skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be happy with a theme for that as well. Even some Windows theme fiddling could get that to work.
So say you want to get data from a RESTful web api, do you have to customize your generic REST client? Because everything I've ever written that called an external API had to know what it was looking for in advance. Like to interact with Twitter's API, I went to their documentation page and read up on what URL's to call for the information I needed.
Our app is back up.
% host devcenter.heroku.com
devcenter.heroku.com is an alias for iwate-88.herokussl.com.
iwate-88.herokussl.com is an alias for elb002001-124710749.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
elb002001-124710749.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com has address 107.20.144.56
elb002001-124710749.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com has address 23.21.215.77
elb002001-124710749.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com has address 107.21.227.222

It's 100% on Heroku, it's just also using the ssl:hostname add-on (https://addons.heroku.com/ssl) which requires different DNS settings (http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl#hostname_based_ssl).
I believe what he meant was that the first update implied that they had identified the problem and were fixing it ("continuing to investigate and resolve the issue.") - the second implied they were still looking for the problem ("continuing to investigate and work towards a resolution.").

Subtle but important difference.
Fundraiser - Improving hosting, and keeping the lights on.
I see more people agree with you than with me, despite the fact upvotes aren't meant to be used that way. HN can be trying at times, can't it?
I lose money when Heroku is down, and let me say this: Heroku is a f$(king miracle, and you'll pry our apps cold, dead fingers off of their stack.

They screwed up. They'll fix it. Any ops team and hosting solution I could hire for a comparable amount of money wouldn't even come close.
I admit, fell prey to all of these. Thing is, until I did they all seemed pretty rational and smart things to say and think.

Sometimes you just have to learn on your own skin.
Wadja end up doin'? Source?
Is there any good resource to learn how to use colors in design, the stuff i make always looks like crap because i only take standard ones.

I envy this guy for this ability, incredible good taste in unobtrusive colors.
Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer
The whole "secret formula" thing is more of a marketing gimmick than anything.
Also, it tastes better.
yes, line breaks are oddballs. it was especially fun in my testing since every markdown > html converter treats whitespace differently and it's possible to have many extra text nodes as well as leading trailing whitespace, etc. makes testing a faithful round trip very difficult indeed. and then there are different flavors to account for...
realy my sony takes < 3 seconds
Author of the article here; never thought I'd be posting HN-worthy content, otherwise I would've picked something other than a very wimpy (but cheap) Xen VPS host (which I can't even SSH into at the moment)... For Emacs users, here's the alternative to Google cache -- the original org-mode file of the post (I use org2blog): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2685883/evil.org

(Alternatively, here's the text posted on Google+:
https://plus.google.com/105073748129411089493/posts/7xEUhCoh...)

For all the Vim/Evil users here, I have a question (something that I didn't get around to mentioning in my blog post): what are the standard ways in Vim to navigate code in syntactic units? The s-expression motions in Emacs are very handy: for instance, if I am at the end of the line and I want to select foo(bar), I just do C-M-b a couple of times; likewise, if the point is before "foo", I do C-M-f. In Evil, if the point is before "foo", % works well, but not if the point is at e.o.l. That's currently one of my biggest gripes with Evil.
Or you can just buy kosher coke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula#Kosher_Coca-C...
Uncovered Vulnerability Allows Skipping The Lock Screen in Android 4
Excellent points.

For example, I'm specifically referring to things like in the rising card, having the person place the card in the "middle of the deck" and holding out the entire deck minus a single card. That's not out of frame at all. It's a reframing of the definition of the middle of the deck. It's in plain sight and depending on the size of the crowd, it's impossible to completely control all your angles.

Another example would be the double or triple lift where the magician lifts more than one card as though they are a single card. This always happens in frame. Everyone is looking at the cards. Even sloppy lifts, from a magician's standpoint, usually pass without detection, regardless of the speed of the lift. I've always figured this is because people focus their attention on the pattern on the back of the card and not the edges of the card.

Lastly, in pickpocketing tricks, the lifts always happen right in plain sight. For example, I may ask you step forward "so I can do card trick," lift your wallet, and with your wallet in my hand (in plain sight to anyone looking at my hand) reach into my own pocket for a deck of cards. I'll try to limit people noticing the wallet by gesturing to something with my other hand. I'll do a card trick or two and then move into the routine that involves your missing wallet. This is what I think Teller means by "out of frame."

The misdirection needs to be there, but if you watch, they happen several steps before a reveal. Savvy members of an audience might watch other parts of a magician's body, but they don't have the correct timing. They're thinking cause, then effect. Not cause, some random things in the middle, then effect.

Anyway, in that time between, people tend to wander in and out. In one moment they may be trying to figure out the trick, in the next, they're being amazed by the trick.

So, I guess to clarify: Once the illusion is completed, people have given up trying to figure it out. They allow themselves to suspend their disbelief in that moment.
If that's the case (I trust your authority in this), then maybe the status page went down because of the spike in traffic.
Built a billing system for an employer, they let me go on Friday, hired me as a consultant on Monday for a recurring $1000 a month to maintain said system. Program ran for 27 months. Spent more time on billing (5 mins each month) than I ever did on any maintenance.
tl;dr: Good artists copy; great artists steal
The book mentioned (For God, Country and Coca-Cola) is an excellent read, and very thorough. It actually includes the recipe in the back too(1). Coke has had many imitators over the years and fought vigourously to keep their name. They did want to stop using coca leaves, but that then loses meaning and protection for the "coca" part of the name.

In the early part of the 1900s they used to sell the product at soda fountains in malls etc. At one point two businessmen wanted to bottle it instead. Bottling at the time was not particularly advanced, product often spoiled, refrigeration wasn't widespread, and they are heavy. Coke figuring they had a couple of chumps then sold them worldwide perpetual exclusive bottling rights. Oops. Coke has managed to buy back around half of those rights from people around the world. You should look carefully at the bottles and cans. They usually tell you if they were produced under the authority of the Coca Cola bottling company (the company from those businessmen) or Coca Cola itself.

(1) Ok, so you have the exact recipe and can make something that is identical to Coke. What are you going to call it? How are you going to market it? Which retailers are going to buy it from you? How many years of funding do you have for lawyers?

Anyone can make a cola flavour drink. The hard part is marketing, logistics and sales. Heck there is even an open source cola to get your started:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)
Huh, it's true of all the people / places I've met / paid attention to, but I haven't scoured the whole department so you're probably right.
Valve giving out more Counter-Strike Global Offensive Beta keys
Congrats. You learned something.
Does any know if there is something similar to Cookie Monster for Chrome?

Since recently I only visit Facebook in an incognito window for the purpose of cookies. I'd like to block all sites by default as well.
Contribute To The Hype of Linsanity
I think you've found their use of Tynt, or something like it: http://www.tynt.com/
Not dangerous, this poster is absolutely right. I know how to eat healty, and I have the means, but I often eat unhealthily anyway. It is not the same class as being homeless.

I'm not saying that everyone is in the position to choose, but many are, and that is all that was said.
there's a field of color theory, concepts like compliments, but then tertiary compliments, and several other forms. unobtrusive gets into an overlap of usability concerns, taste, colorblindness, and just overall theme. i'm sure if you just pay attention to a little more and google some you can find answers to what you're looking for. ubuntu has a nifty color theory utility called avage ... and there are sites like color lovers and such.
So basically, Emacs.
> "ruby, python, objective C are all fairly new"

Objective C has been around since 1983, Python since 1991, Ruby since 1995 (see Wikipedia). If you're a recent college grad, Objective-C existed before you were born.

> "It means that a 50 year old programmer with 20 years of programming experience doesn't have too many advantages in learning these new languages / environments compared to a fresh college grad."

On the contrary. A 50 year old programmer might have had experience in lots of related languages. For example, since I've used C++ and Java, I don't think I'd have too much trouble picking up Objective C. Since I've used dynamic languages like Lisp, learning Python or JavaScript wasn't very difficult.
So what's the difference between Coke from those two?
And is believed to be better for you.
I'd like to see a controlled experiment. Are you willing to take the Pepsi Challenge?
Indeed, I suspect it's pure marketing hyperbole. Even if only two humans currently know, the machines must know to mass-produce it. Their best-kept out-in-the-open secret in my opinion is the way they are involved (as are others) with things like murdered union leaders and generally poor living standards in places like Colombia and other nations.
100% spot-on. The design remix culture and the use of design patterns is not just a reality of how the web works, but it’s also good for users. When design patterns stick, users become accustomed to interaction behaviors, and then it’s easier for them to use products and find the information they’re looking for.

The key, as Andrew says, is to synthesize your inspirations and to point out design inspiration in the appropriate manner (posts like this, maybe? a credit section?). Another key is to pick smart battles about when to introduce new design patterns (often based on the unique value proposition of your site / product). After all, if every design was 100% remixed, we’d never have innovative leaps forward.
FYI, GitHub now allows you to fork, edit, and make a pull request all from its online interface, without ever cloning on your computer. Each save is a commit, and submissions are pull requests. The feature hasn't been publicized widely, and there isn't real documentation for lay-people, but all the functionality is there.
It's definitely the first impression one gets on hearing RESS and even more fun, it will basically be the same in verbal form.

So, maybe consider another term?
I live with my wife and our two young children, but from ages 23-29, I lived alone. While living alone (especially sans significant other), I used to think, "Oh, it would be so wonderful to come home to a house full of activity." Now, I am beginning to resent the family cat because its presence (and seemingly continuous interest in being fed, going outside, coming inside, etc.) makes it impossible for me to be without distraction, even if my wife and kids have gone somewhere. The grass is always greener, I guess. I've turned what was originally designed to be a formal living room into my office, complete with locking door and couch. This helps, but it's hard for a two year-old to understand why daddy doesn't want to come out and play.
Careers That Get Paid More for Doing Less
I'm puzzled that Mint is on the list, which is a 1GB download and Arch Linux isn't.
Q: Why Monogamous Marriage? A: Lower crime, higher economic growth
It is decriminalized in Portugal but that is not the same as being legal. I'm fairly certain that it is not legal in any European country and I know for a fact that it is in the EU controlled substances list and is not legal in the EU except for a very few and very narrow uses in medicine and pharmacology.
""The anthropological record indicates that approximately 85 per cent of human societies have permitted men to have more than one wife (polygynous marriage), and both empirical and evolutionary considerations suggest that large absolute differences in wealth should favour more polygynous marriages. Yet, monogamous marriage has spread across Europe, and more recently across the globe, even as absolute wealth differences have expanded. Here, we develop and explore the hypothesis that the norms and institutions that compose the modern package of monogamous marriage have been favoured by cultural evolution because of their group-beneficial effects—promoting success in inter-group competition. In suppressing intrasexual competition and reducing the size of the pool of unmarried men, normative monogamy reduces crime rates, including rape, murder, assault, robbery and fraud, as well as decreasing personal abuses. By assuaging the competition for younger brides, normative monogamy decreases (i) the spousal age gap, (ii) fertility, and (iii) gender inequality. By shifting male efforts from seeking wives to paternal investment, normative monogamy increases savings, child investment and economic productivity. By increasing the relatedness within households, normative monogamy reduces intra-household conflict, leading to lower rates of child neglect, abuse, accidental death and homicide. These predictions are tested using converging lines of evidence from across the human sciences.""
Even if someone observing the flow of incoming and outgoing trucks could determine the ingredients and their precise proportions, it's the cooking method that produces the right taste, and someone who counts trucks won't be able to figure that out. You can sniff packets in my LAN all day long, but that won't tell you 100% of things that go on inside my computer. Tricking me to install spyware on my computer, on the other hand, is a completely different matter. If the Coca-Cola formula is known, it'll be because of corporate espionage and not something you can tell from publicly available data.
Israel to destroy Palestinians' solar panels
Once you meet some designers who do have experience with UI, how do you evaluate them? It's not as hard as evaluating a programmer with no knowledge of coding - design is much less of a black box, and it's at least possible to tell when a design is bad - but how do you tell a good designer from a mediocre one, and a great designer from a good one?
Having once been one of the engineers in charge of fixing problems very similar to these... don't read too much into the subtleties of the phrasing of these customer notices. ;)

They all translate to: "The engineers' hair is still on fire and they continue to have no time to tell me exactly why."
I'm not sure what this comment is supposed to mean. Maybe if you rephrased it?
Clearly, if there was fuel left that you could derive motion from the thing, it wasn't quite empty...
someone friendly here showed me this website (here example: [1]) as an .. ekhm... "inspiration" for colors for their websites.

Because I suck on simple graphics design (layouts+color matchmaking) I use it too.

Each image has colors it majorly use plus you can pickup your color and see others projects. very cool!

[1] http://dribbble.com/shots/444224-NikeFuel-Active?list=popula...
Based on my understanding of the market from friends who work in this space, this is exactly correct.
The Future Is So Bright, it's Dematerializing
The thing is, i look at this theme and i know it looks great, but i can't understand why! As an hacker really bugs me.

I know this color tools, but what are the ingredients that makes something look good compared to another design? When i think the rounded colors are the reason, something like this comes up and proves me wrong.

I am aware design is not a trivial matter (i work at IDEO), but where do i start?
its interesting to see how we going back to basics. from windows 3.11 where there was like 256 colors through windows 95/XP more blurry, shadows, rounded stuff, through new windows design that just look "cleaner" and uses better matched color palette, but not much different from initials.
Civilization faces perfect storm
This aligns with some feelings that have been brewing up inside of me for a while. I feel like any work, as long as it is real work (not just wasting time) is valuable...and the harder you try the better it gets, the hard you try the luckier you get...luck and good work is a good start to the combination required for success.

I dont think it matters if you're a writer, software developer, mechanic...anything...time makes you better and the key is to not give up when you dont see the light at the end of the tunnel...have a little faith that its just around the bend.
Don't you know US law enforcement and Homeland Security are seriously fucked up?

No-one from the civilized world should go to the US, unless it's necessary, and then you just do your business and get out, and not wander around waiting for something to happen to you.

Also, don't host your web apps or services in US or with European branches of US companies (e.g. Amazon data centers in Ireland).

(And yeah, I know this comment will attract a ton of negative votes, but I don't care, people need to be warned.)
I went to design school at one of the most well renown schools of Design in the country. We learned a lot in a very compressed amount of time, and I was consistently impressed with the raw intelligence of my colleagues.

But the single thing that I noticed differentiated people who were break-out "all stars" were people who weren't afraid to fail and kept pushing boundaries week after week of crits (critiques). Learning how to give and take critique is an essential part of any sort of creative process, but the prerequisite to evaluation and refinement is the act of raw creation.

A favorite story of mine from a product design professor:

An elementary school pottery class was split into two groups. The first group was told that they'd be graded on the volume of the ceramic pots they created. The second group was told they'd be graded on the sheer aesthetic qualities of only one ceramic pot throughout the course of the semester.

Semester after semester, the 1st group (graded on volume) would inevitably have the most aesthetically pleasing ceramic pot in the group.

Iterating and more importantly, having the right mindset to learn from those iterations is pivotal to succeeding.
Right for the Job: Placement Service a Boon for People with Asperger's
I am not a lawyer, but the DMCA makes an exception for compatibility. So I believe you have the right to break the DRM on a Kindle book so that you can read it on Linux.
"n fact, the United States (and most other nations) expressly prohibits the sale and trade of coca leaves."

Wouldn't Jeff Bezos be in jail then, considering that they are sold on Amazon?
But probably isn't (I say, as I sip from a bottle of Mexican Coke).
The Nook with The Android OS Platform.
Coca-Cola's market dominance probably has epsilon to do with their formulation.
Wow, that's almost exactly like the deal IBM gave to Microsoft.
This isn't exactly true. They needn't list the "species of origin". They just have to name the substance. They can list things like gelatin, glycerides, lecithin, guanine, and other lesser understood animal products by those obscure names.
IMO, the taskbar is what caught my attention the most - the best use of a chromeless design that i've seen.
There's one thing about cracking DRM that has me puzzled. Consider DRM on music, for instance. Suppose we have a 4 minute song, stored as an MP3 with DRM.

The ideal crack results in a 4 minute audio file, without DRM, that is the same audio quality as the input MP3, and is about the same size.

If we didn't care about size, there would be an easy way to crack the DRM. Just play back to music and capture the digital audio stream, and store that as a WAV file, or compress it with a lossless compressor. That preserves the audio quality, but the file is bigger.

If we are willing to give up some audio quality, we can do the above, but use an MP3 encoder. That should get is back down to near the original size, but the decoding and re-encoding as MP3 will cause some audio degradation.

Let's think about the MP3 format in an abstract way for a moment. Consider the set of all possible 4 minute audio streams. Define a given stream as being "perfectly representable" as an MP3 of bit rate B if there exists an MP3 encoding at a rate of B that decodes perfectly to that stream.

A general purpose MP3 encoder takes an input stream, and produces an MP3 file that decodes to a perfectly representable stream that is close to the input stream--ideally only differing in ways that people can't hear.

So here's the question--if the input stream to an MP3 encoder is perfectly representable, why is the output usually a file that decodes to a different perfectly representable stream?

It seems to me it should be possible to design an MP3 encoder with the property that under the operation of encoding followed by decoding, the perfectly representable streams are fixed points. I'll call such an encoder "representation preserving".

With such an encoder, removing DRM from an MP3 file consists simply of playing it back using whatever is normally used to play files with that DRM system, capturing the digital output stream, and then re-encoding with a representation preserving MP3 encoder. The result will by a DRM-free MP3 with exactly the same quality as the MP3 you started with, and compressed to about the same file size.
Go to study older maps, the best place to learn about subtlety in colors.
Nothing. Only the main Coke company makes the syrup. It is then distributed to the Coca Cola Bottling Company and to Coke's own bottlers.
Why E-Learning Will Never Beat the Real Thing
Find Rails Partial References in Vim
What else would ownership be but a convention? We’re just monkeys in shoes. Our arbitrary territorial and food rituals are certainly complex, but that makes them no less arbitrary. And a lock, as they say, only stops an honest man—one who plays by convention.
Secuity flaw in Google Chrome?
I was at a friend's party a week ago and he was playing music on youtube. I mistakenly logged into his Google Chrome (this is a recent feature) with my google account and logged out immediately when I realized my mistake.

Some days later I logged in and connected my own Google Chrome with my google account. I got all the friend's bookmarks, which is ok. A day later, I opened the browser and tried to log into gmail (I didn't have the "remember me" option turned on) and I got my friends email AND password pre-filled in the gmail login form. I could read his password with document.getGetElementById('Passwd').value.

Has anyone also done this? Google is apparently syncing your passwords unencrypted.
Be Ruthless (but not yet)
Hmmm looks like Zune. I'll argue it's one the best pieces of software to come out of Microsoft. Too bad MS just killed.
Zune inspired - pretty damn good!
Play around with a color wheel[1]. There are set ways to choose colors that go well together: for example, you can just use shades of a single color, or you can use a color and its complement for emphasis. I think actually seeing a color wheel and the results is a very visceral way to get a feel for basic color theory.

[1]: http://colorschemedesigner.com/