skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really liked someone's observation: Android is about what you do to your phone, iPhone is about what you do with your phone.
GoodEggs raises $8.5M to fix our food system one egg at a time
Thanks for jumping in. It's great to get 'the other side'.

That said, where I checking out, my eye gravitates toward that big red 'Continue Checkout' button, not the fact that I'm signing up for $479.40 a year. A more blunt but upfront UX would hit them with interstitials.
My grandparents using Google Glass
Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Final Beta Released
Thanks for the constructive feedback. In fact, I wanted to focus just in latitude-longitude pairs to perform geolocated queries, this is my single goal. I'm trying to get rid of MongoDB for my backend and this is one of the last barriers...
Can the experience being behind a wall garden buddy buddy with the NSA ever be truly good, ignoring superficial things like icons and launchers?
You're Not a Tiny Startup Anymore, So Stop Hiring Like One
What on Earth WOULDN'T you do with an armored personnel carrier?
No, actually, that never holds in court.
The German site is definitely less misleading than the US site but I wouldn't say it's a nice example for how it should be done. I think the list in the VIP checkout column is missing information about the monthly charges (€39,95? - not sure that's what they are charging in Germany since, well, the site is unclear).
Try starting the ad with "$120k+". Bring attention to most important part.
Given that you've taken the time to explain all of this to the HN community, I can't help but wonder why you don't encourage JustFab to use this as a good PR opportunity. If, as you claim, the majority of users are happy the subscription-based model, surely the best way to nip this in the bud is to simply refund the money to the OP's girlfriend.

The only reason why I would think that you don't want to extend that olive branch is because you are afraid that it will set a precedence for other JustFab users, and that JustFab will be engulfed with refund requests. This however flies in the face of your firm believe that the majority of JustFab users are extremely happy with the services provided.

So, in a nutshell, instead of disputing whether or not the VIP subscription requirement is "scammy" or not, I would think that you would advocate the shortest route to conclusion in this case: refund the money.

In my eyes, anything less is simply vindication of the concerns outlined in this discussion thread.
For me, "file:pdf" returns .pdfs, .pdf documentation, .pdf information...all kinds of things which aren't .pdf.

"filetype:pdf" seems to be the only command which reliably returns just .pdfs.

I'm in the UK, your mileage may vary.
What developers really want
Yes, that's how lotteries work.
If you look at their profile on consumeraffairs.com [1], you'll find a ton of complaints about this VIP program on the first page alone. In fact, the company replies repeatedly with a canned response.

They are well, well aware of what they are doing. If they do change anything, it will not be because they have been suddenly educated or even found morality. It will be because the sunlight is so bright that they fear for their ability to continue to profit.

[1] http://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/justfab.html
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
Git Hooks for Fun and Profit - SitePoint
U.N. panel delivers landmark climate change report
Interesting that I don't see these kind of complaints at this level about book clubs.

The most popular book clubs all use a negative response model, where when you sign up you get a certain number of books at a great price, and agree to buy a certain number of additional books at the regular club price.

They send you a monthly list of books available that month, with one marked as that month's featured selection.

If you do nothing, you automatically receive the featured selection and are charged for it at the regular club price. If you do not want the featured selection, you tell them via a return card or their website.

An example is the Science Fiction Book Club [1]. The front page has a link to a "how it works" page [2]. Note that the "how it works" page doesn't actually tell you about the negative response aspect. It tells you to read the membership agreement for complete details and links to the agreement [3]. It is in there that you get the details of automatically receiving the featured selection.

(Things are similar for the Book of the Month Club, the Scientific American Book Club, and a whole bunch of others--because they are all actually run by the same company, and are using the same template for their web sites. The Columbia House DVD Club too).

Compare this to the JustFab page. That too has a "how it works" page [4], which is linked to from the front page. That page tells you about the negative response part.

The front page of the book club does say, when touting the initial book offer, that it is "with membership", so it is clear on the front page that you are going to probably have to sign up for some kind of membership to get that deal. The JustFab page does not make it clear that you must become a member to purchase.

With the book club, if you fail to make your negative response, you get a book not of your choosing. With JustFab, you get a credit that you can use on an item of your choosing. My guess is that the vast majority of JustFab's customers buy several times a year, and so they are able to fairly quickly put the credit to use.

So why does JustFab draw so much more fire, when the seem ostensibly quite similar to the book club? I wonder if the fact that their subscription if for credits makes a big difference? The book club pushes a featured selection each month, presumably something they have made a volume deal for in order to get a good price. For this to work, they really need their featured selections to sell well. With JustFab, the credit is generic. If they need to push some specific item in order to support a good price for it, selling credits does not help. Would people find JustFab more acceptable if instead of a credit, they actually sent you an item once a month?

[1] http://www.sfbc.com

[2] http://www.sfbc.com/howitworks

[3] http://www.sfbc.com/membership-agreement

[4] http://www.justfab.com/how-justfab-works.htm
In other words, they are still guessing, however to keep themselves in business they give their dire predictions even more wildly varied results and put them far enough out that accurate incremental measurement is meaningless, 26cm over the next ninety years? So in four years or so when the next reports comes out what will the prediction be.

That is the key here, its prediction based on theory. They are constantly having to adjust this because they haven't got it figured out. They do seem adept at changing the years referenced, its likely cherry picking data is far easier when you keep moving the points.

When called to task to explain why observed data is not matching models they always fall back on the "the time frame is too short" or other such nonsense. Call me when there aren't so many people more interested in profit, political or monetary, who push this
Indeed, you make a good point for avoiding the Google Android ecosystem.
Does a Dyson Sphere count as a ship? Big enough to hold a star…

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Relics_(episode)
I agree with your message in idea but sadly in the world we live in; without prestige you don't get founding.
Not many, but much less relevant than the following two questions: how many dilution clauses allow something like this to happen, and how quickly would an employee find out once it did?
> I would not be surprised if German law forbids the buy-and-subscribe trick.

It doesn't, but it mandates actual costs to be displayed very clearly. This is relatively recent, though - probably as a result of the very successful Jamba/Jamster ringtone scam business that used exactly the same mechanism in the early 2000s.
Google Talk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients..
Err... That's how the market works. Now, property prices _are_ crazy.
Like when my sound volume stuffed up on my iPhone. There were no settings to recover it...
Or when iTunes refused to copy music to my phone, but 3rd party tools would. As soon as iTunes was restarted, it deleted the good "newly added" tracks and corrupt them.
My experience with Apple: it works most of the time, but when it doesn't, you're screwed because there's no setting to fix it.
Good news: Apple added "reset settings", which would have solved my audio settings quickly.. Without this feature, it took me months to solve the problem.
Btw, I LOVE the IOS7 control center !!
I agree with all this. Just one addition - fuel is taxed quite a lot and in many places here a car is a necessity as public transport is poor. Its a bit over $2 per litre.
Edit: Property taxes are about $2k per year on an average house in Auckland. An average house is about $500k in Auckland as the New Zealand love of property makes the market rather expensive when compared to income. I'm using NZ dollars.
same her..
If they where just telephones, Nokia would still be the biggest player in the mobile market. The whole point is that they are not just telephones, they're mini computers that you can occasionally use to make phone calls.
Totally not the case that you get your money back, at least with WellsFargo Visa, they will investigate to determine whether your card was used by some other party.

Saying, "I didn't read the terms of the agreement" is not grounds for a chargeback.

What's worse is when you've signed up for a One year recurring payment and you have to jump through hoops to cancel such as a registered letter to cancel.

Wells fargo will refuse to cancel for you, saying it is between you and the vendor. Further to that, you can't even cancel your credit card, as Wells Fargo will transfer the recurring charge to a new card.

About the only way I could figure out how to get out of that type of recurring scam is to just cancel my bank account.
BTC is not currency or security. BTC is treated as any other asset outside currencies and securities. Person must pay taxes for capital gains but they can't do tax deductions from losses. Taxes hit every time BTC is used to buy something.

Mined bitcoins are taxed as earned income.
Brand Positivity Is Active
Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Blog has a good piece on Climate Change Denial too:

"And I’ll remind you that while denialists are distracting everyone about the “pause”, about climate sensitivity, and all that, the Arctic sea ice is melting. Antarctic land ice is melting. We just experienced the hottest decade on record. And it’s difficult to stress this enough: The trend over time is higher temperatures."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/26/climate_...

Elon Musk first drew my attention to this article. His Twitter feed is full of useful/insightful climate change information.
Wanted to wish ur success in ur adventure - go slay some dragons.
Actually I'm all for 45RPM vinyls.
Apple shows iOS Device Activation Service status
"In other words, they are still guessing"

That's called science. Only it isn't guessing.
We will not delete images unless the user does it or we are legally pressured to do it.
It's my comment because it's the truth. I was tired. No need to downvote.
About 2 years were spent on Usable, and the other 2 on ... err ... a litany of failed ideas that I didn't much enough effort into. But they were terrible ideas, so nevermind. :)
Google thinks Religion is Evil
"These are the people I desperately want to hire but I can't."

I desperately want to buy a 3-bedroom in London for £20k but I can't.
iOS7 has broken Audiobooks
There are several reasons to believe that that urban legend isn't true. One of them being that Nobel was never married.
This seems like such an arbitrary report. Looking at the "analysis" for UXF it just reads like a list of random annoyances their testers came across.
How can I resize disk of virtual machine, using only the free vmware player?
"It does not try to position it as anything other than a subscription, and the language is plain english."

Except the page you highlight doesn't use the word "subscription". I wonder why not?
It might be because we use `window.location.origin` to determine the media URL. This[1] post on StackOverflow suggest that only browsers based on Webkit or FF 21 and higher have it. What browser are you using? Can you please file an issue on GitHub[2] with as much information as possible so we can look into it?

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/6167979/379195

[2] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues
This is the original announcement of the GNU Project.
Have young american students looking for a university ever thought of studying abroad ? I mean hell, my (swiss) bachelor's degree costs 580$ a semester, so 3480$ ... Add 1160$ and you have a Master's degree. Average salary is between 84K$ - 96K$ / year when I'm done. Even with a foreign diploma they can come back to the US if they want to work there.
Or my SO's iPhone, which started mysteriously filling up with "Other" data that wasn't associated with any app, until she couldn't do anything with the phone since it was perpetually out of space. She had to reset the phone to factory settings, skip iCloud restore, and rebuild all her settings from scratch. All because Apple refuse to let you access the file system to see where the hell that space is going.
16 Year old arrested for worlds biggest DDoS attack
What ? No Culture ships ?
Global warming is real, and it's our fault
> voted for it with their money.

That is "voted for its likelihood to generate profits or be acquired at a high valuation". That's not exactly equivalent to my definition of "legitimacy".
There's no "good, in-depth analysis" of anything on the default subreddits, regardless of your political leanings. The whole demographic and mentality has shifted towards younger and younger teenagers.

What you really need is reddit for adults, a site with an entirely different culture that leaves the memes and unfunny jokes behind in favor of encouraging actual conversation on any given topic.
Very interesting. But why restrict this to just landscapes? What's to prevent someone from allowing 3D printing of any landmark in the world like the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Eiffel Tower or London Eye?

Sigh, copyright I suppose.
Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1
It would be cool to see a diagram comparing the computing power of different science fiction spaceships - I suspect Culture ships would do fairly well in that comparison!
I am pursuing a PhD in the field of planetary sciences at the moment, and I can definitely vouch for the fact that there is a lot of discussion amongst the "younger folks" about the elistism of science, particularly for missions like Curiosity. The last few conferences I've been to (Division on Planetary Sciences, European Planetary Science Congress, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting) have highlighted how worried publishers like Elsevier are about the changing attitudes in the field. I've been to a number of dedicated PR seminars at these conferences, where it is clear that the pitch is that publishers that require payment for the publication of scientific papers are not preventing taxpayers from gaining access to results, but are rather simply seeking appropriate compensation for their efforts in coordinating peer-review processes and bringing the results to the attention of the wider community.

I very openly tell my colleagues that change is necessary to make it clear that investment in missions like MSL, MESSENGER, JUICE etc. is for the mutual benefit of everyone. I think as a scientist, I have an OBLIGATION to communicate my results to those that make my work possible.

Open access journals are making some headway, but unfortunately, until the bigwigs in the field really make a clear statement of intent to shift from the traditional publishing houses to these new publishers, the status quo will be maintained.

I applaud the OP's efforts to make these results accessible to to everyone, and sincerely hope that there are no legal repercussions.
how does some gov determine the bitcoin income? isn't the mining and trading anonymous?
Hm, I see. That's not the case where I come from, so I'm wondering if it's a US thing.
Tell Facebook: There's a severe bug when changing profile pics on the iOS app.
(I've submitted a bug report with Facebook, but cross posting it anonymously here so it hopefully gets some attention).

To reproduce: Open Facebook iOS app --> tap profile pic --> tap "choose existing" --> minimize Facebook app --> open photos app --> delete some photos from the photo stream --> go back to facebook iOS app --> try selecting a photo --> the selected photo is NOT the photo that was tapped.

This happened to me just now. I got the fright of my life when the selected photo was one which I'd NEVER want uploaded to the internet. Thankfully there was a "crop" screen saving me from what would have been the worst embarrassment of my life.

I recommend fixing this ASAP. It's just a matter of time before someone actually does accidentally upload a "private" photo of themselves due to this bug. When that happens, there's a reasonable chance of an enormous lawsuit.
Even if I agree that this is a scam and a dark pattern, with the subscription they give you a "credit" to buy a pair of shoes, so you get (at least) one pair each month for (at least) $39.95/month.

IF, you go there to choose them.
Death Star 1 is 160km in diameter. At this diagram's scale, that's 160,000 pixels.
HW startup: A journey from (Arduino) idea to product
Yes, it included biomass and more importantly, biogas, which acted as flexible means of generation. That 5x capacity in fact, did not result in significant losses of power, it was in the range of a few percent as i remember.
Nice, thanks! I wish there was a cleaned up repository of datasets like these, in a unified format, directly accessible to a public MapReduce engine like Elastic at AWS.
I remember that the NE executable files had hardly any virus I always wondered why?
Is it the format or the fact that they where not used that much (due to the short presence of Win3)?
It may have been shady but even 8 year olds could tell that it was a 'club' and not a 'store' and knew that you had to cancel. It was "Join the club and get 8 CD's for free' not the other way around with small print. People just forgot to cancel or would stick with it for a while and then realize they weren't getting value. This is a different thing because it is intentionally masquerading as an online web store. Even other online services that sell subscriptions are designed differently.

This is making money off of deception, not consumer laziness like Columbia House was.
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Tried to recreate and the Facebook app just ended up crashing on my iPhone 4...
Totally agree, I've been leading our R&D program for 4 years. No PhD at all, a product owner, 4 engineers (some with an engineering degree, some without) and a UX designer. Design and testing are eligible as far as it is related to R&D operations. Some of the support costs, such as accounting, technology watch or hardware requirements, are eligible.

We also obtain the JEI status that allows huge tax discounts.

The fact you can't innovate in France is a myth.
Part 1 — Working with Base.html
http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-creating-mezzanine-...

Part 2 — The HomePage
http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-2-the-homepage...

Part 3 — Pages, extra DRY
http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-3-pages-extra-...

Part 4 —
To the blog, and beyond
http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-4-style-the-bl...

Themes developed so far:
http://mezzathe.me/

Finally I love the way its going and the good patterns, its looking like the Python Wordpress. :)

A Great initiative for the whole Python and Django ecosystem. Looks like the next Python Wordpress?
Let's face it, the owners and investors of this scam are likely engaging in criminal behaviour and should be charged. Have the police been notified?
Strange how trying to make something objective can make it inaccurate. For example, I deliberately changed from android to windows phone because I much prefer the windows phone user experience, but it scores the worst in their objective comparison.

All the complaints about windows phone are mostly accurate, but largely irrelevant for me personally. For example, I don't want a background image for the live tiles screen, so I don't care that I can't configure one.

I do agree with their final conclusion that windows phone is a strange mixture of careful user-centric design and complete disregard for actual user needs. There are things which are incomprehensible that they haven't been fixed over the past few years, like not having a separate ringer volume. If, like me, you are lucky to have needs which mostly align with the intended design, then it beats even iOS in usability. But if you are only slightly out of alignment, it is a long fall down the usability ladder.
Not sorry to contradict but this is usual trickery used by scammers. This page and checkout flow are obviously designed around making people not understand they're subscribing to a recurring premium fee.
I have a hard time believing you, as a VC, are unable to recognize this as this usually means a high short term ROI.

If it weren't trickery you'd have two same size button next to each other, one saying "VIP checkout" and the other "regular checkout " but this would significantly reduce the number of subscriptions.
No, the AES encryption key really never leaves the CPU, that is the whole point here.

TRESOR uses the four x86 debug registers to store a 128 or 256 bit key and then uses this key to calculate the AES round keys on-the-fly on each block of encryption using Intel AES-NI instructions. Also, they patched the kernel not to touch these registers at all. Therefore, after the initial loading of the encryption key, it never leaves the CPU again.

This approach also means you cannot use the ptrace(2) syscall anymore to attach to a program using a debugger such as gdb. However, if you don't want to debug a program, this proof-of-concept already works quite nice.

I noticed the PDF link to the paper on their site is broken, so please see the USENIX publication for details: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec11/tech/full_papers/M...
Those won't matter to scam business, especially since the BBB itself is a scam, and most yelp reviews are fake.
Thanks for the clarification. I stand corrected. So, we're just back to the original scam, then.
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Aye, true that. Well, cover it in mylar, and it was rads I was thinking of predominantly. You could potentially make something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete using martian topsoil.
voted up the topic and let more people be aware of it to avoid traps.
It sets such a terrible precedent that a company like this can raise so much money. And that the VC's involved can't admit that there is, at the very least, a "dark pattern" involved in luring unsuspecting people to pay what they do to justfab.com.

On the other hand, the Series B is closed, and no one involved really gives a damn what we think about these dark patterns and scammy activities. However, we CAN publicize it, and expose the investors involved for the unscrupulous and amoral people they apparently are.