skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noticed that I didn't hear about this happening to the RNC. Funny thing is, they were using a live cover band featuring GE Smith for the event where the DNC seems to be using snippets of the actual songs.

So I wonder if that's what's getting them. With all the fun with SOPA/PIPA/ACTA and domain takedowns there's a smidge of poetic justice to it. Hopefully they get to enjoy the same response and support for resolving the problem as is offered to the average person.
Your argument is faulty, and here is why:

You are confusing with "these assumptions are not true 100% of the time" with "these assumptions are not true most of the time". In fact, just like sound perception, motion perception, and eyesight resolution, the vast, vast, vast majority of the world is tightly clustered around a maximum.

There are a small number of humans who can hear above 20kHz, but that doesn't change the fact that 99% of the world can't - in fact, most adults sit closer to 16Hz. Ditto, for the vast, vast majority of the people on this fair planet, framerates above somewhere between 70-80Hz become imperceptible, with a lot of people sitting closer to 60Hz.

Both audio and video equipment are engineered with these limits in mind, and there is no fundamental problem with engineering screens with the limitations of the ultramajority in mind.

The fact that there are a few extraordinary individuals whose sensory abilities far exceed that of the rest of the population, does not make it "meaningless" as a concept. What is "retina" as defined above, is retina to everyone but the statistical outliers.

To address your original post, it seems like you're taking out your Apple rage against a concept that is older than Apple. "Retina" as Apple uses in its own advertising is really whatever the damn hell Apple feels like calling retina, but the concept predates Apple's usage of it and has validity. The Xperia S, the Galaxy Nexus, are all "retina" in the non-Apple-marketing sense of the word.
I'm pretty sure I remember there being no unix userspace available on iOS.

Not exposed to standard users, no.

There's no relationship between the existing projects and the Free/OpenBSD open source work.

That's simply not true. There's more to the BSDs than just the kernel – all of the userland stuff is incredibly important to Apple, especially as they try to further distance themselves from the GPL. There is a relatively strong relationship between the BSDs and OS X/iOS. It's true, the lower you get, the bigger the differences, but even xnu has some relatively current BSD sources. e.g. from OpenBSD:

http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2050.7.9/bsd/net/...
I didn't know Sweeden gave money to Cambodia and I am glad that TorrentFreak informed me of this. Foreign aid from rich to poor countries is used in general to keep diplomatic cooperation flowing smoothly in matters of interest to the giver country.
Compare and contrast with a US cell carrier - tmobile for example. In three months they have sent me 3 bills all of which are wildly wrong. There are columns of numbers and rows of numbers. None of the numbers add up to any of the other numbers. I got charged 6 regulatory fees in two months. There are numerous credits and unexplained charges. (BTW every single "error" has been in their favour.)

They just sent me a text message saying my last bill was calculated wrong without further explanation. I'm online only (save the trees etc) and I see it has increased by about 10% without any explanation as to how. When I call them up, there is an automated system you have to say what you want 4 times to which it will say it doesn't understand 4 times, before letting you talk to a person. The person doesn't have caller id and will ask the same question the automated system did (eg last 4 of ssn). After 30 minutes they couldn't even figure out what was going on, and said to call back a day later. Presumably the hope is that someone else will have to work it out.

The call a month ago took 90 minutes. It took the rep who worked for them 1h15m to work out what the bill was trying to say. It also turns out that what they show customers and what they show the reps differs. We had established that the final total was wrong, but she couldn't work out what all the numbers were or why they didn't add up to total, or why the total was more than it should be. They eventually gave me a credit I think mainly because everyone was just worn down.

And then we get back a further month to when I signed up online. They will not let you select the plan until you pick a SIM card first. They mail you the SIM card. They start charging you the moment their systems accept the new account. This is before the SIM is mailed, before you receive the SIM card in the post (4 days later) and before you actually put it into any device. The reasoning is that you could call up and provision a different SIM card, and you are somehow supposed to deduce that from being forced to pick one and receive it in the mail.

It is like they are trying to have the worst customer service possible. Or maybe they are hoping to wear customers out with bogus charges and confusion since these shenanigans are only discovered after the initial trial period is over and you are stuck with the contract.

My experience with Verizon Wireless about 10 years ago was somewhat similar except nowhere near the same degree (they only screwed up two months of bills, always in their favour, and quicker/easier to resolve).
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Thanks for mentioning http://getsummer.com - I would love to hear everyone's feedback about the product :)
Is it normal to release educational transcripts? I thought taxes were pretty much a given, but not so with college transcripts.

Also the OPs assertion of paying 1 million dollars to hide Obama's transcripts is so ridiculous on its face I'm surprised people willingly post things like that online.
It supports GLES2 very well, so probably. It's used on various Samsung SoCs so was in some GS2 and GS3 variants.
Nivi from AngelList here. Please me know if you have any questions.
I feel kinda silly just having spent the long weekend writing a threaded 4chan scraper. This is a super welcome change though. Even if you don't visit 4chan regularly you can't ignore the VAST amount of content people upload there. I imagine some interesting statistics will come of this ( I know I plan to).
The first thing that jumps to mind with this is... "Oh $#!*." I don't know why, but it scares me what could come out of this.
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Well my ReadyNas Duo isn't any better...
Nice post with lots of cool stuff. Any particular reason you're using delayed_job for async jobs + memcache for caching and not resque/redis? Not saying anything bad about the former, just wonder if there are pros/cons you considered when choosing between the two?
Really interesting article. But it the final line seems slightly disingenuous Building a realtime web application does not require you to begin with a realtime framework.

Rails is used for CRUD operations but Node/Socket.io/Jquery are your 'realtime' framework. Its just simple, proprietary (and not in a bad way) and does exactly the job you need.
I'm sorry to hear it has been so rough, it is very much a situation where the founders have been working on the train as it is running down the tracks.

There have definitely been issues, but in general, the team has done a good job of addressing them.

I'm quite sure that right now they are overwhelmed with demo day and that once the dust settles for that things will get straightened out shortly.
Are any of these ARM solutions open source for the full stack?

Arduino is nice because I can use it to prototype something, and then if I want to mass produce it I can take the open schematics, rip out what I don't need and produce custom boards. Is that possible with any of these ARM solutions?
I did Mercedes, and like others have said, I've heard great things about BMW's program as well. They took care of all the paperwork to get me licensed and insured in Europe. I'd definitely do it again.
And the second Bitcoin account contains the ASCII string 'prove it', in forward chronological order. The imgur string was in backward order.
So it is a 50% increase from 20 to 30 million.
What a terrible waste of time. I thought this stuff was real so I read the whole thing. What's the whole point of this text, is it supposed to be funny?
...I don't get it. I mean it's funny that someone is using the BTC chain for communications :) But does that image mean anything?
I didn't work on DoW2 but I worked on CoH. The core AI engine was similar. CoH added features to improve group pathfinding and pathfinding for when terrain changed, etc. I don't remember all of the details since this was 5 or 6 years ago.

But the fundamental problem with AI is not building the AI. The problem is tuning the AI. You end up with a terribly tuned game if you give designers too many knobs or if your knobs look like a helicopter cockpit.
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In most Series Seed financings, the Founders retain Board Control and can't be pushed out by just the Investors. If they're pushed out by the other founders and by the investors together, then their vesting agreement will govern what happens.
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You can train your own album with an arbitrary number of people. And who's stallman? That's St IGNUcius of the Church of Emacs!
Dev here. I never expected it to do well or sell at all. The way I looked at it is like this "I'll roll the dice, probably won't work out but I'll give it a shot"

I think in general you've just got to get it wrong. If you look at other games by EEG, you'll see "RollRover" - a terrible terrible little puzzle game that didnt even sell 50 copies, Why do we fall Mr Wayne?

Having said that, the biggest part was luck. right place/time etc
Came to post this. The only redeemable value in 4chan, in my opinion, is that the fact that posts aren't archived makes for a very interesting social experiment. An API firehose pretty much puts an end to that.
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Yeah it's very hard to have good customer service if you do it over the phone. I mention USAA in this list, which I love. They do most of their business over the phone, and are an absolute joy to work with.
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Well there is no magical database solution where you can do that and I have to make decisions on what I can buy today not on what may be magically developed in the future.

In this respect, application partitioning with a deployable schema is not a bad solution for what I do.
"Apple at its worst" is the chicanery of not letting you own the device they sold you. App store censorship wouldn't be a problem if there were other ways to get the programs you want and/or need.
There are actually plenty of third party archives for 4chan boards, some that have been running for 4+ years.
Definitely interested. feel free to email me at mark8555 [at] gmail [dot] com.
The only drawback is, there isn't alot of buzz going for it in the media. When it picks up, things will significantly pick up, time will tell.
As long as the new iPhone will have a pretty tiny screen as the leaks say, the large screen Android phones will keep outselling it even more.
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That's the difference between Ikea and a company like http://www.urbancase.com/. Craftsmen don't think that way.
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Just wanted to say thanks, you're making my life a lot easier.
2600Hz is building a communications platform and happens to have a website.
Why is there no Red Hat for consumer products?
Red Hat is a pretty successful open-source company.

I am wondering, why is there no company like Red Hat that builds awesome open-source products but for the consumer space?
Even if you don't visit 4chan regularly you can't ignore the VAST amount of content people upload there. I imagine some interesting statistics will come of this.

That was my reaction too. Beyond statistics, this will make it easier to develop all sorts of user-facing and machine-to-machine applications -- for sharing, grouping, ranking, and linking items, and even for 'overlaying' the content on top of other social networks.

I'd expect the API to be grow and mature over time, and am curious to see what comes out of this experiment.
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I recently had fabulous customer service at the home improvement retailer Crate and Barrel.

The experience was completely outstanding:
- The sales person was never forceful and carried a sense of desire to help us pick the best furniture for our apartment.
- The delivery was precise on the clock to the minute on the day and time specified.
- The fabric had a very very minor thumb print when it was unpacked. All I had to do was to mention to the sales lady on our next visit. She knew my contact details, setup the exchange and made sure the furniture was out of this world.
- Granted C&B charge premium rates but it is this sort of service that blows my mind.
One design dilemma we ran into when building this out is the "username" endpoint. When a user grants access, the OAuth default is to just pass the token back to the client. But to access other endpoints, the client needs to know the username of the user that just granted access.

So we added the "username" endpoint, but weren't (and still aren't) quite satisfied with that as a solution. Have other API designers run into this same issue? Seems pretty common - would like to hear what HN has to say about it.
So "only" 150% of the average yearly state expenses instead of 300%. Was there a point you were trying to make or you're just being pedantic?
An iPhone "jailbreak" both jailbreaks and roots the device. Android phones (except for very cheap ones from certain carriers I think?) only need to be rooted.

It's not disingenuous, just (perhaps overly) pedantic.

That is my understanding of it anyway.
Doing a simple "
svn co https://svn.java.net/svn/jitsi~svn/trunk jitsi" works perfectly fine for me. Same with the source snapshots at https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/nightly/src/ . We also had no issues getting our bugfixes into their upstream while we did all the testing. I was wondering about the "observer/member" thing they mention on the website as well, doesn't seem to be relevant though.
Very true. I see some folks assume that to get that realtime performance, you need to start with a "realtime" framework.

We probably will hit a ceiling with Rails (once we decide to take the time to update down from 500ms to 50ms, perhaps) that we might not run into using something built for the job. LayerVault wasn't built to be realtime first and foremost.

No disingenuity intended.
Title submission guidelines? The "8" should be removed, for:

"Companies that nail Customer Service"

I'm guessing that's why you were bumped from page one so quickly.
I have seen it suggested that the problem is not in the taxes themselves -- it may be in the state he declared as his primary residence.

If he declared residence in one state but voted in Federal elections in a different state, he may have committed voting fraud.

Ah -- found a source for speculation: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/17/mitt-rom...
Whoops, forgot to change some settings before deploying. Should work now. Thanks for the catch!
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Could someone explain to me how this could be leveraged (or if it could be) to gather a sort of stream of messages, a la the Twitter streaming API or reddit.com/r/all/comments.json?

I'd be interested in doing some language statistics and comparing them to the aforementioned networks.
By content do you mean text, images, or both? Do you care about things like fonts? Or is it more important that stuff is just consistently readble? What if there a way to make all text on all websites look exactly the same (only formatting is different)?
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269951

Interestingly, that article recommends a different book by John Sarno.
Because there is no business model for that company.
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When first building LayerVault around this time last year, the simplicity of delayed_job appealed to me. Not having to set up and maintain a Redis application was a bonus. The simple '.delay' syntax sealed the deal for me.

That being said, the day where we need to separate our queueing system will come. But delayed_job/MySQL has brought us much further than I'd thought possible.
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I hope so too, at least for the startup feedback. As it stands, the product is entirely broken...
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> Anyone at PwC will instantly know if this is true or not. My guess is that the specifics will check out (why else include them?) and give credibility to the claim.

These specifics are either public information or not. If they are public information, they can be checked by a member of the public and confirmed to be wrong or right; but if they are public information, they could have been obtained by such security breaches or by accessing the same public information used to check them. So if they are public information, they do not prove anything.

If they are private information, then perhaps only PwC/PwC-employees can verify; presumably some of them will. But, if there was no security breach then PwC will deny that there was a security breach, and if there was a security breach, PwC will - like most companies - deny that there was a security breach because there is no possible advantage for them to confirm it. So regardless of whether this private information is accurate, the only party in a position to verify the information is also in a position with powerful incentives to claim that it is false.

What is necessary is some sort of trap-door or one-way data: information which is private, but can still somehow be publicly checkable. None of these details seem to be such trap-doors.

I figure these details are either public (building plan listing the existence of suite 260; location of PWC offices and having 3 floors all are trivial bits of info) or are made up for the purpose of seeming plausible.
Yes, plausible deniability is present... the Swedish may have a soft spot for Cambodia's challenges. A list of Swedish foreign aid amounts and recipients would be interesting to compare this $59M with.
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They have already existed. They all got pulled recently.
The last time Darwin was synced with FreeBSD was FreeBSD 5, at which point the features available in FreeBSD 5 were also made available in Darwin, such as kqueue and various other API's.

I, and some other developers I know, have been hoping that Apple in the future will sync with FreeBSD again in the future, hopefully against FreeBSD 10 to get even more feature parity in kernel interfaces available.

There is a lot of a relationship between Darwin and the FreeBSD team. Apple's firewall import from OpenBSD (pf) for example was also used by the FreeBSD team to update their port.

Just because it is not visible on the surface doesn't mean the relationship doesn't exist ...
You bought an iPhone because you don't want the ability to be notified of drone strikes?
That site will require that you are a Bank of America customer, though the link is unfortunately broken. If you are an AMEX, USAA, PenFed, or Consumer Reports customer instead, check out their respective car buying sites. They are variations on the same program.

Alternatively, https://www.truecar.com/ can be used by anyone, is mostly using the same data and dealer network, but the prices might be slightly higher.

(Disclaimer: I'm a TrueCar employee.)
I used to work for a large investment bank and we would get random calls from people claiming to be from HR. They will ask for specific information that is obviously confidential.

If someone claims to known someone but asks you for their contact info, you should be suspicious. My response to these ppl: why dont u look him/her up on fb/linkedin.
Nivi, great idea -- thanks! The fine print says WSGR will help (for free?) if the startup is "qualified," what can you tell us about their qualification process?
My preferred ways to solve the problem:

1. Make the OAuth server end append additional parameters to the successful-auth URL. It would end up looking like http:// some-app.com/oauth-ok?access_token=abc123&username=jdoe

2. Provide an endpoint with the same data as /user/<name>.json, but without the uesrname in the URL. OAuth clients would query this new endpoint instead. While you're at it, might as well allow the client to request the goal list at the same time. Ideally, a client should only have to send a single request to populate its "home page".
Considering those graphs are so similar to the ones on github's customer facing UI, my guess is common code.
There is quite a bit of sharing between Apple and FreeBSD. For example libdispatch has been ported to FreeBSD. Also when Apple imported pf into Darwin; FreeBSD used that same port to update their port of pf from OpenBSD.

As others have mentioned, stuff like the TrustedBSD and Audit framework came from Darwin, and features such as Seatbelt and sandboxes are slowly being considered or improved upon by Capsicum for example.
Agreed. It's occurred to me that the only way that Apple will retain me as an iPhone user is if they copy Samsung this time around.

iOS offers a great UX, as far as the system software is concerned, but I honestly think the iPhone 4/4s has the worst physical ergonomics of any phone I've owned. Everything they could have done wrong, they did wrong... and I won't lie: the fact that nobody but me ever says anything like that makes me wonder what's wrong with my judgment.

If the new iPhone actually turns out to be a taller (?!) version of the same package and sales don't drop off a cliff as a result, I'm in for some serious cognitive dissonance.
This is a brilliant move. A lot of entrepreneurs would likely still want to take it offline (if their needs don't satisfy Series Seed) but for the majority of people this will make life a whole lot easier - especially with no legal fees! Brilliant move on AngelList's part.

Congrats Naval + Nivi.
You have the wrong project manager and shouldn't be paid by the hour.

If the data is available, making it 'pretty' is trivial.

http://d3js.org/

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

No need to waste your time, some people do....
Android uses a Java-based VM. iOS does not. Is that correct?

Can you boot your own OS (sans Java VM) on an Android device? How easy is that to do?
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Take a look at the Olinuxino: https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO
https://www.olimex.com/dev/imx233-olinuxino-maxi.html

They've got one version running an admittedly slow i.MX processor, and another coming down the pike running an Allwinner chip. As a bonus, though, it's all reasonably easy-to-assemble TQFP chips.