skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... i do agree there is a disconnect but looking at revenue, it's Facebook that is still the darling of the media world also looking at what Facebook Australia is doing with their new CEO being poached from Google their Head of Mobile/Social in Asia/Pacific http://afr.com/p/business/marketing_media/facebook_poaches_g...
I think it's just part of the natural lifecycle of products.

The purpose of a committee is not to keep the API fresh by rethinking the design. They're bad at it, but that's okay because it's not their goal. The purpose of a committee is to change the current API as little as possible, while smoothing out the concerns that stakeholders on both sides (users and implementors) have. It's something that individuals are often really bad at by comparison.

The strcpy() function has to stay, because the committee cares about legacy code. This isn't a problem, because it's one function, the namespace is big, and you can always switch to Go/Rust/C#/Haskell/etc. if you don't care about legacy code.
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Will it be possible to disconnect Facebook? I made a throwaway FB for only MakeGamesWithUs, because I wanted to join.
Apparently this is the hot-button issue at 37signals today. (There's another blog post by Ryan on the same topic.)

As commented on that other post: I recently researched tools that are designed to help people make book or magazine apps (mobile apps). There are many options. I decided to share my findings here:

http://www.mobilechameleon.com/toolkits-to-develop-magazine-...
Though there is no organized conspiracy, this is actually not far from the truth, especially in some areas of content protection. Companies that don't have the in-house technical expertise (music labels), working from an unprotected distribution system (audio CD) are at a particular disadvantage.

At the other end of the spectrum, you have satellite TV. In this area, a lot of money invested and full control of the playback platform have resulted in some strong systems. But still, it took a long time and a lot of cracks of intermediate systems for this industry to become the success story it is today.

Disclaimer: I worked for a company involved in the above.
I've been working on a more polished version of HTML5 Clear, trying to bring the "native-like HTML5" concept a bit further. It's still work in progress (around 85%) but it can be found here: http://clear2.youyuxi.com
I have to say, I didn't really come away with the "demanding jerk" impression at all.

She wanted him to stay for the kids and continue to provide for the family. In return, he wanted some help around the house and to ensure emotional disconnect from the relationship that was already dead by this point. I expect couples today would form similar arrangements in the same situation.
http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php

This gentlemen got the Doom 3 release to compile for OS X. I'm sure the process is similar.
This is a great example of the power of HTML5 and excites me about the future of it.

I'm a web and iOS developer and I'm starting a consumer facing app and here's my release priority:

1) Web app for desktop, tablet, and mobile using responsive web design

Pro: Every device in the world can reach my app. Since I'm trying to gain exposure, I want everyone to be able to experience what the app has to offer no matter their device or OS.

Con: Currently, users don't expect to interact with my app in this way. They want to go to the App Store and download an app. They also want to use something that they are used to on their specific platform. (To counter this (and for other reasons), the plan is to label the app as beta, so users know what they're getting themselves into and what to expect.)

2) Native App for tablets and smartphones

Pro: Performance, distribution, and native controls. Also, mobile users will use my app differently than desktop users so they deserve their own design and features.

Con: Resources in time and stress managing several code bases.

3) Native App for desktop

Pro: Performance, distribution, and native controls. Also, desktop users will use my app differently than mobile users to they deserve their own design and features.

Con: Resources in time and stress managing several code bases.

Existing case in point - Trello. They started with a responsive web app, they made a great native mobile app, and I expect them to release an awesome desktop app soon.
I recently discovered some holes in the big social media networks involving the way they promote other business. Now its all about getting the idea a good co-founder who doesnt mind teaching me a thing or two about how this works. I also see what they arent offering the average user & I think that it,may be what sells the whole idea.
I gave you +1 for middlebrow dismissal, you ignored the point I made and simply compared government to the private sector. I don't care how great the private sector manages their business, that is not the topic of discussion. Maybe you should stop wearing your ass as a hat and make a relevant comparison like between our governments and other governments, or between our govt today and our govt 20 years. Comparing apples and oranges isn't an argument. Still, plus 1 for Middlebrow dismissal.
Support Bitcoin as a payout method?
I had this idea before (at conferences...pay the homeless spangers near Moscone to wear your competitors' items), but figured it would be cruel.

Although I wouldn't have a problem with it if a homeless person himself got entrepreneurial and offered people money to wear shirts advertising their competitors.
It's not that simple. There are other attacks against e=3, and you have to prevent them all.
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Which enables an even more readable layout with gist.io http://gist.io/4151124
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Porn copyright troll sues Verizon, angry it won't cough up user names
What makes you think he's incapable of getting through those twenty or thirty books? Did you have the experience to write an OS when you started your first OS? No, that's why you write your first OS. I think he knows what he's doing when he grabs the cat's tail.
I wouldn't say it was 'quietly'. They e-mailed me (and I assume everyone else who was using the app) notifying this change.
I have. I asked a question. It's considered a valid move in many places.

I know enough about the Internet to know I'm not going to find my answer on it. Google searches will be full of puff pieces, job descriptions, all sorts of other things. It's hardly going to have an "insider's apology for college administrators" with the detailed breakdown of Bob the Administrator explaining exactly why and how he does nothing all day. (That search, by the way, leads back to the article in question, as the sixth link, after the first five are essentially garbage. Google being what it is, YMMV.)

This may shock you, but Google's ability to amplify certain types of signal above the noise are inexorably bounded by the cruel mathematics of the web

Besides, I'm going to guess based on your tone that you would have found reason to complain if I had spent three hours on Google, then dared to pontificate an answer based on indirect experience on the unreliable web.
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Additionally, I don't know of any other major system that has gone 4 years without an open-source hack. Since 2008, the only BD+ rippers are commercial.

Also, credit should be due to the designers of Cinavia as it has succeeded with the least secure design possible. It's a watermark in the compressed stream that is checked by the _player_, which mutes the audio if it is present. All you have to do is patch the player to ignore the mark or play it with VLC and it is "bypassed".

However, even the commercial rippers have not yet stripped off this watermark and all bypasses other than playing in VLC have been partial (e.g., needed an old PS3 firmware).
You'd be safe from seizure of the actual SSDs, which sounds nice.

Until the FBI obtains a court order granting them root access to the OffGlobe C&C infrastructure. Oops.

Or until the FBI obtains a court order freezing OffGlobe's bank accounts until they suspend a particular user. Oops.

And so on.

Sovereign risk is difficult to cope with because the Crown or the People always have multiple ways to obtain compliance. This is as it should be, but it does mean that in riskier fields you need continuity plans that go beyond the merely physical.
Why are Android users less engaged than iOS users?
I think there are a fair number of tips which would help especially for a YC application or YC interview and which would generally help your business but not as much outside of those contexts.
64-bit Firefox for Windows should be prioritized, not suspended
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that sounds like all the consulting the big names provide to _yourfavoritegovernmentagencyhere_ in _yourengineeringprojectofchoice_ .

i used to think they did it on purpose, but now i'm starting to think they're just stupid and they actually think they're doing a good job.

A friend of mine sent me a research study on security standards for healthcare and they did suggestions on what to do. it boiled down to this:
in essence all they were saying was use decade old crypto that everyone else already uses, we're just stuck in the past, but i'll make it sound like i just invented something new.

i wish i could find the link.
My biggest complaint about WarpBootstrap is that few if any themes have *.less support. This makes is much hard to use themes except as is. It also makes upgrading bootstrap more of a pain in the ass.

Having some sort of git integration would also make upgrading the theme and bootstrap itself easier too.
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Not really. Their last product (sortfolio) did not really do that well:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3196-sortfolio-lives

They do have a good reach and that will definitely help them, but the tablet market is now big enough for multiple players.
The entire site is, unfortunately for productivity, a treasure trove of interesting historical lists. For instance: http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/04/simple-rules-for-life-in-...
And Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
So you're saying they won't sell us down the river? I'm sold
As a sole breadwinner,married to a woman who belittles me in front of our children, who, despite having full-time domestic help, grudgingly provides me with meals, who swings between extreme emotional neediness and rejection for weeks at a time and who occasionally physically attacks me in rages (she was diagnosed with a psychological disorder, but treatment is blocked by her family), I wish I could produce a list like that.

I don't know if Einstein's marriage was similar to mine. Maybe he was a demanding jerk, but the possibility does exist that he was reacting to the circumstances he found himself in.
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Yeah I can coexist with standards bodies. I just disagree that the APIs they come up with can ever be 'a delight'.
> Well this just shows how little you know about deployments.

Exactly.

Which is that much more I know about shipping working products which make my clients money.
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I'm saying that it [copied information] IS free.

When you say it like that, a light really went on for me. In an undergrad economics class (for some reason I can still remember the exact phrasing the professor used, though it's been almost 30 years): "a good is 'free' if, at a price of zero, supply is adequate to meet demand."

This completely explains the unique situation with regards to digital information. The (marginal) cost to provide a supply adequate to meet demand is zero.... meaning the market will drive the price to zero... digital information is free. As a content publisher, you can want it to not be that way, but that is not the reality.
I like the word applications. I will try to work that in somehow.
As I read these, my first thought was that I don't think big enough.
How so? Every single BD+ update gets cracked pretty quickly by Slysoft (and several other apps now) and most Blu-rays are cracked, reencoded and pirated before or just after their release. It's not anywhere closed to the "uncrackable masterpiece" its creators marketed it like. It was even supposed to be "patchable" if flaws were found, but the patches are only stop-gap measures which are circumvented by Slysoft and others in just days.

BD+ is mostly just an annoyance for legit customers, but is hasn't been a major obstactle for pirates and backupers for years. The goal of BD+ was to stop software-based piracy of Blu-Rays and it failed miserably on that front.
DPS pricing is ridiculous. Completely untenable for small publishers. Not only do you have to pay to use the software, you have to pay to publish each issue with them, and then pay when someone re-downloads a file, which happens often because Newsstand is built that way. You don't control your code, and you can't take your magazine anywhere else without re-creating it. If you ask me, its a steaming pile of dung.
If you're a small publisher, I ask that you please take a look at Baker, an open source framework for publishing magazines on the iPad. We use it (but are not the people behind it) and we love it. The newest version supports free Newsstand apps.
Well I suspect the idea is most people buy things before Christmas, not during. The perception seems to be that the single largest online shopping day in the "before Christmas" season is this "Cyber Monday".

Maybe the most active shopping day is the second Tuesday of December, or something else relatively obscure, but since theatrics are valued it would still make sense to hit on the day most people think of as "the big day".
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Please add a link the Baker Framework (its not linked, but its a great resource) http://bakerframework.com/
How is it irrelevant? Is it not the crux of the issue here?

Many upstream providers are just Asterisk boxes forwarding traffic. Those boxes can be overloaded with a malformed SIP header; hell, most application switches get wrecked by malformed headers.

What I'm trying to say is that money is one of those things where security is actually important. Trusting telephony, even as a signal and not source, is foolish. There are many better methods of deriving identity.

My point, and arguably the point of the article, is that telephony is insecure, and I think it's pretty far from irrelevant... Please correct me if I misunderstood, I'm not trying to offend I just don't understand.
> we use SendGrid and MailChimp to send e-mail.

Why do you use both SendGrid and MailChimp for email?

Can you talk about the different use cases that require using the different email services?
This is what we use and we love it. The guys behind it do a lot of hard work and the newest version supports free Newsstand subscriptions. https://github.com/simbul/baker
Another for the Data category: Silvia Terra (http://www.silviaterra.com/). They count trees from space.
I would agree with this statement, but the prestige situation is a self ensured stagnation.
You do see big private competitors such as Phoenix, but in order to compete they lose out in the prestige competition.

I think the only real disruptive players in the business timelines that Universities operate in are the technical school, but they have been around long enough to play the prestige game also.

Phoenix for example will need to operate for 100 years to even begin to sit at the table with the nostalgia crew.
I am responding to your earlier post which announced that UCS2 is better than UTF8 internally because it counts unicode characters faster than UTF8. Hopefully now you understand that just taking the number of UCS2 bytes and dividing by 2 does not give you the number of letters.

Just in case you don't, let's walk through it again.

UCS-16 big-endian represenation of Ä:

0x00 0x41 0x03 0x08

Another UCS-16 big-endian representation of Ä:

0x00 0xc4

If you look at the number of bytes, the first example has 4. It represents one letter. The second example has 2. It also represents one letter. Conclusion: UCS2 does not "count unicode characters faster than UTF8." You still have to look at every byte to see how many letters you have, same as in UTF-8.

Do you grasp this? If not, maybe you are one of those "ascii-centric ignorant morons" I keep hearing so much about.
Is this still working? All I see is $299
It's not that simple. Sure, unpopular systems are more obscure and less likely to attract attention, but you're wrong in extending that to "if it's popular, it will be broken" (denying the antecedent).

As a counter-example, I propose DirecTV or even their competitor, Dish Network (Nagravision). Hacks of these systems are worth 6 figures, pay TV is widely desired, and there hasn't been a DTV hack since 2004. None.
Well I wasn't exactly caring about the people behind the referendum, but true enough.
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What does it mean to be about 1.6x Java's performance? Can you be specific - it doesn't seem to mean much since its implemented on the JVM. Also, I've been using it recently and "dog slow" is how I would describe it.
Your analogy is not right.

DRM is more like leaving your file on the desk and putting a lock on the Xerox machine.
Its expensive. I think I calculated it at the cheapest its $4000 per year. And you pay per issue and per user and per download, so the cost adds up pretty quick.
That's just not true. The inbound rate on Toll-free is almost always higher than outbound termination. Only in rare, high-volume circumstances is Toll-Free inbound cheaper than outbound.

Usability is a huge issue, but I think that it comes back to the bottom line cost figure. The usability is just one of those problems that no one wants to start to deal with because of the cost. If outbound was cheaper someone would've found a way to do it (IMHO).
I agree with your comment, except that "difficult" doesn't necessarily imply "insanely complex".

Counter-example: we once timed a release of a very minor protection update to when the main attacker typically took a holiday. We got 6 weeks out of something trivial, buying more time to work on the major release to greet him when he returned.
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There are four different normalized forms in Unicode. Maybe you should enlighten us about which one you're talking about.

Or just stop embarrassing yourself.
For others who are interested in fast JS in Java, we've been working on a embedding V8 into clojure using JNA. A working prototype that's good enough for us is at https://github.com/circleci/clj-v8.

I'm using it to port dieter (clojure asset pipeline we to serve https://circleci.com [https://github.com/edgecase/dieter ]) from Rhino to Dieter. Our current 100s asset compiles are unbearable, and are only about 4s with V8.
If you want to skip this step you can enter a different state and it should still get to you. (zip code > state code) It's worked for me at least.
She couldn't really expect him to be the sole breadwinner for the family, and do all the housework, and be always there for her emotional needs. There has to be some give and take. I'm not sure why his request for a reasonably equitable partnership would be considered abuse?

These are, most likely, the issues that lead to the demise of the relationship in the first place. It is the only way their living arrangement would be able to continue at all.
Great! Being one block away from home/work, there is absolutely no excuse for me not to go.
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Humans make mistakes. We should really put that kind of decision making in the hands of an artificial intelligence.
It used to be ridiculous. It's now downgraded to merely comical. I'd check out the link above, but my understanding is that you don't have to pay to publish an app. You might be referring to just publishing strictly to the newstand, though. In that case there are both "multi-folio" and "single-folio" options.

I think the bigger issue, besides pricing, is content lock-in, as you note. I've seen some other systems (not Baker, I'll check that out) that offer "free" app wrappers for magazine style content but tightly control the creation process as a lock in mechanism (and I'm not even referring to Apple here).

Curious: are you actually publishing to newsstand or standard apps? I'm wondering what the barrier to entry to the newsstand is in terms of approval vs. apps. At least with ebooks, it gets weird quickly on Apple's end (long long approval times for independent publishers unless you go through an "approved" broker, etc.).
it's gonna happen anyway whether the pentagon says something or not. not that i understand why anyone cares what the pentagon says.
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Python's bytecode is for a stack machine, if I'm not mistaken, and such bytecode is a serialization format for ASTs - a post-order traversal for expressions. Interpret stack machine bytecode symbolically and it reconstructs an AST:

Compilation:

1 + 2 => (+ 1 2) => push 1, push 2, add

Interpretation:

push 1 => 1
push 2 => 2, 1
add => (+ 1 2)

Control flow makes things slightly more complicated, but not for predictable code generation.

Obfuscated bytecode which e.g. doesn't maintain consistent interpreter stack depths for every code path (illegal for JVM or .net CLR) would make things a little harder to analyze, but I doubt that's often the case in practice with Python.
Not necessarily a root cause problem, but it is still a problem that affects the quality of education and research.

Tenure was intended to allow for the things you're stating (i.e. academic freedom) without fear of backlash from donors. Unfortunately, as with all things there are downsides and one is having people who strive for tenure in order to ensure a stable job.

One thing that is a fundamental problem is how universities operate. There is inherent waste in everything that is typically done. Classes aren't designed so that the work you do amounts to anything beyond a grade for the class.

In a way, it relates to your point about perception. The perception of universities has changed because originally the university was for academics. College wasn't necessary to get a job. Now it's almost a necessity to find a decent job, but the way colleges operate aren't in a way that optimizes for that.
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i just changed the logo on the campaign for the small size so it isnt quite so unfortunate. it isn't the great image ever but, there ya go.
I wonder why they didn't just use Lua or some other embeddable language rather than writing their own Lisp? Is Lua's GC too invasive?
Yeah, they're pretty decent people. I'm sure if the government went to them with a warrant or something, they'd fully comply, but they genuinely care about privacy and customers, and would be unlikely to do anything evil. They're also rich enough that I doubt they'd be forced into a sale to some crappy entity who would then abuse things, and their privacy policy is decent enough.

The only real risk I see is if your account is compromised somehow, but at least for me, there's nothing so sensitive in my account that I'd care.