skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, but I don't want it detached! I often do pair programming or pair sysadminning through screen. Is there an equivalent that works with screen sharing ? ( -x )
I thought she said it wasn't a Y-Combinator company that had this happen to them.
Chrome reflows the text on the Nexus 7 -- pretty much the greatest mobile browsing feature ever and I miss it terribly on my iPhone.

I think his point was more than you have to resize text on the Nexus 7 because the screen is much smaller than an iPad. Pretty much every page on the Nexus will require a pinch zoom and a tap before you start reading.
Why Facebook acquired instagram
Since 2004, Facebook has allowed users to create a personal profile, add friends and share content with them in a very easy to use platform. But let's be honest there's a ton of social media websites out there that do exactly that. so why facebook?

Well, facebook sticks to the point and that's what made it very popular, it doesn't offer you features you don't need and since you're there for interaction they'll give you interaction allright

However, with the evolution of social media and looking at how simple it has become to share content, there are many websites that come up with simpler solutions for your social media needs. The best example is twitter. While Twitter and Facebook may seem entirely different in their focuses, Almost all my friends have switched from facebook to twitter and we barely even use facebook anymore. Why? well because Twitter is very simple and extremely easy to use and guess what? it's got a photo sharing feature as well thanks to instagram.

Now why is twitter taking the spotlight again? because we want less text and more pictures, the world has become a place where we want to see and not read anymore, a little bit of reading is fine, but we want more graphics and pictures.

Facebook might have made their best investment by acquiring instagram, because the next "facebook" is going to be a platform that uses less text input and more picture/video input and so Facebook saw the need to position themselves competitively.
Right. My claim is: "Google does something evil" is news, "Microsoft does something evil" is not news.
Werner Herzog's documentary about this story, Wings of Hope, is fantastic.
It seemed like there was when Jessica Livingston was on. Her slides were showing to the right of the video. When Patrick came on it just showed his name and title there the whole time instead.
Detroit was built up by the auto business, and as the business has become more international, has shrunken as different parts of the business have moved to other cities and other countries.

The sense of anarchy is a function of low-density caused by people moving away, leaving empty spaces and absentee landowners. Unfortunately, there's not any really easy way to force people to re-concentrate in areas, to create a new city, and satellite cities.
The Economic Logic Behind Tech and Talent Acquisitions
Why does anybody ddos anything? Pretty much the same reason you carve your name in a tree or drive super slow with the bass up so high it sets off everyone's car alarms.
It did get hacked, but a couple of months ago.
My favourite example of this classic accounting practice is MF DOOM simply warning listeners right off the bat to pirate his Venomous Villain album because his contract for it blows:

"Dub it off your man/Don't spend that ten bucks/I did it for the advance/The back end sucks."
Most of the page is in Verdana, and looks fine. Some parts of the page are in Vegur Light Regular, and while it works when used in headings, it's too light for body copy, even if pseudo-bolded (it's not a full pixel wide on most screens). There are only a handful of lines set in Vegur at body size in the article.
It's just ubiquitous.
Ah, doh. I didn't see the talk (was trying to find parking for 45min before giving up and just watching online. I really hate the Stanford campus.)
Except in the rust belt cities, the situation in other cities isn't like in Detroit. The current problem is the movement of poor people to the suburbs and exurbs. This is caused by middle class people moving into the cities.
Was reading this earlier in the week. Very well written. Cut and pasted a few sentences into my quotes evernote.
OK yes, but who hates GitHub and how could you possibly hate Github enough to bother with going to the trouble? Maybe its just kids who knows but, I guess I never understand why people waste their time doing things that have zero possible positive benefit to themselves.
I can only select one at a time. And it's not obvious that the NCAA logo is a button.

How can I see a Matchup between Cal and Stanford, like you have for Miami and Florida St.?
Origin of life and consciousness. The two mysteries that, in spite of all progress made in all sciences, have no explanation in sight.

It's easy to put a dogma on them, just as it's as easy to dismiss supernatural explanations just because they're supernatural (although metaphysically plausible).

But it strikes me just how hard the scientific community is trying to find a very particular kind of explanation in order to dismiss others: mind is the brain, life is just self-replicating molecules.
This person paid to port their number into google, from my understanding. So there was a financial transaction- google's complete lack of anything resembling customer support is the issue here.
Pirate Bay Founder Held In Solitary Confinement
man ssh_config
One other note. A bad fit was someone who was not a team player, wouldn't follow the basic rules(like show up to work), couldn't meet realistic deadlines or who overall failed at their job.

And at least in my team these people repeatedly failed. I never saw someone moved out that hadn't been warned, talked to and had some training.

So I get why people are skeptical but I really believe more teams worked like mine than the others. I was exposed to a lot of divisions in a short period and we knew there were horrible teams. unfortunately the bad teams always seem to get more attention and play.

But without having all the facts I can't say which really was the most common, except to say I think it worked well for our team overall. Not to say there wasn't plenty of BS pandering and crap we did otherwise. Hence why I left and sought out different environments.
They're all classes of the same problem: hard to check for resource consumption from apparently innocent input.

#define s, any kind of macro system they all suffer from this, as soon as you are allowed to define an entity referencing another defined entity you have a bomb on board.
Thats right, I did pay to port the number in. And then I paid to buy the number back (google must have seen this, so they sent me a refund today).
Google does provide customer support but the end user is not the customer. The customer is the consumer of the data that is gathered on the usage data that is collected from the end user.

I lost an gmail email account, and I had no recourse. In all fairness I was not actively using it. I had registered and received the account so I could have my name. When I decided to start using it, the password no longer worked.

I also had an issue with Skype and I was paid customer. No tech support. I discontinued that account

I have a Google voice account and I use it as my primary phone number. It would hurt to lose or have issues with this account.
Show HN: TimeBend, a novel productivity app for iPhone
Weekly Funding Roundup: Over $112 Million in Funding for 12 Startups
I had sex a couple of months ago, but that's not very satisfactory today.
The sidebar is meant to work with keyboard shortcuts.

Super + position of sidebar icon:
launch application

Super + W:
layout all applications in workspace

Super + S:
layout all workspaces

Unity is still quirky but the productivity I gain from the shortcuts is worth it.
Please see the post on Time Bending (http://chetansurpur.com/blog/2012/10/time-bending.html) for more on the productivity technique that this app is based on.
The problem here is that a lot of newly minted IT professionals will write stuff that will allow a re-use of all those old exploits all over again.

Occasionally warning people about known dangers doesn't harm. Sure that's not exactly moving the needle but it may help to mitigate a few lurking problems that people were not yet aware of.

Think of it as a 'wear your seatbelt' advertisement. If you're already wearing your seatbelt then it wasn't meant for you.
no one ever uses kerberos outside of windows shops anymore?
30 free levels is still too much. You need to drop it to about 10 levels, and then start charging. Level 10 is where you get a lot of people eager to keep playing, and the rate of abandonment doesn't drop, so to me, this is the best place to make them pay. If they won't pay at level 10, they won't pay at level 30.

And I think you are right, you are being nice. It's strange that you don't want to use standard monetization techniques, yet you complain when you don't make any money. It's sort of like the "nice guy" who gives everything to the hot chick in class, and then when he asks her out, he's shocked when she declines, saying that she wants to be friends.

There has to be a give-and-take between producer and consumer, and the best producers know how to balance that properly.

If you give your users a good experience, then they should pay to support your development costs. Saying you don't like pop-ups or you don't like ads is frankly nonsensical for someone who is trying to make money. There are ways to do both tastefully, and at this point, people realize that in-game ads are a necessity of life for a free product.
I just want to echo this to make sure that everyone understands Google and Microsoft are worlds apart on support.

We've all heard about the horror stories that it doesn't matter what you do with Google you cannot get human support unless you get to the top of HN or Reddit.

MS are totally different, they offer support for every service, you just have to pay for it. I think they also offer different levels of support, some of our programmers at a previous (small) company could talk to the Silverlight team over problems they were having after it just came out.

Funnily enough, when I google "google paid support" the top result is this little (frightening) gem:

http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

Compare that to this, "microsoft paid support":

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/services/en-id

I'm in no way affiliated with MS, actually use Google Apps myself.
Weird. FWIW I'm on 22.0.1229.94 Ubuntu 12.10 (161065) and it rendered fine.
I am glad you mentioned feedback. For me that has really become a key concept in software engineering and even other areas, like business.
If my hand is on the keyboard, it's easier to use the terminal.

(Classic shell still has the search feature. But often I launch apps before remembering their name - I'm a big user of apropos to recall commands. I remember locations. May be a difference in cognitive style.)
So there will be Ubuntu for Android and a separate Ubuntu Mobile? You probably can't answer that, but doesn't hurt to try :).

Are you able to say anything about Ubuntu for Android? It's been pretty quiet ever since it got announced, though there was a video in August showing it off.
See my cousin reply (child of a sibling to your post).
I'm working on staff timekeeping solutions for small business.
The Example link contains, I think, only two things that aren't valid C++. "self." (could be replaced by this-> or simply nothing in C++) and the ["stdio.h"] int printf... syntax for including just one thing.

Two and a half things I guess: the methods of MyObject are accessed by main but not declared public (C++ is private by default)

I don't know if that's good or bad, but it's not very compelling to me.
The Nexus 7 practically has no costs over and above production. Android itself is subsidized by Google's advertising business, which cuts out the software development costs. The industrial design and manufacturing quality are nothing special--I doubt they spent a year measuring people's ears just to discover the optimal headphone shape, or designed manufacturing processes to reduce the tolerances to microns. Google doesn't have retail stores in every metropolitan area where you can take in your Nexus 7 when it's acting up. When you take all these things into consideration it's surprising Apple's products are as competitive as they are.
Issues with Firefox should be fixed now (on the home/end keys as well as page up/down).
Updates from Startup School 2012 for those of us not there.
You sure it was https? For a short time they blocked port 80 specifically so git:// and https:// would be able to work.
Optimizing site for IE10 touch-mode? Know about -ms-touch-action
You must not have used it yesterday then ;)
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I've got no interest in Ubuntu on a Nexus 7 but this gives me some hope they might do a semi-official port to those new $250 Chromebooks (assuming they are as open to hacking as the old chromebooks).

ARM based Linux ultrabook-alike on a high powered chip for $250? Now that would get me using Ubuntu again.
I think that actually some kind of get-request-seed request for each request is needed before every call for maximum security. The server will create an entry in the database with an expire set to a given time (for instance 5 minutes, so that flooding the server with get-request-seed will not fill it).

When the request "seed" is used, it gets removed from the list of active seeds, so it can not be used again.

There is still a man in the middle attack:

1) The attacker intercepts our request, send it to the server, and reply to the real client with an error code.
2) This will force the real client to send the request again, this time the attacker will not interfere with the request.

The result is that the request was performed two times instead of one.
Nice, but what is the save button supposed to do, it doesn't seem to be working for me.
It would cost a lot trying to enforce an international contract. It would provide no more than a false sense of security.
The Closing of the American Mind” Reconsidered After 25 Years
My question is: What is the taking? From my cursory reading it would be a NGF stimulant of some form. Is it available to the public?
Show Hacker News: OneVote, a web app for a more social election.
Here's the schedule: http://i.imgur.com/iodVL.jpg (Photo taken by Robert Scoble)
The Taliban was a government, and functions as a government in the areas in controls.

Hezbollah has pratically all of the characteristics of a government in the area of Lebanon it controls. Also, it's also the most powerful political party in Lebanon.
Bitbucket vs Github
SiteChat: a postmortem. Or, the rise and fall of a society.
nonce is ok as long as for your application it is ok to expose the client to playback attack only for a limited time. I would go for a pre-request protocol where you perform a request to get a request-seed, and then use it in the next request (and the server will remove it when already used).

Another thing that makes sense is to use a nonce plus adding the IP address in the string to sign, with server side verification that the IP matches. So at least the playback attack needs to be performed in near time with the same IP as the originating client, that is considerably harder for the attacker to do.
This game is a clone of "Flow", which has about the same amount of free content, yet has generated several million dollars in revenue from in app purchases.

I don't think this was a strategy error. 100 free levels is not too much when each level only takes 10 seconds.
if you think 10K foot freefall is cool, what about 33K foot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
This from a GNOME/Mono guy--oh the irony!
I mean, it's happened before once:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
It does a hell of a lot more than what the propeller can. The chip they use has on-board ADCs and DACs, which makes it a lot easier to interface with analog signals out of the box. It also has a lot more RAM, DMA access so you don't need to use CPU clocks to pull things in and out of memory, support for pretty much any bus you need -- on-board USB slave and host, SPI, I2C, CAN, etc -- for talking to anything in the world. The Propeller was an interesting chip 6 years ago, but the world's more than caught up and surpassed it, with its only saving grace being that it's a cheap multicore chip, but even then, the XMOS chips are far more interesting there.
It appears your browser is not applying the faux-bolding to that font that the web page expected. This is what I see in Safari: http://d.pr/i/cI7f
Pages is currently being hit with a DoS attack.[0]

I suspect the target maybe a site that is hosted on Github Pages, maybe a blog. The attackers may not be targeting Github directly.

[0]: https://status.github.com
That is not an example of JK Rowling judging her own abilities. Her abilities were judged by the market when she published her books.

It's possible to know one is good at something, it's just not possible to judge your own abilities.
If you want to go for this kind of effect, gamble big, and gamble once: you aim for a high standard deviation compared to expected loss.
simonw, lanyrd.com is a positive push. I will check it out.

(your advertisement comment is accepted as valuable).
Why should we privilege one literary journal over another, anyway?
Render's it to a data uri of a png file, worked for me on Chrome
Yep, big sign I spend too much time on a startup-centric news aggregation site when I understand that most of the articles are about startups. Nailed it, bud.
Isn´t that channel curated? I don´t understand why other´s people highlight are the first thing I see(first I thought that the videos where broken). Also lots of videos don´t have title, nor you know who is the speaker!. I had never used justin.tv before but I am not impressed at all.
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That's exactly what he said... I think you misunderstood and thought he said the exact opposite.
Better auto-completion (I can type ref and it'll find Firefox and anything else that matches). Better file finding (I can take a screenshot and type 'scr' to find my screenshot instantly). Imgur uploading (I can find my screenshot, tab, down, enter to upload to imgur, copies url into my clipboard). Hooks into media players. Hooks into OS (can logout, suspend, shutdown). Better UX, left/right/up/down/tab are all binded to something useful. Faster. Can run on stuff besides Unity.
Hmm, I somewhat thought you were, because the term "Utopia" is usually used sarcastically when applied to Libertarianism, and often mentioned with Somalia.

As for Detroit, as long as gangs don't fill the void, it could certainly be a great example of spontaneous order arising.
I feel bad for Netflix right now. First they get sued for not having subtitles for movies they didn't make[1], and now it looks like they are scrambling to get subtitles up.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/netflix-settles-w...
I think you're being too harsh here. It's way too easy to sit here and armchair quarterback about how "clearly no thought went into this strategy" but you just don't know that and frankly that just sounds like a cheap shot.

It only takes about 10 seconds to complete a level so when you take that into account 100 levels seems alright. Also, if we're talking about a mobile game with hundreds of levels then it's not tough to infer that the levels must go by quickly with the challenge increasing slowly and it also tells me that it's likely that this is one of those games that is hoping to retain users by being highly addictive. Now I know all games want to be addictive but there's a difference between puzzle solving type games (or so,etching like Kitten Jump even) and say a car racing game. They're addictive on different levels in different ways. This is all stuff that can be inferred by reading the post and much of it proven by playing the game.

So considering this I think it's really unfair to say no thought went into the strategy. After reading the post I think it's clear they thought quite a bit about the strategy. A lack of thought isn't the problem here. The problem was making the wrong assumptions based on their research. This could have happened to anyone and I don't think you're giving the developers enough credit. I think anyone who is able to code a game for an app store is certainly smart enough to think through a half decent monetization strategy.

In the end it's just a live-and-learn experience. They thought they'd get X in-app purchases because of Y but didn't. Their assumptions were wrong and I can't fault them. The mobile space is in its infancy (i heard it called a zygot here the other day even) and yeah, there's some published data to help app developers make informed decisions about monetization but in the end, when you step out of the tech bubble/echo chamber, it's really not a lot to go on and a lot of it is exactly what this article was; a breakdown of personal experience. The developer took a good shot, failed, and now we have some more information that'll hopefully help someone else make a decision as to their monetization strategy. The more information like this that gets out there from a wide variety of app "types" the better it'll be for others going down the same path later.
>flanked on either side by lamps that look like, and may well be, chromed AK-47s

These are probably the Guns Table Lamp by Phillipe Starck (for Flos), but it's certainly possible that he just chromed some actual AK-47s and had them turned into lamps.
Thank you so much! One would think this would be on the 'Speakers' page.
I've asked this on StackOverflow but haven't recieved any answers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12949835/adsense-on-histo...

So does anyone here know how to deal with this (using adsense on single page apps)?

As for the book, I've read the first intro chapter and it looks promising, will definitely read it later.
Two DACs. Brilliant!
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Mark Zuckerberg: Don't Just Start A Company, Do Something Fundamental
That's single core (not quad) and 1GHz (not 1.3GHz). But $87.99 is a great price if that's fast enough.
It's not really the same. If bash had a separate parse step (which isn't too hard to imagine), you could parse a fork bomb without any trouble. Executing it is what's dangerous.

A better analogy would be a language where you can't even parse it without executing arbitrary code (Perl is probably a good example: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393)

Python AFAICT is quite safe to parse. It's not a common distinction because you normally parse stuff to execute it, and executing can do much worse things, of course. But where it might come into play is if you wanted to write a cloud service accepts arbitrary code and just does static analysis on python or bash. What kind of security would you need?

It's a design flaw in the format itself -- in this case, XML. A fork bomb is not a flaw in the design of bash.
Governments tend to think in terms of Bans and Mandates, rather than taxes and subsidies.

The result is poorer, more expensive services, limited to ancient business models.
Douglas Crockford: The JavaScript Programming Language
If you read the second part of my comment, you'll see that I agree that there is a legitimate reason to compile to C. It turns out to be identical to the legitimate reason for compiling to JS - some platforms can't be targeted directly, so you make do with the options you have.

I was not disputing the conclusion that it can make sense to compile to C. I was just saying that "people like C" doesn't support that conclusion.
Looks like a lot of cool stuff on-board..anyone know if the Due will be compatible with older shields?
Yeah, I had one https:// clone stop in mid-download. I repeated it immediately and it stopped midway again, I tried again after half an hour or so and it went through.

This was before they disabled port 80, so I expect this was resource exhaustion, the smart-https git service wasn't completely isolated from the DDOS target.
OmniFaces 1.2 is released