skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple’s downfall seen on the horizon
Love the idea but isn't this the same thing as using command+shift+ctrl+4 and then pasting into a photoshop document?
I use monit [1] for that. What advantages does Upstart have over monit?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monit
8 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Master the Creative Mind
>Let it be said that some techies see evidence of a more rational impulse within Apple. They say Apple's browser and HTML5 support are conspicuously superior to Android's. Within Apple apparently there are teams committed to making sure Apple devices are competitive in the open-ecosystem world that is coming.

Huh?
'best before date' and 'sell-by date' refer to different things and are usually separated by a few days.

e.g. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01420/date_14201...
This will badly reflects on analytics softwares if you have a heavy mobile website.
"Sign up & Get Started Now!"

Thats exactly what your call to action says.. but thats blatantly a lie.. It gives the expectation of instant access.

"Sign up to learn more, Coming Soon, Be the first to know"

all alternative CTA's that are less deceitful.
Not Makin'Bacon
The last line of the article:

> However, it does seem like this issue is specific with Google. So I suspect it is either a bug on Google’s side (or a feature).

If this is what he suspects, why does he phrase the title as if it is something in iOS 6 that is causing the issue.
It's similar yes (and partly what it's based on, i've been doing just that for years), but not everyone has photoshop (or wants to go through the effort of screenshot-ing and organizing their clippings on their hard drive
Is Three Founders One Too Many?
As someone who used to work in the automotive manufacturing sector I'll say this: Mercedes/BMWs/luxury cars are not nearly as overpriced as laymen make them out to be.

There is a lot going on under the hood (literally!) that sets these cars apart.

Which isn't to say that everyone needs a Mercedes, but there's certainly nothing intrinsically smarter about a Kia over a Mercedes.
How are people gushing about this service in the comments when it's not even released/available -_-

I got so excited, signed up, and then nothing :(
They are going to be patenting sandwiches next!
> I'm looking from the user's side

From the user's side, proper password storage practices mean your passwords are far less likely to be compromised.

> Surely using your regular account

Uh, and what "regular account" would that be? You assume much, but know little.

> you disagree that there was any exaggeration in that initial statement?

Yes.
Nice, Richard is the best lecturer in CSE. I miss my COMP1 days
I've got 4 kids, from 14 to 5, and have always treated it as a "grand experiment". We've made some decisions that are a bit "outside the norm" - mostly the choice to home educate. It's been scary, but seeing the results as the oldest enters adulthood is fascinating, awesome, and rewarding.
I think the big point here is that on a Wordpress site, most hits don't actually get as far as PHP -- most of the time, pages can be served statically from wp-supercache or similar.
Am I supposed to feel old given that Google is 14?
I would assume this is caused by the search bar now using the SSL version of Google.

The "fix" is "easy": If you want referrer data, offer your site over SSL or use the Google Webmaster tools (I don't know whether there is an API to get to that data).

Browsers don't send a referrer header if the referring site is SSL and the target site is not. This has always been the case even on the desktop.
I don't think that's British vs American, that's more proper grammar vs improper grammar. You wouldn't hear anyone of any stature seriously trying to suggest that "could care less" is American English. My opinion is that it's one of those things people hear spoken more than they see written and the tendency to say "could'n care less" (without the hard stop on the 't'). Kind of like something I see on HN quite often, "kind've".
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>"an American would say" is more than a little offensive

Wait, what? What's offensive about that?
Ever heard of Domain Driven Design? Your customer's problem domain is best expressed in their native language.

But for Open Source projects coding in English is probably the best way to attract contributors.
I can't imagine any legitimate use case for crappy cryptography, and any crypto with a backdoor is crappy. If the door is there, anyone with the key can open it. How can you be sure who will get the key, or what their motives will be?

Good, modern cryptography offers a level of security unparalleled in the physical world, and at a processing cost which any computer can handle. Why would you intentionally choose something inferior?
No. The backdoor relies on the generator of the parameters (presumably the NSA) knowing a discrete logarithm ahead of time. Anyone outside the NSA would have to break a rather large discrete logarithm, which is just not gonna happen anytime soon.
This is really exciting. OpenLearning looks like it's really going to give the other learning websites a run for their money too.
Very cool usage. What is your next step? As you said, most but not all pictures have pictures of the water. Have you thought about using CV to detect water in the background as the next possible iteration to remove pictures that do not show conditions.
Also, we don't. Colour =/= couleur.
Toronto Hacker News Night #3
It's that semi-annual time again! Let's get organized around a day of week here:

http://www.doodle.com/6a926ezp4bifkb5f

Should I email past participants? I think guestlistapp.com should still give me the ability to email attendants of the last one, but I don't want to come off as spammy, it has been quite a while, so I'm not sure.

If you want me to email you once we get the event page and associated HN post up send me an email with the subject Toronto Hacker.

zachaysan@gmail.com
Yes but in general conversation people would normally just refer to the 'best before' date. Also, not everything has a 'display until' or 'sell-by' date.
In IE8, the stylesheet does not load.
Just because someone is a first world programmer doesn't mean tipping them couldn't make a huge difference. If someone is doing something that makes the world better for the rest of us, and tipping them means they can spend even more time on that, then we all win.

Look at https://www.gittip.com/freakboy3742/ . $500/week gets him one full day dedicated to Django dev.
What's wrong with PgAdmin?

No, I don't count 'not looking native' as a problem.
Before iOS 5 - the first to overdo skuemorphism - the last major design hoopla was when Apple couldn't decide on a single on windowing theme. It was brush-metal, then just white, then just gray, then all of them at the same time in different windows, sometimes with candy buttons, sometimes now. It was probably due more to Jobs' indecisiveness.
Photos from inside North Korean Ryugyong Hotel
Bitcoin might serve this purpose well.
Supreme Court rules girl can protect her identity in Facebook defamation suit
Status of the rich media mobile advertising industry
It's alright to say "fuck". We're all adults here.
There is the idea of a laser broom [1], a ground-based system for pushing debris into more elliptical orbits that bring them closer to Earth at perigee.

It might not be feasible for political reasons; I imagine most designs would also be excellent tools for disabling satellites, thus could start a space arms race. (Both China and the US have blown up satellites, but both were done with anti-satellite missiles; lasers might be more useful for starting a disastrous space war.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom
1 - Very slow

2 - A nightmare to implement securely

3 - Only exists for the sake of provable security

4 - The same standard defines a much better alternative pseudorandom generators based on hashes and/or block ciphers.
> everyone I've seen recently who has bought a tablet, bought a laptop within 6 months

Yes, my wife got an IPad from work and after the initial excitement, at least around my house, the "I" proves to stand for "IMDB", which is its main use.
Getting so tired of car analogies with tablets, especially when they're meant to describe such large differences. Nexus 7 is a very good tablet, and very very close to an iPad in quality.
Well, the referer is set by the browser, so it is the browser that it not setting said HEADER.
I'm not sure it is mandatory to be set either [1], so it might be correct correct behaviour according to the spec, even though it's not what might be expected.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14...
Are you kangasbros on this ticket?

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/126

If not let's add your +1 there as well.
There's some research on that (lasers), according to wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom
Granted, it's not necessarily a UK vs US -ism but I come across it most often on US websites.
A quick google search (http://bit.ly/RkNKpF) shows that there are plenty of tablets under $99. I think sub $100 tablet by Google will be good for the market but not any huge game changer like the article makes it out to be.
Brilliant, this is exactly what I was after. Super interested in how this works!
I added a +1 to:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/126
Well, the NSA is building that data center in Utah to store and process all the data they're hoovering up. That data would be much more useful if it weren't encrypted. So they do at least have a motive, even if the ability can't be proved.
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To get people to click!
I've never heard of AliExpress. Looks like crazy cheap stuff smuggled out of Chinese factories.. anyone use it with good results?
The syntax reminds me of a mixture of VB and Python, but it certainly seems to have a lot of interesting features that you don't see together often. Anyone here have experience using it?
No.

GoDaddy titles a patent "Announcing a Domain Name Registration on a Social Website"

Regardless of your position on US copyright law, you simply must understand this important and not-so-subtle distinction before you make arguments about the validity of a patent. There are 18 claims in this patent. Read and complain about specific claims.

To choose a random example, patent US496217 by Stihl (1990) is titled "Handle for a chain saw", yet Stihl did not patent handles on chain saws.
Hacked phpMyAdmin download reinforces importance of checksums
The URSS has already blinded (temporarily) US satellites with lasers.

However, to permanently disable them, it seems that more power is required, compared to adding velocity to small orbital debris.
The Dirty Secret About Making Money Doing Startups
Unrelated but I just learned that "referer" is a misspelling of "referrer" but we still use the former term as it is set in stone by the HTTP standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#Origin_of_the_term...
'Nemesis' electric car breaks UK land-speed record (video)
I don't think this "service" will even be successful. Domainers certainly don't want to share their business matters with their Facebook friends. And business owners may spend several months developing a site before publishing it. No timer can predict when the site is done.
Google Memegen - their internal meme generator exposed
Sorry, as was noted below the CTA was a little misleading, I've updated it since—nothing sinister was meant by it, just trying to gain insight into what people want as we put the finishing touches on the app, you should get an email in the next couple of days to start using it
Apple succeeded in music because music was already pretty beaten down by piracy when Apple approached them with iTunes.

The same strategy won't work with TV because they saw the piracy danger coming and made serious efforts to squash it and continue to do so before it threatens their business model. They're sitting on a much strong position and are unlikely to offer Apple favorable terms for distribution.

The way I see it, the only way to disrupt TV now is to build an alternate production model in addition to utilizing new consumption models. I'm hoping Netflix will see success with its original content and pave the way for other companies, like Apple, to follow suit.
Non-American here, and I failed to see how "an American would say" is offensive. It seems to me that it's just pointing out the differences, which doesn't ring as offensive at all. Would you care to explain? (I am genuinely asking this question out of curiosity, not criticizing)

Also, +1 on "wanker". It is indeed a good word.
I say "for the time being," because I believe disruption (maybe not violent "disruption" in the Schumpeterian sense, but major change) is around the corner. I believe that prod co's and studios, not to mention independent artists, are going to start inking more direct deals with Microsoft, Apple, etc.

What I've already noticed is that there are a lot more players in the sales/pitch stage than there used to be. As little as 5 or 6 years ago, you basically took your show to the only buyers in town: the big 4 networks, and if you struck out there, the basic cable networks. A few incremental changes have taken place. 1) These days, the big 4 networks are seldom the only destination in the primary pitch stage. They're still the preferred destination, but basic cable is pulling numbers as big -- and sometimes bigger -- than networks, and usually offers greater creative control. 2) People are starting to pitch to Netflix and Amazon at the same time as the networks, or even in lieu of them. 3) Big companies are getting into the content buying game, in the so-called "branded entertainment" wave that's hitting Hollywood right now. These companies will typically help finance a show in exchange for product placements or other financial ancillaries.

I believe all of these things are leading indicators of more change and evolution to come. The marketplace is expanding. And the buying power of the big 4 nets has diminished in the face of the new buyers in the marketplace.

If this change accelerates, then the oligopsony on the buy side of the market crumbles, and the path is paved for broader and less channel-exclusive distribution deals.

Of course, B doesn't necessarily follow from A. It's entirely possible that we replace the current oligopsony with a new oligopsony, or even a new quasi-monopsony (i.e., Apple in the music business). But I think the smarter folks in the production game are leery of trading one total master for another, and they won't be as eager to set up a new boss, same as the old boss. Accordingly, terms on the sell side will be written increasingly in favor of the sellers.
Yes, pretty much all of those are junk though. The Nexus line is very much NOT junk and coming from Google means they have to stake a bit of their reputation on it. Personally I'm excited if only because it'll be a good way to get a tablet sized device to test apps on.
> The only code I would trust is the code I generate myself... ;)

I dunno about you, but it's pretty clear that the code I generate myself is the last code I would trust.
This is a great insight into how people actually search and use apps. It makes the case for free-to-download with in-app purchases. People won't think twice about downloading a free app to try it out, and if they like it, they'll spend the extra couple bucks or so to unlock its full feature set. My guess is that this is more profitable to everyone than Android's "erase in whatever time" to get a refund scheme.
Is Google taking down websites to eliminate competition?
Google has recently started taking down affiliate sites. Is this for their own selfish reasons?
Identify the externalities that aren't being paid and make them get paid. And if this means that we all end up paying more for services we use today that create space debris, then fine.

The next generation is being fleeced by those with the means of production. They extract as much profit as they can and ignore the damage left in their wake. Added to that they fight tooth and nail at any government policy that tries to make them pay for externalities they should rightfully assume.

Of course, the traditional capitalist model says suck what you can today and then expect the spillover to get paid by the taxpayer tomorrow.

What a world we have left for all of humankind's children merely for the benefit of the contemporary capitalist and consumer.
That landing page (http://unbouncepages.com/test-your-idea/) has a spelling mistake "online bsiness ideas".
Mouse-over titles to show the original when the mods have edited the title.

Inspired by this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580767
Justice isn't innocent people being convicted of crimes because evidence rules weren't followed. Our legal justice system is run by humans who are just as perfect as the ones committing the crimes, and the ones sitting in juries.

We give police, lawyers, and others in the criminal justice system great power over us - they're legally permitted to punish and physically restrain humans. That cases can be won on technicalities - when police, lawyers, etc break the rules that protect us from them - helps to keep them honest and trusted. That's how we watch the watchers.
Kinda. The popup after that says "Be first in line! We're launching soon.", before you give your email.

Exciting service. I would still be giving my email if it said "be the first to know".
Yet another Java bug discovered that breaks out of the software's sandbox
If it's new to iOS 6 vs iOS 5, then it's clearly something that changed in iOS 6.
Excellent idea. I just submitted the feature request:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580886
Link in comment:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/sep/21/how-man...
Generally agree with this unless your team is going through an incubator/accelerator. Those programs (and not just YC/500) are best taken advantage of by a 3-4 person team.
The windmill is really cool, but reminds me of some trivia.

Remember how Don Quixote was fighting windmills because they were "giants oppressing the people"? He was right! And everyone in Cervantes' day knew it.

Windmills did not, contrary to popular belief, mostly spread as convenient labour-saving devices. Instead they spread as a way for the local lord to enforce taxes. When peasants had hand mills, there was no easy way to see how much food they really had grown, so it was hard to collect taxes. But if they go to the local miller, the miller takes your grain, grinds it, and then takes the lord's cut right there. There is no possible hiding of the food you've grown.

In countries with a strong peasant class, like Sweden, the lords were unable to introduce this form of central taxation. And I've read reports that hand mills were still in use there as late as WW II.
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"Physics" in the context of the article and the game development in general does not mean the natural science. It just means the part of the game that moves stuff around.

Same for the "AI", it only means the part that tells the "physics" when to move the stuff around.

And content is necessary for games but so is the air and food for everything. We don't usually talk about food when discussing technical issues in some field. Just because it's necessary does not make it relevant to the discussion.
Yep, that's what the RFC says. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-15.1.3

"Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol."
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If you think of "I could care less" as sarcasm, it makes more sense, i.e., the speaker couldn't really care less. (If I recall, this was the typical usage when I first started hearing this phrase decades ago.)
Yes, this is the case. A quick search shows I'm being taken to Google via https, hence no referrer string. You'd hope the author would have worked that out :-/
"Typo" would be another one, I'd always say "Spelling mistake" instead. I had no experience of the word "typo" until i started noticing it in American TV.
The article specifically mentions material ablation (vaporizing part of the debris) rather than light pressure as the source of impulse.

If it could vaporize debris that came off of satellites or boosters or what have you, it could vaporize parts of satellites. Possibly at the rate of the metaphorical little bird that sharpens its beak on a mountain. :)
Yes, the whole App Store seems laggy now. When you're on the 25th card, it takes a while for card #26 to show its edge, leading the user to think there aren't more apps and if there are no one wants to download them anyways.
"Can access your data on all websites. Allow?"

Umm, no.
You can do this today with the http://easel.io chrome extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deejobgbijaihniifc...

It uses html/css, so you can even edit the things you import.
why do you think so? not sure you should optimize for a 3 month program.
Actually it looks like the web view of iTunes Connect sales reports has data up to yesterday and my sales went back up. So, I'm not really seeing any change and I'm as "indie" as they come.
I've heard the analogy that capitalism is just a clever method of converting the natural world in to garbage.

I wouldn't go that far, nor is capitalism alone responsible. I think a great deal of blame lies in the methods we've developed to keep the garbage out of site. Our manufacturing pollution is outsourced to the other side of the globe, we put our trash in black bags and have someone else bury it far away from where we live.

In space you can't hide. And that makes the problem, and the consequences, very evident.
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If you're going to include a symbol in front of the identity like twitter does, IMO it makes it look like you can use that identity alone to refer to that person. If you can't, then maybe you shouldn't dress it up anymore than just having it be a link.

Copy/pasting is not the only issue. A screenshot of a message is also (nearly) useless for identifying anyone in it without absolute URLs. Whether or not a screenshot is "incorrect" behavior isn't really relevant if users are going to do it, which might mean your notions of correctness are leading to a bad design.
From my understanding the director of the patent office David Kappos, was the one that asked the people at stack exchange to make this site. I suppose they indeed haven't given any further details of how they will interact, but I don't see him taking this initiative without intending to bring to the attention of his office the patent questions which receive the highest votes. (seeing that is how stack exchange works anyways.)
You can still import it, you just can't export to an especially old version of .xls.
Doesn't it also say not to send refer data to different domains? I'm trying to find docs for that.

EDIT: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141641 Maybe I'm wrong but that seems to be what some browsers do/did.
OK, who will make China pay a fee for junk they deliberately created in space for military purposes?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mis... before complaining that I'm unfairly singling out China.
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I'm not familiar with the implications of not sending the referer data.

Can be interpreted that not sending the referer, and thus the decision to use the SSL version is in anyway malicious in intent (almost like what the author is implying in the headline)?
Am I the only one who read it as: The Clean Language (as in the functional languagel CLean) and powerful Cobra Language gets major update.