skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In chrome, I'm not seeing the flash warning message. I'm only seeing an endless "Loading your fonts..." I have click-to-play flash enabled.

Webfontloader[1] uses javascript to detect whether a specific font is available. They use a hack where they change the font of a piece of text and calculate whether the width has changed, indicating the system is using specified font instead of the default serif or san serif. If you had a large list of fonts, you could filter out the ones the user has.

[1] https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader.git
What if that someone is the underage child themselves? There are several instances of children being arrested and charged with CP for sending their own pictures to each other.

IMO, the proper solution is to involve both sets of parents.
Withings is based in France and they've released/announced a fitbit style tracker & weight scale at CES recently. I'm excited about the basis band as a fitness tracker although.
Some teenagers these days are complete idiots, especially boys, in how they treat their fellow female colleagues/partners.

They think they look cool by hurting the girl's reputation and her feelings in this horrible way, but in fact they bring to light their real character/intentions and this should give a BIG WARNING to anyone who interacts with such fools to depart from them and distrust them.

On the same par, another tragedy in the story is that there are other retarded cretins like this that support such disrespectful acts, which makes me really angry and sad about the character of some of the young people of today's society.
I think a lot of the initial dislike stems from the svbtle/obtvse thing, where Dustin went into all-out-rage because someone cloned what amounted to not-much-more than a Wordpress theme.

That and the air of superiority within the announcement: svbtle would only be used by people who are "intelligent and witty" implying that everyone who couldn't, wasn't.
[2] He's MG Siegler which is short for 'Mini Gruber' for a reason.
For anyone who doesn't have the time to listen - the author interviews a boy in her school who had emailed a half-naked picture of his girlfriend to his friends, and the photo had then spread around the entire school. The author asks the boy "Did she transfer out of the school after this?" and he responds "No, she stayed and continued to be the same smut/smitty/skipscapscalleywag/whore she was". The author then asks "Did you intend it to be malicious?" and he responds with no hint of remorse "I guess I thought it would be cool or something".
Too many project management platforms nowadays. I'd rather let them compete for a few years and see what comes out on top.
Here's a really simple one. Sometimes I just want to watch a random episode of a show, or even a random movie based on my preferences.
PHP is getting traits? The next thing you know PHP will be type safe and scale, heh, heh ;-)

Seriously, Wordpress with a custom theme is a nice way to slap some bling on the front end and provide clients with an excellent CMS, but otherwise, for custom functionality, PHP? Thanks, I'll pass.
Even if it was a financially/revenue-independent blog network, it's an issue.

It was never an artistic -- it was always a branding issue.
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I would prosecute the people who posses and distribute the child pornography - not the victims who are in exploitive pictures and videos.
I should have gotten a hint from your username.

I was imagining one thing, but apparently it's something else. What you said makes sense in your field (and in others), and of course, it's non-closed standarts
ACH is way too slow. It is really an artifact of a slow moving banking industry. Dwolla has made some limited strides with their 'Instant' product but asking new customers to go through the signup process is also cumbersome.

Is Balanced Payments working on something that can put funds into someones bank account within the hour?
See also: https://github.com/NateW/obtvse

Obvtse emerged from the initial backlash to Svbtle. The demo seems to be down but from what I can remember is has the same interface.
Interestingly, I have a GS3 as well and have no problems with the things the developer is mentioning here.

The article is 3 months old. In that time, CM10 hit stable release for all US carriers (and international, IIRC) and is honestly rock-solid. All those "unsolvable" issues were solved. I'd recommend it without hesitation to every GS3 owner.

10.1 is buggy/crash-prone, admittedly, but the team's only been working on it for a few weeks. Bluetooth and Wifi tethering work solidly, some of the newer Google Apps (like Gallery and Photosphere) are a little hacky. Touch to focus works great.

Every issue Codeworkx cites as his frustrations with the S3 have been resolved by the great folks at the CM/TeamHacksung. The article is a non-issue.
So no parodies of Justin Bieber, gotcha.
> Could you see some measures being enforced to minors?

The US is the only country giving mandatory life sentences to minors. There are over 70,000 juveniles in detention.

Having someone sign a sex offenders registry, even if it's for a limited time, would be a powerful message from society that distributing nude photographs of minors is not acceptable.
Tested one, it worked. On another browser, Ghostery blocked it.
I don't know much about Svbtle but there's something so un-exciting and unapproachable about the way they describe their objectives:

>Svbtle is a curated, invite-only collection of great people who have things to say.
...
>Our goal is to make it easier and more natural for interesting people to write down their thoughts.
...
>Think you should be a part of the network? Apply for membership below.

The most exciting thing about idea exchanges (whether in oral or written form) is the openness of it. You can go out into the world wide web and read as much or as little as you want. You can have favorite sources of information, least favorite sources and have some of your beliefs confirmed, while turning other ones on their head.

In Svbtle, it seems like everyone is a self-proclaimed "great" person with interesting things to say. Then the Svbtle network invites you, gives you a stark blog theme to share your brilliant thoughts with other people of equal greatness. I guess the quality of content will ultimately be deciding factor of whether this has merit, but for right now I can't get excited about it.
Hire inexperienced people? That is a recipe for making old mistakes experienced people would know to avoid. It's also totally crass to hire newbies because they will put in overtime.

If you want to build a culture, build a culture people want to buy into, even old hands.
How can we monetize this site?
mybmore.net was an experiment made by a local Baltimore student to showcase the local flavor of his hometown. The site is well-liked among city business owners and school faculty, with the student now wanting to turn this into a real business. The question of how to generate revenue has been a challenging one. Traffic to the site is low and most business owners aren't willing to pay for anything. The videos were initially done for free since this began as a pet project. Any suggestions?
Extracts from messages below:

"The author asks the boy "Did she transfer out of the school after this?" and he responds "No, she stayed and continued to be the same smut/smitty/skipscapscalleywag/whore she was". The author then asks "Did you intend it to be malicious?" and he responds with no hint of remorse "I guess I thought it would be cool or something".

From the comments on npr: Where is the "and then the boys were arrested for illegal wiretapping and dissemination of child pornography" part of the story? "After their convictions, their friends didn't think it was so funny, and the boys didn't hold their heads up when they had to register as a sex offender" would stop this from happening quick.

To sum that up : What will be the consequences for the guy who leaked the video? None. So why exactly do you expect a different behaviour ??

Make sure the consequence will be harsh and horrible and maybe the video won't be leaked but protected and well guarded, ie incentivize

TDLR: if you want to fix a problem, expose people to the consequences of their acts.
This is true, it's the modern form of these old behaviors. But that doesn't mean that their amplification effect isn't worse.

Now videos and photos are actually seen by people, without your permission, by your friends, teachers, principals, parents, etc. It would seem to me to only increase the level of trauma. It's one thing to tell your parents that the kids at school said X, it's another to have your parents called and shown a photo or told a video exists.

My girlfriend and I were video tapped in high school, this was around 2003 I want to say, so luckily it wasn't super easily broadcast, but still made the rounds in her high school. Thankfully the acts committed weren't completely revelatory for either of us, but it definitely hurt her greatly. I can only imagine what would have happened had the video shown more, or the audience distribution wider.

What ended up happening was the video destroyed, the student reprimanded. In our case it was friends playing a prank too far, but in many others its done with malicious intent and broadcasted to the greatest number of people to enhance that harm.
Going after the person distributing the video seems obvious - distributing child porn taken without (one of) the subjects' consent is not a good thing.
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I think not. Haters are distinctive enough that it would make the language less expressive to discard the word and merge it into "critic."

I'm slow to adopt new words, but I think "hater" is a useful addition to the language, and not simply a pejorative version of "critic." The difference is that a critic is what you're called as a byproduct of being critical in a particular instance, whereas being a hater is an ongoing state of mind. So for example it is reasonable to say "he was sometimes a critic of the administration's policy" but not to say "he was sometimes a hater of the administration's policy."

"Hater" is not a pejorative version of "critic" so much as a negative version of "fan." In fact the distinctive thing about a hater is how uncritical his responses are.
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So it is huffington post with a focus on tech/startups?
"What? Windows? No, my windows are closed. Honey, are the windows closed? It's the winter. Why would my windows be open?"
At some point, there will be a paid social network with significant membership.

This is likely to occur after some particularly egregious and underhanded sale/use of user data by Facebook.

It's likely to be more popular among older professionals, who care more about their reputation because of their career, and don't care about paying a minimal fee.
Also, You can always create new “needs,” after a while people realize that the new need has been a pain. Here is my thoughts:

http://www.drdacademy.com/?id=18
A one-second video is seldom going to show more than a single photograph. Sure, there's a little motion, but the quality is worse and if you want to stop and take a look you have to pause the video. I'd stick with taking one photo a day.

I know there are counterexamples. But for those things, you'd probably want to take a longer video anyway. What kind of events is a 1-second video the best way to capture, anyway?
Previous article's HN discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612022
Long article, but well worth the read. It surprises me how much data their campaign had had access too, especially about how Rentrak turned each cable viewing household into a reference-able number that the Obama campaign could track. Maybe its just conspiracy minded thinking, but seems to me Rentrak could have easily provided geographical data (addresses/neighborhoods/cities) to match those "anonymized" households.
If it's a past startup, yeah. If you're saying "I'll still be working on my startup while I'm working for your company", that's not a great idea. Effectively you're saying "I'll leave as soon as I can".
Didnt they succeeded a kickstarter campain lately? why are they doing indiegogo too?
It's not evidence of statutory rape. Statutory rape is when an adult sleeps with a child. If two 15 year olds have consensual sex, it's not rape.
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That's fair, but I feel like the majority of comments I've read through appear that the poster cannot separate the prospects of Svbtle with their perception of Dustin and his brand. Those aren't critics. They're haters.
I suspect you have adblocking software that's blocking the affiliate redirect. The links do work for me.
I think that some - not I - feel this way about Svbtle, because they have an impression that it is a "mindshare" platform rather than a blogging CMS - thus an extension and continuation of the things you have said and done.

People's first impression of Svbtle happened in the context of the whole argybargy surrounding the launch and copied design, and even I didn't get a great impression of Svbtle as a result. People impute, when creators and founders don't explain what the project is about.

Maybe it's time to re-explain what Svbtle is and aspires to do to salvage the brand.

EDIT: mladenkovch did a good job of summarizing what I find to be the inkling of a lack of humility in the project description: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027929.
The idea that anyone on HN is innocent of making statements similar to those he did are laughable, and posts just like them make the front page and are the most-upvoted every day. Are people not allowed to have opinions anymore? It isn't like they hired him to clean up house and that was his approach; he saw a terrible user experience and he gave his advice on how to fix it. Often times, starting fresh is the best way to do that.

A UX architect came forward to apologize and let him know why things were the way they were (again, corporate politics and the design process). AA found the email by scrubbing their Exchange server and fired the guy over discussing that process.

Original complaints:
http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html

The UX Architect's response:
http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html

Dustin's response to the firing:
http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html
I'll never understand the fascination HNers have with using torrentfreak.com as a source of information about stuff like this.

"But, Scott - TorrentFreak is just bringing this information to light. It's not like they are the source here."

True, I know, but I'm sure we can all agree that a site named TorrentFreak.com is hardly going to be an unbiased news source with respect to torrenting and pirating.
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I think Keurig is for those who value convenience over quality and taste.
> hate

I suspect that a good chunk of hate comes from that Kudos widget not having an Undo. It comes across as cocky, hence the backlash.
This is not a sex education problem... this is a harassment/bullying problem.

At the school I am involved with it is termed "Relationship Bullying". It has a range that you would not believe. It typically involves girl peer groups. And it is devastating in its effect. I have seen it turn bright, straight A student athletes into C-D students because of the distraction. This stuff MATTERS to girls that age.

Complicating the issue, a school typically cannot get access to any of these online profiles. (That's generally district policy most places. Having teachers forwarded racy pictures of students opens you up to some liabilities.) Even if you could, a school has no control over what a student does outside of school hours. To top it all off, police generally find that no laws have been broken. One friend let another friend take a picture of her and even smiled for the camera. What can they do?

This problem is MUCH more complicated than most people believe. Simple solutions don't work here. A "...Sex education that focuses on consent and explores issues of patriarchy and rape culture in the US in addition to basic biology and mechanics of sex...", would bore students to tears and do nothing to address the core problems... bullying and harassment.
Remember the Puritans settled in the North. In any case wherever this originates, the US's puritanical tendencies (compared to continental Europe) don't seem to be exclusively a southern thing.
You can export your data: see "Portability" at https://trello.com/privacy

I don't know what I can say to ease your worries about monetization. Its definitely something we're working on. That said, Fog Creek is an established company with steady cash flow, so we're not just going to disappear.
Looks great, but the terminology is slightly unclear. Is "Balanced Payouts" your product name or company name or both? But your URL is balancedpayments.com? Might want to sync the two up.
> Also, I have no idea how they would know where they're currently located (again, no GPS)..

US Naval Submarines have done this for a long time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system
We're looking to roll out clever GMail/email integration, beautiful reports and iPhone application shortly.

We're basically carving a niche for ourselves in the CRM space by focusing on one thing - the sales pipeline and doing it well. This is evident from the fact when you load the main screen, you see your sales funnel visualize and you can change around the stages, add leads and drag and drop users to assign.
> "By all means they should just as that convenience store owner report the matter to the proper authorities."

Who are the proper authorities? The legal/justice system is not meant to be a first-line against all disputes and problems. There's a reason that if your neighbor puts up an offensive sign on his lawn, you try to resolve it yourself before involving the city.

> "They may not be perfect but I do not trust Facebook or any corporation to deal with this in a decent way."

As someone who grew up under (probably not as bad as most others) bullying: hogwash. Facebook is a valid party to deal with this behavior.

Who would deal with this? The police don't give a shit. School administrators have had decades of teen suicides and school shootings to deal with it, but all they have done is further marginalize the bullied, giving them less recourse than they ever had before.

The default "proper authorities" have abdicated their responsibility and proven more than amply that they are either too incompetent or too apathetic to do anything about it. Sadly, the onus does fall upon private parties, and Facebook is one of them.

I for one resist the notion that we should bureaucratize very basic (and very old) human behavior. Just as the shop owner would just go outside and break up the bullies, so should Facebook break up this behavior, referring to the police only in exceptional cases.

> "The underlying problem here however is society and its views on sex for women."

I don't think this is it. Children, both male and female, are bullied harshly for a myriad of reasons, sex being only a large one of many. The core issue is bullying, not bullying re: sex.
Thank you. I figured it was some kind of plugin blocking it.
This is sort of frightening. The obscurity of ACH was the only real security it had; now if I write a check, anyone who sees it can trivially withdraw whatever they want from my account using the above API, no? What sort of fraud protection is there?
>> People are beginning to preface anecdotal evidence with "this just anecdotal, but ...", as if there is some loophole to the fallacy.

maybe we just subconsciously hope that maybe, someday, someone/thing/program will just come along and compile all our "just anecdotes" into real, hard, data? So we just have to write it down, just in-case maybe that person is reading our story right now!
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Facebook is not a free speech area - it blocks all kind of adult stuff as well as comments judged "irrelevant".
> it really isn't much different from a design perspective than what Subtle gives you.

Thanks! Here's the thing, though: Dustin is always working on improving Svbtle, and I don't have to think about it. For example, the code formatting on my blog is terrible. I haven't felt the need to fix it. So it keeps looking terrible. The highlighting on Svbtle is great. One day, the 'related posts' feature just appeared: I didn't need to code that up.

> Won't this degrade your personal blog since you only put short, and by your admission, lower quality posts on it?

It may. It depends: if you care about more news-feed personal stuff about me, then you can read that. My blog used to get on HN all the time, and I'd have a hard time building an audience, because a complex, theory-driven post would get a bunch of subscribers, and then the next one would be a "I released a new version of $PROJECT" and people would unsubscribe. Now I can have two audiences in two places.

Also, Svbtle is on my domain, so it's still 'my brand' as much as Svbtle's.

I'm very, very happy with Svbtle so far.
>There's no \r\n, ";" or "=" in valid email.

Both ; and = are perfectly valid.
Maybe you didn't read the actual post, but it consists of original content - I created my own hand selected list of Seattle companies to watch. I included links to other articles as sources but they don't contain the same content. Affiliate revenue is not "profiteering", it's running a business. You do realize that all the sites with ads on them probably make more per pageview generated by Hacker News than Referly does, right?
There's still often a culture where guys can sleep around, brag it out and the female party gets the stick for it, it's just become accelerated by technology and the fact it's always going to be there, pretty much as long as its ever referenced anywhere.

There's no technology solution that's easy, and no solution in tackling social motivations either. It's one of those seemingly intractable problems.
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4 of years ago I liked symfony. Haven't really tested it in a while though but later versions look like improvements in everything but learning curve. But I'd say the same goes for rails.
This end point only allows you to send money to a bank account.
IANAL - In your example I think both parties could be charged with statutory rape. I don't think this ever actually happens.
This is an extremely difficult problem, and it goes a lot deeper than "prosecute teh boys!!".

They're able to shame sluts because _we_ shame sluts, as a culture. The roots of it are way social and way deep.

The actual thing that's happening, though, is frightening and damned-near unfightable.

It's classic and shitty adolescent behavior through a nation-wide megaphone.

We have to prevent kids from using hard drugs because it's literally not possible for them to adequately weigh the trade-offs and make an informed decision.

I'd say that posing in a picture smiling next to a penis (like a girl did in this story) is a similar problem. They are not equipped to make that decision.

As a parent of a daughter, it's terrifying to think that this decision might ever be one that's hers to make. I'd like to think she'd never do it, but it's not even a decision that will be made like you or I would make it.

Children don't think like adults. That's why we protect them. Apples go in and stupid square oranges come out. As much as possible, they should avoid the position, and as much as possible, we should avoid the consequences having to follow them for a lifetime.
You are looking for trivial answers. I doubt if there is one.