skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see anything particularly unclear in that post. They're using hardware encryption devices created by a third party. These devices failed, and the entire point of these devices is that it's impossible to read the data without using them. The failure of the 'backups' may have simply been due to the same problem existing in them that caused the primary devices to fail, rather than cascading.
Great reply thank you!

> Look at what the University of Alberta is doing with math and try to say it isnt important.

University of Alberta have done awesome research into poker, and I believe that every poker game is theoretically solvable. Math is a great tool to win poker with, but for most humans that depth of math is unreachable therefore as a player it's sort of useless (especially so in a live game).

When I was a winning player at various levels (plo100 was as far as I got) I really don't feel I was consciously doing much math except in the less frequent harder spots. (My demise was tilt and bankroll management).

> This is an incredibly jaded reply.

Fair comment, you have to understand though that it's a game that really hurt me at one point and that some of my friends are unknowingly suffering from it. I would not wish my experience of poker onto anyone else, and I would feel very uncomfortable exploiting someone who was in a similar position (which is obviously near impossible to ascertain online). I am quite vocal about this because I do feel a lot of the downsides are glossed over by the winning players - especially the less direct downsides like people deviating too far away from other paths in their lives that they would be happier in (such as a 'real' job/career).

When I went to casinos, local games, even pub games I would only say about 10% of the people in each place were happily enjoying themselves. My experience of poker is that the vast majority of people who play it a lot really aren't actually enjoying the pursuit, many to the point it impacts their outside lives, and that the game does tend to attract less savoury characters. Of the 90% that were not enjoying it, many of them are deluded by their own ability and potential. Perhaps I was just at the bottom of the pit and it changes at higher levels, but new players starting it would be difficult to break away from that majority group.

This definitely makes me hesitant to recommend the game to anyone, regardless of the huge enjoyment and lessons I did get out of it.
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I think a MUCH better question is "Are there any companies that didn't ultimately reach exits that you regret funding: I.E. companies who you believe YC itself would have made the essential difference in their success"

This would be a company who got grew initial growth but, for lack of proper guidance and mentoring, made really bad decisions that killed them. Perhaps a company that had a chance to be huge, did well initially, but didn't have the proper connections to scale after that.

That to me is a harder but ultimately much more valuable question.
I personally never understood the problem. I want adds that are better targeted, I want them to know more about me so they don't waste my time with crap I am not interested in.

But that is just me.
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Rachel from Recurly Customer Support here

Our current communication is focused on getting the hard facts out to our merchants - we want to be transparent and clear about what is happening and what expectations our merchants should have around this service outage. It's slow going, careful work with many moving pieces, so our intention is not to be uncommunicative, but to provide details as we have them.

I invite you to contact support@recurly.com if you have any questions - I will handle all inquiries personally. We are committed to making this right and helping our merchants in any way possible.
Does any know any good jQuery mobile Graphic Designers?
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Thanks!
It's not directly comparable. Basically iOS users have the 'choice' of one model, while Android user have dozens of models to choose from.
So...the lawsuits will drive a demand (from site owners, presumably) for legislation to force browser makers to do something...?
I got through by googling "Toilet Paper Priced Like Airline Tickets", no quotes. Many times, but not always, you can get to the full WSJ article if you're coming from Google News.
The author is selling a to-do-list program for 45$ ..
More valuable because of COURSE PG had some misses. If he didn't have misses, he wouldn't be human. But where it gets really interesting is in his estimation of the YC effect, which I think is estimable: what companies would have been billion dollar companies with the YC effect but aren't because they don't have it?
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It's almost certainly either a Thales nCipher or a SafeNet. Very slight chance it could be IBM or couple other manufacturers. All can fail in weird ways.

This is more a failure of implementation than a failure of the device. You need some way to shield backups of keys from a failure of HSM; if they're paired online for HA there should be a secret-shared backup outside HSM storage. (usually people deploy two HSMs in the same datacenter for HA, so you need an outside backup for DR if a fire happens or something)
Yeah -- I've always sold Bingo Card Creator on this model. It is modestly less crazy than you think it is: if you're getting customers on an ongoing basis, attrition plus the natural near-zero marginal costs of servicing customers means the new customer keep the lights on and older customers get to freeload indefinitely.

Suggestion: make something that will let you charge on a recurring basis. (I once thought BCC could never sustain that. It probably could, if I had a mind to implement it, but the pain involved isn't worth it to me.)

Starting from $0 revenue on the 1st day of every month sucks. Starting from "I'll always have at least 90% of the revenue I did last month" is, on the other hand, a wonderful thing for the business in every possible way.
> Can someone who's worked with APIs that accept updates give a code example of something that would be better if you accepted patches instead?

Concurrent edition of tabular data by several users.

User loads a HTML <form> with a bunch of widgets into her browser, edits some of the data and <submit>s. The usual implementation causes all data submitted via HTTP POST request, as simple KEY=VALUE dataset. Should two users send POSTs of same resource (same URI) concurrently, it is not clear what are real changes and what is unchanged, nor how to apply it to the resource.

What I'd like to do -- and indeed, some parts of my software does, albeit in non-standard way -- is submitting diff, in form of KEY=<original-value, new-value>. Makes it easier for the backend to serialize users' changes, and either apply them in atomic way or reject just the conflicting ones.
Or more likely anybody who bought an AT+T iPhone 4 when it launched went out of contract in July and is waiting for the launch of the '5' before signing on again or switching to another carrier.
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Hard not to feel bad for all involved. I did chuckle when I read that new customer signups was not impacted... thank goodness for that.

Sony won't ever have this problem... all their customer CC data is public.
Both implementations have exactly the same outcome for all inputs, it's just one has less code (well, code that is less complex) inside the loop and therefore is more pipeline friendly and/or just executes faster.

Yes the string comparator is comparing items like:

"a=3&a=4" and "a=4"

but it doesn't really matter since it'll never put such items in the wrong order. It's a quirk of passing the original url as 'const char *' so that it can't be modified (to temporarily replace the & symbols with NULs) and the OP was trying to avoid the cost of copying the input string except when creating the output string.

You should only look at the next byte in either string if both of the current bytes are non-NUL. If both are equal, and one is non-NUL then the other is non-NUL and so you can continue.

If they're non-equal then you stop and return the difference between the two which will be +ve or -ve.

If they're equal and one is NUL then you stop and return the difference which will be 0 since they are equal.
When you want to document a process, it is easier to copy paste a couple of commands than to take a dozen of screendumps with check boxes.
The article is good as far as it goes but it leaves out the use of consumer tracking information by sellers. Vendors selling through Amazon might not have that info but major retailers do.
this 1-3 columns not containing organic search results (main product of google, it why peoples using google).

A. Ads can be helpful, even on MFA site (and clicked very good if organic results not providing any answers). This technique was tested by lot of webmasters before. Also it just matter of thinking (ads is really helpful) and earnings reports.

Peoples visit google to search the web, but not to search adwords websites. But google give maximum priority for ads, not for their main product - organic search results. It will lead to decreased importance of google as search engine very soon.
That articles you mention here - search google or bing and you will find lot of different opinions.

B: that searches where no adwords is not commercial. 99% of peoples creating websites & content because it their workjob, what mean webmasters also need to make money. If it not happens - it will mean less importance of google for webmasters and for searchers in nearest future. Just check how google alexa traffic rank fluctuating after black & white animals (time when google places ads above fold in search results).

C: So maximum daily budget/ppc is not important anymore? 8-P
Sweden sounds like a very rational place.
The fact that non-European companies can abuse their users privacy in this manner, is not a good enough reason to allow European companies to do the same. If this is the way we wanted things to be, we'd get rid of the minimum wage so we could compete with Chinese labour costs better.

It's a trade-off. We gain privacy, and some companies potentially lose some business.
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Different websites have different audiences and monetization schemes making your anecdotal observation uninteresting. It's also at odds with reams of conversion rate optimization data. What did Amazon report - something like a 500ms delay produces a 1% drop in conversion rate. I wonder how long it takes the average pensioner to click through?
Police (and significant politicians and, to a lesser extent, firefighters) have a terrifying amount of immunity: basically if they don't commit grievous bodily harm (and sometimes even if they do) they aren't going to get punished.

Historically we've relied on cultural norms to moderate abuse of this outrageous privilege, with varying levels of success. As that cultural restraint goes by the wayside it appears, unfortunately, that things will get uglier. Naked power unmoderated by a strong culture is extremely dangerous, as Burke tried to tell us.
The real secret sauce is their dead-simple way to sign up and use the client. As you can see in the post, the setup process with the Jitsi client is still a bit awkward, because it is supposed to be a provider-agnostic multi-protocol client. There is still a huge potential in stream-lining this process to get a broad end-user adoption. Flexibility really isn't key in this case, rather than proper UX.
"For a query like "credit card", those non-organic results seem much more, if not just as, relevant than the organic results"

That's almost certainly on purpose to get better ad click ratio. Google manually inspects all major keywords, you can bet "credit cards," "mortgage" and "insurance" are tweaked and tweaked to Google's specification. Showing "bofa.com" when searching for mortgage isn't that useful to the average user, so people click on ads.
I don't see enough numbers in the link to do the analysis, can anyone tell whether this is more due to iPhone slowdown or due to Samsung consolidating premium Android device market share with the Galaxy S III? In other words, is the iPhone really stumbling badly or is the Android market coalescing around Samsung and we are seeing the result of a 2 horse race rather than one big horse (iPhone) vs many little horses (Android)?
A really interesting article on cloud computing markets around the world
Airline tickets are fairly unique in how they're not resellable, thus arbitrage is very difficult. Toiletpaper and microwaves don't have this problem.
This is a comparison made back in 2005 and Google has a better UI than the rest

http://startupboy.com/2005/12/20/fix-the-search-interface-fi...
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What's the difference between that and content marketing?
They weren't intended to necessarily be good examples. By an intergated service, I meant something like Siri.
This problem has been solved 7 years ago. In 2005, Google introduced nofollow:

<a href="..." rel="nofollow">...</a>

I believe that nofollow was mainly introduced to fight against guest book spam, so links in comments wouldn't be accounted by the PageRank algorithm, thus removing the incentive for that nasty spam.

However, you can also use nofollow to link to your competitors without increasing their page rank.
I have seen a shop display a lower price if you came from one of the price comparison engines, a higher one if you searched the shop itself. Caveat emptor.
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Well, if this is true then what are the great advances in Android device hardware that Apple is suing to stop (instead of advancing their own hardware)?
Hey man, I spent 8 hours working on that post. It's most definitely not spam!
No. I know how this stuff works, and I still don't want to be asked this every time I visit a new site. I suspect most other users don't either -- and a majority of them probably don't even understand the question.

The new cookie law is annoying because it results in a barrage of sliding/popup tickbox crap during one's daily browsing.

What we need is browsers with sensible privacy defaults, and easily-understood alternative settings. Safari's standard no-third-party-cookies rule is nice in this regard.
What they're saying is that non-EU companies don't have to obey this law, so they don't want to either.
I am a working professional with a beyond-minimum-wage salary, and my wife is a full-time student. Money is tight. I can imagine many scenarios where someone has the know-how, equipment, and time to make a game but with various expenses (education, medical, debt, etc.) that make $100 sound like a big dent in the monthly budget.
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CDN's have made the more professional version of this a commodity.

As to leaving the US, Megaupload demonstrates that this is not enough.
Clicky just for fun:
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Maybe the weather has something to do with that as well? I live in a very temperate part of the Northeast.
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> Added features

Try removing features ;)

Incredibly in some cases this increases value, because it creates a product that is narrowly specialized and fulfills very specific need. People with that need would rather buy a product that does exactly what they need instead of something that also does it. Specialization and a higher price point serve as indicators of higher quality, and through that - a higher value.
This is obviously just a subjective opinion, but I was using both these phones the other day (in the UK), and I was blow away to the extent that the S3 just demolishes the iPhone in form factor and just overall "sexiness."
Does Apple contribute back to BSD on any meaningful level?
Until the iOS market for apps becomes small enough that developing for it is no longer guaranteed returns I will continue to develop for iOS.

The biggest issue is that on the Android Market Place (Play store or whatever they are calling it these days) I still can't make as much money as on the Apple App Store for iOS.

Releasing a free app with ads just doesn't work for me. So in the long run, until it becomes no longer cost effective it is going to be a long time before I switch to treating iOS as my secondary platform and Android as my primary.
Looking at the code referenced in the bug? I agree, this is a horrible slight to lobotomy victims.
Your browser or personal settings must be clashing with it.

Works fine for me
You're in the lucky position of being informed, and being able to make that choice. 99% of people are not informed on this subject, so their data is being gathered without their knowledge, and without their permission.
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No need to be a cock about it

edit: Jeez, I get it. HN doesn't like puns
Not to forget JSbin that has been here for a good 4 years now and many other live editors like it.
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Haven't used it myself, but it is suppsoed to work, there are a number of Windows specific things on the FAQ - https://github.com/cowboy/grunt/blob/master/docs/faq.md
Is there any evidence that this takedown was in any way incorrect? I'm sure NBC news has perfectly valid copyright on Brian Williams' banter during the DNC, and also so does MSNBC of Rachael Maddow.

Just because this is another claim (which possibly is a perfectly valid one) doesn't mean automatic (or not) copyright claims are destroying the free world. Youtube scans 100 years of video every day with ContentID. It works.
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Personally, I'm really interested in WP8 and I've held off renewing my contract for a year just to see what will come out. We've had many Android phones in our home and I'm kind of done with them. I would like to avoid the updates nightmare between the carriers and google.
They wrote in the release that they wouldn't give any more interviews until they saw "Adrian Chen get featured on the front page of Gawker, a whole day, with a huge picture of him dressing a ballet tutu and shoe on the head, no photoshop."

Chen, a journalist at Gawker, actually did it:
http://gawker.com/

Not even bothering to submit this as a story to HN because I'm pretty sure Gawker links get auto-killed (with good reason, the Gawker article is crap).
Every time I hear this cookie debate, I feel I must be missing something.

If you don't want to be tracked. TURN. COOKIES. OFF.

There is a reason all web browsers come with per-domain cookies policies. We don't need a cookie law. We need some common sense. Everyone is looking to make this someone else's responsibility. Guess what: Your digital security and privacy is your responsibility. I hate this entire debate because:

1) Cookies serve a very, very valuable purpose in website development. Client-side storage is used in basically every major website on the internet.

2) This is hardly low-hanging fruit, and we have much, much bigger problems.

3) Who is the arbiter of what "allowed use" cookies are? We're going to have someone who actually decides, for individual websites, whether cookie use is proper or not? Is it going to work like a DMCA take-down request? An individual sends a request to review a website's cookie policies, and that IT department will have to submit a technical analysis and provide reasons for their cookie usage when a user feels their rights have been violated?

4) You know where this is going? Every single website that you register on is just going to give you a EULA-type agreement when you create an account. New to Facebook? Enter your username, click this checkbox that says "I accept your terms", and that's it.

Normal users will just roll with basically any terms you present to them. Making this entirely ineffective except for the small minority of people, like many here, who are hyper vigilante about digital privacy.

For the people this is meant to protect, they will likely never even think about it and opt-in anyway.

5) I completely reject the notion of getting politicians to dictate requirements to the tech industry in terms of how to handle the web stack. Let the politicians get back to blaming each other for X failures and make Y promises to the public, and get out of my internet.
> You should be asked when you hit a web page if they can add a cookie.
>
> At the moment, this is done by the page by legislation, but the next step is to do this at the browser level. I'm quite happy as it's training users to do this nicely.

Firefox used have an option to ask you whether you wanted to receive cookies sent by websites. Turning it on made your browsing experience quite unpleasant. And that was several years ago; I imagine it'd be worse today.
It is not entirely clear whether this was some internal monitoring, or a DMCA takedown notice.

If it was a DMCA takedown notice, then section g.2.C of http://images.chillingeffects.org/512.html says exactly how Youtube has to act. In particular the 10 day delay before putting content back up is pretty horrible.

If internal monitoring, then the fact that Youtube is aware that the content is copyrighted means that Youtube no longer qualifies for the DMCA safe harbor. (That is my reading of section c.1.A.i of http://images.chillingeffects.org/512.html. I am not a lawyer, but read it for yourself.) This is inevitably going to lead to internal policies that err on the side of caution and not exposing yourself to copyright infringement liability.

Perhaps now that Barack Obama has been on the receiving end of copyright policies that his administration supports, he'll rethink his positions? Not likely. But one can hope.
The problem is the "mass" part. While I agree that not needed approvals is a good thing, from the point of view of "massification", mass broadcasting just makes it go faster. You have the lowest-common-denominator on both ends of the communication channel. It strengthens the old joke about calling the TV an "idiot box": It has an idiot on both sides.

The reason the internet won't actually get as bad as TV is the lack of approvals, and relatively low cost even for good quality production. The problem is that it gets harder to find amongst all the bleep. Search engines help, but I have found some useful sites, by following links, that apparently aren't indexed by Google or DuckDuckGo.
If you were doing Bingo Card Creator today, would you have went with a subscription model instead of a one time fee?