skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unfamiliar with how gravity factors into pregnancy and birthing. Do you have any further details on that?
The Troubled Life of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
NASA sent microphones to Mars twice, but neither were used due to technical reasons (one because the vehicle crashed).
Not likely.

If you're writing Objective-C then you're only writing for iOS or OSX, so you might as well use Cocoa and get native look and feel.

Adding a platform specific language binding doesn't seem within the scope of creating a cross-platform C++ library.
When you restrict people from legitimate use of copyrighted work, they respect copyright less. Nice going, rights holders.
I disagree with your assertion. TM 1.x was an amazing piece of software and way better than numerous text editors out there at the time.

Usability wise it was impressive, keyboard shortcuts made sense, creating your own snippets and extensions was a breeze, block mode was simpler than on any other text editor out there and there was support for most programming languages out of the box.

Consider for a moment that Gedit and Notepad++ are used professionally even today by many devs.

While I'm a big fan of Vim today and wouldn't go back I think TM 1 was a step up for me as it was for numerous other developers at the time. I went from using Gedit to Textmate and I was blown away by the feature set.
SO is great, let's get that out of the way. Fine. Whatever. They are getting a bit ridiculous and taking themselves too seriously. I mean that foolish "graph of niceness," wow. There is a really good side to SO and a really weird side and I don't think the good part is made that way because of the weird side. The weird side is somewhat cultish, to just be honest. Honestly, this probably because of a culture derived from one of the founders, in fact a particular one of the founders would aggressively defend this cult of personality behavior

Also, I found this strange:

>But in the end, this sort of navel-gazing misses the point: we’re not here to pat each other on the back and hand out gold stars ...

Isn't this basically what SO is?
Ask Hacker News: What's the best path into the robotics industry?
I’ve spent my entire life fascinated by robots and the technology behind them -- I've been working IT since I was old enough to hold a cable crimper, 17 years, but I’m ready to leave that all behind and do whatever it takes to get into the robotics industry: going back to school, taking an apprenticeship, gladiatorial combat, whatever it takes.

The question is, for those of you who work in robotics, what's the best path into the industry for a late bloomer?

Any advice or experiences you can share would be incredibly helpful -- thanks in advance.
> TM had a lot of fans, but no-one liked its undo

What an absurd generalization.
Anyone else getting HTTP 500s trying to log into the Cloudfront admin interface?
or is it just my account? Nice 500 page by the way: http://imgur.com/pOR69
I think the reason for that is that this site became something these authors could focus their anger and fear towards. Why look into it and risk having to give up that catharsis?
Building an atmosphere on Mars would surely be more of a challenge than on Venus, since Mars doesn't have a magnetosphere to keep solar winds from blowing the gases away.
It's a hard problem though. Your average user is going to use the "meta" site very rarely, while the power users are going to live in it.
I actually do like TM's undo. I've found traditional undo mechanisms undo too much when working in code.
I think you are right.

A year after getting $100,000 in seed money, they should have some revenue. Maybe not a lot, probably not profitable, but they should have some sales. Worst case, they should be right on the edge of releasing their product.

By year 2, no revenue would be a complete disaster for this program. Having 1 in 6 or 1 in 10 make it would also be a disaster.
I still think there is a middle ground. I guess I will just have to make my own mars rover in my spare time though, that seems viable.
They've given us the impression that they're not onboarding new crowdfunding companies, but KS is not new. I haven't heard any comment from Amazon about Kickstarter specifically and I'm not going to speculate.
I think it is.. Remember reading about it (lost the link) and thinking that it made a lot of sense.

Also, it seems like mindless rule-following is the definition of etiquette :D

"Etiquette:
noun
a set of rules for behaving correctly in social situations"
It's a shame the other terrestrial planets are so uninhabitable.
I guess this could work for those who don't really count their users as their primary assets (and would otherwise outsource authentication to Twitter or Facebook), but I don't really see this getting wide adoption among companies that are building and cultivating their own user bases.

It'd be curious to see how this will evolve and develop though, that's for sure.
More saving graces for TextMate 1 even today: It is right at home on OS X and also acknowledges the usefulness of UNIX. / It has no learning curve. / It requires zero configuration to be perfectly usable. / The shortcuts are as intuitive as it gets. / The only shortcut that I found weird was "cmd+T", and that one has been widely copied.

If you say that another editor should have been as successful, then what do you mean? That TextMate users have never heard of vim, emacs or ST2? That developers have been lazy and should have out-done TextMate (which ST2 arguably did)? I think this as clear of a deserved success as it gets - it's a programmer's editor and people decided it was the best one to program in.
Fixed! Thanks for the feedback Randall!!
Yeah, this is not true. There is a separate setting which controls a pop-up confirming whether or not you want to run an app that you downloaded, the first time you attempt to run it. The setting referred to here actually BLOCKS the running of new non-app-store (or, by default, non-signed) applications.

http://imgur.com/7bduA

Apparently, you can alt-click and select open, but my gut tells me that this was an oversight and will not last long. This feature was touted as a potential way to protect children, and if overriding it doesn't even require entering a password it fails at that pretty badly.
I could see this blowing up if reddit starts using it to replace .gifs.

In fact, you could even jumpstart the process by heading over and doing it yourself.

Best of luck! And Christian, long time since the library.
So, am I to understand that these "artists" and "publishers", who seem to not know much about their own terms of business, are the type of people that Kim Dotcom was raided like a major terror suspect on behalf of?

If so, something is insanely wrong here. Very wrong. Sounds very much like this was a very legit business taken down by pure paranoid ignorance.
Interior walls for houses in the US are nearly universally made out of gypsum plaster attached to a wooden frame. The plaster is easy to kick or punch through (don't try this at home though, if you hit a stud, you will be unhappy).

Exterior wall construction varies a lot more.
All fair points. My response was a little harsh and possibly ad hominem. Apologies for the aggression.

In fairness their explanation is not a model of clarity, but the impression I get is that there are legacy concerns here. Perhaps they are using some type of split horizon DNS for access to internal services.

The resources necessary to make this kind of change aren't necessarily raw compute power (which as you point out can be purchased cheaply), more the necessary people and access to investigate the impact that such a change would have, then assuming it's viable, document the change, get signoff, then make the change.

I work for a company that has < 500 employees, but our IT infrastructure (which includes corporate IT and a web site handling a comparatively tiny 3m uniques / month) has a history that can be traced back around 15 years. Changes can be hellish, however small they first seem.

It's also worth bearing in mind that in a large organisation, independent projects (such as the Eyes on the Solar System product) are so much easier to get done than those which require interaction with other departments.

Basically, getting shit done in large organisations is hard. A lot of it is paperwork, which is annoying, but a lot of the paperwork is necessary - in a 5 person startup you can just shout across the room (or drop them a text if they've left the company), but at an organisation with hundreds (or thousands) of employees there must be protocol and documentation in order to competently deal with employee churn and similar.

No idea if I'm right about this, but hopefully it was more constructive :-)
.... and fixed :)
BTW the correct technical term is "resume stain" (care of Scott Adams).

I'm also a long time SCO person, although I was working for IXI in Cambridge and we had virtually nothing to do with the SCO Unix side - well over 90% of our business was on RISC platforms. I did actually meet you once, although you won't remember :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IXI_Limited

I will say that the techpubs group at SCO did a heck of a lot of work. SCO Unix distinguished itself from other Unix versions by being very friendly, even for administrators. In theory you could do everything from the GUI. And of course that also meant comprehensive usable documentation. SCO was the first company to license the NCSA Mosaic browser, with SCO's techpubs group using it for online help. In IXI we went way further than that, including adding scripting (TCL) and making it possible to combine help and preferences.

Many people do not know how SCO's business worked. When computers were a lot more expensive (think fridge sized boxes with a minimum cost of $100k) they weren't practical for small businesses (eg a dentist's office). There were 15,000 VARs who you could call if you were a small business and they'd bring in a several thousand dollar computer (typically Compaq), some terminals, tape backup system, the operating system (SCO) and software for managing the office. Since they usually charged a percentage of the goods, it didn't matter if the Unix cost $1,000. It was that side of things Caldera wanted to get into, rather than selling for $19 a copy at a store.

For many years if you wanted to run a pet cemetery, then the only management software was on SCO Unix.
Smore is much more than just Mobile Apps: http://www.smore.com/
Guess you could start be setting up on top of, say, Stripe, and see how long until the regulators come knock on your door.
Google fined over Safari cookie privacy row
How to cut a bagel into two linked rings (video)
I assumed this viewpoint was always understood. After all, business is easy.

If you at least break even, you are a going concern. Otherwise, business failure is inevitable.
Famous album covers recreated with SOCKS
Yeah, SSL was a huge pain for us in the past, so for simple services, this makes SSL optional rather than required.

And we're following Facebook Connect's OAuth flow exactly -- so storage of the user locally on your service would be identical if you've already implemented FB OAuth.
Default Secure Connections
You know, if you're already on the command line, gnuplot and github already provide ~similar functionality. I can do the same in ~the same number of keystrokes if things are aliased properly. Also, keeping things local is nice.
You could ask WePay. I don't know that they have pledges now, but maybe they could be persuaded to add them.

What you can do quite easily with WePay is to send bills by email, each including a link to the payment page with the amount filled in. This makes it pretty simple for people to pay at that point. But it isn't, admittedly, automatic, and some people could ignore the bill. I don't know how big a problem this would be in practice.
Considering the age of the project it probably wasn't being managed in git to begin with. I've seen some estimates that Allan started development around 2006. Git only came out in 2005 and took a few years to gain traction.
How are we going to feed an ever-growing population?

How are we going to treat debilitating diseases that plague much of the world, in a cost-effective manner?

How are we going to improve the quality of life for all the people who are living longer lives?

How might we address unforeseen medical and nutritional crises?

You have a very short-sighted attitude. Which is not to even mention the impact that tying your approval of your children to the field in which they choose to work will have on them.
Actually, it's a bit harder than that... Both of these companies have transaction volumes in a high enough range that they can afford to be their own aggregator and process their own transactions. Any new company would have to work with an ISO/MSP, which places severe restrictions on what kind of transactions they can handle and how, and the fees paid. For example: waiting more than seven days to capture an authorization can double or triple the rate with some banks (SVB's Merchant E-Solutions shows you such warnings in the virtual terminal, for example), and exceeding a certain rate of transactions captured over seven days after the fact can cause a shutdown of your account. (My contract with MES has such a clause, for example.)

In other words: if it were "that easy," there'd already be a lot of competition. But, Visa et. al. aren't real big on letting just anyone be direct inputs to them and the kinds of activities we're talking about here look a lot like fraud to existing ISOs/MSPs.
I doubt it has much to do with luck at all.

Almost no one starts doing stuff like this, especially with technology at the time, because they have nefarious goals or have a crime career planned.

They are kids. They do it to push their limits and may even not be aware it is even illegal. Even if they are aware, they believe they are invincible or can get away with it. As an aside, why do adults so easy forget what it was like to be a kid?

In addition, to even begin overcoming the technical challenges involved, the amount of curiosity required over otherwise mundane detailed technical knowledge is quite high. Criminals tend to be far more motivated to seek high reward, short term activities.

Finally, the same people who have access to the knowledge and equipment to carry out activities like this, tend to also be the ones who are raised in balanced, strongly breadcrumbed environments leading them away from anything that distracts them for the path set for them, lets call them the middle classes for want of any better term.

So, nope, not luck. Just being a curious middle class kid with easy access to new technology and few upfront repurcussions.
IPad mini deemed ‘pointless’ by nearly half of American iPhone fans
I guess the issue is that you have to store the CC number?

With Braintree you could put customer CC numbers in their vault and then manually run the transaction later, but it'd cost you a flat fee plus a penny or two per/card/month. (They do support running validations without completing a transaction.) It doesn't seem like the end of the world, though. And the architecture isn't super complicated. I assume you already had to handle telling Amazon whether to go through with the charge or not after the time period? Maybe Amazon also was keeping track of the pledge amounts for you?

(Contrib Id or Card Id, Pledge Amount, Campaign Id) doesn't seem like that crazy of a thing to store on your own system.
"Landing page" or "companion web page" would be even better, IMHO.
That most managers are average and of average intelligence. That they succeed in their jobs by suppressing change and resisting difference of opinions.

We can't make sure this doesn't happen. It's a manager's job to manage human resources and ensure productivity. Once this becomes a numbers game, all cards are on the table.

I would even say that this isn't even the manager's fault, but the bottom line. Risk is something that sounds scary to people who want a consistent paycheck.

It has nothing to do about Steve Jobs being amazing or whatever, and everything to do about corporate culture as far as him getting fired would be concerned.
More useful than a pyramid, how about a solar updraft tower?
Fantastic tool for copyright holders too.
LendInk was taken down by an ignorant mob of authors (some of the participants have since apologized). The MAFIAA is a calculating, organized group of distributors. I don't think it's the same thing. Either way it's pretty clear that the law, copyright holders' expectations, and users' expectations are nowhere near lining up.
The pricing section is cute, but it made me launch a calculator to figure out how much I'd pay.

.001*10000 = $10/month
It looks nice.

If you're looking for an open alternative there is https://github.com/mikedewar/d3py which plays very well numpy/pandas.
A number of people have mentioned this, so thanks for bringing it up here.

We're building a complete export, and use BCrypt for password hash storage. This means you can migrate off our service at any time (unlike Facebook & Twitter).
SnookCircle
One problem with this article is that it attempts to exonerate some American districts (that happen to be some of the most affluent urban regions in the country) by pointing out they can compete favorably with the world's top nations. That is an Apples to Oranges comparison. They're being compared to those entire nations including all children from their affluent urban suburbs to their impoverished backwoods one-room schools. If you compared Boston's math performance to only the richest urban areas of Finland, South Korea, or Canada you'd find the disparity as stark as ever.
This is such a fun app. I'm worried it will stop being fun because as a startup you might have to turn it into something not-fun :-(
Hey, that's a good point. We're also interested in collaboration. How do you share your charts once you create them?
Suppose it's a bit off-topic, but would Steve have fired Steve? I suppose the less interesting but more likely answer is he wouldn't have worked for himself.
It's not the artists receiving that, but the actual label themselves. Perhaps get a bit more clued up rather than attacking labels. They are a business after all. Artists do not need to sign with them.
Manage Gatekeeper from the Command Line in Mountain Lion
Easily the funniest link on this site this year.
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Do you have any robotics experience?

I think the problem is that there isn't much of a robotics industry yet.
If your point is that there is a lot of bureaucracy, then I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, in any government project, that is going to be the case.

You cannot on the one hand expect great things, and on the other hand chastise every failure. I'm not saying you specifically would do this, but any failure would result in a storm of controversy about how billions of dollars were wasted to land a pile of scrap metal on Mars while X, Y, and Z pressing political crises are a better use of our time and money.

A private company, on the other hand, can afford to take greater risks. If you're actually able to do it on your own, more power to you, but I would recommend some help.
I think you're either forgetting, or never directly experienced, how much nicer TextMate was (and is) for dealing with files that mix different languages. PHP/HTML, Javascript/HTML, CSS/HTML, etc. TextMate automatically detects the language shifts and modifies syntax highlighting and snippet shortcuts. This was huge. No more jumping from PHP mode to HTML mode to JavaScript mode: it just worked.
Yes, I know that Amazon didn't shut them down, a bunch of C&D letters from authors did.

My only point was that Amazon does not support people who run these ebook lending sites, and I don't think there's much of a future in it.
From Night Owl to Productive Early Bird
Inspired by Ryan Carson from Treehouse!
such a cool history/experience!
What drew me to TM1 were the several innovative features for the time (mid 2000s) that were promptly copied into other editors (and sometimes improved there):

* snippets
* fuzzy file finder
* project file list
* multi-column editing

This is in addition to the non-text related good things TM did: grouping languages, snippets and scripts into a single folder, the bundle community, etc.

However, those 4 features were what moved me over to TM - I was more than willing to plunk down my $50 for these features that no other editor (at the time) had
For those interested in per-application tweaks for Gatekeeper, rather than changing the setting system-wide. I prefer to know which apps are or are not signed, so I keep the 'signed' setting on, and use this as necessary.
Can anyone explain what the key limits on bandwidth are when communicating from Mars? Is it just a matter of higher bandwidth requiring higher energy consumption?
Kaspersky Discovers "Gauss" - Yet Another Cyber Weapon
As someone who knows just about nothing about HFT(theoretically this article's target market) I don't see anything wrong with it. Care to elaborate about why its "bad on so many levels"?
LendInk used Amazon's affiliate program. That means (up until Amazon dropped all California affiliates) Amazon would send a percentage of all sales made by that visitor over the next 24 hours to LendInk, as a "thank-you" for sending them traffic.
I think we all agree with you about the recent incarnation of SCO, but the point is that the original SCO was a perfectly legitimate business.
Very interesting animated chart showing what HFT has done to the different markets http://imgur.com/DxWer
Smore Introduces App Flyers For DIY Mobile App Marketing
Cambridge firms develop software to check campaign facts
I'm sorry, but no, Mongo isn't a revolution in data storage
You don't need to throw out structure to have a document database.
How To Write Good Log Messages
> We've implemented https so you don't have to

I'm confused. Surely there is still a token or something for the authenticated session used on the original site. Wouldn't this leave the user's session open to hijacking if they didn't implement https on their site too?

I understand this may be less of a concern for some applications, but it seems bad practice to spread the idea that https is only important for an actual login step.
Oh, please.

This was covered extensively in the New York Times, not to mention lots of science magazines.

Find the dozens of NYT articles here:

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/venus+probe

It was so well known that the TV show "The Six Million Dollar Man" had a multi-episode plot arc on the topic.

http://bionic.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Probe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4st0a0gWp0

Being born in the very early 1970s isn't good for much, but reminiscing about 300 baud acoustically coupled modems, and talking about the Soviet space program are two exceptions. ;-)
This reads like Giglocator existed before Proud was selected as a Thiel Fellow.

> Proud’s early attachment to GigLocator led to his decision to forego a university education long before the Thiel’s 20 Under 20 program had even been thought up.
It's worse than that: in the UK, some statements are libel even if they are proven true, simply because the damage to reputation is so great that the truth of the statements is irrelevant if the facts were not public knowledge prior to publication.

For example, that guy who got caught in a Nazi-themed sex dungeon...
I built a service nearly identical to this (https://accthub.com) and that is one of the biggest issues we're trying to overcome as well.
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I'm actually really quite verbose and like colorful language and asynchronous conversation.

You can be human and still not be nice.