skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Google's search by image I found every follower's picture I tested to be fake.

One of them is even Miss World from 1994:

https://twitter.com/#!/Darbyko3

https://twitter.com/#!/aishwaryarai
I like the idea behind the Swedish system, but then I think about what would happen in the US. Wal-Mart would get the exclusive contract for services. After that you would be happy to actually receive a package, most likely not your package.

I hate Wal-Mart a lot more then the delivery services.
What is RBAR?
I don't, which is why I didn't add anything. Actually, the accepted, official answer was more than perfect. People rambling the same things isn't helpful, you're right; however, had no one said anything as useful as the accepted answer, then it would have been helpful to warn them. We were speaking on different wavelengths, I hope that clears it up
The author seems to be confused about what Node.js is.

> NodeJS is a very young framework, and packages around it are very immature.

Node.js is not a framework. It is a JavaScript engine and standard library. Node is comparable to the MRI.
On Firefox, your footer is very difficult to read. The font is too light on the background. Hope it is not intentional.
The Heroku Buildpack support makes it wickedly easy to move your apps from Heroku to your own Private Clouds
Of course the flip side is Thiel has been so amazingly vocal about his views on higher education you'd think he would have made a his staff aware that this requirement wasn't aligned with his views.

In the end it is mostly a depiction of how having a degree is a door opener because it is a default filter for almost all hiring managers. Even hiring managers employed by a vocal advocate of skipping college.
Thanks for the feedback. One of our other developers created http://groovebackup.com/ to make exporting playlists easier. It's not officially supported, but it should get the job done. :) Another dev was working on playlist importing as a side project but I think it fell by the wayside.
Hey Nokia, It’s Okay to Make Fun of Yourself
1.12 GP = 1,120 MP.
The Man Who Took On Amazon And Saved A Bookstore
You can choose any color for your model T car as long as it's black.
It's a poor assumption, for sure.

I, for example, went to a state school because quite frankly, I was not really interested in taking on hundreds of thousands in debt to finance a college education. I was accepted to a couple of top-tier universities but for financial reasons, attendance at such schools was not feasible.
Blue Marble is a compilation from several different instruments. The new "photograph" was taken with a single satellite all at once.
Good point, fade-in (or something else, I'll probably try a couple of different things) should make a lot easier to see what happened from commit to commit.

Two great suggestions, thanks!
These launched with Twitter's redesign last year. http://socialmediab2b.com/2011/12/b2b-twitter-brand-pages/

The "Promoted Tweet" pinned on top of brand pages is auto-expanded, so realistically most companies will probably be using it to showcase a video or graphic rather than trying to engage in 140. Oh well.
A standard library is nothing but the default framework built into the runtime system.
That, too. But mostly it's making life so goal oriented. I guess it's an American thing.
As a sub-novice C/++ programmer myself, it's awesome to see a program like this being discussed. The source code is relatively short, it's a simple enough implementation, and all the feedback in the comments here is teaching me things I wouldn't necessarily be exposed to in a book.
Don't go too quickly and don't accidentally close a page. Either one, and you may be totally locked out of completing it.
Court Rules That Students Are Allowed To Criticize Professors On Facebook
Twitter, Facebook, Gaming And The Workplace – How Women Rule Tech
There shouldn't be any "few-dollar fees". If they are paying more than 3% (i.e., much less than the change in tips) for the card transaction, then they are being robbed blind by the bank and/or corrupt officials.
I'm still fascinated by how completely uninhabited most of the earth looks in the daytime from this distance. I honestly can't see any signs of civilization from a cursory glance at this image. Maybe I could if I knew what to look for; I'm curious what features you could see at 100% view on the full image.
That was exactly the first thought that came to my mind.I'm working on web app to manage prom. campaigns based on affiliate products so I know how it works and I completely don't understand how refer.ly works...What happened with my link what I pasted there for example..
First thing is that NodeJS is not a JS engine, V8 is. Second, http://notinventedhe.re/on/2011-7-26. That is from http://nodejs.org/community/ which makes the terms quite right, i'd say.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Stashpix - mobile photo sharing *minus* social networking?
Hi,

I'm a long-time lurker here at Hacker News, and I'm excited to show off my first product! My co-founder and I would love to get your feedback on our new iPhone app, Stashpix.

Stashipix is a photo-sharing application for iOS that allows people to find and leave behind photos wherever they go. While there is no shortage of apps that do that, Stashpix has a few characteristics that we think make it unique:

1. It's not a social network. You don't log in or create an account.

2. Stashes can be located anywhere -- they're not tied to a database of known "places", and we don't force you to create a "place" simply to post something.

3. Users must be within 100 meters to find, create or add to a stash, although once a user has created or contributed to a stash, he or she can view it afterwards from anywhere.

Stashpix.com has a short (52s) video that further explains the concept.

We'd love to get your thoughts on the concept, execution, obvious marketing challenges caused by not integrating social, etc... It's normally 99 cents, but it will be free for a few days if you'd like to check it out.

Thanks!

Mark Dascoli & Gavin Stokes
Stashpix.com
"You can do it all in Node JS"

People like you scare the shit out of me. Golden Hammer is a new concept to you, isn't it?

He actually did lay out the reasons, but your religious zealotry won't let you see it because someone isn't loving your sacred choice of technology.
A vacation will NOT solve his problems. He's unsatisfied by the tasks he is asked to spend 8 hours a day working on. Going away for two weeks will not change that.
On the video you can see how the Sun reflects from the Earth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hdyRh60R-Q
Even if he personally approved of this opening. There is nothing wrong with it.

The problem is that these reporters that Peter Thiel is anti-education or at least anti-higher education. He isn't. He has a problem with the current model of education. He thinks that there are more efficient models of education that are worth trying.

It's not black and white, it's much more nuanced. Thiel cannot go back in time and change the education model in the past. In the future if Theil's model works we will see more ads looking for people who started companies.

I don't agree with everything he says but I can respect his desire to change higher.
Actually, ClojureScript worked just fine in Rhino, JS implementation that ships with the JDK, last time I checked.
You can fork the JVM, but the patent license will only cover you if you are pass the compatibility kit, which Oracle may withhold whenever they feel like it.

So from a copyright perspective you are fine (that's the point of the GPL) but from a trademark perspective you may not call it Java, and from a patent perspective there's nothing stopping Oracle from attempting to crush you in jurisdictions like the US with bad patent laws.
"Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers" . In my opinion the "Someone" must be the online retailers. When I see to which great lengths Amazon goes to provide a great customer experience, and then it's all destroyed by the courier - it hurts. The only thing that prevents me from buying online instead of going to a brick and mortar store is shipping.
> (I'm not too familiar with undergraduate studies in the US, but it seems that as long as you show up and do the homework, you pretty much get an A in the class)

that is emphatically untrue (either that, or myself and all of my classmates are a lot dumber than we think we are)
Similar, but different. Your idea appears to be in the works - https://twitter.com/#!/joeweston/status/201999848378089472
Turns out if you trace the etymology of sycophant, you end up with "fig-shower" (sykon = fig in Greek), where "showing the fig" meant something along the lines of "flipping the bird" today.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=sycophant

The opposing hand gesture to bird-flipping might be peace-sign-showing. So how about "pacophantic".

(And FWIW, I thought the sarcasm in your question was immediately clear, not sure how other people misunderstood it).
Hm, that's a great question, even outside the scope of this ORM context.

I would probably pick the data. It's what can be monetized and it's impossible to regenerate.

Having to recreate the software might even be beneficial in the long term if your engineers are careful enough to avoid second system syndrome.
I'm not sure that it's harder. A good textbook or two combined with diligently reading, rereading and doing the problem sets is probably about as successful as class attendance in the average case, I would say. I think the problem is finding a good textbook and forcing yourself to do the work.
Nope, not intentional. I'll darken that text, thank you!
Comparing HTML5 Mobile Web Frameworks
Yes, I could see that - writing reports is one example of an instance where ORMs are almost entirely useless.
I spent a couple of minutes drafting and redrafting a disagree reply but actually I agree with you in regards to the title of this submission. The use of githubs subdomain is fine because everyone one does that for their little project (even big projects like twitter bootstrap). The title on the other hand implies a github endorsed project which its actually not, I can understand where you are coming from.
Apple reportedly asked Kaspersky Lab to analyze OS X
You can tell just by looking at the website. No designer at Github would have approved this.
Yeah. A lot of my friends ditched LJ when G+ came out... The promptly ran screaming from that because a lot of them prefer to use "fake" names on the Internet.

And very few came back to LJ. I still use it but it feels more and more like I'm talking to myself there. Some super hardcore users among my friends just... stopped... writing longform blog stuff when they abandoned LJ.

I still think LJ really nailed the social/privacy stuff in a way Facebook, and everyone trying to improve on Facebook, has really failed to do.
Apache JMeter Meetup Group Presentations
Looks like a great gateway project. You can start using it to make simple custom controllers, but it's also a fully programmable Arduino with everything that comes with that. Really cool project and great price point.
Are you open to suggestions / additions by the way?
BUT...those are problems that an ORM is not a good tool for. If someone is trying to use an ORM for that, that's the programmer's fault, not the tool's.
Your premises are wrong: you can believe in physics, but the laws of physics could not deterministic.

To the best of our knowledge this is the case[1], and we have strong indications [2] that this is a fundamental feature of nature: the non deterministic aspects do not come from our lack of understanding and knowledge.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
I actually quite liked the lack of slider because it feels more like it might have felt to go through the exercise at the time.. You're sort of forced to evaluate what state the code is in without knowing how far we are from being 'done'.
Maybe at some colleges and in some courses. I went to a state college and studied math and science and that was definitely not true.
Website bug exposes 70K Kickstarter ventures unready for publication
Node is V8 and a standard lib. Node is not an abstraction around http (which is what RoR is).
Not all languages have a formal spec. Many are implementation-defined. You can turn your nose up at them if you like, but they still exist.
85% (big pie colorful pie chart showing 85%) of people don't like infographics.
40% (big pie chart of 40%) of infographics are false.
75% of people don't care that these pie charts add up past 100%.
100% of those people just want to see their biases confirmed by colorful pseudoscience and bogus statistics.
I could write a similar post, having used Node on a couple of projects before nodding to reality and switching back to Rails for a larger project.

For a "typical" web project, Rails simply has a ton of mature libraries that don't exist in Node, or are very early days. Sure, there might be a basic data mapper, but does it have support for testing? Automatic counter caching? Workaround on StackOverflow for a hundred things the framework doesn't cover by default?

Rails versus NodeJS isn't apples-to-oranges. Rails is an opinionated framework for web development, Node is a low-level evented framework. This is important because right now, Node has no Rails equivalent. It has Express as the equivalent of Ruby's Sinatra, but for a higher-level web framework, there are several possibilities and none of them the outright leader. This is the situation Python found itself in circa 2006, before Django became the de facto standard for web apps, and (speaking as a mostly-outsider) its seems to me the Python community is better for it. I truly hope a high-level framework establishes itself as the clear standard for Node development, presumably one which embraces the benefits of dual-side JavaScript.
Amazon Phishing Scam Foiled
Around 2:00pm (EEST), a server used for an elaborate email "phishing" scam was hacked. The Syrian based server was wiped clean and replaced with a warning to the scammers.

In the past five years, several hackers have targeted these fake sites which are set up to resemble the webpages of banks or online corporations to steal private financial information.

Robert Gardner, a security consultant for Amazon, tweeted- "Thanks l0rdi0n." in response to the anonymous hacker's vigilante work.

A copy of the defacement can be found here: http://postimage.org/image/6gahbe9np/
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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"

- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.
Looks like iCloud will get some big upgrades at WWDC
> What you are demanding is incredibly expensive, especially #4 and #6.

Useful tracking needn't be expensive. The delivery driver knows when he's heading to my house. Even just telling me his lat/long at the point when he leaves the delivery prior to mine in a text message would allow me to usefully calculate where my parcel is.

> #2 would necessitate an incredible amount of arbitrage (i.e., increase prices even further) because it would severely impact their ability to maximize parcels shipped.

I'm fine with that. Like I said elsewhere, this is costing me £30 to send. I'd have happily spent £100 to get it done fuss-free.

> #5 is available from both UPS and FedEx...for additional cost (on the recipient).

Again, fine with additional cost. I've used it from UPS before and it didn't work.

> If you really want #9, then you may end up with $100/parcel pricing.

I'm more than happy to pay it.

> Of course, there are companies that do everything you indicate you want. But if you don't know who those companies are, you clearly can't afford them.

Yes, you're right, I'm not wealthy enough to be able to afford a hassle-free shipping experience. I know of plenty of companies who will bike a parcel to anywhere in the UK for me directly for an amount I could afford. I could speak directly to the driver and have him call the recipient when he arrives. That's not the point.

The point is that it takes 90 minutes to fly to Scotland from London. It would cost me about £80 return.

I've been sitting at home for 5 hours waiting for this package to be picked up. It is costing me £30 to send.

It cannot be the case that we live in a world where it is genuinely more convenient for me to fly by plane for three hours in order to give someone a box than to have a professional courier do it for me.
"Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications."

From nodejs.org
Not for me. (US)
Domain: www.google.com

Do you get directed to http://google.com.br/ or some other tld other than google.com? Both the .br and the .com tlds worked for me. Maybe there is something wrong with some of their their tlds.
I think you're looking at it backward in some sense. A "top-tier" university doesn't teach any skills that couldn't be learned at most other universities (especially at the undergraduate level). However, the characteristics of an average student can be vastly different between a top-tier university and those lower in the rankings.

These sorts of requirements aren't put in place because there are particular skills necessary to do the job. They are in place to cut down the applicant pool to a reasonable size while raising the average quality (or at least not lowering it). It's classic signaling.

They let the university do most of the screening for them, weeding out the people who aren't smart, driven and dedicated enough to get into and graduate from a top-tier school.

Some extremely prestigious consulting firms won't look at a resume that isn't from one of a handful of schools. They fully realize that this policy results in them outright rejecting hundreds of excellent applicants. But they still end up with top-tier people, and they don't have to wade through tens of thousands of resumes to do it.

Highly sought-after employers can do this. But it doesn't work as well the further down the corporate "food chain" you go. This works especially well in industries like finance where ambition and a drive to perform while working within a fairly narrow set of parameters is paramount.

Peter Thiel is a big name, his companies are big names. Therefore they can use this strategy to their advantage, even if they don't particularly care about any specific set of skills.
Head of Time Warner Cable Unfamiliar With Apple's AirPlay
I'm debating buying an iPad and not being able to play all media formats is a big one. Can I drag mkv 720p files to my iPad and will VLC play them if I can get it installed via above? Also hows the battery life if trying to play a 720p or 1080p file?
I don't see what you mean, the author is comparing Node.js to RoR so what you are referring to as a "framework", is not the same thing as the author. He is referring to a framework for writing web applications. Node is a "framework" for writing JavaScript applications that are compiled by V8 and executed on a *nix or Windows machine.
Well, no, these are different. They are pinned to the poster's page, not mine.

I am suggesting to let Dell throw a tweet at the top of my feed when I next refresh it (and then let it fall down as usual), but unlike existing promoted tweets do it only if I follow Dell.
Awesome! Glad that I was thinking in the same direction. Now twitter, please hire me!
Ahhh, makes sense. Thanks. I'll fix it up and maybe try submitting it.
That's exactly what I was looking for and couldn't find.
That's pretty shady but is it a "all is fair in love and war" type thing or is someone going to do something about this?

I would bet this is some kind of business tort -- unfair competition, interference with potential business relationships, commercial disparagement, something along those lines. I don't have any particular knowledge in this area, but intuitively, it's too shady to be legal -- it's like taking out embarrassing ads in your competitor's name or something. Not a normal part of business competition. (A good rule of thumb -- if it were legal, would people be doing it?) Maybe you could even get to trademark infringement, if you argued that the bogus links are a false claim that the company itself is doing something it isn't doing -- like if I distributed swastikas with my competitor's logo and phone number on them, I can imagine that being some kind of trademark tort.

That doesn't mean you can prove it. It would be interesting trying to dig up the evidence, especially if the blackhat intermediaries are in an awkward jurisdiction, and then prove how much impact it had on your business. But I bet it could be done. (Like others, I'm skeptical that that's really what happened in this particular case. But who knows ...)

As a reminder, I am not your lawyer or your mother. Take those elbows off the table, young man.
Which is especially fascinating when comparing it to the Earth at night - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.j...
I think it would be nice to see commit messages at each stage too, which would be useful if the developer was documenting the purpose of each commit as they went.
+1 on the Elk M1 Gold. If you're a hacker, you should definitely buy the haker's security system. You can then choose what kind of monitoring you'd like. I go with a local independent security monitoring company that costs about $8 per month. You can also set it up for self-monitoring. I wrote a review of the Elk M1 a while back:
http://www.osnews.com/story/22206/Building_the_Wired_Home_El...
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Right, and "fast, scalable network applications" !== "http abstraction layer". Node doesn't even come with an http abstraction, it comes with the standard request/response objects that nearly every standard lib ships with.
Your idea is similar to Facebook's highlight thing. http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/highlight-facebook-status-u...
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Maybe I'm missing something but isn't node for chat/messaging, API's and other stuff that you might have used something like Twisted for?

Why would you use it over Rails/Django etc. for a content-heavy site (i.e. 95% of websites)
Speaking as a manager - no, not superhuman (I'll restate to be it's a management/organization problem - not an individual problem).

It is my job to make sure we have a well-run software engineering product team. Ensuring that backups run and are tested is one small part of my job. Not doing the backups, sure, but making sure the team has taken care of it.

Mistakes happen and folks shouldn't be punished for that.

Remember that disks are fallible - human error needn't be involved to require recovery from backups.

Regardless of the root cause of data corruption, requiring three days to recover is completely a management/organization problem.
It seems like there are a lot of great people shipping locally. In London there are a whole bunch of same-day and same-hour couriers. At my old agency we'd order DVDs for directors from the HMV on Oxford Street and a bike courier would bring it to us. There's a great courier service who launched with Argos recently called Shutl. But scaling this to a national or international business is hard.

As always I'd like to see an Apple solution to this problem. A premium price paid for a premium experience.
You mean the media-player player that is violating the GPL? http://roundup.libav.org/issue112
Android Payback: Apple to Cut Google Out of Stunning New 3D Maps App in iOS6
wow... I too thought this was Github endorsed. I recall reading about the referenced blog post on HN some time ago. The comments suggested they contact Github. And then a link appeared to giving.github.com. I guess I just assumed it was something Github had green-lighted. I guess it is not. :/