skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, it's for showing off-site content on your own secure pages, such as a portal site showing a photo-of-the-day from another site or an RSS feed containing images.

Yes, you could roll your own solution, but this is, well, easier and lots of non-programmer admins might have trouble with it. This is just a simple way to access that site without having to write or load scripts onto your server.

Right now, it's just a straight passthrough (GET/ECHO) of the requested URL, nothing fancy. If you request an HTML or RSS page it will try some basic munging of the content to change the non-SSL links to reroute them through the fixssl system. I could expand on those if there's any interest in the service.
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You don't need to convince me. I was just pointing out the fallacy in the parent's argument from popularity. I can like meditation without liking bad arguments for it.
Except that Steve's quote is a good argument for the conservative interpretation, which says that if you don't use an iOS app as advertisement for non-App Store payment, nothing changes. Because to me it seems like there's no necessary IAP option implied and if the publisher isn't using Apple's means (including the iOS platform itself), it keeps its 100%.

That battle of interpretations rages on, unless I've heard different. It looks like Marco is taking the liberal interpretation (apps must accept IAP as a form of payment for any services they offer).

It seems to me this is the underlying debate.
Programmer/Designer Bartering of Services?
I'm a Rails engineer by day, wanna-be-entrepreneur by night. I have a subscription site that I have maintained for years that is desperately in need of aesthetic redesign. It doesn't make much money (never has) but I am fond of it, so I'd like to keep maintaining it.

If there was a designer out there:

1) That needed development work done and
2) That can produce an html/css mockup for their requested feature set and
3) Can outline in detail the specific features they'd need me to implement and
4) Their features were similar in scope for the effort needed to redesign my site,

then I'd be willing to do some development work in exchange for design work.

Any ideas as to where I could search for this type of arrangement?
Don't take this the wrong way, but this question is really something more suited to be asked on Quora than Hacker News.
It's more for content you don't control that you want to include in a site. For example, if you want to show the CNN feed within a secure portal page, it will give you the mixed-content warning because of the images in the feed.

Running the RSS feed through FixSSL does some basic remapping of the links so that it routes the images through FixSSL, which prevents the mixed-content warnings from appearing.

Of course, if CNN (and other sites) offered HTTPS versions of their feeds, there would be no need for this, but until they do it serves a purpose.
How? Do they charge higher rates than elsewhere - effectively using supply and demand and saying: "You don't have anywhere else to go, so pay my rates."
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All of those things are very easy to implement with Twilio (which I thought even before I started working there).
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Too level-headed for my taste. Since he wasn't going to write this to Apple, he really shouldn't be afraid to show some passion. What good is a startup with a founder who isn't passionate about his product.
There's stealing, and then there's stealing.

I don't think what this kid did was actual "stealing". Had I been at Valve in a position to hire, I would have definitely considered hiring the kid (after evaluating how contrite he was, and how good he was, and on the condition that he keep his mouth shut, for fear of spawning copycats). But maybe that's because I've done such rebellious things in the past myself, and have a soft spot for true "hackers".
via Wikipedia: The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.

So I guess that means a meter is 30.66331898849836976219 cesium-133 transition periods.
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VentureBeat, GigaOm, TheNextWeb, ReadWriteWeb, The Startup Foundry, AllThingsD and of course, Hacker News
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Set top boxes are flaky? I've had quite the opposite experience. These have been the fastest, most responsive STB's I've ever worked with. Kicks the crap out of the Time Warner boxes.
I really dig a lot of the ideas in this app but find the UI to be a bit confusing.

I'll take a step back and say that many of the ideas in twitterfall are ideas we've considered adding to VoiceRally.

Twitterfall is a great app and I'm elated to see what other people are doing in this area, but I wish the commenter would have added more to the discussion than a link. (Please add some context if you get the opportunity!)

The main reason we're putting a post out there about this app is three-fold: We're looking to give back to the community by sharing our experience with these technologies, draw out feedback from potential users, and if necessary, pivot to meet those needs.

On that note I'd like to suggest that anyone who has read through the article and has seen the resulting app to give us some feedback on what they would improve about the existing functionality, and what they envision being a logical and realistic end for an application like this one.

Thanks in advance,
Devin
Nope, it's politics, it should be banned, period. I agree heartily with the point of the article, but it should not be here.
This is not a new phenomenon. Any time there is a commercial interest to be had pushing one variety of thing over another, people will try to extend their value propisition by listing advantages inherent in their product (Or in the users!)

All To-do lists can help you get organized. All social networks can help you connect with friends, but being connected is why people are friends in the first place.

It's sad that people need to deliberately emphasize these points, but if they don't, the more complex systems for which benefits NEED to be explained get more attention, deserved or not.

I don't see the need for use-cases for most products, but once you mix in other, competing products with the inherent fear people have of being a bad [Responsible Entity] (Be that parent, boss, developer), giving them becomes a more attractive option. As long as your own work advertises its use fairly, without fear, you're on sturdy moral ground AFAIC.
so, you called somebody's baby ugly and you are surprised at the response?
I am technical and I get dizzy looking at Jira. The product has some great capabilities, but they REALLY need to optimize the UI for particular user personas and not just puke every feature on the screen.
We use Jira, but it is much more than a bug tracker. With Greenhopper, it offers us complete issue management, which includes iteration planning in stories and tasks. With FishEye it integrates a view on our subversion repositories into that, allowing crosslinks and beating the pants off of any other solution.

We switched to Jira after getting annoyed at Mantis once too often. We all had experience with Bugzilla, which is like using bow and arrow in these days of guns. We investigated for a bit, looked at Trac and FogBugz amongst others, but decided in favor of Jira, primarily because of Greenhopper. Issue management without decent planning abilities is like a blunt knife: usable, but unnecessarily hard. Haven't regretted it one single bit.
I agree that it is good to be a "generalist" or a "full stack programmer". I try to be one myself.

Be careful when you hear these classifications coming from recruiters. Whenever I have heard "generalist" what was meant was "someone who can magically already do everything within our narrow domain of concerns."
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Is it possible to print directly to the fax service? That's what we've did once for a very similar service: Provide a server using the Internet Printing Protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol) that clients configure as remote printer (this works fine in Windows and Linux, we didn't test OS X at this time). The things that a user has printed are stored in an "outbox", where the user can just click on an item and specify where it should be sent. The advantage of this method is that you don't need the upload step and that you are able to support any application (without requiring users to convert the data to PDF first).
I attended a talk by an economist, and he gave the following explanation of how things worked. The assumption is: the value of a seat goes to 0 at the instant a plane takes off.

For a given number of seats available, you can plot a price (Y axis) -vs- time left (X axis) curve. This curve will gently slope down and hit 0 when t=0. Now you can plot a whole series of such curves, one for each N (where N = number of seats available). As N goes lower, the curves are higher.

If you're at a certain point in the curve for a particular N, if a seat gets sold, then you can jump up to the curve for N-1 . Obviously, the airlines' systems aren't fast enough to do this in realtime; so they do this adjustment in batches (every Monday and Wednesday?).

Anyways: this was what he claimed was going on. I'm not sure how correct the above is.
Maybe it's a planned double-whammy.
Another worthy pursuit: buy all of Brian Kernighan's books, not just The C Programming Language. It is well worth the pain of becoming slightly familiar with Fortran and Pascal to read these little gems.

Being familiar with how things work is undoubtedly useful, but I argue if you are an application developer, learning software construction is equally if not more important.

See also: Code Complete, Programming Pearls, and C interfaces and implementations.
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redmine users may be interested in the recent fork: http://www.chiliproject.org

the forking devs are going to be comitting some more radical changes it seems
for sure. hit us up! We love HN!
They have to pick 30% because in-app purchases are charged at 30%. You can't have two variations of the same thing (one that auto-renews and one that doesn't) charged differently.

Let's say the subscription cut was 10%. Everyone would release their apps as free, and charge for everything as a "subscription" because it's less than the 30% cut for app sales or non-auto renewable in-app purchases.

Basically, there is no other percentage that Apple can use here, for very good reasons. If they lower the percentage for this, they have to lower all the other percentages.

And that's not going to happen, because 30% is pretty reasonable for what they provide. The Android Market takes 30%, and Amazon takes 70% for Kindle subscriptions.

Edit: IMHO, everyone talking about the percentage is missing the point. The problem is the policy itself. It's just too general and broadly applied for a huge amount of stuff out there. Marco nails the issues here: http://www.marco.org/3437484678
The server had a hard time dealing with the load. I suspect running node.js on Cygwin contributes negatively in that regard. Furthermore, my custom serverside canvas could probably benefit from being asynchronous, and the server really should batch up updates within a certain time frame, to not hammer other clients.
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Few will admit that we don't have anything close to a free market in healthcare today (or for the past several decades). A truly free market is one unfettered by the FDA, medicare, medicaid, doctor regulations, hospital regulations, HMO regulations, insurance regulations, etc. All of these controls were ostensibly put in place to protect patients, but in actuality they serve to slow innovation and true access to medicine to a crawl.

It is true that some people will choose badly when left to their own devices, but that's better than forcing the same dumb rule on everyone. Each of us is an end in ourselves. So long as we do not violate the negative rights of others, we are responsible only for our own lives, not the lives of our brothers.
Yes. Custom implementation I never updated beyond the very basics. There has since been released a better node.js canvas by LearnBoost.
For the record, Stormbringer's solution is slightly less than sqrt(n) in the worst case. floor((k * k + k)/2) = n; solve for k to get approximately sqrt(2 * n)

The (Sqrt(n) * 2)-1 solution is less efficient, but only by a roughly constant factor of approximately sqrt(2). (14 vs 19, when n=100)

Patio11's binary+linear algorithm is almost certainly the inefficient solution that the blogger hinted at.

Patio11 claims to have coded an even more efficient solution, but has not explained it.
I for one suspect his supposedly more efficient solution has a bug, but I have not inspected or tested his code.
Not likely. The only reason the elite colleges are elite is because they try their best to only admit the students who will be helped the least.
someone's done their homework :)

Not so sure if we fall into the software dev category so much as the web dev category as we're really only supporting tracking on websites and web apps.
Indeed, even in 1976:
http://financialsector.blogspot.com/2006/12/td-green-machine...
I use github issues too. If you prefer the shell over the browser you may want to use this - https://github.com/kashifrazzaqui/github-issues
Isn't fax spam illegal in the USA? Or are you elsewhere?
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I've used Flyspray <http://flyspray.org/>; on a couple of projects with two other team members and it has worked well. It is php+mysql/postgresql, so it installs almost anywhere.
At $50-100/month, they would have to sap you for nearly a
decade to make up a single surgery.

The point of insurance is that the risk that you need a lot of attention is diluted by being in a pool with insurance takers that mostly don't need that attention. You pay for your surgery together. Insurance has the interesting property of being an inherently Socialist service that you are purchasing from capitalist companies: Big Brother takes care. The main problem in the US seems to be that people refuse to accept the Socialist nature of the service, which means they feel everything above their own medical expensen is too expensive. That means you just don't understand the service you are purchasing.
> There are an assortment of technical barriers that limit my ability to convert my toaster into an ice-making toaster. Starting with those annoying screws which were clearly put there to prevent me from easily accessing the inside of my toaster!

That's a terrible argument to make in Apple's case:

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20110125/0207...

It wasn't accidental, necessary or even cheaper to make the iPhone require a jailbreak before you could install your own stuff, after all.

> The govt has already declared that jail breaking your phone is legal.

That's a very misleading way to put it.

I already explained why the Librarian of Congress' exemption for jailbreaking an iPhone is useless because they do not (and cannot) exempt anyone from the ban on trafficking in such tools.

You can read more about how the DMCA works here:
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/blakereid/new-dmca-exe...

Hopefully that will be enough that you can understand why the Librarian of Congress wrote, "Nor is this rulemaking about the ability to make or distribute products or services used for purposes of circumventing access controls, which are governed by a different part of section 1201."

Source: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-120...

That's the statement in which the Librarian of Congress exempted people from the ban on circumvention (but not trafficking) things like iPhones. The specific phone exemption is exemption #2.

Now then, how does one jailbreak an iPhone legally if they're not allowed to make or distribute the means to do so?

If you read the Freedom to Tinker article, you'll remember that the DMCA says that you cannot "manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof" that is "primarily designed" to circumvent, has only "limited commercially significant" non-circumvention purposes, or is "marketed" for circumvention purposes.

That word "manufacture" is the sticky one, not that you can't run afoul of the others. Damn hard to circumvent things when you can neither make nor import the tools to do so.

The DMCA is one big catch-22. Claiming that the government has declared this legal is very dangerous. IANAL and you need proper legal advice before dealing with this stuff.

I solve it by not owning an iPhone in the first place.
in one of the earlier studies, India was among the top 5 countries responsible for clickfraud..
United denies everything they possibly can and they make "mistakes" that take so long to find you get past their dispute time.

Do not go through United trying to get them to pay this. Prepare for a day spent on the phone with the hospital until you find the person in the billing or services department who can really get to the bottom of it. They will figure out for you which technicality the insurance company is trying to use and what the correct one is. I had something similar happen and, after a day on the phone, was able to get the incorrect code that was used, how much they were supposed to pay, and what to say to them (this needs to be reprocessed according to X agreement).

From there you need to write a letter to United saying you want the case appealed. Send it certified mail and be prepared for the first response acknowledging your letter and the second one, about 30 days later, with the result of your appeal.

PS: I would have emailed this to you but couldn't find any contact information in your profile.
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Do you mean "incrementally by 1 each iteration" where you wrote "monotontically", in your reference to Stormbringer's algorithm?

Mathematically, I do not see how any solution could beat Stormbringer's, by considering the cases where tolerance = k+0.5 and tolerance = ((kk +k)/2+0.5, which shows that the set of tolerances for a building of height > (kk+k)/2 requires >= k+1 drops to validate. But I have not been quite formal in my analysis.

(Argh, asterisks!)
From here: http://doc.jsfiddle.net/api/post.html?highlight=normalized, given this:

>normalize_css: yes or no - should normalize.css be loaded before any CSS declarations?

I'm guessing it's an external CSS file, probably to enforce consistency between browsers. Haven't looked at it, though - just assuming. "normalize" is nowhere else in the documentation, oddly enough.
Did anyone else find it ironic that it was published by someone at Princeton?
What?

The user gets the content on their preferred device in their preferred format.

That wasn't difficult.
Assembla. Lots of project management tools and source control all wrapped into one service. Theres a few things I'd change but it gets the job done.
Avoiding a lot of the discussion here to make a quick but important observation: I suggested in a comment I believe I posted here months ago that Apple would add its "Reader" to the iOS platform.

This is a calculated move on Apple's part to make sure that when they deploys Safari Reader for the iPhone it is /their/ idea and not the folks at Readability.

Shame, shame, shame. I know you're name.
To say that symbols are strings that happened to be interned, while true, doesn't, I think, capture their essence. I think the best way to understand symbols is that they are literals of an infinite enumeration type. Symbols are names that refer to things.
"""Think about it, in the 'full stack' of browser -> client -> interweb -> web server -> app server -> db server the little bit of code that you wrote is minuscule compared to what you didn't write."""
This. The old saying "don't prematurely optimize" has never been truer. Too bad it's gotten harder to profile. Unless you write a boring CGI, one-load-per-page site, you're never going to be able to get all of that information server-side. The only way is with browser-based testing frameworks... Sigh.
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I never knew Kernighan wrote a pascal book. (or a version of a book in pascal). Neat. Also ampl seems quire useful, I've written my own versions of some of that stuff in mathematica. It'd be great to have it already done for me.
Before that positive outcome can have a chance of happening, we have to get rid of the obscenely expensive hopeless palliative end-of-life care (cue teabaggers screaming about "death panels"), and make basic healthcare universally available.

The only ways that increased healthcare spending can increase productivity are through effective preventive measures and corrective treatments that return the patient to sufficient health to be productive, but that's not where our super-high healthcare costs come from.

They come from the consequences of delayed care (eg. using only emergency rooms when you're uninsured, necessitating more risky treatments for more advanced problems, which means higher malpractice premiums) and from end-of-life care.
Slick article, and really dope wordpress theme. Anyone have the source?
One thing that threw me a little when I read Mindfulness in Plain English the first time was how they describe following your breathing in Vipassana.

There are a number of methods people use including the one mentioned in the book, observing the breath at the nostrils, and any of them are ok. I personally find the chest and throat works best for me.

Another thing I found hugely helpful getting started (other than finding a sangha) was getting a sense of body. When you start to sit just feel your body, is it heavy, energetic, etc. Feel places your body is touching, the floor, the chair, etc and then slowly focus in on your breath.

A final piece of advice, try not to meditate on pain if you can help it. When you first start out sitting will probably hurt (that doesn't mean you should fidget or ignore it). However meditating on pain is actually pretty easy. You'll quickly realise that it makes everything else harder to meditate on because it is extremely intense so you less sensitive to other things. The solution is to spend a little time making sure you are sitting right or spending some session in seated meditation.

Contact details are on my profile. Feel free to ask me any questions. I've been practicing Theravada and Vipassana for a while.
It's a simple reset.css

http://fiddle.jshell.net/css/normalize.css
If Dropbox looses your data, all company documents are gone? Or just all faxes you sent?
I am not affiliated w/ the company, but it sounds like it could work out. Engineers solve problems. Why shouldn't they be able to solve a problem like recruiting?
And even at that you'll need a network nightmare box or equivalent to simulate all the high latency connections out there.
How can you spot and truly understand memory leaks without having to manage memory allocation by yourself?

My peers (students) and I have discussed this several times. It's a good example, and we use it to argue for continuing to teach C to new CS students at our school.

(It often seems the CS department is trying to move in the Java + Python, and nothing else, direction)
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