skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/58172/how-to-revert-to-gnome-...

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

This is Gnome3 configured to look very much like Gnome2. The primary differences are that "System Settings" (and some other things like printer configuration) moved to the "gear" at the far right of the top bar and you need to use <ALT>-right-mouse to add shortcuts to the top bar.

The <ALT>-right-mouse may only work with Gnome Classic (selected when you log in).
Startup founders want to sell companies.
What's more, this incident likely created more interest than they would have ever had -had this not been rejected. Not saying rejection was their anticipated motive, but in retrospect, it did give the data visibility. So, in that sense, it is a likely positive outcome for their purpose.
This is Kristi from Braintree.

@huxley - this pricing https://www.braintreepayments.com/pricing is for U.S. based customers.

@entropyneur - we've not published international pricing because we work with multiple banking partners throughout the world who have different pricing structures and accept different merchant types. We're working on standardizing this and making it easier for you. We have a ton of other improvements in the pipeline that will continually improve our offering.
Android FTW. I know this pops up constantly, but this is EXACTLY the reason I advocate for android. This sort of shit does not fly there. Apple has the ability to censor which even the government can't and worse is that it's fully legal.

I really wish people would take these stories as a sign that we need to focus on the android market.

FWIW: I am not advocating for the baby & bathwater argument. I think we must focus on android because it will put market pressure on apple to have a more fair/just approval process.
No, you don't. Of all the things I have against RubyMotion, performance is not one of them.
Animated CSS Mask icons
Vibease helps couples to Stay Intimate. Private social app + Bluetooth massager
No, TC, That Research Does Not Suggest Online Voter Reg Could Reduce Turnout
Yup Rubymotion isn't interpreted, it's compiled file by file to LLVM bytecode, this negatively effects development speed but it means it runs (roughly) as fast as pure obj-c (or so they claim on the rubymotion site).
We're using it at the moment to develop an app, it's great at keeping code DRY, debuggability on device kinda sucks atm though.
Wireless Charging Technology – One Step Closer to Reality
> Historically, professions = Upper/Ruling Classes

Perhaps within the last 100 years, but not "historically" in a general or broad sense. The historical ruling class didn't have professions, they had power.
I agree, but it could give a false sense of security to a novice.

What if they set up `spiped` and password authentication?

Also, once they get to `spiped` they are on your system. If there is a whole to run arbitrary commands from `spiped`, you're stuffed.
Top story 'Amit on Grids' as I write this scored a .69 on the first paragraph.
Reviews of Truffle - the Internet bonding device
I participate in a few Basecamp projects operated by clients and from my point of view, it just forum software (like phpBB, IPB, etc.) with, arguably, a better interface.

I personally don't think it is that great, with many pain points that I encounter - which, I will concede, may be a case of using the wrong tool for the job over any shortcomings in the product itself - but it is better over having no group messaging system at all if you are working with multiple people at a distance.
It doesn't detect crazy; maybe it scores higher in one of the other corners of the cube.
This is not the first time that Apple has rejected an app on purely political grounds. This may be the first time they've removed something and offended liberal/libertarian sensibilities, but a couple clear examples from a while back:

http://mashable.com/2011/03/23/apple-removes-gay-cure/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/24/apple-manhattan-dec...
I actually noticed your Labradoc comment earlier and took a look. It's more or less what I'm looking for, without the weirdness of being embedded in Github. There are 2 reasons I'm not switching to it right now:

1. My system already works fine.

2. The default styling of Labradoc doesn't suit me. The blue/purple links and left-aligned text have a 2005ish look to me. Those would presumably be pretty easy to fix with a CSS overlay of some sort, but that would require a little tweaking.

But still, Labradoc looks like pretty much the same solution that I came up with, so I like it!

One suggestion: make the example have a link or screenshots to something that shows the Markdown side of things. Is there an editor? What does it look like? Even a screenshot tour would help lure people in.
#4 - have you looked at http://www.finisinc.com/swimsense/ (for swimming)? I chatted with them when I was involved in a swimming analytics startup and they are top notch!
How White is the New Internet
> If there is a whole to run arbitrary commands from `spiped`, you're stuffed.

Oh, duh, of course. Forget what I said before. Unless you're running spiped in a separate VM or jail.
If China continues as an ascendant power the U.S. will need an offshore balancing presence in Asia-Pacific. If it dramatically implodes, ditto - a reunifying Korean Peninsula and reforming SE Asia, to say nothing of a politically ruptured China, merit our attention. Either way, it seems, the criticism Asia-Pacific pivot appears premature.

The only case where it is overshooting is in the case that China stalls and/or enters a period of slow, decades-long decline. Given the nationalist tensions in the South China Sea and the country's addiction to growth for social stability that seems unlikely.
The Official Game of The Simpsons is Back in the App Store
After a lot of complaints by users resulted in removal of Simpsons application from the App Store after few days of release. Finally, the game is back in the store, proving that finally all the problems were resolved and everyone will now be able to download and play this funny game!
Social insurance in Germany has been around since the 1880s. Social Security has been around since 1935, or nearly 80 years.

Social insurance may change in the future, but so long as the elderly still have a vote, they will vote very heavily in favor of maintaining a social insurance program.

And if the elderly don't have a vote, the socioeconomic system will have changed so much that merely having "saved" won't fix anything. Likewise, if the dollar has experienced hyperinflation and benefits are worthless, any private savings will be as well.
No. It's neither an alliteration nor a rhyme. 5 minutes of jive might have worked a couple of decades ago. Five minutes of fail? not bad, just doesn't sing though.

I think my fave is a half kilosecond of life cheapened.
I have the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire.

A bonus of the Kindle Fire is the battery life. It seems to be better than the Nexus 7 (I need to measure this).

One problem with the N7 (an otherwise fantastic device), I can't get the screen dim enough for reading in a dark room.

The screen always seems too bright even on the lowest setting.

So I still use my Fire for night time reading and taking to the Gym.

Perhaps that is why the battery of the Fire seems to last longer (I need to check the devices when I get home).

While the fire is clunky, tt gets the job done.

I just can't believe how good a $200 tablet can be (first the Fire was good enough, then the Nexus 7 which as just short of amazing)
I still think you're missing the point. The point was someone would be going about their normal day, and intermittently receive notifications of a disturbing event from the phone in their pocket. A webpage breaks this, as users have to seek out the information.

Again, this app is more a creative endeavor than a tool. The author is thinking of ways to make people more aware of something, forcing them to think about it during their day, not trying to give them raw information. (Granted, one must still decide they want to be forced to think about this during their day, as they have to install the app and allow push notifications.)

I'm also not making any judgements on Apple or the app itself. I'm just trying to explain what I think the creators' intentions are, and why a webpage is not suited for those intentions.
I can't help but notice that this tool was created to circumvent private networks. If you just wanted to write a crypto tool, kudos, but this is not a good idea for production data. I also recommend focusing on system hardening versus throwing crypto and fewer lines of code at the problem. The net benefit is ten times that of a more complex set-up that only protects a corner case.

Take your original example: 17 servers and you want to share data between them on the internet. The most effective way to do this is to put them all on one or two hosting providers and use private IPs to connect them all via the same backend. This way there is no surface to attack (if the hoster VLAN'd your hosts correctly). Back in the day we used to do this by putting a private switch in a rack that nothing else could touch, but it seems the days of private cage monkeying has disappeared.

The other way is by using a VPN. A VPN is simply a network interconnect. Based on some authentication data, allow a host to connect to a private network. If done properly, there is no service to take advantage of and the daemon can run completely without any capabilities or system access, save of course network traffic. You then add firewalling to ensure only the right hosts get to the right services. You can even make this a single stand-alone VPS host to add granularity and separation of privilege, not to mention reduced attack surface.

Your tool is theoretically simpler in practice than either of those methods (I don't find setting up a VPN to be complex, but others might). But it comes with the same risks as OpenSSH, save that (I imagine?) you could set it up to be network-access-only like a VPN. The difference for a VPN being you wouldn't need to configure multiple instances of an application.
You could also pass it nothing, e.g. ?filename=&attempt=
Reality Check Us Out
I completely agree, but I thought it only fair to list the vulnerabilities. On the other hand, most of it didn't make sense to me... Though that should worry me more than you and thanks for your explanation. :)

Having said that, the vulnerability you pointed out was in SSH1, right? Isn't that depreciated?
Qatrix released an online JavaScript compressor
I'm running Arch as well, though I don't use the AUR. Stuff tends to crustify too much and too easily in there.
Depends on the risk of the person - some need it every 5 (or more), and some much earlier than 40. But generally speaking, it takes ~10 years (average) for an initial growth to become "fully" cancerous. Hence the 10 year rec.

Still - point is this is one of the few forms of cancer that can be treated extremely (simple exicision) easily with early detection. Its common and (once advanced) deadly.
Ask HN: How do you handle sudden huge traffic spike like that of Obama IAMA?
This letter from Thomas Jefferson explains the problem. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.... (Note a "taper" is a candle.)
It's odd to hit the x to close and the program actually just minimizing. Odder still was that when I hit minimize, by default, it minimized to a separate icon to the main application. I changed to it minimizing into the dock icon. But the inconsistent behavior of the x button means sometimes it and the _ button (I can't call these close and minimize on this system because that's not what they are anymore) have similar, if not identical, functionality.
Sure, valid point. But why would a user want to go to a website in the first place? That seems like the bigger issue in most cases that QR codes don't solve that businesses neglect.
Another great resource for teaching kids programming that I haven't seen mentioned in the discussion is Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/). My daughter (just turned 11) has been playing with it for a couple years now and it's pretty amazing the stuff she can create. The best part is that the scratch website hosts projects for free, so she can share them with friends and family. It's a great introduction to programming concepts.

As far as learning HTML/JavaScript, my daughter also liked Codecademy, and went through several tutorials there. She would get bogged down a little on syntax (Scratch is very visual), but I can't imagine an easier way to learn HTML/JavaScript.
I wish there was a place, where you could read objective summaries of HN articles. Like yours "Well, yes, China looks strong, but it has many internal weaknesses that may bring it down, and therefore we should be careful to plan for a future in which the Communist Party falls."
IMO the Kindle Fire dropped below the generously low bar for a dud - I've bought plenty of dud devices before without feeling too raw about it (the iPad 1, for example, which didn't really find a solid use until the second iteration).

My issue with the Kindle Fire is that the "dud-ness" of the device seems willfully negligent as opposed to merely missing the mark.

It's like buying a video game that just didn't turn out to be very fun, vs. a video game that's no-fun and crashes every 5 minutes. One is disappointing, the other is infuriating in its unprofessionalism and lack of respect for their own product.
how much of the Nodester codebase comes from NodeJitsu?
The Developer’s Guide to Selling Ads, Part 2
It's the default on every install I have ever used, as you have to be able to install your key in the first place. That isn't solved by `spiped`.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/birthcertifica...
I think it's important to be reasonable in cases like this and realize that companies willing to undertake censorship like this on behalf of government will surely (and happily) do things like install payloads on your device without permission. It's really a very small leap to expect this.
Actually, when we were designing the AppFlo.ws interface, we considered doing this to show/hide the caption area on the right. This JQuery plugin is pretty slick and there are demos on the page: http://srobbin.com/jquery-plugins/pageslide/

Hope that helps!
They don't block any apps. They just remove the ones that do not abide by the rules. Also Google is pretty liberal itself and likes free information (Well, they are a search engine. of course they do) and I do not think they would remove it even if it would say "And this is why democrats suck" in big-red letters on every report.
You are free to use the app or to not use it. It's your decision in the end.
Wow, I thought you were joking and making it up. But it turns out these are actual store guidelines, and they are written in this style.
I, for one, am not looking forward to an influx of Rails engineers redefining the iOS development culture in their image.

The lack of respect for knowledge gained over 20+ years of platform development is staggering, but not unexpected. They're rejecting everything from Interface Builder to the standard build tools, and adopting inferior web ideas wholesale -- such as attempting to style native UI with CSS.

While it may be par for the course, I'd had hoped that our section of the engineering field would be immune to influence from the Rails community.
At least you guys don't have a system that uses ActiveX. That's how it is in South Korea[0], supposedly the world's "most wired" nation. You can only use IE, on Windows, to access online banking services. Things are slowly getting better thanks to the explosion of iPhone/iPad/Mac popularity in Korea (particularly the iPhone), but even now, IE has more than 91% market share in South Korea[1].

0: http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s

1: http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2012/05/29/browser-competition-i...
Syria rebels kill christians US LISTEN
"In your example, I'd say the overly long name comes from an overly narrow functionality. For something that specific, you should use a description string." - What use is a description string when you're staring at a code listing, trying to figure out what it does?

"a good IDE let you manage and tolerate higher levels of complexity." - Which is a good thing.

"You'll also be less encouraged to simplify your code." - Simplifying code is a discipline that can just as easily be avoided by people writing in Notepad. Simpler code comes with experience, not through tool abstinence.

"You may not even notice when it becomes too complex for a humble vi user." - If your tools don't get the job done, switch tools. If you find yourself saying "My tools would work fine if only OTHER PEOPLE would ...", you're using the wrong tools.
Deploying a Sinatra + DataMapper + SQLite app to Heroku
"But while he reads Apple’s tactics as outlandish and creepy, if brilliant, I’d just call them brilliant."

And I would read them as standard sales technique. "Feel, felt, found" or "the three F's" is well known.
One point to make: I didn't give you any downmods, because I can't and refuse to do so.

Let me see if I can explain this in more detail. I'm not saying the android market is perfect, nor am I saying that the iOS market is an ideal solution. My point is that the original statement:

> The ideal walled garden would be one that blocks spammy apps and malware - but not information

is a logical fallacy. Information is a very broad term, so the assumption that an overlord curator can perform their job in a non-invasive manner while magically defining what "bad" means is a road to hell. What we need is effectively the reddit of app stores; one curated by the community instead of a black box of employees. The tyranny of the democratic majority is still an issue, but it seems that this is a far more fair solution than what exists now.

It is an effort in futility to find the perfect end all solution, because that utopia can't exist. I would, however, rather have the risk of getting coal instead of diamonds instead of just what a company tells me is a diamond.
Kristi from Braintree here.

We have multiple banking partners throughout the world who have different pricing structures and are willing to accept different merchant types. We're working to standardize this to make it easier on you. As always, our pricing is transparent and we don't have any hidden fees.
If I were Robbins I'd start my day looking in a mirror and laughing myself silly for 10 minutes about how much money I'd made spouting this nonsense.
PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps
This has to go down as the biggest missed opportunity ever.

The name has to be in Lobster (http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lobster). This is not an optional thing. Come on.
They're making it available in Australia one week after the release date in the UK and America. This is because of time zones and a desire to ensure the show launches on a Saturday.

Thus, Australians have to endure an entire week of UK/US discussion before they can see an episode.

I imagine many fans will continue to pirate.
"Worse" could mean that the theory behind the mechanism of action for homeopathy is worse. However, in this case the worse is about it causing harm, and the extent of harm from homeopathy is pretty much limited to patients not seeking needed medical treatment.
I downvoted, and I'd like to explain why and with the disclaimer I also did not understand a lot of what was asked. This was a technical question on a subject that takes years to master properly. It's not fair on the questioner to have to try and explain that to the rest of us when Google will suffice, nor on the author that would understand the question as asked to have to waste time getting to the point of the question.
Interesting tool
Pretty far. Imagine one day not having a remote for your tv at all, and just looking at a certain spot(camera) on the TV saying, "TV, turn on" "next channel, next channel" "louder".

That would completely eliminate the need for a UI or menu or remote.
Programmatically analyze CREATE TABLE SQL statements without a database
Though the OP is referring to another blog post that calls the techniques "creepy", the word "manipulate" is a bit strong for what the OP chooses to excerpt:

Customer: This Mac is just too expensive.*
Genius: I can see how you'd feel this way. I felt the
price was a little high, but I found it's a real value
because of all the built-in software and capabilities.

[from the OP:] This tactic dovetails nicely with the section of the
manual on things to avoid saying and doing. For
instance: “Do not apologize for the business [or] the
technology.” Instead, empathize: “I’m sorry you’re
feeling frustrated,” or “too bad about your soda spill
accident.”

Yeah, that's not really "manipulation" in the way that most people conceive of it. Manipulation would be, "Yeah, but can you put a price on the happiness of seeing your child's photos seamlessly imported and displayed beautifully on a retina screen? I mean, if you really love your child..."
The Kindle Fire 2 had better be some hot shit, because competing with the Nexus 7 isn't going to be easy.
Regarding screen brightness at night, you could give this a try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor
This is amazing! Much more data-dense than the NPR piece.
First bionic eye prototype successfully implanted
An important aspect to #8 was the 250ms lock, that allowed
you to send multiple requests while others were locked out.
First I was trying to send the requests from my local
machine, which made it nearly impossible to get usable
numbers because of the delay in the network.

Before I started using level2 machine to both send and
receive, I was planning to bind on every port of the
level2 server to stop/slow others thus raising my own
chances of hit. Luckily it didn't come to that.

Even before the port number attack, I was trying to find
a pattern in the request object pointer values in
subsequent backtraces. This gave me the port idea.

Also spent a few hours trying to exploit the Twisted HTTP
client by malformed HTTP redirects (taking the over-
specified Twisted version in the README as a clue).
Makerplane aims to create the first open source aircraft
> I have first-hand experience with all of this stuff, and I find this story be overblown, to say the least.

Only on HN can you find someone willing to be an expert on someone else's newly-found joy.
> If China continues as an ascendant power the U.S. will need an offshore balancing presence in Asia-Pacific.

Isn't that what bases in South Korea & Japan are for?
Failed dates: blame it on science
Once you install yaourt or packer though it's really easy to at least see if the AUR package works (Skype works fine, e.g.). If not then maybe you're on your own, but if you're having trouble it can still be useful to see how someone else built it in the past.
That snippet scores 0.26
Beethoven was Birdbrained
No, the Government Digital Service (http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/) GitHub account.

They're building a new, single Government website, currently in beta at http://www.gov.uk, to replace the current http://direct.gov.uk and other government websites.