skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the idea for divisional structures. P&G does this by letting their brands fight it out for resources, creating the spirit of independent companies. It worked out for a while, but eventually they found the right structure was by product category. (Soap the category versus Tide the brand)

Semco (quoted elsewhere) was big on the "fund your best people's ideas" concept to cut loose companies. When you have to get external funding too, it forces discipline. The kerietsu (sp?) concept breaks down during tough times when partial owners subsidize the weaker units in the group. This happened in Japan.

This isn't a simple problem, because there's no one size fits all solution.
Didn't this happen ages ago?
"Inspect element" and then changing the "password" input type takes seconds/minutes.
One thing I would like to know about Alibaba is how to best distinguish between good and bad suppliers. One of the criticisms levied upon Alibaba is that there is no way of knowing which of the suppliers can be trusted and which are not even close to being set up to carry out the services they are advertising. How does one best approach the problem of due diligence when using Alibaba?

Most product pages I have seen on Alibaba are confusing. It's not clear what the product is, what the price is including shipping, and what the end-to-end process for me will be including how defects and returns are dealt with. What strategy do you recommend for approaching this problem?

One product I searched for was custom playing cards. I was thinking of ordering 100k decks or so, with a custom design printed on the front and back of each card. A lot of suppliers on Alibaba are listed in this niche. So I thought, great, I have a custom request -- I want to design the front as well as the back -- so I should be able to do a request for quote and send it to all of them, right? Wrong, there is no standard form I can send out to all of them, I have to contact each of them individually. I also wanted to know how much it would cost just to buy the cardboard boxes that playing cards come in, but again it seemed I would have to contact each supplier separately which struck me as a suboptimal process. Any thoughts on that, I would love to hear.

Also I would like to know how samples work. If I request a sample of something relatively expensive, does the supplier eat the cost of the item or do I have to pay for it? I assume I have to pay for the shipping. Are there any ways within Alibaba that I can fill out one form and get a bunch of samples sent to me, or is this something that I have to set up supplier by supplier?

Which product categories offer the best savings versus what would be available in, let's say, the United States?

What tips can you share on shipping?

I have read that Alibaba is not the best website for outsourcing manufacturing to China. However I have not come across strong viable alternatives. What are your thoughts on the competition? Specifically it would be helpful to know if there is anywhere online that you know of where suppliers are vetted for legitimacy and integrity, as these are routinely cited in forums as problems for Alibaba.

I signed up for your crash course. Thanks in advance. Good luck.
5 is true for the cases where it results in static compiled output which is equivalent of say C's output.

6 you're adding metadata with type definitions. Enough metadata is present in entirely statically typed languages to not do this.

7. How do you know if 1.000000000000000000001 is decimal or float?

It's weak in some places but strong in others. Knowing when to use each case effectively is the art.
Personally I reserve trust for people, and I have standards and expectations for non-people. I'm sure General Alexander, DNI Clapper, and Michael Hayden are good people that would make excellent neighbors (if I were so inclined I would likely consider them personal friends) -- but in their official duties they are intractable foes.

I would apply the same term "intractable foe" to every other person acting in their professional responsibility too: everybody has a mortgage to pay and mouths to feed. It's perfectly natural to have a strong sense of self-preservation, and by the same token many cannot have the convenience of a maintaining a clean conscience. Yes it's a cop-out and yes people like that are what's wrong with this country, but it's reality.

Not all of us are willing to sacrifice our lives for an ideological cause.
Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir
> I tell people that they have no choice but to decide whom they trust and to then trust them as a matter of faith. It's a lousy answer, but until our government starts down the path of regaining our trust, it's the only thing we can do.

I think the point of the article is that even he, a security professional with years of experience, does not know the extent of the government collection -> consequently, the government has a long way to go to restore people's trust as well as their ability to trust.

He brings up a valid point that it's very difficult, if not impossible to know who to trust, you just have to trust them "on a matter of faith" and hope you picked right. The damage to trust isn't only damaging trust in the government.
It's like web hosting. You have to be careful not to overload the servers, or in this case planes, so that paying the monthly is not worth it.
Yahoo is Gradually Releasing a New Logo
Nice idea, but wouldn't it lead to "win trading" (I let you win this case, then you let me win next)?
Yes, i was being sarcastic.
You need to take a look at Facebook's EdgeRank and how this circumvents it: http://mashable.com/2013/05/07/facebook-edgerank-infographic...
We should be able to trust the government to do things like run courts, build roads, and deliver clean water.

We should never trust the government when it comes to standing armies, criminal prosecutions, intelligence gathering, and expansion of its own power.
The Hyperbolic Nature of Dried Fruit Slices
Show HN: 3 Minute Screencasts, Free and Open Source
Probably, if you say so. I didn't see it before and it's in "beta" so I figured it must be recent.
http://www.pygit2.org/

I think there's a bunch of speeding-up hg-git work floating around, notably around Mozilla work. Some of that has been mentioned in the hg-git mailing list.
Well, looking at the "World top 10" high scores (on app), the top one has a record of 43.16m. I cannot imagine why someone would threw a cellphone to this far.

I wonder if there is a way to "hack" the accelerometer...
Hoe stoppen met roken zonder stress of overgewicht?
There was another site posted a month or two ago that was similar. Post an idea and get feedback. I even registered for a credit but now I can't remember the site, anyone remember?
I didn't realize anybody took Chrome's password storage seriously.
Exactly this - thanks for clarifying my explanation
Firefox: Preferences: Security: Saved Passwords: Show Passwords: Yes, I'm Sure.

And enter your master password if you use that, which you should, if you're storing passwords at all.
Is Amazon Art a Doomed Venture?
Plus they would be able to keep a total count of destroyed phones, which would be quite interesting. "This app has destroyed ??? phones."
As was stated, it's being worked on. It also runs into one of those things that a lot of people from outside of California don't realize about the state. There are a /lot/ of mountain ranges. The Starlight itself meanders along and through various bits of the coastal ranges of California, which, while absolutely gorgeous, leads to a path that's not particularly amenable to high speed travel.

So, the state needs to build new trackage through a 3000 ft (~1km) pass getting out of LA, and more trackage through a 1500 ft pass getting out of the SF area in order to use the much more straight and speedy right-of-way going through the middle of the state. Once that's done, and the rights of way along the corridor are upgraded, high speed rail will run between the points. Just gonna take another 15-20 years to do so.
Amazon Now Selling Fine Art
No recovery for young people?
Good guess! We are about to release tomodo.txt sometime next week.
Ask HN: How do you organize your Co.'s screencasts
We'd like to start making lots of short screencasts to help augment our documentation, but the question has come up of how to make them findable / searchable. Is there any good software for this? Do people just use wiki's to organize links to them? Is there any self-hosted YouTube-esque tool out there?
Very true. I wasn't even aware of that part of the Settings app until I started developing. Apple should at least allow developers to "deep link" into the settings screen to remove that friction.
javascript:var a=document.querySelectorAll("input[type='password']");for(var i=a.length-1;i>=0;i--){a[i].type="text"}void 0
Here are the issues with your method.

- It's not as fast or inconspicuous as navigating to chrome://settings/passwords

- It does not present all passwords in a single list with the ability to show the one I'm interested in

- I would have to go to each site, allow Chrome to auto-fill, and then inspect the DOM and change the input type for each password I'm interested in. Far slower.

- It feels far more malicious to do what you suggest. Feeling is important. If I feel like I'm doing something bad, I'm less likely to do it. If I feel like I'm innocently navigating the Chrome settings page then I'm more likely to take a peek at your passwords.

- Far fewer people will be comfortable or familiar, or capable of using the DOM modification method. If a novice practices they are likely to get good at it. But that goes back to malicious intent.
There are certainly more online guides to the former than the latter. Also, heatsinks come with instructions in the box. But yeah, I'll bet the "enthusiast" label applies to a greater diversity of people than one would immediately assume....
Teacher in elementary school taught me simple rule: signs < and > has two endings on one side and one ending (corner) on another. So two bigger than one and bigger number should be on side with two endings.
I feel there is a fundamental mismatch of what constitutes a matter of national security.

All (?) nation states have a right to prevent their own destruction, but I think the triggers that set off the immune system reaction are important - I, and I think a lot of HN, would say there is a minimum level of expected harm before a matter is consider national security level - lets say for arguments sake a loss of 2% GDP or 1,000 dead. And the motivation of the persons is irrelevant - so the banking crisis of 2008 would be considered a national security matter by me, but two maniacs hacking a soldier to death on the streets of the UK would not (a crime yes, murder, yes, possibly politically motivated yes - but not a matter that threatens our nationstate)

However Hayden seems to be the reverse - there is no minimum level of harm (one life is too many, one defaced website is too much) but the political motivations of the people is important - so his views in the banking crisis and murders on the street seem reversed.

Maybe it is a useful viewpoint
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> There may be some things it's a net win to include in your identity. For example, being a scientist.

I know a lot of people who would consider this wrong, and I've noticed that sometimes, this is correct. I look at things from a scientific point of view, and because of this, I have a hard time understanding and empathizing with people with a religious background in discussion on religion.

I think it would be wrong of us to consider science as a concept above the scrutiny we eagerly apply to religion and politics in this article. Who says us scientists can't be wrong on an important level about certain things?
In the general population, older people are less technically savvy than younger people (on average).

[Citation needed.]
Eh, you think that's scary - buy a brand new machine and log in to your Chrome account and see all those passwords (and bookmarks and browsing history) get slurped down from who knows where onto that machine.
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Maybe because Apple might need to fix the phones? Or their carriers insurance providers would?
So Hayden is playing bad cop, while Alexander plays god cop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6135833
Love it! You are more than welcome to mash it up with the other this mod http://hnews.tomodo.me
They sell phone warranties for damaged phones so it's a fairly direct conflict of interest.

Also "13.1 Apps that encourage users to use an Apple Device in a way that may cause damage to the device will be rejected"
Is it a breach of copyright to open a site in an iframe? What about using greasemonkey or adblock on a site, would that be copyright infringement?
Several languages support labels with "break" and "continue". It's mostly useful to break out several layers at once (nested loops, etc).

See for example Java: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/bra...
Dijkstra is turning over in his grave.
I thought the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine disallowed that.
Thanks man, appreciate that! Feel free to contact me with any feedback/comment etc
You will have to do that for each site you want passwords for, after they have been autofilled (whereas Chrome gives you a convenient list of all saved passwords). It is also a far more technical method than most people are comfortable with. Slower and more difficult, thus less likely to happen casually.

There is also a significant difference in feeling between the two methods. Your suggestion requires far more intent than visiting the settings page. This is important.

We are not talking about defending yourself from a malicious attacker, we are talking about the moments when you pass your computer to a friend so they can look something up. They can now look up your passwords conveniently and without feeling too bad about it.
It's interesting to compare the framing of this column with Schneier's commentary on the revelations of NSA surveillance in 2005:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/nsa_and_bushs_...

It's full of "Bush did X", "Bush wanted Y". Now he says the NSA has "gone rogue". Huh.

If Schneier is as unhappy with today's programs as he was with 2005's, then perhaps he should communicate a bit more clearly that today's occupant of the Oval Office could end any of them with a phone call.
Not for function pointers; for passing data to callbacks that can be any type.
Excellent point. Have they not learned any lessons from Microsoft about how forced cross-pollination destroys products?
Or puts it in a rocket.
Chrome has a passphrase option for his sync capability why doesn't it use it as a master password ?
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en
If you have a master password set, Firefox makes you type it in before it will show you the passwords. Chrome doesn't do that.
It's quite obvious that he was referring to the societal stereotype that 'nerds' (of either sex) are socially inept and incapable of having anything other than an awkward conversation with the opposite sex (despite their desire for 'normal,' sexual relationships).

If you don't believe that stereotype exists, go watch _any_ episode of The Big Bang Theory.
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Isn't it a known fact that, when asked, browsers store passwords in plaintext? Why would anyone choose to let the browser 'remember their password' anyway?
You can configure adblock to block it. It does leave a weird gap between the flickr nav and your bookmarks bar, but that weird gap is better than the god awful yahoo nav. On any flickr page with the nav open adblock and select "block an ad on this page". Follow the steps and adjust the slider until the ad is gone. No more ugly ass bar.
Is it me or there is serious astroturfing going on in this thread?
There are bunch of new accounts with no submissions, 1 comment and 1 karma posting one-liners like:"Awesome","Pretty cool", "Looks interesting"...
Just check last 10 accounts on bottom of this thread.
Somehow, as soon as graphics are involved, things that are essentially "hello, world!" kinds of projects routinely make it to the front page of HN. This is neat, specially for someone's 2nd programming project, but is it HN material? I think not.
A lot of people in tech want to complain about innovation. Why are there so many Farmville apps and nobody seems to be solving important problems?

Well here you are, the biggest and most important problem in modern society today, the fact that our governments are recording most everything that we're doing. And they will use these recordings as they see fit in the future. You couldn't ask for a bigger or more important problem to solve.
So wait - in the spirit of innovation Yahoo! is going to rotate the logo on their homepage every day? Hmm, I can't think of any company (cough Google cough) that does that.
It's probably easier to hack the protocol it speaks with the server. That's what ruined the world-wide stats in the iOS game center too.
It's alive and well in all of humanity, and likely will be for the rest of our existence as a species.
You're not publishing the site to anyone else in those cases (well, depends what you're doing with the iframe).

Copyright is (in theory) about copying, yes, but it's most commonly used in anger due to publishing/republishing.
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Stephen Fry's open letter to the IOC
Exactly what I was thinking, why don't they use it ?
Can you provide an example? Not 100% sure in which context you are talking about.
I don't think its as simple as "ending it with a phone call". Billion dollar programs don't ever get killed that easy.
Yes! Another one I use
I've already done analysis of most of the major browsers. It even hit the HN front page a couple months ago:

http://raidersec.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-browsers-store-you...
Does link building still make sense in 2013?
Nah. It's basically an unordered list inside a block, tables are entirely unnecessary for a layout as simple as HN's.
You are blaming the victim a bit here. There are bad actors that have done bad things. They are who got us into this mess.
Pre-screening is not only legal, it has just been expanded to the general public.
So this raises the question: "How do you coax someone into questioning their own identity, or perhaps questioning whether they should consider themselves an x?"
It does that is why you have to hide it by parallel construction.
I can't help but wonder if he's maybe exaggerating the security of .mil.
Idiotic because you might destroy your phone?

Or idiotic because the energy spent on this could have been used to build something that actually provided value?
I think you're missing the point here. pg's saying the scientist identity is useful here, not because of science, but because it reminds you not to take any other identities.
Perhaps it is worth more to Apple that a user can download apps and continue the "iPhone lifestyle" than worry about how to fix their device. I personally think that it is not a conflict of interest.
Democracy in Practice:

People elect representatives that were supposed to represent them, these representatives are, in reality, puppets fabricated and promoted by the corporate and elite's money, and once elected, the power and influence obtained are not being used to defend the common but the interest of those already in power.

So in practice Democracy has a backdoor that allows it to be hijacked and until it is fixed we will keep being represented by no one.

Maybe democracy would be "more real" if we forbid the corporate money in political campaigns and also limit the amount of money each individual can donate, bringing everybody to the same level could result in no masters of puppets.
Only on HN would you get a bunch of hackers going off on a tangent about the proper use of tl;dr right in the middle of a discussion about whether hackers and activists should be considered potential terrorists. :-)
From the article:

"Accountability means that those who break the law, lie to Congress or deceive the American people are held accountable. The NSA has gone rogue, and while it's probably not possible to prosecute people for what they did under the enormous veil of secrecy it currently enjoys, we need to make it clear that this behavior will not be tolerated in the future. Accountability also means voting, which means voters need to know what our leaders are doing in our name."

We should pay attention to the last sentence especially. Look at how your elected representatives voted on, for example, the Amash amendment[1]. If your representative voted against the amendment, let them know that you are not going to vote for them in the next election, and follow through. If they voted for the amendment, send them a letter thanking them for standing up for their citizens' civil rights, and encourage them to continue.

[1] http://americablog.com/2013/07/amash-conyers-anti-nsa-amendm...
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Guess I'm in the minority that likes to know what they sign up for.

Thanks for a solid explanation.
Perhaps I didn't explain myself - I'm not saying the rule isn't transparent, I understand very well there's an actual rule. My complaint is that it's there at all.

Although, what you said about warranties makes sense...however honestly that hasn't kept friends of mine from deliberately breaking their phones just to get new ones.
It is literally that simple. If Bush ordered this surveillance started, Obama can order it stopped. The NSA works for him. If they don't do as he asks he can start firing people until they do.

Obviously Schneier understood this when he wrote his 2005 column.
Elon Musk wins then.
Crap, the screenshots:

https://angel.co/glio

look really similar to what I'm building :( though we're focusing on the location-based category search part rather than on the reviews part, and I'm in Uruguay, not Brazil.

"local" search and discovery is something Google hasn't conquered yet, at least for my country.

There's also the local discounts angle Foursquare tried to do.

Our very shallow customer discovery so far yelded a few insights on what to do differently :) . Also, I wonder where Glio will get its data from.

This is something that is needed, good luck to Glio :)
I don't think it's fair to call something a flaw because you disagree with it. Google didn't do this by accident. It's a very purposely designed feature that apparently a bunch of HN-folks just learned about and strongly disagree with. Also, Firefox does this too...

And for the record, when I saw this feature 2 years ago I disagreed with it too - but it's not a flaw.
I still consider that to be the case...
really great. now, user can avoid unwanted and boring posts. As one of the user mentioned, it will be interesting to see how FB will react to this.
I remember reading (~10-15 years ago?) that although the general public's impression was that propellers make planes unreliable, it was actually turbines that made airplane engines reliable (which means you really want turboprops rather than piston-propeller aircraft)

Have airplane piston engines become as reliable as turboprops?
I think for the first time in history, this article committed suicide under the terms of Godwin's law before it was even navigated to.

More seriously, this is standard practice: label the enemy, even if it's wrong or you created the label yourself.