skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aim of Punch is to help anyone to build (and maintain) modern websites using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Pardon my ignorance, but I thought the modern trend was to move away from that? Towards coffeescript, dart etc. Is there a good reason to insist in js, css. Or is it just my GWT bias showing?
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If you own the data, are you allowed to destroy the data / turn off the EDR at any time?
It's a sensible requirement. It seems like a reasonable clause in the social contract that if you're going to zoom around at 50-80MPH in a 4000 pound explosive metal box, we should be able to reconstruct as much as possible when that box collides with another box, or a building, or a bunch of people.

If this law required the boxes to be installed surreptitiously (like they are now), or stipulated that the data on the boxes belonged to the government, or stipulated that they RF backhaul the data back to some central government computer, that would indeed be cause for alarm.

But this bill does the exact opposite of that.
Great idea. Exactly what somebody should have done with HTTP Long-Polling and Streaming (XHR, IFRAME, ActiveX etc.) but without a standardised API it was difficult. The WebSockets API let's us do this.
Very true. I was bewildered by the hate for the 501 manifesto. I think of myself as a person who likes math so much that I will program to build fun stuff that lets me do more math. I have had days where I was so fully immersed into the problem that I have spent around 20 hours "hacking" (really reading papers, covering white boards with math and prototyping out stuff). I have also had days where I was in implementation mode and I usually don't spend more than 8-9 hours doing that (unless I need to ship tomorrow or something). I am puzzled at the idea that somehow me finding something more fascinating (and definitely much more harder) than programming to do on my personal time is a bad thing. As long as I spend my day productively and get stuff done, why does it really matter?

As a side note, I have found that setting a hard cut off helps you to push away irrelevant chit chatting, youtube, emails and what not and focussing on the job in order to get it done. While obviously I have had ideas in the shower and that helps my next day become more productive, I don't see the need to immediately act on that and go open up my computer and write code.
(former bioinformatician here)

I agree, the totality of the interactions for a single cell is so many orders of magnitude above what we are capable of currently modeling that I fear these computational approaches are dangerously over-hyped. Having been privy to the state-of-the-art projects in a lab with a ~5,000 node cluster it was still disappointing to see how rough the whole cell modeling approaches were. It's really tough just to model a small corner of the cytoplasm and get the diffusion of different protein and metabolites right, let alone address organelles or chromosomal folding and surface availability. It's a mess.
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The actual application used was Glide, http://www.schrodinger.com/products/14/5/, which is likely Fortran or C++ given the type of app. Don't know what Cycle's core sofware for managing the whole infrastructure is written in, but they use a lot of Chef and schedulers like Torque or Condor in addition to Boto to orchestrate the EC2 side.
Location based means more than just "real time"
Mine at least is linked into the rest of the car - it sense weight on the seat and I think it's only active when the key is in.

Obviously it wouldn't be coded fire only if you were braking ! But it might be at least logging all the data that is used for the seat belt pre-tensioning, ABS, stability control, traction control and all the other safety systems.
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You mentioned that sales were strongly up for reasons unrelated to the post. What are those reasons?
syslogd + open source monitoring + indexing has done this for a while now.

Competing business idea...?
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Serious question, do you feel you have some sort of basic human right to get Game of Thrones, in English, with subtitles, in Russia? Does that extend to all intellectual property ever created, or is it just commercial pop-culture stuff?
>Sounds like a reason not to buy a 2015 Honda.

Ah yes, the "free market" in action. That has worked so well for us in protecting our privacy, as evidenced by the plethora of commercial software with EULAs that respects the user's rights.

Or are you saying Richard Stallman is going to build us a car next?

Here's how it works:

1. Government is constitutionally forbidden from collecting this information.

2. Government observes that private corporations can collect this information.

3. Government grants private corporations immunity from prosecution and civil liability if it collects this information and hands it to the government. Threatens prosecution and civil liability if corporations fails to collect information and "something bad happens".

4. US Supreme Court pretends this is acceptable by ignoring "intent" and "consequences" and then goes on to uphold "intent" and "consequences" in every other case before it.
Thanks for writing this, these are some cool numbers to poke at.

You mention in the write-up that you've already done a lot of work to get your User Success percentage high. Is this the first time that you've seen a disconnect between User Success improvements and sales increases? Or did you pick this more as a useful, dramatic example?
Splunk is one of the best pieces of software ever made. It's critical to almost everything Shopify does. It's pricy but easy to justify because it makes any ops and many dev tasks 10x easier and therefore there are some real savings in required manpower.
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That's a risk you run using services provided for by anyone other than yourself. My bank could suddenly go under and I would have to switch banks... It's not just in the software world, that's anything.
Woah, some ugly typos in there that I can't edit now.
Those are not bugs, IMO.

A lot of web Javascript would be useless if events didn't bubble, and being able to define invisible click areas is useful in a variety of contexts.

Sucks that a few people are going to be malicious about it but I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
Imagine if we spent all of the billions of dollars surrounding those 30,000-40,000 deaths (healthcare, insurance, litigation, first responders) and invested it into research for alternative methods of transport, eg. driverless cars, public transportation.

No other properly operated consumer item poses a risk of death as high as automobiles.
What were the friction problems?

I'd much rather than go crazy with the experiments in this early stage and figure out what works, then try to stick to some super organized and rigid model that probably isn't the best.

I was happy with ml-class from last semester, and I also pretty happy with pgm-class this semester.
Well, it depends on what business Best Buy is in. If they're just a vehicle of getting merchandise to customers, you're right; it's not their probem. However, they're going to lose to Amazon in a heartbeat since they'll never be able to win with pricing. On the other hand, if Best Buy offers you personalized assistance in making the right buying decision, they've created a value proposition that Amazon can't match. This is what they claim to do in their brick and mortar stores.

In the case of the article, they're clearly going after the convenience market, but it's my opinion that attaching their branding to it then not following their brand-standard policies is a little disingenuous.
Not to overly self-promote, but you might want to give us a try: http://zite.com . I've personally spent years on the personalization technology behind it, so I'd love to hear what you think.
> It's pretty much a safe bet that, even within GCHQ, anybody with any seniority in the British civil service will have no technical background.

A tricky question to answer. Most of what they do is secret, and people don't talk about the work at all.

It's not necessarily a bad thing to leave people good at the job doing the job and let people good at managing doing the managing.

But look at, for example, mathematician Clifford Cocks who (it's safe to say) is a good mathematician and is in a position of seniority with GCHQ and possibly other research partnerships such as the Heilbronn Institute.

(http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/research/heilbronn_institute/)
One potential upside is that, as far as the numbers are concerned, the client is free to use whichever version they want.
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Not sure I completely understood your first paragraph. Are you saying that as consumers if we give Google access to our data (even if it's limited - aka valet) then they ultimately "take over" the ownership of it?

There's a lot here. If they do get access to your data they'd most likely annotate it and provide you an enhanced experience on data that is owned by them (their annotations on your data). But I think that's okay. We have to be pragmatic here and say that in the example of photos if you give Google access to your photos to display in your G+ account and they collect +'s and comments perhaps it's okay that they "own" that content. As a user you still are better off than today and maybe it's a progression to where more and more data is portable and owned by you...but we have to start somewhere :)
Honestly I think the site is really ugly - the color scheme, all the same size text, '96 aesthetic... it looks like a ghetto SEO trap website. Please don't take offense, thats my snap judgement of seeing it. What if you tried letting a designer do something on par with your payment processor Stripe.com - picture those cards on the right as bingo cards, good simple headline, call to action.
Thanks for sharing. There is some very useful and interesting information in this article.
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Unfortunately, certifications for Ubuntu carry little value unless server vendors begin publishing usable official package repositories for device drivers, BIOS/firmware updates, and systems management/diagnostics software. Merely being able to run Ubuntu without a kernel panic is not enough.

Until this happens, RHEL will remain a better option for most people running their own hardware.
This is just another brick in the wall. The web is /not/ a platform that's friendly to new implementations, and it never will be; the complexity that's constantly being added ensures this. It also means we're all going to have a lot fewer guarantees of anything like sane behavior when using the web in the years to come.
HBO made about $4 billion in 2011 from subscriber revenue. The company is circa 40 years old. If you are an executive at a company that size and age, one of your primary jobs is to not fuck anything up.

Currently the upside to directly delivery is small; there just aren't that many people who have the hardware, bandwidth, and inclination to buy shows online. Certainly nothing like the 28 million subscribers they currently have.

There is no serious incentive for them to be a pioneer in this. Amazon, Apple, and Netflix are doing a fine job of figuring out what a la carte TV show delivery will eventually mean. When the market is big enough to make it worth getting in a fight with the cable monopolies, I'm sure HBO will do it. But for now, they can let other people take the risk.
Interesting. These are the exact issues that I had. So I eagerly clicked over to your site. I clicked on a few things, and after 2 minutes I left. For good. Why?

No taste. Very little to no taste.

While you do exactly what I need, these are incredibly complicated times. And I want to be sure that you will solve my issues without introducing complicated buttons and concepts I have to learn first. Plus Icons that hurt my eyes. But that's exactly what you provided.

Would be great if you looked into this matter. Cause as of right now, 3 minutes after my visit, I'm still looking for a solution.
Subways/trains don't collect you from the front door of your house and deliver you to the exact spot that you want to go to.

Conceptually, I think this is similar to the last-mile broadband problem[1] - it's not economical to lay fiber to the customer's home unless the customer lives in an urban/reasonably densely populated area. Similarly, if you want to go from transport hub to transport hub (bus/rail station, airport etc.) that's no problem, but getting from the transport hub to your home ranges from expensive and awkward to impossible, depending on how far you live from the transport hub.

Self-driving cars solve this problem. Who cares if you have a 100 mile commute, if you can snooze all the way? Just order the car for a set time every morning to allow enough time for the drive and go back to sleep on the way.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile
I think Andy is missing the point of the Oatmeal comic. It's not that people want the content right then and there. That's a minor part in the larger picture: acquiring content illegally is a better experience than acquiring it legally.
Let's say I purchased season one on bluray, and just as I was coming home from the store my friend gave me a thumb drive with the torrented files on it. I wouldn't even open the shrink wrap. If the bluray disc gets scratched, I no longer have access to my content; I can back up the files on the thumb drive though. If I want to watch an episode, I have to sit through commercials on the bluray that I purchased; I can watch them immediately off the thumb drive though. If I want to project using a vga cable, I may run into content protection issues; the files on the thumb drive will work just fine though.

It's not a matter of cost or wait time. It's that torrent networks provide a better, faster, easier, more portable, and simpler experience than the legal way.
Hosting your software on a secure cloud server and licensing it out solves the problem of piracy, doesn't it?
Well, it's part of the CoffeeScript idea that everything is an expression, but surely they could have manual returns?
I'm sure they want it. But as any Game of Thrones watcher knows, the alliances that you make in the pursuit of power and wealth mean you can't always do what you want. Yet.
You just run more tests, such that 25% of tests run still turns out to make $$$$ at least.
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I noticed BGR's paranoid stance last time I read an article there. I don't remember the subject matter, but it too was linked to infowars.com. I cringe every time I see an article citing that site.

And yeah, the bill looks harmless to me. Just an EDR with no requirement for wireless transmission, and no identifying information. And when I saw the section on ownership I was pretty satisfied.

I could see this data being required by the insurance companies though.
I do feel to have a basic human right to do whatever I want to do without harming anyone.
For example, if I want to watch Game of Thrones, I do it, because I can and because there is no act of harming anyone: I'm not witholding any money its makers could possibly get if I didn't because they tell me they don't want my money.

That's morally neutral. It is my basic human right to be morally neutral.

Now, copyright is not a basic human right.
So I'd argue they get no copyright unless they distribute.

And yes, that ought to extend to all intellectual property ever created. Imagine that suddenly anyone in Iran reading, watching or listening to american "intellectual property" becomes morally wrong because somebody in USA decieded to put an "intellectual property" embargo. Doesn't sound right, does it?
Thanks for that article. In the abstract, they seem to state that they believe the conscientious didn't improve as much because they developed specific strategies for the particular game. So, they basically gamed the system instead of improving organically. It looks like you could vary the game rules and objectives to keep the conscientious from developing those strategies.
> but the browser implementations did not seem intuitive

You might be using the wrong browser. With Opera you get a very elegant interface and can easily handle tens of thousands of entries (best part is you can read your stories offline if the website gives them to you). I have a good bunch of ArsTechnica stored on my hdd.
What I'm suggesting is that promises don't need any special treatment. If you have a function that you want to feed a promise just wrap it: promised(Mustache.render). That's all it takes.
See Rick Falvinge's blog post at http://falkvinge.net/2011/09/05/cable-reveals-extent-of-lapd...
It may be difficult for you or others to create an RSS feed from an API, but a service like Flipboard could do it. I think less technically inclined people are more likely to use something like Flipboard over an RSS reader anyway, it's less complicated.

And services like Flipboard benefit having access restricted to an API, as it limits its availability, which helps them monetize off of it.
Actually, I wonder if a simple email referral template might help with nicely measurable word-of-mouth. Plenty of parents will have their kids' teachers' email address, and could shoot them a targetted recommendation with a little help.
This article tries to pin the culprit here as a Best Buy vending machine problem. His problem is at most a vending machine problem, and really just his own mistake. Why would you buy something from a vending machine that is inside a package you can't see inside?

He lampoons Best Buy over a personal mistake.
which might be true except for

> (2) PRIVACY- Data recorded or transmitted by such a data recorder may not be retrieved by a person other than the owner or lessee of the motor vehicle in which the recorder is installed

also, you say

> Ah yes, the "free market" in action. That has worked so well for us in protecting our privacy, as evidenced by the plethora of commercial software with EULAs that respects the user's rights.

this bill is exactly the opposite of free market. it says everyone has to put recorders and cars and then explicitly forbids certain uses of them.
I also used to have doubt about it because I heard it was categorized as a "log analysis", which is very unsexy from a developer's point of view. Can we be tricked by names! After using it for a while just yesterday, I found it not bad at all.

In a nutshell, Splunk is valuable because it turns your unstructured untyped data into something much easier to analyze and Business Intelligence (BI) ready. IMHO, the strength of Splunk is two folds. First, it provides a central place to view and mine your logs across hundreds or thousands of machines. This is very useful in many organizations with large scale distributed computing because you don't need to ssh into your database server in one terminal and compare the results in another terminal connecting to your web server, if you could ever figure out which of the 100 database servers you should look at. Second, instead of just greping, it treats each log entry as a list of key-value pairs and provides a simple yet powerful query language for it. On top of that, it gives you a library of visualization components. I was able to build a fully-customized Google Analytics style dashboard for my application in 20 minutes. And I would say that is empowerment, and empowerment is the most valuable value.

And if you are very into technologies, they are a Python house, which is always a plus :)
this is pretty sweet.

a feature that i have yet to see anywhere (which would be trivial to add, btw), is labeling the actual connection endoints, like with IP or MAC addresses in network diagrams.

also something that probably needs to be implemented in the mxGraph lib is obstacle avoidance during connection routing, so that routes don't run into or under other objects, this is non-trivial.

bonus would be allowing a connection re-route only to specific "alternate" endpoints or ones that match some definable ruleset when a block is moved around on the diagram.
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I wonder if PaaS is just an intermediate step towards frameworks that abstract away the whole serverside logic and database.
Depends on how you want to play. Some people try to win by a certain amount of points. Some people try to lose by a certain amount of points. Some teachers move in a way to call attention to certain shapes or tactical sequences. Sometimes you just want to stick to beautiful moves. When you throw in handicap stones, komi, and reverse komi, how much you win or lose by is arbitrary. You can win by 0.5 points, but that's largely dependent on komi you agreed to. The losing player still has half of the board.

All fluid objectives during a game of chess between strong players are still subordinate to the ultimate objective: capture the king. There's only one king on each side, so there is not much give. There are 361 empty space to choose from in Go.
That, or a majority of the JS coding crowd is too novice to appreciate maintainable code better than copying and pasting "simple" plumbing all over the place.
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You're on the right track, but it's more than the number of kids in a classroom — not family. He mentioned it in a podcast somewhere.
This is now automatically inserted into the top of the generated javascript as of coffeescript 1.3
Everything from the office squash league to the canteen menu is automatically classified when it's created.

The degree of classification is by default at LEAST the security level of project you are working. It is possible to create a document that is more secret than the project, although generally not less. Bizarrely it's even possible to create a document that is subsequently classified to a level that you aren't allowed to read it yourself!

After a certain time (generally 30years for UK gov) records are considered for release. Some are kept classified if eg. they will put living people at risk.

But releasing a document always has the potential to cause embarrassment to the civil service or government - while keeping it classified means nobody ever knows.

So there is always a default - if in doubt do nothing/keep it secret.
You recommend Stripe in a throwaway line in the post - it sounds like your experience with them has been really positive! I'm working on a project where I may end up taking people's money for services on a subscription basis. I've heard that Stripe is better for one-time charges than for re-occuring charges. Is that true in your experience, as someone who's done work with Stripe?
I think you're conflating 2 things: RSS as format read by people and RSS as a format read by machine. Don't let the lack of popularity of the former sway your opinion of the latter.

Having to write custom code for each service you're interested in sucks compared to adding some RSS endpoints into an array.