skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this bullshit platitude always a response to anyone complaining about a patent? The claims for software patents almost never provide anything more than the abstract, just in a few hundred more words.

As an example, let's take the first independent claim from the '662 patent:

" A storage system, comprising:

one or more memory sections, including
one or more memory devices having storage locations for storing data, and
a memory section controller capable of detecting faults in the memory section and transmitting a fault message in response to the detected faults; and one or more switches, including
one or more interfaces for connecting to one or more external devices; and
a switch fabric connected to one or more memory sections and the external device interfaces and interconnecting the memory sections and the external device interfaces based on an algorithm; and
a management system capable of receiving fault messages from the memory section controllers and removing from service the memory section from which the fault message was received, and wherein the management system is further capable of determining an algorithm for use by a switch fabric in interconnecting the memory sections and the external device interfaces, and instructing the switch to execute the determined algorithm,
wherein an interface of the switch is connected to a non-volatile storage device, and wherein the management system is further capable of instructing the non-volatile storage device to load data into one or more of the memory sections via the switch."

So... any HA system ever invented? Like the summary said. Great, thanks. Glad that you won a point on "you didn't read the claims!!!!1111" which are content-free garbage, like every other software patent.
Killing Caps Lock (Replace it with Control!)
The magicians + sequel.

I found it interesting mainly because it's a fantasy book about fantasy books.
But you don't even need a product to do a Kickstarter. In fact in most cases the product doesn't even exist, the only thing that exists is the design and even that gets changed once the projects is funded sometimes to the chagrin of the backers when they receive a product that did not meet the original design expectations. (for example: http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2012/01/lessons-for-kickstart...)

So yes, if all you're selling is an idea, instead of a product, then of course design matters as that's all you've got.
www.cracked.com is one for me, seriously
I did this a fe weeks ago on my Mac. It's sooo much better. Now I can ^a, ^e, ^w and ^k much much more easily. I've changed a few shortcuts in apps like OmniFocus that were previously something like Command-Shift-C, to simply ^C, and use that giant, previously completely unused caps lock key to perform that shortcut.

I strongly advise to replace Caps Lock with Control. If you're an emacs fan (which I'm not), you shouldn't waste even a single minute...
Although ~half of your revenue came from the IE users the numbers may not significantly improve after resolving this issue as the ie users that completed downloads are also the IE users invested enough in the application to download it despite the ie warning.
Why can't I use my android tablet as a game console?
Transformer Prime supports controller already.
Yes; they can do what they're doing now, but drop the scary language. Scaring users with non-specific threatening language does not enlighten them.

Since it's almost unheard-of for malware to be signed with a legitimate, unrevoked certificate, they could also afford to give signed executables much greater leeway when deciding what to report to the user. People seem to be assuming that signing the .exe is enough to keep the dire warnings from appearing. That is not the case, or at least it wasn't the case a few months ago.

Finally, they can provide a standardized method for whitelisting URLs (and not individual executables) instead of what they're doing now, which is apparently nothing.
The Story Of How Spotify Forced An Unofficial iPad App To Turn To Kickstarter
Back in March, Max Petriv tweeted some images of a Spotify iPad app he had been working on. Not only was the app optimized for the iPad’s larger display (at that time there had not been a Spotify client even teased for the iPad), but the design and interface of Petriv’s app looked downright gorgeous.
Taft Hartley prevents secondary strikes/boycotts, it potentially makes this strategy illegal.
Considering that Android 3.0 was never on phones...

If you mean Gingerbread (2.3), it was always rock solid when I used it. So no, I don't believe you.
How about using fingerprint scanner for authentication? Or face recognition using front-facing camera? It's 2012 after all.
In all fairness he is right I hadn't read the claims in full so I gave him a +1 for that. But as I explained I read the patents which are the basis for the claims.

Your right though that they do word these things so losely that my mother giving birth to me many years ago probably violated some routing patent and in that I agree fully with you in that it is just wrong.

Your both right :)

Though all of us agree trolls are bad in any form, and in that I look forward to these trolls getting educated at there own expence when they lose.
Many users have figured out that if they click the OK button (or maybe the Cancel button), the dialog goes away. In this case, they know that they get what they want (downloaded file) if they hit the right buttons; they've probably hit exactly this before, on innocuous programs, and don't trust the warning messages.

Or we might just have a bunch of reasonably-savvy users that have realized that lack of a signature is not the same as untrustworthy software.
Don't forget the nicer UI at litlet.com
I'm not sure what bothers me so much about crowdfunding this. It just doesn't seem quite right, and the use of GitHub as an example stood out as flawed. I would definitely be more convinced by a great-but-buggy prototype than a video of someone looking off in to the distance. I don't mean that as a jab: it's symbolically kind of unsettling. You're talking about how much the community matters, but you're talking to someone else.

To me, the proposed project touches on a much bigger issue of how Twitter is a part of the internet infrastructure. Real time messaging has become really important, and there's some anxiety around how that infrastructure can be a part of the web in some trusted way.

Simply making Twitter community supported doesn't appear to me to be the best decision. We've learned about some great potential from Twitter, and I'm much more excited about something fully decentralized than I am interested in a community supported Twitter clone.
I've been playing with that. Haven't got it right yet, though.
Not quite hacker news.
It's possible that the reason Authenticode doesn't work like this is legal rather than technical: it was deployed at a time when Microsoft was already subject to considerable regulatory scrutiny for a wide variety of alleged anticompetitive practices, so, independent of motivation and technical merits, scary warnings about third-party code not "certified" by Microsoft may have been legally ill-advised.
Where does Apple give out free developer id certificates? Last I saw I had to purchase the $99 developer program ...

https://developer.apple.com/resources/developer-id/
Your comment is a study in contradiction. You say

>You can start your own website today much easier than it was to publish a pamphlet in the 18th century.

Then you go on to say,

>We need Facebook, Google+, Twitter, we need independent "appstores" (a definite advantage of Android platform), we need niche sites like HN,

These are not logically consistent. Do we need blogs or do we need big companies to allow big free speech? Are you saying we need both? But if we hypothetically get big companies legally responsible for allowing free speech why will be need independent sites? I am not sure what you mean here.

>We should absolutely pressure and shame companies who make those questionable decisions and unnecessarily restrict their customers but more importantly we need to stick to open networks where news and information flow independently through different providers.

Sure thing. Pressure them, but be aware that they are not _legally_ responsible for anything. That is why I said that we need a charter for all companies to sign so there is a framework where the law fails.

We are saying the same thing (at least from the way I understand, yours is not a clear argument to understand).

I am proposing a concrete action items to the premises you are making. I am not sure why you are downvoting/hating.
This is exactly the right question to ask. Now I'm pretty sure I phrased it wrong.
The strike laws in France, NZ, UK, were all financed and supported by the aa and the us gov helped.

I remember feeling so great about seeing the confirmation in the wikileaks docs. Sad to say I'm too lazy to find/post the reference on my phone.
As the saying goes, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." Welcome to the 'law' of unintended consequences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences
>Basically all these social sites get worse over time as the masses flood in.

They only get worse for people who don't like mainstream content.
Believe this is called ARP Spoofing[1], and there are regular tools that can be used to do this if you're curious, like Ettercap[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_spoofing

[2] http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/
But they don't address it for Dropbox, Skype or random other services out there.
Quora.com.
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I keep hearing that all I need is a developer ID to get a signing certificate, but nowhere on the developer website for Apple do I see where I can get this certificate without first forking over $99 for the mac Developer Program...

https://developer.apple.com/resources/developer-id/
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I just used this to make mockups for a small project and it was awesome.

There's still lots of little polish things you can do, but the functionality is almost completely there. Extremely useful.

You did a really good job picking the bits that were most important (at least to me) before launch. The attempts at this that I've seen before were just way too feature-poor to be useful.

Great work!
Agreed. But one of the team members explicitly released the source code and that caused the hacker to correctly guess LastPass account. (At least this is the most "right" version of the story I've heard.)
Facebook Determined to Ruin the Last Fun Thing About Facebook: Stalking
Can you suggest any jquery plugin/HOW-TO to implement minimap componentt?
Hi,<p>I am using jsPlumb for creating a process diagram editor and I am looking to implement minimap feature which is something like this https://dl.dropbox.com/u/107176/example-shot1.png. Can you suggest HOW-TO or what plugin to use ? Also I am not using canvas, instead its jquery+SVG+css as jsPlumb defines. Any help would be great, thanks.
Digg was killed NOT by Facebook OR Reddit...but by its power users. Those killed Digg.
Not as well known (yet) but Clever has some nifty docs that allow for creating and testing queries against demo data right from the page.

https://getclever.com/developers/docs
Xmonad or others do the same. The open source window managers have always had advanced features that would confuse a lot of people.
Everything you say here is obvious; you are making the obvious case that the big bad hotel industry is conspiring to shut down Airbnb. Anyone on HN would, if asked to advocate the position that hotels were conspiring against Airbnb, make exactly the same case.

I'm saying: I doubt that's what's happening. I've heard too many anecdotal stories about complaints, and am too capable of looking at (a) revenue numbers for hotels and (b) stats on how people book hotel rooms to think that anyone at Marriott is really being kept up at night about this.

At some point, Airbnb will be too big and disruptive for the major chains to ignore. But now? I doubt it. I think cities are reacting to complaints.
"It’s a stupid practice, and the unvarnished greed exhibited by both sides, the channels and cable providers, is astounding."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/07/13/battle-roy...
Works the same in Germany, if you are a member of the GEMA.
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Isn't the fact that Chip and Pin is susceptible to "Man in the Middle" attacks, affecting all terminals, the bigger issue?

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland10chipbroken.p...
I'm afraid I haven't been enlightened. How else can the PKI be structured while providing the same amount of security?

Is public/private key cryptography itself fundamentally flawed? What's the alternative?
> When someone tells you he likes My Little Pony and you respond with “Man, you are so gay!” then that’s a problem. You are using “gay” as in insult, as if being gay were a bad thing.

Maybe some people do think it's a bad thing. Who are you to be the arbiter of objective truth, ethics and correctness on that point, to which all other person's thoughts must conform? And note that "bad" does not have to mean evil, it can just mean undesirable, disgusting, weak, defective, or non-ideal. For example, there's a good argument to be made that homosexuality is a flaw from a biological and evolutionary standpoint. It's certainly not a condition which leads to reproductive accomplishment given that M+M and F+F cannot literally produce a baby. And note that nothing about that argument says that homosexuality is morally wrong. A lot of people think shit smells bad, for example, though they don't find it evil or a "lifestyle choice", since it's a biological process.
Precisely why I like pinboard.in so much, and why I love the idea of app.net.

I, as a consumer, don't want a service that I rely on to be heavily VC-funded in this day and age, because it means they will have unrealistic expectations to grow revenue phenomenally, which means they might screw the service with ads, or choke the data that the service collects; which means it is likely that the starting point of any new Web 2.0 product is awesome but it only gets worse after that, with ad and feature-creep.

We keep hearing that the cost of computing is coming down and yet the cost of a service (in terms of privacy lost, irritating ads shown, or restrictive API terms) seems to be going up and up.

[Edit: grammar]
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You want to attract developers. XYZ number of free API calls for your app is simplest and effective way to attract developers, if I understood your proposal.
Putting a little more thought into this, I think good comedy is always intelectually stimulant...

the unusual parallels bend your perception of things, bullshits we all passively accept are mocked full up... its the type of thing that makes you 'think out of the box', see the leaps in stuff, ignore bullshit, etc

so, some stand-up and cracked are on my list on this
To me, Twitter's pain-point is that it's a platform that can kick off third-party applications, doesn't have a way to extend its client, and doesn't allow integration with similar services (last I checked its ToS). As a result, it's software I can't fully control.

And I think that's the same pain-point with most of the Web right now. We can't really evolve our web applications because we don't control them fully; we have to accept the terms of the platform, which tends to be advertising driven, which means they want to constrain the UI.

If you're tired of Twitter, you can't direct your Twitter interface to a new service. If you want to add a new feature, you have to build an entirely new interface and hope they never revoke your app's access. If you want to send a private message, you have to share it with their logs.

This idea that we're building platforms is insane. Listen to Eben Moglen (founder of Freedom Box) talk about this; you'll enjoy it. As he puts it, a platform is a place that you can't leave. That's our pain point right now. We need services that you choose and web apps that are compatible, not walled gardens. Not for our applications, anyway.

So losing the advertising model has a pretty distinct advantage: it gets us away from the platform model, where they have to control the way you access the service so they can deliver the ads. I can't say how the business model fits into that, but the engineering side definitely wins.
And how it works : http://www.hovding.com/en/how/
blurity.com gave me the cert error, not HN.
Pretty much spot on. Deblurring is extremely CPU intensive, so it would take a lot of hardware on the server side. Or, I could do something like a CUDA port, but then that would mean owning and grooming my own servers, since decent GPUs are still rare beasts on leased dedicated servers.

The more likely route for Mac support is to release a native OS X version, since the GUI is written in Python and the underlying deconvolution stuff is written in portable C++.
ImdB and Twitter latest effected by the hackers
Well, clearly it would be an issue of "pride" if you'd be too proud to cave in to "certificate blackmail" as you call it.
Hmm.. and here I thought it was IRC influencing the collective consciousness, where @handlename was the only way to send a message to a user in between the random IRC noise.
Wait, so the idea is that you're going to charge for Twitter, without the network that makes Twitter worth anything at all?

As far as I can tell from the video and FAQ, that's what it is. A twitter clone that costs $50 a year. If this is NOT what it is, you simply have to do a better job illustrating what this platform is supposed to deliver.
Interesting. I had some initial problems with installing the certificate for blurity.com when I got the intermediate cert chaining backwards, but this is the first I've heard about problems since I fixed that a few months ago.

Could you drop me an email at the address in my profile? Thanks!
Aside from the "what exactly is this?" reaction, I just can't seem to get over the fact that I'm being asked to pay someone to build a service I will then have to pay for. This just seems absurd to me.

Either build it and I'll pay to use it or I pay you to build it and I use it for free. Can't have it both ways.
I totally agree that maybe people shouldn't be HAVE to buy certificates for their binaries. In that case you should be making moves towards eliminating that process, ignoring the fact that it's necessary in the current market and then being upset when you're missing 50% of your profits is a whole other story entirely.
> Pressure them, but be aware that they are not _legally_ responsible for anything.

Good. There is no contradiction and no need for them to be legally obligated to allow anything. We need everything from large operators and their more or less regulated facebooks to 4chans and Tor hidden services. It's not as if Internet is too small for them.

This way everyone can find a service they feel comfortable with while also no information can be effectively censored because of the sheer number and diversity of channels through which it can be disseminated.

You are proposing to fight (private) regulation with more (governmental) regulation. This is no way to protect our freedoms. It will just lead to further centralisation of power over information.
> content-free garbage

You mean "the most important part, by far."
Hackers grab 400,000 Nvidia passwords
Supposedly Apple replace the upper case, keyboard, touchpad and batteries as a single disposible unit. Cheaper than replacing the whole laptop but not terribly good for the environment.
> if I drop my device in a lake

Shouldn't the token be saved with the backup?

> if I want to login from multiple devices

The technique should work well with multiple devices too.
Ask HN: How should I advertise my open source project?
I released my first project recently on GitHub and I was hoping for some tips on how I could get more people interested in using it.
Go RideJoy - amazing team!
This is the old "Twitter downtime is actually a feature" BS from 2010, but for HN.
This is true. Their prices are good but their web interface is horrible. I felt like I was driving something built in 1999.

That said, their customer service has been very good and very prompt.
I've been a vocal supporter of the "don't worry about Internet Explorer" crowd. However, in this case if you have a Windows app that you want people to use, your target market is indeed Internet Explorer users.
ace, i dug in after the initial read and of course am behind it all. will check it out again after the copy update. good luck!!
Probably not, but K5 probably does.
Your email signup box has a anti spam text that reads "We don't like spam, as much as you do". You might want to change the wording on this one.
> What makes you think its broken?

Because any other behavior would be preferable. Seriously, anything. Seeing the page I just left again would be better.
What do you mean by "suffer in a factory"? FWIW, I worked for a Silicon Valley company that sent me to China on a regular basis to solve problems on the factory floor and/or in the engineering offices nearby - I'd spend a few weeks in China, then come home for a week or two, then go back again - and it was one of the most fascinating experiences of my career. There was no "suffering" at my factory so far as I could tell. The factory environment was generally optimized for getting work done and foreign visitors were pretty much immune to the few mild annoyances the local workers were subject to (such as having to go through security when exiting the factory floor - we had a badge that got us around that. And we had access to nicer bathrooms.)
First you should probably say what the project is.
It took me 15 minutes to understand what "feed" means, which then lead me to understand what "social service" means. I think you intro paragraph could be clarified by replacing the word "service" with "platform". I know this isn't strictly true, but it's clearer to distinguish between platforms, which are for developers and services, which are for users. Try this:

"We're building a real-time platform that allows developers to create social services where users come first, not advertisers.

Our team has spent the last 9 years building social services, developer platforms, mobile applications and more.

We believe that advertising-supported platforms are so consistently and inextricably at odds with the interests of users and developers that something must be done.

Help us create the platform we all wish existed."
Your position is painfully naive. A bad neighbor is a part of the community, and has to engage with that community. There are HOA rules, local laws, and social constructs that keep neighborly relations largely above board. We select neighborhoods based on the community.

Transient tenants are not part of the community. They are not answerable to the community. Invariably a great deal of them will be poor members of the community, especially in an apartment building, and especially given that they're on vacation (and the rest of us aren't): late nights, smoking, drunken antics, or in the case of our building -- lighting the roof deck on fire by dropping smoldering cigarettes on flammable material.

> Unless you never travel anywhere beyond your backyard or you just love to give up all your money to the hotel owners, you should be jumping up and down and cheering for AirBnB and for short-term guests in your area.

People pay for hotels because they provide deterministic quality. I know that when I show up, the room will be clean, ready, and of a certain level of quality. It's less for me to worry about; worrying about the accommodations is not something I want to spend time on.

For some people, that determinism is not worth the money, or is not even something they're looking for. AirBNB offers an option for those people, but at significant cost to the surrounding community and commons.