skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point. Somebody here the other day said that Google still mines your data on their paid services. I don't know if it's true or not but I would find that surprising and disturbing.
> why don't they break down the https connection when it is established?

Apprently they do. Serveral Google domains port 443 were blocked, e.g. https://accounts.google.com so you can't use anything google related, especially Gmail.
Thanks for that. Fixed the incorrect link in the activation mail :)
Emile from tindie. AMA
"There are plenty of us before Limor who did the same stuff without the fanfare and movement crap."

That's true. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way for people to buy your kits and learn from your vast engineering knowledge, so they've all started giving their money to someone else. Whose fault is that?

Talk is cheap. Consider putting your money where your mouth is.
Ask HN:what free Mac application to build to learn ObjC
Hello
Got my new minimac im ready to learn ObjC (i have 15 years ok c++ experience ) and developing native mac app .
i will learn via building app . the problem i dont know which app to build ?
what is missing in MAC desktop world ?
it will be free and open source
thanks!
That chip has to dynamically map the pins to work with USB. So, probably 20 cents.
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I like the dropbox tool! Most design agency's rely on http://www.wetransfer.com It's free and found a way to show cool ads full screen. We're using our own wetransfer-channel.
Late entry but it's a strong contender for Most Stupid Video of 2012....
> Why? [Other than for performance reasons]

Because it becomes very hard to reason with what you have at hand, and in my experience the "helpful" conversions, rather than actually help, mostly hides errors and bugs in the code and delays there effect, making them much harder to diagnose than a stricter handling.
How many open source projects have you contributed code to in 2012?
It will be nice if you could build a version of Versus, that would use an AWS S3 bucket instead for this. That would be awesome!
I use ytalk-which is a texting/chat solution, but only with nerdy types.
Couldn't you just pull in a nano binary (assuming you've no access to a package manager on the remote host) if you've more than a few lines to edit.
"Playing" programmer
" it's incredibly unlikely that this is some sort of recruiter scam" "Because the difficult problem in software developer recruitment is finding candidates" ?

Am I reading this right?
In this case, the "car" and other garage contents in the analogy equate to the exclusivity of one's legal claims to one's own copyrighted material. Under the Instagram ToS, that would have gone away, in that they asserted a perpetual, broad-scoped license to your copyrights.

A large gulf lies between having individuals infringe your copyright and having the legal ability to enforce that copyright taken away.
The linked Wiki article is about 4 years old. The section about (inofficial) native clients, on distributions other than Ubuntu, was added.
There's only one way we can know that for sure. Check: http://didtheworldendyet.com/
Windows 8 Security Stresses Exploit Prevention
This tool always came in handy for me. leandomainsearch.com

But i can see how someone would pay to come up with a good brand name , instead of a generic one.
This looks awesome. I've yet to find a really focused and directed guide to learning Linux basics, this looks like it could be it.
Useful. Thanks.

One issue I noticed is that I cannot "scroll down for more" when using my iPad. I tried a two-finger drag. No dice. My suggestion would be to make the "scroll down" text clickable to reveal more.
Ozone - A Framework For Composing Light-Weight Widgets
Really? I've never seen it used as an actual extension language. I've seen Lua, I've seen Scheme, at work we do everything in Python (but that's more extending than embedding), but I've never seen JavaScript as a "extend this C or C++ application" language.

I'm not counting node, because it only exists to run JavaScript. Nor am I counting web browsers, for similar reasons.

Can you give some examples? PDF is the only one I can think of. Most of the existing JavaScript engines seem too heavy-weight to be used as extensions.

Since I'm not in the web-developer bubble, I just don't see JavaScript all that often.
Is anyone from the NYT here and can you give any insight into how long this project took to complete? Is this a beautiful one off, or is the goal that this format eventually becomes the new norm?
Interesting, as someone who speaks several languages fluently, and can converse in several more, here's some of my thoughts.

I suppose it depends on what they mean by "learn" here, but in terms of attaining near native fluency, in my experience French is one of the most difficult for native english speakers, simply because of the pronunciation system (vowels, especially "r", and sentence intonation) that very few native english speakers can mimic without strong accents.

As far as the others go, Swedish is definately very easy to learn, two languages I'm fluent in are German/English and after a year or so of just turning on the swedish radio (started with klartext a simplified swedish news broadcast and went on from there), I can watch Ingmar Bergman films in the original without subtitles. So I would say Swedish is the easiest language ever - especially if you know both German and English since almost all swedish vocab seems to be related to either one or the other.

Another really easy language for English speakers that's not on this list would be Chinese, its complete lack of any grammer makes it pathetically simple also the fact that you don't even nead to learn an alphabet to read in Chinese is a big plus. (jk)
Why do people even like this?
Extremely strong 'military grade' encryption is commonplace nowadays. It doesn't matter whether what yo're encrypting is a casual email or the launch codes for a nuclear weapon, consumer grade encryption such as that in https is fine as long as it's configured and used correctly. The CPU power required to break it is greater than all the CPUs in the world put together running for millions of years.

The problem is that if a way can be found to disrupt the configuration, such as by compromising the certificate chain, then decrypting the message becomes trivially easy.

So reading such a message is usually either impossible, or simple.
Would it be so bad if the world ended today? We've come pretty far, the (first) world isn't terrible and a lot of people have done some really cool things. There's still cool stuff to do but I wouldn't mind if it does end.
"The problem is no-one knows how to use the parts unless they are assembled into kits... that's my problem."

Funny, I've designed and built from scratch all sorts of advanced analog and mixed-signal circuits using my "secret" EE knowledge. I've also built kits from Adafruit. I had a great time doing both, and do not consider them mutually exclusive.

I don't think the ignorance of _other_ people is your problem.
I think they should offer this for their paid service and drop the data mining and targeted ads for it- but not offer it for their free service. I should be allowed to pay for true (at least to the limit the government will allow- that's a separate discussion) privacy.
This seems like a nice, useful little app. Congrats on shipping!

One question though. Have you considered a free for ever version?

I know a few people that would find this a bit useful but would never pay for it, at least not now. If you had a free version minus the templates (or any other extra features you add later) then they would use it for sure.

And you keep your not free version for all the fancy stuff like templates, contacts/address book integration for auto-email/share, custom branding, etc.

Bonus question: Why not share the folder directly with your client so that they get updated versions automatically?
http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/ozone-framework-for-composin...

It's a web app which need Java + Tomcat to deploy. You run it in the browser and it allows you to create widgets.

Look like a mature project. Would have loved to see some demo though.
Some Samsung Galaxy S3 Handsets Reportedly Bricking Themselves
I know that some modern iOS devices actually require a specific voltage across the data lines to tell the device what wattage charger it's using. In that situation you would have to add a couple of resistors to the charging cable between the voltage and data pins, which definitely makes it a lot more difficult for most people.

You might find the following interesting:
http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/icharge.html
I don't agree TBH, they are pretty transparent its just a lot of what things don't get beyond hype (Oslo), some never even get close to being generally useful (WF, WCF) and others get massively over hyped and then crash and burn (Silverlight).

To me its not the transparency that's the issue, its the fact that they so many of their ideas are duds.
Grr, of course the link to "drawings of naked women" is broken. Anybody has the correct URL?
Well of course the reverse is not necessarily true.

!A => B does not imply A => !B .

However I do not think there is any valid business model out there that gives something away for free, without making money off the people that get the freebies.

Essentially even in a freemium model, free users are the product as they are marketing leads.

Accepting that your users are the product does not necessarily mean you should be a jerk to them though.
"Instagram, facebook, myspace etc all gained traction as basically setting up a website or wordpress site was just not practical at one time"

Really, not practical? My mother had a personal website long before Myspace. My friends in middle school had personal web pages via AOL.

I suspect that the reason Myspace became popular was the social aspect, and the reason Facebook became popular was the combination of the social aspect and the fact that you had to log in to Facebook to see anyone's Facebook pages.
> 3558 seconds since YouTube updated the viewCount

Based on their sample rate, it looks like YouTube only updates the view count every 3 hours. I know it's hard to pull in that data quickly, but I didn't expect YouTube to be that slow.

I wonder if they'll do something special here... if the updates continue at the same frequency, it won't show a billion until a few hours after after it actually hits that number. It is a pretty huge milestone for YouTube and I imagine they will want to celebrate the moment in real time.
I just think we should stop using Instagram as a noun. Facebook.com/instagram is a very reasonable name for it now. Anyone have any objections?
Don't worry about the process. Worry about the outcome of the process. Is the site always down? Do you fail to ship? If so then you need to fix things. Otherwise just let people work the way that lets them be most productive.

For instance, I'm not a fan of unit testing. I find that 99% of the time when my tests fail, the failure is the test itself, not he code. WHen I'm forced to write uni tests for everything, it slows me down greatly. I prefer to keep my code clean and readable, instead of focusing on 100% code coverage. The same principle applies to CI and other such "processes", in my experience. But thats just me, everyone works their own way.
sure. thanks
I disagree with your second sentence.

Anyone who can afford a device to take photos and an internet connection has had a lot of practical alternatives for creating their own website or photo sharing site.
Justin Bieber is #2 most seen ever? If the world hasnt ended it surely is going there...

Side note i must be one of the few ppl with internet access to have not seen Ganguam Style...
Embedding Javascript is fairly easy with Qt[1], so I assume that many applications built on top of it may use it.

1: http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/qdeclarativejavascript.html
I wonder if you could take a stock rice cooker and fit a constantly running evacuation pump to the steam vent hole in the glass lid. It could partially evacuate the chamber and hold it there while you cooked. The pot and lid are obviously not designed for the stress of vacuum so you wouldn't want to go past, say, a quarter atmosphere.
All you need to know is:

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Thanks for the suggestion. Will certainly get in touch with them.
Whenever you shop at a store like Target or Walmart.
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> countries that actually try to protect their citizens rights and privacy

O.O

> Google is an advertising company

And Microsoft is trying as hard as they can to be one. Google doesn't put ads on their OS, Microsoft does on it's OS that you already paid for. Aren't they treating you as a paying product then?

> transparent

Oh, c'mon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Penn
yeah, we might as well go out while we're on top. This video hitting 1 billion is a cry for help from western culture.
Ain't no webapp, just a wiki. Fixed already, anyway.
My first vi experience was on a Unix terminal in a CS laboratory with a lot of people doing serious work and I just hitting keys to see if ANYTHING could take me away from that and the thing just BEEEPed...
values of β will give rise to dom?
The Klendathu will try again, but we will fight them...and we will win.
because the video is ridiculous and catchy.
StudentLauncher.org: Kickstarter for Education
Given that we know that at least in the US (and probably in the other countries you have mentioned as well) that the government has a special tap into AT&T, Verizon and others, I'm not sure why Skype is being singled out. We have long since passed the point where we all need to keep in mind Eric Schmidt's somewhat ironic "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" comment. Which I would argue puts him in much the same boat as Ballmer in this instance.
Love the idea, the context, and the execution. It's a great project. Not a fan of the name.

Zed Shaw has a well-established series of "Learn $topic the Hard Way" online books, with Addison Wesley publishing a 3rd edition of his "Learn Python the Hard Way" this spring. He is building a brand and a business around this name.

I'd be surprised to learn that "Learn ... the Hard Way" isn't trademarked, but even if it isn't, it strikes me as disingenuous, misleading, and potentially confusing to name your work after his.

As far as I can tell, Mr Shaw has nothing to do with this project, but then the "Learn Linux the Hard Way" name might, to some, imply that he does.

Edited to add: I do not have a dog in this fight, just pointing out a potential conflict.
IPCC AR5 draft contains game-changing admission of enhanced solar forcing
Show HN: I've ported scrypt authenticaton to NodeJS.
The Dorabella cipher has been solved: http://unsolvedproblems.org/S12x.pdf
No need to be sorry for not assuming your web page would make the front page of HN.

I guess...
Growth metrics for 1,748 Australian startups
>Are candy/confectionery manufacturers supposed to feel guilty that they make stuff kids like and nag their parents to spend money on their products?

Yes?
North korea is not borderline third world, they are much, much worse - indeed they can't even feed their own army anymore.
Please welcome to the stage: "Wrap-flow & the CSS Exclusions"
I'm still vastly more afraid of regular criminals than I am of any part of the US Government. I'm also more afraid of specific foreign governments acting in the US (or to me when I leave the US) than I am of the US Government. That's not to say the USG is a great friend or anything.
Obligatory Artemiy Lebedev's photo report on NK (unfortunately, comments in Russian only):

http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/

http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-2/

http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-3/

http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-4/
How does this compare to existing competitors such as Droplr or CloudApp?
Maybe you have friends, family or loved ones that use iphones that may be at your home that want to charge their phones? No. Then this product isn't for you. I personally am in love with a woman that comes from a family of mac users, perhaps you can understand my dismay when I stayed at her brother's house for two days and he didn't have a single MicroUSB cable and he's a tech geek/developer with 3 computers (MBP, Mac Pro and Mac Air), 2 tablets (Ipad 1 & 2) and 2 (i)phones. I've never expected that someone could have so many tech devices and not have a billion usb cables like most of my tech friends do.

Then there is the fact that I'm competing with my old lady for plugins for our phone cables. We live in an extremely old house and the amount of plugins are limited as is the amount they can be extended.
It might be how they use mysql and Go to script it

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947632
IIRC the basics are ":wq"?
They cache view counts heavily on highly viewed videos for validating views, here's a good video on why it happens (with information from Youtube -- the 301 refers to the first point at which video views stop incrementing in real time): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI
It is correct. Chad never told the user that he'd one day give him a notice about putting stuff up on Craigslist.
Didn't know about ss but I use iptraf to monitor connections YMMV.
Instagram, and other social networks, are fundamentally different than wordpress sites in a number of important ways. 100 million users didn't join because it was an alternative to a blog.

Their funding didn't dry up. They raised a substantial round, and then were purchased by another company that had itself just raised billions of dollars. They didn't need money.

But they did want to make it. Because they're a business.
Thank you Robert!! We are anxiously awaiting licences! What a wonderful discount, so excited to have picked up my copies!!
Fair enough - I haven't actually used a hypermedia API (short of OData). I really can't see the documenting point though. Sure, you get a list of actions that you can perform, but you get those in a response object. Some people compare this to "intellisense documentation", but really it's more like having to decompile the library to figure out what's going on. You have to do something extra in order to figure out what the next step is, rather than just having it available. Also, I'm pretty sure any API that is currently "discoverable" probably also has a full suite of documentation. Why do the same thing twice?

Not sure about other languages, but most of the client apps I make don't use hardcoded urls - they use a base API url, and then modifications for specific resources. The RestSharp library for C# is a great example of how this works, and even in javascript it's not hard to refactor things so they use a base url and append path & parameters based on the models you're working with.

I'm not arguing the simplicity of it, although it would be more simple to implement if we agreed on a standard like in the original article. I'm just arguing the value.
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Ok thanks for the info.
I've received confirmation during checkout and have the reference number anyway.
Pros and cons of popular mobile analytics platforms
Of all the videos and memes that have got super-viral, Gangnam style I find the easiest to understand. It's catchy, funny, ironic, and has a global appeal crossing age and language barriers.
No, it hasn't.

Did you read his 'explanation'?

First the decrypted code is close to gibberish and second he starts by creating the key by removing duplicated letters and yet the key has two Ns, three Is, two Ys, two Ws, etc.
The Mayans never said the world ends on this day. Their calendar ended. Their calendar, like ours is cyclical. One cycle ends, another begins.
Why shouldn't they?

All he needs to do is sell the song for $15m to an investment company and he'd be the new High Priest of HN.
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Your landing page could use a screenshot of the page Servus produces.

Also, fantastic name and domain. Knowing word's meaning I expected IM/communication app, but most people don't so you're fine. :)
I said it the other day in another thread, but just because you pay doesn't mean you've avoided this type of treatment. Remember when cable TV was ad-ree because, you know, people paid for it?

There is absolutely nothing stopping Facebook or Instagram from doing the same shit they currently do, even if they start charging their users. And the services that currently get by on user subscriptions alone will one day have to find another way to grow. And the way they'll do that is by selling ads and monetizing user data.
It's probably not an easy question to answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#United_State...
I'd like to see people become more aware of this sort of risk, but I don't think that slogan will take off outside geeky circles, and I don't think we want it to.

There are companies which - by most people's standards - quite reasonably make money from free services. Telling people that they're all stupid sheep for using Google isn't going to get much traction. We need to highlight real problems, like this move by Instagram.

Lots of us also work on open source software, in which case telling people not to trust anything that's free is shooting ourselves in the foot. I don't pay for Linux, Libreoffice or Firefox, but I'm not 'the product' there.
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I don't understand the coupling aspect. You're moving from one dependency (URIs) to another (implementation of discoverability). Until HATEOAS/discoverability/rest links themselves are a standard, you're just binding to the way that API decided to do it. And that in my mind is a much bigger dependency than a URI string.
Love the symbolics.com address
"In this case, the simplest mechanism would probably have been to build above-ground high tension power lines on massive steel towers. This is the most common mode of high voltage electrical transmission, and the cables are easy to access and repair. "

astonishing that they don't do this. Their first attempt failed; the second likely will also. And both at tremendous expense when a tried-and-true methodology exists.
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I suppose that's a good point. Once we have a standard in place (like the one proposed in the original article) it'd be relatively easy to make a client library that standardizes access to those kinds of API. You know, like WSDL used to do.
The 10x developer in you
I have sometimes notice that the view count on the search results was higher than the one on the video page.
Here's a bug I found after scrolling down a bit:

http://i.imgur.com/m1BSY.png
I think it's a little optimistic to expect any rev-share with recipients, but creating a better economy on the sending side of mass electronic solicitations is a good idea. The only reason our postal mailboxes aren't dumpster-sized and full of junk mail every single day is the cost of planning, producing, and mailing the physical piece of mail. Email is a shit show because the costs of mailing are near zero, and the cost of producing is decoupled from the number of recipients.

If there were a hard cost per recipient, the ROI of email campaigns would change significantly. This change would be positive for users. The question is whether or not senders would bear the burden, or if they would flow to "less legitimate" means of reaching recipients on Facebook. It may be that senders would more willingly accept lower actual reach rather than pay the additional cost.
Just because the u-turn was inevitable doesn't make it a non-issue. Without kicking up a fuss there would not have been a u-turn.