skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your answer! I'm more confused by the moment about DNSSEC et al: isn't the DNSSEC-based validation of HTTPS referred to above supposed to get rid of CAs in the future? That wouldn't make sense even with DNSSEC considering that the information is not encrypted? (Right?) I hope you don't take this as "hijacking", but I'd be most curious about what you and other security experts think about Paul Vixie's "Whither DNSCurve?" [1], which has amazingly not been submitted in HN. I just submitted it [2].

(If I could vote for your time investment, please kindly consider commenting on that article before replying to this comment.)

Thanks again!

[1] http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201002/whither-dnscurve

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268461
You should not call them investors: It seems most projects on Kickstarter (actually all the ones I have heard of) are not about selling equity for cash and distributing a part of the profits, but offering a product for pre-order. No matter how well the project you funded is doing, all you will get in the end is the same product as everyone else (although Kickstarter projects usually have some kind of gift to sweeten the deal). However, with the JOBS act and competitors like Fundable, it is likely that Kickstarter will evolve to promote investing as well.
Do you really think the management at that Burger King are that stupid? Put yourself in their position. Say you get this picture. First you don't take it seriously then you look at it and recognize the employee as the lady at the BK in question did. Then you figure out who was working at the time, get a look at the lettuce containers (do they match the picture?) So on and so forth. It isn't too hard to put the whole scenario together and tell if it is real or not.
Nokia fragmented their own phone market with Meego and Maemo and S60/Symbian. If they went with Android, at the time they did - they would have been behind, because for a while Google didn't open the source to 2.x until they had their "Nexus" device out for a while. Android 1.x was not any better than Maemo or Symbian at that time, so it would have been a lot of work for nothing. Not to mention that they would have further fragmented their market. Android 1.x was seen as slow and ugly, and it's future was far from clear. Maemo could run a lot of Linux software with just a recompile, so that was seen as a good thing instead of writing all new software. Nokia just didn't have enough programmers to write it all by themselves, and they released software once maybe twice a year if you were lucky. Nokia was a market leader for a long time with their candybar style phones that you could put different "skins" on. They always seemed to have great hardware, and decent software. However, they were late to the game with flip phones and lost market share to Motorola and RIM. Since then they were always trying to play catch-up but never succeeding.
I do not actively partake. That is correct. I do not look down on those that go to the website; but I don't want to have to explain to someone that "yes, I go to 4chan, and they're not as bad as everyone says! They even help people!" especially for something that isn't a huge part of my life.
I see you purchased it :) There's a lot of things you could do with it. I think a sleep logger of some sort would be good. People are always worrying about how much sleep they get, and something to track and analyze one's sleep would be great. Just an idea.
My point remains the same. There's no value in impoverishing the already nearly impoverished.

The rapid firing of the employee did a lot to keep BK's reputation...or at least made it no worse. Indeed, the morning manager's instant decision to fire the person is a clear signal.

Suing him would probably end up looking bad for BK – certainly worse than the incident was.
By the way, when you write so-called "art", you know who was the most devoted user of ironic quotes and "so-called"? Nazis. They would ironically quote anything related to jews (or communists, or later americans), and everybody will be - so-called expert, so-called scientist, so-called victim.

Just sayin'. I was shocked to find it out, too, since I use those a bit.
maratd's comment next to yours is correct. It's actually an old term (well, old relative to social media) used by psychologists to describe the way people make judgments (consciously or otherwise) based on the behavior of their peers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof
Last time I used it, Chrome's shortcut was just a shortcut and nothing more (which launched into a chromeless browser window). Perhaps that has changed. The Windows 7 stuff integrates more deeply into the OS, so you can pin a site to the taskbar and its icon will appear like any other app, you can create what they call "jump lists" which are available on right click of the taskbar icon, and from those you can visit deep links inside of a web app.

So it's much more than the Chrome thing, but not quite as deep as this Ubuntu announce.
Download Eclipse and the Android Development Kit. The emulator and development environment are free.
And, yet, you seem to be talking about developing for them in the past tense.

There's a reason why Apple and Google are dominant now, and it's not just marketing, luck and timing. They've built fertile marketplaces that (especially) independent developers can leverage to create cottage industries if not empires, instead of simply make a living doing VBA and VC++ CRUD applications.

Oh, XNA and C# may be truly saner to handle than Cocoa and Java, but who truly gives a damn when you can't keep the lights on with your .exe file on Windows.
The whole point of tracking cookies is to maintain some identifier. With STS you only get 1 bit, how do you identify them? All users who have visited the site since (now - STS expiration length) look the same.
> Microsoft does not know how to deliver that.

I completely agree with you. I'm no Microsoft shill, and unless they can find something that gives them market leadership their dominant position in the market is a big juicy target for all competitors.

Please cite sources for "that's not even the theory." Here's my statement and a source:

Supply what the customer demands. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
You can only get honest opinions on politics on anonymous, unmoderated forums. /pol/ is a cesspool, but it's real.
i started just making a simple HTML5 game, and kept going at it. Taught me a bunch abt game development, the industry and ultimately founded a startup
Disclaimer: not a Ruby user. I'm confused by example 4. Why would you return a message from either of them? Shouldn't messages in general belong to the view?

{{ user.address || "No address on file" }}

The "not so good" code is essentially this, but inside a wrapper in view code. What if you need different markup for a missing address, you either stuff it into a method or change the method's return value to nil... and what if only street_name is missing, not the whole address? It looks like a big mess to me.
I think you're a bit confused, Android doesn't do a very good job of making web apps 1st class citizens at all. Even though I don't use it, iOS does the best job there. When you create a desktop shortcut for an app, it will get an icon that looks just like all other apps' icons, it will launch into a full-screen chromeless browser that you wouldn't know was a browser at all (with a loading image, even). You can also control web apps that play HTML5 audio with the built in music controls from the multitasking pane.

Android has none of those things. I've had hit or miss experience of it even picking a decent resolution icon, and Chrome uses the favicon with an envelope behind it, so it sticks out as a second class citizen (chrome also doesn't go chromeless).
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i recently switched to ubuntu on one machine. that font was one of the best parts of switching. it's amazing how much difference it makes to the feel of the system.
Dunno. I prefer Office on OS X, seems so much faster and easier to use. But that's just me.
Considering the list of supporting sites, that are behind this project, claiming to play a crucial part of the defeat of SOPA, would be totally correct.

But they dont actually do that. They use "we" in a politically rethoric form, where they try to convince the reader what their position already is. Its like saying "we the american people, need lower taxes to be free".

Its a marketing trick.
Nah, it wouldn't be sad. Nokia gave us 300 babies before it died. Check out all these start-ups!
http://www.zdnet.com/inside-nokia-bridge-how-nokia-funds-ex-...
i think it's a feature that is supposed to add character. and perhaps it looks better in use (that image is pretty poorly anti-aliased, i think).
Gnome 3 opens them chromeless, albeit it doesn't have as deep of integration as this appears to.
I'm still thinking this through, here's what I came up with:

If there's an on/off button to show additional information on the screen, it would seem weird to me to have the button (view) try and display the additional settings. The view has no idea what kind of environment it is in, how does it know if it can display the information without moving other things around. But a controller object managing all the views on the screen does. This also avoids subclassing or adding methods to the view.
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Technical debt is not always bad.

Imagine you can borrow cheap money to bootstrap your business idea, but you only have to pay back if your business is wildly successful.
Are you kidding me? You can't stop the people who have access to the food from tampering with the food. You just have to trust that they won't be irresponsible with your product. If you catch them doing unsavory stuff with the items served to customers you let them go, that simple.
Many of them can. And they are still easier to convince, that an 80 year old that still uses racial slurs.
Could security experts give their take on this? There are some strong statements, such as the last sentence: "Because DNSCurve does not do this, and because the problems DNSCurve actually does solve are pretty well solved by UDP source port randomization and will be entirely eradicated by DNSSEC, ISC is not investing in DNSCurve at all."

I have a few questions, in case anybody is interested in any of them:

1) Would full deployment of IPsec render DNSCurve unnecessary?

2) Isn't "full security" impossible until DNS queries are encrypted? I'm reading the ongoing comments about HSTS [+] and can't help to think that, if you assume the network is a malicious medium, then any unencrypted DNS query, including DNSSEC, can receive a compromised response. But then again, Paul Vixie's quoted sentence seems to counter my reasoning/understanding.

[+] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4266626
that just goes to show that quarterly accounting is basically a flawed metric
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Makes some good points. I can't help but notice, though, that the "good" examples are all longer.

It makes me want to design a programming language that makes good code shorter than bad code...
Today has made me very worried for Hacker News. The front page of HN feels like a mirror of Reddit's.
I'm reading your comment as "Ignore your interests, passions, and ideas and just do the work that is put in front of you. Also, don't take any risks ever".

Since I'm sure that's not what you really think, would you mind explaining your position further?
There was a joke some years back: what's the difference between Enron and Qwest? Six months.

Now I think it's time for an update. What's the difference between Microsoft and Google? Six years.

Having seen far too much inside the latter (as you did), it seems inevitable. The path has already been blazed, and they are barreling down it just as fast as they can.
MS Office runs well under Mac, and some people I know actually prefer the OS X version.
Although they get a bad wrap, MS has likely been too early on many things. Things they got right: Commodity hardware, office, and directx. Active desktop put those things behind the icons of their applications making the desktop area dual purpose and thus confusing or distracting.

Given the state of HTML, the newbies inability to write proper HTML, and early browsing technology and you have a recipe for instability and system crashes.

They were too early technology wise, and also because they couldn't see entire application experiences being delivered that way.
Maybe worth adding to the outside-of-the-UK part:

They have been offering for quite a while now the (fee based) BBC Global iPlayer. It seems rather successful despite the £44/year price-tag: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9403432/BBC-globa...
Going directly (and staying inside) your preferred storage service is much more elegant, no? That's basically what we've built.
I think you might be missing the point. Android does a great job of integrating data from the cloud with the operating system. An example is the Google Music player streams your music from the cloud and integrates the player controls with Android on the lockscreen, in the widget, in the status bar etc. The demo video from Canonical shows this kind of integration with last.fm. Nobody is saying Android or Ubuntu is perfect or whatever but there are similarities to what Android does and what Canonical is doing here.
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Both Github and Dropbox offer a free plan plus they don't need the network effect. If I were the only user on Dropbox I would still find it valuable. Same on github.

However the service you are proposing does have a huge network effect. Twitter/e-mail without users is not valuable.

So whats your plan to get to a million paid users?

NOTE: Pandora had about 71 Million on October 2010 but only about 700,000 paying users. So not even Pandora has been able to get to 1 million paying customers.
Just look at the financials. 14% of revenue came from paid users and 84.6% came from ad's. Which supports Fred Wilson point that the majority prefers ad supported services.

I am going to support App.net. I still want to see you try.
But I am afraid you don't really have a good answer on how you plan to build the network and Fred Wilson is trying to warn because you will probably fail. But something tells me you don't care if you fail, thats why I'll support you.
For what it's worth, this was common practice in tech in 1999. It's called Topgrading; it was started by Welch at GE. You can read all about it at http://www.amazon.com/Topgrading-Leading-Companies-Coaching-...
The marketplace for website customisation.
Relatedly, a long, long time ago I found Allan Holub's PPT Everything You Know is Wrong quite good: http://ebookbrowse.com/everything-you-know-is-wrong-pdf-d281...
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This is all nonsense anyway. There's no such thing as a TwitterUser or an EmailUser. You just have users, some of whom use Twitter, some use email (and may have multiple addresses), and some use both, and they can edit their settings to add and remove accounts and change notification preferences. So it's really has-a rather than is-a.

Adding unnecessary inheritance is far worse than the original problem.
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Probably not. A typical fast food restaurant generating several million in sales does mid-six-figures operating profit, with payroll one of the top expenses. Sure, any fast food restaurant could dial up payroll as a % of sales, but not so much that they'd be moving to a different class of employee.

Moreover, the most successful (ie, profitable) fast food restaurants are successful in part because they keep payroll constrained by (a) employing lots of part-time labor and (b) having staffing be elastic with demand. The best workers aren't clamoring to take part-time jobs.

So I think this is one of those sentiments that sounds good on a message board but has no real bearing on reality. But: I welcome a counterargument; I'm no expert, nor would I ever consider franchising a fast food restaurant.
Ick, breaks command/query separation, the other OO rule that along with tell, don't ask I find to be a hallmark of well coded OO systems.

class SystemMonitor
def check_for_overheating
if temperature > 100
sound_alarms
end
end
end
The first example isn't a good one. You don't want to have the user class responsible for returning the welcome message.
I was thinking that it would be funny if it was actually a prank played on them by the McDonalds across the street.
I don't just want to be able to open webapps on my phone with a shortcut, I want real integration. I'm sometimes not connected to the Internet so I like to have my data offline, but I like to be able to get it online quickly. Android does this very well. Share intents, music player integration, it's just a very slick offline to online seamless system.
Theyll be able to spam, hopefully millions of websites, at once, with the same exact political message.

If they use this sparringly ( only for things as big as SOPA ), most site owners wouldnt mind.

And the impact, together with all major cities suddenly blasting a cat light, will likely reach the news.

At which point, people like the EFF ( which are also part of this initiative ), will likely have serious, well spoken individuals available for interviews and such.
This is brilliant on many levels. This game, good or not, will make a ton-load of money - because of the hype/craze around Ouya.

This is Distribution 101. Find a hot platform/wave, and ride it as long as you can.

This guy is at the top of the wave and will be riding all the way to the steps of the bank.
They've raised $5m and counting. What do they need investors for?
This has long been one of my favorite methods of using OO code to my advantage; and is one of the main reasons that my code is OO in the first place.

There are many cases where it's easier/lazier to have if-statements.

Going further, you can take the things learned in this article to make your general purpose code potentially faster, as well. For example, if a set of things that must be performed in order; and sometimes some of those steps are missing, instead of performing a null-check, you can have a default no-op case; that way, instead of:

if(firstAction != null) firstAction();
if(secondAction != null) secondAction();
if(thirdAction != null) thirdAction();

in your inner loop, you can have:

firstAction();
secondAction();
thirdAction();

While whenever firstAction, secondAction, thirdAction are set, you can say:

firstAction = newFirstAction ?? noop;
// etc.

All in all, I'm glad this sort of knowledge is getting out there. I'm just grateful for my having really, really good CS teachers back in highschool ( I don't remember my college talking about OO as a way of removing if-statements ).

* Users of Java, of course, will just need to write a NoOp instance of their interface to take advantage of this.
In fact all it means no one can take it away from him. Which kinda proves my point.
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There are plenty of restaurants out there like that. If food safety is your concern, perhaps don't eat at low-end fast food places.
Yeah ... somewhat ;)

Basic queries do work, but not ready for production use.
It slightly rubs me the wrong way as well. Like you said, it doesn't explain the product much at all. Instead it asks us to invest $50+ just for liking his business philosophy. I think both are important.

I have mixed feelings about it (if it is indeed a paid version of twitter). On the one hand, my biggest gripe with Twitter is that it should be federated, and I doubt that's the plan for this service. But on the other hand, if their philosophy is to listen to their (paying) customers, perhaps it is something they would be willing to change.
Chrome and Firefox been using memory at equal proportion. I use exactly two add-ons and comparing FF/Chrome to IE to check on memory consumption, I see IE doing much better.
I feel uncomfortable with the level of arrogance that is becoming commonplace (and encouraged) among technical founders these days.

On the other hand, I think the underlying vetting mechanism endorsed by this post is good. In many situations, the technical co-founder has more "hard skills" and is expected to do more work in the first few weeks (or months) of a startup's existence, and even if that isn't true, most technical co-founders probably perceive it to be true. Any "business guy" who proactively hustles before the product is ready will stand out from the crowd.
Free speech doesn't cover fraud, defamation, and libel - all of which are already illegal.

So basically what you're saying is, impersonating people is wrong, but it's ok when we don't like the person/group being impersonated.

Do you have principles, or is your morality purely based on convenience?
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I wouldn't say "first other OS to get it". Jolicloud has been doing this kind of integration for awhile.

http://www.jolicloud.com/jolios
Ricty(http://save.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yusa/fonts/ricty.html) user here, I love how it it is just enough "serified" for better readability
If you can't afford the $43/year for a Thawte starter cert, you have no business running a domain of your own. Seriously, less than $4 a month - that's going to be dwarfed by any sort of hosting you might be paying for.

And it's only one domain per cert, so your entire argument is silly.
I don't know which forums you visit, but in my experience trolls are always a failure of modding. Activists are vulnerable to strange notions of censorship (as if everyone should be able to scribble everywhere on the internet), and this bias makes them ascribe supernatural powers to trolls (like they can defeat any moderation).
The point of this (Ubuntu feature) is not that it's integrating proprietary Ubuntu services with the OS (it has already done that, with Ubuntu One), like your example of Google Music, the point is that it is promoting web applications to first-class citizens alongside the native apps. Android fails at this pretty badly.
It's a poor example of a reasonable technique. Reusing branch points is great. Adding an expensive branch point (inheritance to the User class) to replace a cheap one (if statement) is not a win, particularly when it screws up the model.

Edit: to clarify, by "expensive" I mean expensive in terms of human hours to understand the code, not computer performance. Class hierarchies are much harder to understand than if statements.
Because $150K+ employees of Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Apple/etc have never been caught being dicknozzles...

Hiring is a probability function. You can optimize it all you want, but sooner or later a complete asshole is going to get through.

The failure of a single employee is not indicative of how well their hiring functions. To make the conclusions you are making, we'd need to know the incidence rate of things like this, but we don't.
because it goes without saying

I've been dealing for long enough with hosters and hardware to know that nothing goes without saying.

Xeons and Opterons which only support ECC

Have you actually checked the CPU models they use?
All I know is that amazon uses a range of different CPUs, and some Xeon/Opteron models do accept non-ECC Ram.

only be a few percent more expensive

In the past ECC DIMMs used to be significantly more expensive.

Either way, as said, I don't know whether they're using ECC Ram. I agree it should go without saying, but I don't share your optimism that it actually does. I also wonder why they explicitly mention it for their GPU-instances when it goes without saying otherwise.
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