skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figured there was a change in the terms of service that required explicit consent.... damn, I guess not.
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A smartphone sized device that acts as a configurable PBX / IVR and lets employees use the Internet and make and receive calls from smartphones over wifi.
I wish I had read your comment before posting mine. While you go a bit far in the polemical direction I find myself strongly reacting to the naked flogging that I am subjected to as this boom advances. In 2007 you could just read about programming and worry about the looming depression.

Now we are all expected to pitch in and enrich everyone around us who can network a little bit.

Let's innovate some ways to get water to the heartland! Whoops too hard, let's innovate javascript.
Yes, my friends and I have been getting forced over since August 4th. I was August 5th, so it seems like a gradual forced rollout.
Hahahah you overreacted to my comment, but for what it's worth I would never use #f00 for anything.
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FYI waveform, you've been helbanned going on 17 days now.
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They are available here in the Bay Area (I went to go see one last week). Only products fulfilled by Amazon can be shipped to locker locations.
Worth noting that this particular "little robot", unlike the previous set, is about the size of a car. That's why they could fit more equipment on it. :D
I too, friggin' love Spotify.

It feeds my music junkieness a whole hell of a lot cheaper than when I used to buy CDs. Best $10 I spend every month.
The Armenti is a bit of a joke, I think.
An interview with The Little App Factory and sponsoring an esports team.
I think they already have funding from A16Z.
I use Amazon Fresh as a "hey, I'm running low on eggs, soap, and paper towels. I don't care what kind I get, I just want more" type service. Works great for that.

Also beer. Carrying cases of beer home sucks. ;)
The initial claiming process is automatic. But as noted in the article, the uploader then has an opportunity to dispute the claim. The rights holder is then supposed to manually verify it and either approve or dismiss it. The problem is that there is no penalty for just approving every claim after "reviewing" it. Contrast this to the DMCA process, where after the uploader files a counter claim the rights holder must file a court order in order to keep the material down.

At the moment it's a terribly one-sided process that allows big media companies to profit for absolutely no reason. Fining companies for approving disputed claims in error seems like a pretty good solution.
There are winds. The wind is what would clear dust off the solar panels of the other rovers. I think that is what allowed them to run so long - the winds were stronger than expected, and cleaned off the solar panels better than expected, so more power was available. If I'm not mistaken, the engineers originally expected the solar panels to get covered by dust in a matter of months, at which point the rovers would stop working.
If each wrong case cost $5000, then either the algorithm would get fixed or people would stop using it.
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I was just talking with a colleague the other day about how to simplify the number of hash functions needed for a bloom filter. He recommended something similar to what the paper describes, but we both dismissed it as "probably won't work". Just goes to show you that sometimes the simple solution is worth closer examination. Thanks for the paper!
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Mitnick said many Australian companies would continue to tell no one about being hacked or exposing client information unless laws were introduced that made it compulsory to disclose breaches.
Add subdomain mews.ycombinator.com(also possibly meows) to redirects to news.ycombinator.com.

Lighting sucks at times and muscle memory might be a key off.
If I could just live stream without saving it at the end I might use this, but I can't stand it if it automatically saves. Same issue I had with Qik.
One of the nicest things about Apple products is the simplicity of the underlying business model: you get hardware (most generally, also some software and services like AppleCare) from them, and you give them money in return. I think Gruber is a fan of this approach.

Apple's brand and future success then depends on you loving the product, which means they spend a lot of the money you've given them on hiring smart and dedicated people to build more loveable products. It's a virtuous cycle.

But most web-era companies (like Google and Facebook) have adopted a different business model:
you get their product for free, with the trade-off being that you have to look at a few ads here and there.

The problem with this approach is that they end up hiring more smart and dedicated people to work on advertising techniques, sales, UI, algorithms, &c. than those who actually work on building ever more loveable product. (And they might even IPO at a high valuation, putting even more pressure on the company to deliver advertising revenue growth.)

App.net is trying to get back to the virtuous cycle of people paying for nice products – that has been the standard in commerce since the beginning – so that they can concentrate on making a great, benign product as opposed to spending the future fretting about 'monetization' (think about how awkward that word really is!) or advertising.

It's a trend I'd love to see more of, and I hope that everybody here gives backing a second thought.

EDIT 1: Gruber obviously carries some sway, the total grew by $1850 in the last 10 minutes.

EDIT 2: To continue the above, the total grew by $15000 in the last 2 hours.
Agreed on the ads, for sure. But ads are to be expected with FB no matter what and they're annoying in general anyways.

One thing I like about timeline is the discovery when looking at someone else's. It makes it a little easier to grasp what that person is all about in a relatively short amount of time. It's also pretty cool that you can add in significant life events that occurred well before FB (or even the web) existed.
I would really like for online groceries to work, partly because I despise going to to the grocery store. I'd much rather have someone else find a place to park, locate all of their items, wait in line at checkout and haul the groceries out of the store. I'm even willing to sacrifice things in order for that to happen, like being able to inspect and pick my own meat and produce.

The only sticking point for me is price and selection. I want options when choosing products and I want the prices to be comparable to what I see in the store. I don't want prices that are twice as much as in the store PLUS delivery fees.

Hopefully Instacart Express tackles that problem. The only concern I had after reading the thread is that it sounds like they have an employee go to an actual grocery store to pick up the order and deliver it. That method of doing things sounds painful once the service really starts to grow, but perhaps they've got an alternative strategy for when that happens.

Good luck, Instacart!
I think it might depend on your source of water, but most US tap water just needs a good carbon filter.
Lay off W3Schools
"Normal people" don't use linux, so I don't buy your argument, sorry. I'd rather linux distributions stopped optimizing for idiots who can't tell what's going on without huge icons.

That said, I don't see how xfce is worse than gnome in its current state, so it's entirely win-win situation imho.
Hey, cool- thanks for the links.
Point #2 Sounds like it could be alleviated via offering users the ability to set account preferences: "If an item is running low on stock, I'll take something that is close to the expiry date."
It is extremely easy to create an anonymous number already, let alone a gmail account. A friend of a friend daisy chains anonymous numbers with physical burners for a "proxy" effect.
You might have a different definition of "completely unusable" from mine, but have you ever compared XFCE and Unity on the same machine? I'm accustomed to a snappy DE. I don't expect to wait 30 seconds+ for the most basic desktop to show up on boot, and when I drag windows I expect them to move instantly with no visible lag. Unity didn't meet those expectations on my Mini 10v. XFCE does easily.
That's freaking awesome. Thanks!
Thanks. I was at odds with how much ground it would have covered already, looking for Mount Sharp.
companies like adidas and kraft should be ashamed of using this invasive technology. no respect for privacy. should consumers boycott companies that use this?
> words on pages aren't black

But they should! Death to low contrast text. Even if your #333 on #eee is "almost full contrast but fashionable". It's not, on both accounts.
As far as I know, this feature already exists -- pg just needs to add github.com to the list of well-known URLs.
One of the major problems with carriers is that they are being pushed to drive costs down from retailers who can demand it. Residential deliveries are costly because 50% fail on the first attempt (this is why UPS charges an extra $1.25 for residential deliveries). Shipping is quickly becoming a commodity. Locker delivery enables delivery density (multiple parcels at one stop), saves huge costs compared to traditional residential deliveries, and makes returns a whole lot easier and cheaper.
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Let's see. 1 generation => Lots of compassion. 6 billion years => no compassion. So somewhere in between. How about you?
Somewhat related, I start next week at BestVendor: http://bestvendor.com
Do you not have these services already in the US? In the UK every major supermarket will deliver to your home whenever you want. They all have mobile apps, etc. They have the leverage, surely the same would happen in the US?
Ok. I downvoted all the posts this thread up to the parent because I feel posts like these make the HN community stink.

If a startup raise a massive amount of funding with no revenue model, a lot of people here scream bubble.

Now you have a startup that has a revenue model and not seeking additional funding, people still keep leaving snarky comments.

There is a big difference if a company makes money from users vs advertisers.

Companies focus on what gives them revenue and I'm excited to see what App.Net can create if they focus just on the users.
you get hardware (most generally, also some software and services like AppleCare) from them, and you give them money in return

Is it so simple? Does anyone actually believe that Apple considers the transaction complete when you walk away with your shiny new Apple device?

They want to be your content middleman. They want to force you to shop in their store. They want to push the iAds service. I get emails from Apple pushing books and movies and iPads for universities and so on literally nightly. They have a store full of apps trying to foist smurfberries on the kids of unsuspecting parents naive enough to implement an App Store passwords.

I like the general concept -- I was one of the earliest and most fervent proponents of micropayments as opposed to advertising driven sites -- but the dichotomy presented is false. Businesses don't act like that. I pay my cable company for cable and they keep sending me magazine subscriptions. I buy a $40,000 car and they try to foist services (XM Radio, OnStar) on me, and then they try to sell the data about me to interested parties.

The world is a very complex place. Twitter and Google wouldn't exist without their users, and anyone who pushes the simplistic "if you aren't paying you're the product being sold" line has a position that only has merit if you don't actually think about it for long.

Of course Gruber carries weight, which is why I asked about his personal "investment" in this -- he seems to essentially be putting his reputation behind something that is almost certain to fail.
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That depends. The last international flight I took, I walked to the airport in the origination country. ;)
Closed to anyone who doesn't want to identify themselves.
I absolutely love this. I'm learning to code (slowly) and have an infatuation with data visualization. I've imagined what something like this might look like, and I think you guys absolutely nailed it. Well done!
> Pure black text on a pure white blackground is too much contrast

As a mac and windows user, I find this correlates heavily to the OS being used as the font rendering is very different. Black on white is very readable on windows, it looks like hell on a mac.
Seems like a pretty crappy theory actually. Why are thoes things not built in an unchangeable charter (or something like it).

Also FB is making $1 per year per user atm (storing photos,messages and heaps of other stuff). Why does dalton need $50 per year to store 140 character message?

Edit: Turns out there is a charter called "core values"
like identi.ca?
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Like... diaspora?
Tor Project has funding for another browser hacker
More megapixels isn't necessarily better. The sensor was probably chosen for a specific reason, one reason may be that the sensor was matched to the optics (lenses) they decided to use...
I think you are implying that OSX is a BSD. Just because you have some BSD userland utilities doesn't make you a BSD. OSX has a totally different kernel than any BSD (mach).
P.S. I shared this with the Maxwell School alumni group on LinkedIn, so hopefully that drives some traffic your way! I think that my fellow MPA alums will dig it.
this appears like a hand-crafted linkbait to help their SEO. What does "Attendly" have to do with this anyway?
Yes that is standard. It should be illegal. They said his resignation, effective immediately, had nothing to do with any disagreement over company operations. It had everything to do with that. He was probably fired or quit in anger over his demotion, due to his (perceived) poor performance.

How they can get away with lying to the SEC and their investors like that boggles the mind - but it is how every company handles it. Firings are all resignations and they never have anything to do with the company or the former employees job performance. Everybody leaves as friends that have the upmost respect for one another and can't wait to work together again blah blah they just want to spend time with their kids. That they just drove their company into the ground is a complete coincidence.
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It's not a mistake to sell the stock as quickly as you can if you anticipate a massive drop in the stock price. Which as an insider, you're in a position to do.

Let's see, stock price went from $13 to $3, so yes, he's way ahead, even if he pays more taxes.
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Schappert was also mentioned in the EA lawsuit. He was COO of EA before he left for Zynga, and according to the filing, "Mr. Shappert was then the most senior executive responsible for EA's online social gaming business. The online social gaming business divisions reported directly to Mr. Schappert, and he was directly responsible for designing and implementing EA's competitive strategies in the market. As such, Mr. Schappert had detailed, internal strategic plans and development information related to EA's effort to bring The Sims franchise to Facebook with The Sims Social."
Have you used windows 8? The preview is embarrassingly bad, garbage is being generous.
Diaspora's distributed nature makes it a non-starter for me.
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I always thought there were laws against running a service like this in the US. For example the rules for registering a USPS P.O. box are very stringent:

> To rent a PO Box, two different forms of identification are required. At least one of them must be a valid photo ID. [1]

This way they can actually track you down if you have something illegal shipped to the box.

A service like this where you can easily sign up without properly verifying your identity is just waiting to be used as a temporary drop-box for people shipping drugs from SilkRoad, people shipping goods they bought with a stolen credit card, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-office_box#United_States
Facebook opens up new recurring revenue opportunity for all app developers
Get used to it. It's going to get worse.
If it doesn't handle POST requests it doesn't count.

(defun phase-handle-post ()
"Phase handler for post requests"
;; XXXX hack, not handling multi-part form data, just treat as a GET
;; for now.
(phase-handle-get) )
Collapse is humanity adapting to its own presence
And the "666" in the user name didn't give away Medusa's intent?
...I am not sure where you are getting such massive numbers from. Modified gamblers fallacy?
Some on alpha.app.net are arguing that app.net is "an infrastructure play for a million new networks to bloom. It's AWS not Twitter."

Not sure I completely got that message from Dalton's posts. He could simply have a marketing problem at this point, although he's done pretty well thus far if that's the case.
Building a Twitter clone with Twitter Bootstrap - oh the irony
I'm sorry if you interpreted my comment as nothing else than snarky. Truth be told, I want app.net to succeed, but as pretty much one of its target members (young, vaguely hip, and I love reading tech blogs) I still haven't found the answer to the following question:

What advantage does app.net have over the mainstream options if I don't care about privacy/'dickishness' and how is that worth $50 to me?
I think the question was very valid. It's like if you describe "an word processing app, but for now it only integrates pictures in the document. Typing function to come later!" - in the same way a spreadsheet is not software that is used to put pictures and tables. Expectations when you see the word "spreadsheet" is being able to run complex, calculations, and maybe macros to accelerate your workflow. Calling this piece of software "spreadsheet" is an abuse of what spreadsheets have been standing for, for a very long time now.
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I haven't been hit yet.
Hah!

I'm more disagreeing with the notion that a product can't be for users/developers if he is charging them for it.

There is of course nothing wrong with making money :D
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You are absolutely right. However, It could also be interpreted as digital salesperson. When I entered a store and a salesperson pitch to me about products based on my face and facial expressions.
We need to learn about how to deal with ourselves. They was and they will always be intrusive.
Steli means it when he roots for the entrepreneur - first hand experience here. Thanks Steli! :)
Of course people shouldn't go looking for a payout, but the taxpayers are responsible for their police dept. They have control over that dept.
Mass transit doesn't need "huge urban centers" and indeed can and does serve cities of all sizes. What it requires, though, is a minimum density. You can't serve a small, sprawling city. You can easily serve small, compact cities. Compare, for example, the transit effectiveness between Zurich and Tulsa, cities of comparable population.
Some one has a link with more technical data about the communication stack? algorithms, modulation, etc.
I really hope my parent comment wasn't snarky (or at least it was not intended to be) and I totally agree with you on HN stink and the like.

Though I think you misunderstand daltons focus. You say it isnt about "what gives them revenue" but actually that's exactly what it is. The only difference is he is not taking it from the developers, advertisers or selling data but directly from the user. That is not focusing on the user for me. That's raising revenue from the user.

The reason I want app.net to succeed is because I want to live in a world where facebook is free (so everyone i know is on it) but I can choose to pay them $50 (or any reasonable amount) per year so I dont see ads and they don't sell my data. I want to be able to interact with people who don't want to pay $50 per year, otherwise its just a walled garden like every other.
> Quinn effectively attacked and discredited herself by
> posting that Tweet.

That comes off rather victim-blamey. Nothing about what she tweeted paints her as ill-informed. In fact, quite the opposite: I would argue the crypto community is very privileged. It requires higher level education in a STEM field and access to modern computers.
Which would explain the >10x success SpaceX seems to be having (shooting for something less ambitious than Curiosity so far, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they put a man on Mars in 12 years for less than 10% the cost of a NASA mission.)
Yeah it is annoying really. Especially for anywhere where it is common to buy things under $10. I think in the end most businesses would be better off just taking the fee hit as they would likely see increased business.
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I'm not being obnoxious and my monitors are usually dimmed because it's easier on the eyes. But I really have to strain them to read some of the more pretentiously designed sites.

I wonder why books are printed with black ink. Is it because publishers have bad designers? Or because the text is more legible that way?
Perhaps it would be a start if Google would recognise public domain content before matching against claims of other content owners.
Facebook lists existed for at least two years prior to Google+. Nobody used them because nobody wants to meticulously organize their friends into buckets and categorize their communications.
Mate, you're off base here. I use one of these crystals, and they work for me. I had tried everything, and I used to smell bad by the end of the day, on multi day camping trips I would be brutal.

A friend of mine was raving about the crystal ("smell my armpits, they are odorless", etc etc) so I tried it....after a few days, voila, odors gone. I'll start smelling some by noon the next day if I don't shower, but otherwise I'm good.

Placebo you say...well, it's a damn good one, because it has fooled not only me, but my close friends who always used to playfully razz me.

However, it seems not to work for everyone, or at least, some people I know who've tried it say it didn't work for them.
"but distribution restricted to the size of a CD is a major feature"

For me a major feature would be VirtualBox images ready to go. I haven't installed a Linux distro in years, and I would much rather let Windows/OSX act as the HAL so I just just focus on what I want to use Linux for.
Does this scare you?
As much as I want app.net to launch .. I don't think the campaign will reach its goal.
The title was changed. It used to say: "Some performance tweaks -- 'this is the most amazing pull request ever'".

See https://twitter.com/neha/status/233225033332445184
I don't know if I'd put it quite that way. It is an attack on the author, but attacks are not automatically invalid. We must ask the question "Was Soghoian's attack legitimate?"

I could comfortably answer yes. Soghoian could not come up with a reasonable explanation for Quinn's decision to not publish criticisms of the program. He therefore hypothesized that the author simply did not respect the people offering the criticism. He then produced a quote from Quinn which would support that hypothesis. If Soghoian were incorrect in that assessment, the Wired response should have pointed that out.

We must also realize that this means Soghoian isn't quite right in claiming his first criticism was about tech news in general. He did specifically criticize Wired, and therefore Wired is well within its rights to respond. Wired's allegations of sexism, however, was definitely not legitimate.