skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so you're here to save all of us from Apple. The histrionic savior, loudly and annoyingly warning us of our impending doom while wearing a sandwich board with Apple crossed out on it.

The comments in this thread are ridiculous. Yours, I think, set a large part of the tone. Get passionate about something that matters; the purchasing habits of people you are never going to meet are not your concern, and the reasons you buy or don't buy something are very different from mine.
Well expanding the money supply devalues the currency, and lowers the value of savings when compared to other currencies, or gold or whatever. That is an inflationary factor as you say. The banking system nonetheless had their trading position improved by receipt of new money, and from a money supply point of view, it's an asset swap. The argument was that it's better to take from the savings pool to avoid a plummeting currency.
I'm definitely not going to be hacking on MRI for a while, but I still get a ton of enjoyment & education off of stuff like this.

Similar to the Doom III source code review (http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/) - I'm not writing 3D game engines, but there's still lots of things that can be learned from how others build things.
Curiosity Rover Finds Organic Signal on Mars, But Not Definitive: NASA
Where the BlackBerry still reigns supreme
The advantage of a cloud provider is that you can unilaterally sever the relationship without serious penalty.
And you've gotten my exact point. It may also surprise you how local China's suppression is.

I'm well aware that India isn't one monolithic government (nor any other country) - I'm pointing out the exact point in OP.

For example, the many human rights abuses related to enforcing the one-child policy - forced abortions, confiscation of property, etc. If you actually look at them you will realize that the bulk of it originates in local government. Much of China's most galling, shocking abuses come from the minds of local politicians, rather than by central dictat.

The rampant nepotism and corruption in the Chinese government is largely an expression of just how little control its central authorities have over their localized branches.

Moral comparisons between countries is usually ill-advised for this exact reason. This sort of baseless moral superiority bugs me - India is not nearly as far from China as OP seems to think it is, at least when it comes to online freedoms.
What's your relation with functionn?

I've seen your posts and looks like blogspam to me.
Awesome! I really enjoyed working with Plivo, in comparison to Twilio, Nexmo. They even had (306) phone numbers. I made a Hubchilla like clone with them (https://github.com/Jonovono/URconnecting)

edit: Oops, had the repo set to private :p
For sure, no going back now.
"I have a friend with a base model rMBP who took it into the Apple Store, and they replaced his with the maxed out model because that's the only configuration they had left in stock."

That surprised me - I was looking at an MBP purchase at an Apple Store (fairly large one, Tacoma WA).

My options were only 4GB and various sizes of HDDs.

They "did not" stock 8GB models, or SSD models. Not "were out of", but did not.

They offered to install more memory, but at the (already extortionate Apple price) cost of the full 8GB (and give me 4GB back).

I ended up buying a Vaio Z, and have been fantastically happy with it: Carbon Fiber body, 13" 2.5lb, with a better processor (Core i7 3612), better screen (1920x1080), better graphics, and 8GB of memory. Oh, and it was cheaper.
KQED Signs On As Founding Partner in Matter Ventures to Spur Media Innovation
Overlayer – add custom overlays to your images
I helped edit the first 4 chapters. One benefit of the book is it's short. All the information you need is condensed into 150 pages.

It starts out being immediately applicable (Chapter 2: Write Tests First), giving you systematic methods to measure various happiness qualities. After that, it helps you define what would make your life happier. From there it talks about specific ways to address the types of problems people run into when trying to improve their happiness.

Throughout the whole book, it tries to relate the concepts to programming ideas (testing, specs, debugging, etc). This isn't a general public self-help book, it's specifically for people who program or are technically minded. That's what makes it unique.

If I had to knock the book, I'd say that some of the metaphors are stretched a little bit. Overall the concepts map well, but every so often you're kind of like, "huh... yeah, I guess those are the same things..."

Edit: Added something negative to say.
Realize that aesthetics are largely subjective. I personally think the Thinkpad line looks a hell of a lot BETTER than the rounded corner/aluminum macbooks.
Nope! Many people here don't have degrees in computer science.
Twitter has a huge engineering department. I just don't know what they do.
A great example of "no engineering applied past appearance":

The strain reliefs on every power adapter they make start out horrible, they fray, they get a lawsuit, then they fix them to look "uglier" but actually work.
Then they release a new power adapter that looks good but sucks again and the cycle continues.

I'm having trouble finding the lawsuit over the old powerbook connectors, so let's start with magsafe 1

Original magsafe 1: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4127
They got sued. This was the settlement. Note that every single magsafe power adapter i have frayed.

There is an article in an atlantic that quotes a supposed apple employee saying they knew this was a bad idea.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/07/why-apples...

(Obviously, i don't think this is reliable sourcing, but it's plausible)

Newer magsafe 1: These are the ones that are sideways and have a much larger strain relief, and look like this:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/07/why-apples...

Great, problem solved, less strain.

Let's look at magsafe 2: http://photos.appleinsider.com/12.06.11-MBP-3.jpg

Whoops, back to the same issue of cables mostly bent at harsh angles due to T shaped adapters, and a smaller strain relief.
Admittedly, it's bigger than the original magsafe 1 strain relief, but I expect it's only a matter of time before these fray again.
Yep, you're right! Deleted my comment.
I think the fact that anyone can get anyone else's adsense account banned by clicking their ads everyday means it's not really working the way it should.

Competitors can just kill each other's revenue sources.

But, I'm guessing the really big channels will get protection from that, while the small guys would get banned.
Hmm...no we have not, but I'm not sure that's the approach we're looking to take either. I will check out those searches though - thanks
And did the actions governments have taken inspire your trust to give them even more control?

> companies like Google are more likely to just roll over

More likely than who?
Not affiliated with them, just looking for some HN feedback. To be honest I was surprised this didn't come up on hnews before - or at least my googling wasn't turning up anything. There's also secretsync which I believe is the precursor to this.
I'd rather trust neither.

What is needed is a portable VM image that provides file sync, email and blogging straight out of the box.
Years ago Gruber was a trenchant critic[1]. But he got over it[2].

[1]http://daringfireball.net/2003/05/the_problems_with_click-th...
[2]http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion
There's always value in knowledge about details. If you're even remotely interested in programming, you should have that interest for the nuts and bolts, the way things work and operate.
On Releasing and Marketing Your New App
There are plenty of channels for customers. If you're a customer. None of these people are customers. Google is their customer and Google is saying they don't want to be their customer anymore because Google doesn't trust them.

Content providers are not the customer. Google is the customer and the content provider is the vendor. Google can make whatever decisions Google wants to make about who they give money too.

If a customer decides to stop being your customer -- for whatever reason -- they are entirely entitled to do that and you are not entitled to their money.
My understanding is that only the government and military elite have access from North Korea.
It uses Facebook? I don't. Bummer.

Good luck on the app though.
RC Transformer robot - made with 3D printed parts
Write Emails People Will Read
Plivo and Twilio provide a good architecture for building custom phone based apps but they don't seem like a good turn-key solution for a growing business. Unless I'm missing something.
> Everyone knows. It's boring. Get over it. It's exactly the way it is supposed to be an there is no better way. All the proposals to get a human involved slow everything down and Google would never have gotten to where they are if they had people wasting their time on every case that cried about being an exception to the rule -- especially since even those who cry about being the exception really aren't the exception.

There is a better way, but it's against Google's ethos to not use engineering to solve a problem. That itself is the problem this thread is speaking to. Algorithms are great, except when they're not. Most companies have a way to deal with that, but Google makes it a point of pride to not.

Other fraud systems are not completely controlled by an algorithm. Imagine if Visa banned you from ever being able to accept Visa without an appeals process or even providing any information about what you did wrong? If Visa detects a pattern of fraud they open an investigation and the merchant is a part of this process. It's slow and expensive, but also necessary and has not prevented credit card companies to operate at huge scale.
The more features you'll add to your products, the less I'll use them. I like clean, simple, readable interfaces because what matter is the information being transported, not the interface around it. I use finch as my IM client, and Mutt for emails.

Make a web client that behaves like a ncurses interface, lives on the server so I can leave it open all the time, and provides an efficient search feature, and then I'll be interested.
This is true, the attitude of 'click a few times to send some money' (which really is sending the advertisers money) is always a bad idea. And as long as you realize the advertiser is the customer and the guy uploading videos is the product, well you don't leave a bad carton of milk on the shelf do you?

Its a sad way to treat the content producers. From the big picture however the 'bad actors' figured out that there was a 'hole' in the AdSense cover which you could pull millions out of, it was create a bunch of AdSense accounts in a bunch of accounts and distribute clicks through them. Reasonably easy to automate and provided a good return on the investment.

So independent video producer with a modest stream? Or part of a clickfraud ring? Hard to tell apart. But the customers really hate seeing a bunch of clicks that don't result in any conversions.

The solution will end up with advertisers paying less per click (we're already seeing that in Google's reports) and/or switching to a per-impression model, or on the outside chance a flat fee over time model which is analogous to the magazine model.
I agree completely! Though I'm not AT ALL trustful of companies, they simply don't have the power that governments do. It's a heck of a lot easier to switch the company that hosts your email than it is to switch governments.
i suffered this several years ago. even had a good friend explore, in person, the team who banned me. no movement, no appeal.

my adsense account still shows hundreds of dollars to pay out that they wont. sadly no other easy to launch-with ad tool (e.g. yahoo) for a regular home user with a site can yield much money. they really have a monopoly, and this behavior just screws people.

in this scenario, fuck google.
Starbucks 'planning changes to UK tax policy'
Picturelife https://picturelife.com/ (Chicago, IL - H1Bs considered and NYC considered)

We're founded by YC alum (iminlikewithyou/OMGPOP founder) Charles Forman, Threadless founder Jacob DeHart, and NY Tech Meetup director Nate Westheimer.

Picturelife is a beautiful and seamless way to backup and retrieve your entire life of photos, no matter where they live or where they've been posted.

We've started with a small and incredibly accomplished group of engineers, and that's how we're going to keep growing.

We're currently adding one person for these positions (making each team a team of two):

- Senior Javascript Engineer

- Senior Designer

- Senior Mobile Engineer

These jobs posted here:

https://jobs.github.com/companies/Picturelife
What is your source for that info?

Also, whether or not it cost the business money has nothing to do with the quality of the break-in.
Nice Compilation. A few more views on this topic:

- From Elad Gil: http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/02/how-to-choose-co-founder.htm...

- From Venture Hacks: http://venturehacks.com/articles/co-founder-interview
repost - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831842
You can spoof sender information even when you're running through a shortcode gateway, so short of requiring some sort of authentication on every transaction, there's no real way around this.

Just like email, you should never trust the remote identity.
This is great. When I was once looking to join a start-up I met with people who wanted to build a "social fitness food" website, a "social ebay where people shared the things they bid on," a ton of "new way to share music," a social "t-shirt based on Twitter" business, a ton of "new way to share images," a "music video" business, a "new way of producing music in the music" business, etc...

I met a few companies solving real problems. I joined one. Never looked back. Real problem, real solution, real money being paid for it.
I think people are missing the biggest takeaway: everyone wants to get rich writing Rails apps in a weekend that really don't contribute, that our brightest minds are being wasted. Rather than creating things that are truly innovative, we're barely iterating on things that were barely iterations to being with.
It would be good to have an API so it can be combined with Pomodoro widgets.
They still have access to your data. This changes nothing, except maybe making changing the ISP a little easier.
I'll bite.

Quick switching between keyboard and mouse is indeed a strength of the TrackPoint, and if you need to do that a lot, the TrackPoint might be superior. Some mitigating factors: one, imo Apple trackpads best shine when used for reading (web pages or PDFs), where it's not necessary to use the keyboard at all; two, unlike a mouse, the trackpad on my MBP is just a rotation of my right wrist away, which is certainly more than the rotation I would need to access a TrackPoint, but not unbearably disruptive. However, it's certainly true that when I'm on the keyboard, I try to stay on the keyboard (which is why I'm a vim user, heh).

For scrolling, Apple trackpads offer almost direct manipulation, which affords a sheer ease and precision that a mouse certainly cannot compete with; I'm skeptical that a TrackPoint can. Note also that you can do a quick scroll without having to actually press any buttons, just the wrist rotation and a flick; or if you're already moving the pointer, it's insanely easy to switch to a scroll. And there are other gestures: zooming, for instance, is certainly possible with other input methods, but doing it with direct manipulation on a trackpad again allows unmatched precision and doesn't require clicking any buttons. Or use three fingers to quickly flick between Spaces, if you're the kind of person that uses those; a keyboard shortcut would work, but the trackpad is very convenient.

(I never had a laptop with a TrackPoint, fwiw, so I can't personally compare both; keep in mind, though, that experience with a non-Apple trackpad is not really a good substitute for an Apple one either.)

[edited.]
Is it fair to compare a Macbook Air to a beefy T61?
Sounds very interesting, but the home page is a bit of information overload. The @@ alert looks really useful. Wish there was a product video. Definitely looking forward to checking it out when it launches.
I really like this - swiping up from the bottom on either side would also be nice. Maybe sort them in reverse when pulling the bar up from the bottom vs. from the top. LRU vs MRU...?

Anyway, love the concept overall.
You can spoof outbound numbers for voice or sms.

As I've said previously, phone number is not identity and confusing the two is foolish.

What'sApp uses your phone number as the username and your IMEI backwards as the password, so I'd say they're a tad more insecure than even these folks.
It's published creative commons, so the piracy is legal, even encouraged.
Social Media Profiteers Owe Children Safety by Design
margins. it doesn't affect them yet so why invest the cost? in fact it will always benefit them until /advertisers/ pull their participation, and they have them covered.

you, as the small person showing ads, are so insignificant that they wont listen to these complaints.
In actual census (2011) numbers, it's 15,000 Chinese speakers (presumably as a grouping) and 1.7 million Irish speakers, 110,000 of whom speak it on a weekly basis outside of education.

The number of Polish speakers just about beats Irish with almost 120,000.
Don't do that. First, I've done many comments that get a single downvote to 0. Typically, it's a little controversial/against the grain, and it gets the "disagree" downvote. Those are typically voted back up to 1 pretty quickly (I also make a point of upvoting posts that have clearly been disagree-downvoted, even if I wouldn't otherwise have upvoted it).

Second, there's the point of HN karma, especially of the magnitude that can never reach the leaderboard, is completely worthless. I'm sure being on the leaderboard (ie. minor HN royalty) can open some doors, if you want it to, but yours and mine never will.
Right now, most people use Tent to share short 256 character long status posts with friends. Many independent developers are building other apps that use the Tent protocol.

The author should disclose if his start-up potentially competes with Twitter.
I don't know if journalists are mad because they don't get into startups themselves, only cover them. Or because journalism has been fairly marginalized (sad but true) and is undergoing some major transitions... I don't know.

Not to defend the article (which I agree a little too snarky, but will get pageviews) but I imagine that working as a journalist covering startups is a thoroughly depressing existence. If it's anything like my (non-journalistic) interactions with the industry then every interesting, earnest startup founder you meet will be matched by five other over-confident blowhards selling bad ideas with bad polish on top.

I know that I would never have the patience to actually interview people like that, so sometimes I give credit to tech journalists just for not spontaneous combusting at conferences.
Head's up: your name is the exact name as one of the largest online flash game websites.
Here's the press release from JPL. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAct...
Idea: let companies/brands create accounts and commit to implementing features. Give them report cards based on the number of features they commit to and actually implement. Maybe include pages for individual products, and grade them individually. This could be a really useful tool to find out which product lines are actually getting love from makers.
Only if the government provides the right law...
Seems like a touch too much schadenfreude.

I've seen some genuinely awful ideas in startupland, but one has to remember that predicting success is really hard, especially the big types of success like Facebook or Google.

Google itself started as a product with no revenue stream, only a highly ephemeral "well we could sell ads?" one that almost didn't pan out. Facebook in its early form seemed like a website for Ivy Leaguers to fawn over each other.

Both were companies created by green entrepreneurs who also similarly had little to no job experience, nor business leadership experience.

The last page has yet to be written on either of those companies, but I don't think it's a stretch to say they've been two of the greater successes to come out of the "startup system".

So sure, we can celebrate the fact that "we're like Groupon, except we sell trips to space!" (seriously, a founder tried to recruit me for this) isn't getting any more funding. But how many Facebooks and Googles are we going to miss out on also?

And this won't be the end of the "startup crowd" - the sycophantic faux-journalists, the startup-groupies that don't ever seem to be building anything but are always present at meetups and parties, the guy at the event whose description of his company is consisted of 100% buzzword... those guys will remain. This isn't a return to sanity, it's just a plain old slowdown.
IRC backend would be great.
What a cute little startup name. How the hell do I pronounce it?
Relevant discussion on perl5-porters:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/ms...
Trying to recreate this using Paros as a mitmproxy on Mac, looks like Instagram has blocked any kind of logging in/profile editing (the two vulnerabilities mentioned in the article) while on a proxy. No dice. Quick response by their team though.

Edit: That's not to say a MITM couldn't happen without the vulnerable user being on a proxy. Just trying to recreate it isn't working.
Both Dell and Lenovo offer on-site service where a tech comes to you. It's an upgrade from their "standard" warranty service, but totally worth the extra $, especially if you rely on your computer.

In addition, they both have "accidental damage" with some of the higher-end warranties, so they'll cover you e.g. if you spill soda in your laptop.

More info:

Lenovo: http://www.lenovo.com/services_warranty/US/en/lenovo-warrant...

Dell: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/services/se...
Regarding the clichéd reporter yelling into a camera by a pier while the surf churns in the background, that's fair enough.

But reporting from war zones and crime scenes and whatnot is something altogether different. If we don't have reporters in those situations, who should we believe? The military? The police? Should we expect bloggers to fill in the gap by jetting off to Syria? Should we expect bloggers to attend state government proceedings day after day, or should we expect our representatives to honestly and completely disclose what they discuss when none of us are present, or to properly notify us ahead of time before anything "interesting" is discussed?

Clearly, I'd rather see professional journalism in those roles. Bloggers and social media have important roles in the news industry as well, but I'm concerned by the thought of a future without professional journalism.
There is also Talent Code, http://www.amazon.com/The-Talent-Code-Greatness-Grown/dp/055...

It has interesting framework, divided into two. The first part is what you can do. The second is how you can create an environment that keeps you on track.
Just FYI, UX goes way beyond affordances. That aside, there's a reason that most of us advocate various methods of testing as part of the process.