skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developers: if you expose an iPhone view of your site that reduces what content you show versus your main site _please_ allow me to opt-out of it via a long term cookie. Facebook's native app on the iPhone is still a little buggy so I often load the site up via Safari and _every_ time I have to scroll to the bottom and select "View Full Site".
Before retail, Apple was planning for coffee shops
http://dhawhee.blogs.com/d_hawhee/files/109_fake_tits_real_b...
Looking for some feedback, and also food for thought: If you think its offensive enough to get rejected, what makes it so?

* Its cartoon violence, and in my opinion not that violent.

* The blood is not red.
I would presume that most coffee shops have no idea that CALEA even exists. The airport question is a good one, though -- they've obviously pretty security-minded (however poorly they may implement said security), so I would assume they've found some middle ground that allows them to offer "anonymized" access.

Of course, any paid access immediately associates a name with an IP: the person on the credit card used to charge the access.
I can see how they might consider a particular comic offensive, but...

Regardless of their terms, I think Apple is out of line to dictate how paying customers use their devices.

Part of the problem, I think, is that until Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 "pay for content" feature is available, the application and the content are merged.

I can only hope that once content can be purchased separately, Apple will loosen its restrictions on viewers.

Personally, I think society should trust people "not to buy" things they don't like, or "change the channel". This pre-screening of "offensive" material is frankly the only thing that I find offensive about Apple, YouTube, etc.
>It's good to understand this - High School and continued education matter, because nobody is getting a good union job at the factory any more.

I think that's a very important distinction that you have mentioned.

There will always be positions for skilled professionals. I'd go one step beyond that and say that there will also always be positions for unskilled workers in fields that must remain local - construction, food preparation, etc.

Other unskilled workers need to be careful -- white or blue collar.
That image shows a guy getting shot in the back of the head. That is a disturbing image (at least to me). Maybe you are numb to that level of violence, but apparently Apple is not.
This looks like bad faith argumentation to me. Altering a few of your word choices, we get:

How was Google supposed to act here? To patiently explain to one of its customers how to use the right Google service for the job he wants to do?
As far as all the stories are concerned, I think you're reading about only a very niche crowd here at HN. You would find more startup guys here(perhaps 'cos of pg), than other forums.

Most of my friends are not startup kind of people. Infact i'm the only one.. who chose to go this way. The rest are all IBM, Sun... tie wearing, daily meeting, water cooler men.

EDIT: Ohh, i looked at your HN profile:

>"and hope to find a cool, small company after college that won't require me to sit in a cubicle."

Perhaps you need to think a little more on what you mean by industry.
The thing I don't understand is why they don't pay what they owe and then close the account down. If Google, Paypal, etc did that there wouldn't be nearly as much outrage.
FSU, which is a perfectly respectable program, offers an online BS in Comp Sci.
In the context of the comic, the guy is a "bad guy" and is holding the gun shooter's daughter hostage, threatening to kill her with a gun himself, and is about to shoot. Its a case of self-defense in a hostage situation.

While I do not deny that there is a certain level of violence depicted, is it grounds for rejection? Specially since games like Wolfenstein 3D are on the app store.
Huh? If he'd waited until everything settled, he'd have only one story -- and it'd be a less-interesting story about fighting "the man" and losing.

By reporting his initial victory, he gets two interesting stories out of his experience. The ultimate court outcome is irrelevant; the value is the notoriety from the experience.
I got my job at justin.tv with no connections.

Honestly, it wasn't very hard. If you're genuinely good at what you do, and you can prove it, then you're a huge anomaly compared to most people applying for any position, and you will stand out even without connections.
A smaller threat than they are to automobiles, or persons walking on the street.
There's a simple method of avoiding that: don't install this.
A lot of really good points here. I grabbed my job based off of my open source work and community involvement alone.
Every job in the last 12 years that I have had in IT has been with ZERO connections. System architect positions. All hiring was based on my resume.
I believe you can get one from ATT unlocked without a plan, but the price is way up there. I believe $600 and $800 for the 2 models.

That was for the 3G though. I don't know if they still do it for the 3GS.
Ask HN Know of any app/tool built on top of Google social Graph API?
http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/

Know of any app/tool built on top of it?

The first idea that struck me was six degrees of separation. Would take quite a bit of computation though.

Any more ideas?
You solve that by fixing the TOS, not jerking your customers around.
I know Edward Greenspan is, but I'm not seeing anything that suggests Aaron is.
Perhaps a good opportunity to do some A-B testing. Although the more I think about it, the more I'm not sure it really matters that much since, after all, it is the free plan. There are probably better places to optimize.
It's flagrant now that we know the story. There's no argument there. It was not so clear when the story first broke. I think the whole point of this is the lengths one has to go to just to get a clear answer.

Not to mention, they had a service specifically designed for what he was doing. They easily could have converted him over to that one instead of cutting him off with nothing more than a vague, canned email about violating terms of service.

This is a bad way to treat customers any way you look at it. I think it's important to treat all customers well-- even the ones you're ending a relationship with.
What Would a Free iPhone Do for Sales?
No need for apologies. I probably can use it to spice up internal projects.
http://www.pickydomains.com/

http://wordoid.com/
Ask HN: How do you prepare for a technical interview.
Theres so much ground to cover prior to an interview, design patterns, algorithms, data structures, language specifics, techniques & technologies, database, etc.. what do you guys do to prepare? for approximately how long? good resources in general ? language specific resources ?
This feels like a giant step towards the past.
anti-sec should do something about Mr. Ankit Fadia too, he is one jerk who would easily figure out in anti-sec's top 10 targets.
Definitely should not get you rejected from the app store, while stuff like Wolfenstein 3D is in there. Plus you can use the YouTube app from Apple to find plenty of gory stuff.
I see a lot more problems in offices than I do in playgrounds.

Just saying.
I guarantee you that there are tons of people who would be willing to go on a one-way trip to Mars. And no, these won't be crazy people... I am sure a ton of existing astronauts would be interested. In fact, I would love to be part of such a trip (if gf came along, of course).

Also, why would they die? Supplies would be sent every couple of months.
Except that in this case, "the job that he wants to do" (AdSense for parked domains) is explicitly prohibited by the TOS. I don't think Google is the one acting in bad faith.
How about allowing us to set windows for when Time Capsule backs up files? I don't need to have backups run every fifteen minutes through the night.

Also, I'm never going to use Safari unless they make a bookmarks pane on the left as FF and IE do. Message to Apple: don't put being different ahead of being useful.
Yeah, comparing the iPhone to the horror of making a J2ME application the iPhone is truly the currently best device for applications.
I think experience trumps GPA except at the most arrogant companies. It sounds like you have the equivalent of a year or two of real experience. You didn't say what kind of experience. Pure HTML isn't worth all that much, but if you have JavaScript and CSS, you should be in good shape. You should carry around your portfolio, especially work that you have done by yourself.

Your location makes a huge difference. I live near San Luis Obispo, CA, 50K people, maybe a few job openings a year. SF and LA, lots more jobs. If I were you I would look at Craigslist for areas that you might be interested in.

If your experience was learn as you go, you should go back and fill in the holes. Interviewers are great at finding them.

EDIT: I too looked at your profile. Small city == no jobs. Cubicles or open plan offices are pretty much the way of life. After you have proven your chops, maybe you can work off site, but give it a couple of years.
Here's my new theory:

I wouldn't necessarily be happy getting a high-powered hard-core ultra-geek development job. I don't want to have to move to the Big City (tm) and ignore my family.

Going "deep" would be fun... but strategically, going "wide" would be just as good.

As a developer, I'm irritated with my dependence on cranky and unsympathetic sysadmin types. The Unix Admin Cert here:

http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/

... would let me pin down a side of the business I'm less comfortable with... give me a cheap platform to run my own apps on... give me the skills to try a Unix solution when I want to try that as a Guerilla solution... and... maybe open the door to a different sort of job in a location that would be a better fit for me. Maybe.

So... not a better hat... just more hats.... "IT Guys" are always generalists anyway. Why try to be something I'm not when I have a perfectly good career (even if it's a little dull.)
Precedence.

If they don't feel that they are doing anything wrong, they won't pay up, because otherwise they'll have to adjust the way they do business.
I agree completely. Most of the fanboys who defend Apple's practices would be (justifiably) howling in outrage if any other company did the same thing.
The best way to prevent against that is not having your production boxes copy backups elsewhere, but rather have other boxes, if possible ones that are unreachable from the outside, fetch the backup. The most secure backup machine exposes no services and only fetches backups. No one will detect the box and no one will detect where the backups are stored, unless they wait around on your box for the backups to be fetched. Even then, what are they going to do? A box that only allows outbound connections is very hard to hack.
The main issue is Apple's consistency with the App approval process. This is the screenshot taken from Wolfenstein 3D on App Store, showing multiple shootings, body on floor and blood.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/82/wolfenstein3d.png
Does anyone feel that they wouldn't sign-up to this site because of the bad design? (Anyone share antiismist) view below?
Yeah, I'm not convinced that Google departing this market would lead to it's demise. The void would just fill up with other advertisers chomping at the bit for that cash. That's probably why Google it still doing it.
TOS 1.0

Play nice, and have fun!

TOS 1.1

Play nice (no links to shock sites), and have fun!

TOS 1.2

Play nice (no links to shock sites, no embedded images of shock sites), and have fun!

TOS 2.0

Play nice on our text only boards. Have fun!

TOS 2.1

Play nice and do not try to evade the ASCII image filters. Have fun!

TOS 3.0

<Insert 30 pages of legalese>

Customer 3.0

"Aw, I hate when they jerk you around with 30 pages of legalese."
Wait - what's the question that I'm voting on: the one in the title or the one immediately preceding the voting? I assume it's the one in the title but it is ambiguous.
Hm. Bigger area, marginally more likely to be hit while at cruising altitude, more catastrophic results if something critical is hit. I don't think that meteorites are a serious problem for aircraft, but given some probability that they'll be hit, I can't see how it's less of a problem than for automobiles.
Interesting point of view. I've had the... luxury... of sitting with end users and I certainly agree with your statement that it produces better software. However, I couldn't see sitting with them all day long, unless the projects themselves were fairly small. I fear that I'd never get anything done, because once the users figure out that you can magically make the software do whatever it needs to, they'll be asking for the moon. Pushing back would only get you so far, I think.

I sit in an office with a pretty fantastic programmer and I've certainly benefited from his knowledge, though I can certainly relate to "I don't care about your problems, I have my own."!
Apple's Cool Matrix-Style App Wall
This is a giant step towards the past.

Welcome to 1980.
I shall; thanks.
So you're telling me a big chain like Panera breaks the law and nobody says anything?
Apple is adding age based ratings [1] in 3.0. Since that is the case, I would guess that this is an example of content that could be rated appropriately and added to the app store. Personally I support as much artistic freedom as possible. Just rate it appropriately.

[1] http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/07/iphone-30-beta-5-app...
As of yesterday, apps all have ratings based on various content like cartoon violence. Try resubmitted now that parental controls are on the way and don't check "None" for cartoon violence. See what happens.
I'm here. What exactly do you want to know?
I'm not trying to defend Apple and you do have a valid point about Wolfenstein (I'm not arguing that). You asked "what you were missing." I found the imagine somewhat disturbing, so I pointed that out. And the fact that it's the bad guy getting shot does not change my opinion on the image.
Google public access is NOT the on-campus Google Wifi.

On campus theres some Wifi network that is open and unrestricted. The public access one has a public portal (and vastly lower coverage in Mountain View last time I checked.)
just to clarify, are we talking about yearly income, or net worth here?
Tangential question - can any of you recommend the best way of going about learning how to play the piano. Is the only way a tutor? I've picked up playing guitar for following tabs and YouTube videos, but don't seem to be having the same luck with piano.
I think it depends on a few different factors especially the sort of person. I have been sensitive to noise and distractions my whole life, and on some days incidental noise drives me nuts and I can't concentrate at all. It's been like this in every position I've had, and I've never had an office door. I have definitely spent days at home so I could get deep into a technical problem without distractions. On the other hand, there are days when I can focus no matter what sort of noise distractions are present.

Also, someone with Asperger syndrome might be sensitive to noise.
As a data point - is it possible in AdWords to exclude 'Adsense for Domains'? I didn't see anything like it in a quick look around, but there are a lot of settings. I'm guessing it's there somewhere. Is it on by default? Off by default? (I really don't know; it's not a rhetorical question, but it would be germane to the discussion)

The thing that gets people's sympathy is that Google set up a system to do exactly what he wanted to do a few days later. Couldn't they have struck a deal?
Meh. I have no sympathy. You've got no money to pay for an attractive domain name so you think I should just give you mine and I'm a bad guy because I'm making a few bucks waiting for a buyer who's got his shit together? Sorry, no. Sucks to be you.
if you want anonymous payments, just use hawala :)
Wild speculation makes the front page? They probably put in a hardware block encryptor, which is generally useful for encryption (look up Secure Virtual Memory in Mac OS X). Yes, it is faster to wipe a block key than to wipe an entire flash drive, but this post should have ended there instead of speculating that Apple's engineers don't understand encryption.

If you like wild speculation, it is likely that the block key is large enough to provide adequate security, and that it is stored locally but encrypted with a data encryption method like RSA. The password for this might be as simple as a 4 digit pin, but thats irrelevant because the encrypted encryption key would be the first data wiped in the event of a data breech. If you're really paranoid, you could store a larger key on the network. Rebooting the device would then require network access, but it protects you against someone removing your compact flash and reading it directly.

Obviously backup files are not encrypted, or they wouldn't be very useful. If they are encrypted, it will only be as strong as the user specified password, or key stored on MobileMe.
Its possible that the argument is that all visitors at Google are recorded and thus those logs are the same as logging network users.

Curious though, I glanced briefly at the wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L... ) and it seems mostly about hardware needing to be CAPABLE of logging, not always logging already. Can you explain your first statement?
Ohh, yearly income from the internet I'd suggest.
You should edit the title to: How much do you make.

Money may have little to do with whatever one defines "success" to be.
The company I work for, and similar companies, will never use this let alone pay money for it without being able to host it in-house.

We're a scrum house, but the security implications of having all our goals in such exquisite detail on someone else's servers presents too much risk.

I'm not saying you're wrong for doing this as a hosted webapp, but there is a segment of potential customers who will never use it (I have no idea how big that segment is).
while() loops are just goto's with some syntactic sugar..
> Am I the only one sypathetic to Google here?

Google was in the right for terminating the account but they legitimately lost the first case. They did not provide evidence of why the account was terminated. Not to the author nor to the small claims court. So they lost and they deserved to lose, in my opinion. During the appeal, they finally provided that information and won.

The issue isn't so much who was right or wrong but how terrible (or non-existent) Googles customer service is. They can't answer simple questions and if you've really been terminated unjustly, you have no way of knowing and they keep your money.
10 PRINT "WELCOME TO 1980"

20 GOTO 10
This is one submission where the reader comments are better than the original article.
Not terribly successful as of yet.
My handful of side projects bring in around $5k a year.
The are going to have parental controls in 3.0. So we might get looser restrictions soon.
Except if you pay with cash.
But since the answer to both will be the same -- does it matter? If the image is offensive then the poster is missing something, since he disagrees. If the image is not offensive then the poster is not missing anything -- since he/she feels the same way.
Hey, good point thank you. Just changed it
Two anecdotes.

Perfect Dark, the N64 game released around the year 2000, got given an 18 certificate in the UK because of the fact that blood can splatter from shot enemies onto walls.

Raiders Of The Lost Ark, the film released in 1981, nearly got refused a PG [edit: thanks, bena] certificate because it showed exploding heads.

The picture you linked depicts both of these acts of violence, whereas Wolfenstein 3D does not. Maybe Apple have similarly esoteric criteria for unacceptable acts of violence as the film and video game rating boards.
While loops are restricted gotos with syntactic sugar.
On the Privacy Policy page you have a section titled "Our Three Plans" followed by 4 plans. Also, your subscription policy is flat out ridiculous - you pay for a full month when you end your subscription and you don't get the rest of the month?
Haha, wow how sad. The kind of sadness created when realizing how disgustingly pathetic our evolution can often be.

I can't wait to spend minutes of my life when I have to go through another programmer's PHP code who uses gotos.
Google "programming interview questions" or the like. There is lots of useful information. Design pattern questions are common. If you know MVC, Factory, and a couple of others, you are probably OK. Algorithm questions are surprisingly rare, but you should know big O notation and be able to state it for a couple kinds of sorts or searches. Language specifics: yes. Know OO, abstract classes, concrete classes, interfaces and instances. Otherwise know what you claim. If all you know about databases is what you learned in a CS class, you dont know databases.
Are you sure it was just because of that one photo and not the story line or anything else?
Two of my current contracts are from an open source project I wrote and put on Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpsmapper/) It's not very complicated but people really like it.
Hey, am I wrong or did merely visiting this site try to install a Browser Helper Object? Not cool.
My first job out of college was a product manager at CNET. I applied to several jobs there over the course of a few months, but heard nothing back. I eventually got a call from a hiring manager for a position, but he didn't find me in the internal hiring database. No, he found my resume posted on Craigslist and decided to call. I interviewed and got the job. Still surprises me.
Google employees can connect to the Guest network. But it's slow and you can't connect to the corporate network (like your work Gmail, Calendar, etc.) so you don't. They just assume you're smart enough to know that.
"Google Wave will shake the web": annotated video clips from the Google I/O demo
That's not really a breadcrumb bar, it's the ability to go up a folder…
Can you compare comics to games? I sure we'd all say yeah but having dealt with paranoid copyright peeps before I could see where they'd make a case against the comic. The comic lacks a varied degree of "what's happening there", the intent of the graphic is clear, dude shot in the back of the head. Its consistent every time you look at it, head shoot. A game is varied content, sometimes you see something offense, sometimes not, that degree of randomness saves the game from the harsh eyes of scrunity, the comic can't escape.

The other thing that could be the factor is the international flavor of graphic material. I recall doing packaging for an animation company and the USA cover image of a gun pointing out at the view, aka the james bond like effect was cool and ok in the states but banned in UK! Thats insane but the BBC demanded their own version of the cover with the gun pointed to the side and not straight at a person picking up the video tape. Likewise content in a film is also subject to weird rules, BBC approves sleeping with your mother but whatever you do dont show anyone getting whipped on camera that dooms your film to XXX land.

Theres a chance that comics may suffer the same WTF reasoning on the iphone due to international exposure. Who knows.
Using PHP is a giant step towards the past.

PHP will never fully be utilized as an OO language by the vast majority of its user base due to its syntactically terrible standard library and history as a functional language.

As such, this addition makes plenty of sense.
point taken. thanks for your comment.
Nope. Catholic. Also, at times an unrepentant vicious asshole. I just think violence is usually not the most pragmatic response.
Split View Terminal Windows. Awesome.
Hard rock with red left-handed stratocaster... Crank it up, baybee!! :o)