skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get this effect by simply dropping in YouTube or Vimeo videos check out this jQuery plugin http://okfoc.us/okvideo/ or http://github.com/okfocus/okvideo.
Not on linux though. Wasn't working for me.
Growth Hacks Board on Quora
My passwords for important things (Google account, bank, etc) are 128+ pseudo-random characters, so it's a pain to get right without checking. Also I was surprised at how often I looked at my keyboard for typing numbers to orient once I started paying attention.
Short on important details. Specifically, what was the backup procedure and frequency? Was the backup routine affected for some time prior to the encryption and made to look like it was working but wasn't or was the backup policy lax or nonexistent?
I see your point. I'm not against customization. If your admin site is used a lot, you don't really have other choice. However, customizations tend to pile up and become maintenance burden, so personally I prefer to strictly limit use cases for the admin site. Hence, problems listed in original post may signify that the admin site is overused, a higher-level problem that would need to be solved first.
Understanding the Yin-Yang puzzle
You can’t block Facebook using Windows 8′s hosts file
That works well for you but consider how many business travelers (executives) could easily include a sleepbox as part of their travel requirements.
Glad more folks are posting up-to-date tutorials for these core basics! The more, the merrier.

Any thoughts on using vim for slime/swank-like development? I hear Nailgun can be quite rough to get working.
1st hand from engineers.

I don't think you've been misinformed, I personally think the marketing of the 20% time idea is better than its actual implementation.

Pitching the 20% time ideas to management is kinda killing the concept. Managers aren't particularly inclined to incorporate hours into your schedule, especially if that time could be used boosting their metrics.
Another guy posted about the tubular plugin as well.

One thing BigVideo.js has is controls you can customize and I have an example where you can do autohiding of content on top of the background. http://dfcb.github.com/BigVideo.js/example-playlist.html

Also BigVideo.js is built on the Video.js api, so those methods are available to you.
I said, “$50,000″. They said, “No more than $1,000 and that’s a stretch.” I used my usual technique: “Deal!” - just laughed and laughed.
How do visas work in this situation? Are you allowed to work on tourist visas?
I think you missed the joke. In every day life, ordinals start at one. Formally, they start at zero (we owe their modern definition to non other than von Neumann).

A programmer's 0th world problem really is a first world problem, taking into account the fact that we count differently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number
Wondering if that could breath new life into my Palm Pre 2... would be great.
You say you want to look at it objectively and then right away you claim he is "actively trying to escape the charges." The Assange side has only ever claimed they were concerned with due process. I think most people would agree that without due process there is no proper justice.

Sweden won't guarantee that it will not extradite Assange to the U.S. If this is about justice for the rape charges, then why can't they make that guarantee?
How about full screen video for party mode?
way better than YouFM
I'm assuming everything because the story is so vague. I'm thinking an employee accidentally opened a malware executable with ransom-ware and suddenly it's an elaborate personalized hack in the press.
Or is it like the 0th law of thermodynamics?
Man, you.fm is so 5 minutes ago. But seriously cool project :-)
IMO asking for much from the Django admin misses the point of the Django admin. As someone who was in the trenches for over a year stretching and pushing the admin's capabilities, there comes a time when it's just time to prioritize making your own site that does what you need it to.
Maybe maybe not.

But I can also see a scenario whereby they were backed up, but they are also attempting to catch the culprits by pretending they have no backups.
Programming Languages Have Social Mores Not Idioms
Also previously there were cases where ration cards were applied and approved (by middle men) for people who did not even apply for one. The middle men took the subsidized goods and sold it in the market at higher rates. Even if with the new system the middle man can do the same stuff, but it gets difficult as you have to prove the identity.
Cooking gas is heavily subsidized in India. Maybe not many poor are able to afford it, but still the lower middle class rely on this subsidized gas. And this is one way the government can try to reduce the misuse. I'm not saying it will completely remove the misuse. But any reduction is good for the society.
You're right about the charges, thanks for pointing that out. The Swedish judicial system is very different to that of the UK and charges are not brought until the court date is near.

You're also correct about the threat on the embassy front, I should've put that in. Thanks again.
DIY: A Wireless Link for your Arduino
> I also find the idea that you can prosecute someone with espionage (most likely) for what is essentially journalism very disturbing.

Is it journalism? I never saw a story when I read the leaks; it seems that their purpose has been to disclose private (stolen) conversations that are obviously state secrets.

Update: I'm backing away from this; my only intention was to ask whether it would make anybody a "journalist" to simply release the verbatim private conversations of others. I have no intention of debating the right or wrong of Wikileaks or what they've done.
As someone who uses YouTube a lot to listen to music: thanks for this!

I have some comments + questions, though:

Comments:

1.The video feels too small for such a large screen estate. Perhaps add an option to resize it? Or relocate it to the bottom of the screen or top of the playlist, instead of using the corner..

2. You should add an option to directly copy-paste the URL. As I see it now, I can't even highlight it.

EDIT: 3. How do you determine which video gets played? Sometimes the video I want is not the one as the top result, but #4 or even #5. Maybe add an option to use the next video in the search results?

Questions:

1. How did you create it? What do you use for the frontend and backend? Are you planning to release the code somehow? (just curious)

Again, thanks :)! It feels very slick and I like the color scheme.
We have a man who is wanted for questioning relating to sexual offences and is actively trying to escape the charges. In any normal situation, we would all say that he should go and face the courts and if guilty do the time. Pro-Assange people claim that he should not face the courts on the grounds that this will be used to extradite him to the US. These same people are saying that someone who may be guilty of a crime in Sweden are saying that the law shouldn't apply to him.

The law is not an end, it's a means to achieve Justice. If we fear that justice is more threatened by his extradition, it makes perfect sense to support the decision not to extradite him.

As John Adams wrote, "It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever."

* Again, pro-Assange people claim that the law should not apply to him, that he was doing a good thing by exposing the redacted information, but are strangely silent on the fact that he posted the whole thing online and put these lives in potential danger.*

Assange is not an US citizen nor was he in the US. Exactly what law prohibited him from publishing that information?

I find it interesting that people can suspend their views of justice based on the allegations of political meddling.

Or maybe they just disagree with you on what is actually justice, or how it can be better protected.
Melky Cabrera tries to dupe MLB about steroid use with a fake website, fails
The title is a bit misleading - it is more of a very basic explanation of how marketplaces work. As someone who runs a marketplace, I don't agree with him on most of his points about "liquidity" (and it's the first time I've seen this term used in this context). 30-60% conversion is also unheard of, I'm wondering if he's also using it differently than the normal meaning for the word.
I am not demanding that anyone find my observations important or central to the discussion of the pussy riot events. If you want to express condemnation of the sentence or the Russian government in general there are plenty of places for you to do so (including in this HN thread). It just so happens that my post reached enough upvotes that it made it to the top of this thread (democracy and free speech at work, ironically) so it must be something that HN is interested in as well.

You replying to me by telling me that my opinion is inappropriate to the conversation (which I started by the way... there are other conversations below you can express your approval of) is an attempt to censor me. Calling my thought process a relic of the cold war is either an intentional distraction or just naivete on your part.

If you disagree with my opinion about the double standards with which western media handles events from countries whose regimes it approves of and those that it doesn't that's completely fine. But I'd like you to consider a hypothetical incident which I've mentioned below: a few guys walk into a Manhattan synagogue, put Balaklavas over their heads and scream out profanities against Israel and capitalism. Would you really be as outraged if they were carted off to jail and put on some terrorist watch-list.
This could be said of most anything high level.
surely not so? people like that don't exactly need a cv...

[i wonder if, given the other comment about cvs, there is a subtext related to fogus trying to find a job? although i thought he just started one.]

the raspberry pi thing, though, is serious. i'm travelling to the uk next week and thought i'd pick one up while i was there. when i checked online - they're expecting stock in 5 weeks! (you can find them on amazon, but the price is significantly higher).
Playing Devil's advocate, Sweden has treaties with the U.S. about extradition; is it reasonable for a country to suspend them because a suspect demands so?
Thank you again for writing this series. I studied it last year as I got into Clojure programming. These are fantastic posts and I learned a great deal.
Which is the best PLT related twitter novelty account?
Interactive Visualization: Murder in America
JavaScript Events And Responding To The User
As a non-native English speaker, yes, it should. Learning a few keywords is nothing compared to the pain that would be sharing that code with others.
If a stranger (or anyone) physically hands alcohol to a minor, then a crime has been committed. What is so complicated about that?
"If this guy is as completely incompetent as he claims (and claims, and claims, and claims again) then why should we listen to anything he says?"

Because, chances are, you're also as completely incompetent as he is.
How would you improve Hacker News?
‘How Much Is Enough?’
Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times (by Matt Ridley)
The first photo Kevin Systrom took with instagram
Doesn't HN run on sqlite?
Actually, I strongly doubt it can be easily automated in a way that doesn't reduce readability, which I expect to lead to a sharp drop off in number of up-votes. If the number of up-votes drops off faster than the advantage gained from the longer post, the system can't be gamed.
Only just saw your reply as my prior assumption that all it took was an email address was, of course, incorrect :) delicious irony!

Thanks for the info, sad to hear the company has gone under.
Anyone care to link to some of these "PLT-related Twitter novelty accounts"? This is the first I've heard of them and it sounds entertaining.

Also, what's all this about Yan Yan sauce?

I've given both a quick google and it appears I'm better off asking here.
Insert obligatory "No one will tell me what to do! They're not the boss of me! I love working 15 hour days and why would they want to stop me!" comment, here.
I don't know what to tell you,

He has a blog that I actually find pretty entertaining

though if you hated this piece, maybe his writing isn't your thing

recommend: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/02/how-to-be-the-luckiest-...
I only know of one: http://twitter.com/PLT_Hulk

I'd be extremely curious to know what others he's referring to.
Until you find such a display, I recommend you look into platform's accessibility options and invert the colors instead of messing with brightness. Google "black on white" for Mac or "invert colors" for Windows / Linux instructions.
What makes BigVideo far better?
That's what I gathered too... I just wonder if he's really looking to leave Oracle...
Apple should ditch their insanely ludicrous jailbreak policy
The premise is completely wrong. If you are young, you don't know what percentage of your life one year is.

More likely explanation is the compression of memories: if you experience things that are similar to things you have experienced before, they won't use up as much memory. Think about your daily commute to work: can you remember every single day you commuted? Or did all the commutes blur into one?
How was that sexist again?
You just described my theory exactly. Humans have to learn how to exist in the "zone" of mental abstraction... this is necessary for advanced cognition, but while we're doing it we don't really notice the passage of time.

I can't help but wonder if the hours I spent waiting for the last few minutes of boring class periods to end during my schooling might have actually been great training for "zoning" where the sped up passage of time is actually the goal.
There is another that I know of, but I wont link to it because I find it racist.
Some Canon cameras are scriptable natively ( http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Canon_Basic ) and also using the CHDK extension. I understand the vendor's position on this, the market for scriptable cameras is tiny, you can easily destroy your camera with the wrong script and as any programmable device, your scriptable camera could catch a virus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZJ4cmc2o8)
Backup. Encrypt your backups. Store copies of the keys somewhere safe. Test recovery from backups regularly.
This seems like a weird and arbitrary use of the word be that is not defined in the dictionary that I have. So I do not understand what it is you are saying.

Thanks for pointing it out! I meant "being" as opposed to "doing". Some people use "not-doing" instead but that sounds even weirder.

Being means... well, just that. You just are, you don't have anything to work on or focus on. You just be and see later what came out (if anything). It might sound like zen stuff but most people do that naturally if only they occasionally stop themselves from doing something.

If I'm sitting in a bus I'm likely to just be: I don't think anything in particular, I just watch and observe without analyzing, I might think about something but then I gleefully forget about it. An internet connection or a smartphone in general would just distract me. The moments of just being are worth a lot of gold in my life and I'm enough aware of them that I actively try not prevent them. Thus my smartphone policy.
BTW, CHDK doesn't use any exploit or vulnerability as all Canon cameras can boot from the SD memory, you only need to know the firmware file format, that it is of course already documented by the folks from CHDK.
* worrying about y10k compatibility "just in case"

* feeling a jolt of psychological pain when trying to use an emacs keyboard shortcut in any other application

* trying to use M-w (readline backwards kill word) on a mac app and closing the window.

* how you feel for the 15 minutes after reading "Reflections on Trusting Trust"

* the realization that there will never be a computer fast enough
That's also my conclusion. Ransomware is not exactly unheard of in the malware space, and why would hackers specifically target them when there are bigger fish to fry?
The Anti-IPO: Is Apple Grooming Twitter For All-Out Acquisition?
Why worry about y10k when y2k38 is so much more pressing?!
I do not see the point in actively chasing a pawn. Assange was nothing more than a middle man for the crimes committed. Other than putting charges against him in the US as an administrative posture, I do not see the justification for the loss of any political currency in getting him extradited. He is simply not worth it. There is no public opinion win for the the US government in that play, except for maybe we got the guy there were charges against. He has no access to anything. He is no different to a person looking to leak information, than a non-US news agency. It would also make him a martyr which is worse than a publisher.

edit to remove thread hijack cause
> Specially larger companies with more work than the people
> of 37 Signals.

Assuming that more hours equal to more work done. Which is very shaky assumption.
Some others:

http://twitter.com/PLT_Zizek

http://twitter.com/PLTAlaindeB

http://twitter.com/PLT_Borat
There's also @PLT_Borat (https://twitter.com/plt_borat)
Just to be absolutely clear: if Thomas Ptacek says this is a problem, then it's absolutely a serious concern and I was a complete idiot for saying it wasn't.
Presumably by 'tourist visa', OP means the visa waiver program (at least for people from Europe/Australia/etc) - you can enter on this if you're visiting on business. Where business stops and work ends seems like a difficult question to answer.
Building one will be much easier, and much more fun. Start by drawing it up in Sketchup or similar. reddit.com/r/diy will be happy to help I think, if you don't know where to start.
The area you describe is nowhere near the outer edge. It's not even the edge of the CBD. Keep in mind that Auckland covers a vast area of nearly 5000 square km.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Council
There are centres all over the place, north, south, east, west, and most are worth visiting and have very different tastes to them.
I came off very negative in my first post, I love Auckland, but it's chronic lack of decent transport options is problematic.

Edit: typo
I'd love to see a video demo rather than having to signup and set it all up to test the service.
"It’s only a matter of time before robotic cars outperform their human-driven counterparts."

How much time are we talking? I don't agree with this statement in anything like the near (decades) term, particularly if we are talking actual races and not timed run events.
I would actually be curious which lengths people go at the Visa Interview to get to the US.

Yes there is the Visa Waiver Program for people who can so, but assuming you are working on your company, I doubt that technically legal.

From my understanding of the law, you cannot enter the US in YC unless you don't actually work for your company. Then again, in reality you can probably get away with just staying wishy-washy (for which I would be still curious what people have said: Im going to learn at a program? Going to visit some people?)
I don't see how this is in any way unique to GAE. Sure, GAE requires some specific optimizations to get the most out of it, but so does everything else. Someone with a lot of GAE experience and close to zero classic LAMP experience could similary complain about how time consuming it is to learn all the optimization tricks of that stack, compared to how easily everything just works with GAE.
Although this is less common than it once was I still get invited to these groups a few times a month so this is useful. I've just graduated high school and I think some of my other friends would get them even more as my friend group is slightly more technical.
What's Wrong With #FirstWorldProblems
Great insight and objective elaboration into the Zynga culture. "Adapting to thrive" and "treat[ing] crises differently" is what made this guy have a fair-headed and upbeat retrospective instead of it deteriorating into a rant that happens so often.
NASA Proposal to Revive Nuclear Thermal Space Propulsion Development
I think he/she means that the whole post assumes that the reader is a male.
That is especially interesting since the federal law preventing banks and such from honoring such transactions is... federal.
What world-wide Raspberry Pi shortage? I got mine within a week. In a 3rd-world country no less =P
Show HN: A Trip to The Taj Mahal
Doesn't it encourage them to get you off-track?

Sure, but if they actually did so they would quickly lose customers. You have to trust that the system is helping before you would buy into it.

The service is based on the pain of losing being a more powerful motivator than the pleasure of gaining something new (when the reward and loss are of equal value).

When I first learned of the bias (it is listed with a few similar motivational tricks in The 4-Hour Body) a very basic version of this type of service immediately popped into my head, I'm glad to see someone ran with it. I hope they're very successful, it is a cool project and kind of turns traditional income techniques on their head.
I suspect you encountered racism outside of Auckland? I have been surprised by attitudes in the South Island, where non-white people seemed to surprise the locals.
He goes by ColinWright these days.

Of exilelifestyle.com fame?
The attackers’ choice of tactics, particularly the use of encryption, indicates a level of sophistication and targeting that suggests they knew what they were doing

Sounds a little strange to be honest. Using encryption shows sophistication? My mum probably can figure out how to use an encrypted zip file. Using encryption is generally quite easy. Breaking it will show much more sophistication.
Two ways - first lose the idiot expired link thing

second - if I am not allowed to post because I am posting too fast please tell me before I spend 20 minutes entering and editing a message only to have it rejected

If I am not allowed to post, why was I given the opportunity to do so?
"Black Swan Lessons on the Japanese Disaster .."

"We don't understand the world as well as we think we do and tend to be fooled by false patterns. We mistake luck for skills (the fooled by randomness effect), overestimate knowledge about rare events (Black Swans), as well as human understanding, something that has been getting worse with the increase in complexity." Nassim Taleb

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-40143642/black-swan-l...
New Zealanders travel. The majority of those people will return. This statement is based on experience, not data. Everyone seems to leave, and all seem to return.

Edit: It sounded like I was disagreeing with your figures, I wasn't.
Well in the era of Watergate it wasn't like dumping the information onto bit-torrent was a viable option for the investigative journalists. They had to write it up in article form just to communicate their findings.
The 2038 problem is someone else's fault, and I mostly use 64bit systems. Every time I implement something that assumes the year will take four digits I have a little moment of 'ugh'. The context for me was using python list slice operations to take apart a timestamp, but I now use datetime.datetime.strptime.

EDIT: I just looked up the source for python 2.7.3 and even in strptime the %Y format specifier assumes that the year has four digits (see line 204-206 http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/70274d53c1dd/Lib/_strptime... ) so I'm not out of the woods yet.
The Startup, a feature film
Also optimized for self-promotion, which is targeted at a certain minority that I am and probably will never be a part of, such as employers.