skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. Thanks, I'll try that.
"Apple did not censor"

You don't split hairs with a weasel-word defense if you're committed to any sort of change. Note the difference between this (we didn't do anything wrong. we'll do better in the future) and Bezo's letter (we fucked up. even if we were technically right, it was still wrong. we'll do better in the future)

I can believe Bezos.
Schiller? Not for a second.
So, who will you be cheering for in these Apple/Google vs. the people fights?

Personally in the Apple vs. the people fight, I'll be cheering for the people who decide that they can do a better job policing themselves and their children than Apple can. I know it's not easy, but it is a parent's job to prepare their children to live in the world as it actually is. That includes the vulgar, violent, and hateful things in the world.
Oh, I don't doubt the effect, it's just that this article seems to have an anti-Special Relativity viewpoint, and espouses a different explanation for the effect. But I have just scanned it quickly.

Thanks for the links by the way!
Catastrophic Bug Found in Windows 7 RTM Build, Launch May be Delayed
Sadly, the solution that was being offered is actually the one that makes sense for the application architecture: Going by the description in the article, there's no central version-control server, just "PCB Designer EE" installs on individual developer machines.

The problem is that it's a local workgroup solution, not an "enterprise" scale one. Just because someone calls something "enterprise" doesn't make it so, much in the same way that wishing for a pony doesn't mean you'll get one.

Odds are, they would have been better off writing hooks, diff/merge processes, etc. for standard VCS tools and saying that they integrated with those. Of course, I'd like to find out what VC/SCM processses the app developers actually used. (If it's Visual Source Safe, then that's a major fail in believing that you have any enterprise VCS experience.)
Precision Nanoscale Car Parts Self-Assembled From DNA
Perhaps Apple should rebrand themselves as the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Social Referrers are Really Semantic Referrers
Scott Rafer is one of those guys whose work I read and consistently thing, "damn this guy is smart"
Cavemen didn't have car insurance either.
Rails gets its own State Machine implementation
Twitter, Facebook & Live Journal down at the same time
I do most of my editing in emacs. I tried fairly hard to learn vi back in the late 1990s (even buying the O'Relly book for help), but I cannot get the habit of separate command and writing modes; I very frequently forget about modes altogether, and even when I don't I forget which mode I'm in until I try to type something.

I usually have several emacs sessions suspended and ready for me to work on with an fg command, but I have also written a script that lets me easily use cat to append to or create a new text file from the command line, when I just want to add a little without waiting for a new emacs session to load.
I love planning and time management and the like. But once I started my startup, I realized things often didn't turn out the way I wanted. This happened because I either got distracted or estimated incorrectly. After trying to fight this for a long time, I just gave up and decided to go with the flow.

My conclusions are that when you go with the flow you end up being atleast as productive, if not more, then when you keep fighting to fit a arbitrary plan/target and you do it without the stress.

Fighting yourself is a completely frivolous activity that can be especially avoided by start-uppers.
Yeah, I was going to post the same thing. I see people in skirts riding their bikes in Chicago all the time. It is so normal I would never even give it a second thought.

I don't think the author has ever lived in a city, and is associating "Europe" with "city" instead of "city" and "city". (Oslo is kind of treacherous for cyclists anyway. Ride into one of the tram rails and you are likely to go down pretty hard.)
"Few select"

Are there any major cities (say, the size of Oslo) where cycling isn't or wasn't always common?
Well anything you design in the real world needs tolerances. There are many ways to go about that, but the question is simply how accurate can the machine be? It won't be as good as milling or molding but it might be workable.
but rejoice, HN is still up :D
That it's possible isn't the relevant bit.

The fact that you can lock down all third party browsers based on rating, but have to explicitly lock down Safari separately exposes the absurdity and inconsistency of this policy.

If Apple 'rated' Safari 17+ and youtube something like 14+, and the parental controls were applied universally, their policy wouldn't be nearly so bad.
On The Shortness Of Life
You know, I went to see Transformers last weekend, which is PG-13 and included a rich variety of swear words and sexual innuendo.

The problem is not so much that Apple is censoring NinjaWords, as that Apple is penalizing them for engaging in censorship, while approving and/or offering (via Safari etc.) apps which allow access to the exact same 'offensive' information. This seems to me to be an unfair restraint of trade.
I think we need to create an approval process for processes so that we can slow down the creation of processes.
/me smacks hand into forehead.

That is because Twitter is back - at least for some people. Before it was total blackout so it said Yes. This comment is from about 10am this morning
School censoring and rating systems are both bullshit. They oppress minorities and creativity. A software platform has far less justification to follow a similar pattern.

The idea that children shouldn't see swear words is leading to a categorical error. The debate is about how much, for which there is no right answer, instead of if at all.

As a parent, let me put some authority behind it and say the parental control is the off switch. If parents aren't there to turn it off - guess what: your kids are already looking at donkey porn, and there is nothing you can do about it.

The whole issue is such a farce, where Apple is really looking to give the impression that it cares and controls the situation, when it doesn't. They make a web browser that can easily search for porn. Is there effectively a difference between that and an app where you can search for a dry definition of a dirty word?

There is a difference - the browser is far worse. And not restricted. And made by Apple itself.
What market are you guys trying to target? Enterprise?

The workspace did not load for me on Chrome or IE7 from my corporate computer. (Blue bar loaded the whole way and then did not render any changes). I don't know if you guys are using any nonstandard ports but if you are then just know lots of corporations block off ports.
Freenode #awk AWK FAQ
I would love to enlist in a start up bootcamp. You layout everything that needs to get done - maybe a week out, then someone with a bayonet keeps you on task. And makes you run 5 miles too.
I always kinda wonder about the mechanics of the new idea after YC (with the same team). Given that PG says, "the idea will oftentimes change", are these new ideas under the banner of the same company? In other words, are they still YC companies and does YC still have equity?

I suppose removing YC from the equation is as simple as getting a new biz license, but what are the "rules" here?
Rejected By Apple, iPhone Developers Go Underground
"It's not as though an NC-17 rating on the App Store really causes any problems for a developer unlike a movie getting an NC-17 rating which is a big deal still."

I wonder about that.

I wrote the Nihongo app, which, like NinjaWords, kept getting rejected until I finally set the rating to 17+.

When it was finally in the AppStore, friends told me that an "are you sure, since this app has Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity and Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes"-type warning came up just before they hit "Buy".

I wonder how many people hesitated or declined to buy the app b/c of that.
From Requirement to Opportunity - Starbucks and the "caution: Hot" warning
perhaps he means $350/day without advertising?
whather, I am not sure if you can get into the details of your technology, but does your service use Adobe’s Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP)? Is that the reason you can provide a free service?
Are they really competing with webex?

If their competing with webex they'd need a sales team to reach mainstream businesses. And (experienced) salesman don't sell free web apps.

Either way its a great technology, it worked well back when it was called Meetcast.
The discussion of the twin paradox and SR seems to be lacking. There's a focus on only the time dilation effects and nothing on length contraction which would resolve the issue. Instead it becomes a mess of confusion.
Yeah, you get more granular control over the built-in apps. Why would it make the policy better or more consistent if that ability were taken away?
I probably shouldn't talk since I'm posting on HN instead of doing my work right now...

But I find it helps to break things down into tasks that'll take no more than 2-3 hours, and then pick 2-3 tasks I'll do for the day. Once I'm done with those, I'm officially done for the day, though if there're some obvious things I could do quickly, I'll usually want to just do them since I've been so productive. ;-)

You need downtime in order to stay productive. I've found that if I just work constantly and let the days bleed together, I lose my focus and end up getting a lot less done than if I decide what I want to do, do it, and then do whatever I want.
I started reading as if it were pseudo-code, but then realized it was English with a few extra curly braces.
Because urban dictionary is populated by poor minority kids in the city?
Yes -- this is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for! A nice batch process that takes care of everything when I publish my static content. Shouldn't be too hard to make something like that, my problem is finding the right tools (pngcrush, JS minifier, JPEG EXIF stripper etc) and the proper settings to use for each and every one of them. It's a jungle.
The problem here is that everybody thinks that they're talented superstars, and they don't need to have to worry about rolling back a version, or testing, or any of those other dreaded bits of 'process'. Which is another way of saying, "putting some steps in place to cope when you inevitably screw up."

This piece sounds like it's written by some cowboy who wants to move fast, and be all agile and light. These people are also nominally nowhere to be found at 4am when their undocumented change brings down the production server farm, and then I have to get up and fix it... which is all kinds of fun.

The fundamental problem is that most shops are organized with 'IT', 'Operations', and 'Development' all being very separate camps. There's no mutual respect, and plenty of blame, so massive piles of process get created as a means of defense for the Ops and IT guys, who get screamed at every time there's a problem that hits the customers.

There's a really good talk on why this is bad from the Velocity conference, here: http://velocityconference.blip.tv/file/2284377
Opening a business bank account
We are working on our Internet startup, formed an LLC in Delaware, but we are physically located in NYC. We want to open a business bank account for our company and we are being asked to file for an "Application for Authority" to be able to "do business in NY".
Otherwise we need a letter signed by a CPA stating that the company will not "do business" in NY. As an internet service provider we are aware of what "do business" really means.

Does anyone know?

Best,

Pau
I love Power Grid. For those that are not familiar, if Settlers of Catan and Monopoly had a baby, this would be it.

The description in the article is a bit misleading. The winning conditions are not who has the most money, but who can power the most cities.
I completely agree with pretty much everything you're saying, but to be fair, the iPhone's parental controls do allow you to lock down the browser.
Thanks for all your testing Tom. Appreciate it!
10+ Deploys a Day: Ops and Dev co-operation at Flickr.
Lies About Lying
Viper + vimpulse.el work great for me. Using Emacs with Vim key bindings is excellent.

vimpulse.el extends ViperMode with Vim features.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/vimpulse
That's troubling. I've been thinking that it's OK if the ratings are strict or inflated, as long as there's no stigma attached to a 17+ rating.

But a warning before you buy certainly stigmatizes 17+ apps. I bet lots of people hesitated.
Courtesy of tenthings: Appel's App store rejector
i just hacked into the App-store approval system. here’s what i found (pseudocode):

flipCoin()
if (heads)
approve app
else
reject app
wait 1 week
if (pressCoverage >= lotsOf)
rejectMoreApps
else if (pressCoverage >= tooMuch)
fireBoardMember
else
rejectAppAnyway
Sure, he's not really serious about that. But I think it's not improbable that many publications will start charging around the same time. The competition factor is overrated, IMHO - people who really want to read the Times will pay even when the Post is free, just as raising the print price to $2 increased revenues even though it's freely available online.
Yes, we do support RTMFP for Flash 10 clients and we've been very happy with the performance as well as the cheaper server costs. We plan on having a paid, premium account later on.
"I know it's not easy, but it is a parent's job to prepare their children to live in the world as it actually is. That includes the vulgar, violent, and hateful things in the world."

<sarcasm>That must mean children growing up in war zones and neighborhoods with a lot of crime must be the best "prepared" children, and parents should try to emulate such environments for their children's benefit.</sarcasm>
Amature. It goes like this:

http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1151.jpg
I'm totally in the invoice situation right now, and making that first call to the first client to ask them kindly to pay up was hard. Chasing it up again and again (it's 14 days overdue) has become a lot easier though..!
All IE6 users should be blocked until they upgrade from any and every site. Zero tolerance of terrible browsers.
Yeah, and that's awesome, and I think will totally converge with the type of search we have today. Imagine you type "Miles Davis" in Bing (which I'm using because they'd be more likely to experiment with altering the dominant paradigm than Google) and they show you a column of pages on the left about Miles and the stuff you're showing on the right. That'd be bad ass.
Google Voice is a threat to AT&T and every other potential carrier for the iPhone. Maybe AT&T didn't really have anything directly to do with GV being yanked but it sure isn't going to make carriers around the world happy to have the iphone on their network if it can go around their revenue generating functions.

I'd love to have the iPhone on Verizon but how much will they want the iPhone if it is a trojan horse that makes them lose MMS,SMS and international long distance revenue?
I found some awesome pages that help with concentration on LifeHacker:

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/10-tips-for-ra...

and here are some brain exercises to improve concentration:

http://www.egodevelopment.com/10-exercises-for-better-focus-...
Off-topic, but someone mentioned Forth chips in a comment here, and I have read about Lisp machines, and C is often referred to as high-level assembly language - has anyone tried making a computer that actually runs C or a strong subset of it as its actual assembler?
I expect my kids to eventually outsmart anything I do to hide things from them, long before they are old enough to vote.
In fact, I believe we should support telnetters too. Hell, we should all have a help desk set up so that people that don't have a computer can call us up and interact with our web apps. Any good designer should be able to work within those constraints and still kick ass.
Wait... what? Being prejudiced against 'urban slang' is okay because poor minority kids in the city obviously don't update online dictionaries?
Is this DNA Prolog?
I found that the font rendering with this was a little weird in general. Arial was pretty horrible, other fonts were a bit better but letter spacing was still always a bit off (this was on a PC btw, so it's not just Mac). I was never able to figure out what was going on, so we ended up going with a for-pay html-to-pdf library because it didn't have the same font rendering issues.
Inaccurate title, and most of the underlying article is disproven conjecture.

Flagged as FUD.
The worst DDOS attacks aren't going to melt your load balancers; they're just going to saturate your connection.

Cisco's anomaly products are designed for service providers, so that they can build "scrubbing centers" in their POPs. Trying to block DDOS traffic at the target is playing to lose.
Denial of Service Attacks Being Investigated by Google, Twitter, Facebook
I'm not sure why this is here. Someone took methylphenidate for the first time and didn't notice much of an effect? This has happened to other people I know as well. Doctors typically allow a few weeks for brain chemistry adjust to regular doses.
or even lynx for that matter!
How The Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing
if I'd been thru YC and changed my idea massively I'd fight hard to maintain YC with my company.
Anecdotally, I used Lynx just the other day to find a howto on fixing an issue with x.org I was having. Go lynx!
I use GoodReader on the iPhone to read some math textbooks that I have in pdf form, and it works great (very legible, navigable, and no problem with battery life)
Any chance you could throw us a couple more? They're all used up.

How about if I promise to give constructive feedback? :-)
IPhone ebook reader rejected for... being an ebook reader?
The XML thing has been questioned a lot, but once you understand how it works, you'll see it's no trouble or shortcoming at all. Usually you barely have to touch the XML config files, you can do everything with scripts in the language of your choice, or through the events socket, much like AGI/AMI in Asterisk, but a lot better.
I usually call it the Daily Fail (for the very reasons you cite), but I have to admit that this was a well-written and informative article.

This is also a textbook case of government IT procurement gone wrong; what's startling and newsworthy here is just how easily it can be subverted with consumer-level hardware - as opposed to, say, needing the power of a small cluster located in Foreignlandia 'industrial park'. Doubtless this will lead to a review and upgrade of technical requirements (at added public expense, since they weren't properly defined to begin with) and yet another cycle of (failing) security-through-obscurity.
Thanks! We're not direct competitors with webex as we're more geared towards many-to-many meetings where everyone collaborates with each other rather than one-to-many sales presentations.
I disagree with the "under no circumstances" part. There have to be jobs that are so bad that even a bad experience working for a young company will be preferable.

Also, I never thought about leaving so that I could make my own schedule. What I wanted was a meaningful schedule, not one that was simply based on manager's whim or a policy book.

But I enjoyed the article. For disclosure, I have never actually started a company.
Thanks for the comment. no, I'm actually not even talking about the process of building software, (as I stated in the post), and am anything but a "cowboy". I'm talking about all the dozens of other processes that add zero value to the product, that are put in place with the best of intentions, and add all kinds of cost....things like spending 30 minutes a day tracking time for every meeting attended against an activity/project, multiple processes taking weeks for acquiring a server, weeks spent in generating documents that are not even looked at by others, etc... hopefully that makes sense.
made me smile for the first time today
FreeSWITCH 1.04 released
Highlights: Skype support, OPAL - Adding H.323 and IAX2, ZRTP - Secure media streams, MRCP - Controlling Media With External Servers, NAT Traversal Made Easier With UPnP and NAT-PMP, Real-Time Billing
absolutely. and JAWS. oh wait, assistive tech. and accessibility don't fit into your [glib] analogy?
But seriously, anyone know what theme that is (in the article photo)?
No. I'm saying 'urban slang' doesn't mean what you think it means.

He's characterizing certain slang as 'urban slang' because what he's talking about comes predominantly from a site called urbandictionary, which has about as much in common with urban culture as amazon.com has in common with the rainforest.
+1 for the sentiment, and because I am in agreement with the general principle. However, I can't find it in myself to cheer for either side. Apple will continue to make ham fisted attempts to self-police in an effort to mitigate one type of fallout, while embroiling themselves in completely different fallout. The nett result is going to be an ugly, mudslinging cluster fk in which no winner can, or will, emerge. Google is up the same creek, similarly lacking an adequate paddle. Blending corporate prerogatives and social responsibility / community perception is like mixing magnesium and water, a bright flash and a funny smell are all that get left over.
great article. hopefully being a geeky girl is more popular in the future
Joez send me an email at wes@teamapart.com and I'll try and help you sort it out.
BlockChalk - iphone-based geograffiti using HTML5
Okay. That doesn't change the fact that you can lock down Safari on the iPhone, in direct contradiction of your statement "The browser is far worse. And not restricted."

Again, I agree with you in pretty much everything else you're saying. I just think its stupid to pretend like Apple is evil for this particular alleged hypocrisy - "Oh noes, they let kids look at porn without restriction in Safari but ban my dirty word dictionary!" - when their real fuckups are already sufficiently bad.
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