skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going to go a little further and suggest that Apple's entire iCloud + iTunes + backup + synchronization strategy/system/product/code is a disaster.

Why? Simple: You cannot trust it. You need to be able to trust such software. I'm sorry, but you just can't in this case.

I won't go into all of the details, links and examples here. Do a little searching and it should not be too hard to find hordes of people who have lost calendars, contacts, notes, photos and other valuable data thanks to Apple's wonderful software.

I have personally experienced loosing all of my contacts, appointments, calendar items and notes. Of course, being that this ain't my first rodeo I had backups of the backups. I always go into data storage situations with zero trust for what is being offered. It took some work to get the data back but I recovered.

That is not the point. The first three rules of any piece of software that users entrust with their data are:

1- Thou shalt not loose user data
2- Thou shalt not loose user data
3- Thou shalt not loose user data

Notice that cool hippie user interfaces are never mentioned there. My data (and your data) is far more valuable than their cool icons and "beautiful" design. Far, far more valuable.

Go ahead, Google it. The stories are horrific. From people loosing contacts to students loosing semesters worth of notes. Auto-magically.

I even went to my local Apple store to consult with a "Genius" about this. The guy was clueless. And, in fact, right in front of my eyes, he proceeded to accidentally delete all of my calendar entries --something that should be darn-near impossible to do. Again, I had my backup at home so I didn't blow a fuse. But, please.

I explained that it was not reasonable to blow away someone's data if their email service provider changed. If you go from Google to Yahoo all the shit that was being synchronized with Google goes poof. Really? Why? I would love to hear from someone at Apple on this. Why it is even remotely reasonable to blow away all of my contacts, notes and calendar information?

If you close your email account and you are no-longer able to log-on it seems iOS will attempt to synchronize, fail and then blow away your data. My wife has had cases of constantly disappearing notes and appointments due to failed synchronization sessions.

The greater point is that you should not have to be a programmer or IT worker to have your personal data be safe on iOS. She is not a technical person and without my help she would have descended into data loss hell. Grandpa and Grandma have no hope.

Anyhow, now iCloud and all forms of automated synchronization are turned off on all of our devices. Manual backup is still the only way you can be sure your data will not be lost.
I only knew it because that is one of the questions that you answer on a Form 4473 (the form used for background checks at gun stores). There is a whole list of questions to which you must answer in the negative, and that was one of them.
Out of the box Wordpress is configured to allow itself to overwrite its own application files--either via the GUI update process, or via the GUI theme editor. This means almost any exploit can result in arbitrary PHP code execution--which can have many nasty results all over your server.

A CMS application should not be able to write arbitrary PHP code to the server under any circumstance. It's possible to configure Wordpress this way, but that is the exception not the rule.
works great in aurora for me (fps caps at 60...whoa)
Show HN: 99designs of travel, experts compete to plan your vacation
I was able to chat with Joel a few weeks ago (he has open office hours over skype! Talk about awesome) and I really think Buffer is the next SEOmoz-like company that does things the right way and shares along the way.

Loved the layout of the competition slide.
In Data We Trust
fascinating read - thanks for posting, took guts.
Why Startups Need to Own Their Swag
Entrepreneurship is about solving problems. At the end of the day people do business with other people, and not businesses. Being your authentic, crazy self to gain a competitive advantage.
I was going to correct you, spent time going through the Berne Convention to be able to say why you are wrong.

Then I read http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/03/15/more-foreigners-find-them... which let me know that you are right.

If the courts can identify some connection between the infringing act and the USA, then you can be sued by the USA. And the kinds of connections that have been deemed sufficient are pretty tenuous. For instance uploading to a website that - entirely unbeknown to you - automatically backs up to a US server suffices for US law to apply to you.
Assuming the competition is attacking the core (with no 3rd party or themes), wouldn't the 64 million installs be the prestige given all of them could then be an attack vector to the billions of pageviews they serve?
How To Save Money With SaaS And Four Other Bootstrapping Tips
Great Guest Post By Dmitry Valyanov is CEO of Bitrix24
I am extremely disappointed that major technology executives and investors are pouring millions of dollars into advertisements supporting Keystone XL and other terrible causes as some sort of twisted political alliance to get immigration reform passed. It is shameful to the entire Silicon Valley ecosystem and any supposed "progress" that it stands for.
I've been using hawkhost and is very good, excellent customer service too.
Thanks for the info, it must be the relatime that I saw this behavior. Were it noatime, this idea won't have worked at all (I think I have seen noatime used on embedded devices).
I'm not so sure that's true. I think prices compare pretty well with the US. Here's one website found pseudorandomly via a web search. (http://www.bmihealthcare.co.uk/paying-for-yourself)

Notice that they offer many surgeries "at a fixed price" and that all costs are known before surgery starts. I'm not sure what happens if there are complications; whether those are covered or not.

(I would have called them to get a quote, but they're not open yet.)
Seeds of Dementia: What Do Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Have in Common?
Anything similar for JavaScript?
Incremental Reading
Kii and ChallengePost Team up for $50,000 in Hackathon Prizes
this sounds like, "knives are terrible tools because they can easily be used to kill tens of people"
No, that was the $300 million they gave them back then as an "investment" (i.e. settlement).

This time they really seem to want to buy it.
Should Employers Pay to Interview You?
> It's 2013, why aren't you using properties in all of your classes?

It's snarky comments like these that prevent people from confidently sharing their code.

Got a helpful comment to make? Great! How about sharing it minus the veiled insults next time?

OP doesn't owe you clean code. Don't like the code? Don't use it.
That works for treatment, but not so much for tests. If you don't know what's going on you don't know what happens if you don't do anything.
To be powerful in a corrupt society is a sign of corruption is it not?

When you live in a world where the highest levels of society are literally "above the law", torture as policy is considered acceptable, might makes right, and democracy has been for sale for so long that it's newsworthy when a politician refuses sponsorship; it is very hard to make an argument that anyone who pays attention to the news does not have a very clear idea of the moral status of our ruling elites.
Plans for Vim 7.4
Yes but they aren't programmers. Configuring routers using vendor tools and standard protocols is a different thing to SDN where all bets are off. It's going to take a different skill set - some people will make the transition and some won't. All of the major network vendors (most notably Cisco) have put a lot of effort into their education programs so that there is a certified pool of talent out there to run their equipment. And all of those people have a vested interest in the status quo. The OpenFlow talks that I've attended have been presented by people that are openly hostile to network engineers which doesn't help the situation.
This all seems to happen in about the same time in different countries: US, India, Australia, NZ, UK recently, France might try it soon, too - and that doesn't even include the more "oppressive" countries.

I don't think it's just a coincidence. After all it's what the UN proposed at that ITU meeting, too, and I think there already was an interception standard passed last fall.
I'd add it's also probably a good idea to wait for some bad news since the market is probably likely to over-react and anybody still skeptical will see that as an exit point to take profits.
This will set a good precedent for other developed countries. Let's hope Australia goes next, and maybe Scandinavia.
No, it's not a red herring. It's two different problems with the same industry.
I still don't understand why people who like kickstarter only want to see it flounder around with tiny nearly meaningless campaigns and never get anywhere. It's like a bunch of tech hipsters who don't want them to sell out.
Kiji on CDH 4.2.1
http://shrikar.com/blog/2013/05/08/kiji-on-cdh4-dot-2-1/
You can integrate non-ARC code into an iOS app pretty easily: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8958761/how-to-remove-arc...
Authoritas: Aaron Greenspan's story of the founding of Facebook
Where does it work well? A small country with a homogenous population can pull it off but there isn't a single large country where it works.

The Netherlands has a heterogeneous population (I don't see why size matters) with strongly government regulated sector of private insurance companies and hospitals. The net result is that we pay far less per capita than citizens of the US, yet the healthcare system is judged to be much better:

http://www.reuters.nl/article/2010/06/23/us-usa-healthcare-l...
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Fund-Reports/20...
Seriously? They don't get a DVD or download link or movie pass? What do they get? A warm fuzzy feeling that they gave money?
Don't forget the self-published screed about the houseSYSTEM/Facebook saga: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/authoritas.html
This is covered quite thoroughly in chapter 6 of Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic, which has extensive citations of the history and research on this problem.

Neuroleptics make schizophrenia patients more biologically vulnerable to psychosis. Standard antipsychotics block 70-90% of D2 receptors in the brain. To compensate, postsynaptic neurons increase the density of their D2 receptors by 30% or more. The brain is then supersensitive to dopamine. This leads to dyskinetic and psychotic symptoms.
D-Wave’s Quantum Computer Goes to the Races, Wins
Imagine if HN had an army of animatronic robots run an arm-wrestling tournament every hour to determine which stories reach the front page. That would also be an impressive feat of engineering, but it wouldn't tell us anything about which stories deserve to be on the front page due to their inherent value, so it'd be a huge waste of resources, and make HN worse for readers.

HFTs are not publishing a lot of useful results in AI or game theory. They are in a zero-sum game against each other as well as all legitimate investors, and all their profits come at the expense of people trying to better route society's resources.
If you can trade faster, the market can react to information faster. Stocks dropped almost as soon as the tweet was released, without needing to wait for a few major news channels -- and recovered in five minutes after people stopped panicking.[1]

[1] http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/04/24/white-house-attacked-o...
Ok, then what would be your response to Canada?
same here, though i learnt it during my university years not at the high school.
Michael Arrington Sues Jenn Allen Over Rape Claims
Hmm, maybe Zach Braff will bring fans TO Kickstarter who then help grow the ecosystem. And every big success might just grow Kickstarter.

OTOH, do we want Kickstarter, like twitter, to be overrun by celebs?

Perhaps what really matters is what Kickstarter wants. Would be cool if they actually had a policy now that this is starting to happen.
That's a nice explanation of the graphics.

I'm still having a very hard time understanding what kinds of events would cause so many rapid price changes. So many dots in just half a second -- even when time-stretched to 5 minutes! Are those price changes meaningful at all?
Shorting is great because it helps minimize how out of control bubbles get. Yet, it isn't free money, because you actually have to be right about a stock being overvalued, as the case seems not to have been here.

Being an underinformed naysayer isn't any worse than being an underinformed cheerleader. The only difference is that the naysayers appear to have been wrong in this case for this earnings period. I wouldn't be surprised if many were over influenced by skepticism about a company run by a large personality. It is easy to err in the other direction, too.
Given how small their margin allegedly is, it's because they take the 20% that they can afford to be so awesome!
I remember writing about Hushmail for Wired over 13 years ago (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/03/34610?curren...).

Don't you think technology has advanced a tiny bit since then? I'm thinking of Ajax, CSS, XHTML, XMLHttpRequest, DOM, JSON, HTML5, Chrome, Firefox, etc. The tools available today (and the platforms, and the machines) are far more capable.

Your second point is more interesting. Hushmail was ahead of its time in ~2000 when turning to client-side encryption via Java. But nobody really loves Java in the browser. So about five years later the company began to offer a webmail service with server-side encryption. Well, duh. That's vulnerable to a court order allowing the intercept of someone's passphrase the next time they log on. Which is what happened.

So you're right to say that Hushmail was vulnerable. But that was because of their server-side decision, and is unrelated to the vulnerability of properly implemented client-side encryption.
Budget cuts to U.S. reseach #NIHSequesterImpact
As I understand it, the key phrase is "material information". Changing CEO, closing a plant, laying people off, better/worse earnings news, and sales figures are all examples of material information.

What likely happens is the company releases the material information through proper channels and then company representatives use that information as talking points during an interview. Some new information could be given during the interview but it's likely to be minor stuff like specifics on features for a product.
a friend dated someone who was a new lawyer and tried representing him/herself in a divorce. after crying on the stand it did not end well.
No, that's the bell, tolling

:-)
I guess leading scientist are not very good with coming up with concise catchy hash tags.
High School student lectures a teacher who doesn't care
Unless ones views lead them down the path to end up taking the lives of innocent people who have for the most part "just get over it" when it comes to nearly everything in their life, then the media will try to seek every nook and cranny out to try to rationalize the incident in such a manor that there will be those in power who will use it for their own purposes (whatever they may be) ultimately drowning out any deeper discussion on how such a an incident came to be.
You really spend 15 minutes fueling your car?
I really like that. Did you print libraries and the like, or just the stuff you wrote? I could see value in having a bound version of jQuery if it wasn't on the wall, "I didn't write this, but I know what is in it and how to use it."
One other point is that what you were referring to is not related to what OP was suggesting. You're talking about how the information is distributed. oP was referring to when it is distributed (too close to earnings).

I believe OP was wrong with regards to a restriction on when information can be released relative to earnings. Elon could have tweeted it a few days ago and it wouldn't have made a difference to the SEC in regards to the timing of the release.
I thought it was a coffee delivery service. I must have seen a different slide first. Heh.
That's pretty close to how it works in Canada. The difference is the difference between "free" and $60/mo if your income is sufficiently high.

So, in addition to the nominal required subscription, we optionally pay for additional services at hospitals like private rooms, etc. We also pay for additional health insurance that covers prescriptions, full dental and some discretionary medical procedures that aren't, or are partially covered in the universal plan.

The efficacy of the system is manifest in one of it's largest problems: Large numbers of non-Canadians scamming the system with fake medical cards. In BC, we're currently rolling out a revised personal identification system, in large part, to address this.

In case a US cousin here on HN is tempted to make some hay with that "non-Canadian" thing, please, reconsider. :) Also note, the reason that we bother to harass you folks with how far from optimal you've strayed on this topic is that the wacky ideology 'free market blah blah', leaks into our countries and is a huge distraction from pushing our systems forward. We have to keep fighting these fights that, in all practical terms, are long dead. If you guys were to get a grip on your own setup, the rest of the world would heave a huge sigh.
This is one of the reason I don't have Facebook.
Weird how foreign rules can affect your privacy outside Europe.
AMD is not the Answer
python has this now after 2.5, iirc. it's handy when you want an unbounded calculator =D
True, I'm no one special. That's even what it says if you click through to my profile on here. But at least I don't live my entire life as a self-perpetuating persecution complex, pausing only to write self-righteous screeds about those whom I perceive to have wronged me (or worse yet, file lawsuits).
>The Model S is a better car in every single regard (except for range), than any other car on the market. It is safer, faster, roomier, more fun to drive, has more storage, quieter, more convenient, and less polluting.

It is not the safest, it is not the fastest, it is not the roomiest, it is not the most fun to drive, it does not have the biggest storage, I am sure some evs match its noise levels, it isn't the most convenient, it isn't the least polluting (I am sure the manufacturing process is more polluting than many cars even when considering the entire lifetime of the vehicle).

If you mean that it is the best overall, then that is very subjective and there are plenty of other candidates.

>Tesla is ahead of ALL other vehicle manufacturers...

If you mean with regards to electric cars specifically then perhaps, but with cars like the SLS Electric Drive[1] in production, I am not sure this is accurate either. If you mean in general, then that is ridiculous.

I love electric vehicles and I am looking forward to when they, hopefully, replace ICE vehicles but your comment is ridiculous. It is better to be realistic about the state of the technology.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IElqf-FCMs8
US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment
There is also this I just ran across: https://startupstay.com
It is better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. It is easier to get a money transmitters license after you IPO than before. Taxi medallions, asinine sublet and renter laws are all examples of this. Legal gray areas make great businesses. The CA law he references was sponsored by the big financial companies to favor protectionism and so if enforced will raise hell and probably be overturned by the Feds and currency/interstate commerce laws.
What's stopping you from making lots of money by successfully predicting next year's stock price for Apple, IBM or Ford? Normal human investors can obviously keep doing normal human investment.
It doesn't really matter what you or I think or whether we agree on the moral status of 'our ruling elites'.

We do have, though, concrete empirical evidence of the eventual consequences of casually thinking of and referring to others, any others at all, as 'human garbage'.

The moral status of that line of thought is much more clear - it's noxious and if there's some sort of moral thing we ought to agree on is that it's to be rejected and opposed, wherever it pops up.

[Edit: and to completely Godwin up this thread - if there's a day to take 30 seconds to think about the implications of such rhetoric, today, V-E day, is a good one].
So by making the system trade faster, they have made the market less stable and opened it up to outside manipulation.

Hardly what you call progress.
In my limited understanding jurisdiction is generally determined based on where the act takes place

Which is generally how it has to be. Otherwise the USA could legalize murder, thus allowing US citizens to legally murder New Zealanders in New Zealand with impunity.

Naturally an extreme example, but the understanding here is as old as time. "My roof, my rules".
The Great Gatsby is in the public domain in all countries but 7:
the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Samoa, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, and Ivory Coast.

All countries except the USA apply a law that states that books enter the public domain a given number of years after the death of the author. In Europe, it is 70 years, in Canada 50, in Mexico 100. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_copyright_len...
Well said. You don't need OPM to make millions and quietly live well if your product offers value to your customer.

For everyone else, if you're more motivated by a potential 15 seconds of fame and lottery-like odds of becoming a billionaire if lightning strikes and enough is left after every non-producer takes his cut ahead of you, by all means, play the VC game and keep them distracted.
The author understands copyright enough to know that a full understanding of copyright is not compatible with sanity.
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You are asserting that extreme poverty and the absence of welfare or assistance does not lead to crime? I find your position dubious.
Purple Pricing
The first reason is, people who build
tools mostly don't think that the tools
will or should be used as components of other
tools for more in 'automation'. The
result is that it's tough to build
on such tools.

The second, and more specific, reason
is that location of one of my most
intense love/hate dilemmas, Xerox
PARC that pushed the first 'graphical
user interface' (GUI) instead of
what came before, usually typing
text into a command line. Command
lines are mostly easy to automate.
GUIs are mostly a total PAIN to
automate.

I'm wanting to automate, willing
to automate, waiting to automate.
Well all of those companies are welcome to come move to Miami. Lots of office buildings and land for sale.
David Foster Wallace: This is Water
Right, peasants are allowed to plead while their rulers chain them and ship them off to interment camps.

Your attitude suggests that government can do no wrong, that the Japanese had no right to defend their liberty against unwarranted aggression.

"If you can't, then touch luck, you're in the minority." I don't agree with the tyranny of the majority. Perhaps that's why this country was actually founded a constitutional republic, not a democracy.