skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As stated in a comment above, using PGP/GPG could help. If those emails are encrypted, that adds an extra layer of security around the contents of those emails.

(Of course, that rests on the security of prime-number encryption, which may not be the best assumption when dealing with the NSA, but that's another discussion.)
So, in the mid-1900's there was this thing called Communism. It was a real thing, practiced in many different countries self-consciously. One of the tenants of Communism as it was practiced was that capitalism was bad, and one of the things that Communist countries did was to release anti-capitalist propaganda. So when today we talk about communist anti-capitalist rhetoric, we're not calling all anti-capitalist rhetoric communist, but rather referring to that particular subset of anti-capitalist rhetoric which was, indeed, communist.

This does not mean that such arguments are not straw manning the issue. However, it does mean that they're more nuanced than whatever the argument is that you're trying to debate with above.
"depriving people of income is theft"
So if someone comes out with a competing product to mine, and splits the market in half, I lose (was deprived of) half my income. Was that theft?
I think a more appropriate phrasing is "a government granted exclusive monopoly is a property right -- anyone violating that exclusivity is devaluing that property" which itself may be just as bad as theft (or more likely vandalism -- if someone takes my car, or destroys it on site, the damage is the same).
Here's their response to the suggestion that they allow CORS:

https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/1291

Here's App.net's:

https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec/issues/10

Can you spot the difference? Hint, consider the nature of the relationship between the platform and developer in each case.
To me, it's pretty refreshing. Leadership and responsibility should certainly come from the top and any public statement about this should make it clear that the leaders take responsiblity. Direct and clear communication about all components that you think contributed to the failure is just as critical. Saying "we failed as an organization" is not helpful, and saying "I failed as a leader" is nice but not informative. Failures can have root and contributing causes; organizations may have many shortcomings; calling them out in order of importance (as best you can determine it) and emphasizing what must be fixed is the only way to remove a poisonous kind of uncertainty that lingers in a situation like this.
And visa-versa.
On an unrelated note:

You don't provide any contact info in your profile and I don't really understand Portuguese either so I'll use this comment to inform you that your website renders horribly in my browser. It looks unreadable and unprofessional. Using Firefox 14.0.1 on Linux.

Also: '©1998-2012'
Props, that is quite a while.
100 is a bit of an artificial number. The only launch vehicle in history that has had 100 manned launches has been the Shuttle, but that was a factor more of the wealth of the US than the inherent reliability of the system. Consider that Russia/USSR have only had about 2/3 of 100 total manned flights of any kind on any launcher.
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May I please be the first to say "WTF"? I know who you are, I know what you contribute, but... WTF?
Well, and I hate Hacker News for the whole bunch of startup hipsters that have emerged because of it.
A mutation has to happen in germ cells (the cells that produce sperm and eggs) for it to pass to the next generation.
I did/do not personally identify them. I describe that law enforcement has tools to do so, but limited resources (and difficulties with ISP cooperation) to go after all of them.
> I know what a fast-charger does, but you still don't need one at home. You need to sleep, remember?

Yes, you need sleep. Are the people that you're sharing your charger with going to sleep at your house?
thanks so much for that video, inspired me to make a resolution to volunteer for Tor
I like Echofon a lot. Their Windows client is essentially just their firefox plugin running as it's own app, but it's pretty good.

I especially like that I can sync all the tweets I've read between my Windows machine at work, my iPhone, and my Mac at home. I don't know of any other app that works for those 3 platforms and has syncing.
This is an excellent post!

I am of the persuasion that phone use during certain times (dinner for example) is to be looked down upon. I even go so far as to consider those with headphones on in the street as not existing in my world. They are ignored. It is great to hear the other side of the argument.

As a side note...I also love my phone and am eager for the day they are implanted in our bodies and seemingly telepathic communication becomes reality. I guess at that point this issue become moot.
Customer feedback: it helped us (http://didthis.com) for our YC interview to suck less, and after practicing more with it, we won $25k at a European startup pitch competition.
Well, given all the talk about negativity on HN and what-not, I thought I'd take a harder look at this to give some constructive criticism.

The graphics. Good, from a traditional RTS perspective. Limited and dated in comparison, but c'mon it's HTML 5 and runs pretty smoothly. However, I don't think you're going to get the traditional RTS market, a few minutes in they'll get a whiff of the skinner-box-ness and run off. I assume you're going for the more traditional Facebook game market, in which case I think the graphics need to be made simpler and larger, and also more distinguishable - the units all look quite similar. Think TF2 or Plants vs Zombies.

Speaking of target market - is there any point in using HTML5, really? It impresses the hacker crowd but I'm not sure if there's any actual benefit to your users - plus they'll all have Flash installed already and be used to using it, to use your game they may well have to upgrade or switch browser.

As for the game content, it seemed a little fast paced to me? Perhaps give the user more time to click around and fiddle with things between dialogs. Definitely get them to repeat essential actions - maybe look into Valve's "rule of 3" to make things less tutorial and more learn by doing. I can't be certain about the pacing though as I haven't played any FB games recently.

Lastly, a couple of technical considerations.. please adapt the game window to my screen size! Either the top or bottom controls are off the screen at any given time for me (1440x900 display), and please don't crash the game if my privacy settings are locked down!
> In the US we tend to take for granted how much a functioning regulatory system

Really? Which people are in jail because of the mortgage fraud?

And Jon Corzine's MF? Who is going to jail because of that?

I find that the US has pockets of enforcement.
I agree with huggyface. The parent post was ridden with angry sentiments by the original poster. In my case, I consider good manners towards all the patrons to keep your phone in silence/vibrate in a restaurant/movie theater/bar because it might impact the ambient slash "moment" of other people that surround you. That doesn't mean I'm not taking a call if I deem it important, and depending on the place I might go outside to take said call. I might even need to keep my phone on the table to actually notice the call because of the noise inherent on some types of businesses.

Browsing Facebook while having dinner with someone is very offensive, I agree. It is also offensive to get "angry" because I took a call from my neighbor telling me that my grandma fell on the stairs, my work because the servers imploded and we're loosing thousands of dollars a minute, or my brother calling to tell me his girlfriend said yes to his marriage proposal.

My family, livelihood, and friends are all going to be more important to me than someone's arbitrary definition of table/movie-theater manners. I'll take steps to minimize the amount of inconvenience caused by having to be reachable during such events, but I will not apologize (actually I will as a courtesy, apples to oranges I guess) to having to interrupt whatever small talk I'm having because I got a call I deem more important.

It's your prerogative to not go out with people like me I suppose, but guess what, it would be mine to not go out with people that believe they're so much more important than other people's needs and wants.
I know. If a germ cell has DNA that has been copied 41 times (the average that I calculated), and that DNA has accumulated 60 errors, that means 1 error per 2 billion base pairs copied.
China is blocking Tor outright and pretty effectively.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OONI/censo...
Acxiom, Choicepoint, etc. For those interested, check out Robert O'Harrow's great book No Place to Hide. Insanely well-reported.
Name something you use that you think doesn't have a vi-like interface.
I didn't implemented standard login because it's a spare time project and I don't wanna waste so much time on it
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AnyLeaf Gets An iPhone App For On-The-Go Grocery Deals (YC S10)
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> a provider of employee benefits

What kind of service is that? What do they actually do?
After re-reading: you avoid prosecution by not being a large enough offender, or by offending in a jurisdiction where law enforcement is not trained to catch you. Not all that different than avoiding prosecution as a recreational drug user when the cops are too busy going after bigger fish.

There's a lot of time and resources spent in between the time of identifying that an IP address is broadcasting CP to having all the information you need to bust down the right door and lock up the guy for a long time.
Some visualizations for these polls:

Age (bar):

http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=2175...

Region (bar):

http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=3298...

Primary OS (latest), pie:

http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=3786...

Build your own:

http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart
Looks great. I don't know if this is possible, but it would be awesome if you could pull iOS (and future Windows phone?) data too.
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the FBI played 33 bits and 1 of the bits was Tor use
This stuff is hard to get right. I think the answer for most web apps is to shift more towards trigger based emails, and then to measure how particular rules change customer behavior over the next 24 hours, week, 30 days, etc. Rather than an "A/B" test per se, you really need to split customers into 2 groups and intentionally not send an additional email to a group.
> "We informed the foam technicians at our plant in Michoud Louisiana that they were the cause of the loss of Columbia..."

This is stupid, perhaps wilfully so. The fact that foam can come off the external tank and strike critical parts of the shuttle is a fatal design flaw. Insulation has been used on rockets for sixty years now, and it has been observed to come loose every now an then. The difference is this: on a rocket it just falls off, but if any comes off the tank and strikes the Shuttle orbiter, there is disaster.

The fault was at an early stage of design.
i answered this above; basically to avoid certain problematic sequence features.
This is probably a common perspective, but I think that often times finding a co-founder is not "business person looking for tech person" or vice-versa.
Killing what? At 945x earnings, killing any chance of returning value on investing in it?
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The website is pretty readable in Chrome using the Google Translate feature. I don't think it's fair to quickly assume that a regional, small business' website would be published in both your language and their language.
i should clarify, because of extra sequence and the address barcode, we are technically only 0.6 bits/base
Show HN: travel photos + more than 140 characters = Photofable
I do care about the money I spend. Our family plans a zero-balance budget every month, meaning we track every dollar. I still end up getting Starbucks once or twice a week. That would fall into the "snacks and candy" category.

I do not go to Starbucks for "good coffee." Ironically, I have given up on finding "good coffee" in the US for one of the reasons mentioned in the article: going somewhere else is a gamble and I have yet to find a decent cup of espresso. I go to Starbucks for exactly the reason that he mentions: it is a known quantity. I want caffeine and I know Starbucks will give it to me in a drink that is consistently good. It is not great and it does not really qualify as coffee, but it tastes good and it does not change (if it does they remake it free of charge).

The main point I took from the article is that comparing a cup of coffee to an app is not a useful comparison. Even though the marginal utility of both is low, the pattern of buying is very different. People don't get in a habit buying their daily app like they do coffee. Personally, I ran out of apps I wanted to buy on my phone--or even download for free--about three days after I got it. Now I only go to the app store when I hear about something that sounds interesting or I think of something new I want my phone to do.

I do agree with a higher price point than $1. If one of the problems with app purchases is finding a well-made app amidst the crowd of crap, then using price to signal higher quality makes sense, from both a marketing and business perspective.
I don't think the problem is so much negativity as it is tone. I think HN is still a very civil place (relative to many other communities), but anyone can see that hostile jabs are gradually getting more popular, and hostile jabs are, for whatever reason, an infectious meme and when you are seeing a lot of them, it takes a lot of restraint to keep from tossing them in yourself.

A particular example of a recent top-voted comment comes to mind (I'm not going to identify it because my purpose is not to name and shame), which was full of perfectly legitimate and constructive criticisms, but the tone of the comment was, well, mocking.

And what's the point of that? Making legitimate criticisms and dressing them in derisive language is a great way to raise an army of contempt against someone, but why?

If you want the target of your criticism to take the criticism into account, you need to express it civilly. You don't need to find positive things to say, or even claim that you think there's a kernel of good idea to be found (although genuine compliments are great too, of course). All you have to do is be polite and respectful. Imagine that the creator of what you're criticizing has just shown it to you excitedly. Read your comment, and decide if what you're writing is something that an acceptable member of society would say to that person face to face. Not the content, but the actual words.

And if you don't want the target of the criticism to listen to you? Then maybe you should just keep your thoughts to yourself.
Ah, I misunderstood your logic. Makes sense.
Professionally? Contact your Sheriff's Office and ask to speak with someone from their internet crimes or child crimes/exploitation unit. They're always looking for talented people in those areas.
negativity is why you have awesome projects like linux, ffmpeg etc. things don't thrive because you tell them how great they are. they strive because
a) someone tells them what the crap is. and
b) the person is strong enough to tell himself, ok you'll see i'll build something so awesome even you will have to accept it.
Thank you for putting my thoughts into much better words. The "local maxima" point really nails it.
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I don't think this type of argument carries much weight. Just because one can get used to something, doesn't really make it a clear choice.

All of these environments are good choices for many reasons. However, they aren't without major flaws.

Smalltalk environments do tend to be a bear when following the code around window after window, emacs keychords are not very human friendly or composable and can give you RSI, and lisp parentheses are mainly for the convenience of the language parser, not for the programmer (contrary to the famous quote).
>identify people who consistently upvote nasty comments

What's your definition of a "nasty comment"? How do you distinguish between a "nasty comment" and a comment that voices an unpopular opinion?

I understand what you're trying to accomplish, however I worry that a side effect will be the further silencing of opinions that go against the HN popular consensus.
It seems clear to me that Apple avoids competition whenever possible.

- They don't license their OS and they have taken many legal and technical steps to discourage end-users from running it on non-Apple hardware.

- They lock you into their app store where you're not even allowed to mention a competing platform.

- They attempt to trademark things like "App Store".

- Instead of letting consumers decide about Flash on iOS, they make the decision themselves under a technical guise. (Flash runs very, very well on my Android devices, thank you very much.)

In short...whenever and however possible, they lock out competition and then feed you a line about how "it's better for you".

More examples - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.#Accusat...
A lot of people are mentioning Python support. I just wanted to put in my vote that Python support will be the thing that gets me to download and try this. It looks awesome but it'll be so much easier for me to relate to if there's a supported language I'm already productive in. I'd like to learn some lisp-likes, but learning a new and innovative IDE at the same time is a bit more to bite off than I have for at one time.
> Some of those employees may reportedly be hired back as the company transitions into a new iteration, which might be more focused on exercising its portfolio of streaming patents.

This doesn't sound good.
If for no other reason, consider the amount of energy that would be released if a tank with enough compressed air to propel an automobile for 50 miles were released in a collision over the course of a few hundred milliseconds.

Say the energy output is equivalent to running a 50-horsepower engine for an hour. 50 HP-hours = about 35000 watt-hours, or 250 megawatt-seconds (MJ).

A stick of dynamite produces about 2 MJ. So that tank of compressed air, if it ever ruptures, will yield the equivalent explosive power of more than 100 sticks of dynamite.

Gasoline is a safe way to store this much energy because a tankful of gas can't be oxidized rapidly enough to do much damage, at least not by accident. Same is true for hydrogen. But compressed air, where the released energy is purely mechanical, is a bit more interesting.

Never mind the extremely high thermodynamic losses associated with compressing (and expanding) that much gas. They're probably on the same order as internal-combustion efficiency, or lack thereof.

Sorry, but the physics just don't work as far as I can see. It really does smell like a scam.
Funny headline, given the paragraph from the article: "In their respective responses filed with the court today, Google flatly denied directly paying anyone who wrote about this summer's trial. Oracle only identified one person on the payroll, Florian Mueller of FOSSPatents, though it recognized that some of its own employees may have blogged about elements of the trial during the course of the proceedings."
it's a shame the first paragraph is exactly what we're once again moving away from. all hail cloud computing
Do you mean import used? They are on sale here: http://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA/canada/
Ordered two from Element14 around four weeks ago. Received them two weeks ago...so not bad.
I've been doing design-by-necessity on projects for 15 years. I even take time to study and understand design concepts. While I'm an OK UX guy, I still pretty much suck as a designer.

It's easily as hard as programming, but for very different reasons. And because of those reasons, it may be a good alternative for the "suit" partner to learn.
Totally right. Google makes copyrighted material available too.. Lock 'em up!
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"How Does Compression Work?"
Apple's stakes higher than ever with iPhone 5
Thank you, I've fixed it using background-image instead of the img tag
Product undoubtedly looks and works great (at least from a basic skim). My only issue with it is the pricing matrix which caps the # of clients. I do some small time freelance work and i definitely have more than 10 clients overall. So, does the pricing indicate that the freelance level can only do 10 clients at any given time? Is there a way to record historical results?

Note that I wouldn't mind paying 15/month for the unlimited version, but I am just saying that paying monthly for 10 clients seems a bit off in my opinion.
I tried very seriously to use Sam instead of vi. My main criticism of it is that you have to be a pixel-perfect mouse acrobat to use it efficiently. I'm not pixel-perfect. I couldn't use the graphical parts of Sam, and that kind of negated all the rest of it. It did have some very interesting (to me, as a programmer) ways of doing things, including structural regular expressions.
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Facebook might be able to make a profit extorting people, given they probably have some record of everyone committing a crime in some form or fashion.
I'm not sure if it's a closed case quite yet. A few months ago the NY Times unearthed that Walmart's Mexico subsidiary was responsible for bribing lots of government officials, and that the home office in the US covered it up and promoted the people in charge.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/business/at-wal-mart-in-me...

The case is still pending, AFAIK, but the law itself doesn't make the practice non-existent.
You can begin wherever you like, but you aren't going anywhere. If it was nonsense, it wouldn't be happening non-stop on 4chan and lots of other places. The only people iirc who've gotten in trouble there are those who've confessed to actual crimes. For instance, the kid who broke into Sarah Palin's yahoo account, or the guy who stood in a box of burger king lettuce. It's easy to track people down, but simply doesn't happen (yet) for speech "violations".

Maybe you're in Canada or some more oppressive place though.
Can you spot the difference? Hint, consider the nature of the relationship between the platform and developer in each case.

Be fair, you're comparing apples and oranges; a world as it would be nice to live in when discussed amongst friends, as opposed to those who have to maintain a world with just a few more people involved in it than that.
I would give them a break. Rather than just criticize them maybe provide useful feedback about content they could send you or why you think the emails weren't useful. If you don't like the emails just hit reply and tell them why. I'm sure they'd happily adjust what they are sending out based on good feedback.

Getting this stuff right is really hard for an early startup. You don't send enough email and you end up forgoing conversions and engagement. You send too much and you're called a spammer. On top of it, you don't have enough data about your customers to know what is useful information or not so you end up sending vague emails about "need help getting started" or "check out links X, Y and Z" until you have enough data to actually make and send good emails.

We had problems sending too much email early on too. I would suggest segmenting your user base and sending them emails based on there activity on the site. It certainly helped reduce the spam complaints.