skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Pravda. They aren't exactly worried about sourcing or accuracy. They're hardly better than a tabloid.
You're welcome (I'm pretty sure I've set some sort of a bad precedent here :) )
Bad fats still do good things for you. It's weird, but you actually need some saturated fats in your diet. But more of the 'good' fats is safer. The only fat you should never eat is trans fats [anything listing 'hydrogenated' or 'shortening'] because they negatively affect both HDL and LDL.

Fucking dieticians, how do they work?
The context of the verse show the command was for a specific situation when there was a breach of a treaty (http://quran.com/9/1-11). The very next verse commands the aid for those non-believers who seek protection.

Further explanation in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFC8uQfJgDo
Will applying the same techniques work for B2C where customers will be more stingy with their money?

Which techniques?

Market segmentation and pricing by features? Sure, absolutely. Some people value a certain service more than other people depending on their circumstances, just as some businesses do.

Doubling/trebling your prices overnight and hoping you'll get a similar number of customers all paying several times as much? ROFLOLWAT. These customers are spending their own money, and not only will many of them take their business elsewhere if you try to charge insulting prices, they'll tell all their friends that your service is a rip-off, too.

Obviously it's not really as simple as that. For example, a lot of businesses pitch their prices far lower than market value would support at first. In those cases, increasing the prices to something higher but still reasonable is fine and often quite lucrative.

But you're absolutely right that advice that holds for B2B environments doesn't necessarily work the same way in a B2C context. The starting point and assumptions simply aren't the same.
1. Only store the ID's in Redis... do lookups in Postgres

2. Learn a tiny bit about hardware and hardware costs

3. Get a dedicated server (currently ~$100/month with 68GB RAM)

Heroku and most other cloud providers take advantage of the fact that most people know nothing about computer hardware or its current pricing.
Aren't you comparing Colin's iframe with a level of security unobtainable to normal Stripe developers? If you just use Stripe's JS interface the way they tell you to, you're not strictly speaking benefiting from Stripe's HSTS or XFO; your site still needs to defend against clickjacking and SSL stripping.

I feel like Colin built this little thingy to solve a real problem --- that by adding Stripe to his site, he was giving Stripe control over his site, and his site hosts information more sensitive than credit cards --- and people are piling on because his solution to his little problem doesn't solve every other imaginable security problem.

This would be less galling if the kinds of sites using Stripe today weren't almost uniformly rife with application security flaws that defeat most of the good intentions that Stripe has.
Very strange: I always thought that PayPal had only two co-founders (I know them personally): Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, and X.com that was merged with PayPal had only one founder, Elon Musk?
Not familiar with Tornado but are you aware that you can use it as a backend for Bottle?
There are none. Some believe in "Coordinated Disclosure", some believe in "Full Disclosure", some in "Non-Disclosure". The disclosure debate is many decades old. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_disclosure

Admittedly, this article is poorly written, but I think it gets the main points across.

Disclosing information is not illegal, but that doesn't always stop lawyers from being hostile towards researchers. Attempts to do that usually end up backfiring horribly, but they can temporarily ruin a researcher's day/week/month.
"widely used by a minority" <- you made my point.
I know it's rather unlikely and presumptuous, but I'd love to see you and Colin team up. You guys would be a killer duo.
Are you sure? Can somebody confirm this?
There are a few similarities, but really a lot of these features that any capable IDE should have
The "Apple" billboard that went up in NYC recently
Have you heard about Racket's custodians?
[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/eval-model.html#(part....
I find the API to be the most interesting part of this project. When you can plug this data into NILM[1] algorithms, you can then calculate the cost of running an appliance in your house and check online for less expensive alternatives.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonintrusive_load_monitoring
I did this a little bit earlier, very politely asking them to delete my account and why I wasn't happy with the direction they went with the site. I haven't yet heard back from them yet, but it's probably a slow process.

I don't like that they'd automatically opt me into displaying what I read. That ruins any sense of privacy I have to browse the site (ignoring the cynical and probably accurate view that I had no privacy there to start). Were I curious about something but didn't want it shared with the world, Quora is a dead end. I can opt out, but if this is their idea of the future, they may remove the option.

In the meantime, I tried deleting most of my answers, though Quora doesn't really do so. Instead, changes are kept in a list of edits, which allows you to revert the change. I like that, it's handy, but I can't remove my edit history. My hope is that the changes are lost once the account is deleted, though I doubt they will.

I also dislike that deleting my account, including all data associated with it, requires I e-mail them. It seems absurd to do all this work for your users and provide them no way to easily walk out if they're unhappy with site changes (as I am). If I own the content I publish on Quora, as they claim, then I should be able to completely delete it.

At best, it's a way to prevent accidental account loss. At worst, it's a slimy method of ensuring the service holds onto user-provided data. Sadly, the only site to allow me to delete my account without sending an email thus far was Facebook[1] -- though I'm sure they've held onto a great deal of my junk nonetheless. At least they provided the option, I guess.

[1]: I believe Google also allows this, though I haven't quite gotten to the point of deleting my Google account.
I have a couple dozen Apple-oriented feeds in my reader, and I don't remember seeing anything about this screw. Either my memory is really bad, or they're seriously over-estimating their impact.

EDIT: to add a few links to sites gloating that they weren't caught.

1. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/13/rumored_iphone...

2.http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/08/13/ridiculous-apple...

3.http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/08/13/how-we-screwed-almost-...

4,http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/13/rumor-roundup-some-screwy-asy...
> Tell the user: your password must contain the following word: “hzru”

Enforcing this kind of thing on the masses won't make for stronger passwords, it will just have them opening up notepad.exe and saving this sites too-hard-to-remember-because-it-has-too-many-rules password on ~/Desktop/logins.txt
Since using 1Password, I generate unique strong passwords on every site. Brute forcing is expensive and thus unlikely. Easy access from every device I own via Dropbox syncing. Plugins for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.. Love it.
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As an aside, you may want a new metaphor--"quantum leaps" are actually extremely small.
I haven't fallen for any Reddit caricature, I just actually know what libertarianism is. I'm not saying any libertarians are monsters. Apparently some just want their cake and eat it to. L) Actually, you're wrong, a pure libertarian view has no judgment about whether or not people do better on heroin than people normally think, or that heroin only has bad effects because of the big bad government. It's like libertarianism provides no view about whether duck-typing is a good thing.

It is a convenient ploy to pretend all these things in the article or simply make counter-intuitive statements. I think a libertarian should be more like "Oh, so heroin actually makes you more productive and a better person? Well, I don't really care but the government should stay out of it."

A true libertarian view is that the government should just stay out of it, whether it harms or not. I am not making a judgment about that basic position. I think that people that proclaim to be libertarians don't want to state their true beliefs because they know they are going to be made fun or at least not taken seriously in practical society.
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As much as I like Go, I find it a bit of an unfair game when the standard library has a ParseIP function.
1 point by pythononwheels 7 minutes ago | link | edit | delete

Hey oinksoft. Dont just punch on top... To your points: 1. The shebang: yes, ouch, gets removed. 2. Pow_console: it is a remark that i too, code from there. I always comment the source if code is not mine.
3. The mentioned code snippets from the homepage are default twitter-bootstrap sources..

Criticism is ok but this is bashing...
So, no, its no joke ;)
From what I've read this (and methods like it) seems to be a common way to generate passwords. This seems to be a somewhat weak implementation though - imagine you used this method with the same base everywhere, and 2 sites were hacked, let's called them InLinked and Kergaw. Using the examples from passmix.com with base 'house cat' I might end up with: 'housei!n8cat' and 'housek!e6cat'. Say I'm targeting you specifically, I look at these two passwords, and I see that they both follow 'houseX!Y#cat' format. It's only a moment longer before I've a good guess at how the password is constructed, and then try it against your email. Once I've cracked your email I can just use the forgot password feature of any other site to reset your password there.

It would be quite easy to write a script to detect the similarity with the two passwords (9 characters in common, same positions, same length = 12).

You should never use the same password across sites, nor should you use the same password system unless that system is secure. Assuming you can keep your algorithm for password generation private, passing this through a one-way hash function might then strengthen your password a bit (at least a hacker couldn't easily visually derive your password algorithm, or that you are using one) but this still isn't perfect.

Generally it's not a good idea to tell people how to construct passwords unless you're an expert in cryptography. I'm not, so please don't take any of this as advice on how to construct a password. It's advice on how not to, if anything.
So if I post an article about RIM betting the farm in a new phone based on Solaris and the stock tanks because of the domino effect in the news, am I liable?

Yep, the poster should be in jail.
One could forgo this password policy and advertise LastPass in the sign-up form for which this article's hypothetical readership is responsible.
Technically only two guys. But with the merger with X.com and some of
the messiness that came after it a few more got added to the list. Some may even claim to have done so if they knew there were no consequences.
That's a separate issue though.
Right on. I see your point. Part of what I'm doing is taking some of the MIT OpenCourseWare classes, which yes, is mostly reading, but that seems to be a lot of what getting another degree would consist of, though without the research portion. A lot of it is that I'd really like to understand what I'm programming, why I'm programming it and how it's benefitting the community. I think having that knowledge allows you to look at the problems with much better sight and see those things that you might not think of or overlook otherwise.
for a great multi-user demo of webRTC check out
https://bitly.com/webrtcio

and it's resulting library, webRTC.io
I believe they used to (pre previous design.. so pre 2008ish).

However, I imagine with the advent of the thin-client AJAXification of the entire site, they don't dynamically create meta tags for this purpose (indeed, I'm not even sure if browsers would support this).
Ohh okay, thanks! I assume that research involving illegal activity is still illegal? But it sounds like other stuff is all fair game?
Small, compared to what? I understand the metaphor as a leap with an impossible gap in between, rather than a very large leap.
Ok, I'll put it another way. I'm some extremely large number percent more likely to be an early adopter of your product than my mother. I will never, ever sign up with such a restriction on my password.

I don't care what we do about the rest of them. Make a bigger black list, require more complex passwords, implement better protections against brute force.

The easiest one (to use and implement) is two-factor auth, but many people lack smartphones still so it's hard to make that the easy call.
Features are one thing - yes, nearly all IDEs have lots of the same features. But that looks like they copied XCode 4's appearance directly. It's a pity the screenshots are so low resolution - hopefully some higher resolution shots of the Samsung software will turn up.

But even in this example it's easy to spot lifted design elements:

* The centered tab selector buttons in the title bar of each pane

* The overall styling of the widget pallet, including the round-rect selection

* The arrangement of the primary toolbar and its assorted option buttons, which clearly mimics XCode.

* The colors and gradients
If they announced such a change properly, then you should not need to "think" they did so. There shouldn't be any uncertainty.
> Does society really want extremely private mobile
> devices if they make life easier for criminals?

I hope so. Encryption, both on the device itself and for device<->server communication, is a powerful force for good. For every drug dealer who gets a shorter sentence due to reduced evidence, there's dozens or hundreds of people who don't have to worry about their emails or financial information being sold online just because they had their phone stolen.
Hey Samsung!

Why don't you guys get rid of those copy machines and hire some talented people?

I'm sure that would be a lot cheaper that what you'll have to pay for Apple. ;-)
This article is hogwash.

(1) No. In fact, this does make the user the customer, as opposed to free models that make the user the product. If the user is the customer it does impose somewhat of a guarantee that product development will be oriented around the user.

(2) Also no. Everyone by now knows that the value of a network increases very rapidly as a function of its users. Or, put another way, switching costs go way up. Knowing this, it doesn't take a PhD in Game Theory to realize that one potential strategy for a network like Twitter to stay free and attempt to achieve "lock in" (very high switching costs), and then impose tangential costs on the user (shitty advertising) that are less than the switching costs.
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Agreed. Compare AskReddit to something like Ask Metafilter, which is fairly aggressively moderated.
OK, sorry if I offended you, it's just that some "trolls" are quite subtle and there are enough iffy things that I suspected a joke behind this. The project name also bears similarity to some other projects that have been jokes in the past:

* Cobol on Cogs: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

* Bash on Balls: https://github.com/jayferd/balls (more of a bizarre proof of concept than an out-and-out joke)

That's no discredit to your own development abilities because the code itself, while far from perfect, seems sizable and functional enough to show that you've put some real thought and effort into this -- keep it up! With time and a good cleanup effort, I'm sure you'll have something that nobody would bat an eye at.

More than likely, Hacker News picked up the your project website because of its name, and so now the spotlight is shining very harshly indeed. It was unfair of me to judge your project as I did.

P.S. You copied part of the HN commenting interface in your comment, and you don't need to include that.
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You just have to add a clause to the TOS, nobody reads it anyway so you could grant yourself a licence to do anything with their email!
Yet another company promoting a file management app to fix a problem that does not exist. It's not even particularly unique. I've seen at least dozen such solutions. Even tried a couple of them (Anyone remember Brain - an associative array file management platform?). I always gave them up.

The real problem, I think, is that folders reflect reality. Tags do not. Most people are think of a file as belonging in one specific category. So you tag it as such. Very few people would bother trying to remember multiple tags to apply to their files. The process of organization is too cumbersome, so you stop doing it.

So what do you get if you only apply a single tag to a file? You get a flat list of folders. If the tags have a hierarchy, you get exactly the same thing as using folders. So why bother with tags?

With my Email I don't even use folders. In that case, I don't bother organizing anything. Search works just fine for me. In fact, search works just fine for most of my files these days.
One more model is pending - a donation based twitter - twitpedia
Never in my life a samsung product. Never.
"What Markov chain generation does is give a nice mix between two different ways of generating load, combining the fuzzing of random request generation with the feel of replaying logs. I think of it as a happy medium."

Why do we need a medium? Replaying access logs at a high-velocity gets the job done.
I'm in.

I have a 1st-gen Wattvision. I used it for approximately 3 days before forgetting about it and eventually disconnecting it, and for perhaps a total of 35 minutes, and I'm pretty confident it paid for itself easily despite my lackadaisical usage.

I've been wondering what these people were up to for the past couple years, and I'm glad they're doing a next rev. This is a great product.
He listed himself as an investor in PayPal on his angel list profile. https://angel.co/greg-kouri

As somebody who has a complicated relationship with a well known startup's founding, it's tricky to explain sometimes. Important and early roles are held by many, the title founder is tricky and often contested. What's worse the media usually has incentive to make everybody in to a 'founder'.
Hacker Dojo is awesome. To help the team:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/384590180/an-events-spac...
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Look, you're kidding yourself if you think that WebRTC is going to liberate you from the prying eyes of government surveillance. As a developer, I'm very excited about the possibilities that WebRTC enables (websockets just can't cut it in many instances), but computer science is not a panacea for political apathy. P2P is nothing new, and anybody who cares to secure their online communications can already do so with ease, everyone else is happy enough to self document their activities on Facebook.
I like the idea and what I've seen so far, but how is this not still a private site? I can't contribute or be a part of branch until my time comes on the invite list.
But it feels like less. $5 is like half a meal at Chipotle. If you can't afford that, I don't know what to say to you. That is not a lot of money.

Did you know that many professional organizations charge $100 per year to join them? How is this different?

I mean, you totally missed my point. I'm not sure what else to say.
I really wanted one of these when they first came out, however, the arrogance of having locked down hardware really irked me...

iirc you had to pay something like $5/month after spending $250 for the sensor just to have access to the data! After spending $250 for it, I would have like to be able to write my own script to read the data off the device and not rely on their web service.... not having open access really turned me off...

This one is much cheaper : http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-EM100B-Energy-Monitor/dp/...
and it occasionally can be had for a simple $25... sure it'd take some hacking to get the data to the computer, but avoids the insulting monthly fee!
Interesting perspective as the remote user, but I wonder how your employees felt about that setup. It was easier for you to feel you had a cohesive team, but did they feel more cohesive for having a robotic you floating around?
I have doubts about the methodology so I think there's still uncertainty, but one study shows ~50% of users would be willing to pay something:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2050916
Another one had a small sample, but found 30% are willing to pay:
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/30-of-people-surveyed-...

I haven't found any more significant, peer-reviewed studies, so I would just say that it's my nonfactual opinion that a nontrivial percent of people would pay a premium for access to Facebook in the same way people used to pay a premium for access to AOL over a dump pipe/no value add ISP (and to many people, Facebook is the Internet).

Completely agree that what users say and what they do is very different. The whole point of my post is that until you actually start charging money, you have no idea whether people will pay for your product, no matter what they say.
Yes. He's essentially affirming the conclusion that users only want free services.

Of course more users want free services, but that doesn't mean that some users don't want a premium service, and more importantly, that those users don't add a disproportionate amount of the network effect value to a microblogging service.
Let's ignore how they're pitching the service. I've participated in a Branch[1], and as a replacement for Twitter conversations, it is extraordinary. That's enough for me to keep the bookmarklet handy.

[1] http://branch.com/b/for-years-news-developers-have-debated-t...
The key to a company providing good service is competition.

Look at Comcast, one of the most hated consumer companies, it charges for service but its interests are not aligned with its customers because it operates regional monopolies so their interest is in extracting as much money for as little service as possible from the locked-in users.

Compare with Apple, it operates in the highly competitive consumer electronics industry and that helps make it a world leader in customer satisfaction.

Now look at American mobile phone service operators. There exists a decently competitive market with 4 main companies, but the standard 2-year contract lock-in means all the competition happens mostly at customer acquisition where you see big deals on discount phones. But after the customer is locked-in they operate more like monopolies with hidden charges and poor service.

As for social networks, the network-effect lock-in is a huge impediment to good market competition. Once someone has their social network in place it makes it very difficult to switch. So I would think the incentives are more similar to the mobile phone market, pro-consumer at acquisition and then not so much afterwards.