skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is now against the Play store developer TOS to have notifications unless they clearly identify what App it is coming from, I think this makes things like AirPush much more difficult to pull off.
Yeah, and I know what they are, although I wouldn't describe generating a wallet on an offline PC and keeping it offline as 'very clever'. At any rate, after reading it again I think I confused what the parent was insinuating, so nevermind.
Something we see discussed on occasion is a call for app developers to explain in detail why they request certain permissions. If this developer were required to explain (and the user required to acknowledge) the requested permission, it may have prevented the whole episode.
Some come with short USB extensions.
> On that page there should be a link under the big facebook F: "create an account using your e-mail address"

There's no such alternative link for me. I don't know for sure if this is Spotify and Facebook tracking my identity, or if there's no non-FB option for Irish users: I'm logged in to FB on Win7 Chrome here, but I don't get a non-FB option when I try in an incognito window or when I switch to a different Windows user account on this machine, one which belongs to someone with no FB account.
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Hi Kijin,

We haven't put enough details about encryption on the landing page (because we didn't want to overload the page) but we will do very soon.

With regards to exportability, if you check out the feature in the bottom right (Full Ownership) you can see details about how easy it is to take your data elsewhere.

Hope that helps and thank you for your comments, really appreciate it.
People answer survey questions differently. Its cultural. Some want to not appear dumb, so give conservative and careful responses. Others want to provide an answer that will provoke further dialog, so may overstate the case.
If they are not making money in the UK - why won't they disband their UK sales team or stop offering their service to the UK customers?

After all they make their money in the Bahamas.
Same here. Guess we wait until 9 PT? I've got my credit card# copied into memory, ready to paste ;)
>I think the Store is only the death of an ecosystem insofar as it replaces it with a slightly different, but mostly just improved ecosystem.

But it's not an ecosystem now. It's a garden. And maybe it seems improved from a user's perspective, but it is completely fucked from a developer's perspective. If we can agree that Apple has made selling outside the App Store nonviable, and that dealing with the App Store is complete hell for developers, then I think we can agree that this is a bad situation for developers.
You need $40,000 to create a mass production line? Nope, you need kick starter to advertise your wonderful product and hopefully start a word of mouth marketing campaign so you can compete against the bigger players in the market and still seem cool.

It's a great product, good luck guys.
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Here's a link to a free version of said paper: http://bmi205.stanford.edu/_media/crabtree-2.pdf
This is so offensive. I get piracy is an issue, but how did they ever think this would be a legitimate solution?

Honestly, just let the quality of your app speak for itself.
I'm glad to see Anand focus so much on the price in the conclusion. A lot of the other reviews talked at length about lack of LTE etc, but that misses the point of this phone.

While it may disappoint many people who just want the best at any price, you can't ignore the fact that the N4 is half the price of other phones in its class. The price really is the killer feature of this phone.

I suspect there is lots of demand out there for this phone amongst regular folk. No want likes being chained to a carrier and everybody likes getting a great deal. I told my sister (non techie) about it and her eyes popped. She's very very excited about it.
I need standalone code to read and write PVRTC files, to and from a simple 1-dimensional uint8 image-buffer -- "standalone" in this case means "something tied to neither Objective-C nor an insanely gigantic C++ game-programming framework". I will bake you a pie if it happens!
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> The armchair lawyer in me wonders if someone could get a libel/defamation suit going because of this.

As a professional certified internet laywer I'd also add impersonation.
I just want to say, that's a gross overgeneralization. I happen to enjoy rain, and don't believe in umbrellas. I tend to look at people running around in the rain with a sense of curiosity, perplexed at the idea that this fundamental element of life could somehow hurt them; as though it were not an awakening of life—a dance of life upon the dust—springing from the sky.
> justifiably

You have to attempt to justify it. Other people will see if they agree with your justifications.

Most justifications are reasonable and the person is correct to make them.

Sometimes justifications shift from being acceptable to being unacceptable. (Free parking spaces for employees is now a taxable benefit in England.) There's a bit of a kerfuffle while people transition.

Sometimes foolish people will make justifications that strain credulity.

Sometimes unscrupulous people will invent justifications.

It feels that Amazon and Starbucks (and probably Google) are straining credulity with their weird systems.
I wonder myself. I tried to find a use case for USB drives for myself, but can't.

Having a Synology Diskstation at home with a gigabit network means any data storage or transfer problems are taken care of. Most of my other data is network-accessible. I am rarely in a bandwidth-limited place, and even if I were to be in such a place I'd find it hard to plan ahead what to put on a USB stick.
Fun idea. I like these 'ambient' indicators (I created one that shows me when the next bus is coming: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from...).
I don't think anyone is proposing only ever targeting just these three companies. But their investigation helps everyone understand the problem. The ideal end result is, I suppose, that all tax is more fairly distributed globally.
I was under the impression that iTunes Match doesn't eat into your iCloud storage, which is why it's a separate expense.
He's not right.
Absolutely amazing stuff. Makes me wonder if we're doing something wrong with education in the 'modern' western world.
It sounds silly but is one of the least ambiguous options.

Compatible with iPad2 and above (but not mini).

Compatible with iPad2, 3 and 4 (except 3 and 4 are not official names).

Compatible with iPad2, the new iPad and the newest iPad???
Great hack for home automation! It seems easy to implement and install in home.
Looks good, but I like the coat hanger stand better.
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20005985-285/turn-a-coat...
It does look a little derpy but it works elegantly. You can change the angle just by bending it a little more.
Seriously, if you could use a material that did the bending rather than a latch, I'm sure it would be cheaper and more reliable.
Thanks. I've edited the title accordingly.
No it wouldn't have. The app required permission, or he couldn't use the thing he paid $50 for. The is a (stunning) app store review failure. A dictionary app that requires permission to post to your twitter should be rejected, period.
Look on Craigslist and Kijiji in North American cities and reach out to people looking for websites. Charge people $500-1000. Repeat monthly.
Sounds like you want bup which was made for snapshotting vm's without an all new copy being made each time: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup

Disclaimer: Saw the guys presentation at a Git hacking session the other year and was very blown away by the tech involved, very cool stuff.
That's why windshield mounts are illegal in some states, like California.
might help out everyone more if they just paid more taxes in more european countries, vs playing selective benefactor when it suits them.
The phrase "plain intent of the statute" has an actual legal meaning. And it's not "we intend this statute to raise as much money as possible, kthxbai".

And, again, the courts will not help the tax man. That is, they will not read the laws in a way that places the onus of maximising the tax revenue on the tax payer.

Judge Learned Hand is, in this case, concisely explained that principle before going on to explain that it doesn't apply because the respondent didn't obey the law.

Legal reasoning is actually very simple. The first step is to be consider separate things separately.
you can link to it as long as the court in question agrees that linking is not publishing or distributing. this is (unfortunately) not the case.
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"at this point, all we can
say with any confidence is that it does
not appear that women have a higher
perception of inflation than men
because of the things they buy, the
frequency of their shopping, or their
knowledge of officially reported"

Really? This is ridiculous. Men and women do buy very markedly different things in general, especially in family life. For example, men disproportionally buy technological items which contribute significantly to the stable CPI.

CPI isn't just bread and butter... if it were inflation rates would be higher. Since the government can point to easier access to quality-of-life-enriching items like computers, which fall in price for equivalent goods year over year, it can manipulate the stats and make inflation look very low. This is appropriate for an "ideal" household that buys exactly that the CPI index holds.

But on the other and someone who buys disproportionally the items that are rising faster than the CPI really does feel a higher inflation rate.

It certainly seems conceivable that women tend to buy items that are rising in price faster than the CPI more than men.

It's also possible that marketing gimmicks disproportionally target women, with clothing coming to mind for example: perhaps sticker prices rise much faster than inflation, but post-"SALE" prices don't. This is a gimmick designed to encourage buying of deep sale prices, that may play better in clothing than in other industries, and that thus women fall victim to more. But since the sticker prices rise, they're noticeable.
REGEXES aren't practical for real time systems.

If you're using a regex, and certainly if you're using a language other than C, you probably have space for the function call overhead.
Nothing about it is grey hat. The techniques for a global business to shift taxes into a low tax country is well known in an global tax planning group.
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> It feels that Amazon and Starbucks (and probably Google) are straining credulity with their weird systems.

They wouldn't do it if those were actually illegal systems of tax minimisation.

That you or I would like massively profitable companies to pay more tax in our respective countries is one matter. Whether they are obliged to do so by law is a different.
For several years I kept my ssh keys on my phone so it was always on me. When I need it I plop it in the dock and it would both charge and be mounted in linux and in my .ssh/config it would point to the mount point for those keys. Just another alternative.
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Canonical should grab him for Ubuntu. Even if he was only there for a year, it would be a great transition for him. If things didn't work out, he could always just say the company wasn't ready for him.

However, if it worked, Ubuntu could take over Windows for the enterprise in only a few years. Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot.

Of course, they couldn't pay him all that much but the upside is tremendous.
I am for the screen as well. But like others; I really need a keyboard dock. Why don't all big tablet makers learn from the Transformer? Or is it only geeks who like that thing? But for the resolution the Nexus 10 is too good to not buy.
Yes; just like they are now, just with bigger batteries and smaller screens.
Maybe I wasn't clear, but I was referring to "reproduce, edit, translate, distribute, publish or host this document" (cf. my remark on the squid proxy). IMHO, prohibiting "distributing" or "hosting" this document is just ridiculous in a world where there is an internet and has nothing to do with "ownership of the products of his intellect".

Further, the "products of his intellect" are themselves a partially reproduced, edited, or translated versions of documents his has read previously, in all likelihoods. I thought, every scientist (in particular, Mr. Hawking) is aware of this and thus claiming "ownership" of this "product" seems unfair. Hence, I find it bad taste.

Of course, we can now start to argue what does "edit", "reproduce" or "document" mean.
Got the mail that the Nexus 4 is available at 9:39am, by then it was already sold out for 20mins (Germany)... a bit unlucky, today being the only day this week where i had an unskippable meeting at 9.

This launch was a big fail and especially if the shortage was planned, this will backfire at Google. You cant announce a big product launch (at a bargaining price) and then just have a few thousand units available (it cant be more, i was quite succesful in the Touchpad fire sales last year which lasted longer). Additionally the 9am launch (on a working day) wasnt even announced beforehand and google should have known (at least from E-Mail notification subscriptions) that demand outstrips supply by far.

Anyway, hope they can handle my scraping traffic now, waiting for new ones ;).
I have read of scammers messaging people about their "inappropriate" (wording deliberately vague) pictures allegedly found on the internet. Obviously they requested some payment before providing the exact details.
I wouldn't use the headrest personally. In an accident the magnets will detach and the ipad will become incredibly dangerous to the passengers in the car.
Good news, but sadly it's yet another country in which Spotify is charging much less than they charge the UK. Apparently £9.99 = €9.99 = $9.99.
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I disagree.

The point is that you have to define "where" the profit was made. In an international environment that's pretty close to insensible (especially since the naive interpretation of profit to the lay person is gross profit).

And I still think that morally there isn't a categorical difference between minimising tax by spending money and minimising tax by ... spending money.
I have a question here to ask: Why doesn't Google choose Motorola to manufacture its handsets?
It would be interesting to see this same question asked for income brackets and ethnic groups.
amazing point of view. Loved it.
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Does this mean we will get internet on the moon, and consequentially interplanetary internet?
What's he using to benchmark that? - anyone know?

What's the best benchmark tool for drives and/or network shares?
This is how all taxes work: you tax what you can get away with and spend it on what people want.

The UK hasn't had ring fenced taxes for decades if ever.
I think their copy is doing them a disservice. It their most prominent, preeminent feature is that I have to give them my money to use their service, they ought to rethink their marketing strategy. Most people so not revel in giving away their money. There are better facets of the product to play up...
Sorry for being melodramatic. I meant Linux :D. And evinugur has listed exactly what my problem with Netflix is.
I could buy that, but try and prove it.

There's a strong correlation between our intelligence and all of the other crap we have going on. We've got too much crap going on right now.
Depends on the person, car, mount location, driving conditions, and what it's being used for. 5" GPS windshield mount hasn't been a problem for me.
Taxes are not some external force that the evil government is applying to us. They're part of the social contract binding a society together.

The more effort people spend avoiding taxes, the more complicated the tax system will get as it attempts to close those loopholes. The more complicated it gets, the harder it is to form a social contract that represents the best interest of the nation.
Wait a second - as I understand it, an empty, brand new flash drive is guaranteed to outperform an empty, much used flash drive. As I understand it, the performance degrades with usage. So, what will be the performance of his fancy new drive after a similar amount of use as his old one?
If I understand him correctly (and I'm not sure if I do) he's trying to do in C++ what in Python would be:

def addAll(*xs):
return reduce(operator.add, xs)

and in Haskell:

addAll = foldl (+) 0

Is this right?
This is old and has been posted many times.
That guy certainly looks like a douche, and what he's doing is probably wrong, but I don't know if that makes it illegal.
Alternate rhyming dictionaries is actually a really interesting problem, as different cultures have different ideas of what the ideal rhyme is.

In English, words where the onset consonant is the same (e.g. 'tend' and 'attend') are considered relatively poor rhymes, whereas in French they're considered to be "rich". In Portugese, even the part of speech is taken into account: a rhyme between a noun and a verb is considered a better rhyme, say, than two nouns that rhyme.

This is obviously a solved problems (I mean, you can buy rhyming dictionaries in France or Portugal), but I wonder if it would have any interesting ramifications on the design of the feature.
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The developers are calling this a "bug."

https://twitter.com/keitaigoddess/status/263995697571971072

https://twitter.com/keitaigoddess/status/263995940602535936
Ken White has a lot of interesting legal comments on the issue on his Popehat blog:

http://www.popehat.com/tag/is-anybody-down/
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The official line is there's no special relationship between Motorola and Android beyond a common owner; thus they have to bid on Nexus devices like everyone else (and so far, there's nothing to suggest otherwise). As well, there's restrictions on how companies in the middle of an acquisition can communicate, which would make a Motorola-produced Nexus this cycle particularly difficult.
Thanks for the comment - we have a full time designer on the team. Bootstrap is a great base and allows us to build quickly - but it still takes a lot of work to get the customisation right.
That's right! I'm buying this phone because of its price. It's cheap compared to other phones with the same specs. The lack of LTE is not really a setback to me (and I think to all others that live in a third world country). LTE is almost "not yet" existing in our region/country.
Slightly off-topic, but are there any other major open-source projects from China? I was wondering whether a) there aren't many (yet) or b) they're mostly publicised in Chinese so off the radar for English speakers.
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Yeah, if they're going to put honest developers through bullshit and make them delay releases to change their apps according to the arbitrary whims of the reviewers, you'd think they could at least catch something like this.
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Why did you decide to prefix the last sentence with "Disclaimer: "?
Hi ruswick,

There are lots of options for contacts storage for free, but we are aiming to provide a service for people who care about their data and who has it. There are many other great features of our product, but none as good (we think) as our commitment to your ownership of your data.
I would like to think people are not stupid enough to multitask while driving. After all, we already have these things http://www.amazon.com/Notebook-Laptop-Mount-Truck-Holder/sim... to mount laptops into cars and trucks. We should not have to do this kind of hand-holding.
It doesn't. You're limited to 25,000 of your own (i.e. not purchased from iTunes) songs.
"Bug" my arse...someone was trying to prove a point / make a statement and it bit them. Hard.

They will have to do some heavy backpedaling for me to believe it was a bug. I'm a developer. Ive created bugs and fixed bugs. This is not a bug. This is a "feature".
Well, Porsche recently developed the 918 Spyder[1], which is a plug-in hybrid. Pretty expensive, though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_918#Spyder
That's disingenuous. You make it sound like your imaginary company goes to extra length to "pay more tax than is required under the law" while it's the complete opposite: these companies go the extra mile to game the system and pay a minimal amount of tax by exploiting failures in the system. There is no "extra giving" to consider, they should just be paying the same taxes other companies are paying.
Best use for this IMO would be to carry around VirtualBox and some Ubuntu images to have your dev setup with you wherever you can drop in a USB system. Then again, if you just SSH into your system any place you have wifi, it's kind of the same thing 90% of the time.
I agree that it’s surprising. I hope we get a postmortem; I’d like to know why they are closing the doors. Lack of traction (seems like they had some though)? Trouble monetizing?
So sad to hear this. Everyone should take a spin through their product and marketing screens before they close up shop, the design is a real work of art.

I had some time to sit down with Campbell a few times when she was just launching the company - so much positive energy and a real dedication to community building

Sadly I think it may have just been a little ahead of its time...
I love how they apologize for the "inconvenience". Yes, the inconvenience of being impersonated and publicly defamed through your Twitter account.
None of those things sell me. I have a local copy of my data on my Mac, and I pay for the service when I buy an iPhone every year. I fully own my data now.
This article (innocently, I think) leaves out a pretty key detail regarding IsAnyoneDown: instead of starting up linked with a "Takedown Hammer" service, it was originally linked to a takedown lawyer, "David Blade", who advertised as an independent counsel with a 100% success record getting items taken down from IsAnyoneDown.

Only after Randazza and White started poking at "David Blade" did the offering suddenly change to "Takedown Hammer", no lawyers involved.

As I understand it, Randazza and White now have email exchanges between the "people" operating IsAnyoneDown and the takedown lawyer and some of their victims; actual money has changed hands over this.

Ken White, who is an attorney and former prosecutor, lays out a pretty compelling case for wire fraud on Popehat.
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The phone with more reviews than stock :)
I don't know anything about these sites other than what's described in the article, but how can they possibly guarantee that the exploited "subjects" are not minors? Shouldn't this be a legal problem for them?
No, you see, triggering it for a legitimate user was a bug. In other words, they are unrepentant for including this feature in the first place, even though it's totally scummy and possibly illegal even when targeted at someone who really did pirate the software.
I think you're grading the product on a curve, relative to expectations of what Microsoft could produce in a few years, starting from scratch.

A friend with $500-600 comes to you and asks what tablet he should get. Can you recommend a surface over the latest iPad? We can't say "oh, give it time, the ecosystem will get better, hardware will improve" -- your friend needs something today. (That's why it's underwhelming to me. It isn't a good deal against its competitors.)