skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an engineer focusing on web software I also see these comments a lot. I also know how it drives people (buying customers) away from websites. Yet it is rather surprising how people like you make such comments. "Upgrade your software, you fool!" seems to be the norm. But, how much does it cost to add a few lines of code like the following:

<noscript>Please enable javascript. If you have any questions how to do so, please click on this <a href="#">link.</a></noscript>

In fact, I'll license that code right there under the GNU WTFPL license, so web devs like you can use it to their advantage.

In terms of browsers, allow me to ask you some questions. Do you know which is the second most used browser in the USA? Firefox. Which version? Not the latest. People are always at least one or two updates behind. Not making a website available to a majority is just bad business sense.
Depends on what you want to do, and if you can override the clear-screen page blanking. As a benchmark, here's someone running a Playstation 1 emulator on an e-ink Nook:

http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/9877-psx-emul...
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Who's to say that 4chan users, too, are not simply motivated by instinct, knowing neither malice or conscience?
Universe Sandbox: Interactive Gravity/Spacetime Simulation App
Ask HN: Any experienced iPhone app developers willing to give me some advice? 
Hi,

I run a web site with a large user base and I'm planning to launch a simple, free iPhone game that I know they will love, but I need some advice on how I should integrate ads and create a paid version that can be upsold.

I'm not looking for a programmer, I just need some advice from a more experienced person.

If you live in the San Francisco Bay area, I'd be more than happy to buy you beers.

You can email me at: gregg5500@gmail.com
VNC viewer for the kindle:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150434

How to use your Kindle DX as a display:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/259582/how_to_use_a_kindle_dx...
After reading through that blog post it seems that David himself still has some serious doubts as to whether Bluetoad was the source of the breach.

Reading through his analysis, it almost seems that he may have fallen victim to log file pareidolia as he doesn't make it clear how a device named "Hutch" or one named "Paul’s gift to Brad" a anything more than coincidences in a very large data set.

Doing some quick analysis of the file shows that there is a UDID that has the alternate names; "Hutch Hicken" (Bluetoad CTO), "Bluetoad Support" and "Customer Service iPad" among others, but could this also be representative of an older iPad that has been a pass-me down through the company?

Somewhat more interesting and possibly more revealing are the UDIDs 'ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff' (occurring three times) and the small number of records not conforming to the field size and format of other records (UDIDs > 42 characters, no APNS, device/iOS version number as fourth field).

For anyone interested the following ugly and slow one-liner will print out a summary of non-unique UDIDs along with their APNS and names.

perl -F, -lane '$a{$F[0]}{$F[1]}=$F[2]; END { foreach $k (keys %a) {next unless ~~ keys %{$a{$k}} > 2; print "\nUDID : $k"; foreach $d (keys %{$a{$k}}){print "\t-> $d : $a{$k}{$d}"} } }' data
Blocking someone describing your product as tantamount to illegal activity (scraping) is cheaper than lawyering up.

Marco's current problem is that he's put himself in such a bloviating position that relenting and whitelisting 9to5Mac is going to make him look like a huge idiot.

Someone with a thicker skin would probably have asked the guys whether they really thought Instapaper was illegal, and whether Marco should disable Instapaper support for them. That way, he wouldn't be editorializing his articles.

This measure also creates a precedent where site owners can petition him to disable support for their website - which, taken far enough, is going to make Instapaper very undesirable to prospective users.

Those of us who've paid Marco money would rather that he didn't take a service we've paid money for to use as a bargaining chip.
The US Forestry service (certainly by Bill Bryson) is regarded as in thrall with loggers (builds roads for access to heavy equipment, sells trees at a loss acting as a subsidy provider etc.)

You seem surprised by this? The clue is the name: Forestry service - it exists to provide service to the forestry industry.

BUT this isn't necessarily a bad thing! A properly managed forestry industry is a good thing: it provides a cheap, 100% renewable resource, acts as a carbon sink, and acts as a substitute for non-replenishable resources (eg, unmanaged rainforest logging).

At the same time, there is a tension between the renewable aspects of forestry management and the idea of opening new areas for exploitation. That's where the issues are, not around building forestry roads etc.
I hope the people who harass her are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

The fact is, sometimes hornets' nests need poking, not because of the hornets that will fly out and sting you, but so an exterminator will notice the nest and remove it shortly.

While I question her motives (linking to a porn site of herself didn't exactly help) this really shows the dark side of the internet yet again.
Why? It's no different from any other installation method: http://gist.io/3670086

You're running code you haven't read. It all reduces to exactly the same vulnerability.
You are forgetting to account for context.

I was saying that they couldn't go if they can't afford to lose ten grand if they're wrong about the song, not that it'd be illegal to do so.
BidKat actually used a very similar model in our MVP - users would upload images to imgur and then copy and paste the link to add the image to their auction. We had the same results, nobody had any idea how to use it or even what we were talking about.

We looked at Filepicker.io but just couldn't justify the cost. I also had a hard time putting a core part of our business in the hands of somebody else. We see it too often where you take a hard dependency like this and then the service either goes down or worse, gets acqui-hired.

We now just use a simple link the user clicks on to add an image from their computer which then gets processed and uploaded to S3. Took me about 1/2 a day to code up and my monthly cost is about $1.50. I admit it isn't fancy. We don't have drag and drop, you can't add images from Dropbox or Facebook directly, but it works for us and our customers.
Very interesting. Can definitely relate ..

This part made me chuckle:

> [Rodrigo] does things his own way, and you can't get a clear thought out of him without rambling incoherence surrounding it.

However, I would argue (and I'm biased, of course) that if you're a technology company, it's the manager's responsibility to adapt to Rodrigo
I like this quote:

"Reality is painful — it’s so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you’re good at or else to pick something so hard there’s no point at which it’s obvious you’re failing — but it’s impossible to get better without confronting it."

It is a measure of a good technology hire. I don't necessarily want someone who is an expert in one language, one technology or even one particular vertical. I want someone who consistently pushes to learn more. I would even provide the necessary tools/training and time for them to do so.

It is a problem with a lot of developers. They get into a comfort zone and stick it out.

Good interview question:

"Tell me about a time in which you were trying something new and it didn't exactly work out as you expected. What did you do next?"
If skeuomorphism didn't have a name, I bet no one would give a shit.
I had a go at a Rack/WSGI style PHP web server a while ago:

http://getkelpie.com/

.. it's using the mongrel http parser wrapped in a PHP extension, so it's pretty fast and reliable:
https://github.com/dhotson/httpparser-php

I tried it at work and got pretty significant performance increase since it only has to initialize the framework at server startup instead of every request. We went from a baseline of 70ms to about 2ms per request.
Thanks for answering. Seems you've had time to de-compress and think things through. Isn't it wonderful? :)
Something I've been itching to get into is conventional industries. There is a lot of things to do there, and companies with deep pockets to sell to. They rely on old and clunky software to operate, and it slows their productivity down. I'm working on a project to attack such problem. Let's see how it pans out.

Best of luck, and keep us posted. This is not a failure, but a pivot. :)
Your first point is incorrect. Apple developed (and has always developed) the Maps app for iOS. The app is no longer using the Google Maps API - that is the difference in iOS 6.
Serious question. The "about" page is vague and refers to documents which are now exclusively about the deactivation.

Context-free post is context-free.
Your comment would be fair had Apple built the Lisa to weight 100 pounds and boot in 10 minutes. If you never saw a Star in operation, I strongly suggest you watch one of the many videos available on YouTube. You'll see how little Apple borrowed beyond black letters on a white background.

And how unusable the Star really was.
Also the statement for Fermat's Last Theorem isn't showing the exponents correctly (should be a^n+b^n=c^n)
Sure, there are other boards, but /b/ is bigger than all of them combined, and is the primary reason for 4chan's fame. It's not entirely accurate to assume that they are one and the same, but it's mostly accurate.
Here's a presentation of the mathematician the article is about. It's on the nature of "Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory"[1] which apparently was the work leading up to the proof.

[1] http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%20...
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I'd be really interesting to get some behind-the-scenes data on what happened and what it took to fix it.
Why don't notebook users protect each other from theft using their webcams?
For example, they could form a surveillance network in a public library for this purpose. If a theft occurs, they could send their videos to the police.
> "maybe it's just common"

Perhaps making it a poor choice for building a brandable user interface. That is, if you want your app to stand out from the crowd.
Yeah, it's crap to be cruel to animals, but people? Do whatever you want to 'em!

4chan as a whole may have redeeming value (I'm not involved, so I can't say), but to the rest of the world, 4chan == /b.
I think what actually happens is that her understanding of the technical issues is simple minded in the first place, and she explains it at a level that a layman can understand. Where as Rodrigo has a deep understanding of the issue, and he can't find a way to explain it without involving the listener in some technical details that they don't understand and don't care about.
Notice that we only shoot bears that are actually eating hikers

Not true. Bears are a popular animal to hunt in every state in the US that has them.
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Marco Arment made a mistake here. I know the feeling well. He will get over it, and so will all of you.

Is there much more to say about it than that?

I will never understand why people personalize so much what what Arment says. He's an independent developer; he's one of us. He happens to like iOS more than a lot of HN'ers. "Liking the wrong operating system" seems like a much smaller sin than "shitting all over an indie developer".
Gruber's tone and attitude are definitely heavily informed by the experience of the "beleaguered" era. (For those who don't know, this adjective was seemingly tossed in front of the company name almost any time Apple was discussed in the press, enough for the word itself to become a joke about perceived anti-Apple bias in the media.)

A lot of Apple fans are still playing a game where they're rooting for the underdog against a world that doesn't appreciate good UIs, well-built computers, or value over cheapness. The situation used to be clear: Microsoft, and to a lesser extent Intel, were the forces of darkness, building a huge market share by saddling the world with cheap crap, while Apple struggles on making something better. Now that narrative doesn't work anymore, but you can see people like Gruber search for new oppressive enemies to try to carry on with the same story. RIM, Google, Samsung, and even Microsoft's phone and tablet division get slotted into the same old story.

Personally, I think you're right that things might revert to how they were during the Dark Times, but that Apple is by far the most likely candidate for the oppressive and massively successful company, and cheerleaders like these guys are helping that process along.
I've seen a few Rodrigos (from distance mostly) in my life and it turned out later that they are all happily employed at tech companies.

And that's what makes a tech company a "tech" company. It can make Rodrigo come to work, produce code, be more-or-less happy.

I also guess they're compensated OKAY compared to developers in climb-the-ladder sweatshops, too.
So you would say it violates the Universal and Objective standards of good taste?
It took a moment to puzzle these out (parent and GP's comments). The article would a great deal clearer if the typography made these clearer.
Agree with your fight, thanks for carving this site about gratuitous user interface decisions, really. However, I am puzzled that you don't apply this to your writing and use proper capitalization.
> He's a developer, and an opinionated one at that

Too often this is a euphemism for "he's a jerk who's unwilling to consider anyone else's perspective or requirements".

You can kinda get away with that in software development if you're incredibly smart, but it's an awful attitude to bring to any other part of your life.
Sure. Dropbox is doing an awesome job there. But from the developer perspective, he will still have to maintain multiple integrations into FB, Dropbox etc. If the developer treats dropbox as a local drive folder then he will still have to support things like progress bars, drag and drops etc for local uploads. So the pain will still remain.
Haha, completely true. It also helps that the name is kinda fun. There were a lot of nerds messing around with XMLHttpRequest back in the day, but it got a lot cooler when Adaptive Path christened it "AJAX."
You're totally right of course. I should clarify this (as I mentioned somewhere else on this page I think) by saying "I personally can't see a billion dollar opportunity in this space, but it doesn't mean there isn't one".
Discussing the response is useless, because there's nothing much to discuss, we'd just be agreeing with each other and patting ourselves on the back.
I know that some communities enjoys such circlejerks, but I expect HN to be above that.
How would the secretary know what to say in response to these emails?
> Besides, it seems you're equating game quality with poly count.

As someone who, in terms of raw gaming time, spends more time beating Ninja Gaiden on the NES than playing the favorite FPS of your average 11 year old, that seems dubious at best.

The original Ninja Gaiden series is the Liszt of gaming.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00204.html

The feature is confusing (it uses virtual files visibly only to bash, and not extant on the filesystem) and overlaps existing functionality (netcat).

Also:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=146464

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/04/msg01591.html

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/11/msg00794.htmlu

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00204.html
A download button on each song would be awesome!
Why would I want to explore a place that hosts a filthy cesspool crawling with loathsome sloths and immature rejects from all walks of life?

Thanks for your great advice, but I think I'll just stay as far away from that place as possible. I'm sure I'll be able to read about it somewhere else, the next time these mindless children decide to go too far.
From a usability standpoint yes, but there are more to it than that. If a purely aesthetic design choice enhance sales or just tailor to the target customers taste it can it self be seen as providing a function.
Anything to back the claim that textures are "generally better" in terms of UX? Studies? Statistics? A/B testing?
Hollywood to go public?
Many people already have HTPC's with Steam to run games on their TV. The only thing this enables (or simplifies) is the use of a gamepad. It still requires an HTPC physically connected to your TV .
So Mr. Marco is upset by some blog and that's why I can't use it in Instapaper? I don't even read 9to5mac but it's reason enough for me to cancel my Instapaper account.

Are there any alternatives I should know about?
Wait, running the built-in server is one command (and no configuration), and it's quite reasonably claimed that Rails' equivalent built-in command is helping the adoption of Rails by people who are now in the position where you previously were.

It seems to me like it should be at least as easy to fire up the built-in web server as to learn FTP and sign up for some random shared hosting account, right? That is to say, isn't this even a lower barrier to entry than the FTP approach?
I remember seeing that, its kind of weird that no other companies have implemented similar solutions, does Guerrilla Games have a patent on that?
This is paid PR for Southwest Airlines, right?
I'd love to hear of more DNS providers that do slaving / zone transfers, if you know of some.

The biggest pressure here is speed, though. A timeout on a failed DNS lookup is an eternity when you're aiming for sub-second page loads.
Also, can the huge lead of the iPhone still be true?

He explains in the text that this depends entirely on the target market. In some countries the iPhone utterly dominates and in others it's down in the baseline.
http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-a...

[edit - linked the wrong discussion]
No, because it's bloody obvious that they're doing things specifically to hurt people. Humans don't desecrate graves by instinct, that requires malice, I'd say.
It's not that it's dull, it's just that (today in particular) I am wasting time reading about X famous dev vs. Y popular tech blog. I'm just lamenting that I should be developing code because reading about X vs. Y is not helping me to someday become an X. None of this is anyone's fault but my own.
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Also:

> It states that for integers a+b=c, the ratio of sqp(abc)r/c always has some minimum value greater than zero for any value of r greater than 1. For example, if a=3 and b=125, so that c=128, then sqp(abc)=30 and sqp(abc)2/c = 900/128. In this case, in which r=2, sqp(abc)r/c is nearly always greater than 1, and always greater than zero

should be:

It states that for integers a+b=c, the ratio of sqp(abc)^r/c always has some minimum value greater than zero for any value of r greater than 1. For example, if a=3 and b=125, so that c=128, then sqp(abc)=30 and sqp(abc)^2/c = 900/128. In this case, in which r=2, sqp(abc)^r/c is nearly always greater than 1, and always greater than zero
I would bet their attention span is more like a power law distribution. While the vast majority will taper off over a couple of weeks, the long tail will be there to make sure the victim gets whats coming for an "appropriate" amount of time.

My assumption is that it is just like "real life" where something might be big drama in the family for a week or two. After that, only one or two people will still talk about it, but they will continue to talk about it years later.

I would love to see some actual data on this.
I agree, it seems to be the kind of value you can subscribe to in order to advertise your sophistication to the world. The irony is that the idea is not original so the effect is the opposite, instead of signaling sophistication it signals that you want to appear to be sophisticated and are someone who knows a lot about design.
Warning: This article is mangled by the flattening of all the superscripts in it. Given that it's about powers, the math is all but unreadable. You have been warned. :-)
The version from Nature does not suffer from this typographical mess.

http://www.nature.com/news/proof-claimed-for-deep-connection...
$900 we are almost there!
Changed to the Nature article that this is a repost of. The SA article had borked formatting, losing superscripts.
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>So skeuomorphism is now anything besides Windows Phone style "pure digital"? Shiny = glass, black texture = leather, blue texture = denim, etc? That's going to be really, really boring

How is Metro really really boring? Have you used WP beyond seeing screenshots?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=locNEna0of4&feature=plcp.

If you're really interested in the design philosophy , here's some analysis of Metro's alternative approach which mainly goes by the 'authentically digital', 'intentionally 2d' and 'content before chrome' philosophies.

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/493

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/526

You can have plenty of design flair in Metro. In fact, you can get skeumorphic! http://www.silverlightshow.net/Storage/Users/chiara/cabinet_...

>Aero Glass is a great example

Aero Glass is just barely skeumorphic, it mostly stays out of the way except for window borders. Other skeumorphic designs are much more in your face and some affect usability because it's not clear what the controls are and how to interact with them.
This sounds like an easy Linked-In product offer. Provided they don't sell-you out.

But if you are paying them, that's good incentive for real privacy.
Pocket is fairly popular: http://getpocket.com/
Exactly. They're giving anonymity a pretty bad name.
That comment, from 2009, refers to a different paper by a different author.
Or posts older than a day or two, I believe.
Indeed. Since it's simply copy-pasted from Nature News[0] (with attribution), it may be worthwhile to read it there directly.

I didn't understand that the ratio of import was sqp(abc)^r / c until I clicked through to the original story.

[0]: http://www.nature.com/news/proof-claimed-for-deep-connection...
Make sure you are using hardware decoding which is more than fast enough. I doubt these systems have enough cpu capacity to decode HD streams w/o assistance.
As long as people don't punch you in the face when you totally pwn them :D
all the profits from my own portfolio is from Apple stock, even though i also own, Amazon, Tesla, Arm and so on.

No! That is different.

These are public companies, and the fact you are seeing amazing share price growth from Apple is an exception.

Usually[1] on the public share market you'll see growth rates of ~8% pa, with some slightly above that and some below that.

The continued rapid rise in Apple's share price in exceptional, and is having an effect on your portfolio that is unlikely to be seen again in our lifetime.

That is completely different to pre-A-round investing, where it is expected to see (say) 1% of companies return 1000%.

TLDR; Apple is an exception. Don't think PG's essay applies to public markets.

[1] "Usually" in the sense of the pre-2008 sharemarket.
That link is old and was posted a few years before the final paper. The more recent discussion is here: http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-a...
Aha. s/malware/bad actors/

A little late getting back to the party, but the problem I intended to highlight was the potential for DDOSing the traffic network, or someone otherwise gaming the system.
Absolutely. I honestly clicked on his link to the original expecting to read an observation taken completely out of context. I was wrong. It wasn't even a veiled attempt at attacking the Verge's integrity - he outright claimed they were sellouts with dubious ethics.