skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apily - The same-origin-policy cracker
Femi from Hipmob here: security is indeed a concern. There was a recent chain of stories around issues with the authentication of a couple of mobile messenger apps.

We've approached it from a couple of directions: we use TLS everywhere and we don't use any phone-specific identifying information (no IMEIs, phone numbers or anything of that nature). For advanced usage we also allow every single connection to the platform to be authenticated by the host application: if the user authenticates themselves to your servers you can generate a security token that you pass to the app and your app passes to our libraries. This verifies that you authorized the connection. We make that an option the developer can choose to use (or not): let us know if you think of any other scenarios that you think need additional care.
Apple Patents the Virtual Page Turn
The short answer is "What was wrong with Bill Clinton's tax rates in the '90s?"

But don't worry. As others have pointed out, it's extremely unlikely that all of GWB's tax cuts will be rolled back.
The description raises a question in my mind.

With $725,000 already raised, what does that mean for YC's investment? Does YC's $17,000 only buy 1 or 2 percent ownership? Or do they still get 7% and the earlier investors get screwed?

Some companies may not fit within YC's portfolio.

In my opinion, Fair != equal

Good luck.
Facebook Explains The Four Ways It Sorts The News Feed
Mobiscroll looks great in the Android browser (and on lots of others) http://demo.mobiscroll.com/ - working hand in hand with jQuery Mobile.
Configuring Sublime Text 2
>I know they're selling something that no one actually needs

Every single smartphone maker in the world is listening
You can get the trending topics through the Twitter API https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/trends/%3Awoeid

But I think what you are asking is how such a method would come up with its own trends, given just a stream of tweets. This is a supervised approach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervised_learning), so for now, you would need to train it (possibly online) by giving it examples of what should be a trend and what shouldn't. It would be interesting to make it semi-supervised (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-supervised_learning) so that you would only need to provide a small number of labels.
Thank you for the correction. That's what I get for using anecdata to assert a claim.

Edit: Now that you've pointed that out though, I did a quick search and found that while free, there is a "14 day limit per calendar year" on camping on BLM land (it doesn't specify if this is confined to a single piece of land or all land in general), and for periods longer than 14 days, a permit is required.
Which underlines the lack of any meaningful truth in the key statement.
This is off-topic, but I really hate the term "health craze." People caring about something does not make it a "craze." When people put on their seat-belt, we don't say they have a "safety craze." For the same reason, we should stop using the term "health craze."
CBS says it's a collapse. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57406006/spains-colla...
But that's every emerging market. Facebook didn't find a billion new people, they just got a billion people to do something different with their time, and that's all any new market does: get people to do something different with their time, money or attention.

So while the enterprise market isn't growing, the mobile enterprise market is.
It's still every year, but with a one-year lag on the first increase.
The view of "mozilla" gave me the chills.
Thanks, but word of warning - through the Data Explorer interface it is possible to take down a core or two by passing things like 'while (1) {}' to the r.js() command

No good deed goes unpunished, etc.
Not to get too political on HN, but the top 10% of earners in the United States already pay ~45% of the taxes, which is a greater share of the burden than anywhere else in the industrialized world. In Germany, for example, the top 10% of earners pay 31% of taxes. In France, they pay 28%, and in Switzerland, only 21%.

If the United States wants to have a European level of both social services and spending (a legitimate choice, although not one I'd make), the wealthy can't possibly carry the tax burden alone - it needs to be spread around more equitably, over all tax brackets.
Very cool.

One of the first websites I ever made was doing a similar thing, and I stumbled across it in my backups the other day so I relaunched it just the other week. Www.sendachristmascard.com

Your site looks very good, I agree with the jcbmilgn that it would be good if you could make your order before having to register
slava@rethink here - thanks for setting this up! Is this running on ec2 or on your local infrastructure?
I agree to some extent (on this particular page the contrast is far too low). But low contrast has some benefits too--specifically, reduced eyestrain. On most sites, high contrast is fine, but if something is meant to be read--blogs, articles, code, etc.-- I much prefer a more subdued colorscheme.
Happy to see this! I've had nothing but great, helpful experiences with the folks over at Balanced.
>concluding "don't build anything for Twitter" is just throwing a temper tantrum.

Not really. They led people on, over the years, into building on their API. People spent a lot of time and money building Twitter clients. Then they pulled the rug out. Why would you build anything using an API that could get arbitrarily locked down in the future?
Got it! Good call, thanks
Hey, it's actually not very difficult for us to make this more robust (e.g. kill and restart the v8 process if it gets out of line). EDIT: here's an issue for this -- https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/69

We'll fix this ASAP (though this is somewhat of a low priority).
I've got a question that I haven't been able to find an answer to anywhere.

What would be the best way to set up a one-to-many relationship in RethinkDB? For example, a User has a Store, a Store has Categories, and a Category has Products.

Along the same lines, is there some functionality similar to MongoDB's compound indexes?
Thanks. I tried it out and it wasn't too bad. It's in LXC in KVM on hardware, so there's some cgroups and vpus and such in the way of total meltdown
Too bad such an important topic is covered by such a shitty post. Obviously the expert source referenced in the article http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/10 is referring to global average temperature.
Foundation 23 // Ben Horowitz
Really the big disruption Bitcoin could cause if it becomes well established, is to act as a stable reference frame against which the other currencies can be compared

What would make it any more (or less) stable than the traditional reference currencies of gold, ammo, and canned baked beans?
Its not heavy-handed. Twitter has shown repeatedly that they have no problem with:

a) changing the rules of the game
and
b) leaving you in the dark of what the actual rules _are_

Make business with people that care about your business. Twitter clearly doesn't.
$100 worth of education, that will remain seared into the brain ?

you should get a paper out of it and sell the technique it to retailers ...
i see a lot of kahneman/ariely patterns here... how about if you string them up in a nice if-else style decision tree ...
sitting on billions of dollars

I don't comprehend your information or intuition on where money is in the economy and how it works. No one with billions is sitting on a big mattress of it. The money is in the economy working in a fairly efficient fashion. That money is capital for business enterprises, personal loans, etc.

That money has "momentum" within the economy and value because of the people who are controlling it who have a vested self interest in using it as wisely as possible to keep their companies running.

When you take away chunks from these people, you aren't siphoning it out of the swimming pools of the rich. You're destroying the momentum of that money and the value it provides to people working in corporations, in factories, on roads, in restaurants, on and on.

Taking away money from the rich to help the economic welfare of society is like taking your best football players off the field and sitting them on the bench for the benefit of your football team.
Angelist’s Naval Ravikant on Outsourcing
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but a lot of these tactics are used in "legitimate" businesses. For example, free lessons (e.g. 20 Ways to Speed Up Your Wordpress Site!) and mailing lists are often used to gain the customer's trust before pitching a service or a product. Becoming the customer's friend is simply a way of gaining the customer's trust.
You don't put "code" in the html.

Knockout's declarative language is not messy; just verbose.
There are actually really cool insidious queries you can run. There is for example a query you can run which will insert an infinite number of documents into a table!! Hats off to the first person to post it.

It's awesome that you're hosting this you should just be sure it's on a machine you're not depending on for other services.
And it lacks functionality. I used to use Brizzly and when that shut down my Twitter use went way down.
I've talked to this exact same kiosk in the SF Westfield before as well. The saleswoman was very very persuasive. I eventually walked away, and she made me feel like I was a mean person haha.
The cheesiness is a sing of (impending) market saturation. The race to the bottom is a facet of competition.
What would stop me from creating a thousand (or a million) wallets, and just randomly shuffling money between them a thousand times per day, creating a visibility of activity?

As long as you control all the wallets, the money is still yours.
Great job. I can see myself checking this as Show HN are some of the most interesting posts I see here.

Here is some feedback:

- I second the opinions that the text is a bit unreadable.

- A lot of white space especially at the head of the page. On 1366x768 the first post is almost in the middle of the page.

- Would be great to have more posts. Paging would work.

Additional features you may consider:

- Maybe a screenshot of the page would make your site less plain. Checkout html2canvas http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/

Great stuff :)
Suggestion: Enable an RSS feed.
It's interesting to me that a prevailing view seems to suggest that developers have a right to plumb a given service for data.

This worldview seems to come up most in relation to free services, so maybe it's a belief that freely consumable services via the Web or mobile give should mean a freedom to consume the same data via an API.
For sources of the numbers, click on the link in the lower left of the page, and a methodologies window will appear.
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Well, presumably if you infiltrate the P2P network, you can catch the transaction at its source?
I've come to expect being added to marketing lists after having a transaction with any business. (That doesn't mean I like it though, and it's one additional hassle that keeps me from shopping at new enterprises.) I agree, if you make it easy to unsubscribe, no ill will.

What is most irritating is those businesses that I have already unsubscribed from, or clicked a box saying I didn't want to be contacted, who, months later, start a new list and make the default subscribers everyone who has ever had any business with the company. Saying I don't want to get your marketing emails doesn't mean I don't want them until you invent a new category of marketing; it means I don't want them ever.

It's a lack of respect and it pisses me off.
holy cow those extras could add up quickly. If you OCR'd, how were the results?
> above the 20th century average

so, we're 12 years into this century, and he's comparing to a 100 years span. 27 years which means 15 years of the last century. selective number picking. meaningless post, move on.
Get better at words. The internet is largely driven by the written word, from social to ads to the sales copy on your website, being good at conveying yourself in writing is important.

I'd really recommend working on your skills or finding someone (either on a permanent or freelance basis) who can bring written skills to the table.

Forget YC, you can't expect your customers to watch your intro video or to test out your product if your written text doesn't convey the value it will deliver.
I had this happen at the mall that's a few blocks from Union Square in SF.

For me it was a guy who tried to sell me $800 of tooth whitening services and ultimately sold me two tubes of toothpaste for $20. Once he got me to sit in his chair and talk about myself he hung on tenaciously. It was clear he had authority to mark prices down to 25% of the first price he gave and he'd give you half of that off in cash and give you the other half by doubling the product on you.

I was shocked when I walked away then the next guy asked me if I knew about the dead sea salts and I told him "Yeah, some guy put them on my hand in the mall years ago and it felt great but then 15 minutes later my hands felt dried out and awful."

You might say the guy from White Science is a brilliant salesperson, but if you look at Yelp you'll see people are generally not happy with the products and services that they get there.
The AMT patch is part of the "fiscal cliff." Without the patch, 35% of all taxpayers will owe AMT.
Yeah, having known a an actual lumberjack growing up, this struck me as really rude and derogatory.
Thanks for asking. We have some stocks (Founder stocks + Advisor Stocks) that we will give to YC in case they are interested in us without screwing the angel investors. There are a lot of things that YC adds that money can´t buy and without affecting previous investors.
The author should stay FAR away from car dealers.
We will improve the visibility of this, thanks.
Chris Anderson: "3D Printing Will Be Bigger Than The Web"
While I certainly don't think that twitter has handled the developer ecosystem very well, this is absolutely on point. They said not to do this, he did it, they did what they said they would.

I will add that, if the developer had made five dollars on each sale, he or she would now have a half million dollars, but I'm assuming they didn't, as the story is pitched as a tragedy rather than a triumph.
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To say that advertising revenue is the dominant force driving the regulation of F1 innovation is simply untrue. When it comes to limiting the speed of the cars, driver and spectator safety is the primary concern. If you talk to the engineers and drivers they are in F1 for only one reason - to be faster than everybody else. The fact that regulations exist is a part of racing. Doesn't stop cars from going faster every year. F1 is the most technologically innovative sport in existence today.
3Scale Launches Open Source API Proxy Built On NGNIX
How is this "beyond astonishing"? 27 years is minuscule on in a geologic time scale. Climate trends are measured in hundreds and thousands of years, if not more.
Just about to post something similar. So much of the global warming rhetoric is just FUD for people who don't understand statistics. For people claiming to know that the increase in temperature for the last 100 years is significant, what is the standard deviation of the change in global temperature over 100 year periods for the last 100k years?
Why? (Unless they somehow live wholly isolated from global temperature affecting their experience.)
Sublime team by default need to advertise Packages and just how much you can customize the thing. You'd be amazed just how powerful this thing can be - once you get the hang of it, the shortcuts and some basic packages.

My favorite ones are Zen Coding (now deprecared in favor of Emmet) and SublimeERB when working with ERB - the front-end dev in me cries of joy when using them :-)
This title is nonsensical. The temperatures referred to are global averages. Yet the only ones people can actually experience are local temperatures, which sometimes are lower than average.
Are violent computer games harmless fun — or a dangerous pastime?
Sorry for my grammar, wrote it in anger and English is not my main language.

I'm not paranoid and I don't categorize companies in "good" and "evil". If I did, I would label them all as being evil. Some of their actions are good, but some are evil and will have consequences, even if their goals are not evil. In fact I'm pretty sure that many people working at companies such as Microsoft, Google or Apple genuinely believe that their actions are for the common good.

But technology is scaring me a little, because of our symbiosis with it. You're saying that your phone is just a phone and you can't get rid of it. I'll have to disagree. If you can indeed get rid of your phone, then you're a rare individual.

Also - yes I own my microwave. It's a pretty dumb and cheap appliance that doesn't even have a clock. However, my examples were for issues that I expect these mobile devices to do and yet they don't, not because they cannot, but because Apple doesn't allow it. That's like wanting to cook pork in your microwave, with the manufacturer not allowing it because it considers it an unhealthy practice. Now wouldn't that be something?
Well, at least a private company can eventually just go bankrupt. Nobody knows what's going to happen in CA and IL.
You explain the risks accurately and truthfully to your investors, making absolutely sure that they understand those risks before you take a dime from them. Explain that Twitter has a history of behaving in ways that aren't in anyone's interest including their own, and how this leaves them even more vulnerable to disruption by the Next Big Thing than most social-networking hubs are.

People with large amounts of money rarely get that way by sharecropping for companies like Twitter, so it may not be as big a problem as you fear.
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If I said that it was 55 degrees in Chicago today, would my statement lack any meaningful truth if the temperature was closer to 58 near the lake?

The idea that making the statement that monthly global temperature averages haven't managed to be lower than the historical average once in 27 years should be seen as utterly irrelevant bordering on deceptive because there was a cool January in my neighborhood last year is really making me ill right now.

It's not even pedantry, simply solipsism.
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One might question how you could "experience" a global average temperature, unless perhaps you travel a whole lot.

This is an important topic, but "If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-[global]-average month" strikes me as a rather silly statement.
I'm trying to think why you would ask someone if they wanted to borrow your tape measure in uncertain terms, and how you would do it.
Explained briefly at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Image-based_persisten...
Yes, it is true that working from home is not some panacea, there are simply different issues. Like all engineering, there are no solutions, only trade-offs. That said, for someone like me, who has no kids (just 2 dogs) and a g/f that works out of the home during the day, I have little to no distractions at home that I can't manage and I find I get MUCH more done, and MUCH more efficiently when working from home.

I am sure at the start of the industrial revolution there were people that complained that migrating to some remote location to work was 'unnatural' and 'full of problems' and it could never compete with someone working at 'home' (on the farm or in some small scale industry). They were both right and wrong and industrialization and centralization of the work force served a good purpose. I believe modern 'knowledge' work (I don't like that term, but whatever) again tilts the pendulum towards the 'work from wherever you prefer' kind of situation. We have ways of communicating and coordinating work even across the world. The fact that teams aren't routinely made up of members all over the world is somewhat surprising to me.

I realize there is overhead with coordination, but having essentially a 24 hour 'someone's always working' situation seems far more beneficial than 'everyone is working between the hours of 9 and 5, inclusive!!' (perhaps in two time-zones, so we have coverage approaching, but not quite reaching '24 hours'). Also coordination really isn't that big of an overhead as long as all people are professional and responsible (which, as I said before, is perhaps the bigger problem :))

Again, I am hand-waving over the complexity of how you get a team to work well in that situation. I think it takes a group of people with great respect and trust for one another, so perhaps the best idea is to work together for some period of time (say a ship cycle, a year, whatever you think is best) in a traditional setting to get those normal human bonds you form by working directly with / seeing people day in and day out, then let them scatter and continue the relationships over mail/IM/Skype/IRC/etc... if they wish.

The idea that great coders have to move geographical location to pursue some jobs in a connected world just seems very depressing to me.
Er - yes. The title alone suggests that the average temperature must have been calculated from a longer time series of data.

Given the temperatures for each of the 27 x 12 = 324 previous months, the mean of those figures must be within the range somewhere....
The USA Today article is a bunch of scare-mongering for the innumerate. It's easy to make numbers look big and scary when you add them up over a 75 year time horizon without accounting for GDP and population growth. It's also a load of crock to call medicare/social security "unfunded liabilities" and add them to the debt, because they are not binding obligations. The government can cancel medicare tomorrow and there would be no recourse. Medicare/Social Security liability over 75 years is not like the federal debt--it's simply a projected expenditure on some particular entitlement program.

The sensible comparison is the cost of these programs relative to GDP. That's the only relevant way to present the data. Social Security is projected to rise in cost from 4.8% of GDP to 6.2% of GDP by 2035. That's the impact of your "$63 trillion unfunded liability" on the budget over that time frame.

Medicare is a bigger problem, but too much of the debate revolves around scare-mongering projecting rising healthcare costs out to infinity. See: http://xkcd.com/605/
Yup. With Linux buying a replacement laptop cheaper than my (shitty) phone works out pretty decently!
If they were to automate some big system that cycles money among new addresses throughout the network while preserving ownership, then any address connected with someone would be instantly emptied and its money mixed in with numerous unknown addresses.

Unless you intend to prosecute everyone who spends BTC that was ever connected with a "known, even address" (which could very well be an option they take!), anonymity and laundering capability is preserved.
I took his advice and Googled "Dead Sea Cosmetics". Apparently one of the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables had details about a company exploiting young Israelis, to take tourist visas and sell these cosmetics in malls.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5519017/WikiLeaks-delves-int...
Hey guys and gals! I know this thread looks bare but people have been responding by email. The meetup is definitely still happening and we hope you'll join us!

Shoot me an email (contact info in profile) so I could add you to the headcount. Cheers.
The top 10% of earners pay that much in taxes because they already make more income than the bottom 90% combined.

If having a national defense and an infrastructure that has enabled a person to build that kind of income, don't you think that person should be paying more than a 1/(population of the United States) share of the taxes?