skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is possible at some cell phone stores to purchase an unlocked phone and renew a contract at the same time for a discount on the hardware. Discounts can range from $50-$200 depending on the phone and renewed plan.
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I'lll be sure to consider that when switching between a contacts mail and messages without switching apps, browsing a web page with a Flash enabled, Skyping over 3G, or calling peoplewith a single hit from the home screen on the HTC Hero I'm going to replace my iPhone with.
So you're really happy that Facebook offers right-off-the-bat filters for all three of those things, right? Because that solves your problem without your ever having to worry about seeing the other things.
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These days, I tend to use COND rather than IF.

Ah, but the page implies use bunches of teeny classes. Was that what Alan Kay had in mind when he coined "Object Oriented Programming"?
If you're in the Windows world and use VS then a laptop won't do... unless you're a masochists
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Good find nothing. The very passage that Balko quotes from Thwaites contradicts his assessment. It's not just uncharitable but slightly fantastical. Thwaites says:

"Commercial extraction and processing of the necessary materials happens on a scale that is difficult to resolve into the humble toaster. This contrast in scale is a bit absurd—massive industrial activity devoted to making objects which enable us, the consumer, to toast bread more efficiently. However, this ridiculousness dissipates somewhat when you consider that life pre-toasters required stoking the fire when a piece of toast was desired."

Where does he speak of 'waste' here? He speaks of absurdity, to be sure, but only the most steely-minded libertarian, who has diligently eliminated any trace of aesthetic sentiment from his mind in favor of cold market-based reason, could fail to acknowledge that the notion of the great powers of the earth, bringing all their force to bear on the basic stuff of nature, digging and tearing down mountains, all leading to a single $8 toaster, is more or less as absurd as it gets. To point out that NO, STUPID, it's not a single toaster, it's a million toasters! And insulin, too! What are you, some kind of Commie? Is what I would characterize as churlish. And certainly uninteresting. Indeed, even in the middle of considering the absurdity of the toaster Thwaites follows his train of thought to allow for the real value of convenience, as provided by consumer technology.

And again, who would deny that there is a component of helplessness when we can't even toast bread without buying a toaster from a supermarket? Thwaites doesn't sound like an ideologue, he sounds like an artist, whose job it is to consider an issue from new perspectives, and hopefully to cast light on all its components. Balko, on the other hand, is clearly an inveterate ideologue, who misreads ambivalence and curiosity as doubt and its never-far companion, condemnation. I'd rather watch somebody try to build his own toaster than read this kind of boosterism, which thinks it detects a threat to its beloved system and tries to drown out nuance or even-handedness.
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I moved from an N95 (3G, KHTML) to iPhone (2G, KHTML). The browsing on the iPhone was understandably much slower than the Nokia. But the rest of the UI made up for it.
The bottom line of ...withGraphics creates a Pond but gives the parameter visual=False.

That should be visual=True.
I still get the numbers dump after that, though I also get the visualization.
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Why spend 3 hours sawing a crappy MS keyboard when you can have: http://pfuca-store.stores.yahoo.net/haphackeylit1.html

Notice that the ctrl key is in the correct position to the left of the 'a', and that there are dip switches to swap meta and super, and another to swap del and bs. Additionally there are 2 usb 1.1 ports (perfect for my powermate, which I use to control volume since it doesn't have multimedia keys). Also notice that Delete/Backspace is in the position usually taken by '\', which means you don't have to stretch your pinky (although it takes about 4 hours to get used to. I now go from this keyboard to other keyboards, and suprisingly I don't accidently mess this up). Also, esc is in the '~' place, and '\' and '~' are where backspace would have been.

Another fantastic keyboard is: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB167LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg...

I have the small apple keyboard also, it is a standard layout, but it is bluetooth.
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I think if adherence to simplicity prevents you from creating what you want to create they you're doing it wrong.
Right, and what first came to mind for me was Melatonin. I was looking into sleep hacks a couple years back and studying up on Melatonin drove me away from trying out anything that would disturb a "normal" amount of time sleeping in the dark. I remember seeing a study that linked a lack of Melatonin production to some kinds of cancer. Can't seem to find it now.
Yes, I suppose that's a unique implementation risk for CTR and in that case Kragen's concerns about XOR are valid as well since you've got a stream cipher with a short period.

I was more thinking about how the cipher input has a predictable structure, in particular every pair of adjacent blocks differ by only a single fixed bit. This isn't an issue unless the underlying block cipher is badly broken, but it still feels unnecessarily risky.
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Ah, the classic debate of part time vs full time again. Sigh..

I think it's depend on people to people. I personally know that i'm not the "part-time-and-do-it-safely" kind of person. I get too comfortable.

I function much better as soon as i burn off my ship and jump off the cliff. Somehow, that's how my survival instinct works. That's how i signed up for 1/2 marathon and full marathon while i haven't been able to run one (and, of course, after that i became much more discipline in training and eventually finished).

Again, it depends on your personality.
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Note: if you trust any company run by Mark Zuckerberg with anything, you're doing it wrong.
If I have time, I'll finish two desktops by the end of the week, upgrading mine and building another for a relative with spare parts. I also know quite a bit of gamers that build their own desktops too.
A book that I loved in HS on a similar topic, just more focused on the social aspect of it is "The Culture of Fear" by Barry Glassner. Recommended also.

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Fear-Americans-Afraid-Things/d...
OFB has the same problem with IV reuse, but because CTR divides the IV into a nonce and a counter, it basically begs you to make the error by giving you two opportunities to make it.
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I just wish I remembered more of my dreams and perhaps even be able to control them to use as brainstorming sessions.
Good for them. They are concentrating on doing their job (hopefully ;)) instead of chasing fads they don't really understand anyway, twittering about their breakfast or whatever. Media (CNN, NYT..) could actually take a hint from that.
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I'm all for book reviews by HN for HN.
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How to Make it in the Afterlife.
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Dan mentions this book several times in Risk actually - because of that it was tentatively on my reading list but now I'll definitely give it a shot :D thanks
My "actual citation of a Rivest student coding for Google making the HMAC error" argument has a THAC0 of 5, and your "yes, but" argument has a THAC0 of 15. You might win this debate, but I doubt it.

Colin points out (rightly, in the narrow scope he drew) that Google could have made the same error with CBC-MAC or OMAC; they'd still be comparing bytes directly, not doing the safe XOR comparison.

But Colin is making my point for me. Because if you used EAX or CCM, you wouldn't be implementing that compare for yourself; it'd be taken care for you by the block cipher mode, which would yield either a plaintext or a failure.

Yes, the library designer could make that mistake too; after all, Google did! But again, that's my point. Google making this error was a newsworthy event, and the mere fact Google implemented it caused Nate Lawson to review the code and find it. You have none of those benefits. You're going to make the same error, and nobody's going to find it until it matters that you've not made it.
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I agree and you might find this interesting...

Terrance Kealey makes an interesting case for how government funding (monopolies have got to have similar anti-competitive funding allocation properties), actually suppresses innovation: http://vimeo.com/4798314
Seems to be back now.
Why hasn't that study been done?

I think it's because this is something that is very hard to stick with. After the physical adjustment, one has to be willing to organize one's life in a way consistent with this, and that is tough when everybody uses this other mode of sleep.
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Here in the UK, FR, DE, US, and etc. you buy the iPhone on contract to get it subsidized. It costs 700$ in the US unsubsidized which is approximately what it costs (34,000Rs) in India according to Vodafone. And if you're going to buy a phone you might as well get the carrier to cover part of the costs. Except for PAYG you'll still pay way too much on your plan.

Development is free. It only costs you when you go to submit it to the store. Not everyone likes a closed system but, not everyone likes to pay for something that could be done for free. But not everyone has the time to setup their own store. If you don't like the terms you are free to go to Blackberry app world (also costs money to join), or Fandango (if you thought 70/30 split was high they want 50/50).

If you are really determined not to pay the fee you can jailbreak install SSH and sftp your application onto the phone. There are myriad guides on the net explaining how to accomplish this.
I'm so sorry about that. It's killing me to see the site is down. I wonder if it is the HN effect, since it happened after I started getting traffic from here.

Still, that's no reason for the site to go down. It's a basic wordpress site. I should be able to handle traffic like this.

Update: I think it's okay now.
Okay, but using an encryption library doesn't guarantee your code is free of mistakes either. Just initiating a generic cryptography library requires a certain amount of specialised knowledge. You have to get the right mode, create a secure key, know how to correctly use an IV or whatever additional parameters the particular encryption algorithm needs.

Compared to all that, comparing two HMACs seems relatively straightforward.
That's actually a really good point, I just posted on my blog (blog.aximilation.com) an article about how I got sick and polyphasic sleep was not enough for my body to get the rest it needed at the time. (article: http://blog.aximilation.com/blog.php?title=the-sickness&...)
Excerpt:
"...if you begin working out, do some hard labor, experience a lot of stress or get sick, your body may need more downtime, physically, in which case a polyphasic schedule may not be sufficient..."

You may or may not be functioning at your best, puredoxyk, one of the pioneers of polyphasic sleep is very active in kung fu and various physical activities and has no trouble. I would not say that it's hardly functioning at your best, it depends on what your body needs, what it is used to, and also your lifestyle.
The best statement on this topic that I've seen was a comment on HN, which unfortunately I don't have a link to. It said: if you spend half your time on a startup (e.g. because you have a job), realize that you won't be half as productive, you'll be an order of magnitude less productive. As soon as I read that, it made sense of my experience.

Keeping it in mind helps to manage the process if you're on that path: it prevents your expectations from being continually thwarted. But it also provides a powerful reason to get off that path.
I'm not saying they're not good, just saying they're nothing really new - just a locally produced "clone" (for want of a better word - I realise they're more than that) of another site. Not particularly innovative.

I hadn't seen that article, thanks. The point of it really seems to be that video sharing sites find it expensive to deliver to developing markets.
It looks interesting, but (I didn't provide my twitter password yet) I still don't "get" what twitpare does. Does it send out a tweet or is it just using Twitter accounts for login or what?

I'm embarrassed to admit I can't tell how it works from the front page nor from the FAQ.

Edit:
So after spending a minute or two thinking about it, maybe it takes my Twitter account, allows me to upload a couple of images, and then will auto tweet with a link back to twitpare.com for people to come view the pictures?

Ok, I thought "I'll see what happens if I click on one of these twitter-looking text boxes at the bottom of the front page. Wow, it takes me to another page-- I didn't expect that text div to be clickable."

When I get to the page why do I have to click on the individual tiny pictures to see them larger? Why are they not just shown side-by-side or over-and-under? I didn't think to click the thumbnail until I was like "umm, where's the other picture I'm comparing?"

Overall for such a small app, I expected the entire usability aspect to be nailed down completely, but I started out lost and it never felt intuitive.

Do the comments on a post come from tweets about it? Or are they local comments on your site and aren't broadcast?

For this sort of think, I absolutely think you should give Feedback Army a try to work out the usability stuff. Get them to blindly try it and see if they can figure out how your site is used.
Hmm, maybe I should snub social media too. They're mostly time-suck.
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The first and only thing I noticed was the huge twitter login box sitting there. You're not going to get too many early adopters if you have that. I suggest you switch to using OAuth as an immediate do-it-now thing. After all its the early adopters who really drive your usage for quite a long time to come, since they also happen to be quite active.

Edit: After looking at your front page alone for a few minutes, I guess you have a pretty nice idea. This could develop into a crowd sourced decision maker kind of thing (e.g. the tattoo pic). Also, is it absolutely necessary to upload two pics??? At times one pic is good enough to stimulate a lot of discussion, and at times people may want to compare more than two pics, especially if they are trying to make a decision or something like that. So you might want to look at changing the number of pics that can be uploaded.
Why should they? They're doing just fine as they are, why change that? I appreciate the advice I get from 37signals, since it's a unique perspective that not everyone talks about. OTOH, I also appreciate all of the advice I get from HN and the rest of the startup community. It's the diversity of ideas and opinions that matter the most.
I was having a conversation with my mom the other day, and she mentioned how the software her company bought wasn't as good as the old off-the-shelf stuff and how all those "Computer People" in the IT building should get off their lazy asses and fix it.

This, gentle(men|women), is why I will never work outside of tech
Polyphasic sleep != sleep deprivation unless it is not done correctly. Yes, not sleeping well (deprivation) can cause those things, but it does not mean that polyphasic sleep causes them. if you have adapted and are on a consistent schedule, you should be more rested than before.
Maybe some of those IT workers are unhappy with their life rather than with their job. Or their job is not great enough to compensate for the rest of their life. Or their identity/self-esteem/life is wrapped up too much in their job...
IPhone OS 3.0 breaks some apps that make phone calls
I heard about that on NPR this morning, I'm all for it. My only concern, do they have any privacy rights against this? Or does the gov't building imply same protections as being in public?
Lord of the Flies is a great book for late middle school kids, because it's ABOUT THEM. What if they could absorb the lesson that all their teasing and bullying is an expression of the very forces which, without social control, would lead to murder and war? Do you really think 12 is too young?
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A large part of this decision depends on the type of product and market segment that it is targeting. Time to get to market can be very important. If you spend a year working part time you may be trumped by someone else. I have been involved in more than one project where we missed the market time window.
You want to buy a keyboard because it has the modifier keys swapped? The OS will do this for you for free, and you don't have to learn where the useful keys moved to... http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2490#l1

Even if you like where they are on your keyboard, I suggest disabling Caps Lock.
I have more than 20 apps on the appstore. None of my apps have more than 20 reviews, so I cannot judge these numbers. This might be true for 99 cents app, but I am not sure how directly correlated will this be for >$4.99 apps.
This is exactly what I want:

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/7545/applekeytrak.jpg
I used to read the Joel On Software forums. The awful life of an IT drone was a common theme, it would show up about twice a week. The sad thing is that I recognize some of the posters' names and it's the same people who were posting the same complaints 6 years ago. If you're still complaining about your career after six years, the problem is you, not your job.

I would rather not draw that crowd over here, or have their stories reposted, or even links to that forum. That sort of negativity is boring at best and poisonous at worst.
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I think this "campaign" is aimed at a developer less capable than the crowd we see on HN. I used to work with a whole team of people where OOP is a strange concept. I think the Anti-IF rule can help people think in a more correct fashion if they're confused about Inheritance.
SEPs are employer-contributed. The employer selects a fixed percentage of salary for all employees and contribute to an IRA in the employees name. The employee cannot contribute additional money into that fund, so the 49k limit is largely hypothetical (except for perhaps the very-successfully self-employed).
SEP is certainly better than nothing, but they also don't confer any benefits beyond other tax-deferred etirement plan. And the inability of employees under an SEP to make additional contributions to it is a huge drawback for anyone who can't set the contribution percentage to their preference. (catch-up contributions notwithstanding)

IRAs are personal retirement accounts, separate from the issue of employer compensation. Anyone can contribute up to 5k to an IRA in 2009. But if you work for a company with, say, a 401k, you can sock away up to an extra 16.5k. And (the relevant bit) when your employer (inevitably) contributes less than what you'd like, you can personally contribute until you hit that warm fuzzy feeling.

I don't know about you, but I've socked away more than 5k per year toward retirement. Rolling with just my own IRA wouldn't cut it. And the lost employer contribution to a tax-deferred plan is a non-trivial amount of additional compensation loss to be considered when moving from corporate employment to small business/self-employment.
One thing I've heard mentioned occasionally but still have not seen covered extensively/comprehensively in the mainstream media, is the shifting of risk in the U.S. in the last, say, 30 years, from institutions to individuals. For example, the movement from professionally managed pensions to individually managed (and often choice-limited) 401k plans as a main vehicle for retirement savings.

I don't know whether the book addresses those aspects of risk, or whether it shares my viewpoint on them, but I welcome the review and the attention the post may place on risk as a topic. The conversation here could become quite interesting.
I tried, but didn't know how and couldn't find info on how to do that.

Pointers welcome.
Until they decide to tax it in 20 years to pay for all the entitlements for the retired boomers.
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That explains why I slept so well when I was locked up (back as a young'n in juvie): You didn't have control of the light in your cell, so from ~10pm to ~7am lights were out whether you liked it or not. I'm a life-long insomniac.
> even physical skills

That would be expected. Physical skills are still resident in the nervous system, just somewhat removed from consciousness. What is stressed during the day is strengthened at night.
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i use google reader and mark articles as "keep unread" that i want to read later.

also, there are many companies that offer bookmarking services that integrate really nicely into the browser and only require a click of a button; you can give one of those a try.
"And if you're going to buy a phone you might as well get the carrier to cover part of the costs."

but that is the point. I don't want a phone locked to a particular carrier for predetermined period of time, thanks.
I, and a vast majority of Indians, want the freedom to switch carriers and phones independently. That is something Indian consumers actively prefer.

The IPhone in India is still locked to a specific carrier. A vast majority of phones sold in India are not. And the IPhone was a big failure in India (except for very very small numbers of apple fanboy types) and continues to have a miniscule market share, not even 1% of the market. The overall numbers sold are in the low thousands, and this in a market which grows by millions in a year. Nokia rules here, followed by Samsung and Motorola.

Indian customers constantly shift plans, looking to optimize for their particular patterns of usage. They constantly change phpones, across brands. A phone locked to specific vendors or plans will never be a success here.

SMS is huge in India. Incoming SMS is free and outgoing sms costs about half a rupee - a tenth of a cent - per message. A non SMS friendly phone (the original IPhone had some defects wrt sms I don't know about the latest one) will never be a success here.

"If you are really determined not to pay the fee you can jailbreak install SSH and sftp your application onto the phone. "

I was talking of default and legal ways to use one's cellphone. Sure any hardware can be hacked, with enough effort. I shouldn't have to do that with something I paid serious money for.

"Development is free. It only costs you when you go to submit it to the store."

How is development "free"? Can i deploy an app I wrote on my Iphone (without selling to other people, just for my use) without paying Apple money? I think not. Hell, even Windows ME phones allows me to deploy any application I want on my device, for my own use.

" It costs 700$ in the US unsubsidized which is approximately what it costs (34,000Rs) in India according to Vodafone. "

The Iphone costs 34000 Rs in India and is locked to specific vendors. And a huge failure in India. For that money I can buy a very high end unlocked phone (HTC, Nokia, RIM - yes an unlocked blackberry - <any other vendor>). Indians in general don't warm to overpriced locked phones.
So this is sort of like a CoreWars incubator?