skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been trying to fathom that myself. It could be Apple pressure; it could be their intention to bring out a competing service; it could be they feel this competes with an existing service. It may just be a way to push more people into porting numbers in some misguided attempt at raising the hassle factor of leaving Vz in the future. Whatever the reasoning I think it's short sighted and I find it very frustrating.
Why can't we brute-force one-time pads? Did someone figure out how to create infinite combinations of 26 letters? As far as I understand, this space is finite, and thus can be brute-forced.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4952112
This is an excellent comment.

Corporate jobs can turn people into reliable adders (1.0 - 1.3 | scale here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-trajector... ) but almost never provide the autonomy that would enable an engineer to become actually good (1.5+) because that requires multiplier-scale insights: "investment" contributions that make future work simpler, more beautiful, easier to perform. Few companies are willing to pay for that stuff. (So they end up paying more, because those multiplier needs happen emergently, anyway, and are poorly performed. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/the-unbearabl... )

I think one of the major problems is that software engineers want rationality and fairness, but you can't "play nice" in most corporate environments and actually learn anything. Unless you work in a rare type of company (cf. Valve) you have to either get political and clobber the project allocation game into submission, or steal away large amounts of time to learn stuff on your own.
Some kind of next generation smart card, no doubt. Like a universal ID, replacement for mobile payment methods and Apple Passbook, since people don't trust their carriers to be reliable, unbiased communication networks or platforms... ah yes, I see.
I think of reduced memory requirements as a benefit to every application, including encryption. That's because nearly every application I use competes for memory; I also use memory as general storage media for stuff for which I want fast I/O and/or don't need to save permanently (e.g. mfs or tmpfs mounts). I think of memory as a precious resource.
Yeah, can anyone explain why this prick is still writing on TechCrunch? Wasn't he booted out at some point?
I bought a Nexus 7 as my first Android device a few weeks ago, primarily for reading. Overall, I've been pretty happy with it as a long-time iPhone and iPad user. I'll say this: It's surprising how bad Android's momentum-free scrolling feels. Apple patents strike again!
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My bad, looks like this is the case. TFA linked to [1] which seemed to only indicate that VZW wasn't allowing it as a default app. But [2] and elsewhere indicated VZW had also asked Google to not allow the app on Verizon devices.

[1] http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Were-Blocking-Goo...

[2] http://www.droid-life.com/2012/12/10/verizon-responds-to-fcc...
It's quicker, easier, and safer for you than most other methods.
Or, set the price to be a function of the number of messages the sender sent per day.

E.g. If I've sent `s` messages per day averaged over the last N days, the next message that I send should cost (rounded to the nearest penny):

1.01^(s-1)

That'll put a damper on it right quick. Sending 100 messages will cost $168.79, sending 200 will cost $625.35.
There isn't an instant solution so just do nothing?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think they've changed their front page over the course of the day (perhaps in response to these comments).

When I first read it, it looked like a way for advertisers to reach potential buyers. If that's the case, then someone on oDesk could easily respond pretending to be interested in a product just as well as I could.

Envisioned more broadly as a way to pay for the time someone spends responding to email, it would be hard to outsource my role in email correspondance.
So what are you saying: don't trust or use any cloud services whatsoever? Or only use ones you pay for? I think that's taking it to another extreme. There is obviously an equitable balance between free services and the level of privacy/control one sacrifices. It's up to each individual user to decide. I think an important component of that is how the company communicates with its users, and in this case, the track record of its parent company on similar matters.

So, I don't take an "all or nothing" view, but I genuinely understand where you're coming from. I just don't think it is a "dirty secret" (not with this crowd anyway)

Edit - I'd like to add or underscore that I agree with what you're saying that ToS can change at anytime, etc. My emphasis is on how companies treat and talk to their users. I don't think all cloud services should be painted with same brush, they should be judged on their own merits and how they do business generally. A Facebook-owned Instagram already made people nervous. This change in ToS brought back memories of other unpleasant changes.

2nd Edit - Munroe's comic ends with the idea that it's useless to complain or drop the service. Clearly it isn't because Instagram responded and reverted back to their original ToS. They need users too. They acknowledged that they heard them. The joke misses or ignores that fact.
http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/375...

Apple's marketing budget relative to its size is quite tiny.
Have any of you seen this in play at your office?
See the green box on the right? You're in the wrong Amazon shop. Go to amazon.co.uk and search for his book there. This works at least on amazon.de (same green info box in the US-store).
Think of encryption as more secure the harder it is to do. Optimizing encryption for the benefit of other applications is backwards.
As long as he avoids going on an all out jihad then it just creates low-level drama which merely increases traffic, which is what they want. Techcrunch is a tabloid.
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The app detects if you take a screen shot and notifies the sender. So, if someone abuses the trust you have given them in sending them a photo, you know.
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Reminds me of parsec in Haskell: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html
Just like letting one country fall to communism meant the soviets would win eventually.
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Man I bet those guys are pissed after manually processing 1000 refunds and now Apple changes their mind...
My grandparents have plenty of opinions I think are outdated and downright offensive in some cases.
I meant more like - is it intended to be there? I don't see any benefit from having it.
I was surprised the other day by this tweet from a TC editor signaling which PR firms are favored if you want to get your stories published.

https://twitter.com/alexia/status/279307448479776768

I honestly think PRWeb is a more trustworthy source of industry news than TC.
One approach to this would be to just ban extensions that are caught installing themselves without the user's permission. If the banned list is kept up to date it would make life hard for people abusing the system.
The Westboro Baptist Church of patent trolls, in other words.
Unless I'm mistaken, Apple has just removed the "unforseen issues; we can't ship" excuse that might have gotten Kickstarter to refund its fees. At this point they can 1) just keep on with the existing Kickstarter project or 2) suck up Kickstarter's fees and jerk potential customers around just to re-crowdsource?

I don't see how #2 helps anyone.
I don't think they've actually processed any refunds yet.
Carriers are the ones that sell directly to consumers though. They're optimizing for the showroom experience. They want to walk you around their showroom and have a variety of devices to choose from. If they can convince you that you have a lot of options, they've won.

They also want to maintain control, and so playing manufacturers off of each other helps with that.
It also has a nasty habit of inserting its markup in places it doesn't belong, like textareas and inline editable elements (WYSIWYG editors).
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Not really, most apple hardware is actually made by someone else then brought inhouse.
Great job. This is definitely needed.
'ARM has an "advantage" because it's a smaller company with fewer product offerings and no ability to fab its own chips.'

I think what he's saying is Intel is at a disadvantage because it's the only company with the ability to fab its designs. Therefore, any new designs will have to compete for production capacity and catalog space with whatever the currently most-profitable product is.

Large companies have great difficulty managing multiple product lines that diverge widely in their natural profit margin.
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I'm pretty confident that I'll get significant value out of this book for my current job, but I also agree with this sentiment. For all of the value that I have received from Patrick's posts, comments, podcasts, etc. over the years this is the least I can do. Buying it now.
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It doesn't sound to me like they have resolved the technical issues, but rather they realized that they only apply to the control and/or data aspects of the connectors, and so have updated the guidelines to allow using both when they are only being used for charging.
Intel's 120mm2 Core chip is built on a smaller process than the ARM based competition meaning there are far more transistors on that $200 chip than the one you are comparing it to. Also keep in mind that Intel doesn't need to charge $200 to make a profit. The current Atom chips are price competitive with ARM based alternatives. The Atom parts aren't quite up to par with an A15 based part yet but I think it'd be foolish to count Intel out.

The primary cost of a SoC is manufacturing. Process advantages mean that you have access to cheaper transistors that have better performance and power characteristics. The easiest way to improve the ratio of performance to anything in microprocessors has always been to make it smaller. There have been far too many words wasted on the role of instruction sets and architectures. Those things matter but that's the easy part. The hard part is getting a meaningful advantage in the manufacturing side, which is what Intel has. This is precisely why AMD is dying. They can't even undercut Intel because Global Foundries is so far behind Intel that they physically can't produce an equivalent product for less despite Intel's ~60% margins.

I think what you will see is Intel getting more aggressive in the mobile space in the next couple years because they are going to want to ensure that TSMC doesn't get a chance to catchup. TSMC is the real key to anyone threatening Intel not ARM.
You are both right... Patrick is already an expert. He doesn't need vindication from a publisher, which is probably why he was approached by so many. For a lesser-known name in the field, getting "published" might be a sound strategy.
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Scratching an itch for myself, figured other people might also like it.

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Samsung already has it's own "app store" called Samsung Apps.
Ask HN: Changing careers into IT? 
I bought my first computer at age 8 in 1994. I built websites, scripted, wrote ASP, PHP, played around with everything I could just for fun.

Unfortunately due to bad advice I pursued a very traditional education path, getting a BS and then a JD.

I'm a lawyer now... I'm not miserable, but I know I will want to reposition myself into tech in the near future. It's more natural for me. I don't believe software engineering would be the right move for me; I think working in IT is more realistic.

I know "big data" is quite hyped right now but I'm not sure how much software/coding skill is needed to be successful with it. I'm not looking to retun to school, I want to do this with self-teaching and certifications.

Is my goal realistic? If so, what area of IT is best for someone in my position to try to break into, and how should it be done (which certs, etc)?

Thanks HN!
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Sure, you can opt out; just start not respecting other people's property rights. Yes, you'll probably end up in jail or dead, since our society treats such behavior as criminal, but that's just a consequence of your choice; it's not preventing you from making the choice.

It's true that you don't consent to the regime at birth; but you do consent to it once you're an adult and making your own living, since that means you have chosen not to pursue the alternative I described above. Sure, the choice is a no-brainer (at least for almost everyone), but that doesn't mean it isn't a choice.

If your point is that the property rights regime is the only one on offer, that's not true either; just move to, say, Somalia.
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It may not have - from the article, they are still not sure if they'd be allowed to put the Lightning/30 pin connector in a device with a normal USB charger.
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The difference is, a decade ago something like this couldn't exist:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/samsung-chrome...

And it should scare the hell out of Intel.
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Yeah - GTD is a useful system - partially for the reason that it can "open you up" to clearer thinking and deeper work.
Yes, it's of course a grapes-to-watermelons comparison. But it's still worth considering.

This economic concept of 'dimishing returns' (small competitors can operate more efficiently than large ones) is to a big degree what enables and inspires the HN tech startup scene.
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Is it not possible he thought he was leaving it in good hands while he moved on to new things?
I don't understand why this is published on Techcrunch. Maybe I don't understand the Arrington relationship though.
Arrington and MG Siegler returned in October.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/getting-the-band-back-toget...
Odd, I thought that might be the case and I clicked on the green box and it just took me to Amazon's UK homepage so I just assumed it was just a generic "would you like to shop at Amazon UK" link rather than something related to the availability of the item in question.

But if I search Amazon UK for the title it comes up correctly and I can buy it.

Pretty poor UX really.
I would love to see more like this on HN.
There seems to be an error in the final code snippet. Instead of d.intercept it should be mainDomain.intercept. Here's the original example: http://nodejs.org/api/domain.html#domain_example_1
>I'm strongly of the opinion that all arms-length prices are honest prices.

As I understand it, "arms-length" prices just mean "the price at which two unrelated and non-desperate parties would agree to a transaction". And, obviously factors such as the presence of manipulation, coercion, informational asymmetry and variance between the product and the promises of its marketing have an effect on how "honest" a price is.

Selling a car for $50k that we both know is crap is different from selling one that I know but haven't told you is crap is different from selling one through very persuasive and reassuring marketing and removing all liability through legalease incomprehensible to the customer. Selling a luxury car as a risky investment plan to a non-savvy retiree would be still worse, and selling a car with safety flaws would be downright reprehensible, even if both parties agreed on the price.

People of different cultures and political leanings draw the line in different places, but it's certainly not a simple black and white rule that anything you can get someone to agree to buy is ethical at any price. There's spectrum that goes from saintly and honest to illegal and evil.

My definition of an honest price: an honest attempt to provide at least as much value as you extract. (which the B2B business examples you listed above would be doing)
"That's the sense in which the most impressive people I know are all procrastinators. They're type-C procrastinators: they put off working on small stuff to work on big stuff."

That's it, really.
I am working on rewriting a PHP application in Rails to learn Rails.
What do you ban? How do you establish identity for an extension? Remember that the bad guy can just change his ID each time he installs. Soon you are shipping blacklists with hundreds of thousands of entries to every client (or sending the ID of each install to the server to ask permission).

Also, where do you store the blacklist? Remember that the bad guy can just modify it to remove his entry. Or he can modify Chrome itself to not check the blacklist.

There are a long series of escalations you may propose here (encrypt the profile, try to detect changes, store the profile on the server, add a developer key system, etc). I'm just going to summarize and say there is no perfect solution to this problem. You can make bad behavior somewhat harder, but you cannot eliminate it without true application isolation.

At each escalation you increase the complexity of the product, make genuine features harder to introduce, add bugs, and make the experience for legitimate developers worse. It's a challenging environment to write software in.

That said, the team has some pretty clever ideas in development for future releases. We fight on.
The Computer Forum doesn't calculate stats on stock options, because "stock options offered by companies are so different in their actual and potential values."

So it just means that they were offered options as part of their compensation package.
And thanks for posting it here man. Also, just so you know, I spent some major time reading your 'best-of' http://edweissman.com/53640595. There are plenty of gems over there .
As the wonderful Tom Scott highlighted, anonymous users leave traces:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYVBshcN7wU&t=2m15s
"The one on the left, with the clumps, strands, voids, and filaments is the array that was plotted at random, like stars."

Are stars really plotted at random?
Intel actually did license ARM tech at one point with their XScale chips. It also wouldn't matter if they never competed in the phone market before, because the phone and tablet market is eating away at the desktop/laptop market already. People are probably more likely to want a flashy new phone or tablet, than upgrade their desktop or notebook.
Not at all scientific, but almost everybody I know uses an iPhone, and they all use the folders functionality, even the least tech savvy ones, mostly for hiding the unused Apple apps that can't be deleted. My guess would be this is very common behavior. Even if folders aren't used, users might move all the Facebook apps to be together on a secondary screen.

I think we can agree that most users won't fill their home screen with multiple Facebook apps. If they are moving the secondary FB apps somewhere else, be it a folder or another screen, there's a chance they might move the main FB app too.
Which is something I infered as well, and probably many others. The title is confusing and that is all the OP was pointing at, so you know, be nice - he wasn't trying to undermine the achievements, if any.
In the UK the "home inspectors" (we call them Inventory Clerks) are quite often the letting agents as well.

In fact, with smartphones/apps many letting agents are doing these jobs in-house.

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of https://www.lettingcheck.com, so get quite a good overview of what the industry is doing.
To be clear, it looks like there are two different questions being conflated here. The first is whether the TSA's procedures would help a prevent 9/11-style hijackings. I think everyone agrees that the TSA doesn't add much value in the single hijacker case, simply because passengers can probably overpower a single hijacker.

If the number of hijackers increases to, say, a dozen, then perhaps the TSA might help here, because a dozen men in the front of the plane armed with sufficient weapons might be able to hold off the rest of the cabin, and getting a sufficient number of serious weapons (and door-openers) though security might be too risky to make such an attack worthwhile. After all, a dozen terrorists might be more profitably used elsewhere.

The second question is whether the TSA's more onerous policies, like use of full-body scanners and bans on liquids, prevent fatal bombings of airliners (not hijackings). Clearly terrorists are not only interested in using planes as weapons, but simply causing them to crash by, say, detonating a bomb from the restroom. Here I postulate that the TSA may be doing some good by preventing terrorists from refining any one technology, but that's only one theory.
So you are suggesting that it is out of reach for Google and Apple to publish libraries and frameworks that are optimized for a specific hardware platform (ARM A7 + A15) or is it that since Windows X already optimizes Intel / AMD offerings to an overwhelming extent that the differential would be moot?
I know it's lame, but is it available in paper format? It seems strange to leave money on the table even if they were to charge $50 instead of $10?
He's not arguing it's not going to be copied - he's arguing Facebook copied it / cloned it. Why afraid to just say that it's true?
Thinking purely objectively, it's always an advantage to have the most money in the bank, the largest customer installed base. Owning the best semiconductor foundaries is a big advantage for the forseeable future.

But so once was also owning the world's largest battleship. Things change. How often do the most disruptive changes come from or favor those with the largest physical plant?
You've been able to just go to goatse and get an email account for some time...
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This is welcome news. Us browser vendors should probably get together and try to standardize on what we consider acceptable user consent. Far too many extensions get installed into browsers in ways that are just not OK.
An article in which a failed and undistinguished businessman attributes another businessman's immense successes to "luck".
Apologies for that, I've updated the example. Thanks for pointing it out.
That's funny, I thought he traded ownership for $25 million. Isn't it AOL and not Arrington who benefits from the relationship with Tapjoy? (...and I'm not sure TC ever had any dignity)
yes, in the long term i agree, but extending the grid's reach and capacity happens slowly, and in the mean time the poor lead miserable lives. these low-tech stopgap measures are things they can do now to improve their lot, for little up-front cost (in business terms, the grid has lower opex, but way higher capex)
I wonder if Ubuntu has a chance in this setup. In a real productivity driven environment, having a single-app-in-fullscreen OS is just absolutely insuffient for purpose. But Ubuntu already runs on the Nexus 7 (albeit really slowly because Compiz and Unity are... lackluster).

I don't think the Unity desktop will make it, but I definitely see some windowed environment inserting itself into the gap between Android tablets and Windows laptops on the high end ARM chips. And unlike Windows, the GNU core has a ton of software written that runs on it already, and thanks to being open source and compiled against GCC, this stuff rarely has large issues besides performance running on ARM.

I only say Ubuntu because it seems Canonical is the only market force trying to push a GNU os commercially. Red Hat seems content to let Fedora just act as the playground for Enterprise, and Arch / Mint / Gentoo / Slack / etc don't have the design goals (ease of use for a completely new user) or infrastructure (Debian and its ultra-slow release schedule wouldn't fly).