skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i've always asked for country and zip code first. then ajax-filled (if i have a db table for it) the city/state/province into fields below.

addresses are strange. humans think of addresses in little-endian terms because to them the rest is implicit, while computers and filtering works better big-endian where no assumptions can be made in advance. meh.
> The US is HUGE. For a company to have nationwide coverage
> they need to invest a TON in infrastructure.

Canada is bigger and we've had several new entrants to mobile phone business who've set up their own networks to cover the largest cities in Canada. I think the key is that they're not covering everything (they roam on other networks). Wind Mobile (my provider) regularly offers $40/mo for unlimited nationwide talk/text and 5GB/mo (throttled after the cap an no overage charge). Mobilicity has something similar, but with a $22.50 promo price.

The catch is that "unlimited" means within the parts of their network: regions around the major cities in Canada.

Another company could come along and do a similar scale rollout along the east or west US coasts. I think the difference is that these new operators got to buy up some spectrum back in 2008 because Industry Canada set aside 40 MHz of AWS spectrum for new entrants in an effort to bring more wireless competition to Canada (back then, our three monopoly operators had 94% of the market) [ http://www.dwpv.com/en/Resources/Publications/2009/Flash-Dec... ]. I recall Google bidding on some US spectrum back in 2008. Did anything ever come of that? Did anyone aside from the big networks get any spectrum?

Edit: Looks like Google didn't win any spectrum. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2008_wireless_spe... ] I'm not familiar enough with the US market to know if any of the winners are upstarts.

Edit: You might also be talking about home internet. I have 25 Mbps for $33/mo (it can actually go up to 300 Mbps for $103/mo). Unlike in mobile, my provider Novus is (I believe) reselling service from one of the big networks. (The only other one I know by name is TekSavvy, but I believe there's several of them in different parts of Canada.) I'm not sure if there are similar resellers in the US. Our resellers had some legal battles to allow them to offer this service [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_Based_Billing_(UBB)#Usage... ], so maybe the legal requirements on the network holders is also a contributing factor for increased US prices.
Excellent. I'm sure I'm not the only one on hacker news who doesn't use iTunes.
I wouldn't count on that saving them. Plenty of independent publishers are run by former teachers. Many large publishers employ droves of former teachers. Yet there are lawsuits between industry players all the time.

TPT is able to sell lesson plans at extremely low prices, in large part, because they're not burdened with the task of identifying and paying rights holders.

I'm close friends with an independent book packager. Literally one woman who works from home, packaging book ideas. Book packaging means taking a manuscript from an author, building a book design, and sourcing/creating the associated media (images and illustrations) that make up the book. The only staff she employs (part-time) is dedicated to identifying and obtaining images for her books.

It's a surprisingly difficult task. You can't just perform a Google Image search for a topic, because the site you land on is rarely the rights holder of the image. You end up chasing a rabbit down the hole. She ends up using sites like Getty. While their pricing might seem ridiculous, it's a lot less expensive than dumping hours in to tracking down and negotiating with the person whose photo you found in a Google Image search.

It's easy to see TPT as this awesome, disruptive, middle-man slaying startup, but it's also easy to see how they're not playing by the same set of rules as everyone else. Maybe the rules are wrong. I'm open to hearing that argument. However, I am certain of one thing: it is not OK to hold people like my book packager friend to one standard while TPT is held to another.
This is excellent. If only I could convince certain folks to move away from their flash-based uploaders, then we'd be in business. ;)

I'll keep at it!
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This is what I was expecting as well. It would be an interesting study into what happens when you 'fall' for one of these scams, although most likely this laptop was sent to a legitimate buyer as part of a larger scam, detailed by ben1040 here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4566587
wha, 10% cliff-drop isn't good enough for you?
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:FB
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i wonder how much of the Apple tax can be attributed to bringing about patent litigation.
Well yes, if you've got the same server and cert. Often the SSL frontend of big websites serve multiple certs so you'd have to have all of them to compare against.

Plugins like Convergence will verify who signed a cert for you, assuming the notaries aren't blocked by your corp proxy (and currently blocking any of them will kill the whole chain of trust, so it's not as useful as it seems).

In any case, your HTTP client having the right software and right root certs is the only way to know what is valid and what isn't. You could compare the fingerprint from your 3G phone's browser (or the issuers in the chain's fingerprints) to the cert from your PC's browser. Unless the phone is managed by your company too, in which case they can install the fake root cert there as well...

What's also kind of funny is it's easier to spoof a cert on a mobile phone than a PC. Phones can be updated over-the-air by the mobile provider while your PC has to give some kind of admin rights to your ISP. Since mobile devices are "the future of computing" this makes who controls the mobile device a scary proposition, especially in countries with oppressive regimes (or countries that like to shove internet legislation down your throat without asking).
That IS how the author suggests the site be, so we spend less time on here. ;)
And the 1871 site is down... Grr.
I had something similar happen with Wells Fargo. Logged in and saw someone else's name, Florida purchases (I'm in Montana), along with a different account number, statement history, etc.

Naturally, I recorded this with Quicktime and then called WF. Their response: "It's not a big deal -- neither accounts can withdraw money." After repeatedly explaining how serious this is for identity theft, I was told to wait 10 days. Their solution was to shutdown my online account without notice. If no one can login, then it's safe!

It took over a month to get this resolved, and once I could download my statements, I "cancelled" my account. WF is like Hotel California though -- a year and many phone calls later, my accounts still aren't closed.
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The direct blog-free link is:

http://matthias.vallentin.net/probability-and-statistics-coo...

which was discussed in depth previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4527914
Setify
I see. Thank you for pointing that out. I've added a comment highlighting the situation.
Excuse me, before we get all excited, where did Rebecca say that she is from Nigeria? Or are all internet scams now called 'Nigerian scams'?

The number of times Nigeria was used in that post, you would think the Nigerian flag and Rebecca's Nigerian passport accompanied the emails.
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this is extremely informative. thank you for sharing!
No.

Local industrial infrastructure to enable people to make decent bikes however, might.
God help us if the scammers ever find someone who can write correct English. I know many people get caught by these scams, and I suspect that the numbers would increase if the wording was improved a bit.

There's a metaphor about conversions and copy-writing and startups in there somewhere.
Hey guys - I work on Timeline here at Facebook and just wanted to chime in here. I've looked into a bunch of cases today where people were concerned their messages were showing up, but as has been pointed out in many places (e.g. techcrunch), there was no privacy violation here.

If you've kept your old emails around (woohoo gmail!), one thing you can do is go back and look for the notification email you got for a particular post that you suspect was a message. There's a date search widget that makes this easier. I suspect you'll find it was a wall post.

Another thing to note (for those that follow our technology), is that the backends for these two systems are entirely different. The messages backend is hbase-backed, designed for real-time communication more than history. The timeline backend is MySQL / C++ backed. Migrating data from hbase to MySQL would have to take months of effort.

I know that even though there was no bug here, this can be an alarming experience to see old posts surfaced like this. We're working on ways to make this interaction clearer so people aren't so surprised in the future. That said, please rest assured that your inbox is not on your timeline.
So you're saying that the government, either knowingly or unknowingly, made decisions that, in the long run, adversely affected its citizens? No kidding.
I seem to be mistaken. However I was twice as stupid because I have hidden all these messages, and now I can't recover them on my timeline. I don't find them in my activity log (not under "hidden" nor "all"). Strangely, if I update my status and make it "hidden" in my timeline, it shows under "hidden" in the activity log...
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If there's anything I've learned today, it's been that people really like Spotify, and tend to send their information to last.fm. All the feedback is definitely helping me organize my list.
> The teaching exception means that a teacher in a classroom can show a copyrighted piece as part of her lesson plan.

> If it were possible to use the teaching exception in this way, all educational book publishers could use any image they want without paying for it.

Your logic is flawed here. TPT is selling lesson plans and live teaching materials, not books. (Or at least they could reasonably make this argument)

Also, the packages typically include references. Teachers using these materials should be aware that they are potentially infringing on copyright, thus could be sued.

Like I said, TPT could be saved via DMCA, and the teachers are the ones that could be sued. The teachers would then be protected by the teaching exception. My point was that the lawsuit is not an obvious winner.
That's like asking a rape victim to show her bruises publicly or you won't believe it

I get the parallel, but still, the rape analogy feels tasteless and out-of-scale. May I suggest "that's like asking someone what their password is to prove that it was stolen"
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I just found it amusing because the guys who would have to fix it probably don't have the ability to read about the problem.

But yeah, that sort of site is a no-brainer to be filtered.
You heard it here folks, an engineering bug that didn't actually happen is tantamount to rape. Perhaps we should stop referring to them alleged bugs and start calling them rapes. I'm sure the rape victims in the audience would love this idea.
The New Myspace
Am I the only one concerned about everyones' preoccupation with tools?
You should really pay a designer a couple of hundred bucks to spice up that default bootstrap theme in my opinion. Standard bootstrap looks like a weekend hack to me (and probably a huge part of your target audience) and your service is so much more than that.

The libraries look great by the way!
The posts in this thread are a great example of the power of suggestion.

It seems pretty clear at this point that there's no evidence that private messages were made public- other than hearsay.
This will get you directly to the HTML frame:
http://fiddle.jshell.net/wut6z/show/

I just took a photo with my mobile web browser. Cool.
Mike Lazaridis hopes to turn Waterloo into "Quantum Valley"
Google Talk supports both voice and video calling. I use it quite regularly to make international calls for free.
Runs ok here. Here is the link to the chrome store in case of: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/knkmodnockkaaebcbb...
For this to initiate, does it require user interaction? Is it possible to trigger this through javascript? Does it use the rear-facing and/or front-facing cameras? If an image is captured, does the phone let the user know? Can the user turn this feature off?

I see from the spec it mentions the part about user interaction, so at least that's there. I'm just curious how the other things work if anyone can get it to work on a device. Plus, if a page has a regular form for something unrelated, can this attribute be hidden in the form to snap an image to be uploaded as well without the user knowing it?

The spec also mentions metadata in the image. Will there be a way for the user to prevent that?

Also, the spec notes three attributes: camera, camcorder, microphone. They better lock this badboy down hard.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/
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+1. Plenty of people in the US have a subpar grasp of English (and yet are not retarded). For example, my dad was not born in the US, but has a Masters in Electrical Engineering and used to work on power grid systems. He's a smart guy. However, it took him a good amount of time to recognize phishing e-mails, some of it requiring my guidance. For example, it's not easy to identify Misused Capitalizations, or to pick up on missed article in email, or to recognizing verbs not agreed with time.

Furthermore, it is completely plausible to an inexperienced person that PayPal might enlist FBI to enforce shipment of paid-for goods. It takes some experience in this country to realize that 1) this sort of matter is not referred to FBI unless it's super grave, 2) and not referred to any enforcement entity so fast (less than 30 days), 3) and not referred to any separate enforcement entity without at least several resolution attempts from the original business.

In fact, IMO, it's quite arrogant, on the part of the OP to say this. Unfortunately, this is a typical attitude in the geekdom: if something that's obvious to us isn't obvious to you, you're stupid.
There's thousands of "deadly commands" like these you "should never run on Linux". The list here doesn't seem to be more than a random collection of things.

Also incorrect -- as mv ~ /dev/null is quite safe on Linux, because it doesn't work - you can't move something to a non-directory (you can rename a file, but not overwrite file with directory).
There's nothing novel about automating builds or pushing them out and letting an auto updater deal with them.

This is par for the course. Welcome to software 101.

They ship once a week? Great. What does that actually tell you? Almost nothing. We know nothing of why they're shipping once a week. It's not relevant, because it's not a metric that matters.
I think its actually old private chat messages that are showing up.
The issue with Maps is the data. Open source is about code, not data.
The Internet has been around for fifteen years, and PayPal has been around for more than ten. I don't think either of them qualify as "new" anymore. Most people get scammed not because the technologies are new, but because they have been using those technologies irresponsibly, i.e. without educating themselves about their dangers first. They simply want to reap the benefits, and end up losing their money.
I came from a developing country and among the things I miss about it is low cost phone, cable and internet. Basically $25/month vs $150 I'm paying now for pretty similar quality of service. That has puzzled me a great deal, shouldn't tech cost be much higher in a developing country than in the #1 technology country in the world.
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If implementing every effect out there by yourself becomes tedious, you might wanna give audiolib.js a shot: https://github.com/jussi-kalliokoski/audiolib.js , it's an audio effects library I've been building for 2 years now. :)
Angels and VCs taking your questions
Thank you for taking the time to respond in kind; I do not disagree with what you have stated. I disagree with choosing this by default; it violates the principle of designing tools and APIs for use by the general programming public in such a way that they fall into the "pit of success". http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2003/10/02/50420.aspx

To me, the choice of performance over reliability is the hallmark of mongodb, for better or worse.
Awesome quote: "Innovators ask provocative questions that challenge the status quo. They observe the world like anthropologists to detect new ways of doing things. They network with people who don’t look or think like them to gain radically different perspectives. They experiment relentlessly to test new ideas and try out new experiences. Finally, these behaviors trigger new associations which let them to connect the unconnected, thereby producing disruptive ideas."
Arguably, those should be nearly the same thing. (In a perfect world, at least.)
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Or you could just pick up F# and run with it :D
Nice that they fall back to regular file inputs expecting that file type when the host device doesn't support the hardware.
Look at Titan (http://thinkaurelius.github.com/titan), a new distributed OLTP graph database that has a storage layer that adds distributed transactions to pluggable backends, such as HBase and Cassandra. It's by the team the created Tinkerpop Blueprints and Gremlin, the graph traversal language.

You can read more about it in Matthias's PhD dissertation (http://www.knowledgefrominformation.com/category/publication...).

Also see Calvin:

"Calvin can run 500,000 transactions per second on 100 EC2 instances in Amazon’s US East (Virginia) data center, it can maintain strongly-consistent, up-to-date 100-node replicas in Amazon’s Europe (Ireland) and US West (California) data centers---at no cost to throughput."

"Calvin is designed to run alongside a non-transactional storage
system, transforming it into a shared-nothing (near-)linearly scalable
database system that provides high availability and full ACID
transactions. These transactions can potentially span multiple
partitions spread across the shared-nothing cluster. Calvin
accomplishes this by providing a layer above the storage system that
handles the scheduling of distributed transactions, as well as
replication and network communication in the system. The key technical
feature that allows for scalability in the face of distributed
transactions is a deterministic locking mechanism that enables the
elimination of distributed commit protocols."

http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod1...

And Omid (https://github.com/yahoo/omid) is another somewhat similar system, but it only works with HBase. Here's a comparison from the Omid team:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/omid-project/BTue2jAH1iQ/ZP3...
Myspace previews complete redesign
Here is a google engineer giving a keynote on Spanner:

http://vimeo.com/43759726
Or not goofy, if you think of 'number' as an enum constant denoting that variable's type, rather than its value.

In this context, 'NaN' just happens to be another admissible value within the space of "number".
A typical plan consists of a word document or PDF containing a description of the lesson, images (charts, graphics, posters, etc), fonts (rendered as it would be used, not as a reference), and instructions on performing the lesson.

I've only seen a fairly small number of plans (less than fifty) but it's hit or miss on how sources are credited or listed at all. Font names are common, license and purchase information is almost never included. Image sources are hit and miss though there's a lot of use of scrappindoodles.com and they explicitly list how their resources can be used, how they have to be credited, and name TPT explicitly in their ToS which I found interesting. Other sites have pretty typical license terms with lots of personal, non commercial use restrictions.

Here's the terms for scrappindoodles.com which specifically calls out TPT use as acceptable for license holders. http://www.scrappindoodles.com/index.php?main_page=condition...
Do prices at $.99 instead of $1.00 result in more sales?
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Saying that different defaults should be documented prominently is like saying that because every piece of software is different, you should be required to read the documentation before you use it...
Yeah my two favorite features:

1. Slow loading.
2. Expired links.
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What a thoughtful response. I can imagine that you're having a very difficult day over there. Keep up the good work.

Personally, I'm sad that all of my private messages have been so mundane that if they got out, it would be no big deal. I just looked through and I didn't find any meaningful dirt at all. What a shame.
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What forums are helpful? Who's blog should you be reading? Who should you be following on Twitter?
You're 100% right, that was a bad call.

It was the best I could come up with on the spur of the moment but I should have thought about it a bit longer. The weirdness of the request is what angered me to the point of being careless with words.
The shipping address?
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How would Larry Paige or Drew Houston have done research to conclude that they are "better/luckier than everyone else who's approached this"? After all, Google was one of the last search engines to enter the industry.

I am not even convinced that that is true. As I said in the last post, given a certain number of people that can solve a problem, what are the chances that they are working on the same problem as Larry or Drew? Furthermore, the amount of time that it takes to prove that an idea is actually a good one is a few years at the least. Next, the range of ideas is so large, that this group of people is going to be heavily segmented in different areas. Lastly, as I pointed out with Dropbox, innovation doesn't always lie entirely in the difficulty of the problem, but also the execution. All of these factors go to increase the minimal size of smart people who can be the first to innovate in their fields.
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I missed the discussion surrounding gettip - so this may have been said before; I agree that the hacker spirit often leads to projects forming from a passion of some sort - and that passion generally keeps the project going - but I also find myself coming up with new projects constantly, often leaving projects to wither away. It might be due to passion for a specific project just dwindling down, or a different project enticing far more passion. Would a couple of tips for an older project re-ignite the passion? That is hard to say - but it will make me think twice about the future of it and whether I should give it some love and care, or should pass the reigns on to a new maintainer that will give it the proper attention it might deserve.
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Aye, but it's not exactly moving the web forward, is it?
I'm excited to try Filepicker.io in an upcoming project but

Why on earth does it need "Post on my behalf" permissions for Facebook? I'm guessing FB will be a popular sources of images for many, but this just adds another (confusing IMO) step in the authorization process. Yes, I know it's an optional permission but totally unnecessary IMO.