skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without a discussion of the extensive use of false flag terrorism, I think it is best to say that this article is "facile".

E.g. Lavon Affair (Israeli attempts to plant bombs and blame them on Muslim Brotherhood), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag#As_pretexts_for_war and so forth.
So to clarify, the problem is that browser serves the cached copy of the response from the GET request to the user, meaning that the user will not see the possibly different response returned by the server for the DELETE request correct? I feel like I'm missing something here.
These bots, if they do exist, wouldn't be operated by Facebook. It's a market-based ad bidding system. If 80% of clicks are worthless, clicks will be worth 80% less, and advertisers will bid accordingly. Facebook won't make anything in the long run by doing this, and there's clearly risk of getting caught doing something illegal.

If there is a bot, it's likely one of their competitors, though even that seems unlikely. One must be logged into FB to see ads, and I'm positive Facebook has some click fraud detection. They'd almost have to notice a number of accounts clicking the same ads over and over. I guess maybe if Facebook's CAPTCHA is weak enough and a bot was creating an account, setting up the proper interests to see the ad, clicking it, then repeating... Seems unlikely though.

Also none of this explains why they're taking down their Facebook page. One does not need to buy ads to have a Facebook page. You can even have it automatically update from Twitter. They could leave it up there and get free publicity from it and simply cancel their ads.

This whole thing seems like a sham for attention to me.
If you like Erlang but cannot get past its syntax you might want to give Elixir a try.

http://elixir-lang.org/
The only voice of sanity in this sea of stupidity. These ads are especially targeted at people who DO ask questions like this and often feel very stupid and patronised when they get answers from the know it all geeks. So the only point these ads needs to get across is:

"Can I go to someone at Apple if I have a dumb question about my Mac ? And will they not treat me like an idiot ? Answer: Yes."
NBC's No. 1 Tweeting Critic Has Been Suspended From Twitter
"Resolutionary" was the first alarming thing for me.
(I see cgbystrom commented further up and kinda hoped he would whip up a JAX-RS+Netty+async request processing skeleton ;-) )
As someone who was once an inexperienced web dev, I bet this probably didn't come down from marketing, and instead is the result of inexperienced/uneducated developers.
That sounds like a decision looking for a justification. You weren't supposed to be thrilled by ML just as you weren't supposed to be thrilled by SL. Were you thrilled by Lion? I was not, I still consider it a huge pile of shit. Hell, I'm way more thrilled about ML because SceneKit, that may make me put my trusty SL to rest, it's got way more potential than fucking skeumorphic iCal or "linen all the things" (which I see in the line of the old stripes, that's going to age just as nicely and in 5 years everybody will agree it was a moronic idea).

MBPR, if you were looking forward to it I fail to see why you wouldn't be thrilled by it, it's the biggest (positive) change in Apple's laptops since the 2nd gen Air.

As for iOS 6, how is it any more underwhelming than iOS 5? Remember when you were thrilled about the "deep twitter integration"? Or that Apple had finally added a notification system which didn't blow goats? Yeah me neither.

As to the ads... all the Siri ads I've seen so far make me facepalm.
A person like Steve Jobs comes along only once per century. He had incredible vision and knew how to execute. As for choosing his replacements, he has proven that he is not good at that. A good bet right now is to short Apple stock.
I think you should make this clear somewhere on the site - that only the initial 64 feeds are free and then you need to upgrade. If its already present in the FAQ section or such, its not very obvious / easily accessible.

This could avoid scenarios where the user might be surprised later on. That's just what I think. I'm pretty sure you'll get mixed feedback on shoving/not shoving the pricing in the user's face.
Keep in mind that the products you mentioned have been in development long before Jobs passed away, so his passing shouldn't have had any effect on them.

Wait a few years when Jobs' product roadmap runs out and we'll see what they're doing and if it's still up to snuff.
Sounds awesome! Please feel free to email anytime, would love to explore the use case further.
like the concept; but i just tried it out with a couple beers and no hits as of about 10mins later..

admittedly, i threw it some pretty difficult ones: eichhof (swiss), taybeh (palestinian), but I just tried heineken and still no luck.. any thoughts?
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"everyone that has a Google account (aka. GMail) has a G+ account"

Only recent signups are required to have a Google+ account. For older Google/Gmail accounts, you don't need to have Google+.

"yet people still share crap with me (as I'm still in their 'circles') -- it just goes to my email."

I'm on Google+ but I don't get notifications on my email because I turned it off myself.
As if you're qualified to tell one way or another.

I hope you appreciate the irony of you sarcasm.
You mock, but it's true: Apple wasn't the first [redacted] [Redacted]. That honor belongs to [redacted], who [redacted] in [redacted].
The rMBP, widely hailed as the best Mac since forever? You seem to be the only person on the planet disappointed by it (besides people disappointed in the glued-in battery – but that’s nothing new).

Besides, there are a few years to go until we run out of Steve Jobs products.

(I think this whole discussion is utterly pointless at this point. Look at Apple’s stock in ten years and you will know the impact of Jobs. I have my doubts that it will be possible to say much meaningful now.)
It makes the guy who got scammed look stupid. He's left holding a "fake" and there's nothing he can do about it.
I agree that the ads are scornworthy, but you can't call John Malkovich or Samuel L. Jackson "fading", they are both as close to timeless as you're going to get.
Not sure why, it's not the first time Apple makes up a retarded word. Remember "funnest"?
The first time I saw the ad, I thought that it was mocking Apple's geniuses right up to the point where it cuts to the logo and voice over. I just kept waiting for the punch line, but the ad isn't funny, just mean.
Yes. For the underlying system to be able to detect and run in parallel you need the concurrency. Without concurrency your application will be run sequentially.
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>They make the target audience feel stupid. This is Apple’s first real effort going after a less tech-savvy group of computer buyers, and this ad makes it clear that they really don’t know how to talk to them at all. The people in this segment are not idiots, in fact, a lot of them are doctors, lawyers, teachers, and otherwise very smart people.They just don’t think about the latest technology all that much, and this ad basically calls them stupid for not buying a Mac. When consumers buy PCs, they are usually doing it after lots of research — after all, it’s a big purchase for most people — and this ad is essentially telling them they made the wrong decision despite all the thought they put into making what they thought was the right one.

This is rife with things that either aren't true or are bad assumptions. Doctors don't carefully research what computer they get because they're smart. You could easily make the argument that they don't specifically because they were rich or because they value their time a lot. Additionally (and this is all out of order), this is not the first time that apple has done commercials appealing to non-tech savvy users. They have almost never tried to appeal to tech savvy users. I would argue that the only reason they're on the radar for tech savvy users is because they coincidentally are unix based.
I thought this was a parody, got back and the channel was really called "Apple".

I heard there was a constant fear at Apple to get called to Jobs, now everybody can add his own opinion and something like this won't happen.
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No, not really. This is a cheap excuse for not looking at the facts.
What's the last Microsoft ad that was worth anything? I remember those Jerry Seinfeld ads that were just incredibly poor. This does not come close in comparison.
They do very different things. View source will show the document as delivered to the browser; developer tools show the page as rendered. You really need both.
Sexy-bikini-beach-shoot
http://frnzbook.org/pages/view/108081/daitng-girl-in-nigeria
http://frnzbook.org/pages/view/108128/daitng-girl-in-japan
http://frnzbook.org/pages/view/108351/daitng-girl-in--mexico
I think these local-minded startups are great. Hopefully people doing them in bigger markets will pave the way for this to be feasible in a smaller market like mine.

One note about your site - please don't make me hunt for the page that tells me how the service works. Move the FAQ link to the top.
Ask HN: How is adobe powering nbc olympics app?
I am sure, some of the geeks who have downloaded the nbc olympics app and saw the powered by adobe sign? Anyone has ideas if this is a native app built by adobe? What tech is at play here? Is it HTML5?
The blog post starts from the premise that Max Abrahm's 2008 paper is correct. The paper states:

The strategic model—the dominant paradigm in terrorism studies—posits that terrorists are political utility maximizers. According to this view, individuals resort to terrorism when the expected political gains minus the expected costs outweigh the net expected benefits of alternative forms of protest.

So sure, terrorism is pretty ineffective you really believe that it's about affecting meaningful political reform. And, maybe he can find examples of that in the past. But that doesn't seem to jibe with today's reality vis a vis islamic jihadists. Does this kid really believe Al-queda is full of totally rational political activists, not just brainwashed losers who have an excuse to inflict pain on people?

Frankly, Alfred's quote from The Dark Knight is a much better theory of what motivates these guys than Abrahms' "rational political actor" theory.
You do know that Tim Cook was basically the CEO for many years before Steve passed away. Most of the company reported to him and he is one of the major reasons Apple is alive today. Also he is the ONLY one who is respected enough and capable enough to manage the team of egos Jobs cultivated.

So go ahead short the stock. Will be hilarious to watch you lose money if the iPad Mini and AppleTV rumors are revealed to be true.
I don't know. I saw ad boards boasting of iPhone 4S's "dual core" and "8 MP" camera when it came out, it was a pretty "uh oh" moment.
In the meantime, the Apple rumormill has the 7.8 inch iPad dropping in late September.

If that's true it will completely eclipse this launch, much like the Zune all but disappeared when Apple announced the iPod nano (when the Zune was hard drive based) and iPod touch (just as the Zune came out with a nano competitor).
The trend could just be a fluke. Only time will tell...
Chrome's excessive caching is so broken for RESTful web services that I've just given up on letting it cache any requests from Javascript. It completely ignores Vary headers, too, so hitting the back button after an AJAX request to the same URL (but with a different content-type) as a visited page displays the AJAX response (e.g., JSON) instead of the page. Worse yet, it's been marked as WONTFIX.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=94369
Please don't build another 'You should "upgrade" your browser to Chrome' service.

WebRTC might be cool, the demo looks cool, but the official site says that it might break or go away anytime and - please, please, please never ignore this - only one single browser seems to support that tech.

Fool around with it, but this can _never_ be part of a Skype killer until everyone can use it.
This is the reason many active HN users post under separate 'throw away' accounts for things they don't want traced back to them.
Feels like good ol' 90's again when idle people spend time wishing on Apple's downfall.
waiting, when screenshot will say "Mark Zuckerberg" likes this
:-)
If I ask you what would they need to have to thrill you, would you be able to answer? Built in toaster? Cure for cancer?
We don't expect luxury cars to thrill us, why do we need that from electronics? It's a sign of maturity and I will take solid no-thrills product over gimmicky one any day.
What I don't understand is why someone would target bots to only Facebook click advertisements. Facebook offer the ability to create ads that also allow users to Like a page, RSVP to an Event, or Install a Facebook app -- all of these things would require 1) Javascript to be enabled and 2) a Facebook account. If bot Facebook accounts were created they would need to be at a fairly large scale to be effective (which would be difficult given that Facebook is fairly effective at finding and disabling obvious fakes -- anyone in this space has a hard time just creating a second testing account) and would be visible to advertiser since they can run analytics reports and view individuals who have acted on this types of ads. So, I'm more inclined to believe that if anything this a competitor of the advertiser gaming the system as some others have suggested.

Still, like others I'm interested in seeing some of the data on this one.
The rMBP was the first Mac that I would seriously consider buying for myself. I haven't, because I can't afford to buy a new laptop just because a shiny new one came out, but if I had been looking for a laptop at that time, I would have bought it. A couple of my non-Apple using tech friends had the same opinion.

Then again, I'm not exactly Apple's core customer base, as I have no love for OS X and would probably have just installed Windows (for gaming) and Linux on it, but it's the first time in years where their computer hardware has distinguished itself, rather than selling on the basis of the OS.
> The MacBook Pro Retina haven't thrilled me at all and I have been looking forward to the MBPR for a long time.

Wow, you have some high expectations.

What exactly were you looking for?
It sounds nice and all, but it's definitely not a River of News style reader.

RoN style is one pane, all of the stories from all feeds laid out, newest to oldest, in one pane, and you just scroll through them reading when something looks interesting. Think the way planet aggregators work.
> The recent releases (MacBook Pro Retina, Mountain Lion, rumored iPhone 5, iOS6) haven't thrilled me at all and I have been looking forward to the MBPR and iPhone5 for a long time.

All of these have been released so recently (less than a year since Jobs passed away) that it's likely he played a large part in their design. Further, you're talking about (1) a 15" laptop that beats almost everything else on the market, (2) a minor version bump of OS X, and (3 & 4) two products that haven't been released yet.

I'm as interested in Apple, post-Jobs as everyone else, but the arguments I've seen so far look too forced. The true test will occur over the next 2-3 years--not just the last 9 months.

EDIT: I like snowwrestler's point: this is all "hindsight bias."

EDIT 2: I've fallen into this trap myself at some points, especially with some of these commercials. But these are just single data points. We shouldn't fall into the trap of overemphasizing single data points.
> Also none of this explains why they're taking down their Facebook page.

I think it pretty clearly explains why they're taking down their Facebook page. Just because you don't agree with them doesn't mean it's not explained. They're shutting down their Facebook page because (according to them) it's sitting around with outdated branding but they can't change the name unless they spend $2000/mo. Also because their user experience with Facebook has been crappy, and they don't want to have anything to do with them anymore. You know. Principle.

Could be a sham for attention, but the article pretty clearly explains why they're shutting the page down.
Google Hangouts is a surprisingly, truly amazing product, marred by its relationship with Google+.
This new commercial underscores Apple's major competitive advantage in a crowded market: customer service.

Apple spent a good part of the last decade winning on design and usability, an early iPhone commercial underscores this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZMr-ZfoE4

Crisp, product focused, and delighting in the uniqueness of the product.

But with smartphones now having ubiquitous feature sets, Android tablets fast competing on hardware, etc I think that Apple, under Steve or not, is right to be iterating their messaging.

In my own experience I've watched non-techie family members fumble with chopped-versions of Android under different carriers.

It would be a huge relief to just be able to say "Schedule an appointment @ the Apple store"

So smarmy or not, I think that Apple's new ad-strategy is on point message wise, if not perfect in execution.
Jedberg - what is your role at Netflix specifically?

I have a question, I asked this of Adrian, but he was of the opinion that Netflix would likely never accommodate:

How can a hospital have group Netflix streaming accounts such that users in their patient rooms could view/stream netflix to their rooms?

Can you make a commercial account / support this?

What about the following grey method for handling this: Th hospital pays for a group of individual streaming accounts. Their Patient Entertainment system can then check-out an account for use by the patient. The patient watches what they want, then when done, the system checks-in the account for use.

Would this be amenable to the TOS you may have?

The reason this is important is that cable ompanies are raping hospitals for providing cable TV service to their patient rooms. Netflix is a far better path for the future.

Thanks
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Still true. If anything, it's getting more true over time as cities get more efficient at bringing people into productive contact.
Live Streaming in Rails 4.0
You seem knowledgeable. What is the main purpose of bots on facebook?

The article implies they could be used by facebook or competitors to burn up ad revenue, but this approach would just kill the golden pay-per-click goose.
I don't mind the emailing of a new password for password reset requests. It seems just as secure as the password change link that most sites use. It does have the potential to be more annoying to the user if other people are submitting fake password reset requests though, which is why I'd still go with the password change link.
It's all parody, folks. They just want your attention long enough for you to consider them. Find a sense of humor =).
I didn't know of such an ad till I clicked on that link. If I didn't read the link title, there was no way I'd assume that was an ad by Apple.

The colors, contrast, quality of picture, absence of music/product, the context, the story telling and the tone of the ad were all off compared to previous Apple ads.

Is it an indication that Apple is slipping? From this ad – a resounding 'Yes'.

I can't fathom how an ad of this quality is made/approved by Apple…still have trouble believing it.
The name on their page is wrong, and Facebook refuses to change it for them unless they buy $2000 worth of advertising. That's pretty scummy, and I think perfectly justifies their decision to remove their FB page entirely.
No it is not funny. The comments section on an issue is not a place for jokes or otherwise unhelpful comments. It is not twitter or a comments section on a blog.

Everyone on that list gets pinged whenever there is an update. This is the place to fix the bug. People should not see every single input box as an invitation to demonstrate their wit.
My philosophy on hiring has always been to hire the smartest people who are still capable of working and communicating well with others. Over the years I have found that I need to focus more on different areas during the hiring process depending on the presence of a degree.

Those with degrees I need to ferret out if they actually like to program or if they just are in it "for the job." I tend to find that those that have come to programming via another route are more likely to actually enjoy it.

Those without degrees I need to spend more time ferreting out the "plays well with others" skills. I tend to find that those without a college degree tend to have less experience attempting to solve tough intellectual problems as a member of a group -- this is usually alleviated by more professional experience. One other quirk that seems to come up more often[1] is the "Smartest Person in the Room" syndrome, the constant need to prove one's superior intelligence. If you get more than one of these people on your team it tends to turn every discussion or meeting into an unproductive fireworks display of one-upmanship.

My perfect hire is the self-learner who loves to program, has a mastery of the fundamentals of computer science, can effectively communicate complex topics, and has enough confidence in their abilities to stow the ego.

Then again I'm also looking for some beach front property here in Colorado...

[1] - I also see this quite a bit with people who are _really_ proud of where they went to school. This is then usually combined with them somehow working the name of their alma mater into the conversation at least a dozen times during an hour interview.
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Turns Out Apple Conducts Market Research After All
Facebook: A More Beautiful View of Photos
I'd also like to help. Open source?

I want to be able to SC "heart" the song and have it synced to my profile's 'Likes'
“Limited Run” Calls Facebook ‘Scumbags,’ Accuses of Holding Page Name Hostage
But the notion of "taking credit" is sort of at odds with the micromanagement of the employees.

No it's not.

"You wouldn't have completed this project if I hadn't been there to correct your mistakes."

Good leaders correct details because they think they're important. Micromanagers correct minor details as a means of making it look like they're adding value (oftentimes this is a lie they tell themselves just as much as it is one they tell others).

Plus, funding a company doesn't buy one a CEO spot. If it did, all startups would be run by VCs.
It's not even that.

Now that Jobs's gone turning iPad sideways with the taskbar open causes app icons to overlap. Sometimes, not always, but that's just the kind of "sloppy" that just didn't exist in Apple products a year ago. They are slipping. I will give them a couple of years tops before they are back at the average product polish levels.
Does it really? What matters is NUM_POSSIBLE_KEYS / NUM_SAVED_HASHES, saving hashes for multiple casings of the password can't possibly increase the number of hashes by more than lowercasing the password would decrease the keyspace by.
Requiring an ad commitment before changing your name on Facebook doesn't make any sense. Anybody else hear of this kind of thing before?
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If you are into conspiracy theories then how about maybe this is Google directing a massive bot net to make facebook ads useless?

> I also speculated on what FB is doing. Them giving user data to the NSA/CIA - that is a supposed fact, sure, but I am not the only person who believes this.

Great argument! A lot of people believe it, so it must be true! Are you for real?!