skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Facebook wouldn't have given way to G+.... Wait, that didn't happen.

Early adopters influence the populace when it comes to new experiences. Any new twitter clone is not a new experience. If twitter already solves the "celebrity fix" problem, it doesn't matter how new or shiny its technological superior will be. No one will care. This is exactly why CL is still king, why Facebook is still king, and why twitter has nothing to worry about.

(Myspace was different in that facebook had the "cool" factor that myspace never had).
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Not loading for me, here's the Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b80XchM...
Agreed. The 3D view is definitely a cool thing no doubt, but I'm not really seeing it as much use for preventing XSS vulnerabilities. That being said, I think the author of the post recognized this and was just sharing that it could rarely help.
Good point. But remember, the 8% is presumably using third-party apps and not seeing ads now anyways. They would be willing to pay to continue to use the third-party apps ad-free.
Even if they do require a security torx driver, now potential criminals just need a $5 part from Amazon.

No seriously, you can get an entire set of all commonly used "security" bits for your screwdriver for $4.52, prime eligible.

Security my ass.
These limits are ridiculous. There is nothing that protects a bad investor from spending their life savings on RIM stock, penny stocks, or a roulette wheel in Vegas. Or spending 5 years of their lives and going up to their armpits in debt trying to build a pet-food startup. People should be able to take risks.
All I can think of is this: http://instaearth.me an app myself and another guy wrote at the last company I worked for. View all your Instagram photo's geo-located on a map. It's nice to see Instagram finally integrating it with the app.
From the article:

"Update: Within 24 hours of this posting, a story by The Wall Street Journal stated that Browett had admitted the personnel changes were a mistake and the changes had been rescinded."
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Every banker on Wall Street was in over their suits and ties when the mortgage debacle hit but many still have their jobs. So, quite frankly, who cares what Wall Street thinks. It's largely been taken over by investors looking for quick profits, which is in contrast sometimes to growing a company that's sustainable.
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If you gave a shit about the dollars you were going to spend for coffee, you wouldn't spend them at Starbucks, which is about 4x more expensive than the second most convenient place you can get coffee. You spend the money for Starbucks because you do not care about those dollars. Which is the point, when you get past all the noodling about what Starbucks coffee actually does for you in the morning.

Nobody who makes this comparison gives a fuck about coffee.

I haven't missed the point of this blog post. It suggests that developers should find ways to make their "craftsmanship" show in order to get prospects to part with $1. I find the idea of "$1" and "craftsmanship" sharing a sentence to be disturbing.
This happens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Blue_Mountain_Coffee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

The difference is that coffee is a completely different kind of market: producing a small quantity of very good coffee does not give you much help in producing it in large quantities without at a linear increase in the costs (and actually has hard limits based on growing conditions, available labor, etc.) whereas software can be infinitely replicated.

The price of a cup of coffee is useful only in establishing the threshold for how much money the average person is likely to spend without significant thought.
I once tried (and succeeded!) at purchasing the Dragon Book for Kindle, but had to change to a US address. I bought the book, bu then Amazon wanted me to verify I had moved to the U.S.

I never bought another book from Amazon ever again.
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My favorite, that I didn't even know about until today:

-x
This option will let you extract a Perl script from the middle
of a file. This feature comes in handy when someone has sent
you a script via e-mail. Perl will scan the input file looking
for a #! line that contains the word perl. When it is found,
it will execute the script until the __END__ token is found.
If a directory name is specified after the -x option, Perl
will switch to that directory before executing the script.
A good comment but I think you have it backward. When NBC puts "tweet this story" in the HTML frame that isn't advertising for twitter per se, that is NBC hoping that you will give NBC free advertising by spreading awareness of a story around the web. When the Tahoe ski resorts say "Take Interstate 80 to Truckee" they aren't advertising I80, but they are causing a lot of traffic to be generated, and that traffic is going to cause road damage that needs repair.

This is what I mean by "figuring out their (Twitter's) value."

Imagine that their API is really a bunch of method calls into the Twitter 'object'. They could, as an example, make their simple API 'free' and as you tried to do more complex things charge for those things. Presumably they would structure it so that folks could make 'useful' twitter clients for free, but they would have to pay some price for making more full featured clients.

Of course the challenge there is that you can't really charge for features that can be built out of the free protocol stubs, because people will just scrape those free ones and get around your code.
Right, and my point is that if they don't want people to mess with their product then its entirely their right to prevent it. While it may not be smart, it's a different situation than email/IRC.
> given perpetual interference by politicians.

...and war lords.
Show me that using an existential quantified an I might be impressed.
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Aviva insurance measures 'safer' driver premiums via smartphones
I do not really care about Facebook. But I love how he actually did not step down in front of these people who believe to rule the world. The way the get angry at his hoodies makes me always laugh.
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He didn't completely sell out. He still has the controlling stake in the company.
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Although this is correct, the real way to handle XSS vulnerbilities is to default deny and encode all data, like Django does. Require the developer to whitelist some parts.

Relying on injecting the data and then looking for it in a fancy 3d view is not a very robust way to do it.
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What, understand the internecine politics of big organisations fully? Do you know what you are asking? Some organisations have politics that they aren't even aware of!
No. The article says:

> The only compiled code in this Perl/Linux system is: Linux Kernel (not currently built with this project), perl, and uClibc.

The Perl 5 compilers that currently exist all produce code that still needs to be linked to the perl library, which itself is written in C, not Perl. (I don't know the current situation for Perl 6).
When I first saw the news of the rape allegations, my reaction was "eew, what a slimy fellow". I have only changed my tune after looking at the details closely.

I do feel that these women have the right to air their grievances publicly, and be afforded the opportunity for an impartial legal process. Unfortunately, I have very strong doubts that any impartial legal process will occur, but rather a highly partial extra-legal process.

I respect that you have observed situations where men have taken advantage of women, or a woman's rights have been disregarded; it happens with alarming frequency, and it saddens me greatly. I do feel that society in general (in the west anyhow) is very sympathetic to the woman in instances of sexual assault. Because of its horrible frequency, it is very easy for any man to imagine that the woman who was raped was his mother, his wife, his daughter, his sister or a close female friend. This fills us with wrath and gives us a desire for terrible vengeance; that is precisely why we must collect ourselves and be rational. did you know that rapists and child molesters tend to be treated so savagely by other inmates that special prisons (or special wings in regular prisons) are constructed to keep them alive?
Twitter, I think its time we had that talk …
Two months ago I bought an .it domain through GoDaddy. No issues at all. Other than an expensive registration fee, the experience was similar to buying a .com/org/net domain.
I find this really interesting. I wonder what other restaurants would make out of this. Is it really that important that the diners do not use their phones while dining ? Does that make them orde rmore food ? How will this 5% discount create more ROI for the restaurant?
2011 taxes were due in April, but so long as all the money is in (possibly in estimated tax payments with an extension form), most people and organizations don't need to submit the full paperwork until six months later. Rather famously right now, Mitt Romney hasn't. (He's promised to make this year's and last year's returns public, but this year's isn't done yet.) So, it's quite possible that a bare-bones charity is also taking advantage of the extension.

(You won't get any refund until you file the full return, you'll get hit with penalties if your estimated payments undershot the actual tax due by very much, and shorter deadlines may apply in particular cases, like people filing from overseas. But most folks can get the full six months.)
The Tata AirPod: a car that runs on compressed air w/150-200km range
Security through obscurity.

If this ever becomes a common use security measure, thieves will not think twice.

Good gimmick though. Very novel.
Time to spend more time with family, I think.
I'm getting pretty tired of technology review extremely poor explanations for science discoveries. I only know vaguely more than I did when I started reading the article. When I got to the bottom I didn't know if I should be excited or not.
Both repaints and relayouts are improved, actually.

When actually is defined as for some on certain machines, judging from the number of directly contradictory observations in this thread.

The word "actually" ought to be reserved for concrete facts with zero counter examples.

The word "hopefully" in your closing sentence seems more apt.

That said, very much appreciate the sharing of the hypothesis and implementation. It's great to see ideas from other areas (video game terrain feature pop in) leveraged to improve end users' browsing experience.
Internally noisy. This wouldn't escape the organisations boundaries - nobody would want to dare lose face to the outside world!
But nothing, fundamentally, has changed. Twitter has always been grasping at straws for profitability, and they have always been in control of their platform. Would you have not been a fool to build something on Twitter last year? You would just be betting that they wouldn't introduce limits in the future, vs. knowing those limits today.
(1) They rescinded this decision publicly --- a spokesperson (not Browett) conceded it was a mistake, which is ominous.

(2) The Apple stores I've been to have been comically overstaffed, with badges & blue shirts sometimes outnumbering customers, despite large numbers of those customers. Many of those retail staff don't appear to be doing anything. Perhaps they need more people at the "Genius Bar" and fewer on the floor.
How does accepting "this software cannot be used to build devices with certain (mis-)features (except for personal use that doesn't count as distribution)" and declaring it compatible with dfsg#6 count as a lack of pragmatism?
IRC still has a huge foothold in dev/geek communities. Email is something I use every single day for communication and business. Maybe there's more you'd like to explain but if I'm to just taking this at face value, I have to say you're horribly wrong.
Help me understand what's happening here.

According to the referenced ChangeLog

Version 5.4.6 16-August-2012
Version 5.3.16 16-August-2012
Version 5.4.5 19-July-2012
Version 5.3.15 19-July-2012

There is a 5.3.X and a 5.4.X version happening concurrently?
Is this true for an IPO as well? How can the CEO work for the shareholders before they buy the shares? Isn't the point of IPOs to get the most money for the company?
Download is easy enough, just click the transfer via usb option, and it'll download a .azw file. You can't read it without stripping out the DRM first, but that's not very hard either.
Given the reaction, I can only assume that Browett is now on double-secret probation and the next mistake will have him out on the street.

Apple is not the sort of company that's suited to shaving pennies off the operating budget.
Enjoyed the review of the product on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Globallink-Security-171-25-Laserscan-D...
True, but for a v1 product this will help designers push as fast as engineers.
Well, this just got me to download Amazon's Kindle apps.
I really wish I could use Ubuntu, but I can't bring myself to use any Debian derivative after the OpenSSL debacle.
The UK has a criminal copyright infringement statute; like the US, infringement becomes criminal when you do it for money.

It is news to me --- and, wow --- that private entities can prosecute crimes in the UK. Am I reading that right?
That's interesting, you are the only one in this thread who is using it.

Could you tell a bit more about for what kind of analytics you are using it ? And why you use BigQuery and not some other analytics solution (Mixpanel, Kontagent, Flurry etc.) for these scenarios ?
This article is why I sometimes prefer blogs to newspapers. Articles whose titles are questions with lead-ins saying "some people say" make them sound like planted snipe pieces and desperate linkbait.

The language probably reflects that the writers in question are representing the newspaper instead of their own opinion, but the wishy-washy nature of the way it is phrased makes the entire argument diffuse to me.
It's no secret that Mark Zuckerberg has always intended to keep control of the company and that his vision is a long-term one. So, investors got into facebook thinking something else would happen, and overvalued it in the process. But Zuckerberg doesn't really owe them anything other than to continue running the company with his vision (which would certainly pass good faith legal tests if it ever came to that).

What I'm getting at is that Zuckerberg has the ability stay, and he probably wants to stay. We can mock him all we want for what I consider wall street's mistakes, but what's his motivation to care?
By improving the experience for the surrounding diners. Busy restaurants are noisy enough from the quiet conversations being had between the diners themselves. Ringtones, or even the reverberations of a wireless phone's buzzer on a wooden table, only add to the noise level.
Sounds like personnel changes aren't a mistake at all. If they changed Browett, Apple would be a far better organization!
A reasonable, perhaps a tad extreme, approach. May I ask which OS you do use? OpenBSD?
Is anybody really surprised at this?
There's also the hardware to consider. They posted a PDF of the schematics but no files or layout. They've promised to eventually but I haven't seen it yet.
That's fairly common. 5.3 hasn't reached end-of-life yet, so bugs are still being fixed. 5.3.16 is a bugfix release, wheres 5.4 will contain bugfixes and may (I don't know, I haven't read the release logs) also contain new features.
Before we convict them in the court of public opinion, can we have some impartial evidence? A single blog post isn't much.
I still believe that Twitter will not go for a premium option especially nowadays that there are a lot of social media web developers that are willing to compete for the million of people using free social media services.
Facebook definitely had a large user base, but twitter was still relatively small. Also for the mass market, you need advertising and reinforcement of the product. The free product placement through traditional media has given both facebook and twitter that for free.
I'd also be curious to see what changes the restaurant sees as a result of this policy. I know that if a good eatery successfully incentivized people away from phone usage, I'd be more inclined to go there, even at a slightly increased cost -- similarly, when I lived in Seattle, there were a few coffeeshops that started turning off wi-fi on the weekends and saw an uptick in business (hard to say whether it was from more turnover, a different kind of customer, or publicity from the act itself).
There are DNA samples from 5,300 years ago Otzi the Iceman from the Italian/Swiss border, the bogman is half his age. It would be fun to compare the two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman
Perhaps 5.4 made some breaking changes so they'll keep updating 5.3 with security fixes and such for a while until it's fair to ask people to upgrade.
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Quite clearly he means a useable smartphone. One with a big screen, a touch UI, and apps.
Obtuse straw-man hypotheticals do not make for convincing argument. To the contrary, the fact that you can't find anyone to pay you $50 to call them gullible shows that "service" isn't worth $5M. Unless, of course, you consider politicians...

If you're not involved in the transaction, you're not in a position to decide "whether we're improving the world or not". Millions daily spend ~$50 for an extravagant meal, far beyond nutritional needs, and having nothing but excrement to show for it. Would you discount those goods/services as "not improving the world" and not worth millions of dollars?
It's not that they don't want users to engage with the service, it's that they want as much control over that interaction as they can possibly get away with.

Cynically, the more garauntess they can give to the other three quadrants, the more money they can make from them.

More positively, things like requiring reply/retweet/follow buttons with embedded content encourages more interaction with the service.

If a (lazy) journalist makes up an article from collating a few tweets you're now encouraged to reply, retweet and interact with twitter right there rather than using the Facebook Connect comments system at the bottom of the page.

Their value to the other three quadrants is interactions. They're not stupid enough to intentionally reduce that, though one could argue they're not going about it the best way.
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Gexla, I'm on an accelerator. They are going away too.
"government unbiased"

"half the people vote on their interested and elect officials for those interests"

Pick one.
Like I said: politicians.
Very true. The only "proof" I have is testimonial proof and some xerox, this is why the only thing possible to me to do is a blog post.
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I know. I read the license. I understand the reason why such restriction exists and it is debatable if the BSD licensed software suffers because it doesn't have an equivalent restriction (eg: Apple/OS X). But for a crowd that's yapping all day long about freedom, they surely need a proper dictionary.
Not losing also explains much of legislation politics and campaign debates.

Survive this round of the contest, you get another bite at the apple. Maybe, just maybe, you'll work up enough courage to grab for the brass ring. Such as reach for higher office. Or pass some important legislation.

In politics, any position you take will offend someone. So you become cautious. "Keep your powder dry" for the imagined future contest. Only jump on board the bandwagon when it's crystal clear, so then when it goes bad you can use the safety of the herd to avoid repercussions.

Watch political "debates" sometime, you'll see that frontrunners play to not lose, because the person left standing wins.
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So then we support developers by buying things like Sparrow, which get bought out and shut down.
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A firmware replacement clearly would require a new programming gizmo to be effective. But if they're replacing all the lock circuit boards in a hotel, throwing in a new programmer or two would be a comparatively minor cost. Is it possible they just didn't bother to mention it?
But that's the question. how can the thief know for sure if it is real or fake ? will they take a chance even if there is a 95% probability that it could be fake?
Elon Musk, I forbid you to let Tesla fail before I can afford to buy a model S.
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That's not how copy write works. A summery involves creativity and factual information, and hash is a purely mechanical transformation without creative input. For much the same reason if you ran someone else book though a language translation software you could not prevent them from selling copy's of their work after being run through that same software translation. However, if you paid someone else to translate a book you could not sell it, but you could prevent the original author from selling that translation.

PS: There is a great post on copywrite that basically talks about bit's having color. It's not a physical process but legally the way there created creates a 'fingerprint' that matters.
At least I know what app.net is. There are so many new things mentioned on HN every week that it's hard to keep up. Oh, CloudPython is up to version 2.1 you say? And now it supports 50% more bogons? Wow!
From the article:

"The danger, Ritholtz said, is that the drooping stock price could tag the company itself with a "stink of failure" that could make advertisers less willing to use Facebook."
I think he may have just tanked his chances. People buying cars in that price range 1) expect to have mechanical service available for the foreseeable future, and 2) don't like to be associated with losers. You don't want to drop $90k on a cool new car and then six months later have your friends roll their eyes or pity you when you roll up at the party.
But how many thieves are up-to-date on the latest in home intrusion prevention, including popular decoy systems?

Presumably most home break-is are not performed by career criminals who do research and use the latest technology to break into homes, but rather by opportunists and desperates looking for a quick grab.

Or at least, that is the premise behind the sale of "fake" security systems like this, or those generic "security system on premises" stickers. I'm sure they reduce the risk of casual crimes by some percent, but I'm not sure if that's worth $200 for most people.
I'd imagine people probably order faster, and they will probably leave faster once they are finished with their meal.
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I ran into McVoy on reddit a few years ago. He seemed totally different than the "scary evil public persona" that has been bandied about...

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9zdlf/git_and_m...

...humble, concerned, and proud of how they've advanced the "state of the art" and his company's contributions to modern version control.

"""Imagine how I'd feel if Linus used BK for years and when moving off he made a centralized VCS."""
"I built a small credit card company, we have around 500k users and 2k merchants."

URL of this company? Links to some of the merchants that you've lost or currently have? Clear scan of the document in the photo?