skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. We changed the url from http://boingboing.net/2014/07/23/sixth-graders-internet-famo.... We'll keep the latter's title, though, as less baity.
That sounds like it could be abused really easily. Can any Americans confirm if this is true that you have to pay to receive an SMS?
Well, Android runs on Linux. Python runs on Linux. Git runs on Linux. Vim runs on Linux. See where I'm going here?
Looks like he's stolen the name ("Yo Messenger") as well as the UI. I'm pretty sure he'll get his ass sued if Yo actually have any money (and if they care).
> So without further adieu

You mean ado, which is an English word that means "difficulties, trouble, delay"; adieu is a French word for "goodbye".
I think this is on the media that reported it for not doing their research. It seems harsh to claim that it's plagiarized. I didn't realize sixth grade science projects were supposed to be original research. Are all those papier-mache and baking soda/vinegar volcanoes novel insights into how volcanoes work?
It's not all carriers and the vast majority of people simply pay for unlimited plans so it's a non-issue.
Thanks for the article, and I understand your concern.

Adding FedEx as an upgrade option is something that is in the plans. Since we're just launching, we started out with USPS because it's the most cost effective and convenient (daily mailbox pickup and you can even schedule one free).

Having an alternative shipping method should help.
I see in one of the screenshots there is a 3.9% fee - is that your fee as well as credit card processing?
Yes! In iOS world you are screwed. You can decide to avoid iOS though. ;)
With IFTT and the like, check-ins can be made useful. When I check in to a food place, a note goes to my walking tracking wristband app. I also back them up to spreadsheets, etc. etc.

But check-ins are very much still a thing here in Rio. Of course, I only do check-ins at interesting places anymore (who has the time to fill up their meals in My Fitness Pal or whatever), and so do the four friends I have on Foursquare. It's a more intimate thing.
Hopefully this was all a huge misunderstanding...but we really need to hear from the girl's father, who likely would've been the primary enabler of this given his relationship to the plagiarized researcher. I mean, I just have to give him the benefit of the doubt for now...that perhaps he helped his daughter with her science project and then was called away to an emergency, or a stretch of focused work, during which point he forgot about the science fair and the story took a life of its own. Because...even if he were being malicious...how dumb would he have to be to think he could gain from this, or get away with it?

Edit: Worth mentioning, but in the NPR piece from yesterday, there's this:

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/20/333192387/sixth-graders-scienc...

> Her research did not stop there. Craig Layman, an ecology professor at North Carolina State University, confirmed Lauren's results. "He credited a sixth-grader for coming up with his idea," Lauren says ecstatically. Layman's findings were published this year in the science journal Environmental Biology of Fishes. Lauren is mentioned in the acknowledgments.

OK...this science journal has a little explaining to do, too.
None of the papier mache volcanoes claim to have discovered something novel. It is clear to all involved that those are an imitation intended to give children something to do, rather than to force them to actually learn and understand the scientific process.
This issue isn't expecting new research from science fairs (which would be a bit over the top), but claiming something your parent published in 2011 is your work and novel in 2014. But yeah, at least it wasn't a papier-mâché volcano or a potato clock.
Haha! I actually happen to know quite a few guys from Enron and they are actually quite smart. I guess evil + smartness is not a good combination
> Try not to get too worked up.

No personal slights, please.
I think the name may have been coined in this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146279 around August 2nd, 2013.

Google shows some uses before hand[1], but Wayback Machine does not corroborate. I think Google is using the self-reported page date and pages dynamically update with "latest news' content.

[1] http://int3.cc/collections/all
There is an option in your prefs to turn off the calls to google.

HTTPS is coming soon, there were some technical issues getting a complete HTTPS experience without a huge cost due to the way the CDN was set up.
For a long time, was using CentOS. In recent years, Ubuntu.
Thanks for the comment.

Yup, you can definitely destroy a hard drive (or almost anything, for that matter) yourself. This is just a guaranteed, safe and secure way to get it done for you.

Also, we recycle all of the parts, nothing ends up in a landfill. Hard drives can be pretty toxic.

Cheers!
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They actually had redirection in 2005. We turned it off sometime in 2007/8 when it started breaking, right when bit.ly and the other shorteners (and the business around them) were taking off.

And actually, there is a redd.it link shortener. Every link has a corresponding redd.it link. :)
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Is this available outside of the United States?
"It's because check-ins don't work. After the novelty wears off, nobody wants to check in. Nobody. Like those stupid plastic awareness bracelets, check-ins were a fad that flared briefly and is now completely, 100% over."

Let's look at the upside of all of this though. And this is an important lesson which shows in part why it's not good to be to smart and know to much. Someone who knew better would know not to even try doing a foursquare type app. To much friction, little reward (long term) and "check-ins don't work". Someone who doesn't goes ahead and gives it a try, builds a company, and now pivots to something else which may very well work. Which kind of dovetails with the VC model. Don't try to hard to think what will work just make a bunch of bets on a team and keep your fingers crossed that something good will happen along the way to failure.
Yup, that you do, and crazy it is. What you're supposed to do is get the unlimited text plan so that it doesn't matter. If you don't use SMS enough to justify the $20/month for unlimited, too bad for you (at least for AT&T I'm pretty sure it's unlimited or $0.25/text these days, with nothing in between). Or just do what I did and switch to T-Mobile.
It might be convenient if the Stanford Prison Experiment continued to be discredited, often and harshly. Who would want to be in charge if all the peons were constantly mumbling about how being in charge turned leaders into petty tyrants?

It'd just be awkward and uncomfortable.
Foursquare checking in and fighting for the mayorship of places is a thing in Rio.
I encourage everyone to check out the game. It's quite crazy, and beginners inevitably lose due to the game's depth and crazy events ("Losing is fun!"). If the ASCII tile sets make your eyes bleed, there are other tile sets of graphics to try out. [0]

There's also a very vibrant modding community, including a lot of memory hacking through the dfhack project [1] – even fixing a lot of longstanding bugs in the game, like dwarves taking a pair of gloves and putting both gloves on one hand. There's a full engine to write tweaks in Ruby or Lua, too.

[0] http://www.dwarfcorp.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/df.... native versus http://i.imgur.com/FQaND.png (Phoebus tiles)

[1] https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack
People prefer the old Foursquare logo
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Yep, that's Stripe's 2.9% credit card processing fee, and then 1% that we take.

Our goal in the future is to open up and accept other online payment options that have lower overall fees, as well though. We definitely want you to keep as much of the money you've earned as possible, and get it as fast as possible!
Some things that might be nice to see are:

i) how many different people post URLs from a particular domain?

ii) how many different domains does a particular person post?

There's also iii but I'm not sure how to word it. It's something like "given a particular domain, what's the average[1] number of different domains posted by people who've posted this domain at some point?"
> For Revenue and Expense, we assume an exponential growth model with constant growth rate.

That's not a safe assumption for startups. :P
>Despised by a good portion of end-users when systems change

Not really. Most of the changes I've made to apps started as a suggestion from end-users. The few changes that end-users gripe about are usually a result of government-compliance mandated changes.

>Predestined to failure. When we deliver a year-long project to production and it has a 99.9% success rate, we are scorned because there were a few minor problems.

Scorned by who? Your PM or your end-users? In my experience, most people politely email you with the problem description. Then, you identify the issue and solve the problem.

>Pushed to work on more projects, complete them faster, and more accurately. We are also expected to have high levels of availability and complete projects in minutes not hours or days.

This is an obvious over-exaggeration. But consider this: as you get better with any craft, you are expected to make fewer mistakes as well as perform the same task faster. You see this in sports all the time. Why would you pay a rookie athlete more money and promote them if they don't perform faster and more accurately? Why should programmers be treated any differently?

An additional note... It's not like you aren't being compensated for this. Senior-level programmers get paid much more because they can complete projects faster and more accurately.

>Under-Appreciated often using inferior equipment compared to our end-users that work in profit centers. We will be found working on a laptop, while our end-users are working on a powerful system, with more than one monitor, and comfortable offices. Developers often work with less than a cubicle.

Sounds like a company issue to me. Have you considered changing jobs?

>Necessitated to spend dozens of hours per week or more of their spare time learning new technologies to stay competitive.

Most companies will pay you to take training courses during your workday. However, you do raise a valid point. To stay competitive in the tech industry, we have to learn. But I don't think it's necessary to spend 14 hours a week to learn new things in tech. That's just me, though. Someone looking for a promotion or a different type of tech (dba's, for example) may need to learn more information faster to get where they want to be.
Satya Nadella comes to mind. He got an EMBA from Chicago Booth, class of 1997.
Unless they did something different from what others normally do.
If junk DNA doesn't exist, the limit applies to the whole genome.

(I lean towards thinking that some non-junk DNA has been previously mistakenly classified as junk, but that junk DNA still exists in a meaningful sense. But I'm a layman, and I don't even have a strong idea of what the expert consensus is.)
Tell HN: I will design and build your MVP for $5,000
I don't think Yelp is even a thing here.

You want to look at the websites for newspapers and the like. Rio Show, Veja Rio, etc.
You're against an advertising-supported internet? If so, there are places where you could start your protest that excute that a lot less transparently and with a few less orders of magnitude of vetting than here. Unless you prefer 'herbal Cialis' ads:)
Most definitely. That said, most carriers have started including unlimited SMS in their packages.
Theoretically, you are right. But SMBs have heard of Foursquare and this is invaluable for them as this is how they are going to make money in the end.
As for consumers - you are right for the single digit millions who check in from time to time, but for others? Foursquare is an app that was not for them, but they know it was about local and they did not mind it.
The hard part is going to convince them that this new app is more interesting and better than Yelp, Sosh or others.
Are you joking? Remote access for a specific party will virtually always become remote access for malicious actors, whether that was the original intent or not.

> It's good to know packet capture can be remotely enabled on your device from data collected on a computer the device has trusted or been tricked into trusting

> It's good to know Apple or anyone who can spoof Apple has the power to look through your encrypted files given physical access (file relay).

> It's good to know one can extract files from his phone using a trusted or seemingly trusted computer (house arrest).
Here is my trust profile. https://www.provetrust.com/#!/p/HJoWjhUC7JW8u9eiBVMh7E

So the deployment model will be like Disqus, you just add some JS to your page?
Being a good UI designer means being able to empathise with the users, understand their needs, and enable them to do what they came to do in a most efficient and pleasant way possible.

If you don't have much experience in these fields (UI and UX, as if they are two different things) you will quickly learn that the above trumps most of what you might have learned throughout a formal graphic design education and/or experience as a graphic designer.

So, my direct advice would be to study user behavior on the Web, psychology, and usability. Learn (if you don't already have the habit) how to think through user flows in lo-fi mockups and wireframes, immerse yourself in good UI design, and make it your priority to pay attention to details when using other people's software; and I don't just mean on the UI side. Pay attention at the company behind the app, how they prioritize features, and how they handle unsexy, menial tasks such as recurring billing, support, and how they integrate that into their work, the software itself.

I strongly believe that you can't be just a UI designer. I mean, you can be to a certain point, but you need to know all of the ins and outs of what it takes to take a product to market in order to be one of the few superstars who we all look up to and learn from. You need to be aware of the entire process, have insight into the business decisions that need to be made, so that you can paint a whole picture.
"For example, in [6] the lambda calculus is defined in 86 lines distributed over ten definitions. It seems clear in this compact definition that lambda calculus does not allow recursive function definitions. Yet already by 1935 at least two versions had been discovered of the Y combinator, an expression of the lambda calculus. And this combinator makes recursive function definitions possible in lambda calculus."

My understanding was that without recursion the lambda calculus is not Turing-complete. Is that correct?

It should also be noted that recursion is a close relative of induction, an indispensable tool that is not without its own problematic history.
> That is about the browser CA system

No, SSL certs are using to sign packages and software too. And Apple would not have a root cert, their cert would be signed by a root CA, which could be used to sign other certs if it's tricked into thinking its' Apple requesting them (like in the recent Google cert example).

So one could impersonate a company if they have a cert that says they are that company.
Hasn't this 'chat to people near you' been done to death already? I was thinking of doing an app like this a few years ago, but discovered that there were many similar apps.
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Reminds me of a story about Dell support, who have provided PCs previously to the UK security services. Goes something like this. PC sent to Dell because it had some issues booting.

Support tech opens the box and tries to boot the PC. Indeed, it doesn't boot. Can't find any bootable media.

Inside he finds that the drives have been removed and placed in static bags at the bottom of the box.

After a closer examination he finds all drives have been drilled through multiple times. Standard procedure for SS secure PCs when being sent off site.

Made me laugh that one.
Pretty sure AT&T charged for incoming text messages. It's been a while since I've looked at an AT&T bill (I've since switched), so it's possible that I'm mistaken, but I'd give that statement an 85% confidence rating.
The counterargument to this is that people aren't basing their view on that 6 day long experiment, it just confirms what they've noticed their entire lives.

Also, what the hell is up with a name like "Weinersmith"? Is that a nom de plume or something?
Paying for incoming anything is completly ridiculous. Thankfully that's unusual here in Europe.
Or do what I did and switch to a data-only plan. I like having my mobile provider be nothing more than a dumb pipe.
I'm guessing 0% unless the "idea" is more of a complex engineering theory of some kind.

For example, If the idea is "A better battery." Nothing. If the idea is "A new doping scheme using recent research in unrelated chlorine molecules that can drastically improve lithium ion battery life" then the person deserves equity.
by "including" you mean "charging extra", right?
There are very good reasons (for calls anyway), and arguably the rest of the world is broken. I wrote about it here http://www.rogerbinns.com/blog/paying-for-incoming-calls.htm...

In short it is to with termination rates, area codes, and how people in the rest of the world get screwed but don't realise it.
It partially matches what he's talking about, but it's still a trinary choice.

1> Don't tether

2> Get only power

3> Give away the keys to the castle
Most cell phones come with some sort of messaging plan, but historically yes you had to pay.

The routing inbound calls you typically have to pay, but the costs are usually so negligible, most VoIP/landline provides include them for free with the overall subscription.

Cell phones are a different story all together.
Can confirm. When I moved to the US, had to pay for incoming SMS. My friends who did not have an unlimited SMS plan, had SMS completely blocked so that they don't receive unwanted messages.
That post literally makes no sense.

Java is neither 32 nor 64 bit, it is bitness agnostic to a large degree (or at least where it matters it is, datatypes aren't really a major advantage, and most of the new CPU registers can be utilised in the JVM without the code being aware or being recompiled).

You also say that they need something "richer" (whatever that means?), "more expressive," (huh?), and "open" (even though the JVM on Android ("Dalvik") is free and open source software).

Sorry but everything you said there is either confusing or wrong. You just wanted to bring up Swift and seem to know absolutely nothing about Java/JVC/Dalvik, except that it is "old" and therefore just assume it is "bad."

I actually think C# is a better language than Java (at least in their current iterations). However not for any of the reasons you cited, for real reasons that actually make sense.
Yes, but unlimited SMS plans are quite common and have been so for years.
I don't think it matters to be considered widely successful, only to better your career, life and your family's.

Just go to any program's website and you will see they are regular people. They will have a list of alumni and their titles. That could give you an idea. These are Directors, VPs and CEOs. Are they "widely" considering successful? Well, they are not as known as say the Pope or the President.

But, here is a list (notice it applies to MBA)

http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/20101130/25-highes...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattsymonds/2012/01/16/the-m-b-a...

"An impressive 40 of the 100 best paid CEOs in corporate America last year have an M.B.A., according to the Forbes list of America’s Highest Paid Chief Executives."
Any plans to offer SMS on TFNs in US (like Twilio has)?
Yes, but it's illegal to send unsolicited texts and there's a government website where you can report spammers.

Also most plans now have unlimited texts (to send or receive). I only paid for texts when I was on the cheapest possible pay-as-you-go plan.
the kickstarter is surely to find & take orders from an audience for the soft launch
Hi, I'm David, one of the engineers at Ribbon.

If you use any payment gateway, you need to send the full credit card number from the client so the gateway can return a token that identifies the card in their vault.

You can do the same and write some JS to get the first 6 numbers and send a GET request to our API without compromising security. The BIN (first 6 numbers of credit cards) is not considered the primary account number so it's safe to send (and even store).
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When I check in to a food place, a note goes to my walking tracking wristband app. I also back them up to spreadsheets, etc. etc.

I'm not convinced that's ever going to be mass-market behaviour, though.
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It's true. $0.10 or $0.15 is my cost for all texts over 200 whether I send or receive them. Usually I don't go over, on average maybe 1-3 extra messages a month over 200. Upgrading to the unlimited tier for $15/month more doesn't make sense when I can reach all my friends but a few via Facebook, Google Talk or iMessages on their mobile devices. I can reach all my friends via one of those if they're on a computer but that's not always convenient, and no one I know uses twitter except to follow people.

* With AT&T
Tennessee...
"beginners inevitably lose"

You seem to imply that it's possible to win ;)
Killing the Messenger at Mozilla
Boxama is a fun iOS game that is impossible
Do explain how you get screwed on mobile termination rates! Mobile phone calls are considerably more expensive in Europe per minute, but you as a recipient may not realise it. See my comment that points to a post with more details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8075829
Right on, similar to what I was thinking but I'm curious if that's actually feasible.
Boxama is impossible. Its incredibly slow at first, but before you know it, you're addicted.