skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$ git clone http://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-start.git
Thanks, wh-uws. I've posted it to my blog here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/sometimes-a-computer-pr...
Nice.

Check out another similar clojure library called "MR-Kluj" that you can use to write Hadoop MapReduce jobs in Clojure: https://github.com/cheddar/mr-kluj
Does anyone else find it odd that the barcode doesn't entirely consist of a primary key referencing a passenger database?

I do somewhat understand the desire to encode additional information for cases when, for example, network connectivity is lost at an airport terminal, but mostly this just seems unnecessary.
So can Firefox[1] :)

[1] http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar
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When you have a list of constantly-updated virus signatures being matched against a set of constantly-updated program binaries, this sort of thing seems like only a matter of time...
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In the phonegap docs I see a single method to access the iOS camera, camera.getPicture. Is there anyway to access video as well?
No gain at all? How do you figure?
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Nearly EVERY modern antivirus uses heuristics, and all of them use more complex signatures than simple hashes. It's quite possible that some byte signature that was added to catch some sort of malware is also present in Google Chrome.
You just proved the authors point.
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What I'm saying is that you make it so as soon as the light stops blinking it's safe to remove. That means that you can have a cache as long as you flush it almost immediately.

I've been bitten a couple times before by pulling drives on linux that weren't being written to, but still had a cache waiting to be written. I learned my lesson about not dismounting on an OS configuration where it isn't safe, but disabling caches is not the only way to be safe.

It might take 10 seconds to flush the cache. That's okay. The key is that you never go more than a quarter second without writing to the disk until the cache is empty.
(Unfortunately the person who posted the above two comments proved him/herself to be a total jerk by deleting them, so this thread became an orphan)

Exactly. Now that I think about it, I would very much like to go against an autonomous drone than a manned one, I wouldn't want to fight a proxy of a person sitting a large distance away. At least you have a chance (albeit very small) of harming/disabling your opponent so it seems more "fair".
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Funny I just released an application using this method yesterday. Too bad the Apple sales reporting site is down. I wanted to see how well HTML5 Apps sell.

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How does this differ from other software markets?
We launched TheFix.com on Pantheon, very early on (eight months ago), and have been really happy with the platform. Pantheon costs them about 20% of the server cluster we would otherwise have recommended.

This is an bigger deal, from a tech perspective, than the TC story implies. Automating Drupal hosting and really solving the developer workflow is a real feat. Most of what Rails or Django has in config files or framework-driven build scripts is stored in the database. This makes staging and deployment kind of a pain.
You might be surprised: my Amiga 4000T with a 68060 processor, and full complement of cards (graphics, network, sound) has no fans other than the case fan - all running off a very modest (by current standards) power supply: because there's very little heat generated.

And while I'm missing many of my favorite modern apps, for many tasks the productivity is still unequalled: near-instant bootup, hugely responsive, and a beautiful elegant operating system.
But this is what we have, and I am Candid, so I believe that this is the best possible world.

What does the author of this essay wants? A mind-reading machine? I RTFM, so I don't complain. In my archlinux netbook there is plenty of room for creativity, and amazement, and fun.

I love what I have. Besides of that, is free, and I can hack it.
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It's not about the buzz. It's about addressing the needs of the users, all of the users, and building an ecosystem that provides them with the necessary tools to discover, learn, participate and improve. That and building up brand loyalty through meatspace efforts.

One cannot make the case for a model that has converted 50,000 over an eleven year span in comparison with another who has surpassed 1,000,000 users in a relatively short span. Common sense.
our mobile android and iphone app along with website, chrome extension and firefox extension now have Aviary enabled ! :)

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Exactly. I don't get why Amazon would buy a new OS when it can get an existing well supported well publicized and we ll maintained OS for free. Currently they are freeloading on android which is a great thing to get all the android benefits without having to pay apenny for it. Why spend money on a new platform and then spend some more developing for it and inviting developers to it. I hope they don't make this mistake.
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> The price for this is a large, multi-hundred kb framework and a commercial license.

Sencha Touch is free now (not sure when that happened). And the multi-hundred kb framework isn't much of an issue since it's bundled up in the native download and always local to the device.
So, most of this is based on the ability to specify the command that the user is forced to run in authorized_keys to be a wrapper command that you wrote. This wrapper command reads its arguments and then will execve git shell as appropriate.

What's important to note is that this also talks about SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND, which is the environment variable set by sshd when invoking the forced command that is specified in authorized_keys.

Clever hack.
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Corona SDK let me go from no real coding experience in the past 10 years to making a convincing prototype iOS game within a month. But to make it App Store ready (content and polish) has taken several more months and I'm still not there. I sure would like to earn at least $1 in October though.

I get frustrated over Corona's limitations such as no way to add GameCenter support without adding OpenFeint (which more than doubles my app's file size and bloats it past the 20MB 3G download limit).
I'm not advocating people mix tabs and spaces, I'm advocating that people always use tabs so that others can display it as they wish.
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Unless they think that their freeloading of android is limiting them in some ways. Currently it seems like a good deal for amazon to get android for free. Don't know what they will gain by buying a new platform.
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Last time I tried the micro's they were mostly starving on I/O.
Quite possibly his webserver wasn't doing much of that?

Also "tens of thousands" of requests is not really a big number anymore. Nginx will happily serve a couple thousand per second even from a micro (until it gets choked by the EC2 resource beancounting).
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The question is: is Jörg Schilling (who maintained BerliOS) now unemployed because FOKUS decided to close BerliOS, or do they close it down because Jörg Schilling left FOKUS and nobody's interested in maintaining the mess he left behind?
(j/k)
According to Wikipedia, the German and French personal tax rates are in the area of 50%:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world
The Sentry Project
I have the 2011 11" MBA (i5, 4GB, 128GB) and also the base 2011 15" MBP (i7, 4GB, 500GB). I can't justify keeping both, but I am really torn on which one I want to keep.

On the one hand, I love the portability and speed (due to the SSD) of the Air, and it feels almost like a desktop when it's plugged into the 20" monitor on my desk and connected to a USB keyboard and Magic Trackpad.

On the other hand, I really like the MBP's beefier CPU, discrete GPU, and much larger HDD; the Air's 128GB HDD really feels limiting to me (since photography is one of my hobbies). The HDD does make it feel a bit slower than the Air in some ways, though.

I'm looking to get rid of my desktop Windows PC since I don't use it very much anymore, so that leaves me with two options as I see them: either sell the MBP, keep the Air, and get a Mini for the extra space/network storage, or sell the MBA, consolidate everything into the MBP, and maybe upgrade it with a SSD and kit from OWC to replace the SuperDrive with the spare HDD.

I'm really not sure what the best way to go is, since I like both systems a lot for different purposes.
Numbers are interesting, however it's a small, non-representative survey.

This is also just for games, not for other apps.

Also, I'd probably consider this not very useful at all due to a survey defect that caused strange numbers:

>"One of the things I really wanted data on was a snapshot of what the last 12 months have looked like for game developers on the App Store. However, the questions I created to gather this data clearly confused respondents. The intent was that devs enter only revenue from games released within the last 12 months, but many developers provided revenue from the last 12 months for all their games. This made the data I collected for these questions largely useless for the purposes I wanted. Further, most people didn’t understand the instructions and didn’t match the sales revenue to the non-sales revenue in the two questions, making drawing conclusions there impossible, also. You’ll see later on that I did manage to get some basic data from it, but couldn’t do the detailed analysis I had hoped for."
The overall size of the code graph in browser memory matters. It's not just about the size you're delivering over-the-air. That said, I have apps in both the Apple Appstore and Android Market that have embedded webviews that pull down the mobile web app portions from the air. This allows 100% freedom in changing/fixing things. In these cases, yes, size matters.
Any word on an android version?

I recently discovered the program for desktop and I'm so thankful for how much better sleep I've been getting
[excerpt from article]

> What amazes me most ... is recalling how terribly upset so many Democrats pretended to be when Bush claimed the power merely to detain ... American citizens without due process. ... now, here's Obama claiming the power not to detain or eavesdrop on citizens without due process, but to kill them ...
Our app (Zite for iPad) is 90% HTML5+js and (I think) is reasonably successful.
Probably. Sounds like a job for Jason Scott and the Archive Team.
Are writers scouring our discussions looking for topics for their readers?
Wasting their time creating 3 users? Just sync /etc/passwd and authorized_keys between them. Zero time wasted.
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You say that as if it were a bad thing.
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Hmm, they're not using the native UITableView animation for editing, but that doesn't mean it's HTML. It's just clunky animation, mostly because each cell is doing a lot of drawing translation due to it all being three20. Also, the "see more posts" cell at the bottom is a TTTableMoreButtonCell (https://github.com/facebook/three20/blob/master/src/Three20U...) I believe.

I know that Facebook is very pro-HTML5 but I don't think there are any views in the native iPhone app that are not native UIKit or based on three20. I'll ask around, would be nice to now if there's any shared code at all on their end.
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moe that's a good point, if he's got all the pages statically cached and all the graphical assets on S3, all nginx would need to do is serve back relatively small TXT files which even on the micro would be trivial.
There is a big difference between getting >95% up time and being able to actually back up an SLA for > 95% up time.
>>Argument? What was I arguing?

I read it as a possibly interesting new claim about programming languages.

If you just wrote without making/arguing a position, sorry for commenting. And reading.

Edit: That anonymous funs might not be good is totally new to me. I've never seen anything about it, but was willing to read. I hope you at least had fun flaming people... (z0r -- I didn't see a discussion in the article.)
I found the setting. MSE calls it "behavior monitoring."
The Dyson sphere surrounding the solar system is obviously going to be expensive, but what's money when you want 100% uptime?
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There are lots of dangerous jobs out there that people pursue for profit, from deep sea fishing to building skyscrapers. People who work in dangerous jobs are usually just paid high wages, and people go on with their lives.
The disconnect I perceive here is that you seem to hope there's some technical solution that can factor out an unhardened storefront from a hardened payment processor. That would be nice, but I don't think it can be done today.

Fortunately for developers, PCI's response to this problem seems to be "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU".
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The goal would be to apply to YC for the winter session. Anybody here interested?
My ad blocking project was slashdotted years ago. I remember looking at the apache logs in analog and going "Holy shit." Not only was the traffic huge but it lasted a few days. I just assumed that it would die off at 5pm.

My cheap webhost managed to handle it pretty well. No issues. Then again it was static HTML.

I just read taco's site. He doesn't mention what CMS he is using, but its Wordpress. I wonder what cache plugin he's using. That's pretty important stuff, just as important as what instance of EC2 he is using.
And I uninstalled the OKC app within a week of them making the switch. Changing it to every action being roundtrip-based made it unusably slow. A total misstep, if you ask me.
I like this sentiment and think it frees us up to be more like the people we wish we were than the people we think we should be out of fear:

Startups are not a zero-sum game. We can all win, and by that,
I mean create value that ultimately helps those around us—by
creating jobs, connecting people, making markets more
efficient, etc—and some go on to change the world.

Is it naive? Probably. I enjoy my life more and the people I get to interact around me when I am not spending half my energy trying to protect myself from being "p0wn3d" in a theoretical, physical, psychological and financial sense.

ASIDE: I realize that this is only my perspective because of where I am in life... if I were a billionaire on Wall Street, I would likely have a very different take on the human condition.

I am just commenting that I like the positive energy in living your life in an open/collaboratory (word?) way.
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Yes, they're up to date and constantly changing.
Doesn't look terrible to you, but just wait, sometime today I'll get an email from my mom with a link to a news story about how "microsoft was automatically uninstalling chrome."
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That's the problem, it will slow down so fast it might not stay in one piece (this is what happened to Challenger, hence my comment.) A pipe like that going sideways has a tremendous aerodynamic resistance.
Bravo guy. Mike Lynch can perhaps get a takeaway from this.

One day, when you make it and all the little script kiddies look at how you did it, they'll fall upon this and learn something.
Nice apology ... after almost 30 years in business, I still do things like this that I have no rational basis for (usually when I'm dog-tired). There are three important parts to the recovery:

1) Apologize ... it never hurts even if the offended party has no idea what you're talking about.

2) Learn something from the mistake.

3) Not only remember the mistake in the future, but apply the same principles to other situations that might be similar.

You've done a great job with the first two ... and only time will show whether you master the third. From the tone of your apology, I suspect that you will.
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The problem isn't entering a tab character (I'd be pasting code from a real editor anyway). The problem is that whatever indentation you use, whether it's tabs or spaces, is destroyed by many common tools, and un-indented Python is ambiguous and can't be fixed without guesswork.
Is this math correct?
400k of images, 1 million requests

400 * 1 million / 1024 / 1024 = 381.5 GB

381.5 * .14 = $53.41
Interestingly his father brought a court case against the US and lost because he lacked standing to bring the case[1]. Who would have standing to bring a case now that the man is dead?

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870329660457600...
If they can set up openID servers (you need a real server to perform authentication), why exactly wouldn't they be able to set up an email server to receive the confirmations?
Actually, won't it be summer in both?
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This brings up an interesting point: is there anecdata regarding appstore presence being a gateway/entry-point for a website? That is, first the app, then the website?
Oh, ha, and it gets better/worse: part of the terms of his deal with the prosecutor for leading them to the body (and getting his conviction reduced to second-degree murder) was that he can't appeal anyway:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/29/...

(Under the "I'm so sorry" heading.)
Ignoring the fact that developers can trivially write apps that target Kindle Fire and regular Android tablets with literally no effort to distinguish them required?

>That’s because the Kindle Fire will destroy Google’s ability to enhance, extend and improve Android on tablet hardware, effectively substituting Google’s ambitious plans with Amazon’s rather pedestrian goals of delivering a movie playing, basic app running ebook reader that technically “runs” Android while it figuratively runs it into the ground.

What? A different, modified UI means that Amazon will stop keeping their common Android codebase in sync with upstream AOSP? That's ludicrous. Is the author assuming that the Kindle will dwarf all other Android tablets, so much that devs are encouraged to develop for it (which is still a subset of AOSP) rather than all generic Android devices?

How do people so quickly forget everyone decrying Android's first year as a phone OS?
A quick fix has been deployed. Clicking on the logo would open up the language selector page, and added tooltips to the buttons.
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It's not really because you don't care, etc, it's just because you're not good enough.
Some people are knowledgeable, others are doomed to be Ruby programmers forever, but that's life.
Offer them a 100% up-time guarantee for a year if they also promise to avoid being sick for the entire next year. If they can't avoid succumbing to a virus, why would they expect your service to avoid it (or any other sort of bug)?
With Monkey, when you build, it actually creates the native code for you right on your own computer, so if you want to add Game Center, or something to that affect, you could actually open the code in XCode and do what you need to do, no limitations - which is why I've become a fan actually.

I can open the code in Eclipse and add AdMob ads if I want to after I've created the game in Monkey.

The cool thing about Corona is how popular it's becoming, and how they are developing new features at lightning speed. As a subscriber, the daily builds are really impressive.
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I really am not a fan of these "timed" challenges.

Try this instead: create an awesome "polished" game and try to make your first $100 in November, instead of $1 in October.

Also, if you release an unpolished game in October, you will maybe make $1, but you'll also get a bunch of 1 star negative reviews which are going to make it REALLY hard to make that $100 in November ;)
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I think most people would rather use spaces for their own sanity. Most people would prefer not to bother adjusting tabwidths, ever. So the capability to adjust the display of code to individual's liking would be largely unappreciated.

In other words, forcing everyone to use tab-characters for spacing would be a burden on the majority for the benefit of a tiny minority.
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This doesn't include VAT and increased taxes in other areas, so personal income tax might be 50%, but you are actually paying a much higher rate.
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If you had read the original post, you would have nothing to apologize for.
By github? Berlios was overshadowed by savannah.gnu.org and sourceforge. If you're talking about github or even Google Code, it's not just buzz…