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Ask HN:What do you think about social daily deals website
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Unfortunately the servers and employees to run the service is not.
How about games, audio apps, 3d packages?
Yeah, I guess we're going to see a lot more bad UX abuse of this in the near future. It's very distracting.
You don't think the NRA has anything to do with it? Public opinion in rural states? The second amendment?
The key decision the reporter made, and that NYT ombudsman acknowledges was bad judgment, was to quit charging early in Norwich without being given the go ahead by Tesla.

The reporter changed his wording on that between the original article and his later rebuttal. He originally said Tesla told him it was okay to unplug and go. Later he reworded that they'd told him it should be okay to charge for an hour and go. He then charged for less than an hour, saw it hadn't given as much fuel as he needed, and unplugged early anyway and without checking with them.

As the NYT ombudsman quote, the journo hadn't even bothered to follow the owner's manual. His behavior was disingenuous at best, even if not pro-oil link baiting at worst.
Braess' Paradox Infects Social Networks Too
"When Amazon’s EC2 and S3 web services arrived in 2006, they changed the computing business. Big server makers — most noticeably Sun Microsystems — had been tinkering with the idea of selling computer power in much the same way that utility companies sell power or water, but much to everyone’s surprise, Amazon — a seller of books and CDs — managed to produce a set of services that the market was willing to pay for."

This reminded me of the Jonathan Schwartz (Sun's CEO) blog mentioning "Chief Electricity Officers" - I tracked down this archived copy of the March 2006 post: http://web.archive.org/web/20060720095546/http://blogs.sun.c...

Tracking those words a little further back, I found this 2004 snippet:
"Peter Gassner, Salesforce.com. Build or buy? No, subscribe. On-demand utility. Chief electricity officer was once a real position." ( http://www.jaycross.com/wp/category/just-jay/page/130/ ), besides Nicholas Carr and others elaborations of similar vintage.

The ideas were definitely in the air, the problem was execution and delivery.
No, I had to learn how to be funny the hard way.
APT1 exposed
thanks for your thoughts.
i wasn't that worried about my bitcoin purchase being on record more that i wanted some immediately and didn't want to wait 3/4 days for bank payment to clear etc etc.
FIFA says it will use goal-line technology at 2014 World Cup
It's kind of frustrating that otherwise interesting articles like this get buried under misleading titles like this, with a guy who some 30 years once worked on cars (high-end, cutting edge cars - not changing oil and brake pads on VW Jetta's) now working for a company that didn't even exist when he was a mechanic being described as 'Amazon hired car mechanic'. Michael Dell used to stock shelves in his youth, should newspapers run headlines like 'shelf stocker taking computer manufacturer private in 25B leveraged buyout'? Please.

</grump_mode>
not sure about now. but it's only going to get bigger and getting your hands on bitcoins is a huge pain
Because Apple products really aren't that much better than everything else? I have a top-of-the-line iMac and I have just as many problems with it as I do with my windows machine. Little stupid problems that shouldn't happen, too, like not recognizing headphones (hardware) and not playing well with standard third-party software.
More sensationalism about 3D printed guns. People, please - nobody is going to be printing a functioning gun purely out of ABS plastic on a <$1k hobby printer for a long time(if ever).

The only people who might be printing guns(requiring pretty rigorous touchup after the printing process) are those with access with extremely expensive printers that can print metal.

I sincerely hope this doesn't lead to regulating 3d printing into oblivion. Just like the entertainment industry wishes it got the jump on filesharing, I'm sure big manufacturing is prepping its lobbying efforts.
It's almost a year old, but Scott Locklin's comments are still pertinent, especially since it discusses the AR-15 which the Washington Post article discusses.

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/bad-engineerin...
Hyperlinks (And Framing) Should Not Be Infringing
In our current project instead of putting the framework's html/css into our codebase I'm outputting as bare bones html as I can with semantic class names on everything and then mapping those classes to the framework using sass mixins/extends/includes.

To make a RWD site I'm having to rewrite a lot of the framework to be mixins instead of classes so that I can use them in @media as SASS doesn't allow @extend in @media any more[1]. What I'd find really useful would be a framework thats entirely built from mixins/partials and outputs no css until you create your own classes that use them.

[1]: https://github.com/nex3/sass/issues/154 Disallow @extend within directives
Maybe they will pull a "Popova" and have affiliate ads only.
http://gigaom.com/2013/02/15/bittorrent-soshare-app/
I also wonder why so many phishing emails are getting through the university spam filters - a slightly better solution might of been to remove links in external emails that point to docs.google.com.

But anyway, I don't want to start slagging off a particular team that I've never met - maybe they wanted to do all sorts of other, smarter, things and weren't allowed, and maybe they'll be allowed to do them now..
considerable resources

This is a British university, not Goldman Sachs. The action was a dramatic, low-cost effort to get users' attention, educating users, if you like (from OP):

> While this wouldn’t be effective for users on other networks, in the middle of the working day a substantial proportion of users would be on our network and actively reading email. A temporary block would get users’ attention and, we hoped, serve to moderate the “chain reaction”.
Why not enforce a velocity restriction on outgoing e-mails instead and put spam filters on outgoing e-mail then bounce offending mail back to sender?

Spammers are phishing for ox.ac.uk accounts because they're easy to exploit, right? Just raise the bar.
I thought we established in a previous discussion that Amazon affiliate links are ads. If that's the case, then contextual links are out.

That said, I subscribed to Office 365 (or whatever it's called) and I dig it. It has a modern flat design (eschewing the tacky skeuomorphic look). Also, SkyDrive is a great alternative to Dropbox and the Office suite blows away everything else I've tried.
I find $19.95 a little too much, just for getting rid of ads.
for those without access http://ge.tt/6UxoSsY?c
Except the network belongs to the institution (i.e. its users), not the IT department (although most do seem to think this way).
How much do you think the ads are making them?
Wow, the switch to webkit was fast. :)
I'll stick with free e-mail.
This framework is quite broken on the iPad (in Chrome).

- The dropdown menu doesn't work well. It triggers on hover, but trying to do "hoverintent" on the iPad simply fires the click event on the button, causing the menu to appear briefly before the page navigates.
- I can't even scroll at all on the demo pages. Dragging the page (to scroll) just drags the whole tab rather than actually scrolling.
continuous phishing attacks via google docs? no, not quite. some collaborators and myself studied this a couple of years ago, it's a minuscule part of the phishing problem.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=61...

edited to add: here's the paper for you to read, i forgot i had a copy lying around.

http://monkey.org/~jose/tmp/PHISHING-FINAL-03-KN.pdf
Until then you can just hide your ads in Gmail:
http://lifehacker.com/5879757/how-to-hide-ads-in-gmail
I understand that very well, I constantly thinker about possible ways to make revenue without ads.
If you are really honest about it to yourself you will realize it's not a very solid business model. People can easily circumvent ads and/or just ignore them.
"We have to ask why Google, with the far greater resources available to them, cannot respond better. Indeed much, if not all, of the process could be entirely automated."

The problem lies with the people on the Internet though. I doubt the whole thing could be automated because of the simple fact that there are people out there who, just to troll, would and probably already zip through plenty of legitimate public Google docs and click the "report abuse" link at the bottom of each page.

The result is most likely an overwhelming amount of reported "abuse" pages are most likely legitimate, which is why actual malware docs don't get dealt with in a timely manner. Its like when people prank call 911, which could lead to actual emergencies not being responded to immediately.
Agreed. I was looking for something particular about why they hired a mechanic, since that's what it suggests in the title.
The tooltips work fine for me on Lion + Safari Version 6.0.2 (7536.26.17).
Ask HN: where should I advertise domain for sale
I have a good fashion global domain that I don't need anymore (fashioner.com). Would like to sell it (or rent with an buy-out option). Are there any good services worth trying? Currently the domain is listed on BrandBucket.com
Most people overhyping this think 3D printing would make it as simple as clicking a button, which it is most definitely not.
You seem to be saying that you're at the same time completely clueless about how programs get built and executed and yet you know better that the compiler what needs to be done.

I've found that in the general case Compilers Know Better. It might not be true for very simple and limiter architecture such as small microcontrolers, but modern CPUs are so much complex and "quirky" that most of the time the compiler will beat you.

These days I only use assembly for very low level stuff where I need complete control of the execution flow (dealing with cache invalidation, MMU etc...) or some very specific and aggressive optimisation (like implementing <string.h> in ASM).

But hey, if you want to ditch C and write everything in ASM, be my guest (as long as we don't work together).
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Related, CNet recently talked about these already-existing Google pop-up stores, about which I had never previously heard. The pop-up stores give you an idea what Google stores might look like.

From my perspective, Google heard that Microsoft copied Apple's stores with tepid success and thought, "We should do that. But the secret to success is rounded corners."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57569813-71/why-googles-st...

Just a photo of the pop-up store:

http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/02/17/Screen...
They're attacking the wrong part of the problem.

If misleading messages ("phishing") are leading their users to enter credentials onto forms which are then used to send out spam, then the solution is not to block access to one of the sites that supports forms. There are an unlimited number of sites that support forms. There are LOTS of better ways to solve this problem. Here are a few:

* Train your users where it is and isn't safe to enter credentials.

* Don't give your users credentials. Have some alternate way to authenticate them like a login token.

* Put rate limiting on the ability of a single account to send out emails.

Blocking the site for just a few hours as an emergency response to a short-term attack is a much more reasonable approach. Sometimes, to react quickly, you need to take measures that are not the best possible choice. But there were better approaches, and the security team should take measures to ensure that they can react more effectively next time. For instance, in this case, a single mass-email or email "virus" had gone out and was tempting a large number of users to give out their credentials. Instead of blocking the site that was collecting the credentials, a better solution would have been to remove the email from the mailboxes of all the students. After all, the emails system is provided by the university, and this cuts off the problem at the root. They should institute the necessary technology to support doing this next time they have a phishing problem... perhaps they can even do this proactively: set up some honeypot accounts not receiving any legitimate emails and automatically destroy any emails matching the signature of emails received by these honeypot accounts (with manual review afterward to correct for false positives).
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That is not even close to true. The gun industry is tiny. The real power comes from the millions of individuals who vote in unison on the issues and who have an uncanny political memory (aka the NRA, but they are really just a small subset of gun rights activists).
The author wrote that they have a vision of what the seatsearching experience should be like. A/B allows us to test what is. It doesn't test for what should be.

If the goal is to force the evolution of a trend/habit/market, doesn't one have to go beyond split testing, and venture into the risky unknown?
The Trouble With Online College
I believe you're referring to the Unladden Swallow project, which unfortunately is "pining for fjords". The project didn't make the progress expected and folded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unladen_Swallow
Ask HN: 'Must read' books
What are the best programming/entrepreneurial/etc books you've read in the last years? Anything interesting counts!
Pirate Bay archival (and some experiments)
Not a lot when the second benefit they list is not needing to log in to keep your account active...
My own employer has farmed out the admin of student email accounts to Google (wisely IMO). The system had some initial glitches I admit. On a few occasions (if I'm not mistaken) Google banned email originating from their own system. In other news, many faculty use Google Docs for communication with students, and a lengthy disruption would be a big hassle, at least for me.
For those with custom domain names... $20/year vs $60/year for Google Apps. Ads or not, thats a compelling savings for my many pet projects where I only need 1 or 2 @projectname.com mailboxes.

It's a shame that Google Apps got rid of the free tier. I've started 2 businesses on the free tier (< 10 accounts) and now pay around $200/month for each company as they have grown.

Now Microsoft will gain some ground in the email arena.
I don't want to know how much money the government is already blasting every day on the "war on drugs". If there is something where the government is willing to waste money on, then it is for things like these.

You can already write the press release "undercover mission", "highly sophisticated system of professional drug dealers", "illegal money laundering", oh and how could I forget "financing terrorism".
I guess in the 90's someone could have written an article by the title «Digital copies made with computers could test copyright control efforts».
No serious issues -- Socket.IO was really good. But SockJS was noticeably faster, and we saw fewer cases where things arrived out-of-order -- blog post here: http://blog.pythonanywhere.com/27/

Also, IIRC the code we had to write to handle reconnects on patchy connections with SocketIO was pretty gruesome. The problem was that if the connection dropped, it would fail down from WebSockets through various polling systems (which is correct behaviour) but would then stop at the last failover option and never recover, even when the connection came back up. We poked around in the code trying to work out how to change this, but found it too confusing. SockJS didn't have this problem, and we also found the code a bit easier to read, at least from a fairly shallow overview.
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Does it also allow us to print our own weapons?...

The bill of rights restricts government, not the people. It is an important distinction missed by many.
Opera has said they will leave all the core stuff to Google and just modify UI and other stuff on top. That means almost all development is done by Google.

This isn't the case when you use a small open source codebase. But it is the case here when Opera is using an enormous codebase by a huge corporation, and just innovating in the UI and other modular features on top of the huge core.
SquareGain is the first social daily deals website. It is daily deals with strong social integration.

1) Users can create profile on SquareGain, add friends, share deals, send messages, views others' deals and build their social profile

2) Many merchants have one problem with daily deals - they do not know if deal customers are returning as regular customers. We are trying to solve that problem by allowing merchants to add revisits to a user's profile when they revisit without a deal. At the same time users are given incentives to revisit by awarding them loyalty points. The more they revisit the merchant, the more loyalty points they get. So this is a win-win-win situation

3) Users are also given other incentives like unlocking badges on buying more deals in a category.

4) We are trying to popularize the use of QR Code by emails the user a QR code on purchase of a deal. All the user needs to do is show the downloaded QR code to get the deal.

Would love to hear your feedback.
Is this p2p software? If it is why are they talking about data transfer limits at all?
The problem has never been about seeing the ad was it? It's mostly about what ad and what Google sees to show the ad.
Thank you for posting ACTUAL RESEARCH!

Although I'll note that I didn't read the research since it's behind a $31 paywall.
The claim made about outlook.com is

"Google goes through every Gmail that's sent or received, looking for keywords so they can target Gmail users with paid ads. And there's no way to opt out of this invasion of your privacy. Outlook.com is different—we don't go through your email to sell ads."

from http://www.scroogled.com

How is outlook.com selecting which ads to show? Is there any transparency in that process, or are they showing personalized ads but just going through the title (or some other technicality that isn't a 100% email scan)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Controversy and http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm

Economic espionage by state agents is not new, and NSA is not innocent here. I might even dare to say its common practice when dealing with large airplane or car manufacturers.
I haven't seen any mention of the efficiency. Does anyone have any numbers comparing a regular battery to a graphene supercapacitor?
Or if a leaf is flying in front of the sensor.

Now I wonder which sensors they use, if they use a camera and some people detection algorithm, it can probably be fooled by a plastic toy. And of course a car which activates the brakes automatically can be quite dangerous depending on the situation, especially if the driver is not prepared for a malfunction. So I wonder who is actually responsible when the car decides to activate the brakes and the driver loses control.
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Show HN : ThinkStartups - A Startup Unconference
If you don't believe our claims, please check out the source and try for yourself :)
Hey HN, I've been running barcamps, conferences & hackdays for over five years now and I wanted to set up a barcamp style event but on the subject of startups, I've got a date, venue and some intresting ideas I'm going to try such as '20 minute mentor meetings' where I've convinced friends in relevant industries (PR, marketing, legal, accounting) to come and advise startups for free during the day and our cofounder speed dating to try and build some long lasting relationships.

My aim is to grow this over the next few years to other cities (and countries) if it works.. My other event http://www.thinkvisibility.com, is five years old in March and has (I believe) a good reputation in it's own industry.
Hi! You can use asterisks like this:

*morphium*
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NY Times is just making bullshit...
Before laptops will catch on, Windows will have to - Windows on a small screen at a very high resolution really doesn't work well.

It might be ok if you got up to a multiple of 1366 x 768 pixels, so you could scale icons up to 2x size, but lots of Windows applications simply don't cope with very high resolution screens, so icons, buttons, etc, are rendered far too small.
I'm using Murdoch Block[0] for Chrome, which i believe exists a Firefox version of as well. Coincidentally, it stops me from visiting most pay-walled sites.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/murdoch-block/moep...
IRC, maybe.
Salt is a promising tool for configuration management and remote execution.

But I believe it's still in it's early stages and need to go way much much more. My colleague decided upon using salt instead of chef or puppet. I'm ok with this decision but had too made some tweaks and send bug fixes or features upstream while testing environment.

I believe there may be many more to come.

Still, it's easy to use, configure and also it's still really nice on the eyes with being python. It's trivial to make fixes to the code base.
The scans are the rightful property of whoever took the trouble (money, time) to create them.

Scanning a valuable document is an expensive and difficult undertaking. There are loads of ways that you can damage the original! The equipment isn't free, either. Neither is the archivist's time!

If you want to make it your mission to produce your own scans just so you can give them away, you can. No one is stopping you.
I agree, but you need to be careful with the distinction between the paid and the ad-free versions.

Is it just removing ads? Or is it a premium product?

e.g. Gmail has no ads when you buy a Google apps account, but you pay $50 for it because they give you a load of other features as well (Which you may or may not need).

I still think it's good to give the option, but your selling points could get diluted pretty quickly once you start adding more little things to justify your paid memberships.
Not wanting to be too critical, but there's lots of talk about "not wanting to look Bootstrappy" (or to a lesser extent, "Foundationy") — in that without customisation sites using them can look cookie-cutter.

This is ugly - I'd rather see sites using Bootstrap or Foundation than this, however solid the codebase is.

Sorry!
No account expiration

Does that mean Outlook still has that absurd system from Hotmail?!
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Hmm, but they still allow POP/IMAP for free? Most companies who want money for their premium mail service (e.g. mail.com/1&1) include that with removing ads, which seems a much bigger incentive.

I do kinda like the new outlook.com interface, but the way the conversation view works makes it basically unusable to me. Not that MS ever had big taste in that regard, as I still blame Outlook for basically establishing top quoting as standard.
Listening to Jony talk about design is amazing.
Ad block is only effective because not many people use it.

If it were even vaguely popular all major sites would have found a way to stop it working, they'd be a constant war going on.
Thanks for posting this, very insightful comments on there.
Just because you saw a small amount from Google Docs doesn't mean that Oxford isn't seeing a large amount, or large enough to concern them. If you're a researcher, you should know that you can't extrapolate your dataset to everyone.
What happens if google stops providing gmail? Suppose that, for example, google has some losing quarters and is pressured into making cuts and they decide to axe gmail. What happens then?

I am an unabashed fan of google voice, but there I know that it would be possible to get the number out (thanks to legislation), see http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ... . I don't have similar assurance with gmail.