skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A short list:

1) Japanese companies don't buy SaaS.

2) Japanese companies do buy software, but it is overwhelmingly sold through existing commercial relationships they have with individual salesmen, even for packaged software. This is not an easy sales channel to just show up in one day. (I am not exaggerating the following anecdote in the slightest degree: my manager needed to invite a salesman out to drinks for us to procure a license of MS Office at my old day job.)

3) Japanese: occasionally tricky.

4) The problem domain for Japanese invoicing: potentially tricky, if you weren't expecting things like "We need photographic reproductions of the company seal on all our invoices. Naturally." to be hard requirements.

5) There's a sentiment among some members of Japanese society, including occasionally ones who have input in purchasing decisions, that you can only possibly understand Japanese language/culture/business practices if you are Japanese, and therefore, if you are not Japanese, they might not be overwhelmingly predisposed to doing business with you.
My two icon font sets (a generic set and a complementary set for app designers) have been hinted using Font Squirrel's algorithm. You may find these of some use: http://www.heydonworks.com/article/an-app-icon-font
Does the leak apply to ipads too?
as far as I know is airbnb using this framework or something similar.
It is not just about the stereo effect: often, headphones are subtly asymmetric.

If you reverse them, the speaker is in the wrong direction and the sound is significantly worse/softened.
I was in a meeting last week and person A said "can we do X?" and person B said "Anything's possible, it's just a matter of time and money, right Mike? That's what you always say, right?" and she laughed as she said it. I've trained them well. :)

I don't quite have that as a standard reaction to all client requests all the time, as I'll often ask more questions and try to engage them a bit first before the 'this is what it will cost' bit, but that's generally the direction I go in.

I think tech people have a hard time with this response because they're often unsure of their own skills. At least, I know that's the case with a few friends of mine who rarely think about "the business side" of things. I've done this long enough now where i know that anything someone asks me for can be done, it's just a matter of figuring out how.

However, the flip side of this is that I've seen the result of people (and possibly even been this person) just saying "yes" to everything, building it, and it not really working. I do think some customers have been burned by that - a dev who claims to be able to do anything, then delivers them crap, charges a fortune, then leaves a mess for someone else to clean up. After they've gone through that a couple of times, they're wary of anyone who claims to be able to do anything.

I've learned to try to be more cautious how I phrase my abilities, because I know how it can appear. In general, anything someone wants done, I can make happen. It doesn't mean I will be the one doing the work, but I can bring in the appropriate skilled people when needed. That's a function of age, in that my network is more useful than it was 10 years ago, and possibly wisdom. 10-15 years ago I'd always try to build everything myself, and sometimes ended up with subpar stuff.
"Support to Pussy Riot" == keep doing public sex?
Schmucks :)
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If the new headphones still have the remote then I don't see the problem identifying which headphone is which.
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Asking people to self-report their IQ will give you misleading results. I'd expect people with embarrassingly low IQs (in comparison to those IQs that are reported) to be less likely to comment.

I don't remember ever taking an IQ test... but my personal anecdatum is that I feel more productive when I have a regular sleep cycle, but that can involve waking up at 7am or 9am or earlier or later and what that depends on, beyond the seasons, I don't know.
When he said "a popular iOS developer" I assumed he meant Facebook.
I found vulnerabilities in two social gaming networks that let you take control of people's Facebook and Twitter accounts using _just_ the UDID. I never published the details of these vulnerabilities, but you can find an official acknowledgement from at least one of these companies (Chillingo of Angry Birds fame) in this WSJ piece:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/09/19/privacy-risk-found-on...
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Yeah I got Jill Stein as well (pro-science and pro-choice) but then I'm a Brit and would view most of your democrats as slightly to the right of our UK Conservatives and your republicans as insane!
Annoying enough to ruining your experience? A little exaggeration maybe?
An example:

http://freecode.com/articles/lemon-parser-generator-tutorial

Lemon looks nice. Personally I prefer ANTLR (which totally rocks):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTLR
Nokia's new Lumia 920 - 4.5" screen, 32gb storage, wireless charging.
I understand what using a SAT-solver implies, but I haven't noticed apt failing often in practical terms. The heuristics used seem to work fine for me.
Yes. The "article" on pastebin said "iOS devices" and my download of the million-and-one has mentions of lots of iPads.
If it's coming with the new iphone surely it will have a mic/remote? That's what I use on the current headphones to tell left/right, it's a lot easier than looking for markings, engraved or otherwise.
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If you disallow an app from sending you push notifications, will it still have your UDID/Device ID? Or if you never enable it, does the app & app server never get it?
Bull.

Japan is the second largest market for salesforce.com.
Weev's AT&T adventure had nothing to do with UDIDs, and involved only about 100k records.
So, essentially, you're saying whatever Apple does or doesn't do is a bad decision in the end since it would always fall back to the hardware identifiers, then. Right?
The people who write and deploy software to limited markets appreciate it. Have you seen how many Windows 2000 deployments are still out there? It's the same with BSD and Linux - there are a lot of 10+ year old systems out there doing useful work. Functional binaries save hundreds of hours of work to maintain the software.
That is seriously retarded. You don't use your computer to do actual work, do you? Because the keyboard simply is the best way to do things that are not downloading porn and browsing Facebook.
Why is "Facebook" pre-checked?
Ignore mariuz.

He is a developer for some Firebird (another open source DB) add-on. So he is just spreading FUD in order to get people to care about a database that frankly nobody does care about.

The fact is that this article is nearly a year old and MongoDB has moved very quickly to address most issues thanks in no part to their recent $42 million VC investment round.
And some secure ones used to use it for multi-factor authentication - e.g. you still username/password, but you can only do it on the device that you registered on.

However, use of UDID has been deprecated by Apple, and they are now rejecting some new apps that read it. You're meant to use a unique application-level ID instead.
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People delete apps though, you'd need their entire history to cross reference that. Not to mention false positives - how many people have the Twitter or Facebook app installed, for example?
"Could it be that you are a fanboy?"

With the reply you've just sent and you seriously question if the parent is unbiased? Do you frankly consider yourself biased? Could it be that you're an anti-apple fanboy?
There's a difference between "least hospitable on earth" and "harder than in the US". I'd rather sell SaaS in Japan than in Ethiopia or Uzbekistan. (This is still a good read though)
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This is rather disappointing. After downloading the dump and verifying for myself that We[1] are not on the list, I need a partial match method for the entire list, not just the one-and-a-million released to the public.

[1] "We" - me and the family
Right - but the article is about building a startup from the ground up.

As opposed to a company that was already enterprise level when it entered Japan.

This makes a huge, huge difference in Japan.

Disclaimer: The article is about me.
"Stealthy" launch is like putting it online and hoping that no-one finds it :-) I think it's either launched and marketed or offline and no-one using it.

Not knowing the exact product, just an idea: consider contacting small design furniture shops and ask them to submit their stuff to your site and you could send them promotional stickers-banners they could use at the store? Good content is the key and crossing online-offline border could become a good viral advantage.

Problem with visual search is that you can't draw an orange in a google search, think how you can maximize SEO with text content so visual search makes sense for indexing. Also how other sites could be motivated to send incoming traffic.
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One million and one Apple device IDs leaked
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I think this leak plays for FBI in PR sense, not against it. All support slogans in the _anonymous message are exact description of the US foreign policy, so this message support distribution of wreck and havoc of people's lives in the third and second world. All this is rather strange.
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Traitor? Is Apple a nation state now?

Which leads to an interesting question for me. Given that many web sites have more users than many countries, should there be a more proscribed relationship?
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Nifty, thanks for sharing. :)

Also, as others have mentioned, there are plenty of options out there, so it might be useful highlight any specific difference or advantage this solution provides over LabJS, RequireJS, Yepnope, curl.js etc

On a side note, there is a rather comprehensive feature matrix of a number of popular JS loaders https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tDdcrv9wNQRCNCRCflWxh...
... but still lacks the only feature I wanted to come with high-end earphones, physically-etched L/R markings.

Being quite the audiophile, I prize myself with high-quality audio

If you care anything at all about quality you do not, under any circumstance, ever, use the bundled earphones.

Also, if anything the portrayed earphones seemed quite asymmetrical. You'd probably quickly learn which goes where. But again, if you care the slightest about quality you won't even unpack those.
It's worth noting that even functional programmers will admit that stack traces are sometimes useful. People have even done research into capturing useful stack traces stack traces in the presence of tail recursion:

http://libra.msra.cn/Publication/13279173/finding-the-needle...
With iOS 6, your address book may be invaded by Facebook.com email addresses
I switched to xubntu, and use xfce4 on top of debian too. xfce4 is kind of nice, kind of half-busted, but overall, it feels like an older style desktop, which is what i want.
Push notifications don't use the UDID. They use a different token. UDIDs can be requested without user consent by applications, although that functionality is supposedly deprecated from iOS 5 onwards.
Are there technologies that give advantages to large groups of doctors over small clinics or make it preferable to doctors to create large groups ? Large groups have access to a large pool of customers so they can offer different business models.

Are there technologies that enable medical "self-service" or less dependance on doctors ?

I think medicare has started a "fee for package" program(instead of paying for services, you pay for a complete treatment around a single medical event - let's say knee surgery + including all services - for a single fee). Are there technologies that can help such implementations ?

Are there any technologies that can help places more receptive to medical change(like africa[1])? with time the experience gained there could be integrated in other places.

How can you make medical tourism a more popular choice or better choice? if it would be popular , more insurance companies would offer it and would pressure the medical establishment for improvement.
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, I installed Cinnamon and have been quite happy with it.
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And blind or visualy impaired people would find it usefull as well
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that was actually Samuel Ford
It would surprise me if intelligence organisations didn't make databases like this. I assume the CIA could get the user information from Apple, with or without Apple's consent.

I have no real problem if the UDID:s of my iPad/iPhone/iPod are stored with my name by intelligence organisations in democracies.

But... I do have problems with them being so incompetent that private information about me is leaked!!
> you should be using Secure UDID or something similar

As an app developer, does this give me some benefit over just generating and saving a random UUID on first launch?
Why all the buzz? I thought that the people who buy Apple products or use centralized social networks knowingly sacrifice their privacy and already expect things like this to happen.
Just to throw in another data point; I have never worked on or in secure Operating Systems and have no particular interest in them. I recognise the name Joanna Rutkowska and I am aware that she is well-known and respected in this field. In my case at least, she's well-known enough that people outside the field have heard of her.
MAC address, user name, phone number, street address...
Hi, first time here. I'm from Malaysia with a Jailbroken Ipad 2 as well. To my surprise, my device shows up on the http://pastehtml.com/udid link.

So now what does this all means? (and) I've never been to US.
EDIT: put the repo back up to not cause broken link here... and added a notice to keep people from starring it

i (originally) took the repo down b/c so many people starred it and i didnt want them to be scarred :) never saw that spreadsheet b4, thx for posting. a lot of good discussion in this thread. the project was just a little hack rewrite, i never stated anywhere it was better than anything else and you guys can see why :) feedback is great. i did run some tests on it and it is surprisingly almost as fast/faster +/- as similar solutions though! haha.
It's possible to have such filters with Firefox as well if you use {filter:url(#svgFilter)} (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/filter). But I have to admit it's not as simple as webkit does.

An example: http://jsbin.com/ekekug/2 (only Firefox, and I didn't reproduce OP's tilt-shift effect)

Also, I'm wondering if it's not better to use Canvas for performance reasons.
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Hi All,

Now that I have enough connectivity in my village. I have decided that I will build a nice comfortable home for myself and work remotely.
I already have an old house (almost 100 years old) which is a bit crampy. As an extension to my house I am building a bedroom, spacious bathroom, office and a pantry.

On a forum where people have lived off in cars I am sure there will be some who will have good tips and experiences to share about building a space right from scratch. I need ideas.

Note: I live in India.
Why do you need jQuery ? Can't you use the :hover pseudo-class, along with CSS3 opacity transition on the mask ?
Can you make it show on mouseover/not mouseover - I can't tell if it works or not (tested in chromium)
Generally, using 'golang' rather than 'go' gives really good search results.
Nothing to see now. Yanked by OP:

https://twitter.com/niftylettuce/status/242946633367683075
i assume to read the data-values
see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474094
It's sort of a proxy for what society wants, but a rather noisy and inaccurate proxy. For one, it's only a proxy for the proportion of value you can personally capture: value you produce for society but cannot capture a good percentage of is still providing things that society wants, but not increasing your bank account. And for two, it's only really a useful proxy of short-term value: if you're doing work that society is going to love in 20 years, that doesn't help you eat today (which is why basic research rarely pays as a commercial business model, because the value it creates isn't near-term enough).
Yeah, you definitely don't need jQuery if you're doing it image for image. I did it this way so that I had a method to quickly pass settings on and generate the necessary effects on the fly.
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If I don't play games, much less belong to any social gaming networks, does this affect me at all?
Are any jailbreaked iphones with privacy patches installed being leaked?
Xhi2 analysis is not only about what triggers the correlation, what does not trigger the correlation is also important.
My guess is jailbreaked are underrepresented in leaked UDID either because jailbreak is shielding users or because users able to install a jailbreak are more aware of computer security issues. Regular Iphone are cell phones remotely controled by a 3rd party, jailbreaked iphones are computers you control.
I am no paranoid freak, I am just a regular sysadmin with a pretty low security awareness.
Seeing as this is only 1 million sampled from a claimed 12 million list, that wouldn't be that useful since it's possible their UUID is just on the other part of the list.
That was a very interesting read, thanks. Unless it's already been on HN why not submit it as a main article?
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Nice, my issue with FF was in trying to use a gradient mask. Not sure how viable it is to automatically generate the SVG via JS.
Nice try, Mr. Secret Agent.
Entering 40 characters is hard enough by itself. Tell the average user to send an MD5 hash over... if you care that much you do what I did initally, download it, unpack it, and grep.
Given that you probably didn't know about many existing solutions, it's rather great you wrote your own, after realizing a need :)

I'd keep the repo up! (even if the feedback is a bit daunting)
FBI will just fill 1000 fake datapoints to cover its informator.
This seems like a problem in search of a problem.

They have L & R printed on them, if you've not managed to learn which is which using the shape or a physical landmark like the mic or remote by the time the markings get worn off then there's a bigger problem occurring.

Surely an audiophile is going to be substituting the earbuds for cans straight away anyway.
It doesn't seem to support using full disk encryption during installation. I like the way it sandboxes things, but I'm not giving up full disk encryption for it.
You have no real problems with the secret police monitoring you? Is that an expression of acceptance to something you cannot control or that you really are ok with it?

We have to accept that we are being spied upon because we have no control over that, but we should always resent and resist it when possible.
I'm dumb as a rock and I sleep late/wake up early. Only get to enjoy REM on Sundays.
i was replying to the particular comment of patio11 which is simply not true. Japanese companies do buy SaaS. the company i work for just opened offices in japan (after eu and china) and rented out data center space. we already have local clients. we are a start-up by any means, although enterprise focused (little bit over 5 years old).
My Beyerdynamic headphones (DT770 Pro) have an engraved L and R, as well as l and r in Braille. All that's a bit overkill sine the cable only attaches on one side (the left) anyway, so that's the most immediate indicator – but it does make for a good experience during the first few uses.

All proper headphones I have seen have some sort of feel-able indicator (if not as explicit as Beyerdynamic's), showing that at least those manufacturers know what they do.
Indirectly it affects all of us.
Salesforce Japan was also a joint venture between Salesforce.com and a Sunbridge (that Salesforce.com eventually bought out). Sunbridge was founded by Allen Miner who already had experience building out Oracle in Japan and the team that helped him there also helped build out Salesforce.com in Japan.

I recently was talking with some folks from that team and they did share with me that the experience was anything but easy but that it was all par for the course for SAAS sales in Japan.

Edit/Addition:
I would disagree with points 1 and 5 that patio11 are making though. Past experiences (working at both SAAS and other internet companies) and also current experiences (starting up an Cloud Telephony platform https://www.fullcourt.co ) has me believing that the following from the article is always a great issue.

People were saying, “It’s a really good product. It is reasonably priced. But, who else is using it?” In consensus driven Japan, where nobody budges unless the next guy is doing the same, Winder faced a chicken and egg problem.

I've/we've often been asked about our other customers. Another thing that also often comes up is that we're asked for a comparison study with competitors, this usually happens because our point of contact doesn't have final authority and needs to build a biz case for his/her superiors.

Regarding "1) Japanese companies don't buy SaaS.", this definitely isn't true at all. I dare say that all of my former employers, a number of their partners and customers did use SAAS products from both domestic and foreign companies. It takes a long time to sell but once you get a few key companies that you can reference (for whom the sales process can often take months and sometimes years), then customers will start lining up.
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FFS! If you notice, swap them round. If the original author is using bundled earbuds for critical listening then he is not the audiophile he flatters himself to be. Rather, I suspect this is some kind of ODCish reaction to being uncertain whether things are the way he thinks they are supposed to be.
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Um, they're asymmetrical. Look at that video, you can see that the flat bit on one side is at the front, so it's impossible to put them in the wrong way.
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I started back in the day with MySpace, then Craigslist. Over time, I built up word of mouth referrals and also did freelance work for a bunch of agencies/companies for a period of time, sometimes finding them through (crappy) recruiters.

If I were starting today, I'd use matchist (matchist.com, the new startup I'm building). Our goal is to become a trusted referral source in your inner circle.
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I genuinely can't think of anything else I'd rather use less than this.

I think MAC (Mandatory Access Control) applied to a desktop environment, picking a better language than C and actually thinking about stuff is more than sufficient to get around the existing problems...

Virtualization is just another pile of complexity and performance problems to deal with. It's not a magic bullet. Consider the following as well:

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3651-Theo-de-Raadt-about-vi...

I really don't want this solution.
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that SUPPOSEDLY uniquely identifies your device.