skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What do you think they would've done to suppress dissenting political opinion?"

Easy. You use government power on them. You "coincidentally" hit them with an IRS audit, one that's incredibly hostile and refuses to resolve itself. You hit their business with every inspection possible, held to the most stringent of standards. Even if, and perhaps especially if, they don't own it, and you find a way to sufficiently hint to the business why exactly they're having these troubles. You have a cop follow them and nail them with every petty infraction in the book. Any government program they may be on, you inspect their compliance to the n-th degree. Layer heavy bureaucratic red tape on at every opportunity. Find ways to make them need a lawyer. Find a petty excuse to claim you suspect them of drug trafficking and inspect everything they own, which basically allows you to take everything they own, and effectively destroy or hold on to everything for years.

And that's if you have a goal of staying plausibly legal. If the mask is off for some reason, there's even more you can do. And these are just examples; if one truly took a survey of what the government could do to you without even stretching the law, I think we could produce a very thick and scary book.

Unfortunately, I don't think the capabilities of the NSA are bounded by your imagination.
It's really not reasonable at all for large non tech-driven businesses... If I were running one of those, this kind of behavior would be a strong anxiety driver for me, which would make me stick with Microsoft and their extremely lax upgrade pushes + strong backward compatibility track record. The reason is that businesses rarely have time to drop everything and upgrade something core, and it's not likely to improve their business in any meaningful way. To them, Google is just being a nuisance with this.
Oh no! <puts gun to head>
Another Sun story. I was at the annual Sun employee conference way back in 2002. As engineers, we were raving about Java/Swing & the JDK. After a while, one of the audience members couldn't take it anymore & spoke up loudly - "WTF is Java ? It has never made a dime. We sell boxes. That's what makes money. We should be talking about that!"

He was a marketing guy for the Sparc workstations that was Sun's bread & butter. Atleast for a brief window of time, the Java server-side experience was actually better on a Sparc than anywhere else.
I'd suggest skipping Clojure altogether. The JVM cannot support tail call optimizations. Use of recursion will be muffled a bit. Not very lispy.

Newer is not always better. Try racket or common lisp.
if you take a closer look you'll notice that the usps api takes a USERID as an xml parameter so it is not free.
I'm sure you have, congrats, but the vast majority of people aren't selling impulse buys targeting developers.
And Chrome/Firefox aren't installed on those machines?
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The market conditions this past week or so have been rough on tech stocks. I'm sure it's not what Twitter management would consider ideal, but pulling an IPO is a very drastic move. As is, anything could happen tomorrow.
With software, is it out of the question to re-engineer the code so it no longer needs licensing? Why hasn't Android already done that?
Twitter IPOs at $26/share with 700 million shares. Facebook ipo'ed at $38/share with 2.55 billion shares. Mathematically, Twitter's IPO is about 1/4 the value of Facebook.

Twitter has 200 million active users
Facebook has 1.15 billion active users

I don't think twitter is worth 1/5 the market cap of Facebook. It doesn't have photo albums, groups, calendars, events that facebook does, and twitter still has a long way to go for mobile. Most of my friends uses a third party tweet client (like tweetbot) and don't even have twitter's app installed.

Therefore, I think Twitter is very much overpriced. Did I miss something?

https://blog.twitter.com/2013/celebrating-twitter7
http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2013/07/24/facebook-users-q2-...
> Are people waiting for the trial to run out (14 day trial) ...?

People who buy your software usually do so during the first few days of a trial. Only a small percentage of those who let the trial go to the end will buy.

Source: My (and fellow [m]ISV's) experience over the years.

/edit:
Oh, btw: A search in the mac app store for "github issue tracker" (and other similar terms) won't show your app.
rsync's lawyers could argue that the sampling sizes were far to small for the trends claimed to have any significance, arguing that any discrepancy could easily be explained by a lack of good opportunities to bring it up.

The court could order it, and they could try to enforce it, but unlike "don't send an email to your mother about this" (which is a rather concrete thing) it would be very messy and wishy-washy. In perhaps the worse case scenario for the court, they would have to deal with figuring out how to measure "enthusiasm". Do rsync's posts seem more dejected these days? Is that just the court's bias showing, or is dejection measurable in some sort of objective/empirical way?
Yeah, Microsoft's failure to keep supporting XP users (who still make up a whopping third of the entire OS market, 12 years after that OS was released) is this decade's IE6-lock-in. Hopefully, most will move off IE8 onto Chrome, but I'm not holding my breath.
>Compelling someone to lie after the facts have changed seems to me a far murkier legal area (and perhaps easier to fight in court).

And IIRC C-level executives are required to certify they believe their quarterly reports are, to the best of their knowledge, accurate, under Sarbanes-Oxley. There is a ticking clock here, once Apple asserts that the nebulous statement is relevant to the value of the company, because some customers are tetchy about their data.
While I think you're quite wrong about the MySpace comparison, I also agree that FB is the safest social media play.
The inline label doesn't disappear when you type something.
> I've always wondered why the authority "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads" is interpreted as the authority to forcefully implement a monopoly on postal service

Generally, all the powers in Art. I, Section 8 ("To raise armies", "To provide and maintain a navy", "To borrow money on the credit of the United States") are read that way, though the only one that has express exclusion language is the power to legislate over the national capital district.
I think you failed to realise that meta+enter also opens the said terminal

ah yes, didn't know that. was referring to full-screening.
Redbox kiosks are almost 5x cheaper than renting from iTunes or Amazon. I suspect this has a lot to do with the strong demand for Redbox compared to online instant rental alternatives. The other factor is the availability of devices for streaming movies on the living room TV, but that gap is closing fast with new TVs, BluRay players, game consoles and Apple TV and related devices.

For long tail, Blockbuster wouldn't stand a chance against online alternatives at the price point needed to support physical stores. From what I remember of Blockbuster (and it's been years since I've been to one), their rentals were about the same price as renting from iTunes today. Not to mention that most of the really long tail content is available for instant streaming from Netflix, even if you didn't want to wait for a DVD.
> IE6 will never support ... CSS3.

CSS PIE 2.0 comes surprisingly close. Although you do have to add custom rules in the CSS file.
Congrats on your launch!

Be careful about your plan to "…keep pushing out updates to the app to fill out the feature requests existing users have". It's easy to fall back to strengths – adding fun features, responding to tangible requests from existing customers. But clearly your priority should be getting the word out.

Maybe commit to yourself: no new features unless you're certain they will close new sales?
what's your data for said accelerating losses?
Genius. Makes you wonder why someone else didn't think of this sooner? If Google gets on board with this endeavour, it'll be a force to be reckoned with. As one commenter on the story points out, why isn't Wordpress on the top of the list? It powers a large chunk of the web and arguably is always being hacked and exploited.
Ripple (PhoneGap emulator) is Reborn!
In case you're curious, the lockup expiration will happen 180 days after IPO, or May 6, 2014. I already added a note to my calendar.
Whether that's a net subsidy or anti-subsidy is an interesting question. They have both a monopoly and a fairly stringent mandate: they are required to deliver first-class mail to every mailing address in the United States (including very remote areas), six days a week, at prices that they can't set. The estimates I've seen are that the first-class mail mandate is a net money-loser, with pre-sorted bulk mail and premium services like Priority Mail the more successful products. So the USPS might actually be financially better off without this "subsidy". But Alaska and Montana senators would have a fit if rural communities lost mail service.
There's a lot more to it than the technical issue. Humans have to do the work.

Putting it on a warez distribution network doesn't get the scanning done, etc.
Hahaha oh hell, I really fucked that one up. My apologies.

Edit: Mind you, you're still self-righteous and pompous, but you're not hypocritical about it. :P
One small tip - your page links to the app page, but doesn't otherwise say anything about what it does, just calling it "this thing". That diary page is marketing too, include a summary of what it does there!
Yes, Arafat was a known quantity to the US and Israel, but I think you've drawn the wrong conclusion. The fact was that Israel and the US viewed Arafat as a road block to a grand bargain. Israel made their best offer in Camp David, and Arafat refused it. I won't repeat myself (my comment above sets out my view), but if you understand the political circumstances at the time, Arafat was in fact the last remaining major road block to a grand bargain that Sharon was moving heaven and earth to get done.
Probably because some patents are so broadly written that they cover every conceivable implementation.
Ask HN: Is there a way to unsave stories on HN?
This was posted by michaelbwang 886 days ago, no discussion. A yes with instructions or a no would be cool.

It sucks, now I actually think, should I save this list? How much meta data can be pulled out of what is essentially a bookmark within a website for future use. Who Knows, but just guilt by association is bad enough these days.

I have saved stories on Snowden, all just "read later" stuff, tons of stuff on hacking, which I hate that it means two things now. It means someone broke in and messed up a ton of stuff, for real, it means people are idiots and call 'letting my S.O. have my passwords' a good idea, then call it "getting hacked" when they BreakBook them.

Anything that is somewhat bad, is now hacking. I think of hacking as totally technology unrelated. Hacking is human natures innately strong desire to take something that needs resolving, resolve it, and iterate that solution until it approaches perfection.

From a cracked rock being used as a Knife, eventually that cracked rock 'evolves' at the hands of a human to be a bit better, and over time, a long time, we now have knife snobs. People just want to fiddle with stuff and see what it does.

It's called curiosity and kids these days are being trained to be afraid of it. I thought the internet was this great leveling field. Now, sure, bootstrap a startup and what happens if something legal comes your way, patent troll, etc. It's not the good ole' days anymore, that's for sure. I liked it a lot better when the government thought this "internet" thing was not going to pan out.

I almost miss auto-play music! :)
NetMarketShare's stats wildly contradict everyone else's [1]. If you believe them, IE is used almost 3 times as much as Chrome/Firefox. If you believe anyone else, Chrome is ahead of IE.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum...
If this is a hot button item, seriously look into microstrategy >9.2.1. You build the project against some warehouse, and can import other data sources like excel, access, or even other odbc sources. The imported data gets converted to an in memory cube which you can then combine analysis with the larger warehouse. No reprocessing on the warehouse needed.
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It baffles you?

Sure, the price doesn't matter much to a retail investor. But millions of shares will be bought tomorrow at that price so it certainly means something to the right people.
Downloaded, installed, tried. Created a new task and drag'n'dropped it inside the another one. Couldn't drag it out again. Closed the app. Seems very nice though, I'll give it another try after a while.
perhaps http://practicalcryptography.com/miscellaneous/machine-learn... ?
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there is a technology for that, that in early stage it can be detected and this is an advantage for parents so they can find remedy as early as possible.
And it talks in the end about how users can't provide feedback, but the blog entry doesn't let you comment or even give a way to email, just a link to his twitter account.
This is really awesome. I'm almost at the beta point with my own side project, and I'm realizing it's time to do some marketing (virtual pet game for FireFoxOS/browsers - goal is to be interesting to smart people). I'm realizing I simply don't know how to do this marketing thing (yeah, emails, landing page, etc, but those only work when people get there.)
What? It means a lot, starting with how much money twitter will raise. Then it suggests a rough valuation (at usually a modest discount) to what institutional investors think the company is worth.
While it is true the USPS has requirements that no other business has, it also has benefits that no other business has. These include, but are not limited to:

* A box for its use at every residence in the United States

* A federal monopoly; it is unlawful for any company to carry a letter in the United States and charge a similar price to USPS rates. See here: http://about.usps.com/publications/pub542/welcome.htm
Yes.

First, the IPO is 18% as big as Facebooks, not 25%.

Second, if Twitter closes at this $26 share tomorrow, it will have a market cap about 15% the size of Facebook.
> Twitter is headed the way of MySpace

Possibly. Once Instagram's number of users (150 million) hits Twitter's number of users (232 million) it won't be looking so good for Twitter, if Instagram continues to grow. Maybe Twitter will take over SnapChat (26 million users) though. Twitter just isn't gaining, they seem pretty stagnant, taking over a younger company could give them some growth.
If you want to see really un-ironic irresponsible ideas, go read the post on the anarchist solution to healthcare. I'll give you the tl;dr: anonymous healthcare for bitcoins.
So far, I'm resisting. But it also means that I'm using youtube and google LESS, and less often logged in. I willmrather delete my youtube account rather then merging it with other accounts.
I really hope one day Google can follow Facebook to opensource some of their core infrastructure technologies (even the legacy one, e.g. 1st generation of GFS etc) to the opensource community :)
Wait, Google are being dicks because they continue to support XP, which Microsoft has abandoned, despite it still being widely used, but Microsoft is the only company with a reasonable support lifecycle? Something about that doesn't add up ...
Some people overlook the potential for concussions or traumatic head injuries, anything except massive skull damage, when considering safety headgear. Cycling is a very diverse activity and many only consider safety issues they expect to encounter.
Ask HN: Do you care about politics? To what degree?
Comments invited on to what degree the HN community cares about politics and most importantly follows politics on a regular basis in the main stream media.
Forgo the maybe and do it. We use a redmine clone at my current employer and opening a tab or a billion is still rough. I've always preferred clients. If I could live in visual studio like I wanted when I started, there's a decent open source one for that. Also tortoisemine helps with respect to linking checkins but I'm still on a text file keeping track until I get around to putting stuff in. Its never exciting or useful.

There does seem to be a saturation of apps on my platform: windows phone to where just another makes no sense. Mostly devs make it for themselves and since we're all unique, these things are like snowflakes too.
Ha, thanks for correcting this- faulty memory :)

Even $5 was surprising, as most people on TIGS just post their demos and games for free- back then, most people made games with the only intention of making something cool. It's only recently that everyone builds a game with money in mind, and Minecraft was amongst the games to start that trend (remember, this was before Kickstarter et al.)
It's simply incorrect to say that Arafat kept the radicals under control - there was clear evidence that he was involved with the militant / terrorist wing of his political party, Fateh (the Al-Aqusa Martyrs Brigades), which carried out a great many suicide bombings. I won't repeat myself (my theory is above), but if you understand the political circumstances at the time, Arafat was in fact the last remaining major road block to a grand bargain that Sharon was moving heaven and earth to get done. There were very compelling reasons to knock him off.
Well, it's worth noting that the one known time Israel did assassinate a PLO leader, they used the rather less subtle method of sending in a Mossad hit squad to shoot him:

http://www.france24.com/en/20121101-israel-admits-responsibi...
but this misses the point that often in these companies what you can install on your machine is incredibly locked down, which makes SaaS the only way to easily get new apps you can actually use. You may very well have users who want new software, but the only way they can do so is through the web, since installing new desktop software requires rolling a boulder up a hill.
I wonder where $3k/yr number came from. This is a price for "Z4Change Product" product which "Provides mailers the information necessary to create an application that would facilitate frequent and cost-effective processing for updating very large computerized mailing lists for automation compatibility and improved deliverability."

Is this so necessary for mapping health inspections data? USPS has more fitting products priced less.
The problem is, frequently, the patents aren't on something you can engineer around; they're on a very broad idea and not on any specific implementation, e.g. pull to refresh. If you want to implement an interface that pulls down to refresh then you're technically infringing on Twitter's patent on it (though they have chosen not to enforce it). My understanding is there's no good way to engineer around it if you want the interface to pull and refresh.

Granted, you can get around that one with a button that refreshes, but what if the patents is, say, on "operating system provided tabs"? Or on "plotting search results on a map"? Or on "communicating multi-part messages"? Now you have a problem, and you're going to have to pay licensing fees since you need those things just to create your mobile OS.

The other problem has less to do with the patents themselves and more to do with the legal system surrounding them: it's incredibly expensive and quite risky to litigate software patent disputes. You're dealing with a court system that doesn't necessarily fully understand technical matters, leaving the outcome of litigating ambiguous even in the best of cases (and keep in mind that a loss could potentially end your entire product, since the courts could order that you must pay an extremely onerous licensing fee or cease infringing, either of which probably means closing up shop), and the cost of litigation is enormous. It's usually wiser just to settle for an acceptable licensing agreement than it is to try to engineer around the problem and fight the ensuing lawsuit by asserting that your solution is not subject to the patent.
Did you even read my post? I said they are nominally a government agency (therefore liable for FOIAs), but have been directed by Congress to operate as a business, not to operate as public servants. Therefore it's not surprising that they exploit proprietary IP as if they were a business, since these are precisely the instructions they were given.
His point is price means nothing except in the context of how many shares there are, but yet the amount of shares is never talked about only the price. 200 shares at 100 dollars means nothing but 1 million shares at 100 dollars means much more.
Yes, major changes—Jeb's Minecon 2013 slide showed 600,000 lines of code committed for version 1.7. [1]

Two years ago I was certain that Mojang's goal was to do a mod store, but at Minecon 2012 Jeb explicitly ruled that out in a slide titled "Making Money?" with a bullet point reading "Not via the repository or the game." [2]

[1] http://gamegenus.blogspot.com/2013/11/text-of-jebs-slides-fr...

[2] http://gamegenus.blogspot.com/2012/12/jebs-minecraft-api-sli...
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IE is 58% of the global desktop market, so monopoly rules would not apply.

Google similarly locks out old versions of Chrome and Firefox as well due to not supporting modern CSS3/HTML5/JS standards.

Remember, Google isn't locking IE out at all. Both IE10 and IE11 will continue to be supported. Google's stated policy is to support the current and prior major release of all supported browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari). Microsoft itself has a similar policy of only supporting the relatively modern versions in their online Office suite. They don't support IE8 but do support IE9. That means Windows XP users can't use IE to access Microsoft's online office suite.
Somehow, I love this response.

Sometimes we get a little too caught up in the science. Good to hear a little plain ol' common sense from time to time.
Google crawler tricked into performing SQL injection attacks
Holocaust Memorial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_o...