skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I misread static sites to files, sorry. I understand now.

It does take lots of code to do automation right, but that's the point. You replace tons of typing for a short command. I guess you'll have some scripts in any shape or size sooner or later.

I'm glad BSD is still the choice for some devs.
Oh, I have no doubt. Many things are funny about Githire, including just how many coders are in the top 10-20% of Github users (including those with one repo and no activity).
Robert Lustig, despite his considerable bona-fides, is an alarmist who uses hack science and a number of unsupported suppositions to make his (telegenic) points. When you call something like fructose 'toxic', you are doing the public a disservice.
Thanks for pointing this out. SMTP, for example, is sort-of equivalent to what Mozilla is doing. (send messages to users, remove duplicates, and verify the user's and sender's identity)

SMTP isn't directly usable in a browser - they're not competing directly - but SMTP is a federated system with an open protocol.

"Mozilla Push" will most likely be just as open.
Anonymous Hacks FBI and Records Conference Call
That's a shame. I really think IT ops should learn to trust their employees and only when that is broken, managers should decide how and when it is appropriate to block such sites.
Would love it if there were Spotify playlist links for these.
Eh.

It's not limited in scope to someone else's work. I have done a decent review of a number historical computer science papers, I can confidently point to a number of things that have been pointlessly reinvented over the years at least once, if not 2-3 times.

It's like, why are people using these really bad technologies (node for instance)? There are are solid and advanced technologies that have done all these things, been tested, used, and developed over a long period of time, without the limitations of this newness and lack of features/testing/experience.

As a stupid example, a tracing simulator describing variable usage and coverage were commercially available for Fortran in the late 60s. I haven't heard of similar systems for C or C++ in my casual reading on C and C++. Perl has spent years working towards something that is starting to look a good deal like Lisp in Perl 6.

For node.js and golang and other asynchronous & message-based languages/platforms, see occam.

Why can't we look into the 70s and build new technologies instead of reinventing the same ones over and over again? That's why I get a bit miffed about new stuff that is the same as the old stuff, except Now For Modern Computers/The Web/Mobile/blah.
I have to deal with this sometimes when on the road and tethering, although it sounds like your connection is even worse! Thanks for the tips.
I wonder if browserid[1] is a better alternative. It doesn't require a Facebook account or anything like that and is actually surprisingly easy to use (from the user's point of view). I only tried the demo, but it was basically frictionless.

[1]: https://browserid.org/about

I haven't evaluated it completely, but it seems like the best option right now.
Why are there 2 Infiniti G 35's listed with opposing data? In the first case you get better mileage with premium, the next one shows you get better mileage with regular. This really makes all the data look very suspect.
This is actually a pretty good question.

Everyone has to weigh the benefits of starting a startup over having a regular job. If all the kids are starting startups, that indicates that the benefits of having a job are so low that it is always worth the risk of startupdom.

Money may not be the only consideration, but I'm sure it is a big one. Would these kids be all starting startups if the programming jobs paid, for instance, $500K per year?
>"Licensed software" is arguably the most vulnerable of the three models.

Why is that? A big chunk of that seems to be from Server & Tools which doesn't seem to be under immediate threat.
Mostly λazy… a Clojure podcast – Episode 4 (podcast)
That Com Truise mix is nice. Also check out his Komputer Cast 4 part set http://comtruise.com/kc/
The danger of home IP cameras
I'd say "political violence against civilians", in which case we're 0-for-2 with this being neither violent nor aimed at civilians.
Twitter vs. Facebook as the only options. It's as if OpenID never existed. Which, sadly, may be nearly true.
You're being overly pessimistic on the percentage of Europeans speaking English (though not necessarily as their native language). This language has worked as a common means to communicate for a long time and definitely won't leave this web site end up being "UK/US centric".
Worse and better are subjective; but neither version impacts on whether the system is REST or not, since they don't break any of the constraints, are defined by Fielding: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch...
Nice first step indeed!

As this is the only part of the WYSIWYG editor I would use, I would go as far as to say that this is the //last// step.
Right now is the worst time to buy a new laptop
The simple, humble problems Instagram solved
As long as you're looking for PHP/MySQL I've been very happy with Hostgaor for small stuff. Pretty cheap, pretty good tech support.
Show HN: I've open sourced Bookmarkly, a bookmarking site written in JavaScript
That's not dirty so much as it is awesome. Go start something! Make a name for yourself! Acquire some real experience and notoriety and some great stories to tell down the road.

But do make sure you've got the connections to be acquired... most of us don't the first time out, but networking your way into that is a critical part of the process.
I'm betting this is more about boot2gecko than Firefox. Maybe not a lot more, but it's certainly necessary for boot2gecko to have any feasibility.

Does anyone know why they're pushing this instead of plain old Server Sent Events (something w3c is already working on for servers to push to browsers)?
I think this is a few years old, but a few previous posts have some interesting discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539783
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825015
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294455
Moreover, sorry dude, the tech war is over and we won

In monetary terms that is probably true, if by "tech" you mean IT. But the losers of your "war" have invented things like the Web, Linux, Python, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, English and the ARM CPU, not to speak of most math and logic foundations of today's tech industry.

The only item on your list that I wholeheartedly agree with is "better funding". Everything else is, um, ...patriotism?
Fractional Real Estate Ownership
Ah nice. Definitely bookmarking this. Also related, I started using rainymood, fireplace and jazz loops found on a reddit thread from a while back [1]. After using different combinations of the 3, I've found that sometimes music doesn't cut it, and a simple fireplace/rain loop helps me work better.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ca4bl/time_to_ge...)
This is ancient and all conjecture. This video is quite old.

With a casual glance, this was posted to YouTube in August 2008, so this is at least 3, 3.5 years old...
Side question: why do you think so many coders prefer electronic music to be productive?

Based on the comments here, electronic music (whether it's ambient, trance or dubstep) appears to be the assumed genre.
The article has many valid points, but the Topsy example is simply poor execution on their part to request so many extended permissions as part of the initial login authorization dialog.

Any Facebook authorization dialog that asks for all of those permissions in the Topsy example is doing it wrong. It is not like you need to ask for all of those permissions up front. Offline access and publish stream is a very dangerous combination and should only be requested when a user is turning on a feature within the app that requires them. Let the user in with the bare minimum of permissions (user_about_me), build their trust, and then only ask for more permissions as and when they are needed.

Plus when you cancel out of the Facebook authorization dialog on Topsy, you get a 500 error response. Topsy fail on multiple levels.
The article doesn't seem to address the obvious question: If Anonymous can spy on the people investigating them, why the heck are they making that fact public? Ok, taunting the FBI is probably worth something, but surely continuing to spy on them is worth more.
when IE was 95% market share?
Re-architecting GoPollGo with Backbone.js
I think the site might be going a bit slow for me. Is there a mirror?
i usually stream psytrance, works well for some reason :)
> As far as IoC containers are concerned, I don't see
> Ruby/Python communities using it, mainly because half of
> it is fighting static typing.

Exactly. Jim Weirich gave a presentation on DI 2005 http://onestepback.org/articles/depinj/index.html also see a nice writeup by the Jamis Buck—the author of a couple of DI frameworks: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/legos-play-doh-and-pro...

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/legos-play-doh-and-pro...
This is the kind of comment for which I personally dislike the US centered mentality here on HN.

To address briefly your points:

war is over and we won

War? I find a bit funny this mentality you have in the US to turn everything into a war (war on drugs, etc). In tech there is no war, we are all working to make the world better. One does not need to "lose" for the other one to "succeed".

Moreover, the tech landscape is growing a lot here in Europe and is attracting people from the US too, people that don't like how things are going there, which means it's not so great as you would like to picture it.

Without forgetting that USA and Europe are not the whole world, Asia is growing and at some point South America and Africa will too. "War", or whatever you want to call it, is not over and I don't think it will ever be.

We've got better funding

Funding is growing in Europe as well. Some US investors are coming to invest here. I've seen a friend of mine discussing with a US VC for his startup in Poland. Investors move their money wherever they see talent. A lot of talent moved to the US from Europe or Asia. As things get better, less talent will move there, leveling things.

better language

By better I think you mean more homogenous, which is true [1], but knowledge of English in Europe is growing and there are a lot of countries that are non-native English speakers but have percentages of English speaking people between 80% and 90% [2]

better regulations and better spirit

These are highly subjective. I, for one, strongly disagree on both of them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#Language

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_Europe

EDIT: formatting
Microsoft Unleashes Gmail Man [video]
Startup Turns Data Crunching into a High-Stakes Sport
Most of the time it helps me sink into deep sleep :)
Just what society needs.. more fat controllers bossing everyone around for some arbitrary 'good'. Maybe some people prefer liver disease to sobriety. Maybe they should be allowed to drink themselves to death if they want? It is their choice. Let people take care of themselves and their loved ones, and let them suffer the consequences of their own actions, or be supported through hard times by their loved ones.

I would like a law that lets some people out of both welfare and laws that prevent a person from damaging themselves.
To paraphrase one of the linked videos in this thread:

"fructose is a poison, but fruits package it together with its antidote: fiber"

The liver processes fructose quite well as long as it has a chance to do it slowly in small quantities. Fruit is bulky, which limits the amount you can eat in one sitting, and contains a good amount of fiber, which slows down its digestion.

Note that this is less true for modern fruits which are significantly sweeter and easier to eat than the fruits that our ancestors ate due to Mendellian selection.
Don't be sorry, it's honestly spot on. It's a wonderful exploitation model of how young men (18-30s) think and feel natively. Big risks, big rewards. Legends, folklore, respect. The model was perfect 2000 years ago and finds new manifestations all over the place.

Of course, I'm not sure it's a terrible thing. Nobody actually dies, at worst a few years of hard fighting are expended before a "real job" is acquired. The hard, risky fighting, while exhausting, isn't a bad thing for the young.
At one point in the nineties I was driving from Canada to Maine and actually had to wake up the guard at the border crossing.
Good point. I think a lot of people who build commercial software have rather limited choice in which tools they use. They can choose how to use those tools and what to advocate publicly. If the hype about something forces me to use deficient tools, I will be angry it and vocal about it, because I care.
Ask HN: Built StartOpedia org for HNers - now please add to it
Inspired (mainly) by various threads coming up here at HN regularly, I thought of creating an information portal of sorts for tech startup entrepreneurs and after about 200 hours of code hacking/designing, content research etc. the outcome is:

http://www.StartOpedia.org

* Tech/Startup News/advice aggregator

* Directory of (user submitted) Startups

* A categorised resource directory of Startup-interest web sites (Users can submit sites)

* Disqus-powered commenting

* General-purpose Message Board

* A section on Failed Startups

* Job Board

* More in the works :)

Still (many) rough edges there that we're working on, but done for the most part.

I built it primarily for this (HN) community and now (while we - me and my people - continue to expand/improve it), I invite all interested HNers to pitch-in with/contribute/share what they can.

Some specific ways/areas (in no particular order) where you can help are:

1. Send bug reports

2. Provide General feedback (please post here or at the site message board)

3. Send New ideas / suggestions

4. Submit Startup information (yours or others)

5. Suggest Startup advice feeds

6. Suggest Startup resources (under the resource directory - Add URL)

7. Suggest a structure/content plan for the 'Failed Startups' section

8. Suggest a structure/content plan for the 'Job Board' section

9. Suggest additional categories for the Resource Directory
and

10. Anything else you can think of

We've given it our best shot, now please help us make it more useful for the community.
Buddhists often chant mantras to stay in meditation. I suspect that a steady beat / rhythm has a lot more to do with concentrating than any specific genre. It gets the rest of our minds jogging along with the thing we're trying to achieve.
The Golden Circle – Why How What
Q&A doesn't fix any problems, it merely identifies them before they go into production.

If a significant amount of time is spend on fixing bugs, the problem is elsewhere in the process. Solving that problem should be the highest priority, because that's were things will continue to escalate.
The services who use Facebook always annoy me with sharing requests, i don't want to share anything stop asking.
When somebody who uses Facebook Connect only, i expect this in advance and often don't want to use the service at all.

With Google Login i never get those.
It's somewhat disingenuous anyway, since Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft were all started within living memory, and Facebook hasn't even really exited yet.
When exactly did this happen?
He does both Notes and Exchange including migrations to or from and vice versa.
Maybe processed food producers should stop adding sugar/HFCS to everything under the sun. An example list: http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/index.php/2005/06/09/foods...
Does HFCS REALLY need to be in NyQuil? In steak sauce? In vegetable soup?
Don't waste time with design: use twitter bootstrap, jquery UI and stuff that let's you do it later.

Know the ins and out's of auth and stuff that most of web app does have.

Know what the hell you are building -- development/programming is impossible to master so you will spend most of your time googling shit and fixing errors, try to minimize the amount of time spent.

Know how to emacs/vim/any text editor that makes you productive.

Know how to deploy fucking fast.
Couldn't agree more. Also, why not let the new developer work on new features? What's even better, you can hire someone who specialize in that new feature that your client want (geocoding, mobile dev), instead of having existing developers to "learn" it (which by the way, is always the preferred but wrong way by the existing developer). The new developer doesn't have to know the details of the backup, just the interface or API of existing services. Existing developer works on bugfixing on what they are familiar with.
Super Bowl ads: The art of seduction
Gmail auto-saves your content, JIRA should do the same (or have an option to). The Safari back "feature" is not much worse than closing a window, browser crashes or OS crashes - stuff happens, a simple modal to prevent loss isn't adequate.

I'm not trying to diminish the complaint of the posting (which is valid) but web-apps should really capture "intents" as new stored data. If I intend open a new ticket, a new record should be automatically be created regardless, and then marked "deleted" if I abandon it (which could be reversed later).
To take a slightly more balanced view on it, acquiring the team and the early fruits of their research but not a market-dominating position was Cisco's growth strategy for a long long time - cherry-picking startups that had built an amazing new next-gen router or other critical appliance, or even just built the core of what would one day be one, and acquiring the team and what they'd built. Cisco then excelled at taking that from "great prototype" to "market ubiquity". You could do a lot worse.

And talent acquisitions alone aren't terrible either, at least for the founding team. They're never the home run investors hope for but they have been known to return a profit on "sunk costs" cash.
Sugar is as essential to the body's functioning as water and air.

Such a tax will not eliminate sweet foods. Basic uncontroversial economics is sufficient to know the result of such a tax will be that manufacturers will switch to saccharine, Aspartame and other synthesized sweeteners which are not so taxed. Whether their deleterious health effects are real or conspiracy theories and if real are more harmful over the long run than sugar I will leave to the curious reader's further research.
It may be all they have.
The 10 rules of a Zen programmer
I guess the downvote means the answer is "Of course not", so fiber isn't the concern here. So, people here claim that sugar is bad except when it's in fruit, and the fiber in fruit doesn't make sugar good.
>"If this is a regular meeting it's possible that Anonymous has been listening in every week."

I find this to be one of the more beautifully hilarious things I have read in quite a while!

The idea that Anon has been slurping info from a regular conf call between two intelligence/LEO orgs is just downright amazing.

Imagine though if Anon had forgot to put themselves on mute at one point and were being addressed by others on the call:

"Whomever is working from home with the dog in the background, please mute. Thanks. Anyway - as I was saying, these Occupy Protesters need to go down...."

It would also be great if, at the end of these calls, when everyone is saying "thanks" and "bye" is Anon also said "thanks" and "bye" as they hung up :)
I use this setup when I travel. It works well in an airplane seat and is more usable than an ipad for development.
Dreamhost http://dreamhost.com/

Amazon AWS Free Tier http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Heroku Single/Free Web Dyno http://www.heroku.com/

AppEngine http://www.labnol.org/internet/host-website-on-google-app-en...

Lots of free to very inexpensive solutions that let you build on modern infrastructure.
Are Google Search Trends Better Election Predictors Than Polls?
Why FB is worth $100 Billion: Great companies focus and ship
Despite popular belief on the Internet, lots of people are born every second.

Lots of people have just discovered how to program and/or taken a serious interest in entrepreneurship in the last week.

Lots of people have just discovered Hacker News in the last DAY.

So, chances are, the first time you saw this video isn't the first time everyone else reading Hacker News today saw this video.

In that case, simply click the down arrow (for whatever your personal reasoning is) and move on.
> Growing up in the places I have you learn to say as little as possible to authorities (ie, don't give too much rope to hang yourself)

It's very true. There's a reason that, when your Miranda rights are read upon a rest, they say "...anything you say can and will be used against you.."

I'll leave it up to the viewer to judge this video with a defense attorney talking about why it's never good to talk to the Police: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

(48mins in length)
Open source software should be used to secure public sector systems
FBI's problem is that they assume that their 'victims' have worse tools than them..most of us HN readers probably have better mail encryption software than any FBI field agent. Not to mention software to encrypt a hard-drive.

Using encryption and Ciphers is not a crime FBI..just ask Phil Zimmermann
Perhaps it's a checksum/safeguard? You could prove you were the real recorder of the call by providing those names later.
I find 'smart wrapping' very easy to read. (Code is wrapped and auto-indented to the current indentation level.) I wish this feature was far more prevalent and it means that I don't have to worry about manually breaking the occasional long line, the entire line still fits within a window of any size, and the code remains perfectly readable.
To be quite honest -- you should probably save for at least a year of expenses of your OWN money before quitting your job.
Alan Kay expresses something similar:

http://tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029/

"Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight." (~00:30)
ScienceShot: Two-Dimensional Glass
The Facebook connect image is somewhat misleading. Sure, using FB connect can involve a screen like that, but you can also present a simple screen that only asks to "Access my basic information". Not nearly as confusing, doesn't raise questions about surreptitious posting. You can ask your customer for more access later, after you've earned trust in your relationship.

Further, some customer bases are perfectly happy using FB connect only. If you object to logging in with Facebook, maybe you're just realizing that you're not the target market for the product. No harm, no foul. If you end up offering lots of log-in options and your customer base only really wants FB, you waste development time and actually run the risk of confusing your customers.
The FBI is using a 40 year old technology that can be hacked by whistling 2600 hz into a phone and get all bent out of shape when someone records it?

No.
Automatic Regression Testing in JavaScript
I have worked with Inmotion a lot, they have great customer service. And reasonable prices for shared hosting @ About $6 a month. (I also have one of my dedicated servers with them.)

I brought down their some of their servers once and yet they were still very cool about the whole thing. < sarcasm >Who knew 10,000 concurrent connections could bring down a server </sarcasm> (Yes it was intentional, but no I was not doing anything "really bad")
Twitter, Facebook, or even GitHub authentication is certainly de rigeur, but I must admit I thought OpenID had fallen off the radar and I haven't seen any interesting new projects supporting it lately. Even 37signals gave up on it mostly due to lack of use: http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2011/01/well-be-re...

Nothing against OpenID, per se, but it doesn't feel like it has taken off. Or maybe the big sites that are using it are just getting on with it AOK :-)