skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert on Android permissions, but those seem reasonable to me. What permissions do you have a problem with, and what should they replace it with, or do you think is totally unnecessary?
> A man's tools are not his nature, rather, nature is known through man's acts.

Man's tools alter reality and alter our perception of reality. The camera changes the artist; the atomic bomb changes us all. I guess the term "[essential] spirit of man" is kind of nebulous anyway so I wouldn't argue strongly against you. I am sure we agree on many more points than we would disagree on. I have no beef with stoicism.
When viewed in Mobile Safari, "Want hello?..." sits under the input box. Something to fix I guess.
And 3) standalone DVRs / NVRs like AVERMEDIA EXR6004 for IP cameras and iCatch US411ZS D1 for analog cameras.
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It seems like it would be hard to find additional content after the easier targets are taken up. Once people have put up lists of what they find useful, new lists or useful additions to the list wouldn't appear every day. It might be a good curated reference, but I have a hard time seeing an active community based around it. Maybe you need to expand the scope of the site idea?
Does someone have a link to a similar deconstruction of a recent hack exploiting one of the IE's? It would be interesting to see the relative complexity of hacks for the two browsers (although I realise that it may also be an apples-to-oranges comparison)
Wait, so Muslims and Americans are mutually exclusive?
I posted about that a while back, although not in such a colorful language, and didn't get that much traction, maybe that's why. ;)

But I do agree that it's annoying when you go to a site and it's not just a reminder but a full screen ad for their app. I also hate sites that feel the need to load the page, detect you're on an iPad, clear the screen, then load another version that is slower to load and works worse, but has nifty side scrolling.
ah good to know. in that case 11k are the total active users in last 2 weeks. so going forward would your service retain data from 25 Jan onwards or only for the past 2weeks.

I'd think that if it retains data from 25th within a few months it would be able to show a very good estimate of total active users
More accurate title would be "direct value of cryptocurrency". Bitcoin has very conservative approach with this. The core developers won't merge any features which don't serve the basic idea of currency.

However alternative chains could be used to develop many of these systems. I think there can be a tremendous value with public database, not controlled by anyone. Lately I have been thinking about alt-chain which could be used as a distributed stock/asset/IPO ledger. Similar to http://www.bitcoinx.org/ , but done in a separate chain to server the needs better.
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More likely a notice would be issued and they would be taken to court if they refuse to comply.
Yes, we have a feature called 'History' which you can access from the editor. It lets you see the changes that have been made to your project over time. It's a bit of minimum-viable-feature at the moment, but it's still quite useful, and we're always open to feedback on how to improve it for your needs.
Ask HN: How do you organise your workspace?
Both virtual and physical
Would you rather they use Silverlight forever instead? Without some form of DRM on playback, there is no Netflix (or Hulu or any other legit web-based streaming for premium content).
Or worse, a full screen ad, and then redirecting you to their main page, instead of showing you the article you wanted to see.
He missed step 1: try to click on the fiddly, tiny hyperlinks to dismiss the gigantic "How cookies work" statement, every bloody time you visit the site.
The point is that it demonstrates the core ideas which Bill Gates put in action in Microsoft. I.e. aggressive IP methodology.
You might be interested in this concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

All economic discussions of free markets that I have ever heard have implicitly or explicitly stated that one of the necessary oversights of government is to break up or regulate natural monopoly-prone industries.
There was an unprecedented failure of correlation vs causation and it was based on crocodiles. The whole idea was that the Indian Ocean was a lake and they would circumvent it, reach the top of the Nile and then sail to down to return to the Greek territory. Unfortunately this geographical mistake was based on the assumption that crocodiles (and lotus plants) they saw in India existed only in upper Egypt only so the two regions were somehow connected.

Regarding Alexanders army, most of it was disbanded after he took the 4 main persian cities and then it was mostly local former persian empire subjects and officers (heteroi - εταιροι) with Macedonian Generals. They probably had a fair knowledge of the situation. The Persians said that they had already occupied some part of Indian territory but there are no Archeological evidence of sustained Persian presence after the Khyber Pass.
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> Why do you even look at it as web vs. apps?

Because the issue under discussion is proprietary applications with sequestered content, versus standards-compliant browsers accessing a public Web.

> To see each app as a threat to "open web" even more stupid.

Try to fill out your argument. Calling it "stupid" isn't an argument.

If an app sequesters content, and if that content would otherwise be publicly available, then the app has nothing but disadvantages compared to a browser -- for the user, not the company that designed the app.

> To pretend that web tech is always superior ...

Straw Man. Only you have made this argument.
Are there some websites which don't work well after selecting "request desktop sure"? So far it's been my default reaction when "forced" to install an app.
It surely looks beautiful, but how is that different (feature-wise) from Gmail?
I'm web developer who works remotely.

I worked in corporation for some time where we had multi-person real live meetings but they were devoid of any real discussion or content.

I also worked in few start-ups where we discussed important things in person but I never talked to more than two people at the same time.

If you really have to discuss things that require critical thinking with a group of people daily I think you are fairly unique and I don't envy you. :-)
My local newspaper is currently going through their bullshit app phase:

http://www.roanoke.com/digitalsubscription/#replica

• If you're on a computer, you just head to their website, login, and read the newspaper.

• If you're on an Android device, you just head to their website, login, and read the newspaper.

• If you're on an Apple device, you're directed to download the bullshit iOS app.

The reason they give for requiring the bullshit iOS app is that the website requires Flash to do its thing. That makes me wonder if they bothered testing the website on an Android device released after August 2012, when Adobe dropped support for new installs of Flash Player on Android...

It also makes me wonder if they got the memo about the rest of the world moving away from Flash...
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The first two paragraphs seemed to be directed towards the layman, and then the author takes a tangent with: "For example, the block chain (distributed transaction history) is designed to be extremely hard to forge and very easy to verify." You lost me completely.
That actually made sense when a difference of a few KB meant a difference between whether or not you'd be able to fit your own application into memory.

There was at least one early BASIC extension, for example, where you could pick the commands you wanted "a la carte", with number of bytes required for each one of them listed, to pack the ones that were most important for you to fit into a specific size. You'd pay for the size you chose.
I'd rather them not use DRM at all. I don't use them precisely because of their DRM proliferation. But it's not the point - the point is that DRM is a dying trend altogether, and making it a Web standard is nonsensical. It's not different from proposing to make Flash or Silverlight a Web standard, when the whole Web is shifting to move to pure HTML. That's besides the mere fact that DRM is unethical and goes against the whole notion of the open Web.
So this is just splitting hairs between proximate and ultimate causes. We could say the the prime motivation is profit - a specialized case of making money. In order to turn a profit one must make more money than one spends. It is thought that by monetizing the content and sealing it off one can maximize one's revenue stream. The end result is dismantling the web.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causatio...

Convenience does always seem to win. I suppose because people are lazy. Or short-sighted. It's hard to put in extra effort now for some saving down the road.
I have been trying to figure out how to organize my files recently. I'm moving around between multiple computers a lot, so I put a lot of my files into Dropbox.

It's a mess in there though. I try to separate out my work into "purpose", so I have folders for work, for fun, for learning. I'm ending up with a lot of 6-7 folder deep hierarchies,except for my experimentation folder. In there, I have about 40 different folders all named a bit arbitrarily, all with little snippets that I look at infrequently.

My desk is usually just my computer, 1 or 2 screens, and a lot of paper (both printed papers and scratch paper). I make it a point to always have a writing tool within arms length at all times, this has resulted in me having about 5 or 6 pens lying about on every desk, and 1 or 2 in every jacket I own.
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The costs are negligible - several cents per transaction nowadays, and is always up to you to define related to how important the transaction is and how fast you'd like the network to confirm it.

In any case, the costs are miniscule compared to standard transaction fees that banks charge.
What I want is a way to sort my instant queue without having to futz manually. A simple sort by rating would be nice, and way more useful than the order I added items to the queue.
The block chain is a very simple concept: it's the permanent record of all bitcoin transactions ever made.
i believe (without proof) that this is too deeply embedded in basic human psychology ever to change.
Update: If you add "www" to the URL, you get a 404.

I'm having a hard time believing that this is run by Apple. The appear to be the registrar in the domain records - and the technical note clearly indicates they control appstore.com

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1633/_index.ht...

But it seems off-brand for the following reasons:

* requests to the main domain uses an HTML redirect instead of an HTTP redirect (as if they didn't have permissions to configure the webserver properly)

* the webserver name is hidden on normal requests (see above), but visible on 404 requests. The servers are "Apache/2.2.3 (PU_IAS)" and "Apache/2.2.15 (Oracle)"

* the message on a request to appstore.com is infantile (and unstyled) "Bye Bye You shouldn't be here."

Odd.
If you have the hardware, The Verge is nicely designed, almost as well as Ars. But people who don't like Tiles and prefer flat lists might not like it.
Sure you do! So do I! You and I probably live in the most expensive 1% of places on the planet. We live incredible lives - our existences are better on average than anything any king had 150 years ago. We have whatever food we want at whatever time in the year we want it. We have phenomenal connectivity and mobility and, if we need to be on the other side of the planet in 48 hours time, that's doable.

Of course, I want more. The guy next door has a Range Rover and a Porsche. But I know there are literally billions of people who cannot imagine the luxury in which I live.
Very nice, although I would like it if ratings were added to the actual movie pages as well, rather than just on the index page with the list of movies. (Maybe it is on the movie pages in the US, I'm using Netflix UK; if so I guess I'll just do without)
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> The ‘~’ and ‘.’ are obstacles;

Surely, they are not obstacles. They are hideous monsters and the only way to survive is to fool them by wearing the skin of one of them.
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> There were two different perspectives (in journal articles) and you'd be assigned one to defend in the next class.

I always thought of these kinds of assignments as somewhat strange. You have to defend something you might not care about, not believe in or even be strongly opposed to.

I think that teaches you how to be politician. How to find arguments for the cause that is not yours for gains completely unrelated to the real validity or value of the cause. I felt we are being thought how to be dishonest and that it pays.
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It can be useful to frame such discussions in some conventional reference, thus here's my top of head summary of Bitcoin vs. the well established three main uses of money; ie. money as a...

Unit of account: Works fine but has issues due to the relative volatility of its value. Also, the complexity of accounting that can result from blockchain rollbacks and other Bitcoin-specific issues (new "invoices/receipts" scheme, etc...)

Store of value: Far too volatile at present to be much good; though it has been heading upwards, an individual party could easily destabilize the entire economy.

Medium of exchange: Excellent speed and reach, theoretically an improvement on existing systems due to a lack of chargebacks (finality). Realistically, increasingly complex to implement, particularly securely, and especially for real time goods and services. Unfortunately the market is relatively small and spotty right now, so any benefits here are largely negated for general commerce.

I can't help but feel the blockchain-tricks referenced by the author (in addition to the upcoming "invoices/receipts" mechanism) are nought but scope creep, best left out as violators of "do one thing and do it well", and in general a bad sign for Bitcoin's future.

That said, I am all for Bitcoin, I think it's great. It's just important to be realistic about its objective properties vs. other systems.
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- Please post documentation on flash being able to on-line compile.

- Both Direct3D and OpenGL (any variant) are moving away from requiring people to supply bytecode (or native code) to an on-line compile model of a high level language. Starting with Direct3D 10 you cannot supply your own bytecode anymore. Direct3D bytecode is cryptographically signed by the HLSL compiler of Microsoft and the DirectX runtime will refuse to run any shader bytecode that does not pass signature verification.

- WebGL is the smallest most concise of any 3D API around. Your claim of 80ties legacy is baseless. It is re-engineered from OpenGL ES 2.0 which cut away much legacy. WebGL threw out the entire remaining OpenGL ES 2.0 legacy profile. The entire API, all of it, fits on 2 PDF pages of a quick reference (compared to 4 for ES 2.0 and a dozen for full blown OpenGL). WebGL is extremely well tested with close to 10'000 tests in around 500 test suites that test everything from API consistency and behavior to actually verifying rendering results. It is not hard to test at all, evidenced by a superb conformance test suite and performance regression suite, unique among any 3D API in existence.

- The extension mechanism offers you the possibility to introduce alternative renderpaths. On any account, none of the extensions present are more than what Direct3D 9 already supports (but OpenGL ES 2.0 does not). Instead of checking the D3DDeviceCaps for capabilities, you check extensions, same thing really.

- Typed arrays have been introduced and are supported well by any vendor doing WebGL

- WebGL runs on mobiles because it is an implementation of OpenGL ES 2.0, which is supported by well over 90% of smartphones and tablets. Implementations of WebGL are offered from multiple vendors for android, and out of the box from Blackberry and Firefox OS
My experience is that 500 Startups people are friendly and down-to-earth.

Not sure why you don't have a good impression, and hope that you can get a chance to meet more people from 500S and change your opinion.

Disclosure: my startup was part of the 500S accelerator in 2011.
"To pretend that web tech is always superior"

I didn't. I said that the overhead of installing an app is unnecessary for the use case of reading the news. I wouldn't install a custom binary on my laptop to read a news website, why should I do so on my phone?
Seems 100% perfect to me. If I want a link to open my apps in iTunes, I can give them this one, and it was created automatically: http://appstore.com/titanbaseproductions
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It would be interesting to know why a news reading application needs full access to my file system.
Well, 25 hours a week is for how long your average worker is productive throughout the typical work-week anyway. The rest is spent dicking around on the Internet and socializing with coworkers.

I feel like if we cut down the "official" work to 25 hours, people would suddenly realize that they need to be a lot more productive to get the same amount of work done. No more pointless interruptions. No more bullshit meetings. Everyone would try to get shit done, and enjoy the extra three hours they get everyday and be a lot happier.
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I also like the CHOICE variable in which the probability of encontering a monster is decreased by adding more spaces.

CHOICES="~. "
Whilst I agree with some of the sentiments the article conveys, I'm doubtful that many people who feel this strongly actually would bother to go through these steps. Of those news organisations whose sites you regularly read, which of them actually do this and of those which would you feel happy installing an app for? I read numerous news articles on the web, but I only have one news app installed (for The Guardian), and they don't even exhibit this behaviour.

It would seem to me the most practical thing to do is to just dismiss the alert, cluck my tongue at the site's hubris, then read the article within the mobile browser — which more often than not is an option. Where it is not, to actually go down the route of installing the app of an organisation that manifestly has contempt for the end user, then upon discovering it offers up a terrible experience conclude this is fait accompli in the debate of web vs native apps seems like wilful prejudice.

The concluding remarks offer up straw man arguments for why native applications are a bad thing, in spite of the anecdote really just being about companies (which coincidentally makes money from somebody other than the end user) who treat the end user like nothing other the commodity they truly see them as.
They provide a prime office location (top floor of the tallest building in downtown Mountain View) and regular catered meals (several meals a week) as part of the multi-month accelerator program.

When we took part in the accelerator, we were initially surprised by this charge, but found it to be a minimal charge relative to all that 500S provides.
It's meaningless to count hours for development work without also talking about how much of that time is spent doing actual work, and their velocity.

Someone who works 40 hours, takes regular breaks and keeps a moderate pace, sure. 40 hours of high pace concentrated development work? In the last 17 years of managing development teams, I've had maybe 1-2 people who could sustain that for more than a week or two at the time.
Ask HN: Does anyone find Google "search API" rate limiting annoying?
I am feeling a lot of anger over Google's decision to rate limit searches done through APIs. Earlier it was free but there were some conditions such as you cannot change the order of the search etc.

But now, the same search is not free anymore and on top of thats its bloody expensive ($5 for 1000 queries).
Is there any alternative (I don't know why I am asking this question, I know the answer already. There are none.)
I personally feel that Google's data belongs to public as much as it belongs to Google. Its the public which has made it so valuable.

Obvisouly I do not see a problem if they charge for commercial usage but they should not restrict its usage for the opensource and freely distributed software. In fact such usage will only enrich the search data further.

Interesting links:
https://developers.google.com/web-search/docs/
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview
Another data point : the European countries with the longest holidays (France & Germany) are bailing out countries with the shortest holidays ( Greece Ireland Portugal)
Counter point:
Japan and Korea as I remember did not having a tipping system and yet services are great.

If you have an issue with your server you complain to the restaurant so the bad waiters get fired.

I don't understand why as a culture Australia would tolerate such behavior in servers who's job is serving. (Would you tolerate translators who couldn't translate? programmers who couldn't program?)
There have been many international companies that have gone through the accelerator program, including ones from Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, India), South America (several from Brazil) and Europe (Croatia, Estonia, etc).

It's a great way for international companies to quickly get integrated into Silicon Valley.
Agreed. I use Flickchart, a service that builds a "best of" list for you over time, and also builds a "highest rated movies you haven't seen yet" list. The other day, the lightbulb went off that I should sort my queue based on that "highest rated movies" list, but I quickly rediscovered that the Netflix queue sorting interface is a hassle to deal with.
An entire page of whinges about the web site, instead of the app itself. I guess this is some kind of progress.

Here's one vote for all of you to submit comments like that to the webmaster instead of posting them here and reserve your breath on HN for comments about the subject instead.
One problem I've come to appreciate in Britain is that we are all in direct competition with each other for access to good housing. As disposable incomes go up, property prices rocket as the middle class use their new wealth to bid up the price of houses in an attempt to trade that wealth for a nicer place to live. I'm keenly aware of this because that's exactly what my wife and I have been doing. A big chunk of our income goes into our mortgage.

The dynamic my well be very different in other countries. In the USA for example there's much more scope for increasing the supply of housing, something that's harder to do in a more densely populated country like the UK. I think this is why the US had a property crash while we didn't - the housing market here is a lot less elastic.

Still, my point is that if incomes generally go up, a proportion of that will be expended in price wars over scarce local resources, property being the most obvious example.
When accessing the page over HTTPS, Chrome is refusing to load the stylesheet located at a non-HTTPS URL. ("[blocked] The page at https://xkcd.com/1168/ ran insecure content from http://imgs.xkcd.com/static/styles_short_beta.css ")
The site has very annoying scrolling on the page (Chrome on Mac) -- it seems to scroll horizontally when I do the motion for scrolling vertically. Took a while to figure out what the heck was happening, and it still feels non-intuitive.