skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Camera Decides When To Take Photo
Degradability died as an industry desire about 6mos after it emerged.
Go's int type will be 64-bit on amd64
Making choices is a part of web development and choosing not to include an audience based on the technology they use is a choice. It's perfectly valid to make that choice--even if it excludes people--but it's a choice (that should be) dependent on the audience you are trying to serve.

For example, I support a few websites aimed at farmers. The sites are simple and degrade gracefully, because farmers tend to use older technology; small, because farmers don't typically have access to broadband internet; and mobile-friendly, because data access via cell phone is often more reliable for them than a consumer internet connection. These sites are not impressive, but they suit their purpose and their audience. So, obviously, the technology choice can go backwards as well.

Side-note: one of my favorite games is "breaking" websites by opening them in IE8 and reloading them with "Compatibility Mode" turned on.
That was CL's big mistake. These sort of unreasonable licensing terms that users never read are exactly the kind courts refuse to enforce.

Maybe you just want CL to win? That's different from whether CL has a real chance of winning. This case is unlikely to go to trial. That's because CL has a lot to lose and 3Taps has very little to lose. Some believe the reason there are few lawsuits on these issues that are not settled out of court is because websites like CL are afraid of having a court decide on them. Why would they want to avoid having a court decide?
The number of people who actually know what's going on with maps nowadays is probably not much greater than the headcount of Google Maps. Meanwhile, just assume that every article and opinion piece on Apple or Google Maps is grossly misinformed.
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Are 3Taps verifying by hand that every scraped post are only facts? I've seen some pretty creative CL posts. Also it's been mentioned that assemblages of facts can in fact be copyrighted. See the Farmers Almanac.
I think you're talking in two directions here.

'any other random site on the Internet' is hardly the same as a single-purpose (native) app for making CraigsList listings easier to parse. I'm sure that most of the random Internet sites might not even be attributing the data back to CraigsList.

When it comes to apps like this, all Craigslist has to do to compete is make their UI for browsing/tracking listing better. If their interface was better, then people wouldn't feel the need to pay ~$3 for a separate app to browser their listings.
This is what happens when you keep HR out of the hiring process.
Yeah, I'm not terribly worried by that kind of failure, if that happens, a bunch of other things have already gone wrong. I would like something to keep track of all processes, though, that can back up monit. Good to know it's got some slack in the tolerances, I'll give it a try.
I'm very excited for mine to arrive in the next 90 days. I know I will be an early adopter in the EV world but I look at it as less of a splurge and more of an investment that could move the industry forward. This will be my fifth car owned and I am tired of two faced dealers, incremental improvements, design without vision and an industry that can but won't improve because of the lucrative parts & service aftermarket. Radio and television is littered with people giving away cars with 0% financing (baking in the profit elsewhere I suspect). It's only a matter of time before we have to bail the auto makers out again.

I'm putting my money into Tesla because I believe that if they can make it to the Model E (Bluestar - $30-40k sedan) then we'll have a whole new ballgame on our hands in the automotive space. The Model S is the testing ground for volume manufacturing, the Model X will test platform re-use, then we reach the Model E which will drive down costs.

In the mean time I encourage you all to test drive one - even if you are not going to purchase - it's quite the experience. The Tesla stores around North America are now getting their in-store models for test drives. With leasing opening up next summer (rumour has it) it should also make it a tad more accessible to the general public.
A bank pulling down user information unencrypted is only slightly better than showing it to strangers.

Though you're right, it's a possibility :(
Funnily enough the architectural issues are easier with one page apps, IMO. You just expose a REST API, do your asset caching, and don't need any HTML caching at all!

Let's say I want to build a new search engine. How do I crawl your website without having Google-esque budget? More importantly, if all websites were built like that, how would anyone could build a new search engine?

That's also architecture. How do things interact? What is possible and what is not? What kind of things would happen if technology became popular?

The real issue here is not that the page is not crawlable right now. I know there ways of addressing this. The issue is that it's not semantic and that you need to do extra work (separate from normal development) for search engines.
^^^ this. Plus you say "Sign up for free" in the home page. At the very least it's misleading.
I don't know the current state of things, but a failed font download used to result in blank/transparent text in some browsers, ignoring the fallback font.
Gentle plug:

bdunn will be presenting on his book "double your freelancing rate" at the upcoming http://indieconf.com in Raleigh, Nov 17.
If supporting, contributing and deploying to open source software makes me cheap than so be it. I'm ecstatic at the chance to share that technology with my clients and to help them give it back where applicable.

I hope your endeavors continue to make you happy with your means as they do mine.
According to Wikipedia,Sweden has 20.6 people per square kilometer,compared to 3.4 in Canada. Also,Canada is slightly larger. Much easier to cover all (or most) of Sweden than Canada
@bashzor Thanks for adding the "public" link!
Agreed. Always refreshing to see somebody putting in hard work to make this world a better place rather than taking the easier road (whatever that would have been).
More like Brackets is an open-source fork of Edge, since it was started by Adobe.
I fundamentally disagree.

The users know CL is sharing it with the world and that's what the users expect. As the article says, CL is happy for search engines to access these. Just obviously not search engines that they don't like.

You don't get to pick and choose who accesses your website unless you put a password up. And if the content's not copyrightable...
I know a lot of designers that will love and support this product.
>So what exactly do you propose? That we just halt all technological innovation on the web so that people that don't feel better about having old browsers and/or computers?

Straw man.

>This is a ridiculous idea, and a ridiculous comment.

He didn't propose anything, just stated the problem. You're the one putting words in his mouth and jumping to overwrought conclusions.

Relax dude.
Haha, sorry. Maybe you shouldn't squat on domains? :P
Perhaps it's the intensity that's the real issue. I "troll" my friends with great frequency. Screw with them, tease them, hold clearly contrary positions just to get them riled up, but it's all in fun and stops before their feelings honestly get hurt (or if they are, I apologize). That's clearly a different level than the other sorts of trolling that I've seen. ... admittedly, people that are "from the internet" are familiar with trolling and know when they're being trolled. They can take the bait and play along, or stop it in its tracks by not feeding the troll the frustration he desires. People that aren't "from the internet", or perhaps aren't from the self-mocking parts of the internet haven't developed the thick skin (why should they?) required to deal with trolls.

... and I suppose some people just enjoy going after the people that aren't thick skinned. That's ... while fun to some, not really a civil thing to do. I suppose there's some level of initiation into the "Internet" that includes being trolled -- and trolling back, or growing some skin, etc. This wasn't one of those cases, from what I gathered (I didn't finish the article, as the very beginning it started looking clearly like harassment instead of the level of trolling I'm familiar with).

I started this response with a point, but I've lost it. Either way, there is clearly a level of taking it too far.
Unfortunately, your credit card format may not be a problem with the webmasters, but the lawyers. I worked on credit card processing applications once upon a time. We were contractually obligated by our clearinghouse (First Data Corp) both to only submit credit card numbers in the exact format they were provided by the user, and also without spaces or dashes. So while it's a stupid limitation, it may not be the faults of web developers everywhere.

This was true a decade ago and may have changed, but that industry can be pretty slow to update.
I doubt asking kindly would yield personal information. This kind of social engineering can be used for bad as well and I'd doubt they'd leave the justice and investigative powers in the hands of a citizen.
It might have worked. There's a few reasons why BCC works. The fact that I "get" teachers is one of them, but that's far from the most lucrative skill I developed. Having a list of ~50k teachers for a newsletter would help sell activities but, honestly, I think I'm sort of done with that market until I have school-aged kids.
People should post their cease and desist letters from CL so others can see. I doubt you were the only person to receive one. Sometime when something doesn't seem right, it's because it isn't.
When you click the plus button to add a source, it should show a bar bellow it with a slider of how much you want from that source. So you just slide it to the minus side if you never wanna see that, or to the plus side if you wanna see it more often.

If you're not seeing that, maybe something is wrong with your browser, try changing browsers or stopping extensions.
It looks great. You guys are really pushing the design/interface envelope.
The Model X is built on top of the Model S platform. That's probably why.

Making it smaller would probably require a lot more complex engineering and tradeoffs when it comes to the powertrain/batteries/etc.

It's actually very smart because they are leveraging all the work they have done for the Model S and getting another model out of it. Elon Musk has said in interviews that the Model S was actually over 90% new parts, which made it very complex to design and get the supply chain going. If the Model X has a significantly lower number of new parts, that'll make a big difference to the bottom line and time to market.
Solving The Travelling Salesman with Ant Colony Optimization (Python)
Zerply is pretty cool. It needs more templates though (even premium ones). Why is it so slow to release more?

Again, I really like Zerply and highly recommend it for creatives.
Ask HN: How do you evaluate an equity opportunity?
I am looking for a tech cofounder for multiple web and mobile app projects. B2B and B2C. What is the criteria that top developers use to decide whether they join a startup?
I have to ask. Why was this young man given the opportunity to escape the law despite committing a hate crime. He threatened murder and rape. Would he have been afforded the privilege of a hand shake rather than hand cuffs if he was... say a member of a outgroup, say for example, an Arab?
Then you have the clients no one else wants (maybe that's why you have that username?). You can keep them.

Smart people go after customers willing to pay more.

Actually, I have some old cheap clients I fired some time ago... Should I send them your way? They need someone to yell at and then laugh at when the cost of their needs are quoted.
I didn't realize running a web app on it for seven years was squatting!
That's a shitty situation. I'm glad you had a soft landing!

What made you accept the offer on such short notice? I get that startups move faster than other companies, but if someone wanted to hire me right now or not at all, I'd take it as a serious warning sign. Most likely it means they're hard-ass negotiators who are manipulating you or that they're genuine but too focused on the short term--either way, a red flag.

I got a tentative offer for my current job just as I was starting a one-year sabbatical backpacking trip through South-East Asia. They had something time sensitive they needed me for as soon as possible. Despite that, they were totally understanding, reassuring me that they still wanted to work with me whenever I was ready.
I noticed a company I worked at had installed their own root cert on the machine they gave me. I disabled it, but didn't get any warnings about invalid certificates, so I assume they weren't using it to snoop HTTPS traffic.

Unless there's a way to detect whether a cert is installed somehow?
I loved the lyrics to the song:

Maybe I'm ashamed to want you back
Maybe I'm afraid you'll never stay
Thought I hated you a long long time
There was my mistake

Those were my thoughts exactly.
> So what exactly do you propose?

Sane and simple standards that can be implemented in any platform without requiring hundreds of man years of effort.

Nothing done in the web today is particularly technically advanced, we are about the same UI level as standard apps were more than 10 years ago (hell, I doubt you can build a photo manipulation app today that can compete with where Photoshop was 10 years ago).

Most of the complexity burden the web has is purely gratuitous and product of how flawed the standards it is built on are.

How JSON replaced XML is a good illustration of what is the right direction to go. Now if for example JavaScript was replaced with something considerably simpler, like, say, Scheme, instead of trying to bolt even more OO-crud into it and turn it into another pseudo-Java, that would be another good step.

There is little doubt the DOM and CSS could be dramatically simplified without reducing functionality, same goes for HTTP (as a recent post to hacker news illustrated).
Trolling is short term, it's fucking with someone for the sake of fucking with someone, anyone. If you attack one person over multiple years that becomes more than trolling, it becomes personal. Trolling is not personal. As you say, it's "for the lulz", it's to get a reaction, any reaction. If someone wants a reaction they don't care who from.

I've never met anyone that would call years of harassment that extended into real life "trolling". That's personal and it's a serious problem. I run a large forum (I'd guess some of the kids you mention use it) and I've had all manner of insults and threats, all of which are trolling, they're from people that want to annoy me or upset me but only because they see me as a target at that moment. If someone were to come to my house and leave things in my postbox, or mail me stuff, or follow me around the internet for years that would be harassment.

I just asked a bunch of my staff members (people that deal with this sort of thing every day) and everyone considers what the OP went through harassment, it's not in anyway considered trolling.
And that worked great for digg. Three times.
I run this as a combination of monit timestamp checking and stdout to a file. Is there anything this does that I cannot do this without monit?

e.g.

MAILTO=email@ops.com

1 23 * * * /home/cron/backup.sh 1> /backups/backup

and monit doing a

check file backup with path /backups/backup

if timestamp > 24 hours then alert

This way I am emailed when there is an error with the backup script, otherwise things continue as it is.
With absolutely no offense intended, your search engine is very low in my priority list. I care about how my customers experience Circle.

If you were to create a new search engine, and it didn't take into account one-page-apps, I'd say you've built the wrong architecture too.

Finally, it's not that we don't have the time, it's that we dont have the time _right now_. Web apps suddenly became hard in the last 3 years - people expect a lot more than they used to. But our priorities must be to deliver the kind of experience that customers desire. Technology should be our servant, not our master.
But libraries don't let you bring coffee in.
Or even just clicking outside of the box if you enter nothing. Great plugin otherwise.
I have a low tolerance for BS.
A really simple example of a blog with Go & MongoDB
Fraud happens, the bank knows it, and if they have a system flaw they won't just blame the customer. The reputational risk isn't worth it.

Also, it isn't FDIC insurance at issue, read up on Reg E claims. Retail customers have a generous route by which they can dispute electronic charges to their bank accounts.
You asked me a specific question. I said that the reason is the lack of resources. I didn't realize that we were talking about the decline and fall of the Python world.

I remember reading "Decline and Fall of the American Programmer." And "Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer." It's a special kind of consultant who can get paid both coming and going.

Python is in decline? How do you reckon that? In my work, Python is the de factor high-level language for chemical informatics, molecular modeling, structure visualization, and the like. This is much improved over the last 10 years, and won't be dying in as short a time-span as two years in the future. No, most projects haven't migrated to Python 3. Yes, it will be annoying. So was porting client code from IRIX to Linux. That happens.

Really, you need to plan for it. And it sounds like you didn't plan for the division operator change. The ideas of that change first surfaced during user testing under the 1.x days, with Alice. That change decision was publicized in spring 2001, with PEP 238. The "from __future__ import division" was made available in Python 2.2. The runtime even has the -Q option so you can tell it to print warnings wherever there's a problem. The nice thing about this change is that it's purely a syntax issue which can be handled on a per-module basis, and mixed with modules which weren't compiled this way.

These all worked for 2.5, so what was the problem you experienced?

What I'm "defending" is my sense that Something is Wrong on the Internet. It sounds like you're doing things the wrong way. You expect certain behaviors which were never promised or implied, you don't read the update notices, and you don't use the tools which help you achieve the goals you want. No wonder you get so frustrated with Python! But I don't see what the Python developers could have done better, given the resources they had, and given that they care about goals that do not interest you.

You're going to run into the same problems with Clojure. Looking now, it seems that 1.3 broke code. Some things were removed, there were changes to the contrib namespace, and some third-party modules didn't work. Various places say it was a hassle to deal with. Sound familiar? How are you sure something like that will never happen again?
So what's the link to the needle in the haystack?
Ours did.
Seconded.

Certainly this issue has come up before. Maybe the fact there is no precedent tells us something? Who would benefit from keeping the issue undecided?
I've used one-line cron scripts that capture output of a command, check it, and if it doesn't look like what it should, sends me an email.
> I didn't realize that we were talking about the decline and fall of the Python world.

The article is called "I Am Worried About The Future Of Python" and the specific thread I chose to participate in directly described a way that the Python 3 schism was contributing to the concern (WinRT support). To quote the lead comment for this thread: "I definitely feel like Python qua programming language has become a missed opportunity in many ways".

I then provided my experience, as someone who has been developing for over 20 years in numerous languages (even designing them and teaching them in a university setting), of a unique set of challenges and mistakes that I see Python having run across--a perspective that one reader called "a brilliant if unpopular analysis"--and yet I'm now simply being dragged into the same defensive argument that comes up whenever the 2/3 topic is breached: to turn it into a very personal attack against me and my abilities led by highly inflammatory and insulting wording like "get this into your head", quite despite the fact that I am hardly in the minority with regards to these overall opinions.

Regardless, I am hereby so confused as to what conversation you feel you are participating in that I am just going to bow out: thank you, regardless, for taking the time to respond.

(Oh, I will respond to the semi-unrelated Clojure discussion, as I should probably make certain I don't inadvertently cause them problems: I do not use third-party libraries written in Clojure, as there is really no need given that all of Java is accessible; this already stops most of these problems. Also, the way Clojure 1.3 broke code is closer to the way Ruby 1.9 broke code--a change I stated elsewhere in this thread was a non-issue for the Ruby projects I'm involved in--than the way Python 3 broke code, and was in fact even less of an issue than that.)
I think many mac geeks (myself included) are secretly loving the MS design aesthetics given the heavy focus on typography :)
The downside of building sites that are exclusively client-side rendered is that it stops working if the user has Javascript turned off.

That's why I personally use the strategy of rendering server-side only upon initial load, then hooking in client-side routing/templating libraries afterwards. This solves the issue of search engine visibility and client JS support in one fell swoop. (Mustache templates are great in this regard since there's libraries supplied for most languages.)

By the way, just a nitpick: your site seems to have a empty margin to the right, which creates a horizontal scrollbar. I'm using Chrome Version 21.0.1180.89 on OSX.
Same as they would for any other company.
Why Your Company Should Use Cloud Sharing Services
Anybody else ever wonder how they get their presentations to look that good?
The problem with all of the plug-in hybrids is that they can only run about 12 miles on full electric power. I don't know about you, but I need an electric car that can run at least 50 miles to get to work and back.