method of action involves military retaliation and their "social network" (supporters, voters, etc...) would benefit or support such an intervention.
Since the results are so dramatic, either Facebook will continue to fund him, or they will have an internal team finish it (and probably release it as open-source like they did with their other PHP tools).
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Our story of why publishing on the Windows Phone Marketplace is horrible in many, many ways. How arbitrary and moralistic is the certification policy, the numbers are low, international developers ignored... The list goes on. We'd be happy to hear about your experiences.
Thats ok Twitter with their massive dev team and budget have had a massive IE8 scripting problem which is locking up any browser that tries to reply to a tweet (posting and retweeting works fine).

its day 35 and counting Twitter.

lol make me chuckle that not a single person over there is using IE8 abnd that these basic problems are not being picked up by their QA testing.
I guess the response is symmetric: I'm not defending the title of the post. I'm saying that this is an example of code review discovering a real problem in code, and that it needs to be fixed. You apparently agree, so yay. :)
We got a dozen or so email list requests for support from people who I know to be from Dropbox in late 2008. At that time, we were at version 0.4.8. That is an extremely old version and the codebase was quite immature at that time - I personally didn't use SQLAlchemy in production until 0.5 (which of course is because Python was hardly used at all in the early 2000's outside of the zope community, so I was still stuck with Java/Perl gigs). However I am still quite skeptical of the claim that it returned the wrong results. You're expected to watch the SQL you're telling it to generate during development. It will always be true that pushing an ORM will not always generate the SQL you want - which is why you have to make sure those queries are how they should be, before pushing to production. The ORM will of course stick to the plan you've given it - it isn't "deciding" anything, and at worst it can only misinterpret your intent - just like any library.

My strategy with SQLAlchemy has always been to under-promote it. If you have lots of big players early adopting you and hitting all the pointy edges, it can damage your rep. There's a group of major folks out there who will never use my library due to old experiences. Others like Reddit and Yelp have hung on, and apparently dropbox is still using the core, hooray !

That's why I'm always amazed at how aggressively MongoDB is promoted, when it seems like they're still going through a lot of growing pains. I guess they sort of have to, given that they're a business and all.