skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it has nothing to do with the funding, but I found the new version of the game somewhat buggy (although the graphics are AMAZING). In 10 minutes, I stumbled upon two issues: first, trying to visit a friend always crashes the game. Second (and more disturbing): visiting the "team" tab and clicking the "i" icon levels up the monster automatically - I clicked it a dozen times, tried restarting the app and it still worked. As a result, I have a level 41 monster without even having fought anything...
Um, doesn't Apple source much of their underlying data from TomTom? Absent incredible stupidity on one side and/or the other could TomTom really be holding out on them?
It's a hazard to others.
When I want to find out what screwdrivers I need to open my MacBook, the first thing I think of is iFixit – oh, and hey, turns out I need a screwdriver I don’t have at home and they are selling it.

I think being the ultimate teardown website is worth a lot of money for them. I’m honestly not even sure how some small website selling repair tools could get that kind of exposure and attention any other way.
There appears to be a real security issue that every one missed in this thread: the password does not appear to be encrypted, but merely obfuscated, using the same obfuscation technique as the one used to obfuscate the randomly generated JSON attribute names.

Which means that even after logging out of pandora, the password would remain in the HTML local storage, and could be de-obfuscated, and log back into pandora.

I am currently working on reverse-engineering the obfuscation algorithm...
I'm very happy they do what they do. Cool online services often take a long time to become availiable Europe. Because of people like the Samwer brothers, that delay has a cost.
In no way does it seem that this is the final product she will ever ship. This version is easy to manufacturer and easy to sell. She has an engineering degree: I'm sure this was not the first design and she whittled down from more complex designs, which she can get back to after she has a thriving business and marketing team. Personally, I think I would have been bored by this after one time at the age of 6 or 7, but it would have gotten my attention (and I was never a princess girl, I just liked puzzles). Think of the things that can spin from this: more technical puzzles, parts that the kids can use to invent their own games, story-telling and programming. I'm committing to her project because I see her as a long-term producer of products that could genuinely make a difference (and if not her, there's enough in here to spin a thousand ideas). Like someone commented on here: The Diamond Age could come from this, and who knows if it will be a girl in 25-50 years who builds it?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3197280
Not only that but we don't know how long the security hole has been there for. I've been running iOS 6 for months now, wouldn't be surprised if these guys did the same thing in preparation.
Zagat and Frommer's aren't comprehensive, but surely they're at least important POI databases?
I just sent in my resume, it looks like an interesting take on the dating/social evening niche.

Plus, I love the idea of companies pairing their employees up with dogs from local shelters.
Definitely... I love it. Thanks!
I'd guess that the vast majority of twitter users don't know anything about this API shenanigans, blocking 3rd party clients and all this bullshit. They don't know and they don't care.

As long as Justin Bieber and other celebrities continue to post, users will be there.

Also, the typical tweet doesn't make sense a couple of hours/days after being posted. I'm not sure if there's such interest in searching for old stuff.
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#1 - yes, which is also a problem! But is actually less serious, because that doesn't give you knowledge of the old password which could be shared with another site. (Obviously in the ideal case it wouldn't be, but let's face it, it is for the vast majority of users.)

#2 - which is something that browser vendors are working to address (e.g. by displaying non-ascii characters in slightly different ways, e.g. punycode, and by blacklisting domains used for phishing, etc).
The stuff that could be better:

If I'm an employer, why would I want to eliminate job descriptions?

If I'm a job seeker, why would I want a "reverse job application"

What is a "reverse job application"?

The "People are talking" phrase seems trite and insincere.

The exaggerated size of the quotation marks looks wrong. Since the
text between the quote marks is smaller, the trailing quote mark is
vertically aligned such that it looks like a pair of commas.

Other than the "Login, Signup, and email" links, there's no further
information about your company or what you actually do?

Under a normal/modern browser, everything is black, white, and shades
of grey save for the "SignUp" link. The result is drab, like a cloudy day.

The good stuff:

Without logging in, your site seems to hold up well under both plain text
(terminal) browsers like lynx, and graphical browsers with modified/forced
CSS (used by people vision disabilities). It would hold up well for the blind
using audio screen readers.

Your HTML source is unusually clean. Nicely Done.

EDIT:
Fonts in Firefox 9 on UNIX (OpenBSD) look fine.
Fonts in Chrome on UNIX (OpenBSD) also look find, but I
use custom fonts in chrome to make things legible.
There's that whole set of people that don't use Facebook ... also, creeper factor much? "hey.. I was searching for you on facebook, and... wanted to know if we could hang out" insert heavy breathing where most awkward to fit my mental image of someone stalking me on facebook
It depends on what kind of updates you're talking about. OS updates are a problem, but I personally know that the G1 got around 3 years of Maps app updates, and given the current OS version distribution newer devices are likely to do even better than that.
> "easy to use"

I don't think it is in the hacker spirit to trade any bit of said "ease of use" against their control over the hardware or software tools they own.

Heck, even Windows is much more in line with hacker spirit than Apple. In PC boxes you could plug your own cards, develop your own driver, etc. Just look at an Apple product, from last month or from 10 years ago: you cannot open it, you are not supposed to install another OS, you can't even change the battery on their phones. And I even didn't start scratching the surface.
Most businesses have a 100+ competitors in their own country. I think you have your answer.
I literally was looking into this last week. I ended up deciding against it. If your walls are like most common walls, you'll notice it's not a smooth surface. That kills it for me. I instead went to Craigslist and found a used whiteboard instead. There were some 4ft by 6ft going for as low as $15 to $30. I ended up picking up a 4ft by 8ft for $70. If you decide to go the paint route, just consider the surface issue.
They are making two simultaneous points:

1. Projects are over-promising and under-delivering

2. Kickstarter isn't a store and was never meant to be one. People have turned it into one, leading to all sorts of issues, including point #1

I think when you are asking for examples of abuse you are thinking of the first point, but the 'no multiple products' rule addresses #2. You aren't buying a product, you are backing a project. If you want multiple lightbulbs, presumably you can purchase them after the project is funded.

In other words, I don't think the rule is to prevent abuse, it's to bring kickstarter back to its roots and remind people what kickstarter is all about. It may hurt some projects but hopefully it will revert kickstarter to its original niche where it was adding a lot of value.
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> What is wrong with Java encouraging OO style programming?

There's nothing wrong with it, if you think OO is a good approach to structuring programs. I happen to think it's not that great an approach. But Java gives you no option, you can't have just "some OO" and some of something else. I think that's a serious mistake. You're welcome to disagree.

I didn't say FP is a holy grail. However in my limited experience, OO is definitely not either.

All that said, there's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, which is all I've been trying to provide. I don't think I've participated in any lynch mob, I'm sorry if you construed my light jab at "Java culture" to be offensive.
Didn't I see press last year that this site couldn't find enough women to match with male clients, and just started hiring girls off Craigslist to show up for free drinks? Or was that another similar service?
The question is not, did X commit fraud. The question is, "can fraudsters abuse the system maliciously?", and "can incompetents unintentionally abuse it?".

Since the answer is clearly "yes" - then taking some steps to reduce the impact of these vulnerabilities seem reasonable. If you are selling a product, show us the product. If you do not have a product, we want to be sure the backers know this.
Why Are Programming Languages Sites So Ugly?
It's true that it's a lot quicker to get started with HighCharts than d3, but you're left with almost infinitely less power. Plus, a high-level API for d3 now exists called
nvd3[1], which is more on the level of abstraction of a visualization framework like HighCharts (also, unlike HighCharts, it's free and open source under the Apache license).

But if you're interested learning a visualization framework that gives you the power to make literally any kind of data visualization you could imagine, and you feel at home doing intermediate to advanced programming in JavaScript and and are familiar with the svg spec(or willing to learn it), then d3 is an incredibly well-designed and flexible tool. It's one of only two software projects I've used in the past few years that makes me want to rave and carry on like this[2].

[1] http://nvd3.com/
[2] http://d3js.org
The attribute name is obfuscated, which makes it harder to programmatically find the password (presuming it is under a different name for each account). The password itself is stored encrypted.

Here's the thing: if someone has this kind of access to your browser, wouldn't it be simpler to install a simple browser plug-in that scrapes off any data typed in to a password input field?
That should be, "Jim Dalrymple, AKA Apple unofficial backchannel hints"
I just got a Mac but this is the first time their closed source monopoly crap has bit them in ash. The more it happens the quicker they will change. It's a good day.
Thank you for the feedback. Building something is challenging and we are always working to improve. I think you brought up some good questions that we will need to address. Do you think a product video would be more beneficial than using text etc?
True that. Advent Pro is pretty, Exo is...strange.
Thanks for pointing that out. We will need to make it so it appears better in Chrome.
#1: It might be a problem, but it is also a clear indication to even a naive user that if they leave their browser logged in to Pandora, their account be compromised.

#2: Right. So there is a possibility that some day in the future, if you are really careful and check your TLS certificate every time you do something with your password, Pandora will be exposing you to a huge gaping hole, that you would otherwise only be exposed to if you used the Apple Store, Amazon, Ebay....
A tree won't BS you like some people, and it won't change it's story a year from now.

So yeah, you pretty much got it.
I agree. In fact, if played correctly, I could see it as an acquisition target of a company like Github.

You can make money and serve the open source community at the same time.
I have two daughters ... both princess-obsessed. I trip over Barbies some days!
21 things I learned on my trip to Silicon Valley
> Because the Democrats want to press home the message that corporations and wealth are inherently evil in this election cycle...

Can we see quote from a Democrat saying this?
Why Should You Learn How To Code
The gist of your argument appears to be "you'll never be perfectly secure, so there's no reason to try to improve things incrementally".
FWIW, I think your thoughts are more of a reality than just your opinion. Thanks for saying it better than I can. Even in these comments, there are people that love it, and people that can't use it.

There are also many forms of dyslexia. Some are related to letter shapes. Some involve glare, etc. etc. etc. No one solution will help everyone. That is why there are color filters, lenses, rainbow'd lines of text, fonts like these, etc.

In the emails I've gotten the past few days, and since I've started this project, there are people who insist their life has changed, people who just like reading with it, and people who are bothered by it. It's just the nature of things.

edit: spellings and such.
Ask HN: A website that lists the current version numbers of software?
I'd like to be notified when, say, a new version of nginx or MongoDB is released without having to check their websites every few days.<p>Does such a centralized service exist?
Indeed, Google Maps is just about the only polished public API they have. It's really unfortunate that Google is so unfriendly to developers regarding their products.
Unless the rules are different for this process, every piece of prior art that you point to now that an examiner doesn't agree with / understand is a piece of prior art that can't be reused further down the line (e.g. in a trial).
Having had the beta for so long I hadn't actually expected integration with maps, I figured it'd just tell you that there were other apps available. I'll definitely be moving to embark for the time being!
While the article is interesting and insightful there is no peer reviewed scientific article linked to it so the title is misleading. Overall I like the read though, psychologists have frequently found money to be a less-motivating factor then emotions in terms of work.
The Apple Maps Switchover Survival Guide
Note: this post was inspired by this discussion on the Go thread yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4548144
I like the concept, but think you need to distill the benefits down more clearly, rather than just the shortcomings of the status quo. I don't think you need a video - they're time-consuming, rarely informative, and often annoying; things like music either clash with people's aesthetic sensibilities or are so bland as to dilute your message.

I would like a little more color. And show me some examples., so I know it's more than another 'upload your resume!' site.
Didn't stop people from doing the same general thing in regards to the iOS beta.
Stupid, baseless article, with a sensationalized headline to match.
The Samwers are exploiting the incredibly inadequate web of trust we have on the internet. It's incredible to me that we're willing to spend money with completely virtual entities and expect things to work out. Is our trust in regulation and the rule of law that solid? Especially in emerging markets?
You are absolutely right. In matters of love and attraction fortune always favors the bold.
I remember my Aikido club in Uni. At the beginning of every year, we held welcome tea with flashy demonstration to attract freshmen. The demo always looked so good that we often got ~40, 50 new members easily. By the end of the third months, can you guess how many new members stay? On average, 3, fking 3 out forty something new members. Why is that so? Because the first 3 months are boring. You stretch and learn to roll. That's it. And it sucks, you look like a fish out of water, awkwardly trying not to hurt yourself. But the three who endured all that and stayed, they became permanent members and almost all went on to become black belts few years later.

What I want to say is that loving something is hard work and usually the initial period is the hardest. If you don't grind your teeth to overcome this, you will never find what you love.
Senate proposal requires warrant for snooping through old emails
I think the extra $200K was well worth the Orchestral Score. I'm happy they got overfunded.
You know, seeing how many chips are in there makes me realize how much more the electronics have the potential to shrink as these things continue to integrate. Even in the same sized case, it might be possible to slip in quote a bit more battery.
Other than maps what are the bugs you have noted in OS 6? How is it less useful?
Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design
What is equally sad is that people put up with this substandard implementation of a core smartphone functionality. That Nokia 920 looks more and more appealing at this point of time with Navteq maps an OIS enabled camera, the two most used functions on a smartphone.
More likely just one implementation of IProblemFactory.
> Jobs would have clearly done things differently.

What's almost as tiresome as the now persistent refrain of "this wouldn't have happened if Steve was still alive" are claims to know what Steve would have actually done if he were still alive. Your second option is ridiculous on its face.
True, because Google is trying to use Google Maps as a hook into Google+ Local. For maps, it all comes back to local search.
As one of the commentors pointed out in the original post, that class is helpful for making AOP driven applications. You could also use it in a DSL system if you wanted. Basically with Spring there are a lot of classes, the majority of which you will never use and should probably never use. But if you have the need, you've got a lot of power.
> Assuming every single one of their accounts, all the same credentials, had perfectly implemented password hashing, this might make sense.

It is Pandora's ethical duty to do their part. And it is the ethical duty of other sites to do their part.

It is the user's duty to do their part.

Any one of these parties slacking does not excuse slacking on the part of others.

This is not a perfect world. We all know there are people who use the same password everywhere. Since we know that, it is our responsibility to do our part.
How to add a location or report a problem in iOS 6 Maps
Venture Capital Is Taking Off in Mexico
We're living a duality in Mexico. On one hand, the country is growing 4% yoy, money is flowing to tech entrepreneurs, on the other crime is rampant.
Ran into the same issue today. I'm really surprised that Apple went down this path, as I can only imagine the havoc that it will have wreaked across the web. I know that it's caused some serious issues in our app.

I'm also wondering why this change wasn't announced to developers by Apple more clearly -- I can't find any mention of it in the release notes. [1]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/Genera...
How does LIDAR fix POI?
Or jailbreak, from what I understand.
An App Store bug worth fixing
I've done this a couple of times too and usually it does get fixed in a week!
Maple Leaf back in Quebec assembly... at least for now
Good for you, assuming they deliver on the experience/promise. Bad for the start ups they are copying.
It's important to you to realize that I'm not your user/customer. I no
longer higher people, and no longer need to be hired. As such, I'm the
wrong person to ask on value of your offering. I've never used a job
site, so I lack the experience needed to point out more good things.

As for explaining the value to your users, both text and video are great
ideas; different people find/consume/relate to information differently,
so having both formats is a good idea. Some people won't bother with video,
and other people won't bother with reading text.

The following text from your site could be improved:

> Save time and money and eliminate posting jobs on boards and sorting through poorly matched resumes.

I'd write it as: "Save time and money by eliminating posting to job boards and sorting through poorly matched resumes."

Using "and" three times in one sentence can be vexing.
I think all your points above are primarily for film as an industry: of course it takes money to make money. But what I meant by "the act of producing" is the act of producing work, of making things. I'm tired of watching polished films from people who don't know how to captivate an audience with their storytelling (narrative or not). Some of the best 'auteur' work I've seen is extremely low budget (the kind of budget you can save up for over a few months or a year). And the hustle? Not everyone wants to be in Hollywood. A lot of very good artists just want to make stuff, while they teach or work on commercials for a living. The film business is harsh and it's not something everyone wants to go all-in for.
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They're a reflection of the people who create them (rimshot).

Honestly, I blame Unix/Gnu (http://www.gnu.org/). Most programmers are command-line oriented and think GUIs are a distraction. It doesn't bother them that most newbies have no means of discovering features absent menus and suchlike, and that means design takes a backseat on their websites too.

I personally thought the go website was a lot better than most; at least it's (semantically) accessible, even if it's cartoonish.
Its entirely plausible that Google framed the map situation one way publicly, but another with Apple in private.
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That only works on broken sites that don't salt.
Their strategy looks good - however what many people are assuming (that they do great execution ) is not correct. They have a record of hiring the top management in their investee companies from consulting firms. There has been a series of hire and fire events in their portfolio at the CEO level because of this.

I see a lot of comments in this page highlighting the fact that they open and shut companies in a matter of months. Actually, the problem is what I mentioned earlier. Poor choices of executive mangement (with no execution experience) results in runaway spending, disproportionate salaries, etc. In 6 months time the Samwer brothers take one look at the margins, decide that the business is unsustainable (as opposed to changing the execution) and shut it down.

In fact there is a recent article floating around that talks about this (my google-fu isnt good enough).

I personally think that Rocket's model is a brilliant strategy, but lacks appropriate execution structure.
Perhaps this isn't quiet HN quality of a comment, but I'd love to go to a grey scale screen. I've been trying to figure out how to do that for years. Never could. The simplicity of it would be wonderful.

In the same way, Java is noisy, I admit that, but it's fast, powerful and fairly easy to understand when executed correctly. I'm not saying you can do the same thing in other languages, but it's a good language for systems, especially middle-ware/server side development. It's horrible for Web Page development since JSPs suck and custom tags never caught on in most development shops (they're used because the framework provided them, but even when .tag files came out few used them to encapsulate screen behavior). But Web Development has moved on to JS on the client and REST on the back, so again Java is pretty good too.
This is terrible. No site has any business "knowing" my password. To me, not hashing is a violation of my trust right there. I'm a paid Pandora user and have been their evangelist for many years and supporter through all their tough times. Just seeing my password in plain text in the DOM Inspector makes me embarrassed. This should have never happened. They should fix this. Soon.
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They can't really know your MAC address anyway since they're more than a hop away from you, most likely.
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Only if the keys are well controlled.
Just what HN needs, another useless article with useless pictures of a useless mapping app.