skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're some random anonymous guy on the internet asking a public and very personal question about somebody's mental health with no obvious context, no sense that some people might consider that a sensitive topic, and apparently no awareness that doing so looks like you're calling them clueless. You do all this while claiming to be asking a serious question. (Rather than, say, emailing me.) And you're wondering if I have have problems functioning in society?

The headline writer for the original article put in a joke. Xentronium, correctly, pointed out he appeared to get the joke backwards. Somebody else said, "it's just a joke", which is a thoughtless thing to say when you're trying to analyze why a joke does or doesn't work. If there's anywhere it's reasonable to nerd out on a nerdy joke, it's here.

So I pointed out a great source, written by experts in funny, explaining why getting to truth really matters in comedy. I am unable to fathom why you think that's a sign of a social disorder, let alone sufficient license to act like a dick.
I would be fired if my day looked like that. I can understand how you feel after working a 9-5, or in my case, a 9-8 because I work at a bank, and anything lower, you look lazy!

6am wake

6-7 - shower/prepare for the day

7am breakfast

8am prepare 6 meals for the day (bodybuilder)

9am leave for work

10am get in

10 - 10:30 - check mail, prioritize mail, i dont get much mail

10:30 coffee run - everyone in the office sees this as their last opportunity to fuck about for 15 minutes

11 - 8pm - literally just code, if I get up, it has to be accounted for

8pm - 1am - go to classes to finish a useless degree i dont need because my employer requests it

Then at about 1am I like to fantasize about creative ways to kill myself, then sleep.

I can't wait to save enough money for 3+ years of funding my own shenanigans. T-minus one year to go!

Good luck OP. Technologists are the modern day bohemians.
Do the Diffie dance?
I made this account entirely to remind you of the goddamn holocaust. Try not to lose all perspective, eh?
I bet if you add some graphics such as the pokemon and add a background, you'd get accepted.
Seen Write Latex? www.writelatex.com
Seems like an ideal partnership opportunity.
You chose to develop on a platform that has unaccountable bureaucracy with arbitrary rules controlling your access to the platform and can turn all your work into garbage on a whim, with no recourse to you. So you shouldn't be surprised too much when it happens to you - that's what they do.

I'd just make a website and be done with it. Unless you want to sell it, and then they own the market - it's their rules. You either play by them or don't get into the market.
Also, there is a huge psychological difference between a plane pilot dropping a bomb on an 'anonymous' target and observing a hit/explosion, versus the original article drone pilot observing the targets in a non-combat-action situation, dropping the bomb, and then monitoring the aftermath - not only the actual explosion, but the scared/suffering behavior of nearby people.

The result of the explosion is the same, but the impact on the soldier is vastly different. In general, a standard healthy homo sapiens isn't really psychologically suited for killing others and handling it well, and thus most of the article is not about the killing but about living with your conscience afterwards.
Working on a book about functional reactive programming on iOS using ReactiveCocoa: https://leanpub.com/iosfrp

It's cool because there's a lot of information out there, but little to show developers how to build a whole app.
I'm glad Apple rejects on a quality basis, and feel they should be even stricter.

I say this as someone who has gone through over 30 Apple rejections, including some due to really bad policy. But in the end I feel it made my apps better, and led me to respect my customers more.

Edit: that said, this app doesn't look bad, but it is using entirely default settings — perhaps just using a custom tintColor on the window would have got it through.
Websites can work off-line.

This type of webapp is simple enough to use AppCache without trouble: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/HTML/Using_the_applica...
Thank you. I've been waiting for this since I missed a few episodes during the day.
I envy your unbridled optimism.
Couldn't get your site to load on my ipad, constantly crashes safari.
or rejected for alleged copyright infringement.
I'd do:

1) Tell them you're not comfortable enough with your relationship to do any more work until you see the money you're owed. Might also be worth pointing out they'll still owe you for work done and that they'll incur additional expenses searching for someone else to pick up the project.

2) Start looking for other work, this isn't making you any non-theoretical money at the moment.

3) If 1 doesn't work lawyer up or walk away, depending on whether you can afford a lawyer.

4) Never work with them again.
Thanks, I'm going to need a lot of luck! We're asking for a lot of money to give a level of security that this will work out (the balance of the funds at the end of the research term will be disbursed to city of hope - a hospital with a cancer treatment specialization). So there's the trickiness of fundraising, and figuring out the internet. The internet is a hard place. On top of that, science is always risky, and as much as I can craft a plan B and a plan C, and dynamically come up with plans, there's always the possibility of total failure.
Does anyone know a way to contact BlackBerry World? Somebody copied my html5 game and is making money from it. It's been two years and my DMCA requests have been ignored. I have both tried email and Twitter.

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/41515/?count... (The same author has several other ripoffs as well)
Which holocaust? The one 50 years ago or the one currently happening? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxv4Aff3IA
My dad is 74. I rebuilt his laptop last year and replaced Windows XP with Unbuntu. He loves it and has had no issues with it.
Because of iAP purchase (https://sensortower.com/ios/us/the-pokemon-company/app/poked...) the pokemon app is $26

There are a couple of alternative ones:
https://sensortower.com/ios/us/caleb-thorson/app/oak/7179849...

https://sensortower.com/ios/us/derk-adams/app/pokegear/60289...
It is hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like the the turn signal indication is the standard "blink on the side" style. When the lights are close together like they are with this design (as is practical for bikes), it's very hard to distinguish which side is blinking from even a short distance.

Could I suggest that instead of blinking on one side or the other, you turn the lights on in sequence heading toward the direction of the turn? For example, for a turn, you could illuminate light #1, then #1 and #2, then #1 and #2 and #3, then off and repeat.

That seems to me a much clearer indication of intention from the point of view of a vehicle some distance away looking through less than clean glass.
I think you're mistaken. Southwest only codeshares with AirTran, which they own.
War isn't justified by the fact that you're risking your life on site.

At its core, war starts with a society or their leaders deciding that yes, they want a goal X achieved even it will require dying and killing of innocent people, and that X is more important than their lives. If the decision is made, then it doesn't really matter how the killing is executed - the main moral issue is the choice of starting a war.
That's not a warrior, that's a serial murderer hiding behind a screen.

It's disgusting. Then again, it's for "defence" so it's OK.

If a nuclear holocaust is coming, we more than deserve it, some more than others.
So basically on a thread about serious bugs in Apple software, you just blamed Microsoft and Google with some vague statement when they had nothing to do with the particular problems.

Google and MS are the evil! Apple shit just works. Etc.
Wow I'll be purchasing this.
I don't like your "you chose this so don't bitch about it now" viewpoint, because I think that bitching about things is something that effects change, but I agree with you on one thing: Why the hell isn't this a site? It sounds like it would take ten minutes to convert the info to a single HTML page, and you wouldn't have to go through the app store.

Not to mention that Google would give you instant visibility to everyone for your chosen search terms, if there's no other page with this info.
I had this happen on an app I worked on before, but it was accepted on appeal.

From what I have seen in the App Store, I think standard procedure is to reject "basic" looking apps like this as a matter of process. The thinking is that rejecting them weeds out the spammers who won't bother appealing the rejection, and people who actually appeal are obviously more emotionally invested in the app, which leads to a higher chance of being accepted.
So how can politicians prevent a holocaust exactly? I thought they caused it in the first place.
This seems to only be true for very, very few start-ups, all of which are small, ie, single employee.

The moment that there's a second person, your life begins to depend on their schedule, involve their input in plans, etc. Even if you're the boss, it's a terrible habit to just declare you're leaving without taking in to account how it will impact other people. I'd argue you're probably /more/ restricted in many start-ups than you are in a typical office environment, where you're just one of many, because of how important you, personally, and your involvement is likely to be to the whole team/company.

Many of the points also only apply to people who are doing software for execution on servers or apps or similar projects. If you're working on embedded hardware, for instance, it becomes much, much harder to just take your laptop and work somewhere else.
This type of Web app is simple enough to not require any storage at all, really...
The same experience here. My parents also use Ubuntu now (firefox, Libre office).

The main issue with Linux is, some one needs to install and setup everything for them. Finding and installing that missing wifi driver is not something that they can do.

Windows installation is breeze, just pop-in the disk and it will install everything for you. Hope pre-installed ubuntu systems get common.
That's awesome, love to hear stories like that.
> That Pokedex app is $1.99 when I checked. Not $26.

You need to look at the IAP:

* Kanto region Pokémon $5.99

* Sinnoh region Pokémon $5.99

* Hoenn region Pokémon $5.99

* Johto region Pokémon $5.99

Those, combined with the initial price, equals $25.95.
For that, we need a mobile web app discovery platform that everyone knows about (and how many of these have been tried?) and can take people's money for you. I think if one of these had a few million for advertizing, there'd be a chance. (For that matter, how many people actually have looked at chrome app store more than once?)

For better or worse, the default app stores are convenient.
go to the next meeting with a baseball bat
Hope is all we have got, my friend.
Are Online Friends Really Not Real?
Three Elements That Sum To Zero
The problem is that most (all?) mail apps other than the default Mail app on iOS do not properly spawn when you are in another app and choose the Send as Email option.

I use the Gmail app for most of my mail and Mail for work Exchange. I've caught myself multiple times inadvertently trying to send a funny article using work email. Ugh.
I haven't been following the story close enough, but he never apologized for spying on U.S. citizens, he defended that, right?
You’re thinking of Swym (http://swym.in/) and its “etc” operator.
This is meant for designers but inspired me to change my practices: http://vimeo.com/22053820

Its titled: "fuck you, pay me"

The video isn't actionable advice but worth a look.

If I were in your shoes I'd quit immediately once a payment was missed. These situations don't get better in my experience. :(
FYI: it was posted a fews days (weeks?) ago but Wolfram|Alpha has Pokemon data now. Example:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=charzard
Is there a good way to 2 way encrypt something in something like rails where the app needs to use the decrypted token. If you have app logic doing decryption then someone can just look at the source to figure out how to do this. Is the only good solution to use a compiled language?
LOL maybe! Nintendo isn't really that big on tracking that stuff down though.
Being prone for an extended period of time isn't good either. The problem is that your musculature does some of the work to keep everything aligned. If you're not using the muscles in your back and hips to keep you somewhat upright (which even a regular chair does to some extend), then you are letting those muscles atrophy even more. You don't want to be completely cradled for extended periods of time.
Sorry to hear that. Your iPad is running out of memory because of retina imagery, my iPad 3 works fine. I'll change it to serve non-retina assets to mobile devices, thanks for the notification.
In case anyone missed it: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-inside...

There are apparently some factual issues with this article, but it's good for getting a general feel of what was going on with the development side of things, why they couldn't have advanced UIs, etc..
See also: San Francisco. The average for a one-bedroom here just crossed the $3,000 mark.
Yes. Changing some background colours seems like it would add a lot of value to the app...
This to me is the challenge. If done the wrong way you would allow an attacker to influence the algorithm, done the right way it could remove any patterns created by the key. It seams all attacks proposed in this thread try to attack this problem, while the rest seams harder to attack.
This is the most intense v1 review I've ever received. If I get approved, I'll definitely incorporate this feedback.

I had some issues with the data. I pulled 1-649 from Wolfram, but it was missing a handful of pokemon that I had to enter by hand by regexing an HTML page from Bulbapedia.

I've been playing kind of competitively with my friends, and scanning bulbapedia wasn't cutting it (and it's missing the type weaknesses for some pokemon for whatever reason)
> 11 - 8pm - literally just code, if I get up, it has to be accounted for

> 8pm - 1am - go to classes to finish a useless degree i dont need because my employer requests it

This right here would be making me look for another gig ASAP.
Just have to say, Apple has been working the usability angle a lot longer than Ubuntu and it doesn't seem to be upsetting Microsoft too much. Of course, this comes from a person who has never been able to rationalize spending his own money on a Mac.
Very true, if there are driver problems then it becomes a big ordeal. However, we must consider that most Windows installations are set up by an OEM, and in my case, it was already set up by me. In those situations, what matters most is the usability of the system after it's already set up.

I doubt my parents would be able to install a fresh copy of either OS without my help.
Here's hoping, then.
I wonder why you were downvoted. Maybe people interpreted “POC” as “piece of crap” instead of “proof of concept”.
It has holes, and it stops at 649. If you check out my other repo, you can see how I pulled out a lot of the type information.

https://github.com/stefankendall/pokemondatacollector

There's an API limit of 2k requests/month, which worked just about perfectly for my ~800 API hits while grabbing the data :)
Well, the post's schedule didn't have any work in it, maybe the dude actually has to do some work as well as show up 9-5.
I think this is the best way to think about it. Just don't take it personal and appeal / resubmit.
This is just some web view type data copied into a table view. And if we're going to trot out f-words, let's just note that it's fugly. I'm not surprised it was rejected.
Depends on how you do it. Are you working for yourself? Or for an employer? If its an employer, yes, you're going to have to handle a bunch of tax red tape.

I'm a US citizen. Assume I have a webapp. I develop this app as I travel, have paying customers, etc. It doesn't matter I'm in the middle of nowhere Africa, because I'm accepting payments with Stripe into a US-based business checking account, which I then run payroll from into a US-based personal checking account. I then pay my taxes electronically from this account.

In that case, your taxes are pretty straightforward.
That's true, but I do have to point out that I recently gave a mac mini to my mom before my dad started using the Ubuntu laptop. I went that direction rather than upgrading her PC from Vista, so it's cost them at least two sales.

I realize that means nothing in the grand scheme, but I still feel it's a powerful anecdote given that my parents are "average" computer users.
That's basically it. You stay for three months at maximum, you pay taxes in your birth country, and your official address is usually that of a family member's when abroad.

Some places are pretty easy to get extended visas and they look the other way if you have money in the pocket.
The only real trouble with Linux is possible driver issues (caused by trying to shoehorn an OS onto hardware for which it wasn't initially designed). If more OEMs would put Linux onto laptops directly this wouldn't be a problem.

It's still tough to find a good, decently priced laptop OEMed with Linux though. I can't get my hands on the Dell XPS with Ubuntu pre-installed in my current country of residence...
I'm not saying it's impossible or anything. If they wanted to they could just put a bright flash on, or wait for the camera to roll to a stop, or buy a crazy high performance sensor.

I'm just saying, if I was running the company, that's the problem I'd be most worried about getting right.
Part of the talk was to contrast voice and exit. I don't think the point was that exit is the only way to evolve government; rather, exit is often the best way to create significant change, get out of deadlock or try less popular ideas. Voice (eg voting) is still an option.

Moreover, physically leaving the country is not the only way to "exit". Another example was Bitcoin--a currency that the government may not even be able to fully regulate! The internet and BitTorrent are more popular examples. So technological innovation can also help create an exit, and is perhaps more appropriate for "Sillicon Valley".
While I think IBM Watson will become a powerful tool for querying and hospital/insurance risk management, I'm not sure it will be replacing a doctor until MRI machines are a dime a dozen. What good is a medical query engine if the patient doesn't know how to describe what is wrong? If you are planning your child's career, take this into account; otherwise, it is just something new for the doctors to learn, like engineers learning CAD tools.
So basically, they have implemented greylisting?
Disclaimer: Brazilian here

Most comments I've seen about this issue seem very American, going along the lines of "stop the hypocrisy, everybody does it". It is useless to argue against such view, cynicism is usually unpermeable to arguments.

However, regardless if "everybody does it" or not this story will have implications. It is a very strong argument for a new kind of walled garden: the nationally restricted Internet. We should expect a strong growth of the China-style Internet.

This surveillance is now seen in Latin America as a threat from the classic "American Imperialism". In the name of "protection" from real or imaginary dangers politicians, bureaucrats and autocrats will enforce Internet monitoring within a lot of countries. Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, expect a lot of trouble.
Ask HN: How companies use Twitter for customer service?
I'm wondering about how companies use Twitter for customer service.
Are they periodically search for "company name" tweets to contact with customer via DM or tweet?

And if they're giving password of Twitter account to support staff, how they rely on the staff?
Since gold is allegedly the most inert element, why wasn't the the prototype made of gold?
I have a tough time relating to the attitude toward being employed (as a programmer) that gets thrown around here. I know many employers are exploitative. But you don't have to work for an evil mega corp.

I work for a company where I can count the employees on one hand. All my code is used (unless I throw it away or refactor it). The work is interesting, the problems are challenging and semi-novel. I get to learn things every day.

What I'm saying is, I actually love my job. If you get paid to program and you're not loving it, you can go find a company doing something interesting without a lot of corporate crap. There's also the possibility you don't actually like programming, so.

This is not to say a startup is not an option, but there are plenty of other options with less skin in the game.
> Adversary model makes sense. I think security/privacy folk like reading up on them for a given project they might be curious about, perhaps consider putting this on the site?

I probably should put this out, yes. I'm the only person to have ever worked on Aether, I'm the architect, the builder, the designer and the coder (lately trying to be also the cheerleader, too) so I have a long list of stuff to do at all times! Currently I'm working on getting Windows version to work (it's working, I just need to make it work without asking administrator privileges), then I need to have some stability improvements on synchronization process—there are some subtle bugs and sync process sometimes gets stuck at indeterminate intervals, so I absolutely have no idea what's going on. I need to test for this. The app recovers from such errors, but it shouldn't happen in the first place. I'll eventually come up to start writing blog posts.

> Have you considered abstracting this to 'subscribe to this post/thread and be notified of any replies' functionality? (anyone could subscribe to posts, then (presumably with read access / however it works.))

This might be a little bit too much for large threads, but it might be a good surrogate for missing reply notification functionality.

Thanks for the encouragement, I would love to hear what you think after you used it!
True, if you want to brute force the algorithem you loose some bits by knowing that somewhere in the key there are 2 values that together become an xor. The question for me is if this information compounds over time. My thought was that it wouldnt since the key is modified.