skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "And yet, people keep building websites that do just that, and indicate that they will not change this."

IMO there are two salient points to this:

1 - The people who really, really dislike logging in with Facebook (to the point where they will refuse to participate) are a small but vocal minority. Even in the tech industry itself.

2 - The strong dislike for using Facebook login is many-fold. For most people it comes down to abuse of the Facebook link (e.g., spamming things onto your feed, messaging your friends, being in general awful), and that is a trust issue that can be mitigated with the correct positioning and assurances. The people who are against cross-network authentication on principle (as opposed to some negative artifact of its current implementation) are an even smaller camp, and they're the only ones you're really guaranteed to lose out on.

> "but when potential users all say "I'm not going to use this product because it makes me jump through hoop X" (and X isn't a fundamental component), my response would be to remove X."

1 - Beware of what your users say, it is not always what they want, or what they would use. People are extraordinarily bad at guessing their own motivations, if you took all feedback literally at face value, you might be screwed. A complaint against X may be actually a complaint against sub-component Y, or the interaction of X with unrelated bit Z.

2 - The benefit here vastly outweighs the objections. The numbers have shown this again, and again, and again, and again, that when given the option to do a one-click signin vs. filling out a form (and giving out your email address, again), people will overwhelmingly choose the former.
I think it's somewhat of a benefit to make the clients expect to do a little searching to find the data/links/forms they want to use--it makes them a little more robust and adaptable (I guess because they have lowered expectations!). Contrast this to a client dependent on an XML or JSON Schema. Yeah, that client is easy to write, but you've now locked the server into not changing its format or you've doomed the client to break when the server decides to change anyway. I'm shooting for something a little better.

You can't totally decouple the clients; they have to understand in some way the vocabulary the server is using, but you can do a lot to decouple them from the structure of the markup.
The x-ray machine industry interprets net outrage as damage and censors around it.
But not for Linux+Chrome users, Thinkpad T400S

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you need to be able to prove to the court that the offender actually knew what they were saying was wrong AFAIK not exactly. Reckless negligence (i.e. not caring at all about the truth of the accusation) may be enough - i.e. if one calls somebody a child molester without making any effort of finding out first if he is and without any base - it may be grounds for a suit, if it is not completely obvious that it is false and ridiculous.

IANAL but see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law
English libel law is ridiculous, and yet it still hasn't gotten reformed. Remember the McLibel case? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_Case)

I don't exactly sympathize with the panicky rhetoric of the pamphlet that was about, but nothing in it comes anywhere close to the kind of thing libel law legitimately protects against, and it looks like stuff that would be perfectly legal to say in more reasonable jurisdictions like Holland or the US.

But yes, even more outrageous than English libel law (there's no such thing as "UK libel law," since Scots law is different) is this Libel tourism business.

I wonder what it would take to get this reformed. Any British people on here who have a better view of the local political climate? I somehow suspect that a push from local constituent carries more weight in British politics in today's climate than ECHR judgments like the one in the McLibel case. Is there anyone strongly pushing for these strict laws, or is it just a case of inertia combined with nobody pushing very hard against it?
There are certainly similarities to Renaissance Florence in the concentration of talent in a small space and the air of competition -- but if you're talking about quality of mind, it's unlikely we'll ever see three people like Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo working at the same place and same time ever again ...
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The tech is not here yet:

Passpoint/Hotspot 2.0 is the first step of many that will eventually integrate Wi-Fi hotspots seamlessly into the carrier’s mobile networks. Networks will be able to pass subscribers from cell site to hotspot and back again as Wi-Fi gets incorporated into the increasingly diverse array of small cells that will make up future heterogeneous networks, or HetNets. That’s still a long time coming though.

Hotspot 2.0 only takes care of the discovery and authentication of carrier-owned or managed hotspots. If you’re an AT&T or an SK Telecom with tens of thousands of hotspots under your control, then Passpoint will be a boon, as certified devices will automatically connect to any carrier access point in range.

http://gigaom.com/broadband/wi-fi-alliance-begins-certifying...

When this happens, except "your" FIOS router to start serving data to Verizon wireless users.
I doubt it, at least not as it relates to the patent you linked. That patent is extremely specific to the exact form factor of the Smart Cover and it would be pretty easy to design other covers that are similar but not violations.

Magnetic sensors in Android devices for the purposes of changing functionality are nothing new, my old Motorola Droid (which predates the Apple patent filing by years) had one that it used to determine car docking state.
I spent the time to properly curate my feed. In recent time it got to the point where I completely ignore it.
Well, you did respond to the code critiques after all, so that makes it about jQuery's source.

But I do agree that your opinion was biased by the behavior of the people participating that discussion (if that's what you meant). Nonetheless, IMO, a community leader should be able to deal with criticism, and I don't recall reading personal attacks.

As of your link, I was being sarcastic.
This was my guess but I wonder if they will let 3rd party accessory developers to provide the missing piece. They can't be sued for that and it makes their offering much closer to the iPad.
Yes - the US revolution was historically important, though obviously it built on earlier and contemporaneous ideas (french revolution, etc).

In the modern world though, the reality is this is all in the distant past. Most of the world doesn't see the American political system as something to be aspired to any more, which is something a lot of Americans (that I have met) have a hard time understanding.
Some places have crazy HR filters that are keyword based so applicants try the “better safe than sorry” approach. If they’re smart, they usually list specify what language they used at each job, so you can get a rough idea of their competence in each language.
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bummer - it should work fine for linux systems (on any browser) - what's your system specs and we'll try get a fix out quick?
I'm not quite sure why that symbol would be in an ancient font.
Osfoora for Mac and other desktop twitter clients do this too. I'm fairly certain it's a requirement imposed by Twitter.
Not usually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers#United_Sta...
I 100% agree with your quote from the article as well. The US is an absolutely amazing place when you are "the best". You get to live the hyperbole and talk about it too. What better place to do so? For example, the US healthcare doesn't suck, it's actually really good. But it's only good for those who can afford it. I've had to go to the doctor three times now in the UK (eye infection, sports injury and regular checkup) and every time I've had to wait 3+ hours to get diagnosed/treated. In the US, my healthcare meant I was in and out in 30 minutes. The US is a great place when you can afford it. That being said, I happily waited in line for the 3+ hours because I knew that other people are being treated for things they normally can't afford in the US. The problem in America, is that no one can even fathom a system like this. It's so foreign to the way we operate our lives (i.e. our culture) because everything we do is deeply rooted in transferences of goods and services in the form of money.

ps- I'm also an American who has lived in the UK, Germany, and been to 30+ countries. I share a lot of the same views as the author.
That's possible, but I don't think you can tell right now. We have had hundreds of years to realize just what those 3 geniuses accomplished and marvel at the fact that they were there together.

Look at today's PayPal mafia for example. If Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and Elon Musk accomplish in the next 30-40 years what they have stated as their goals, the significance for the human race could easily parallel what was achieved in the Renaissance.
Is there something like this for Chrome? Really annoying having code downloaded instead of displayed.
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Your post just proves that Americans cannot take any criticism of their country without fighting against it somehow. It's built into your nature, like an automatic response.

Great, a few European newspapers did stories on US politics. They also did stories on the rest of the world too which is something you don't see much in US newspapers.

Don't get me wrong, I love America (and live here, originally from UK) but the country has some serious issues.
Grooveshark has removed every file that Universal requested them to remove through the appropriate channels. If they didn't they would've been shut down a long time ago. Grooveshark is completely safe in assuming that any remaining Universal content posted on their site is approved by Universal.
good to see zerocater expanding beyond tech companies!
While that is true, people still don't factor the states into their everyday thoughts and calculations.

Also, note that most of the author's examples weren't from west Europe, but rather more remote places and especially "third world" countries. Basically, places that Americans tend to assume people either hate them or love them(see: china, or east asia in general, or the middle east, etc, etc)
Sorry, had to do this: http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3q251w/
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It is? Almost every newish laptop has an HDMI out; coupled with an USB hub and four cheap USB gamepads, what more do you need?

PC just lacks the games - but then again, so does this platform.
None of this matters. Look at the response we got to "Legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol"

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/what-we-have-say-a...
It's funny how large news organizations have a "world news" section, eh?
You might be right. Tweetbot for iPhone was launched under similar circumstances - not too long after the first anti-developer statement from Twitter.
Since that's not what the grandparent was talking about, you must be peachy.
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Check your timeline. The French Revolution was not even conceived of until after the American Revolution came to a conclusion.
No, indeed not, but to someone in whose culture this is not the norm that's how it seems, overly affectionate.

What the OP was saying was that for him, he was acting just normal but people perceived it as very affectionate, and that's exactly the point. He may have not been displaying affection but that's how it got interpreted.
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"Small talk" is commonly used as a loan phrase in modern German. One might as well say that American English has no word for the first year of school. "Quatschen" is also pretty close to the meaning of "small talk" (with a slightly more negative / playful connotation -- "blabbing"):

http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&search=quatschen
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What are standard HDD bit cell sizes? I can't seem to find specs.
That's up to the application. You can crack open the app packages for Sublime Text and MacVim and see how their Info.plist files differ. It's also worth looking at the Info.plist for TextEdit, which has a catch-all for all non-executable files.
The hacker dojo is more of a computer club than a co-working space. (I wanted to call it "the mountain view computer club" but was outvoted. The people on the board seem to be pretty competent; certainly way more socially competent than I am, so I'm not complaining.)

People use it for workspace, sure, but I know when I go there, I'm going to socialize as much as I'm going to work, but I'm going to socialize with interesting people. I ended up buying a (very small) company from someone I met there. I've learned a lot from those people.

It's also an event venue for small conferences and technical talks.

But yeah; it's much more 'community space' and much less 'cheap place to rent an office' - I mean, the membership fee is $100/month, which isn't really sustainable with their model for renting desks. (I mean, you could rent cubes for $100/month, I think, but you'd need a cheaper warehouse, and the whole operation would have to be setup to ensure full occupancy.)

Me, I find it's a useful place to meet businesspeople that are also technical. It's been good for me, I think, as I generally don't have a lot of respect for business types, and I regularly meet semi-business types at the dojo who are more technically competent than I am.
...he wrote an article exclusively about America... why exactly would he discuss the failings of other countries?
If you want change with the TSA first figure out what a politican can say when (s)he will be attacked for being soft on terrorists cos that's what's going to be happen if anyone tries to reform the TSA.
This is 100% off-topic, but since this submission has 100+ upvotes and many might view the comment thread, and you mentioned Library/ folder, I think it's good to point out that you can easily make Library/ folder visible again in Lion.

Just type:

chflags nohidden ~/Library

in the Terminal.
Seeing something isn't the same as having read and digested it.

I used to have a boss who would send out emails and request read receipts and outlook would automatically send them as soon as I clicked on the item in my Inbox.

I would sometimes get a phone call within seconds of the email arriving asking for my thoughts on it.
They've already been doing this in chat, I suppose this is a logical extension. That said, is it really necessary to see this or is it a step beyond what is necessary?
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That's what the courts will determine. I am skeptical.
I tried to sign up twice and it just clears the form.
Are all of you guys missing the whole point that this is on Adnroid? They specifically chose to build it on Android precisely because of this problem. You're not developing for a platform with OUYA users only. You're developing for the fastest growing platform in the world with over 1 million new devices per day.

And on top of that. If you add gamepad support (which will be trivial for most games, and those which are not won't even bother). And take additional 5 minutes to upload to the OUYA store. Now you're also supporting the OUYA devices, in addition to all other Android devices.

The OUYA is not just its own single thing. It's just a tiny part of a huge ecosystem. And this tiny part is helping shape the direction that the rest of the ecosystem is going. (meaning you'll see more gamepad-friendly games in the future) You can be sure that the OUYA won't be the only Android console-like device we'll be developing for. Many more will come to compete with it in the coming years.

One really big sign of how innovative this is. Is that even many of the HN cannot grasp what they're doing. Watching the critics argue with each other here, reminds me of watching the MPAA discuss anti-piracy measures. No offense intended :)
Wow, this feature and the comment history feature(when editing a comment) make me uncomfortable. They might as well begin showing you who is seeing your profile and how much.
You only need a gaming PC if you're looking for an alternative for a PS3 or XBox360. This is a $99 ARM machine, almost any laptop has better graphics already. You just need to sit it next to the TV and plug a cable.
They gave that as an answer. They didn't say "email us for detailed info".
> 6. The Rest Of The World Is Not A Slum-Ridden Shithole Compared To Us

The author never watched this video...

http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-...
Probably as a way to show visual "engagement" for companies that are on Facebook but don't get a lot of likes. Its more derivative crap. We can call them "seens".

And of course there the creep factor.

I'm having a hard time determining if Facebook is just terrible, low value, and creepy, or I'm just cynical about Facebook. Probably both.
Well there is Spotify. And MySQL. Skype. One can keep going...

The difference between the US & Europe appears to be Silicon Valley, not a sense of entitlement and cushy job.
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3% GDP economy boost is a lot.

Update: Sorry, 3% of budget.
It's less than 3% of GDP, but still a lot.
High marginal tax rates in Europe take away the incentive to create a startup, and the governments there confiscate much more of the winnings from successful companies. That, in turn, ensures that there is little venture capital to invest in the next generation of startups.
Personally, I think this stuff is great. It eliminates a lot of extra communication regarding whether someone has received a piece of information or not.

That said, I wonder at what point is a post considered "seen".
I wish I could say that I haven't been personally attacked by them, unfortunately it has been rather extensive and ongoing. Thankfully I've been able to avoid most of it by not visiting clj since 2008-ish and blocking choice Twitter users. Sometimes is trickles back up to me from people letting me know what's going on.

I'm 100% fine with code criticism - I think you'll find no JS library more open to it than the jQuery project, we've shifted the code base many times over the years making large quality/performance/API improvements based upon criticism. That being said I have no interest in talking with people - valid code criticism or not - if they're personally attacking me as well.
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You're right, I had my techs backwards. I thought they were targeting RAM first, then flash second. It's actually the other way around. Flash was supposed to be dead next year, DRAM in 2014, and SRAM in 2015 (or somewhere around there).

http://www.dailytech.com/HP+to+Deploy+Memristor+Powered+SSD+...
What you really need is a version of Redbox that takes your phone, scours it for photos, and prints them for you. It remembers which photos it's printed, so you don't get duplicates between visits. Heck, might as well have it pull credit card info, too.
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That's a good point, I know a few tricks to increase or capture likes. Actually my company's FB platform, Tracksby, has a good way to capture likes. I focused so much on engaging the current audience that I completely forgot about some new lead tactics. It was getting a little tl/dr though. Next post!
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Is it ok to read HN on vacation?
No that was the only part of my comment - I was asking as the mass conversion of alot of peoples emails(1) and contacts due to `bugs` to facebook.com(2) recently to all the facebook users.

This and given he is using a gmail account, how do we know he works for facebook? So do people who work at facebook have a @fb.com email address only? Why did he not use that email address?

References in case your oblivious to the user interaction aspect of facebook transpiring recently.

(1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18590929
(2) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18687044
It's been so long I completely forgot I bought the book!

The best way to get a project done is to

1. need the money
2. not get paid until you finish

If either of those elements are missing, expect delays ;-)
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Visit scandanavia, germany, holland, britain. On the warmth/openness scale, they feel similar to America (at least to me). Go a bit farther south (belgium/france/italy/spain) and people open up more. The persians I know are warmer still. I don't see these differences as better/worse - you can be perfectly happy in any of these cultures.
In addition to this: staying informed is not the same as caring (being emotional involved) about somebody.

Europeans just want to know about the rest of the world because the world is connected. What happens all over the world has consequences for Europeans too.

You can very well want to know what's going on in America without caring (feeling sorry) if they're going into the shitter.
I don't think there is a downvote button on Hacker News, I think other votes just got more upvoted :p
Thanks for your feedback.

I think that its hard to just pitch a idea to somebody else...its all left to their imagination. Better to have already a prototype or something and have people play with that. The feedback will be much more valuable, then just shooting out some draft idea over a beer...you know what I mean!?
I find the idea intriguing. Is there a market for crowd-funding scholarships - rather than let committees decide who to give a scholarship to, leave it to the people? Maybe even spin it as an investment in their career, with some sort of return or payback to the original investors?
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Yeah it was based on an anonymous blog comment and I think it's still ongoing. I asked a couple guys at Grooveshark about it and they didn't seem concerned at all, they described it as a last, desperate move by the record companies.
Two things:

One, it's so sad that this country was founded by relatively intelligent people that had radical ideas and revolution in their heart; which has now all but died as we are a dogmatic, stupid, static nation and society with a two party, default winner system.

Two, calling our founding political system a modern democracy, or even really a democracy, is rather absurd considering it was a bunch of genocidal racist, sexist, drunkard, elitists that constructed it. By that measure, non-absolute monarchies are also democracies as they relied on the input and votes of their aristocratic classes.

We essentially, even now, still live in a system that is far more aristocracy than democracy. Plutarchy is probably even more accurate. we are a democracy in theory, in practice, we are far from it.

Maybe you express one of the earliest examples of the seemingly common American affliction to believe that something is such just based on the label. We delusionally like to call things what we want them to be rather than what they are. Probably has to do with our affinity for the superstitious and supernatural.
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I don't see how the post proves that at all. They're making an assertion about matters of fact, not a value judgement.

Many of us Americans express the desire for the end of the American Empire, yet the world's hegemon America remains.
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