skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were several reasons for choosing bootstrap-sass. For one, lots of readers recommended it. Moreover, in an introductory tutorial, I wanted to stay as close to the default asset pipeline as possible, which meant erring on the side of Sass. I also personally have a lot more experience with Sass (although, to be fair, LESS is very similar). Finally, the author of the bootstrap-sass gem (Thomas McDonald) got in touch with me and assured me that he plans to keep it up-to-date as Bootstrap itself changes.
> Technology has made college much easier than it was 20 years ago.[...] Yet, [sic] the curriculum has not scaled up in difficulty.

If your statement is correct, you wouldn’t know it from reading the schlock that students pass off as papers even at “world class” colleges. Doing all the reading and writing clear, solid analyzes of difficult material is just as hard as it ever was. Harder, even, because there are a whole bunch of distractions that didn’t exist 30 years ago.

> College needs to have a more high-school approach to teaching students

Good god. High school is a stultifying swamp of concentrated terribleness. The whole point of college is that treating people like adults leads potentially to adult-quality thinking. Teaching college like high school completely undermines the purpose: raising a new generation of capable scholars and citizens.

> There's no intensive, long-term internalization of the discipline [in liberal arts subjects].

Just because none of the liberal arts majors you took the trouble to really engage with actually took their studies seriously doesn’t mean that serious liberal arts students don’t exist.

* * *

Overall, I think you’ve confused the difficulty of making good grades in a college program with the difficulty of doing the assigned work. If you measure your growth by how many A’s you can pull, education is always going to be intellectually unsatisfying for you.
People don't hate personalized search, they hate not knowing what's going to happen with the information.

Personally, I love how convenient it is for Google to know as much as it does about me. But I then have to begrudgingly trust that they "won't be evil" with that information. It's a tradeoff, and I like to think that most people understand it as such.
Taggify aims to enter photo & video monetization worldwide market
If you're monitoring the encrypted wireless traffic of a wifi router without busting the encryption, then what good are IP addresses? Do you even see IP addresses if the traffic is encrypted. Wouldn't you just see MAC addresses? And even if you did "see" IP addresses, wouldn't you just see the wireless client and the router's IP addresses?
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O'Reilly Loves the New Federal CTO
I'm excited to see what he can bring to our country as well.
> Why do I have to hear about every front-end web dev's effort to reinvent the wheel?

You don't have to listen. Forcing people onto something when they'd rather create their own is a much worse proposition.
For those who may not know, and because it's not mentioned in the blog post, Mika Mobile develops their games in Unity.

It's a testament to the challenge of developing games to work on all Android devices that even with Unity's support they still have to spend so much development effort on shaders and debugging device specific issues.
Do you really think Swedish law enforcement works so completely differently that the comparison is invalid?
My two cents after using Win8 for a week on a laptop:

- Hot corners: fail. MS needs to extend hot zones. Finding the exact point with the touchpad is sometimes tricky. I can imagine the horror on multimonitor configuration.

- I actually like the start screen. It's clean, and it responds to typing even faster than Win7 start button. Two minor problems: 1) you need to clean up icons after every installation and 2) it doesn't shows everything when I'm typing - I need to explicitly select "settings" after I type "mouse", for example (it's tab - down - enter, not a big deal, but still). Windows 7 start screen displays all find results at once.

- Keyboard is your friend: Win + c for charms, Win + q for programs search, Win + w for settings search. Learn these three shortcuts and you'll have less angry fist shaking.

- Metro: I really hope that the next year will bring us laptops with touch screens. Until then, metro applications aren't very useful when you have only mouse and keyboard.

The rest is, more or less, the same as in Windows 7.
Gmail offers email+foo@gmail.com, which is sent to email@gmail.com, but then you can filter on the To: field. I don't think that completely solves #3, but it's a helpful trick. Plus, then you can see how your email addresses get passed on, as long as whoever's got your email isn't clever enough to =~ s#\+.*?@#@# regex your address...
I have some serious doubts about the validity of this claim. While the its possible in proofs of concept, I reserve judgement until they can prove it in a court of law.
exactly! pretty much everyone in "too expensive/too complicate/we don't want this know" wagon that still want to have some sort of presence on the mobile devices could still have it without any investment other than redirect to his site.
This absolutely sucks in every way. The icons suck, they aren't clean, clear, flexible, or well made. The styles suck, they are too basic to even be useful - we can all put a 1px border or border radius on an element. And it's not innovative in any way, web designers have been doing this for years, except with actually good icons and css styles.

I'm genuinely surprised that this made it to the front page of hacker news. That being said, I still think Nick La is a great designer.
I don't see why you're being downvoted. I failed to see what the chicken/egg problem was as well, it was not obvious to me.

Maybe asking politely for clarification would be better than just denying whatever the parent said, but still...

To the guys who responded to this explaining the problem: Thank you!
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how to downvote? <- my dilemma.

"do you REALLY think that’s possible with an extremely hot girl in a club?" .. you do realize that the 'extremely hot girls' are often the ones with some of the worst self confidence problems right?
When my dad bought a DEC Rainbow 100, I loved loved loved that I could move the keyboard. Such a boon!
Honestly HN? You guys are submitting yet another one of these stories? After all the furor/confusion/stories about pretty much everything else of consequence that has been "invented"?

One pretty much finds these stories about who "really" invented pretty much anything, from the automobile, to social networks.
That's because you had (presumably) well-thought out rigor.

Over in the humanities, the faculty gave up on / let themselves get chased off the Great Books about two decades ago, what they're left with isn't much fun. The social sciences mustn't come up with the Wrong Answers, or else. And the whole notion of merit and quality is sort of suspect in those disciplines, so the joys and terrors of seeking excellence are heavily obscured.

So, yeah, those programs are a lot less exciting than they should be.
ITether Creators Build Pure HTML5 Workaround
This was my first impression as well - the custom work on the 'A' in art is a good start, but Lobster's way too common to be the backbone of a unique and memorable logo.
That is assuming that it is easy to tell the difference between security and non-security bugs. Null pointer dereferences can and have been exploited to escape security sandboxes. I read about an interesting one a few years in flash. unfortunately all i can find now are secondary sources (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/mark-dowds-null-pointer-d...).
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DropWizard, huh? I'd be really careful about anything that overly simplifies opening up CRUD functionality via REST. Be sure to spend some of that time you save looking into the security of your service. Easy generation of RESTful services has bitten many a Rails developer, for example.
waste of my time, frankly
To cite the first Tor research paper:
https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des...

Not secure against end-to-end attacks: Tor does not
claim to completely solve end-to-end timing or intersection
attacks. Some approaches, such as having users run their own
onion routers, may help; see Section 9 for more discussion.

They are repeating it several times in their documentation, too.

It's not really a bug - there is little that can be done here, IMO.
In what way is it a waste of talent?

Additionally, how are they occasionally destroying the world's economy?
Neat app you have, there. We are not planning to charge for the apps, but keep a look out for premium features on Airgram.
> That's a standard technical person bias.

First of all - I wouldn't count being a businessperson as liberal arts.

One way you can look at it is how many people drop out of technical subjects because they find them too hard to move to humanities and liberal arts vs. the opposite. Anecdotally, for me the former number has been much larger. The latter number has been 0.

Similarly, I've had many technical friends who took liberal arts courses and generally did very well in them. I also have many liberal arts friends who took technical courses and did not do well in them. In addition, the technical people I've met have been much much more hard-working than liberal arts people. (An exception I'd make is creative arts - people I've encountered in that field have generally been extremely hard-working. Also no one I've met has moved from say math to music because they found math too hard.)

Now it might just be because liberal arts people just don't like the technical subject matter on average as much as technical people like the liberal arts subject matter. But even if that's true, one is then right to choose technical people over liberal arts people.

Lastly, I also know liberal arts majors who are smarter than many technical folk I've encountered but I'm talking about the general trend here.
The particular pleasure of scratching an itch on the ankle
U.S. Appoints New Chief Technology Officer
http://wrangl.com/sass-v-less

Particularly: sass == Ruby. less == JavaScript.

I'm not saying that's good or bad, but it's probably "why".
The asset pipeline introduced in Rails 3.1 includes Sass by default, which means nothing to configure if you use bootstrap-sass.
Know Your Tax Bracket
I hated college.

I mean, it's a tiresome task to even attempt to enumerate all the ways in which I feel college failed to live up to the hype they feed you before you go in. And perhaps it's because I went to a big, run-of-the-mill state school, but I typically refer to college as an extortion racket now.

I welcome any and all attempts to disrupt what I consider a corrupt and ineffective system.
The Bootstrap material starts in Chapter 5 (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/filling-in-the-layout...).
Appreciate the support, I'm not worried, not the first unpopular / misunderstood opinion I've had.

Calling insecure lashing out towards others though, all, day, long. :)
At some point, depending upon why they're buying, I think having fewer employees is a bad thing. It means whoever is acquiring you has to do more work to turn it into a fully fledged business. At least that's the sentiment I heard when our startup sold (4 employees total).
This is awesome! Thanks for providing such a valuable resources to Rails newbies!
that's actually pretty unappealing visually. uncluttered doesn't just mean "don't add extraneous ui elements", it also means that you don't try to cram too much visually undistinguished information into too small a space. i'm trying not to be overly negative, because this is a hard problem and no one has really solved it well, but the current page does not make me feel like reading it.

another obvious problem is that you organise by source. this is doubtless the easiest thing to do, but as a consumer of news who has come to an aggregator site, i care about the story first, and who ran it second. some sort of ai classifier that could group by story type rather than by source newspaper would be a big help in deciding what i want to click on.
Elaborate? I'd love to know why. Is it because you're against bootstrap, or you don't like the entire tutorial, or...?
Making/receiving calls in Gmail is the reason I stick with the web client. I don't actually use the chat much, but I'm a huge fan of the simplicity of Google Voice's integration with Gmail.
The key is figuring out when technology gets to a certain point that make a vision possible and which technologies will make it possible. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, there had been touchscreen phones for a long time. Apple identified that capacitive touchscreens were a new technology that allowed for a touch device to work much better - better to the extent that it changed whether touch devices would be generally accepted or not. They didn't invent capacitive touchscreens nor touch-phones. They did recognize how that technology changed one's ability to make good touch devices. At the time, Windows Mobile didn't even support capacitive touchscreens.

Likewise, with the iPhone and iPad, Apple designed the interface differently. I remember Windows Mobile phones that had menus much like desktop operating systems (http://pdadb.net/imageview.php?path=img/os/ppc_5.0/wm5_vga_p...). When you look over Apple's guidelines for iOS apps, you can see how they took into consideration the size of touch targets and how the user would interact with the device much more than previous touch devices.

The idea of a tablet computer has been around for a long while. Microsoft and its partners had created Windows tablets that worked like the desktop OS for a while. As others have pointed out, Star Trek and other TV programs have shown us tablet computers. What Apple brought to the table was how to make that technology compelling for people as the components to make something compelling all come into being.

ARM processors combined the needed processing power with lower power consumption meaning that the iPad could be 2 pounds or less with many hours of battery life. If you had the idea of a Pentium powered tablet in the 90s with 10 hours of battery life and a 2 pound weight, it would just be an idea. Before capacitive touchscreens, it wouldn't be a compelling experience. You can have the idea that the touchscreen would be accurate and nice to use, but identifying how to achieve that is important. While Apple's UI concepts are something we're used to today, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry was the order of the day for mobile devices back then. While one can have the idea that the tablet should be intuitive to use, actually managing that can take work.

There's a reason why one never really understands what they're doing with the computer on Star Trek. It can be hard to create a really compelling product that's actually great to use. It isn't merely the concept of "a light, powerful tablet with little weight and a great user experience" that makes it happen. One has to identify what can be brought together to accomplish it as well as design a compelling interaction.
My thought process:

See that it can be an interesting concept. Look at the article "mmm why not". Click on GoFlow.com link, see the meme in the front page. It's a bad one. Close page, will never come back.
A personal review of the Lytro camera
> Developing native apps for various platforms is not easy, and frankly, unnecessary for most services [emphasis mine]

I think the fact that you've developed a native app here provides sufficient falsifying evidence for this declaration.

When looking for the optimal (for the user) solution, the decision as between a web site or a native application should be made on the basis of user requirements, and the solutions that best meet those requirements, not based on the technologies that you, personally, are comfortable with.

If you ignore an organization's existing investments in web engineering and web-focused infrastructure, webapps aren't empirically and objectively easier or cheaper. Rather, they're a mechanism by which an organization can leverage money they have already invested in building a web-centric team.

I see this as a temporary state, initially caused by the rapid adoption of the web, and will ultimately disappear as more broad, less web-centric development experience and infrastructure investment becomes the norm.
If you build a warp drive to reach the unicorn herds of Rigel, will it matter if you discover Rigel doesn't have any unicorns?
This is an attempt to rationalize away people's concerns without having to address them. People really do have concerns, and if they are not precisely what is being articulated and the words don't precisely match the actions, that is not proof they don't exist. It merely means that people are not successfully articulating them. It would be better to try to figure out what they actually are than to take the psychologically appealing route of explaining them away in your own Google-centric worldview, then thinking you've actually addressed anything.

Edit: For posterity I'll leave up "Google-centric", but thanks mdwrigh2; please consider it struck. I still think there's an attempt to dodge around what the concerns actually are.
This is a strong point, and the one rarely acknowledged at that. Many people stop at pointing out that efficient markets cannot be gamed, and almost all exploitable inefficiencies have been ironed out already. In correctly observing that most investment activities are fueled by greed and human biases, they incorrectly extend this to trading illiquid goods, which still have a lot of low-hanging fruit to pick.
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In France, most good universities/schools have a high school approach to teaching students. The problem of the high school model is that it was already debilitating in high school... and it does not make it more fun in college.
For having studied in both US and FR systems, I can tell you that I was more excited about working on my own or in teams and doing homework when I was in the US than feeling I was in HS again in France or elsewhere.

Freedom and ability to explore is actually THE main advantage of the US college system.

Now slackers will remain slackers whatever "platform" you put in front of them...
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correct, you would not see IP header, if you were snooping encrypted wireless traffic. But thats not really what was described.. They describe a "wireless router monitoring device"...however I don't think think they mean "wireless router", but wireless "router". My guess, this is a physical 'wired' device, attached to, or installed in a router, that transmits data to nearby monitoring (FBI)agent 'wirelessly'. This is why they can see IP (wired, so no encryption), but can't see anything else (tor).
A lot of that is in spite of the university and not because of it. But even a mediocre university will provide more resources than you might find without it.
'' On the left, GRUB 2. On the right, the bootloader found in Windows 8 CP. I've got no doubts on which one I'd rather use. ''

--me either.
Yes, we are already talking to him to learn from his experience
Just to make sure its clear, the author of this runs a media company and is not a Googler. I'm not sure he benefits at all by rationalizing away "people's concerns without having to address them".
Let me get this structure right, so that I can be sure that I understand you, before you go on. (I'm a little perplexed because if the first copies weren't produced, that would obviate the willingness of people to buy copies in the first place.) You're saying, I think, that some art may never be: and this is because the artist is not convinced that they can make it profitable, and this is because they see their audience as too far predisposed to pirating their content to actually pay for it.

If that's right, then it's true that I'm not really handling that problem with my original analogy -- I wouldn't even really classify this as a "free rider" problem per se.

One question which I'd like to ask up-front is whether this is really a problem. I'm not so sure. If you think about it, it requires a really peculiar set of circumstances. One particular problem is that if you didn't have piracy, that doesn't mean that the pirates would be your customers. So you are very restricted in price range: you have to be unable to amortize the costs of the project normally, but you have to be so addictive that pirates would be your customers and you could amortize the costs of the project if piracy weren't a factor. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying that the more I think about it, the harder it is to come up with a clear example that I can use to think through to find a solution. (Maybe I'm peculiar, but that's the way I think about problems: I call particular instances to mind and throw lots of ideas against them hoping one of them sticks as a solution. I'm having trouble seeing a particular instance which wouldn't already be solved by, say, Kickstarter or the BBC.)

Well, thanks. It's interesting to think about in any case. I guess I'd just end on a hopeful note: hopefully the production costs for art steadily drop down as well, as more and more technology becomes cheaper. There will be human-professional costs that cannot go down because people have got to eat, but they just don't seem like the most significant costs in producing art -- at the very least, bands haven't stopped living off of live shows yet, and theaters can still cover their actors and set staff with simple ticketing. I will also make the hopeful comment that people really do care about authenticity enough to support artists. That's why fashion design can still be lucrative even though there's a huge industry dedicated to knock-offs.
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To those that are -1'ing me- I think that PG appreciates dissenting opinion. If you are going to -1, at least provide a rebuttal. I just disagreed with him.
Cycling. (Jens Voigt, 40 y.o., just arrived 2nd at today stage on Paris-Nice).
The government's powers are limited by the Constitution. Someone who threatens to follow you home and kill you, however, is operating in an environment without restrictions, and you might therefore worry that you're actually going to be killed.

"Prior restraint" is a well-tested concept and it doesn't do very well in court. And all the government has to harass you are the courts.
Packet contents wouldn't have helped, due to multiple layers of encryption.
Oh boy, the financial wizard porn articles are being peddled again, right when the markets are supposedly OK. I hope we all don't have such short term memories.
So one of the interesting projects I've got baking is running Android ICS on a Pandaboard connected to an HDMI monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

This looks like a very nice setup for 'banging out' a widget/app that I can use right away. Assuming that someone does an Android port to the Rasberry Pi that would be a good use case there too.