skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, that's not too bad of an idea. I remember years back with John Carmac's plan file being read by quite a few users. Much easier than keeping up a web page, plus no artificial limits. No conversation though.
Online FPS shooter record: 999 players on a single server
CAUTION, DHS does not understand Queens English, Farsi, basically anything other than DHS speak..so oh why not have DHS stop scanning twitter..
It might be possible to have some of the battery packs replaceable and some fixed, so that you can get to 40% charge or so instantly if you need it. I'm a bit more pessimistic on getting the car makers to standardize on a battery size, especially as long as battery technology is a competitive advantage.
IRC would not be immune to problems like this.
I consider IRC a step forward over twitter. Real conversations, choice of clients, multiple distributed servers, fast. And if you use emacs it's just a M-x irc away (at least to connect to freenode).
Silicon Valley is by far a better place to be for social startups but DC/VA/MD has advantages for niche government and defense related technologies.
Wow, that's a lot of useful apps. Quite a few of them look interesting, Dialshield in particular can be a lifesaver!
A tip off could have come from anywhere, that is why it is such a good PR explanation for them:

* A random concerned citizen (so it wasn't them looking, they just acted on behalf of someone genuinely concerned, this makes the thing a bit more noble).

* A scorned lover/an enemy ("oh you think are going to go on a vacation? remember what you did to me, I know exactly how to get back... what is that FBI tip-off number again...?")

* A secret (or not so secret govt.) web searching and filtering program. They don't want to reveal which one it is, but it could potentially just be made to generate "tip-offs" so that it looks like a person noticed, but in fact everything is automated. High profile tip-offs can be filtered through human agents as well.

Some of us who lived repressive regimes know how this works. If the govt. is afraid of X, and sets up an anonymous tip-off line to report X. Then is known to go ahead and blindly act on that tip. It creates an awesome/terrifying tool for everyone to use. X can be anything you like: terrorism, communism, whatever the du jour "War on ..." is waged.

In the Soviet Union we had neighbors denouncing each other for anti-communist activities because they couldn't agree on the color of the fence. This stuff will happen. The crazier and irrational the govt. gets the more potential for abuse it creates. With a bit of work and ingenuity, during certain decades, you could have made your whole neighbor's family disappear into Siberia practically overnight.
Android's new identity
You can definitely watch Hulu in Puerto Rico. I am watching it right now on another window and I am not using any kind of proxy. However, some time ago they did have some configuration issues that made Hulu identify Puerto Rico as a foreign country, but only sometimes. I can only assume that different content delivery systems were configured differently. Fortunately, fixing the problem was just a matter of refreshing the browser a few times.

But this artificial distinction between the USA and Puerto Rico is pretty harmful to the island because while Puerto Rico is bound by the trade regulations of the USA it doesn't get to enjoy many of its businesses and services. And this puts us at a significant and needless disadvantage.
I recommend avoiding packages like Janus when you are just getting started.

The key to vim success is really understanding the basics. Packages like Janus obscure some of this and hurt truly learning the fundamentals.

Similarly, I would limit plugins entirely. Maybe limit yourself to 1 or 2 new plugins per week until you really get understand whats going on.
Thank you for using simple language-I found this article to be really accessible.
Peoples' "Amazing app idea!" is the new "Amazing screenplay/TV show idea!".

Like creating quality TV/Film content, crafting mobile applications takes time, talent, and money and one day this will be better understood by the mainstream.
No, but at least there isn't one central popular company that is on the constant monitor list. IRC allows for multiple disparate networks which are more difficult to take down (one goes down, another just pops up).
Well, that's embarrassing. I fat-fingered those while I was transcribing code into the article. "Surprise Two" was supposed to be about the autovivification surprise, not me mistyping things (article updated).

Even still, your point about using objects and encapsulation stands. If the session were being assigned to via setters, and read from with getters, the grep aliasing wouldn't do its damage.

Cheers.
UN, via the ITU, looking to regulate the internet
> What is the heaviest noble gas?

> What combustible compound, the principal component of natural gas, has the chemical formula CH4?

Oh come on, you can be scientifically literate and not remember these factoids. Understanding and internalisation of the "scientific posture" does not equate to the ability to answer random multiple choice questions about chemistry.
Dropbox, Facebook, Remember the milk, Google Apps (mail, calendar), Hacker News

On and off, Google Reader.
CSS3 & jQuery folder tabs
Adding a Custom DuckDuckGo Search Bar to Your Site
This, in particular, is disturbing:

"The ITU is one of those international organizations that does not have to answer to anybody in particular. None of its decision makers have to stand for reelection. None of the leaders have much to fear from any web-based protest."
Yes, I am aware of Code Canyon. Are there any similar sites?
A place to discover cool stuff for guys.Daily.
This is not a way forward.

1). Work with better clients. You can have invoice collection problems at $50k, too, but they're much less likely than at $500 and you have much better options for... escalation methods at that point.

2). If you're not a bank, stop taking on so much credit risk. Businesses can deal with substantially sterner payment terms than you'd think to offer. If your clients balk, see #1. (Thomas has some suggestions here, too, many of which reduce to "Work for Thomas' clients and charge enough that dealing with their purchasing processes is worth your headaches rather than chasing deadbeats for Snickers money.")

3). Showing up on iamachumpconsultant.com will not enhance your professional reputation, bill rate, or client pool.
That should read we "check a repo". We don't actually do a git checkout.
+1 for the ability to select only vegan options.
> It is 2012 not 1992

On the other hand, think of what you could accomplish with a weekend of work in 1992 and compare that to 2012. Our abilities as developers/designers/etc are vastly improved due to improved infrastructure, tools, communications, resources, etc.

You could build a distributed photo hosting and viewing application back in 1992. But you'd probably be writing it in C++ and it might take you a long time to get something that even works, much less looks reasonably okay and attracts an audience.

Now in 2012, you could hack that together in a weekend. To make it a real project may take a few weeks or months, of course, but the pace at which we can build things is indeed speeding up.
In any business where you're contracting directly with clients, especially performing technical work for less- or non-technical people, dealing with a wide variance in expectations and being prepared to (calmly, patiently) explain your LOE estimates is just as important as being able to code/design/etc.

It's not their responsibility to know the market they're trying to consume; it's yours. Be prepared to quote market rates for varying levels of experience, and have examples to explain why your time is priced in whatever tier you consider yourself to be in.
The Neo4j Heroku Challenge
Interesting, How useful/reliable is Office365? I've gone the Google Docs route, it works but wish it was better.
Padrino is the perfect framework for Djangonauts who want to learn a ruby web framework whilst also learning the language, which was my case 1 year ago. Especially those who don't like the "rails way".

It has most everything we love about Django: admin site, mountable apps (which I consider actually better than Django's), speed (it is as fast as Django in my benchmarks) plus a sane and flexible routing sytem, generators, localization, full support for various subframeworks and a much, much better configuration system (no global settings file!).

It is everything I wish Django was, but in Ruby.
Twitter's privacy policy doesn't actually require a warrant to give up your "private" info (including your protected tweets).

Law and Harm: We may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect Twitter's rights or property.

https://twitter.com/privacy
Our app (shameless plug: itunes.apple.com/us/app/little-heroes/id477247738?ls=1&mt=8) cost $15K to make by a Toronto-based developer. We were able to keep the costs that low (I think that's a pretty good price for a better than average iPad app) because (1) all of the art was done in house and (2) all of the server side functionality was done in house. Our app developer just had to wire up the various pieces. (I say just sarcastically, it was still a lot of work).

If you have to outsource the entire cost of development, and you want a good looking, well functioning app, it's very expensive. And then there are the inevitable upgrades, improvements etc.
The really interesting part is actually to recognise how hard it is for a new app to enter my daily-use list. It's almost impossible. Some make it in there for a few days or weeks but will vanish quite soon.

Either I need the app for my daily work or it is a fire-and-forget service that I once signed up for and that doesn't require any active input from my site.

Anyway, here is my list:

- pivotaltracker.com

- github.com

- dropbox.com

- olark.com

- gmail.com

- google.com/analytics

- hipchat.com
Tesla at this moment in time is not a car company that is marketing its product to the average consumer. They realize the technology is currently not their, but their go to market strategy is to market their luxury product to people who can afford a $50k car. At this point it is not about the worry of charging or where. My assumption is that the vast majority of people who own Tesla cars have a charging station in their home and understand the limits of the product.

They purchase the car for status, just like every other luxury product.

300 miles become irrelevant when you can recharge your car in 5-10 minutes, and that is where the technology is going.
I just moved back to Firefox, too, because Firefox fixed the issues that made me move to Chrome. In particular, FF now actually observes the minimum font size I set in Preferences > Content; and the Back button and the History functionality no longer sometimes get very slow.
It's quite complicated make a full featured app for all webframeworks, btw look at here: https://github.com/DAddYE/web-frameworks-benchmark/blob/more...

Which is: https://github.com/DAddYE/web-frameworks-benchmark/blob/more...

With a layout: https://github.com/DAddYE/web-frameworks-benchmark/blob/more...

Not a very very complex use case but a bit more than a `hello world` app.

I love Rails, Im using i.e. ActiveRecord in 90% of my projects. Beside that I ported 162 apps over Padrino not because I've free time to spend but because I need decent performances (without kongfu with mem/redis caching) with less memory usage.

Try to browse rails (minus ActiveRecord) source code and padrino source code to understand what I mean.
I think it's a safe assumption to make that the author was talking about building high quality apps that one can be proud of.
> And they certainly should not have been put back onto an airplane.

why not? human brain or any other body part cannot explode on its own. I am sure they were deep/strip-checked, including cavities and rear pipe. After all, there is only a limited number of places you can hide a bomb.
Andresseen-Horowitz Raises $1.5 Billion
by the same amount Amazon AWS invalidates my company's compute cluster (hint: by 0% in our case). No size fits all.
> * A secret (or not so secret govt.) web searching and filtering program.

Does nobody remember Carnivore? Imagine what has been developed since then.
I use Office365 extensively at home and on the go. OneNote in particular is a must-have for me, and it needs to be synced everywhere. Really wish it wasn't blocked at work. I have a Windows Phone so I can access everything over 3G, but working on a phone is nowhere near as comfortable as working on a laptop or even a tablet.
How to kill Hollywood, using your bare hands.
Benford's law online calculator
Debian _un_stable, on the other hand may be (depending on when you last updated). There is a new package available and so an `apt-get install sudo' or `apt-get upgrade' will sort it.
The unsung heroes of IT - part I - hello world
Why professional amateurs are the way of the future
Similar situation, but closer to $9k. Filed a lawsuit in court - still waiting 3.5 years later (NYC). I suspect it'll take a long to collect even after a judgement.

Yes, don't extend so much credit - lesson learned (the hard way).

I consulted with a number of people debating whether or not to blog about this situation with the person's name. In the end I chose not to at that time, but realized later that this person had another non-payment suit pending which had been filed the day before I started working with him. Had I researched a bit more, I might have found that (but then again, I might not have - you often don't think to do court record searches on potential clients). I ended up not disclosing his name in my blog, but did disclose the location I filed a suit. Anyone wanting to know can go check the public records and find out for themselves. Felt like a decent middle ground, and it's not irrevocably commiting myself to having been the "name and shamer". But without more naming and shaming, this behaviour by some people will continue. I found out later that this guy had also stiffed multiple other parties, who were then coming to me for advice about how to collect. "File a NY lawsuit" was the only answer I had.

Perhaps some public naming and shaming would either correct this person's behaviour or at least ward off others from working with him in the future. one person complaining about no payment can be written off as a crank. 5 devs in a 5 month period, all from different areas, would be harder to dismiss.
Assistly Is Now Desk.com
What terrible design! Truly awful. 50 questions? I bet nobody will actually finish this. I expect better, CSM.
No, that's the question. The question can be rephrased as "why is there more money for young people in consulting, law and finance?"
Mozilla Questions Web Orthodoxies With ‘Pancake’
FOIA Documents Reveal Homeland Security is Monitoring Political Dissent
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is a public interest research center based out of Washington DC. EPIC works on focusing public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues. I am not affiliated with EPIC.

As the result of EPIC v. DHS, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, EPIC has obtained nearly thee hundred pages of documents detailing a Department of Homeland Security's surveillance program.

The documents include contracts and statements of work with General Dynamics for 24/7 media and social network monitoring and periodic reports to DHS.

The documents reveal that the agency is tracking media stories that "reflect adversely" on DHS or the U.S. government.

One example tracking report -- "Residents Voice Opposition Over Possible Plan to Bring Guantanamo Detainees to Local Prison-Standish MI"

General Dynamics Overview

General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) is a U.S. defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2008 it is the fifth largest defense contractor in the world.

Website: http://www.generaldynamics.com/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics

General Dynamics 2010 10-K financial: http://bit.ly/wVtspB

"In the IT services business, volume increased on the group’s IT support and modernization programs for the intelligence community and the Network-Centric Solutions (NETCENTS) program, which provides network support for federal agencies."

"Information technology (IT) services $342M revenue increase in 2009"

"$55M from the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US CERT) to analyze and reduce cyber threats and vulnerabilities."

"One of 46 awards from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Information Technology Supplies and Support Services (ITSSS) program to provide technical services and engage in developmental projects and programs. The program has a maximum potential value of $30 billion among all awardees over eight years."

Sources:
1. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/01/british_tourist.html
2. General Dynamics 2010 10-K financial: http://bit.ly/wVtspB
3. http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/fbi-releases-plans-to-monitor.html
4. http://epic.org/foia/epic-v-dhs-media-monitoring/
5. FOIA documents obtained by EPIC: http://bit.ly/wvXOzP
GMail, GCalendar, Twitter, internal work app, work Trac, HN.
When I go through their publicly available profile and look at their tweets, I can see tweets that did not appear in my timeline as public replies usually do. I can only assume these are DM's.

EDIT: Am I somehow mistaken? I've seen them not only on well-known people but on friends as well when I asked them about this.
For dinner, it says I should have quinoa, wild rice, and chickpeas. I think it would be more appetizing if it did its calculations on a recipe basis -- so you'd get a menu plan composed of recipes selected to meet the given requirements.

Even though I have all eggs and dairy unchecked, it still tells me to eat 6 eggs for breakfast.

I also take umbrage to the trend of confusing foods with macronutrients (spinach is not carbs, meat is not protein, etc). http://www.foodpolitics.com/2012/01/peevish-about-protein/
Steps to follow to ensure a user centered design.
Most people in Russia and China and much poorer than most Americans. It's hard to compare the US to anyone, it is both huge and rich. Canada is probably the most US like country. (I might get downvoted by Canadians now!)
re: open() creating temporary file if file arg is undef

Fortunately both IO::File (core module) & Path::Class don't do this:

use IO::File;
my $fh = IO::File->new( $config->{file_path}, 'r' )
or die "can't open $config->{file_path}: $!";

use Path::Class qw<file>;
my $fh = file( $config->{file_path} )->openr;

Both above spot the undef gotcha. NB. And ->openr() throws an exception.

ref: https://metacpan.org/module/IO::File | https://metacpan.org/module/Path::Class
Common Roofing Problems: Leaky Vent Pipe Repairs | NJ Roofing Blog
I clicked on the link before I saw that it's Taxi, which is crap.

This sort of shallow thinking is representative of the designer, if we define designers very loosely and pathetically.
There are several comments here regarding the egg debate. Should you avoid eating too many eggs? What is the impact of eggs and other sources of dietary cholesterol on your blood cholesterol levels?

I've been wondering about this myself for some time, all the while eating cartons of egg whites for breakfast every day.

ericd posted a link[1], which appears to be a good source of information (far more than I have time to digest right now).

I only want to point out one small tidbit that I just found[2]; the American Heart Association (according to the webmd article) recommends keeping your dietary cholesterol intake below 300 milligrams per day. The same article reports that a chicken egg contains about 200 milligrams of it.

Now, I'm totally agnostic about things that I don't have time to properly research. In this case I would rather err on the side of caution, and will continue to limit my cholesterol intake.

That said, this app is nice if you enjoy eating this way (a bit of this and a bit of that; sans-recipe). This is pretty much how I normally eat, except that I never measure my portions.

A nice (premium?) feature might be a journal where you can easily record what you actually ate (in so much as it differs from the generated plan), your weight, etc.

I don't know, but maybe with enough journal data you could infer something about the user's metabolism (and average plan adherence), and make predictions about weight change.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776466
2. http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/cholesterol-food
Sumo Logic raises $15m in Series B
In the UK the opposite is true; if you have a contract you get better per-month costs, and over the course of 2 years it's often enough to pay for a smartphone bought contract-free.

I have just done this myself with a 24-month contract saving 6 GBP a month (making it 4 GBP a month, including 500Mb/month of data) which paid for a Milestone 2...
http://chartbeat.com/
http://www.joesgoals.com/
GMail, Analytics, etc.
This site is the second google result for swole, after the urban dictionary definition of the term. I honestly don't like the name, and I think for most people who have never heard the term this will bring to mind "swollen", not "buff". Not a good word association for a diet planner.
At the end of it, all it gives is a number of question answered, a number relative to what?
Please raise your hand if you're approached by on a weekly/monthly basis by some bright-eyed, overly optimistic, non-technical person who wants you to build them an "app", of any kind, for the quoted price of somewhere between $10K - $20K.

That's the price of a demo.
I read the arguments regarding the strong and b tags, and I tried to see a difference between the two but failed to do so.

From the above link

>If you want to stress importance of text, use strong. If you don't want to stress importance, use the b tag or use the font-weight:bold; style on the element or in the CSS.

Am I missing something? I've been writing html for long enough time not to consider myself beginner but it still doesnt make sense to me.
Can I just point out that according to the article he's Irish and therefore not a Briton. An Irish passport might be slightly higher on the 'be careful' list?
Since the others I use have already been mentioned:
http://piperka.net/
It's a webcomic aggregator, gives me a list of all the new comics that I haven't read yet.

Also Hiveminder
http://hiveminder.com/splash/
for a really awesome to-do list site, with nice collaboration tools.
CorkboardMe now an "app" -- all in HTML 5
Transhumanism's Alternate Views
Is this uptime measuring hardware, software or both?
Just a quick reminder for some, a diet as a means to an end very well may have a strange set of meals in order to meet the criteria for weight loss/mass gain. As nice as it'd be to eat 2000kcals and have a steak and potatoes for dinner everyday, you may instead have to eat that cup of avocado and a glass of milk for its nutritional value:kcal
You're not the market for this car.

Right now that market is upper-class commuters, who mostly go < 50 miles round trip and would likely use it as a second (or third) car.

I could see a decent market for these things from people who live in the US in VA/MD and commute into and out of DC, for instance. It's not a long distance, but it's a very slow trip because of traffic, and there's a culture of status-symbol cars.
Your screens are also your proprietary work. No reason to give your competitors any ideas.