skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if I've never used Foursquare before, which do I install? I'm not interested in having any friends on the app I just think the reviews, and customised recommendations could be quite useful.
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Foursquare doesn't hold a candle to Yelp. I can order food, make a reservation and figure out what's going on in my neighborhood with Yelp. Foursquare has a new logo.
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Is an EMBA from a top program worth the time and money?
The nice thing about using Docker is that everything is drop-in compatible. You can push your images to a provider such as Tutum or Google Cloud and they'll be able to run. If you've written any software that used the Docker remote API on Orchard, you can just point that are your own Docker daemon and it'll keep on working.
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Thank you, that was basically my point. They are not a 'backlog' of games, they're a company you pay to get games working properly on newer versions of windows.

What they were is a far cry from things like the abandonware sites.
We built this internally for our needs, then decided to give it out to any service that needs similar functionality. The first six cards of any card tells us some interesting information on the identity of the card, such as type (debit/credit), brand (amex, visa), country (US, ES, GA), and issuer bank (chase, wells), etc.

This would be of good use if you want to do things like, block international cards, charge less for debit cards, or generate more analytics about how you get paid.

We're giving it away for free for most practical purposes, up to 1,000 requests a day. If you want more, just shoot us an email, hany@ribbon.co
Check-ins have been valuable to them in so far as data and intelligence. It hasn't been valuable to them as something to monetize off of enough to satisfy investors. Hence the pivot in the hopes of more Yelp like ad revenue. But I wouldn't say check-ins are useless - they do help users in various ways when applied right.
The false comparison here bothers me.

Sure, back when I learned to code I could just type some stuff in on the machine in my basement, type "RUN", and have magic happen. Yes, it was stuck in my basement, and it couldn't do much, and it wasn't connected to anything. And yes, it could do exactly one thing at a time. But it was still pretty magic.

This guy wants the same experience when building for a computer a million times more powerful, one that fits in his pocket. And he'd like to access a global network of satellites that shout timestamps so that he can, in real time, calculate his precise position and then record it. While that computer continues to do all the things that he expects of it, like letting him take phone calls and receive email from anybody in the world while playing whatever song or movie he'd care to watch. Oh, and he'd like other people to be able to run his app, suggest improvements, view his source code, and offer fixes.

I think it's great to want things to be easy; that sort of irritation is what drives us to make better tools. But a big problem here isn't that the tools are overly complex, it's that he wants a lot more than he did 30 years ago.
I think that buying an Apple device is implicitly consenting to have all of your communications monitored and not to have access to your own data. In other words, I don't think this is a big deal, but there's also no need to spread FUD against the people who are specifically pointing it out.

edit: It's in the EULAs. I didn't think that I was saying something controversial:) I always underestimate people's level of denial...
We were very worried about SIDS when our daughter was born (11 months ago). We had all sort of monitors and sensors you can think of, only to realise with time that it was actually a source of stress for all of us.
If it's sensitive enough to detect breathing as movement, then it would make sense for the alarm to go off if there's absolutely no movement, yes?
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Simple question: what do you think about future of Android? Any thoughts?

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As with all tools, it depends on how you use it.

If a writer lets software dictate his style, then he's hopeless. But I think this can be a good tool for helping you introduce more variety to your writing.

It can help open up stylistic choices as opposed to auto-pilot writing. We've all written something with nary a thought, and usually it stinks. You don't have to follow its recommendations, but it can make you stop and re-evaluate what you've written, and that makes it more useful than one might imagine.

As a first-line editing tool, I think it's clever, don't you?
not to encourage OT discussion, but the song is "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin... it sounds like the Lonely Island riffed off the main melody for "Iran So Far". The song is also the main sample in "Blame Game" by Kanye West from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Ask the people of Palomares Spain how much they like that idea. They had a couple of nuclear bombs accidentally drop out of the sky there after a mishap in the 60's when the US had nukes in the air at all times.
It's kind of amazing that this company is still around. They got way more money than they knew what to do with at a way too high of a valuation, the result being this highly polished zombie vestige of a previous era that is too expensive to buy, has too much money to die, and whimpers along with some kind of undefined shrinking user base. It's like a smaller, never IPO'ed version of Yahoo. I don't know how this story is going to end, but I doubt it will involve more people having any of their apps on their phone tomorrow than today, at least willingly. I could see some kind of carrier deal that extends the pain until finally they fall into the arms of a remnant brand hoarding corporation like IAC for pennies.
It's doing gcc 4.2, and when you try to install / compile a higher version it fails. Pretty sure.
I'm a little conflicted about this. On one hand it's good to learn about the security of your device, on the other hand he's far too partial and sensationalist about these iOS features. Yes, features.

• It's good to know packet capture can be remotely enabled on your device from data collected on a computer the device has trusted.

• It's good to know 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 computer (house arrest).

However, that's it. There's no "back door". There's no (implied or otherwise) NSA conspiracy. There's a reason why the media "misunderstood" his talk: it was full of hyperbole.
Wondering if someone could check on this, I'd love to have some candid feedback on the approach
The US has freedom of speech, yes.

It doesn't bother making sure that you're alive to say it.

It doesn't bother making sure that you're capable of saying something worthwhile.

So, yes. You have freedom of speech. It's just that most American speech is pointless.
They've also got a 3rd book in the series, The Reasoned Schemer [1]. I didn't finish working through it (life and work and other things), but it's pretty good as well.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer
Yes, and if you live (actively) in any mid-tier city for any appreciable amount time, recommendations become superfluous, because you basically know every establishment in the city, what's trending, what's not, and where to go (and where not to go) to get what you want. For food, clothing and goods. Whatever. And when something new opens up, you hear it about it. Friends give you the rundown, judgements proliferate, etc. I don't have a use for Foursquare or Yelp and, as far as I know, none of my friends do either.

(For size reference, I live in Baltimore, MD.)

Edit: I'll add, too, that "check ins" that get posted socially seem to be viewed increasingly as self-indulgent "look at me and my lovely life" signals.

There was a time that such posts, along with "pics of my delicious dinner at trendy restaurant", etc., were regular and acceptable. That time is quickly passing, I think.

The analogy is talking about how much money you have, or how cultural you are, etc. This isn't really polite and most people secretly roll their eyes in response to it. It appears either calculated or in incognizantly bad taste.

This is just an anecdotal observation, of course. But these kinds of things have basically disappeared from my feed, which might just be an effect of an aging list of friends rather than a broader usage pattern. I suspect it's a generally emerging standard of social media etiquette though.
In other words, News flash: physical access allows an attacker in the know to compromise computer security. You laid it out, a minimum of 4 circumstances need to happen to allow these exploits to work.

If we're going to have "lawful intercept" legal requirement, I'd rather have the mechanisms require this type of intrusive action that require a warrant in most cases.

I was really hooked by this talk until he characterized supervision/enterprise enrollment as a "backdoor", and the more I read about it, the more bullshitty it really is.
It's interesting that ~15% of OS X users are on Snow Leopard (I have an old iMac that doesn't support Mavericks running 10.6, but I mostly use it as a local server)

How many of those users are still using Safari 5.1 (as opposed to FF/Chrome/Opera)?

PS: It's even weirder that people are still using Lion when apparently any Mac that runs Lion can run Mavericks (and 10.9 in my experience is much more stable than 10.7).
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very cool. I've been thinking of building a distributed analytics service like this -- can you talk about what the architecture of something like this is? If I had to build a custom chart, I would have to go get my own data?

It would be awesome to have a service that provides hosted data, allows anyone to make charts / random transformations / add extra data and then add that to the main dashboard.
>It feels like asking for transparency, but only from others. Same reason I can't truly trust Bitcoin, it's as shady as my bank's processes.

What additional information would get get from the name of the people behind this? How is Bitcoin in any way shady? It's an open protocol and most people use open-source clients to access it. You (and anyone else - including people with a lot of money riding on it) can verify that you trust the code, even if you don't have any idea who wrote it. Compare to a bank's process, where if you even try and reverse engineer the protocol you're risking jailtime.
No this is not unique. Tons of services exploit this loophole (free conference calls, adult chat lines, phone-to-ip services, to name a few).

It is enabled by "common carrier" laws, meaning a phone carrier is legally obligated to connect these calls (to typically rural locations) even if it is at a loss. The connecting local service can charge absurd rates at a high profit margin. To further increase profits, the local services typically offer kickbacks as incentive for internet/VOIP services to connect through their phone numbers. So a rural county with only a small population can have an absurdly high volume of expensive calls flowing through them, all on the carrier's dime.

This is why Google Voice refuses to connect calls through to certain rural areas, something that US carriers complain about, since they feel Google should be subject to these same laws. (Google disagrees, claiming they act as a web service instead of as a traditional phone carrier).

Edit: As to the question of whether the "exploit a loophole and profit" business model itself is too narrow, I'd argue that, no, it isn't. I can't think of any other concrete loopholes off the top of my head, but I'm sure this can't be the only loophole (legally-enforced or otherwise) that businesses profit from, and looking at the sheer number of businesses doing so it seems like it would deserve a place in the list.
that's a pretty fat fucking finger...
Variable is a BIG change in CSS. If a browser doesn't support variable, then new stylesheets are already broken in that browser. It makes little difference to make the syntax compatible.

Once an easy-to-use syntax is published, toolchains that parse CSS will update as fast as they can! But "--"? Everybody will stick to the old standard and never want to upgrade.
But by the author's logic now I have to learn your new tool! And it's on Github...the horror.
I think proving your implementation correct can be a great thing after it's had some time to verify your implementation accounts for issues that come up in production.
This is a broad social generalization so please take it with a grain of salt, but I do think there is an element of truth to the notion that Japanese people take good care of their elderly maintaining their dignity and keeping a healthy respect for their elders. The perception is that they age more gracefully. In western / european cultures, growing old is treated like a shameful disease. Hence the double standard.
Is there anywhere I can download it? seems like it is physical media only. no itunes, no netflix...
commented too soon! looks like you've thought of this. http://www.hind-cite.com/about. very cool.
Will you support FF in the future?
The idea is that if you do a little bit of the latter now, you will save yourself or someone else a lot of time doing the former later.
The most blatant way Bitcoin can make remittances cheaper is if the recipient can directly spend the bitcoins. So no more Western Union = no middle man pocketing remittance fees!
I've had the opposite experience.

I was in Zagreb, Croatia for the very first time last year and wanted to eat dinner somewhere other than my hotel. I tried Google Maps and it was worthless. I pulled out Foursquare and found a restaurant a few streets away that turned out to be incredible! (So much so that when I went back a few months later I went back to the same place instead of exploring.)

And now that I mention it, same thing happened to me in Tallinn, Estonia, too. Found a great brew-pub-ish restaurant that I would have never found on my own. And again, went back a few months later on my next trip.
Wow, how did we survive for 100'000 years without it, I wonder.
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If you're being waken up every day by unnatural means, your body is not getting enough sleep. A few months ago I threw away my alarm clock. Now I just wake up whenever my body wants to. It's been great.
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No, because instead of discerning if you're a dullard by the quality of your writing at a glance, I'll instead have to stumble through mechanically de-voiced inanity. At least without Hemmingway your stream-of-consciousness as committed to typed form can be examined and admired as a unique reflection of your particular damage.
I'll leave the architecture of the cloudant db to the Cloudant guys. Being able to add data, though, is interesting. If people want to add different views (which basically trasform the data using map/reduce), we can add those to the db so they are available to all.

For charts, you just create a new chart and assuming it works and all, we'll host it on the site. It will pull the data directly from the db via the REST interface.

So, basically, yeah - we are hoping to do exactly what you are asking.
1. Advertising

2. Taking orders

3. Easy capital
A part of me is really interested in these sleeping analytic devices but on the other hand, I am always sleeping with my phone on airplane mode.

Not to enter the EMF debate, I wonder if being pinged all night long by all sort of waves is going to make my bedroom zen.
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Hemingway didn't write very Hemingwayish. That is, he didn't write the way many people caricaturize him. He has a big vocabulary and can, in fact, create more than a 5-word sentence.

That being said, "utilize" is one of my peeves, too. "Utilize" rather than "use" and "gift" as a verb. We hates them, we does.
I think the parent comment's question was whether the idea of "exploting a loophole" is too narrow to be considered a business model, not whether others exploited this particular flaw.
I don't see that site redirect[1]. I have the Color Schemer Studio app installed on my Mac, I hope they update it with some of these new ideas. I use this app all the time.

[1] http://www.colorschemer.com/
Foursquare is the one you want then. Swarm is where the check-ins, friend-finder, and plan-making functionality is.
Can these "features" be turned off by the user, and not enabled remotely?

Are these "features" off by default?

No? It's maliciously removing control from the user.
In our spare time, we're researching this dataset in detail. Here are some questions that we're interested in. Would love to hear other ideas and to have folks dig into the data. I think this dataset may be of interest to hackers, researchers and marketers.

1. Are the trajectories (e.g. rank vs time) for all popular posts of the same shape? They look ~logarithmic.

2. Are there identifiable clusters when you look in 4d space for rank vs points vs comments?

3. How does the impact of a post depend quantitatively on its respective cohort. I.e., what's a good model to normalize performance based on what else was happening that day?

4. What fraction of posts have comment threads that are "hijacked" by the first comment? Is their a quantitative way to find this, perhaps by looking at (2) above?

5. What are more detailed metrics to collapse "performance" of a post onto a single number?

6. How does performance on HN compare to reddit, etc?

7. How is the HN community different than other communities, if at all?

8. Given the time-dependent data, can we create a good estimator for the number of active HN users per day? Or can we at least create a relative ranking of the number of unique users between different days?
The software calls out "helpfully" because it's an adverb, a part of speech that's good in small doses (according to the creators of the software).
Did they pay to license Aphex Twin's 'Avril 14th'? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfYl6_f2Mdg

Huh, turns out they did. https://twitter.com/jamesproud/status/491986164937535488

I am interested in this device but not Kickstarter backing interested. More like 3rd-gen price-drop interested.
A clock changing time or switching to classic mode on Windows is in no way analogous to the difference between a phone, a desktop and an Xbox.

Those systems are substantially different enough to require different methods of user interaction. Do they utilize the same OS at that point? Maybe, depending on definition. But the definition given by pilsetniek specifies UI as part of the OS. So by this definition, No, they cannot use the same OS.

"you are bitching because..."

Whatever dude.
Is there an easy way to add email template support?
hey guys,

a tool I'm working on is a webinar tool and I'd like my customers to easily be able to create custom email templates/messaging (or perhaps use their own) to send out.

It should be some kind of WYSISWG editor - I don't see the point in reinventing the wheel. Is there a tool/api that already does this or makes it easier to integrate my customers' existing mailchimp/campaign monitor templates?

any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,

-- 24x7
Looks like they have commercial support as well http://appscale.com
They are not particularly prestigious.
Grenchman is worth a look too: http://leiningen.org/grench.html
Back on the quake 3 engine I used to convince users that typing /disco would spawn a giant disco ball complete with lights and music. /disco is the same as /disconnect. Good times. :)
It really depends on what you're looking to get out of it. A job, networking opportunities, better understanding of business? Also, look at cost factors, are you paying for it, is your work? How much time can you invest?
I don't have one, but I can tell you that it completely depends on your unique situation. Can you provide more details to help people answer the question?

What industry/product are you looking at?
What type position (dev, design, business) do you have or want to have?
If you're currently employed, does the company prefer it for you to move up?
Are you looking to learn or just add to your resume (or in between)?

One major reason (some of my friends with MBAs from top schools say the only reason) to get an MBA is for the network. With an EMBA, you don't spend as much time around other students as you do with an MBA, so you don't get a chance to build as strong as a network.
Exactly. You always have a choice, most of these things can be punted on. For example, I continued to use svn for many years before transitioning to git, despite everyone around me saying how great it was. It was a tradeoff, I am happy to know and love git now but at the time I wasn't ready to add that to my plate of complexity. In the end, I was able to focus on shipping sooner instead of learning a new SCM. The trick is learning how to recognize when something is no longer a fad but a true shift, and git eventually became obviously that, so I took the time to learn it. I think the ThoughtWorks Radar is a good resource for this type of thing:

http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/#/

The assumption in this article is that you always have to be using the latest whiz bang tools and platforms, but that's up to you -- the "fashion" aspect of software development is the problem, not the tools per se.
This really isn't what Foursquare is anymore. It's become a rather good location database & discovery platform.

I never used it when it was "hot" (~2012), but in the past few months I've really come to like it for finding places (restaurants, etc.) & making lists. Also, their tools for making edits to the DB are quite impressive, and they do a great job of leveraging superusers to moderate those changes.
> It's good to know Apple has the power to look through your encrypted files given physical access (file relay).

So the requisites are: "be Apple" and "have physical access"? That's awfully little for what's supposed to be encrypted files.

It (seems to be) no secret that law enforcement sends devices to Apple when they can't handle them themselves. So if I'm understanding it right: you can't protect yourself with an iDevice, consider all your data compromised?

Sensationalist or not, it bothers me a little.
Nice idea, and a clean and simple implementation. Could it be enhanced (made more pretty?) by using a nice monospaced font (e.g. https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono) and giving the option of aligning query string parameters vertically by equals sign?
Awesome, I've been waiting for "copy as curl"! The dev tools are improving steadily.

Using the xmonad window manager the color selector window gets sent to the background. Perhaps this could automatically work if the color selector window provided Extended Window Manager Hints?

If not, does anyone know the name of the window the color selctor opens so I can make the color dropper work by forcing it to float?
This post appears to be gone. Here's Apple's (new) documentation on the matter: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6331?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...

If Apple is being truthful and transparent, calling this a "backdoor" is a bit like calling sshd a "backdoor".
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Oh sorry, I should have included "useless" in quotes. I personally love Foursqare checkins -- I love seeing which of my friends have checked in at places I'm considering, I love having a history of where I've been, etc.
I have used it in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Istanbul, Saigon, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Budapest; and I think it gives pretty good recommendations. At least for coffee shops and inexpensive restaurants in the city center.

It also works globally as long as there are some users there, while Yelp only supports a few countries.