skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems non-trivial to effectively enforce in practice. Does not having a dedicated mobile site count as "degraded experiences"? Does having a mobile site that only offers limited functionality count? A mobile site with full functionality, but that takes twice as many clicks to do anything than the desktop version? A mobile site that is technically usable but has large and frequent ads? Or is this only for mobile sites that actually aren't usable, like the one in the article?

Depending on where you draw the line, companies could just degrade their site in the next less egregious way.
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1) I really loved the design. Its really clean and "heavenly".

2)Are you really gonna take money from people helping you in private beta ? I mean its good to give 50% off but these will be your first customers and will help you shape the product. I can understand you might have done this after a lot of thought, but you still owe these people for every criticize they make.
What's with the snarky title?
Well, what do you think happens after every big drug/ kingpin bust? Everybody gives up? Or people find a way to start again.
Your description of a web designer's job is pretty good, your expectations of that web designer's ability to control design decisions is rather unrealistically high.

Of course, you toss out that attempt at salvation by implying that if someone higher up the chain dictates design changes then they become the designer but then I find that just as offensive as the author's original blame of the designer. You are saying anyone who makes design decisions is a web designer and I fully disagree with you there, because you are implying that anyone can be a web designer.

A web designer is not someone that makes design decisions based on anything but design principles to only toss it downward to some peon with crayons to take care of.

We don't know the story here, maybe the web designer is to blame or maybe not.

Plus, the popup is an usability problem, not a design problem.
Is possible to pick based in language? So, If I join, could help only in spanish?
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Pretty strange he was confident enough to live in the US, especially with everything being revealed.
Well, THEIR orbital mind control lasers work even if you do not plan to do crazily illegal shit.
Hey, I am the creator of Accordive. Thanks for the feedback!

I have looked at the Raplets a bit but I wanted to make something that was a little easier to setup and would allow for further customization in the future.

Think automatic labels for your customers on the Enterprise plan, or a quick way to find all past emails from the user who wrote the email you are currently viewing.

I know a lot of this can be achieved in Gmail through filters, searches, etc, but I am aspiring for something a little more immediate and non-tech friendly. So far our private beta users have loved it and most of them are not insanely technical.
Yes, I am in. I would like to know A/B testing and tracking the campaigns etc.

Thanks.
Considering the context of being a Y Combinator website, I'd hope most of us understand that this is not a website specifically about computer security.
You're not thinking it through.

If the FBI sits back, they become complicit in whatever illegal activities were happening. Then you can have situations like the ATF gunwalking scandal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal) in which the ATF was trying to track smuggled guns up to higher-level suppliers, and had one of those guns used in a murder.

This would presumably go so far as the FBI asking other agencies to cease investigations which might compromise their larger operation. At some point, they will have to act.
I'm not sure I'd call Gil Tene a "monkey who has obviously never used C".

But hey.
Having just done a round partially made up of Angels, I don't see this as having a major impact on fundraising which is still predominantly private. I'm skeptical that we are moving broadly towards public fundraising in Angel kinds of investments.
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Saying you're stupid for calling someone else stupid can sometimes be a proper response.

I think you have to state why you think the person is stupid and for it to be a valid reason to avoid the response. Sort of like you did with the recycle version of the statement.
Not really germane to the topic, but I really dislike people that pitch their company as, "<existing company> for <demographic>." I get it lets you easily convey what you do since it's really just an improve version of an existing thing. Let your product stand on it's own. Sell what it does and why it's better. Not, "Like this existing thing, but fit into this subset?"
Ahhh, memories!!!
As a shareholder, all I can say - this sucks. Need more detail about this incident.
> let me control the cycle sweeps and everybody's happy.

Maybe you are happy, but 99.9% of people would probably be very unhappy with that solution. How would you even go about accomplishing that in a way that wouldn't make you lose your mind? I can only imagine the complexity of having to decide how many cycle sweeps need to be done every time I reduce the reference count on an object/struct. I also think the runtime performance of enforcing that kind of limit would out way any possible benefit.
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I don't think is the way to run any business, what I saw is just no respect and exploitation and for what 100 bucks ? Seriously ?
It's definitely enough to ask Google, and possibly his bank or credit card company (to see if he bought any servers recently).
That isn't in dispute. The problem isn't advertising. It is reading people's email.
He points this out himself under "Among the problems we have solved to create a practical solution, are:". It is toward the bottom.
Thanks for the feedback!

We only charge you one time, then never again until a month after it leaves beta. This just locks you in at the discounted price and doesn't charge you again until the 2nd month out of beta. I'll make this clearer on the site.

As far as why we are taking money, we already started a private beta and are looking to get feedback from paying customers. As incredibly useful as our private beta users have been, they aren't paying so it is hard to determine what things they ask for are things they would pay for and what are just neat things they want. With paying users it is a little clearer that they would pay for feature x, because they are already paying to use the service.
i'd say it's a wrong direction, or at least a premature optimization. it smells like WSDL/SOAP, UML and other attempts to create a layer of abstraction which is too high level to be useful while not insightful enough for conceptualization, and too prescriptive to be practical.

how about further narrow down the scope, e.g. only focus on describe relationship among apis (how a song api related to album, musician apis)?
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He described a local password (basically a passphrase) on the "The user's view of the application" page[1].

[1] https://www.grc.com/sqrl/userview.htm
That's an extremely bad idea.
An ad hominem attack would be attacking him for unrelated traits, i.e. "we can't trust people with blue eyes!"

I believe his history as a snake oil salesman is highly relevant to his current "security" work.
Oops! Thanks for catching that. I was multitasking when I made that edit and there is a pretty big difference between a fab and a factory!
Right; I guess password manager was a bit of an over simplification there - sorry about that, as was the fingerprint analogy - I guess it's more a concern of someone having my phone and thus instant access. An additional factor would help with that by bringing in the "something I know" dimension.
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The point of parallel construction is that we don't know that it's at work.
'And, to be clear, I then never read the article. Because I know that whatever they have to say will be said better by someone else who isn't such an asshole.'

Here here!
I didn't use masters for mine because it was easy enough for me to look at the email addresses that were coming in and see if they were junk.

Would be curious to find out if masters will work for $.05. Please keep me posted! :)
Just because it modifies the standard library classes doesn't make it a separate language in its own right. If you used Java but with a different implementation for, say, linked lists than the standard one you'd still be using Java.
Your example case relates to browsing activity. That is very different from email.
Right, literals, but for example, suppose I'm creating a ton of temporary strings (e.g. appending a filename to get a full path and calling touch on it) - in C#, I'm going to heap-alloc a new string for each call. With Rust, I _could_ compose it into a stack-alloc'd buffer, and pass it any function taking a string it doesn't need to own, correct?
I think you are referring to deallocating an object graph. Under GC, the cost of deallocating an object graph depends on global state, such as how many unrelated objects are allocated. But in an RC scheme, the cost of deallocating an object graph depends only on that graph itself. This makes RC easier to reason about. The "unexpectedly long" cases can be isolated and optimized separately.

Consider a soft real-time environment like a game. Under RC, the time required to render a single frame depends only on the work done in that frame. Get it to 16 ms and you're done. But under GC, deallocation work can accumulate. A frame that would otherwise render in 16 ms may take much longer, due to the laziness of previous frames. That makes it harder to optimize, and indeed you'll often see advice like "frames must do zero GC allocations." Yikes!

Things may be different in hard real-time systems, which I know use specialized allocation schemes optimized for worst-case latency instead of bandwidth.
Hey, I am the creator of Accordive. I just wanted to note that we have users in private beta right now, and opted to openly tell everyone the signups were for a public beta, thus the discounted price.

While we considered not telling users this until after they signed up (many services have done this in the past) it ultimately seemed like a shady thing to do and I would rather be open with my users than trick them.

That said, we are allowing signups into the public beta pretty slowly because we like to work with each user individually to help them get setup and running. This is slow at first but it makes the experience much better and we learn a lot along the way.
I agree, DPR figured they were the same person.

Payed off anyways but at the same time negotiated a discount and scared the guy into not trying it again.

This is corroborated by the fact that the FBI knew the name, date and city yet couldn't match it up to a real body.
"Hacking" has long since been appropriated to refer to anything tech startup related. Business growth, usage of an API, even design (http://hackdesign.org/). Essentially, replace verb X with hacking. A pet peeve of mine... but what can you do.
1) I don't have anything to disagree with here specifically: it would be easy to make a case that youtube were more responsive than megaupload. (though I don't know any of the details - I'm just assuming) I doubt megaupload had youtube's resources - another assumption.

2) 3) and 4) I think youtube staff were just as bad if not worse. From Google/Viacom - you can see email transcripts on page 7 onwards (numbers being at the bottom of the page)

(PDF warning) http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/CNBC/Sections/News_And_Analysis/...

4) further to above - I do think youtube channels make money - and copyright material can be a source of that (though it should not be by their rules). Youtube now have detectors in place - that wasn't always the case. Megaupload could have done similar.

I think what really swung it for Google was catching Viacom uploading their own material, and yet suing for it, but again I'm not 100%

Also youtube weren't dealing with an FBI sting and it went through the courts. (I think that is where the lobbying aspect comes in - wild speculation, sure, but there is a marked difference in treatment)
You might be interpreting the "claim" more rigidly than is warranted in a popular publication. Personally, I think children are born potentially smart, but intelligence must be developed constantly in my experience. I have found that many people limit their own intelligence by not stressing themselves, and I suspect the same is true for outside influences. There is a reason people associate bookishness with intelligence and I don't think it's a one-way relationship. I have known a few people whom I believe are not potentially smart, but not that many.
I got my answer. I really like your way of thinking. People creating a "paid only" product in future will love this. Do write a blog post on this strategy and your experience with it. And All the best!
you are not in a position to say they get no value from popovers on mobile devices.

For all you know like the OP is trying to say, they might have done the hard math and decided that this is the way they want to say.

I'm not saying it is the best but rather they might be fully aware of what they are doing
2-factor can be done in the post-password sense (require the second factor after this SQRL step), or alternatively, the algorithm the phone does could use a second factor at that point.
But maybe a longer term uptick in credibility? It will do Bitcoin no good in the long term if people think it is just for drugs. I'd rather it developed a more serious, legitimate reputation.
That doesn't imply understanding or even intent for that matter.
Wow, I just read through the whole indictment.

It's pretty convincing. :/
The monopoly on the use of force by Government agents keeps private actors (or at least it attempts to) from employing violence on their own terms. Absent that monopoly, private agents will fill the void.
Why not keep the code open and keep the assets on a normal copyright basis? That's what iD/Bungie do (did).
MS keeping the desktop rather than losing it to Linux contradicts your thesis. You can dismiss it as a 'surprise' or acknowledge that your reasoning doesn't accord with reality.
Sure, if you're using an appeal to authority as part of the argument in favor of the protocol. Hopefully we're relying more on logical analysis of the protocol than we are on the proposer's authority, in any security context. Isn't that one of the points of open protocols?
There are not only JS driven. They expose a web API that you can fetch with a server or your frontend client.
And hence, the field of marketing. There's a reason why it's so important.
As one data point, I spent a while during college and took Turking seriously as a source of income and averaged about $7-$8 an hour over that time period. Not awesome, but not bad either for an always available, willing, form of employment.
Assuming the article is right:

Will they make sure that the 450ms savings over the 600ms average will be useful enough, by reducing the 8 second time from locked phone to photo shot as well?
I will say here, that I am one of those people that do not like OSX. My main issues are getting it to behave with the muscle memory I have developed over years of use with windows and linux machines. Home and End key behavior, actually quitting an application when closed, full-screen apps (though I understand this is fixed in recent OSX builds), and other minor annoyances keep me from fully embracing OSX. I understand that these are personal preferences, and not problems with OSX for the most part.

On the other hand, I REALLY like the idea of an app and all its dependencies being installed all in one folder. That REALLY needs to happen everywhere. This would make migration between installs SO much easier, and would eliminate DLL hell (or shared library hell in the case of linux).

Just my 2cents
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Doesn't Reader automatically infer which parts of the page to style rather than just applying a custom stylesheet?
Wait, are you talking large as in amount of land, amount of people, or amount of GDP? Because I don't believe the US is the largest in any of those.
This all sounds interesting, but I was just thinking this would be a great way to unlock a computer. Scan the 'lock' screen with your phone. Probably not good for an office environment (too easy to grab someone else's phone), but I would use it at home.
Great, will definitely cover this!
Interesting, though I just went through the on-boarding process with a few different providers: Yahoo!, Google, and Facebook:

- Yahoo!: asked to share my personal information and showed a card with my real name and email address. When I completed the association, Stack Overflow used my real name as the profile name.

- Google: Asked to share my email address. When I completed the association, my real name was not used: instead, I got a randomized (userNNNNNN) name.

- Facebook: asked to share my account and indicated that my public profile would be sent. When I hovered over the words "public profile", it indicated that it would include my name. When I completed the association, Stack Overflow used my real name as the profile name.

In all three instances, the interstitial page on Stack Overflow to confirm the association after I granted access with the third party provider only indicated the email address used, not the full name: http://i.imgur.com/mjwds1m.png

Since the confirmation page on Stack Overflow does not indicate what information would be used and where, it would've been up to his third-party OpenID provider to tell him on the page granting access that his real name would be passed along, and—assuming it did—up to him to make the connection that allowing Stack Overflow access to his name would make it immediately public as his profile name.
20 represents an extreme slimming down for me. I usually run somewhere between 80 and 200 spread across a couple of windows, but can often go above. I installed a tab counter in FF just for fun. I'm not sure what site you have open in your one FF tab, but it must be a very specific one.
There was Spectre VR, and Chaos VR. Chaos was an unfinished demo with no goals. There were enemies and places that spawned infinitely. You were a flying ship and could shoot and barrel roll etc. I think there were some kinds of powerups. Infinite lives, but again, no score or goal. Still fantastic fun to play.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131708/runtime_mipmap_...

As I recall you could actually press a button to go between cockpit/external views. There were a few versions too - I think the VR was a much later addition.

http://www.applefritter.com/node/14284
It's still an ad hominem - the merits of his argument should stand independent to who he is or his history on any topic.

Doesn't mean it's not worth talking about, though. After all, science is entirely founded on a kind of inductive reasoning, so logical fallacies aren't crazy to consider.
Ok, I'll make sure to cover this. Do you use any A/B test tool in particular? If so, which one?

Also, what's your Twitter handle? I'll ping you once the videos are done :)
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This is pure evil.
We're taking about people who sell PCs, not component vendors. If we include windows, we also should include intel and everyone else in the supply chain. But since this whole topic is about manufacturers who ship complete phones to purchasers, the analogy in the PC market is with companies that ship complete PCs.
Wrong analogy. It's like someone wearing a trashbag telling you you have no style, and someone pointing out that trash-bag-guy has no style either, so his opinion of what looks good is called in to question.
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In Chrome it Just Works...

Firefox has had years to catch up to Chrome with these issues, why haven't they?
"While the focus of the book was Moscow's panic in the face of geopolitical decline,"

Panic in the face of a specific petroleum shortage where all alternatives were politically unacceptable, or maybe rephrased war was the least unacceptable. I suppose some kind of wheat harvest disaster would have been a good precursor although it would have screwed up the outcome of the book.

Your analysis is good other than the US economy being very far away from the possible scene of activity and a major subplot was closing the Atlantic to the USSR. Until that happened the US was in a severe logistics crunch. That was a major theme of the book... the USSR didn't give up until they lost the logistics war supplying the front lines with fuel due to a cruise missile strike and the US closed the Atlantic to USSR subs which opened the US logistics. That made the USSR side really panic, come up with some dumb last ditch ideas, and finally disappear in a coup.

The political solutions being unacceptable was somewhat covered in the book, toward the end there was a bit of a WTF were they thinking moment in the conversation at the end. Irrational fear or political outlook can lead to decisions that are not rational. Maybe that's the moral of the book. Most wars seem to have an irrational component to them on one side if not both sides...

From a wargamer perspective its all about the logistics... the US position is not good at all in some limited scenarios. And its still fun to play the American South in the civil war even if you know in the long run they're gonna lose. I tentatively agree with your apparent conclusion that the .ru would be doomed in a RSR-2013 scenario, but it would still make a heck of a book / hex based wargame / whatever.