skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Meteor is not the front-end. The problem is that data exists (for the most part) in Relational DBs.

This prevents Meteor from being used in any environment that needs to/wants to use a SQL db.

This prevents Meteor from being used in any form, for any application that needs to access existing data in a SQL db.

React does not prevent Meteor being adopted - not having SQL support is a dealbreaker.

If Meteor does not confront and solve this problem nothing else matters.

The only thing MDG should be doing in 2016, is SQL DB support.
I'll think it's easier (maybe more expensive) to just use Galaxy, and scale. Then host your Mongo database on Compose.io that also scales.
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Should we also then count the amount of money that are lost to bitcoins being stolen due to malware, poorly written private key generators, exit scams and so forth?

I think what I did was a fair comparison.
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"and stuff your keys in your pants"

"He was reaching for a gun!"
Get off of the car, then get shot by a cop?
The person who gets stuck maintaining your code cares.
J. Cole said it,

"Don't save her
She don't wanna be saved
Don't save her
She don't wanna be saved".

REST is a convention. Like all conventions it excels in some cases and confuses in others. If it adds ambiguity to your API, you might consider not using REST. But no matter what don't take the path of most resistance and embrace a convention just because..
Anecdotally, the area has some bearing on cop behavior, but as always YMMY. Typically, I've seen major city cops & speed trap cops are generally efficient. They will issue a citation, or provide a verbal warning and send the individual on their way.

Cops in rural areas with very little to do and very little oversight from say fellow state troopers tend to sour and abuse their power in ways the uneducated would have no idea that their rights were being trampled on.

Even when people know, if there's no consequence (e.g. got illegally searched, but nothing was found), people tend to not bother with obtaining justice against these behaviors as the time and money involved to complain, sue, etc brings very little reward for the effort involved. So we have a feedback loop where cops can abuse their power and nothing of consequence ever really comes about.

If the power abuse yields are juicy find such as alcohol, drugs or any illegal product, people will tend to be more preoccupied with getting charged, that they also have little wherewithal to attempt to seek justice for the given officer's actions. Thus we have another feedback loop that positively reinforces abusive behavior. Trample on someone's right and make them a felon, then get a pat on the back for taking said felon off the streets.
That seems in line with innocent until proven guilty. "Probable cause" without any repercussions if it's wrong, probably isn't very probable.
The words you picked out of context were not aimed at that OP's site.

Profanity is not equivalent to lack of civility. Some of the most well-spoken people have been some of the most profane and brutal in human history. For example, I wonder if Hitler ever cursed in his speeches.

Anyhow, the flowery language was intended to impress upon the owner of this website that there's an urgent need to fix this website because, well, it won't sell very much as it is.

Too many entrepreneurs think selling is done by showing what you make (hardware, software, website). No, it isn't.

I was in that camp twenty-five years ago. I thought I knew how to sell the wonderful hardware I worked so hard to develop. To my credit, I had the good sense to give myself an "F" during a self evaluation of my ability to sell. And that was followed by working hand-in-hand with our first resellers for a full year.

We'd go show the hardware to potential customers and they'd let me do the pitch. After the visit we'd stop at Starbucks for a post-mortem. For the first four to six months they often started with "why the FUCK did you say...".

After a year I got to the point where I could sell our products almost without uttering a word about them during sales visits. I graduated.

Anyhow, from a salesmanship perspective this website is terrible. All it is good for is to mimic current trends in web styling, yet, from a sales perspective it will be horribly ineffective.

When you are trying to sell a product being clever, trendy or sexy seldom works. Having a beautiful woman eat a burger half naked on a pickup truck isn't going to make me want to go to that restaurant. It's a spectacle. It has shock value. I'll probably watch it. But it does nothing to position the product in a useful manner, compel me to learn more and consider buying it.

Building a website loaded with cool and trendy crap is having a website loaded with cool and trendy crap. It is NOT building a website that rocks at salesmanship.

Some of the ugliest ads and websites rock at selling. A/B testing often reveals incredible surprises about how people respond to what they see online.

The OP needs to pay a sales consultant to help them redo the entire thing. It won't be trendy, but it will sell.
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Because they are the right tool that most people using Q-tips should be using instead. Surprised that this article doesn't cover that.
If you can recite all of that first go then you're almost certainly clean and sober. :P
Any system is going to be vulnerable to botnets with more computing power than the government network.
I like web2py too though there don't seem to be too many people using it. Comparing to things like Meteor and Rails it's striking how it's remained backward compatible and much the same since it was launched 8 years ago.
I make the stuff and put it under MIT :) Everybody (including me) is free to include it in anything, so long as you don't sue me for having used it.
Excellent point. Libraries are public services. They're funded by private groups and governments. But it's not just about charity. There's an expectation of social benefit, which indirectly benefits even private funders.
I am away from my iPad on a business trip for a week. I just happen to catch it before I left. I'll try to have a look when I get back and post specifics.

That said, the problem isn't that it doesn't work on the iPad. The problem is that you've managed to build a website using what I call "trendy technologies and look" that is, I am sorry to say, absolutely worthless from a salesmanship perspective.

I can't post a fix-it list here. You would be well served paying a sales consultant who knows your industry to help you redo the entire thing. And I do mean the entire thing.
WTF are native mobile clients supposed to do with an endpoint that returns HTML?
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DD-WRT or Tomato

That was my first thought as well, but no such luck...

It's a Netgear CG3700B, an EU DOCSIS model.

EDIT: actually, I may have been wrong about DD-WRT (https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_WNDR3700). What's the relationship between the WNDR3700 and the CG3700B, I wonder... they certainly look the same, so I'm hoping that A) mine is the EU version of the above router and B) it uses a compatible firmware.
I'd be curious to know what you find hard about React?

Also a CRUD app that just grows organically needs a well-tuned architecture too, once it grows large enough.
Yet another reason it's a great idea to get your own dash cam if you're doing long road trips.
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Last I checked, ASCII is an encoding, and was transmitted in packets, so if you're relying on tools to decode and unpack your messages, why not simply upgrade them?

Also, people don't seem to complain about the cost of HTTP over SSL in these discussions on HTTP/2. I've never understood that. If you're allowing for TLS, why not HTTP/2?
WASHINGTON, June 27 [2005] - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.

http://nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-...

But city lawyers are arguing that the police had no legal duty to protect Joseph Lozito, the Long Island dad stabbed seven times trying to subdue madman Maksim Gelman — a courtroom maneuver the subway hero calls “disgraceful.”

http://nypost.com/2013/01/27/city-says-cops-had-no-duty-to-p...

I'd say they're already doing a good job of inaction.
Vue.js seems like backbone. Last time i checked Ember looked way complicated. What i like about React is the simplicity. Its basically JavaScript with few React functions thrown in. As a view component its very good. I have used it in normal rails app as well.
GP was pretty obviously tongue-in-cheek.
Asserting everything is defensive programming. You don't have to survive errors to be defensive. The defence comes from noticing them.
I don't recall the source, but I remember learning that dry earwax is almost unheard of in people of African and European descent. It's most common in Asian people.

Even more interesting is that there is apparently a very strong correlation between the type of earwax you have and whether or not your body odour (sweat-related) is strong. I was surprised to learn that many asian people never use deodorant because they simply don't need it.
GraphQL and Relay may be the answer but it's too young to make that switch now and Meteor is solving that exact problem. Meteor has the momentum and community to take it further. Maybe it actually adopts the GraphQL standard and unifies it into the ultimate dev UX experience.
The case can't be too valid if the police aren't confident the person is guilty. It sounds exactly like more detective work would be advised, to avoid harming innocent people.

But yes obviously it would be less efficient to fund the true cost of policing, rather than leaving it the reverse lottery we have now. But not doing so is essentially a violation of due process, as the victims are extrajudicially punished based on mere suspicion.
Sigh. Seems like the author has never really come across JSON-LD.
I hate to bring it up, but are you white? I suspect that race, and where you live changes these things a lot. Don't get me wrong, I agree that being respectful, polite, and not being a pain in the ass helps.

I'm white, and have been pulled over a couple of times, with no real issue. The one time I was riding with a black family member (who had done nothing ticket-able, or suspicious) was one of the longest and most troublesome police incidents I've ever seen. Anecdotal? yes, but it mirrors statistics that I've seen.
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I think it's both. Many people want to live in a dense neighborhood (hence urbanization), and if you restrict growth, you make your area unattractive to those people.
See, when people see that, they miss the point a bit. The beauty of Mongo is it syngerzies extremely well with a pure javascript approach.
Maybe I don't understand what you mean, but I'd argue that if your competitive advantage is that slight, you'll likely get killed even if you make it to market first.
When I was a much younger fellow I was involved in an incident that should have netted us a whole bunch of trouble. We were out on the beach at a park breaking about every rule in the book: ad-hoc firepit during a burn ban, setting off fireworks, open alcohol where "No alcohol" was clearly posted, underage drinking, etc. A park ranger happened upon us and was none too pleased with our activities. He had us pack up our stuff and follow him back to our illegally parked cars and I was certain a large fine would be our very best outcome. He started lecturing us as he collected each of our IDs but the moment my friend handed him an active military ID the mood instantly changed. He started talking about how nice the nature was and sent us off with a warning. Blew my mind.
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FWIW, I accidentally left a machine running for a month and ended up owing ~$700. I called them and told them I wasn't using it and they gave me the money back. I'd give it a try if I were you.
Not that i love REST, but for an app that needs to work offline, boring ass REST is a pretty straight forward way to sync the mobile and remote databases.
EQCSS is for element queries, scoped CSS, IE8 support, and a whole ton of other goodies - check it out at http://elementqueries.com

Most of the other plugins and things are included in https://github.com/tomhodgins/template-factory

My HTML/CSS/JS/CLI snippets file is located here: https://gist.github.com/tomhodgins/27c29ecb4aceaefe5cdf

My responsive testing tool is located at: https://github.com/tomhodgins/speedtest You can use your keyboard keys 1-0 to test a variety of widths quickly, or use the buttons on mobile to test widths your phone or tablet can't physically emulate

If you're looking for a 'view source' tool for mobile, check out https://github.com/tomhodgins/sourceror It's a simple PHP proxy that loads the requested site and displays it as content on the page. For example, I have it hosted at http://staticresource.com/inspect so I can append a URL after a '?' and see the code formatted nicely. Like http://staticresource.com/inspect/?http://staticresource.com...

You can also check out my CodePen profile, here's my collection of 'Front-end snippets', but I've got plenty more on there you can feel free to use or expand on: http://codepen.io/collection/nNqyvZ/

Hope that sets you off to a good start :)
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Ask HN: Best cross platform app development framework in 2016?
I'm looking into developing an app and I'm wondering the best way to code it once since I can't devote the time to learning native iOS/Android development.
> Suppose the officer pulled you over to tell you your tail light is out.

A cop doesn't pull you over to tell you your tail light is out. They pull you over because a broken tail-light is sufficient cause to stop you, hoping that the traffic stop leads to something more than a verbal warning.
The submitted story has a confusing timestamp. It's dated January 2016, but there's a line that says "(Story originally created Nov. 10, 2014)"...I suspect it's a problem with the news site's CMS (which is probably shit, a situation most news sites have to deal with)...they probably created a new URL to package this story in their larger ongoing investigation.

In 2014, Radley Balko blogged about this incident:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/11/12/...

Obviously doesn't change the impact or interest in the story (if anything, goes to show how much interesting news you can forget about or not know about when it was originally published), but the submitted title needs a "(2014)" in it. I was interested if this story went anywhere, but a Google search for Ronnie Hankins name didn't turn up much.
Really? I guess that I didn't read carefully enough. If that's the case, how would it be acceptable? As I recall, a huge cybercrime bust some months ago involved malware that replaced native ads. Also, that was one of the widely criticized features of the malware that Lenovo was putting on its consumer notebooks. I suppose that this is at least legal because it's users who would be installing the browser. But it would still be iffy.
FWIW, it appears that the software development process in Toyota is pretty screwed, and the bugs that saw the light lately seems to confirm it
I also previously worked for Microsoft (Azure Active Directory). We took code quality very seriously. All new features required at least 80% code coverage from tests before commit (not a particularly high bar, but a pragmatic one). New features also required a test plan + review covering stress/perf, unit, integration, & system tests. Many features required threat models which were reviewed with the security team.

Progress/bugs were reviewed weekly at ship room. Live site issues were reviewed the next morning (involving the relevant on-call engineers).

So as with any large company which isn't a monoculture, things vary from team to team.

Also, calling them "M$" in 2016?
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>> Watts is also off the road, but by her own choosing. She remains with the Florida Highway Patrol but no longer looks for speeders because she is afraid her fellow officers would no longer back her up in an emergency.

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/11/26/fhp-trooper-donna-watts...

even on duty officers doing their jobs aren't immune... if you don't follow the blue code of silence, the blue code will stalk you.
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I'd like to add that a few "anti-business pro-freedom-everywhere radical[s]" thrown in the mix might be just what consumer software needs...
I have trained German Shepherd Dogs for Schutzhund competition for years. I have three right now. I can make them do just about anything I want on command. And that does not mean verbal commands. A look, a flick of a finger, gesture, even moving my foot.

I am not saying this is what happened here, but I'd be careful to trust a dog unless the training was absolutely 100% verified not to have trained anything that could allow the handler to command the dog to "hit".
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"Eventually, most of these connections will likely become wireless."

I have my doubts. It takes a lot of effort to enable 10GB/s wireless transmission. The spectrum is physically constrained by bandwidth, noise and interference, and it becomes evident in wireless. While a fairly cheap piece of ethernet cable and router will enable several Gbit/s (up to 400 Gbit/s soon, that's simple impossible in the 2.4Ghz band due to spectrum and current interference situation. So you need to use a less overcrowded, shorter range band with multiple physical antennas of large size, and you get beautiful monstrosities such as this:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016EWKQAQ

And the only way up from there (about 10Gbit/s) imo, is to move to other frequencies entirely, and lose many aspects that make wireless convenient, like wall penetration and long range.

So I think wireless isn't a very elegant solution for high bandwidth. What would be ideal I think is that every outlet would have a Type-C port that you could plug your device and get both power and high speed internet.

Keep WiFi and other wireless technologies low power and low bandwidth (actually improving the interference situation), like browsing, reading remote sensors and controlling appliances -- for things/situations that are meant to be remote, wireless.

Note: this was already addressed in some comments here... I'll leave this for my own reference :)
Because TLS works with many protocols. Encryption software is hard to write and should be reusable for multiple services; the world is not the web.
I recently did something similar with corporate accountability data. Here's how: http://www.slashdb.com/2015/11/14/slashdb-api-evangelist-twi...
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I think its just a naming issue/confusion. JSON APIs are not RESTful ? ok, fine. Lets rename it to JSON API architecture and move on. Nobody is going to flip and start sending HTMLs now in responses just because its not "RESTful". Who care? It works. Lets fix it when it breaks. End of story!
Why didn't France adopt the longbow like England did?
Can you tell me more about how it breaks? If that video is misbehaving it probably means other videos on my site are as well.

Here's a direct link in case it helps
https://player.vimeo.com/external/152389902.hd.mp4?s=ec96813...
> The entire site is 81.4KB right now, and 76.8KB of that is the font.

This means that the website could have bean 17x smaller if there was just no font loaded.

This article reminds me of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

I don't think that 5KB sites should be a standard, some pages just needs pictures or JS to give the experience the users needs. But a developer should always know what he is doing: If all you want to do is a show/hide toggle, then don't include a full blown JS library.
That's a good point. When I get into hating on ads, it's easy to forget about people for whom "micropayments" would not be so "micro". So the system would need a free option. Maybe just with ads. But how could ads be worth anything if only poor people viewed them? Maybe something like a distributed library system. Non-poor freeloaders might be problematic, however. Maybe add a delay for free access. Or reduce bandwidth to slow loading.
Is there anything in the article to support the claim in the title, that the car was "illegally searched"?

As much as it galls me, my understanding is that this kind of thing is procedurally legal. Drug dogs can "alert" based on nonsense, and that forms the pretense for a legal search. The Supreme Court seems willing to say "you can't be held waiting for a drug dog" (Rodriguez v. U.S.), but doesn't seem to be willing to adjudicate the accuracy of those dogs.

My personal belief is that they should be banned, unless we're willing to hold them to a very high accuracy rate. Like, if consequences of a false alert are "career-ending", and not just "Tuesday afternoon".

But as much as I hate this, describing it as "illegal" seems inaccurate.
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Probably he doesn't want his kids to do drugs and crime and get shitty grades. Or be the victim of crime
Uhmm, very interesting. I'll need to read up on this.

Thanks for the other commenter for links as well.

Edit:

Btw... that must have been really cold whether!
It's a trademark too, so if they don't enforce it then they'll lose it? Perhaps enforceability is already lost...
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This is an ad for intercooler.js.

If I make an API request to a remote server, I want data back, which I will then process in some way. It might not be displayed to a user at all. I don't want HTML to display to the user. That's too hard to process in a program. Also, if it returns HTML, it will probably have an ad in it, or Javascript, or a tracker, or something else obnoxious.

If you're accessing an API which deals with financial data, you usually plan to graph it or compare it or issue a trade order. The server has no idea what you want the data for, and doesn't have a need to know. You don't want HTML back; then you'd have to scrape the numbers out of that.

JSON in, JSON out as an RPC mechanism is useful. It's easier to use than SOAP, and few SOAP servers seem to actually obey their published schema anyway. (Run a checking SOAP client and call something complicated to see this.)
Jesus christ. Thanks for a link with browser-takeover, ad-spam crap. Loaded the page, and the window's taken over by a popover from MacKeeper or whatever the hell it is. Click the dismiss button, and it opens a fucking new page to their site to download shit. Close that window. Think maybe I mis-clicked. Do it again--because it's still taking up the whole damn screen--same result. How do you read such a shitty site with such user-hostile practices? And even if you can, why would you post such a link to HN?

Gah. Time to get an adblocker, I guess.

Anyway, SCOTUS hasn't ruled on smelling marijuana and probable cause as far as I can tell. That was, to my knowledge, the Arizona Court of Appeals and the Massachusetts Supreme Court.