skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must be in the minority, but I don't have a problem with full-desktop sites on my mobile. In fact, my browser settings have "Request Desktop Site" as the default.

And, as mobile screen sizes and 4G availability increase, it seems that it would be less of a problem running full-site versions on mobiles going forward.

Maybe more of this issue will resolve as Apple moves to larger screen sizes, but I have always had the impression that mobile-sites were a stop-gap until higher-bandwidth and larger screens became the norm. Reminds me of the short-lived WAP standard before smartphones became de rigueur.
But there's not an anti-trust situation with app stores: Apple, Microsoft and Google all maintain their own app stores. No, they don't let anyone else operate an app store on their mobile platform, but other companies are free to create their own mobile platforms if they don't like that. Apple and Google aren't doing anything illegal to stop other mobile platforms from existing; it's just that users really don't want another platform right now.
Yes, Ctrl-4 does work, thanks for the tip!
>Does anyone know of such a solution?

I coded something like this myself a while ago. You can run it on a server or a local computer. The data is encrypted, no need to trust third parties:

https://github.com/licnep/afterlife-plans
I found the comments about the derision of lifestyle businesses interesting, particularly in light of some of the consternation around the Tarsnap price cut [0]:

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953
If that tenant had had a roommate, would that roommate not be consuming the same facilities? If so, would that be morally questionable?

At the end of the day, that tenant is probably paying homeowner's due proportional to the square footage of their unit. e.g. someone with 2 rooms is likely paying twice as much in dues as someone with 1 room.

I know that when I rented the penthouse unit in an apartment building with my father, we were paying almost 2x as much in building dues as the other units in the building, since we has 2x the space. Our roommates used the same facilities we did.
I love the geometry of the touch sense electrodes. Where do you find parts like that?
I built a mobile web app that leveraged html 5 app cache so you could use it offline, and used metadata so that when put on the home screen it had a proper icon and when launched there was no browser chrome (on ios). It worked fine, and yet the guy who took over development ended up wrapping it. It made it easier to sell.
No, but neither can I see how Eich, in this particular context, was negatively affecting anyone at Mozilla. Folks were uncomfortable with a private choice he made, just like some people are uncomfortable that some gay people choose to get married.
A lot of people apparently think that vaccines cause autism. But what if it was even more people? What if 100s of millions of people thought that? Would you make this argument:

"People's trust in the health care industry is really important. If they don't trust it, then they won't go see doctors and take medicine when they should so more people will die and/or get sick. So we're just going to get rid of vaccines because of people's false belief. We know that vaccines are actually a good thing, but because people are confused and trust is important it's better overall to cave on this issue in order to increase the faith people have in the overall system."

Because that's kind of the argument you are making here.
Do you already have ads turned off?
I just wanted to say that I think this might well be the best possible solution to the problem.

When I first visited Zidisha's site (a couple of weeks ago) I spent some time reading through the fine print and discovered the same thing that ModernMicrocredit did: that the way you presented things was highly misleading about actual prices paid by borrowers. (The fine print, of course, was accurate, or I assume it was.) But your choices were made in order to convey things more clearly (to a different audience).

Presenting rates two different ways: using your existing system system based on flate rates AND ALSO an "APR" (calculated according to Western banking practices and including both interest and fees) might meet the needs of both audiences, so long as you can present it in a way that is not confusing. Similarly, show "Average Lender Interest" but also nearby show "Average Borrower Interest".

By the way, at the time I did NOT invest through Zidisha (although I made a note to come back later and reconsider). I am interested in microfinance, and the way you were running it seemed quite appealing; the main reason I did not immediately participate was this issue of misleading presentation of the loan costs to the borrower.
Not using it. Not sure what is the big deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyA6NZ9C9pM
It would make a nice cross between a dedicated server and a virtual server. You could rent out 20+ "nodes" where each node is a dedicated computer with low performance.
Racial minorities being fired because of their opinion about race - ie, their opinion that they should have the same treatments are whites - was very common as far as I know. To make a different example, the new laws in Russia aren't against "being gay", they are against those who argue for the rights of gays.
Huh, Saleae used to have a nice ~50% student discount.

Does anyone know what happened to that? I'd be very interested in using this for some projects.
You just need this sentence:

"VCs aren’t unintelligent. Nor are VCs evil (not all of them anyway). They’re not even necessarily misaligned with you. What they are doing is optimizing for a very specific outcome. Share that alignment, or don’t take their money."

If you understand what the VC wants and you want that too, then you are aligned. If you don't then you are making a mistake.
>There are no gatekeepers, who decide what gets published and what doesn't, anymore.

Except Apple.
I think a lot of people got their first taste of politics through cable news and never learned the older, more useful vocabulary with words like "disagree" and "challenge."
But there is one important reason why to get VC money: if you have business model working, VC money will help you (or it is necessary) to hire more people and generate more revenue.

Now, of course VCs want great returns but they are also ok with ok returns.
Then we should change the equation. Maybe if we started prosecuting executives that break the law instead of just fining the companies, we would start having companies that follow the law.
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What I'm saying is that there are very few VCs that are hoping for a 30x on one investment to make up for 9 failures. It's an order of magnitude difference, which I think is nontrivial.

If it was a general point, it would have been fine, but the difference between a $100m --> $300m company and a $100m --> $3000m company are huge.
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Reality is that the mobile web experience currently is worse than native mobile apps. No matter how much you want "open", or how much faster your latest web-mobile framework is, right now people still prefer the app experience. That might change, but i suspect it will take some time.
same here, putting another exit on the canvas breaks things in a weird way
Investors sometimes say mean things about these “lifestyle businesses” but you don’t have to care what investors think.

There's nothing wrong with a lifestyle business, as long as it's run like a business. There can be decent exits (purchases by competitors, private equity, etc). But the employees seldom see a big payoff. In return, you usually get a pretty comfortable work experience.
> A. Commenting at scale is hard. Believe me, I know.

Other than just believing you, what makes it hard? I've had to scale comments on some very high traffic websites and it was pretty straight forward. Unless it's a complex comment system, but then you wouldn't use Disqus anyway.
It's not Russia that is destabilising Ukraine
I too have thought about this. How am I going to pass on my account information/bitcoins and other secret detective work?

My idea was to open a security box in a bank that contained hand written keys to open an encrypted password store in some publicly accessible location.

If I died, that security box should go to the next family members who would be the only ones that can get access to it.

I fear there are loop-holes in that idea now..
Some apps are at least as evil. And, like Web pages, most of the evil comes from ad support in the apps.

Google could go quite far to fix this by enabling users to selectively turn off permissions, and requiring developers to handle SecurityException.
All of that is patently false:

You can't publish any App on the Apple AppStore but only those that are kid-friendly.

You can't publish a shopping app on Apple's AppStore for free - you have to hand over all of your margin to Apple.

Apple is a gatekeeper. They decide what gets published and what doesn't.

What am I missing?
Trust me you can provide consumers all of this...

1. Pleasant to work with,
2. Performant enough,
3. Butter smooth usability

... with HTML5 and decent browser support (and significant effort of front-end developers no doubt) without having to download an app on your mobile. Native SDKs are important, I agree with you, but future isn't in them.
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Just looking at YCs returns, the vast majority of the wealth appears to be concentrated into 3 of 600+ starts (Dropbox, AirBnB, and Stripe). Even a Heroku sale for 200M+ is a drop in the bucket compared to $10B private market valuation, say it out loud and it will sound weird. "Dropbox is worth 50 Herokus"

Betting the farm implies that they have no other options, which is not the case with VCs, and it's impossible to know which will be their "super unicorns" when they write the checks, so they write lots of checks.

There's not much reason to believe YC is unlike other angel groups, individuals, or VC firms, and their data should back up that the majority of their returns is 1 or 2 companies every so often with huge wins.
1) This is as many said, just an example of bad practice rather than something specific to AWS. I remember in my php days seeing commented-out php code in html that included db passwords. If putting passwords, api keys, etc. in client-side code doesn't make your hair stand up, well, something is wrong.

2) I would be curious what the backends were in these instances. With the growth of the BaaS-model for app development, I think we're going to see a lot more "offshoring" of these security things, where keys are thrown in the front-end app. "I do it with firebase, why not twilio or aws?"
It also reminds of bookmarks in a browser. Kind of a choice between rapid availability and smooth experience.
> Clearly, the demand is huge due to the new realities:

Demand is huge for what? For unlicensed short-term rentals that don't pay hotel taxes or follow regulations, thus saving money? This is not news. This is not a "new reality". In fact, it's why the regulations exist in the first place.
These all seem like issues that should have been caught in the original peer review a long time ago. Is this still a groundbreaking study, or did it just get caught up in a media frenzy?
LOL, I did not know this... :)
>Community are not driven by a need to acquire something

This is not true. Many communities are driven by a desire to acquire something.
And as smartphones become more and more sophisticated sensor platforms, this will become even more problematic.

Not if mobile browsers keep up with these more sophisticated platforms. The problem (as the OP outlined) is that there are decreasing incentives people like Apple to keep improving their mobile browser. They hold the keys, and they want apps.
Doesn't placing "such a great engineer" in a CEO role already mean he's not being applied to engineering tasks?
Google used the GOOG-411 automated directory assistance number to collect data for training.
There are no gatekeepers, who decide what gets published
and what doesn't, anymore.

Apple routinely rejects applications to their App store. Have you not read any of the numerous stories where app devs get denied?

This is not a freedom problem. You have the freedom to
buy an Android device, and you have the freedom to install
any apk you want without ever even opening the Google app
store.

The freedom to do something like "install any app via .apk" may exist, but it is still a "freedom problem" when there's a large barrier to installing an .apk on your device. I'm speculating of course, but real world anecdotes would lead me to believe that a very small % of the population even knows what an APK is.
Many (most) good ideas don't solve problems but improve something, create new way to have fun etc. For example, I wouldn't say that Minecraft solves a problem (unless you define "problem" in a weird way).
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Except that most rental agreements allow "use of the premises" or some such wording to the named lessee, and forbid sub-leasing.

The contract that you're referring to doesn't give the renter the ability to then turn around and do whatever they want with the living space for their own financial benefit.
No, I think text editors need to be open source. Too important to trust proprietary software with.
If any here think fleitz is joking, please pick up a used copy of Manis, Schaffer, and Jorgensen's "Unix Relational Database Management". The authors create a relational database with little more than awk, cat, grep, od, sed, spell, tail and a bit of bourne-shell glue. After covering the basics of tables and relational theory, the authors create a small-business accounting system. The database became a commercial product (/rdb) and is still sold and used today (allegedly in hospitals).
Ha ha correct of course. It's all about the budget though. Quick and affordable equals frameworks.
Check out the new software coming with the new products. It looks like it's all compatible with the previous generation Logics.

According to the Downloads page[0], the software update is coming May 31st.

[0] https://www.saleae.com/downloads
Disagree. First of all, Google's practices aren't the norm, and might not remain the norm. Second of all, merely making and supporting your app multiple times for different platforms using their different visual / interaction idioms is a large economic effect. Even with cross-platform mobile frameworks, unless you decide not to test / support platforms other than your main one.

Standards are good because they bridge this gap. C runs on everything, e-mail runs on everything, the web runs on everything. Mobile web, for the most part, runs on everything.

edit: For the record, I do think that the mobile web standards need more work, but they're quite good at this point, and adoption is much better than 2 years ago. I'd like to see open standards for push notifications, for example (apparently there is some work done: http://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/).
Good advice that most founders who are offered $$$$$$ will ignore without the barest of a thought.
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5" or larger iphone may change US iphone users attitude on app vs web decision..On my tablet and 6" phablet I avoid apps as much as I can.. Since I disagree with you I'm curious of your smartphone size..
The funny thing is those ASICs more often than not are hooked up to a RaspberryPi running cgminer or equivalent.
HTML5 is catching up though, the Device orientation API, getUserMedia API, Notification API, etc. bring native app functionality to websites.
Staying ahead of OpenSSL vulnerabilities
It's not impossible, and while some forms of secrecy are necessary, I don't think they are "widely considered to be necessary," even if "true democracy" was a well-settled concept that happened to agree with your understanding of it. We just don't see eye to eye on this and likely won't ever.
Ignoring autocomplete='off' by default for password fields (Chrome)
This is yet another example of why all startups should have a responsible sunset pledge[1]. The pledge should contain something along the lines of, "If we shut down, we will make it possible to run an instance of our product." That means open-sourcing server code, writing some minimal docs, and probably building some data export APIs.

I had the idea before starting Floobits (YC S13 yadda yadda), and of course, we've made a pledge: https://floobits.com/pledge

This helps the company as well as customers. People are more likely to adopt your product when they know you'll give them the source code if your company dies.

It's helped in subtle ways that I didn't predict. For example: If I ever think of taking shortcuts or building embarrassingly bad software, I remember that the public will likely see this code one day.

If you run a company, consider making a responsible sunset pledge. If you use a SaaS tool, consider asking that company to make one.

1. http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/09/19/a-responsible-product-sunse...
As a former Fog Creek intern (2010), I can tell you that Fog Creek's internship program is one of the best built out programs I've seen in the industry. It rivals and exceeds those of software firms with 10-100x resources. The talent they attract is top-notch too.
- Developers not happy using crappy legacy-compatible languages that can't be forked.
> While it was done legally, the actions that got Brendan Eich fired for a donation he made six years ago strike me as the actions of "sore winners." Brendan Eich's behavior, while a PR disaster at the end, consisted of running a company with policies friendly to homosexual relationships.

Why the attempt to make it sound like this was ancient history? The donation was made six years ago because that's when California's Proposition 8 happened.

Also, wouldn't a company with policies friendly to homosexual relationships be more likely to have a higher percentage of people who support such policies and not want a CEO that could potentially change those policies?
> you're clicking on this thing every month

That's a huge problem. You tell me I have to click on a link at least once a month for the rest of my life.

First, I don't know if I'll have the same email for the rest of my life, if I change I'll have to think about changing that notification, that will have become spam in my mind.

Second, There surely will be a month in my life where I won't check my mails.

I can't think further, the thing has become a "hassle" that I have to constantly check and correct if someone change its mail, or in case it would think I'm dead, and this, for the rest of my life.

IMO there are better solutions for this type of problem, we just haven't found them yet.
Level 6 can be cleared without modifying the code at all:

http://home.iitb.ac.in/~pritambaral/level6.mp4 (16K)

http://home.iitb.ac.in/~pritambaral/level6.webm (31K)

http://home.iitb.ac.in/~pritambaral/level6.gif (161K)

EDIT: Seems to have been fixed. Leaving comment for archival purposes?
This does seem like a PR department writing rather then security researcher. Calling out AWS credentials seems to be particularly trolling, they just happen to be the secrets that were easiest to grep for I guess.
The lesson Mozilla learned here is that the angry Internet mob can get whatever it wants.

The typical angry Internet mob is, frankly, stupid, ill informed, incapable of clear thought, not sophisticated enough to appreciate detail and nuance, and unable to comprehend that principles of justice and tolerance apply evenly to all. The typical angry Internet mob has most of the disgusting qualities of the people who bullied me in school. It's just that now, they label themselves as "geeks" and "nerds."

The Japanese have a saying that it's only through suffering that one truly comes to understand kindness. Many geeks and nerds used to value principles and a sense of scientific/technical rigor and honor, which they deeply understood because they knew firsthand what it means to be subject to the power of groups lacking such principles.

There's a famous Feynmann story about how he discovered that Brazilian science students were able to recite the book-knowledge about the polarization of light but were unable to apply the basic physics to actual examples. The typical Bay Area 20-something Computer Science/Programmer geek will now stare at you blankly when you mention "frequency response." (or even prejudicially flip the idiot bit on you because you said something "audiophile" sounding) However, almost all of them will tell you enthusiastically about studying Fourier Transforms.
Security aside, I don't even understand what goes through developers' heads by distributing hardcoded credentials to a third party service together with their apps.

There are so many things wrong with that picture.
It is at least theoretically possible that they have the appropriate hotel permits, is it not? An actual hotel could advertise their rooms on AirBNB if they wanted to, not that I can see why they would.
Not if you own the property and have the proper permit.
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How much are you making if you don't mind me asking? I just accepted an internship in STL and curious where the compensation is around there.
The entirety of current web design practice is taking full control over the UX. Gone are the days when you sent a GET and got an html document back, the most interactive element of which was a textarea box.

The other reason flash was a pain, incidentally, was because it was easy to bog down a client computer with overzealous flash stuff... just like the current tendency to use javascript to do all your rendering and computation clientside -- exactly when more people than ever before are browsing on pocket devices with far less horsepower than traditional computing devices.
Are you including the housing stipend in that math? That seems awfully high. I'm @ amazon, getting 6700 / mo, plus 2.5k / mo housing stipend and suddenly feel insecure :-p.
I agree, especially in light of the preference structures that she mentions (and that I believe are industry-standard). But these arguments seem to lead to the conclusion that you shouldn't be an LP, not that you shouldn't take venture money. The only way that this becomes an issue is if the VC has enough of a stake to run their own decision making and executing process, and that (as I understand it) is the line between VC and PE.
We're pretty much surrounded by internet wherever we go these days but still, I could imagine taking four weeks off without any access to the internet and wouldn't want people to think I died.
It has nothing to do with me or my personal benefit. It does a lot with maintaining status quo and protecting existing entrenched interests against change - that, of course, benefits different people from those that are benefitting from status quo. You can call it corruption or you can call it the rule of law, but it's the fact that entrenched interests make local authorities pass laws that benefit them and exclude competition. Of course it is done under the guise of "safety", etc. You can downvote it as much as you like, yet it is the reality that regulation is commonly use to protect entrenched status quo, often at the expense of the consumers.

Check out e.g. this one: http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/04/thanks-to-a-private-public-...

Is it really a cartel extracting rent from consumers by leveraging limited choice or is it just me seeking my personal benefit (do not let the fact that I have never used NY taxi in my life distract you)?
THANK YOU.

I have 0 knowledge about writing all kinds of code. This is perfect to start with. Specially thanks to the API part.
Yes, but intentionally so - 0.y.z versions are meant to allow you to more-or-less try stuff out without inflating version numbers, with the 0. reminding users that they shouldn't consider it ready yet if they need API/feature stability.