skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah you guys will be totally safe from the twin scourges of guns and playing cards if HN people like this vacation elsewhere.
Can you share any examples? Sounds like a fun weekend project to try to put one of those companies out of business :)
I've done a fair amount of travel to Huntsville for work and it seems like a really pleasant and livable city.

The summer heat is tough, not significantly worse than DC, but constant.
I believe you've accidentally omitted the following important and relevant pieces from the article and the following author comments:

"There are other exploitable scenarios, but it really depends on what your app is doing. Since it is impossible to prove that something isn’t insecure, you should take the vulnerability seriously and upgrade anyway even if you think you aren’t affected." - article subsection "Summary: what is this vulnerability?"

"a leaked key is NOT necessary to exploit the bug" - author comment on the article.

"Another (unrelated) Rails vulnerability has been found today. That vulnerability has not been publicized yet, but suffice to say it is a very embarrassing and serious vulnerability that deserves immediate attention. Please keep your eye open on future advisories." - author comment on the article.

"Not disagreeing with you there. After all there's no way to prove that something doesn't exist. What's why I wrote that everyone should upgrade, just in case. :)
The goal of the article is not to defend Rails. It is to inform about the nature of the vulnerability and to replace the feeling of panic with rational thoughts." - author comment on HN
I love Font Awesome, thanks to all the contributors!! One of the first things I replace from Bootstrap is the dependence on png icon sprites.

Bootstrap 3 and Font Awesome 3 should just marry each other and get it over with.
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same story posted on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003525
Odd, I got a Galaxy Nexus and it's the best phone I've ever had. To each his own, I guess.
You can't say that without knowing what the app does.

A recent project that I've been involved with switch from Java to Ruby and they reduced the number of servers by 10 times (!). But I don't blame Java, I blame the programmers of the last code base. You can write unmaintainable messes in any language.
I'll echo a few others and say definitely look at the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina.
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp
IRC is extremely idiosyncratic, though. XMPP is much more logical and consistent. Any decent language can deal with trees, although XML is sometimes a little annoying.

The potential problem with XML is the overhead. I'm not sure that's been an issue so far, though.
IRC was, at least for me, one of the main reasons that I pursued tech and started programming at a young age. A friend of mine introduced me to a local Irish group of Linux enthusiasts/sysadmins/engineers who put up with my foolish questions long enough for me to learn something. While some channels are very quiet now I still find it one of the best resources when I'm troubleshooting a problem.
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Its earth-shattering because its an entirely volunteer project, where once there was nothing but proprietary blobs for us to run. This is significant because 3D-acceleration has been an Achilles heel in the Linux desktop world for ages .. and now the community has sorted it. This is GREAT news!
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Maybe you and everyone you know has unlimited data, but not everyone does. Bluetooth file sending works on every single phone apart from the iPhone, and it's frustrating when people can't send you photos because your stupid phone doesn't support the most ubiquitous file sharing method since 1995.
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Actually in France you can't control most ISP-supplied consumer routers.
And for sure on this one you don't have the control at all.
Source: i'm french.
Kevin Drum is an unabashedly left leaning blogger but he's of the Matthew Yglesias flavor that values intellectual integrity over beating the right. This piece was outstanding and he's consistently one of the highlights of my RSS feed each morning.
I used IRC for 7 years at my old job, even in an office.

At my new startup we're using www.hipchat.com which is a pretty good replacement (simpler, no IRC server to setup), and its cheap.
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Very nice but I'd love to see the ability to snap stencils to a grid as I had trouble lining them up.
I don't know about know, but I remember being told as recently as a couple of years ago that id Software used it as an inter-office chat tool. I certainly have imagined its use at jobs before, even when I worked in call centers. It couldn't be hard to let the rank and file chat when not on a call. (Yes, they were oddly draconian about doing nothing, or reading a book, between calls. Forget your book and your day is ruined.)
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I went the other direction recently, from Galaxy S2 with 4.2.1 Jelly Bean to iPhone 3GS with jailbroken iOS 6.0.1.

The iPhone feels great in my hands because it's so small and the battery seems to be lasting for ages. I don't even feel like it's that old because it still has the latest OS and apps.

I'm enjoying the iPhone for now but I think it's mainly due to getting bored with the Galaxy. The Galaxy is due an upgrade in November and I think at that point I'll get a Nexus.
Superficial as it is, absolutely, this is something I love about iOS. It reinforces the "manipulating real objects with touch" metaphor. If I move my finger while pressing down on a piece of paper in real life, I expect the underlying paper to move as well. The highlight on Android just feels weird and clunky with no basis in real world interaction. That's not to say it isn't usable -- it just isn't as much fun without the momentum scrolling physics.
It's a very, very bad re-design.
- Grid is hard to track and keep an eye on. You will constantly lose information and get frustrated pretty quickly
- Long comments with 20 words per-line is bad for reading. You will have hard time jumping to the new line.
- Navigation is quite complex and will turn many new users down. It is good for experience users though.
- In reality you will not have such nice videos and photos. So it is quite artificial.
Elite universities tend to teach a lot more classes in small groups anyway, an experience that can't really be replicated online the way a 200 person lecture can.
I have to chime in and exclaim the brilliance of the Lammy Safari. I asked on app.net for a fountain pen to replace my cheap old parker pen.

The only stipulations that it is long enough for my giant hands without the lid and that it not be made of metal. (I have trouble holding metal pens)

After getting the Lammy Safari two months ago I find my self writing much more. My notes are much more useful and are a pleasure to write.
That sounds like such an awesome setup!
depends on the product , lob's apps are fine , html games ( aside from text games ) on mobile require more than a good level of expertise to run smoothly on most of the handsets.
Battery life in Android land is a matter of choosing the right handset. I don't believe the iPhone holds a candle to my Note 2 or the RAZR Maxx if you actually use the phone heavily. Plus replaceable/extended batteries are another option.
Can you elaborate on why? Is it for the same reasons as the article?
> In the USA (where I reside) buying mailing lists is legal, and common industry practice.

I just want to add for anyone in the US reading this that it isn't quite this clear cut, and you have to abide by various regulations when sending unsolicited bulk mail. If you aren't careful you could still end up in trouble. IANAL.
Crime victims sometimes face an uphill battle in court if they had consented to sex while drunk.

I don't know how it works in the US, but in my country, when a person consents to sex while drunk, even though they wouldn't consent while sober, it's not considered to be a rape. The justification is that adult people know how alcohol works and may decide not to drink it, and the amount of alcohol needed to get someone drunk enough is too big to make someone intoxicated without them realizing. Of course, it also means that having sex with someone who passed out is rape, and so is getting someone to consent after giving them rape pills, for you can make someone ingest them without them realizing.
Hey guys, french guy here.
There is few things you actually need to know.
First the ISP Free has always been a game changer in France.
First they introduced the "triple-play/low cost internet" wich is TV + unlimited phone call over 150 countries + high speed internet for under 30 euros
Then they started to be a mobile carrier and they broke de price with unlimited call over 150 countries, unlimited text/media messages and unlimited internet for 15 euros.

And now they just setup a built-in adblock in their modem and enabled by default.

But you also need to know that since several year Free is fighting against Youtube(own by Google) because they basically wants Youtube to pay a fee for all the bandwidth the users are "wasting" on youtube".

EDIT: I forget to tell you that he is also behind online.net wich is a very big internet hosting company and back then he was the first to introduce low cost dedicated server(http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie/dedibox-sc).

He is also behind Kima Venture, a pretty good VC I guess.

And he recently launch an internet shcool: http://www.eemi.com/ and is planning to launch a computer science school.
Or it was just a phrase!
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bollocks.
For me the spinning wobbles on Chrome 23.0.1271.97 and doesn't work at all on IE9 despite the site banner claiming IE7 support?
https://joindiaspora.org/ is linked in the article and gives me giant security certificate warnings. https://joindiaspora.com/ looks like a real site.

https://diasporafoundation.org/ (linked from the .com) also has giant warnings.

I'm hesitant to accept the security promises of sites who don't bother to get their certs set up correctly.
I still see under the heading 'Choose between explicit type declaration or implicit type inference' the following:

> Sum(x: Integer, u: Integer): Int = return x * y
> or
> Sum(x: Integer, u: Integer): = return x * y

Clearly, x * y is not the sum. And y isn't in the argument list, u is. And in both cases the return statement is unnecessary and should be omitted.
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I think this should be a good lesson for everyone: don't post code without testing it.

There's another point here, though. It seems that you're learning PHP (although in your "About" page you claim that it's one of your skills) so there's no shame in getting things wrong, but aside from learning that you really do need to test even apparently trivial things, it's also good practice to acknowledge other people's contributions, even if only by saying "My thanks to those who pointed out errors in the original." I wouldn't want explicit credit by name, but acknowledging other people is good practice. Look at PG's essays - he regularly thanks people for their feedback.
I agree, though I think some of the "not all Android applications look like crap" type stuff is just pointing out that some of the things people have used to beat Android with in the past are no longer true which is fair enough.
Why don't you just hire 2 devs that implement your features, Paul? You should know some good ones. :)

The biggest annoyance for me is that every page takes 15 seconds to load, it feels like the 90s.
I don't really think of my phone as obeying any sort of real life physics. There are way too many interactions that don't (on iOS as well) for me to be able to keep up that illusion.
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Andreessen: One of the first times Zuckerberg and I got together, in 2005 or 2006, he stopped me in the middle of conversation and asked: “What did Netscape do?” And I said, “What do you mean, what did Netscape do?” And he was like, “Dude, I was in junior high. I wasn’t paying attention.

I have a hard time believing that. Zuckerberg is 6 months younger than me, and I remember Netscape clearly (the end/later part of it anyway).
Using it daily since 13 years back (half of my life) as the sole medium for communicating with most of my friends. First we had a channel on a public network but now we are on our own server since 4 years back. MSN had a stint as the way of communicating with my less tech savvy friends, it is now replaced by Skype. IRC feels kind of impossible to replace though.
First, I think the environment is the world - at least, the physical realm. There are a number of aspects of what we call "the environment" that are commons:

The land, the soil, the fisheries, the ability of the atmosphere, sea and more to absorb and process our waste, the aquifers, the top soil, the forests, etc.

Apart from that, our cultural heritage, our science and inventions, the electromagnetic spectrum. I'm sure you can think of more.

Sadly, today we live in the belief that we need to convert all of this, or rather more and more of it, into goods that can be monetized.

For a great book on the subject, I warmly recommend Sacred Economics. You can read it online, download or order on http://sacred-economics.com/.
Non coder speaking. I have tried the plug in "answers" from wpmu. Org running on wordpress.
Ok, nothing sexy.
Themesforest also has plug in for sale.
My 2 cents
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Thanks for the dumbed down explanation. I had a very clear idea of what you meant from your first post, however, the extra clarity gives me confidence that I understood it correctly.

Your first comment also dumbed down the exact same material - but in a different way. In the present day, among computer users and maybe people interested in finance, I have noticed the use of terser expressions, dense walls of text and shorter words to approximate the meaning of longer concepts (e.g. "moat", "sticky") to avoid recreating 2000+ word wikipedia articles.

Your first comment and the earlier commenter suggesting 'coca cola' having 'invented' santa claus (the user didn't mean the dictionary definition of invented), where two people are using language that has moved on from the dictionary definition, reminds me in some way of this essay by George Orwell.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

I prefer the present-day contracting "meaning concentrating" style of abuse of language rather than the olden-day expanding "meaning dilution" style of abuse, however both make for uncertain reading!
IRC died for the same reason Usenet died: some old authoritative farts thumping on some ancient, bizarre rules they set during their youth, some kind of "trve" tech Islam, stopping any kind of progress and scaring away new blood.

They could enforce that kind of bizarro rules during the time IRC and Usenet were the only game in town, but everybody sane jumped off the moment remotely usable alternatives (anything web based like phpbb, shudder) appeared on the horizon.

So you cant really say that IRC and Usenet died some kind of natural death, they were simply slowly suffocated by the deranged "get off my lawn" incumbents.
Here's a take on getting more female conference speakers from a female blogger (who is a copywriter):

http://rel.ly/2012/09/conference-organisers-a-point-for-your...

I'd say many of the points in the above link are equally useful to all speakers and attendees (regardless of gender or colour). So perhaps some simple forethought in planning and prepaparation can go a long way in encouraging a wider range of attendees and speakers.
> While Android still doesn’t give you bouncing lists and scroll views

It used to be in Android until Apple made it a 1 billion dollar lawsuit and banned everyone else in the universe from implementing it.

Those bouncing lists. 1 billion dollar. And Apple is not a patent-troll. No siree.
At a certain point it becomes financially viable for Google to start an ISP in France just to circumvent the block. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I came on the scene around the time IM and web-based chat rooms (arguably) peaked; 2000. In the 'FOSS' world, aside from mailing lists, IRC was the dominant means of communication.

I'm only turning 27 this year, and I really can't wrap my head around people using things like vendor-specific IM or web-based chat rooms as a replacement for IRC in similar scenarios.

I know it's basically the same thing; a centralised gathering point tied to a server run by a particular company or organisation, but, I don't know...IRC just feels like a more 'transparent', neutral form/protocol to me.
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Hi, I would just like to thank RiderOfGiraffes, adolfoabegg and ColinWright for pointing out a really silly mistake on my part. I should of tested my code before posting it, This is why I love the development community always great people to help out.
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I have to agree with this sentiment. My wife has a 4S, but when I needed to upgrade my phone last spring, I didn't want to buy an iPhone mid-cycle. I got the Galaxy Nexus and was pleasantly surprised in all aspects. With ICS and especially JB, Android has really closed the gap to the point where I'm actually glad I don't have an iPhone because I'm a big Google ecosystem user and the better Gmail and Calendar apps tip the scales for me.

GN is clearly inferior in build quality to an iPhone, but you have to be a bit of a snob to call it "garbage". It's solid hardware.
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If it wasn't for one irc channel, I don't think I would have made it through the first 2 years of programming. Didn't bother them to much (i hope), but just to understand pointers and that at the start, with C, and other things, really helped. 12 years on and wouldn't wanna do anything else.
I've heard it argued that the main reason Wave died was all the XML overhead from being built on XMPP.
I don't know if you'd say that when they inevitably manage to collapse a case.

Clearly, it is a good thing that Anonymous is drawing attention to this case: going by the Atlantic's and the NYTime's reporting, there's a lot of suspect stuff going on and it should absolutely be investigated by people without any skin in the game.

However, Anonymous are not lawyers. Releasing potential evidence into the public eye is hugely problematic, because it may in the end not be admissible.

Suppose there exists a piece of evidence that appears to absolutely and totally prove the guilt of the accused. However, this evidence is inadmissible in court (this happens more than you might think). The jury wouldn't get to see or hear about this evidence. Now, imagine this key piece of evidence is leaked before the trial by somebody like Anonymous. Suddenly, it's everywhere, all over the news. The defence team are going to have a field day: it's mistrial time. Their client can't possibly receive a fair trial.

So I am in two minds about this: on the one hand, it's undoubtedly a good thing that attention is being drawn to this case. This would have been unlikely to happen on such a large scale if Anonymous hadn't gotten involved.

On the other, if Anonymous keep going down this road they will cause a mistrial. And that's going to result in the complete opposite of what they're trying to achieve.
Well, there are quite beautiful homescreens and widgets for android. You don't have to use them but i would say that iPhone users are just missing out on something.
Sure, you are used to just take what Apple gives you and praise that but i couldn't.. I want high customizability and i love to change the entire phone setup when i get bored by the current setup.. or try out a new home screen once in a while. It's painless and fun for me to do :)

But surely, what really is missing on iOS is the whole intent/sharing system. It's just painful to try to interact between several apps on my iPad.

Btw. One of the more beautiful homescreens is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tsf.shell

Or widgets: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levelup.be...

Those are things that i simply can't get on iOS and i'm used to it. I want that on my mobile.
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They might be dicks, but it would still be dilution of the term "patent troll" to call them that. After all, they do actually sell a product with said feature.
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Can you share your experience what social technology or product you are using in startup/company/business and how it helps to you?
> GN is clearly inferior in build quality to an iPhone

It's only inferior in visible quality (I've dropped it a lot and it barely has a scratch on it), but I'm okay with that because it costs half as much as an iPhone, which I think is very significant.

You can get a top-of-the-line smartphone for $300. That's amazing.
Where's the Dragon 32 version, that's what I want to know...
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I know not everybody is a nostalgic nerd with a thing for tech industry history, but, yeah, I'm two years younger and even I was aware of the general history of Netscape's journey and choices by the time I was 14-15.

Perhaps he was too busy putting his head down, pumping out a real product instead of procrastinating and focusing on the past :)
Except it's impossible to set up without AWS and IndexTank. We tried that in our local Hackerspace and failed miserably.

By the way, our Hackerspace is looking for a sane, reddit-line threaded discussion engine. I'd use HN engine, but it doesn't support "subreddits". Anyone knows something that could work? We had hard time finding anything.
They also listed a load of items in the manual that weren't actually in the game. I'm disappointed I never found the massive space transporter thing that was supposed to be in there.
Really? I've never seen it in Android.
It's only broken for the female voice, with the male voice it works fine. But i have no idea how google choses which voice to use.
Rudolph would be by Montgomery Ward.
Comparing the iPhone to a Note 2 is probably unfair as those things are HUGE!
or even reading the title, as typically "___ is dead, long live ___" doesnt mean the ___ is dead
Isn't HN just racket + arc + news.arc?