skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It indicates that people are using the product because of its network effects and despite the product itself.

It could mean a lot of things. Maybe it means it's cool to say you dislike FB. Maybe it means people feel badly about their addiction to social networks in general. My point is that it could mean a million things that may very well have nothing to do with FB.

Furthermore, what you're describing sounds to me like the best situation for any company to be in. Ever. You make something that is so compelling and you solve a certain problem so well that people tolerate it despite its deficiencies.
That website is the store...
This is clearly aimed at parents, who want to give gifts to their kids - a segment Apple are targetting anew in the run-up to Christmas. I guess what I'm seeing is a more "Home Shopping Network" thing going on, and it perturbs me .. but as a parent, I can see their positioning having effect.

I guess Apples' "thing" this Christmas is "Family-Friendly, Safe"..
It's not meaningfully different - most of the same flaws still apply.

Say you have a bad actor behind the same NAT'ed IP. Good User A signs their SPA, and the firewall opens up for 30 seconds... during which Malicious User B has access.

What real advantage are you gaining vs. just having restricted firewall rules in the first place? Lowering the window of time an attacker has access? If you're not using password auth that could be brute forced, who cares about the window? Either they have the keys or an exploit needed to get in, or they don't.
Really? You think Facebook is a totally utilitarian joyless tool like a shopping bag?

People need to use shopping bags because they need to carry groceries. No one needs to use Facebook. If you decide tomorrow that you absolutely hate shopping bags, your grocery shopping is going to be a hell of a lot less convenient. If you decide tomorrow that you absolutely hate Facebook, you're just going to have more free time.
> Who cares what people say?

I agree. For me, Facebook has become more of a utility. If asked the same questions I would probably answer in a similar way. I do not 'love' Facebook the way I 'love' other products but it has its uses.
they've always been ridiculously expensive. amusingly, they were made by Monster up until a year or two ago. so a cheap pair of Beats would just be Monster headphones anyway, not Beats.
Beats have always been in that price range IIRC. They were always marketed as a luxury product, just like Apple's stuff. I think Skullcandy aim to be more approachable.
The headphones are owned by Apple. They paid Dre over a billion for Beats.
I remember the same thing happening. While SSM was out by the time I was in college, my friends and I played a lot of the N64 version. When one of us really discovered Jiggly Puff—and learned how to pull off her "sleeper" move—it began to spread around. Interesting to see a parallel dynamic happening in Melee.
The Man Who Made Tetris
Back when SJ was alive, I bought an HP printer from the Apple store at the same time as a MBP. So it's nothing new that they have crappy stuff alongside the good stuff, it's just now on the front page.
Yes! People's take on Magic Leap is so credulous. It's like they believe that this company is going to produce something with all the virtues of the Oculus Rift + Google Glass and none of the problems with either on a fraction of the budget and in a fraction of the time.

It just obviously won't happen.
Getting ideas for what's out there.
Maybe it's a side effect of their Burberry provenanced head of retail?
Marketing more of a lifestyle product than technology?
Beats have always been expensive. I honestly didn't realize they had any pairs that cost <$200.
Not to speak about the Firefox 29 release, they ruined it, I reinstalled and the old version, still on 28 now..
store.apple.com has always been the online product store; not physical retail stores, not app stores...
Exactly. It's a utility and for whatever that utility is, apparently the product is working fantastically.
I'm pretty sure that all Smash Bros versions going back to N64 keep track of a fairly comprehensive array of stats. I doubt that the games phone home with that info, though.
The press isn't a special case where we have to make sure they can operate without being held accountable for their actions. Everyone should be held accountable and everyone should be able to defend themselves. If anything, journalists are already granted a greater shield than the rest of us.

Again, we're talking about journalists who have _acted_ with agenda against a company, and we're up in arms over off-hand _comments_ about retaliation. Neither party is altruistic and both are financially motivated. If the press acts with agenda and now reports on the retaliatory comments that were made, they can no longer be regarded as unbiased and fair. I'm not going to take their side, and I'm certainly not going to defend them when they appear to be the real bully. Nor am I going to support Al Franken as he attempts to exploit the situation for his own benefit. We've got bigger problems to deal with than who's more butt-hurt about what someone else said.
"jank" is a euphemism for "choppy scrolling".
Major Networks Not Airing Obama's Immigration Speech
The sound of the crowd-funding video is maybe a bit hard to follow, here are subtitles: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/pi9RH5s7A062/info/indiehoster...
Rapidminer is the jam for prototyping ML processes. It's so powerfully useful I've always been surprised they've kept it free for so long (they have a pay version but it's not necessary). In addition to its own algorithms, it has a plugin that wraps Weka so you get all those if you want them too. I'm I n no way connected with them, just a big fan of it over every other ML library or tool I've seen. If I could buy stock I would...
Interesting, but I hope there is clear direction to never use 1 legged OAuth in production. Because that's a bad time.
10 things software consultants can learn from restaurant servers
Yeah, because of its age, ubiquity, relative lack of growth etc I think people don't consider email along with the emerging sexy social networking platforms. I tend to use it in preference to Facebook if I'm communicating with specific people. I would not use it for sending everybody I know amusing pictures of cats.
Kinda funny how the top story was "Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason" earlier this morning, and then this comes up.
WordPress 3.x Persistent Script Injection
> The difference between Apple now and Apple a couple years ago is that they would never dilute the main Apple product page with external brands.

Demonstrably false. About a third of https://web.archive.org/web/20111001165346/http://store.appl... (2011) and https://web.archive.org/web/20090312055045/http://store.appl... (2009) are taken up by third-party products.
I grew up with them. Didn't we all?
If you just want the list of names of the apis:

curl "http://apis.io/api/apis?limit=1000" -s |python -m json.tool |grep "\"name\"\:"
Swipe typing on a touch screen [1] is analogous to T9 [2] text entry on a traditional keypad. In fact, they were invented by the same group [3].

On numeric keypads, each button corresponds to ~3 letters. Basic text entry involves pushing each button multiple times to select the index of the letter you want[4], then waiting to confirm the selection before moving to the next character.

T9 sped up this process by allowing you to press each button once. It would determine which word you meant by comparing all possible combinations of letters that could be created from the buttons you pressed against a dictionary of known words.

Swype provides a similar extension to QWERTY touchscreen keyboards. With Swype, you drag your finger across a QWERTY grid, creating a path. This path starts on the first letter of the intended word and crosses all letters in the word, in order. It also crosses lots of letters that aren't in the word, or are out of position. The 'secret sauce' lies in how to compare the ordered set of keys defined by the path to a predefined dictionary and produce a meaningful prediction of the intended word.

I haven't implemented such an algorithm myself. However, you can imagine how it might be done. For example, acute angles in the path probably occur when you reach a letter you want, then angle off to collect the next letter. This provides a signpost that can be combined with the initial letter to reduce the possible words down to the set that starts with the initial letter and includes the key with the acute angle.

[1] First introduced by Swype: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swype

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/24/swype-vs-iphone-typ...

[4] e.g. the "3" key corresponds to "DEF", so press "3" twice to enter "E"
Everything recently that Apple does that people don't agree with has Jobs 'rolling in his grave.'
Ahh, I see. I guess I wouldn't notice that since I'm so used to already having notifications shown first on the lock screen. I can see how that'd be annoying if you don't care about the notifications list.
TIP: If you enable "Developer options" in the settings app (by "About" tapping 7 times), there are options to eliminate, speed up, or slow down the transition animations. I set mine at 0.5x the normal duration.
Ducking

The printf("%s %s", foo(), foo()) problem is unusual for crypt() --- but it isn't for other functions that return points to global static memory, inet_ntoa() in particular (you often want to print both source and destination addresses). To get around this, I used to have a preloaded inet_ntoa that alternated between two global static buffers. :)
Please add "empty pants pockets" to that list of a complete laundry cycle. Otherwise the only thing PR2 is close to is ruining all my clothes. :-) Lip balm, pens, crayons, etc.

And while we're at it, it also needs to treat any stains, otherwise you may make them worse. :-)
> You make something that is so compelling and you solve a certain problem so well that people tolerate it despite its deficiencies.

That's the opposite of what I'm describing. I'm describing making something that people don't find compelling, that doesn't solve their problems, but they use it because it's their only option (the network effect).
I'm not sure if Fantasy AR overlays are really all that compelling. Unless they make significant progress in AI as well, most likely those will be entirely predictable and boring after a while. Although who knows maybe there are enough people around who want to have a virtual pet dragon. Most of the real world outside is entirely unsuitable as a canvas for any kind of interesting movie like experience. Traditional movie story telling artfully uses both cuts in time and transitions in space to tell a compelling story, neither of which is readily available.
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I'm guessing this is Angela Ahrendts' influence from the luxury goods world. Their ads have led with narrative (vs. cold tech specs) for a while now. I think it's just made it's way into their store design. High-end fashion knows a thing or two about making you feel good about an expensive purchase.
This is a ridiculous point. "No one needs to use Facebook"? That's subjective and not your call to make unless you're defining need by "things that are required in order to stay alive", in which case shopping bags aren't a need either.

Mithaldu's point, as I understood it, was that shopping bags serve a very clear function and people don't have strong feelings of love towards them. They use them because they work. Same thing with FB (apparently). What this article fails to grasp is that having billions of people feel that they need to use your service is worth way more than people saying they "like" your product.
Yep, I plan to roll out an update that will include iPad support in a few weeks. Definetely before Christmas.
> you just totally discount

Sorry if it appears like that. I didn't express myself clearly enough.

I wasn't discounting those, but instead expected more explanations of the basics. Without understanding of the basic movements and abilities of a character (the only nod towards that is the breathless "you can control every movement of your entire body"), no meaningful understanding of the impact of the special techniques is possible. (Note how i can't even tell the difference between the speed of a wave dash and normal running because they never once showed normal running in isolation.)

Note specificially me saying in the bit you refer to:

>> what you were expecting?
>
> What's the normal gameplay,
> how does competitive differ

They could've easily done that with a short 10 minute segment where they only go over the basics, maybe even make it optional. Or heck, a link to a tutorial they deem useful. Or at the very minimum a warning going "if you don't already know the game, nothing we talk about will make any sense".
Think of Beats headphones like a very expensive fashion accessory. Their performance as headphones pales in comparison to the price. Professional audio engineers use less expensive (and FAR superior) headphones.

Price doesn't always translate to quality. In many cases, it's pure status signalling. Many luxury fashion brands operate in this manner.
Nokia's brand name merry-go-round
If someone from my loved one's job called me 24 hours after they were killed in a horrific terrorist attack to talk about passwords I don't think I would be able to contain my vitriol.
Not really from the ground up, but you would have to build the logic you need to execute by the scheduler.

Integration wise we have built code to integrate with WordPress, Twitter and Facebook. I can send you the code so you can use it in iKnode.

We created a tool that we use to push news to social media outlets so we have done this before.
Without the system automatically assigning buyers, I'd expect it's very possible oversight would allow for the final gift to not have anyone in on the conspiracy having already bought a gift.

Being on GitHub it shouldn't be too hard to fork it/submit a pull request to make it an optional feature I guess. Will see If I can find the time.
Lesson learned: Don't spy on American citizens, the government hates competition.
I didn't realize lambda was a motif in gay culture too. Makes me love it even more.
As for certificates, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the NSA controls several root certificates and can exert legal pressure if not outright control of many others. They can use this power to perform SSL Man-in-the-Middle attacks. See http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/37216/how-likely..., https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/new_nsa_leak_... or https://digitalelf.net/2013/09/how-the-nsa-is-breaking-ssl/. I don't see how it can be remotely controversial that the US and its allies possess deeply asymmetric power. They have legal power over all popular desktop OSes, all popular mobile OSes, all major cloud providers (Amazon, Azure and Google) and most major social networks. To pretend that other countries have anything approaching this capability is patently ludicrous.
soooo, apparently Erlang and Haskell are new languages...
That isn't true. All the GPL requires is that if you distribute a modified version of something licensed under it, you must also make your modifications available to users under the same terms. If you don't distribute your modified version, the license doesn't apply to you at all.

From the perspective of someone contributing code to an open source project, there is no difference between a MIT-licensed or GPL-licensed project -- your contributions are covered under the same license as the project as a whole.
I think the fact that everyone uses Facebook but nobody's particularly fond of it points to three things:

1. Product stagnation. I think the monetization goals of Facebook are also starting to impact the usability and enjoyability of the site.

2. Brand issues. Why is Facebook not cool anymore? Is it simply due to ubiquity? Can they regain that credibility? Is the "youth market" a lost cause for them?

3. The potential for competition in the space. Building a social network seemed like a lost cause battle for many years because it is essentially "owned" by Twitter and FB - and nichely LinkedIn - (at least in the U.S.) For all its many, many (stress: many) flaws, ello showed one thing: people are clamoring for something other than Facebook. Now ello is really a bad approach at this, it feels like a weekend project rooted in one thing: to make sure it could never make money. But I get all that. Even a site with no clear or dependable direction, with atrocious design could generate a lot of interest with some false scarcity. To me that says if you can create "the next social network" and it's actually beautiful and usable and you don't position yourself on some dumb morality issue then there are people who will jump ship.

So while nobody loving Facebook and still using it might seem like all's well, to me it points to a lack of real competition and is - I'm sure - something discussed often at FB & Twitter.
Tell me how to open sas7bdat data file with vim.
I am not a designer by any means, but does anyone else think the images feel a little too big and overpowering to the point the name of the product and price gets lost? The colour of the price for me is hard to see unless you really look as well. It definitely marks an improvement over what their site looked like a few years ago, but I can't help but feel it is not very well thought out.

The limited colour palette of grey and white also means it is sometimes hard for my eyes to differ from the contrast which confuses me (the Beats by Dre section is a good example). Once again, I am not a designer, but I do not find this store redesign very appealing at all, it is confusing on the eye. I hate to be harsh, but feels like I am looking at a catalogue that came in the letterbox with large shouty product images on weird angles.

As for people making remarks about Apple selling third party products on their site, they have done this for as long as I can remember. Laptop cases, third party peripherals (external hard drives), headphones and more. You also have to remember that Apple bought Beats not long ago, so the Beats headphones are actually their own products even if Beats is being operated separately for the moment inside of Apple and probably will continue to do so.
I was thinking this as well. Parent also sounds like they are bitter about not having children while trying to simultaneously dismiss them as a burden.
Man some people just refuse to use anything but C huh
At least they didn't slap a giant, full-screen video loop on the background. That fad can't die soon enough.
I wish the menu icons at the top were a custom web-font or SVG. They look a bit blurry.
What made people sick of Facebook was pages upon pages of Farmville, Mafiaville and other games. And still, I get new game invitations by the day from relatives and work colleagues which I unfortunately cannot unfriend.
How does chip and pin help with card not present transactions?
The dump doesn't have to be AT&T syntax:

objdump -M intel -d program_name
they certainly to not increase one's closeness to the truth that is reality

I have to admit, I'm impressed you have this level of confidence in such a fantastically deep and generalized assumption. Even more interesting is how you rationalize your assumption by stating that those who have derived truth about reality from spirituality or religion are just feeling it to be true.

I'd at least appreciate your vastly superior insight on various topics such as love, justice, forgiveness, mercy, compassion, gratitude, contentment, etc. I never took a science class on those subjects, and I fear that I may just be feeling closer to the truth on those matters.
> (Yes, yes, the CC companies are on the hook for it, and you're not liable for any money charged to a stolen card, etc., etc., but it doesn't make it pleasant. It's stressful.)

I think this really depends on who you are. I find it pretty entertaining every time and enjoy trying to figure out where it was, knowing full well I just bitch at the bank and have little to no issue replacing the card.
As I said, 'Should everyone be expected to set up a shell company in order to purchase real property and still maintain some privacy?'

Personally, I prefer the European approach of the Data Protection Act that gives consumers a fair bit of legal leverage over how their personal information can be used commercially, as opposed to requiring people to engage in expensive obfuscatory security measures.
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1960 "The Fall of Bershire Hathaway" -- the problem is that the textile business has been in decline after WW2, the overseas manufacturers are undercutting on price, and Egyptian cotton is more highly coveted than Alabama cotton. (Unforseen: The company stopped dealing with fabrics and became a holding company for investments.)

1980 "The Fall of Microsoft" -- the problem is that 100% of their revenue is programming tools such as MS BASIC and MS COBOL. These are not the high growth areas. There's a new breed of "productivity" software such as Dan Bricklin's VisiCalc spreadsheet introduced last year and WordPerfect word processor introduced this year. Microsoft is in serious trouble. (Unforseen: They saw explosive growth in MS Office and Windows o/s.)

1983 "The Fall of Intel" -- the problem is that they can't compete with cut throat memory prices from Japan. It's a low margin business. (Unforseen: They emphasized CPUs and got out of the RAM business.)

1997 "The Fall of Apple" -- ... we all know this story, yada yada yada

(The following quotes were made up but I hope people get the point.)

The problem with typical journalists predicting the "fall" of a company is that they base it on publicly known information. They base it on what the company has done in the past. The journalists don't sit in boardroom meetings outlining future plans that are unrelated to their current core revenue generators. The journalists also aren't privy to the secret skunkworks projects in the R&D pipeline. It's understandable that they don't have this information but they almost never make disclaimers of their blind spots which makes their predictions sound more convincing.

That's not to say that companies do fail to evolve. Kodak, Myspace, Atari, etc.

What's hard to say from the outside looking in is if Facebook is a 1980-Microsoft/1983-Intel or is it Kodak/Atari?

I think Zuckerberg and his team are well aware of the precarious and fickle nature of "social networking" and that's why they're exploring other channels such as payments, virtual reality, etc. Maybe they'll even get in on the health care monitoring game as well. If a journalist has some credible educated guesses or grabs an insider's scoop on these unknowns, that's much more interesting than predicting a companies death with incomplete information.
In the past Apple's store website has never worked in Firefox; a typical problem is buttons that don't do anything when pressed (like "add to cart" or "checkout".) With this new site, it almost works with Firefox: I got stuck in an endless loop for engraving on an iPad, but after a chat an Apple tech put the iPad into my cart, and I was able to complete the purchase. Almost!
Actually in studies I saw posted on HN it's been proven willpower is not a muscle but a resource. However you can use more of that precious resource for things that matter by building up habits and avoiding unnecessary situations which drain your willpower. That said, physical state affects willpower level, so exercises and meditation do help a lot.
I'd liken this to the position Microsoft held in the late 90s and early 2000s. Most people had an active dislike for MS, and undoubtedly helped the meteoric rise of Apple as the MS-alternative.

FaceBook already has had companies brand themselves as the anti-FaceBook.
Imaging your entire IT department being wiped out instantly overnight, managers included. How quickly would it take you to restore access to your infrastructure?